ICEBERG will be represented at the EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. The focus of the ICEBERG delegation is on presenting the citizen science activities within the project.
EGU (European Geosciences Union) is a forum where geoscientists from all over the world can discuss their work and ideas. The EGU General Assembly 2025 will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 27 April to 2 May.
ICEBERG researchers Christine Liang (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ) and Victor Lion (Kiel University, CAU) will attend the assembly. During the assembly, they will present results from ICEBERG’s citizen science activities.
Christine will convene a session about citizen science and co-creating with communities. In the session, research projects from all over the world will showcase how they co-create science with communities, with the goal of promoting increased participatory methods in mainstream science activities.
As part of the session, Victor will hold a poster presentation titled “Building Arctic Resilience through Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence in Marine Pollution Control.”
“The poster will focus on the citizen science aspect of ICEBERG, including our work with the time-lapse cameras and drones to automatically detect marine litter on Arctic beaches. It will also present Christine’s community monitoring platform that empowers volunteers to report their observations of environmental disturbances and pollution,” Victor describes.
“The poster will showcase our partners in Greenland and Iceland and how we engage citizens in the automatic detection process, for example by installing cameras together and providing technical training for high school students. Citizens are also involved in identifying pollution sources, monitoring coastal litter, and developing meaningful interventions through the community monitoring platform.”
In his presentation, Victor will also present some very first results from the data that ICEBERG partner SciDrones has gathered with the local people using drones during last year’s fieldwork community consultation weeks.
Victor’s presentation will be judged as part of the Outstanding Student and PhD Candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award. ICEBERG wishes him the best of luck!
Christine will also be involved in two more EGU events regarding making fieldwork more inclusive, especially for caregivers: a Townhall Meeting and a Union Symposium.
“These events tie in with the Survey on Parenting and Fieldwork that Tahnee Prior and I are working on as part of ICEBERG WP4,” Christine says.
Stay tuned for more information about Christine and Victor’s journey at EGU by following our communications.
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University of Oulu
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Dr Élise Lépy
University of Oulu
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Marika Ahonen
Kaskas
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Innovative Community Engagement for Building Effective Resilience and Arctic Ocean Pollution-control Governance in the Context of Climate Change
ICEBERG has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and innovation funding programme under grant agreement No 101135130
