Arctic Freshwater – A Commons Requires Open Science

Muster, Sina

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66459-0_9

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“…The data are available on other portals, but they are often not secure, load slowly and are difficult to navigate for scientists who do not speak Chinese (http://www.gscloud.cn/sources/index?pid=2%26rootid=2; see also http://ids.ceode.ac.cn/). This inaccessibility contradicts the international Arctic scientific and policy‐making communities' embrace of an open data culture, which is both enshrined in the Arctic Council's 2018 Scientific Cooperation Agreement (Pedersen, 2019) and supported by institutional data policies and infrastructure (Muster, 2018, p. 107). Previously, China's willingness to pursue scientific cooperation and share knowledge paid diplomatic dividends in the form of increased trust and greater integration into regional governance mechanisms, strengthening the country's appearance as a legitimate and competent stakeholder in the region (Bertelsen & Su, 2018; Su & Mayer, 2018).…”

Section: Infrastructuring Outer Space: a Back Door To The Arcticmentioning

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Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons

Bennett

Eiterjord

2023

Geographical Journal

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China is expanding its Arctic presence by developing infrastructure in the global commons that intersect with the region. Operations in outer space, the deep sea and cyberspace minimise the need for terrestrial footholds and generate data, a virtual resource. To analyse the epistemic and geopolitical consequences of developing the Arctic global commons as a vertically and digitally integrated volume, we examine a critical form of Chinese ‘remote infrastructure’: optical, synthetic aperture radar, and navigation satellites. We argue that first, by generating data about the Arctic, these instruments turn China into a regional knowledge producer. Second, as remote observations outnumber field observations, Chinese polar science may shift the regional balance of knowledge towards spaceborne and marine observations. Third, China's emergence as an Arctic knowledge producer may motivate the state to contribute to regional governance as remote sensing and large‐scale, computationally intensive techniques become privileged decision‐making tools. To transcend the terrestrial and maritime fixes that predominate research on China and the Arctic, we call for greater attention to the influence of epistemic capacities on geopolitics.

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Section: Infrastructuring Outer Space: a Back Door To The Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons

Bennett

Eiterjord

2023

Geographical Journal

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“…Open Science is already discussed and introduced in many different disciplines as identified and highlighted by van der Zee and Reich (2018): There are first examples of disciplines in social sciences such as criminology (Pridemore, Makel & Plucker, 2017) and sex research (Sakaluk & Graham, 2018), whereas the discussion is just starting in humanities, see, e.g., open science education (van der Zee & Reich, 2018; Stracke, 2019), while Open Science is practiced in many disciplines of (natural and formal) sciences such as animal welfare (Wicherts, 2017), biomedicine (Page et al, 2018), climate research (Muster, 2018), energy efficiency (Huebner et al, 2017), hardware development (Dosemagen, Liboiron & Molloy, 2017), high-energy…”

Section: Open Science In Scientific Research and Dimensionsmentioning

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Open Science and Radical Solutions for Diversity, Equity and Quality in Research: A Literature Review of Different Research Schools, Philosophies and Frameworks and Their Potential Impact on Science and Education

Stracke

2020

Lecture Notes in Educational Technology

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Open Science is a phenomenon that can be traced back to the Middle Ages. In the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, Open Science is strongly growing due to the worldwide internet and related new technologies, tools and communication channels. Two core objectives (reliability and trust) and three main characteristics (transparency, openness and reproducibility) of Open Science can be identified but it is still too early for a broad definition of this growing movement. Its growth is happening in many disciplines and in diverse facets. This article presents an overview of how Open Science is introduced and established in all three science dimensions of research design, processes and publications. For the future, the benefits are analysed that Open Science is offering, as well as the challenges that it is facing. It can be concluded that it is desirable that all researchers collaborate in Open Science. Open Science can improve the different science disciplines, research practices and science in general. In that way, Open Science can contribute to overcome the post-truth age through increasing objective and subjective credibility of science and research. And in the long-term perspective, Open Science can improve the whole research, education, as well as our society.

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IMALIRIJIIT: a community-based environmental monitoring program in the George River watershed, Nunavik, Canada

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Canada's North is experiencing a growing interest in community-based environmental monitoring (CBEM) as resource exploitation and climate change increasingly impact these remote territories, and as recognition of the value and relevance of indigenous knowledge increases. IMALIRIJIIT, a CBEM program involving Science Land Camps, capacity-building workshops and scientific data collection with the participation of youth, Elders, local experts and researchers was co-initiated by the Inuit community of Kangiqsualujjuaq in Nunavik (Quebec) and university-affiliated researchers. This hands-on and land-based program aims to establish a sustainable environmental monitoring program of the George River, before the start of operations of a rare earth elements (REEs) mining project in its upper watershed. The community wanted its own independent and long-term environmental monitoring program to collect baseline data and promote local capacitybuilding. IMALIRIJIIT program includes water quality measurements, biomonitoring for contaminant and REEs analysis in traditional foods, remote sensing analysis of water quality parameters and vegetation change at the watershed scale as well as interactive mapping of traditional ecological knowledge related to the George River. The outcomes and challenges of the IMALIRIJIIT Program are discussed in order to identify the conditions for the successful implementation of CBEM and environmental stewardship in the George River watershed, Nunavik.

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Arctic Freshwater – A Commons Requires Open Science

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons

Remote control? Chinese satellite infrastructure in and above the Arctic global commons

Open Science and Radical Solutions for Diversity, Equity and Quality in Research: A Literature Review of Different Research Schools, Philosophies and Frameworks and Their Potential Impact on Science and Education

IMALIRIJIIT: a community-based environmental monitoring program in the George River watershed, Nunavik, Canada

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