29 Apr 2019
| 29 Apr 2019
Project and Community Management in Polar Sciences – Challenges and Opportunities
Year of Polar Prediction
International Coordination Office, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre
for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Yulia Zaika
Khibiny Research Station, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Alexey K. Pavlov
Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland
Akvaplan-niva, Tromsø, Norway
Sven Lidström
Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
Allen Pope
International Arctic Science Committee IASC Executive Secretariat, Akureyri, Iceland
Renuka Badhe
European Polar Board, The Hague, the Netherlands
Marlen Brückner
(AC) Scientific Coordination Office, Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Germany
Luisa Cristini
APPLICATE Project Management Office, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
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Authors describe basic challenges of project and community management in polar sciences, identified through survey responses in addition to the authors’ own variou professional experiences. Four overarching themes were identified: international cooperation, interdisciplinarity, infrastructure, and community management. Case studies and survey results are discussed with the conclusive goal to provide recommendations on how reach the full potential in polar science project and community management
Authors describe basic challenges of project and community management in polar sciences,...
