MEASO Living Data:
Cultural perspectives of the Southern Ocean are shared on virtual country
to link stories from cultural knowledge and scientific data
MEASO is the Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean.
Living Data brings together stories from scientific data and Indigenous cultural knowledge, expressed through the diverse languages of art.
In view of the strong movement towards recognising place-based knowledge, such as the publication of material authored by a river, we would like to invite our Aotearoan friends to contribute to this project to bring together cultural perspectives of the Southern Ocean.
We are collecting stories along the path of the ocean currents from the Antarctica to all other areas, to express the significance of the linkages around the world of the effect of climate change. Your story may be about the effect of the southern current on climate, the effect on the whales and other animals, the effect of these animals on your livelihood. Whatever you feel will convey the significance of these linkages. We have members of the team from Antarctic research programs who feel that the message of the significance of their work on the science of the ocean currents and creatures is not getting through. We want to link the scientific data with the Indigenous stories of the globe, to promote understanding and conservation of connectivity in nature.
Messages will be presented as MEASO Living Data and IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change) from 2020-2023, as scientific papers with on-line components and an animated interactive map that will evolve as stories are shared.
Antarctic science and Australian Indigenous perspectives connect.
Infographic by Lisa Roberts and Katherina Petrou, 2020
Document prepared by Cat Kutay, Lisa Roberts and Andrew Constable