ISOSCAN team received the MacGyver award at CS4water conference !

Even though the project has a strong winter focus, there was plenty of activity this summer. Beside growing our dataset, Cos and Benjamin attended the CS4Water Conference in Delft, a global gathering dedicated to advancing citizen science for water research and management. Alongside learning from experts from around the world, they proudly presented the ISOSCAN project in the conference’s poster session — sharing insights into how our team combines citizen science with isotope hydrology to better understand water processes across Fennoscandia including the isotope sampling kit our citizen scientist used to collect snow.

The conference offered a great opportunity to exchange ideas on best practices, common challenges, and innovative developments in citizen science. Just as valuable was the chance to meet and connect with the inspiring and welcoming citizen science community.

As the perfect ending to an already exciting event, the ISOSCAN team was honored with the MacGyver Award for DIY Brilliance 🎉 — celebrating our creative, hands-on approach to scientific problem-solving!

Text: Benjamin Fischer, Costijn Zwart

Costijn & Benjamin presenting ISOSCAN poster at the conference (photo: Costijn)

 

Welcome our new team member, Marie Curtet !

Marie Curtet is a master’s student in Sustainability at the University of Bergen, Norway. Marie is currently pursuing her master’s thesis in collaboration with the ISOSCAN team, under the supervision of Harald Sodemann, leader of the ISOSCAN project, and Rose Trappes, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen. Her master’s thesis focuses on Citizen Science and hydroclimatic extremes. In particular, she is looking into what motivates people to participate in Citizen Science projects and how they experience their participation in the ISOSCAN project. 

photo of Marie Curtet
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welcoming Ann Eileen Lennert to ISOSCAN team !

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Close to the end of 2024, one of our project partners, WildLabProjects decided to cease operation and it would take effect from December 2024. We started to look for alternatives and thankfully we could find a very adequate replacement with Ann Eileen Lennert from the Arctic Sustainability lab of University of Tromsø entering the project.

Ann Eileen Lennert, environmental anthropologist and creative mind. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary sciences, knowledge co-production, exploring human-nature interaction, visual storytelling and research built largely on an awareness of culture and integrity. She has worked with community engagement, SES, citizen and sustainability science. And loves to work with youth and communities, create engagement, co-creation and co-production of knowledge and ideas through creative spaces and has done so through a number of projects around the North and Arctic.

She loves snow, skiing and being outdoors in winter and therefor this project ISOSCAN was just right!