Paper short abstract

Panellists compare and draw preliminary conclusions about their respective social science research on sub-disciplines of paleoclimatology

Paper long abstract

Due to the scientific and social credibility given to climate forecasting and modelling and to atmospheric physics, social scientists have just started to study scientific disciplines that produce knowledge on past climates. The three panelists have conducted social science research on different disciplines of paleoclimatology. Dr Ramírez-i-Ollé has studied a dendroclimatology laboratory and project; Dr Skrydstrup carried out an ethnography of an ice-core expedition; and Dr Duarte has studied paleoceanographers and their interactions with paleomodellers. They will present preliminary conclusions of their comparison of research into paleoclimatology in terms of three elements among others: a) the role of fieldwork in knowledge production; b) strategies for bridging the temporality of past, present, and future climate; c) collaboration with other scientific communities.