The SEARCH Open Science Meeting was open to print, TV, radio, electronic and Internet general interest media as well as all scientific media. The significant level of media participation resulted in a number of print, radio, television, and internet stories, serving to educate a wider public on the scientific issues raised and discussed at the OSM.
See the list below of media coverage of the SEARCH Open Science Meeting.
Print Coverage
Signs of radical change in Arctic ecosystem
By J. Patrick Coolican
Seattle Times
29 October 2003
Available on-line at: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2001777464_arctic29m.html
Chilling conclusion: Arctic is indeed warmer
By Jack Williams
USA Today
29 October 2003
Available on-line at: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/resources/coldscience/2003-10-29-arctic-searc_x.htm (Online version titled “Scientists, others trying to make sense of Arctic changes”)
Melting ice at the world’s rooftop stirs concern
By Peter N. Spotts
Christian Science Monitor
30 October 2003
Available on-line at: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1030/p02s01-usgn.html?usaNav
SEARCHing for Arctic answers
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
By Virginia Gewin
December 2003, “Dispatches” section
Available on-line at: http://www.frontiersinecology.org/current_issue/Dispatches_Dec2003.pdf
Radio Coverage
National Public Radio
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Host: Ira Flatow
31 October 2003
Alaska Public Radio Network
Alaska News Nightly
Reporter and Host: Steve Heimel
24 November 2003 Segment - 3.3 MB
31 December 2003 Segment - 2.4 MB
Television Coverage
KING-TV CH 5 (NBC) Seattle/Tacoma
28 October 2003: 12:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., and 6:30 p.m. broadcasts
29 October 2003: 5:00 a.m. broadcast
Northwest Cable News
Seattle/Tacoma
28 October 2003
6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. broadcasts
Internet Coverage
Polar winds speeding up
Whitley Strieber’s Unknown Country/Daily News of the Edge
30 October 2003
Available at: http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/headline