Power of the Poster

Each day the room goes from this.... to this. That's because close to 1,000 scientific posters must be hung during the five-day conference in a large but limited space. This means each day 300 posters go up for a couple of hours. Researchers stand by them and field questions. Then the removable walls are stripped and new posters put up the next day.

Ginny Coyne (below) is a student of the Yukon Native Teachers Education Program (YNTEP) at Yukon College in Whitehorse. Ginny's poster focused on IPY Polar Days. She's speaking with Yellowknife's Bob Reid, director of INAC's water division. Bob's wife, Suzanne Carriere of the NWT's Environment and Natural Resources gave a talk titled "Invasive and introduced specie in polar environments."

Frances Ross (below) is a graduate student at Dalhousie University. She worked with the group PPS Arctic. PPS stands for "Present processes, Past changes, Spatiotemporal dynamics."

Her research looked at how the treeline is being effected by climate change in Old Crow, Yukon and focused on traditional knowledge.

Yukon IPY coordinator Bob Vandjken answering questions.

Isla Myers-Smith is a graduate student at the University of Alberta studying shrub changes in the Canadian Arctic. Her poster is about the education and outreach initiatives carried out on behalf of the ArcticNet' student's association.

Hundreds of

people check out the posters each day.

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