Abstract
Glaciers are major contributors to global sea level change and regional
freshwater resources. In light of the worldwide societal importance of
glacier change, we see a need for accessible glacier-education materials
in many languages. We have developed a set of Jupyter notebooks,
available in both Spanish and English, that coaches users through basic
simulations with the Open Global Glacier Model (edu.oggm.org). The
notebooks are freely available via GitHub
(github.com/ehultee/CdeC-glaciologia), with no special software
installation requirements for users. Participants in a week-long
glaciology workshop at Clubes de Ciencia Peru 2019 used our notebooks to
study glacier physics and make future projections for mountain glaciers
of their choice. Only one participant had previously used Python, and
none had experience with numerical modelling of Earth systems in any
language. All were able to run the notebooks and explain their findings.
Most participants were also able to modify the notebooks to conduct
experiments of interest to them. We consider this a particularly
successful case of science outreach, in that workshop participants are
now equipped to explore their own important questions independently. The
notebooks we have developed can support multilingual glaciology
outreach; we hope that sharing our experience can support public
geoscience more broadly.