Dear UKPN mailing list,
We were contacted recently by the National Maritime Museum and asked whether we would like to run a family-friendly workshop on Polar Nutrition during their well-being and nutrition on the 17th August.
‘We are developing a new family festival this year focused on well-being and nutrition, to partly respond to food poverty in the borough of Greenwich as well as to provide fun and free activities for local families. We are hoping to programme some activities that respond both to the theme but also to the museum’s collection, including our Polar Worlds gallery. Charlotte and I were wondering whether the UK Polar Network ever looks at diet in the Polar regions and whether you might be interested in participating in the festival from this perspective? We are looking for something the whole family could join in with and that could be run at a selection of times throughout the day. The festival is being held on Saturday 17th August. Let me know if you would like to discuss further.’
As the UKPN committee is mostly consists of Earth/Ocean and social scientists we do not feel suitably qualified to run an event on this topic and so we are reaching to our members to see if anyone has relevant knowledge and would be interested in running a workshop at this festival at the museum. We found this interesting resource online: https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/445111/polar-explorer-cookbook and thought this could be a good starting point for planning some activities but we are also open to other ideas. Your travel expenses will be covered (ideally < than £50 pp if 3 volunteers attend) and we will cover costs of any purchased materials for the activities. If you are interested please contact education@polarnetwork.org by the 7th of May and we can explore the possibility of running the workshop.
Many thanks,
Chelsey
Chelsey Baker
PhD Student
Co-President of the UK Polar Network
Office: 344/31
Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems
University of Southampton
National Oceanography Centre
Southampton
SO14 3ZH
