PoLAR Voices Perspectives

Climate change games can scare players, or they can reward positive choices. They can quiz players, or they can push boundaries. PoLAR Partner Joey Lee discusses three games he is working on – Greenify, EcoChains, and Arctic Saga.

PoLAR partner Robin Bell’s trips to the Arctic and Antarctic teach her about the dynamics of ice landscapes. She is working on an app, Polar Explorer, which teaches users to learn by asking questions.

Craig Gerlach talks about collaborating with Alaska communities to solve problems involving subsistence harvest, extreme weather events, and potential ecological disasters – and the contrast between community mitigation and global climate change education.

Jana Harcharek talks about the consequences of western education that lacks community ties, and her effort to reintegrate curricula with Iñupiaq culture. 2013 Alaska Math and Science Conference keynote speech.

Ken Eklund describes using games such as Future Coast to teach about climate change, and how they give the public a relaxed social setting for an oftentimes alienating discussion.

Jennifer Francis explains how climate change effects in the Arctic such as sea ice loss can affect weather in lower latitudes, courtesy of a thoroughfare of air known as a jet stream.