Collective intelligence for adapting to climate change: monitoring the Arctic by expedition cruises

TY - CONF

T1 - Collective intelligence for adapting to climate change: monitoring the Arctic by expedition cruises

AU - Poulsen, Michael Køie

AU - Kragh, Gitte

AU - Iversen, Lisbeth

AU - Cheeseman, Ted

AU - Danielsen, Finn

PY - 2024/4

Y1 - 2024/4

N2 - Our knowledge of the status and trends in natural resources and the environment in the Arctic is limited, making natural resource management decisions difficult.One challenge is how to reach remote, uninhabited wilderness areas in order to obtain much-needed data. This is where expedition cruises can play a crucial role. Through the collective intelligence of resident communities and visitors, citizen science enables valuable data and information to be generated from local and outside sources of knowledge. This poster outlines the findings from a citizen science pilot program of environmental monitoring by Arctic expedition cruises in Svalbard and Greenland conducted to understand the potential this kind of environmental monitoring may have and to identify suitable approaches for enhancing data collection, management, and knowledge sharing. Observations are more likely to be used by decisionmakers in the Arctic if records are analysed and interpreted with a view to informing decision-making processes and if the findings are communicated to decision-makers in appropriate formats. An intermediary organisation that can facilitate the dialogue and knowledge transfer between citizen science programs, scientists, and decision-makers is essential to ensuring that data actually enter the decision-making processes.

AB - Our knowledge of the status and trends in natural resources and the environment in the Arctic is limited, making natural resource management decisions difficult.One challenge is how to reach remote, uninhabited wilderness areas in order to obtain much-needed data. This is where expedition cruises can play a crucial role. Through the collective intelligence of resident communities and visitors, citizen science enables valuable data and information to be generated from local and outside sources of knowledge. This poster outlines the findings from a citizen science pilot program of environmental monitoring by Arctic expedition cruises in Svalbard and Greenland conducted to understand the potential this kind of environmental monitoring may have and to identify suitable approaches for enhancing data collection, management, and knowledge sharing. Observations are more likely to be used by decisionmakers in the Arctic if records are analysed and interpreted with a view to informing decision-making processes and if the findings are communicated to decision-makers in appropriate formats. An intermediary organisation that can facilitate the dialogue and knowledge transfer between citizen science programs, scientists, and decision-makers is essential to ensuring that data actually enter the decision-making processes.

KW - Citizen science

KW - Collective intelligence

KW - Arctic

KW - Climate change

KW - Biodiversity

M3 - Poster

SP - 115

T2 - European Citizen Science Association 2024 Conference: Change

Y2 - 3 April 2024 through 6 April 2024

ER -