Crew Wanted.
Polar Impact is 100% volunteer-run thanks to your help.
We work with a network of awesome volunteers who help us produce fantastic content, events, and outreach. If you would like to volunteer with a specific contribution, please get in touch at hello@polarimpactnetwork.org.
Our Projects.
A: Internal Tasks
Help develop our social media presence through posts and fun graphics!
Maintain the website and its content (features, updates, projects, etc.) through straightforward and accessible web pages. Provide a hub for resources and projects for potential members, volunteers, and ambassadors.
Assist in promoting Polar Impact through fundraising events and patreon.
B: Community Building
Connect with, listen to, and share the stories of Polar Impact members, and those in the polar community by highlighting their amazing work in our weekly features.
Dive into the incredible journey of the Polar region’s past through the creation of historically accurate investigative immersive features.
Assist with monthly private virtual gatherings exclusively for Black, Asian, Indigenous, people of color, and minority ethnic Polar Impact members.
Interact with Polar Impact members and the Polar community to produce a quarterly newsletter full of exciting new research/job opportunities, member successes, and more!
Connect Polar Impact to the world of fieldwork with the flag project! Assist in finding participants and coordinating flag locations.
Help promote Polar Impact and its initiatives in a way that’s accessible and comfy. Polar Impact’s merchandise encourages creative design ideas and helps fund the many other initiatives of this organisation.
Facilitate and highlight the social media takeovers of Polar Impact Members leading up to and during the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP).
C: Outreach and Engagement
Connect children with science-based role models who otherwise might feel polar and data science is not an accessible future. Polar Portals (AR enabled postcards) will be sent to Antarctica with polar explorers and posted back to the UK inner-city schools.
Help develop a Field Survival Guide that gives tips on how to get field opportunities and survive once you’re there!
Volunteer to chat with students in different classrooms about your work (in person or virtually!). Short presentations will be followed by Q&A sessions with the students.
Help find artists to contribute to creating "seal grime songs" from the noises of Antarctic seals..
D: Academic Projects and Workshops F: Administration
Be a part of the exciting new initiative to connect our members and provide a safe space for individuals to seek advice, provide guidance, network and more! Mentorship is open to mentees who identify as a historically excluded racial or ethnic minority in polar research and engage with the polar regions through academic research.
Help develop and run these half and full day workshops which aim to educate communities on Perspectives of Minorities in Polar Science.
Establish key organizational tactics to help maintain administrative tasks (i.e. reply to emails, work with collaborators, etc.).