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Handwritten letters and photo albums linking geoscientists with school classes
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Konsulent Stiller-Reeve, 5281 Valestrandsfossen, Norway
Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation
(CET), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7802, 5020 Bergen, Norway
Claudio Argentino
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), Department of Geosciences, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 9010 Tromsø, Norway
Kate Alyse Waghorn
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), Department of Geosciences, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 9010 Tromsø, Norway
Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), Department of Geosciences, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 9010 Tromsø, Norway
National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth
Sciences, Vasco da Gama, Goa, India
Dimitri Kalenitchenko
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), Department of Geosciences, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 9010 Tromsø, Norway
LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés (LIENSs) – UMR 7266, La
Rochelle, France
Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic University of
Norway, 9019 Tromsø, Norway
Giuliana Panieri
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), Department of Geosciences, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 9010 Tromsø, Norway
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In this paper, we describe a process in which geoscientists corresponded with school classes in three different countries using handwritten letters and Polaroid photo albums. The stories they told were based on their experiences during a research expedition in the Arctic. We evaluated the process and show some of the benefits the students experienced from their correspondence with the scientists in this way.
In this paper, we describe a process in which geoscientists corresponded with school classes in...
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