A 2022 report described harassment as a 'fact of life' on the continent. Young researchers are particularly alarmed. (via undarkmag)
COLDEX has made changes in addition to the NSF’s. Peter Neff, COLDEX’s director for field research and data, was stationed at McMurdo this season and volunteered to be a direct reporter for any harassment encountered by their 21 team members. He also distributed a list of COLDEX staff back in the U.S. to whom reports could be made.
Ice core teams often consist of researchers and drilling staff from multiple institutions that just turn up on the ice and work and live together in camps 24/7. The teams have guidelines for field safety, but may not have codes of conduct. In a, only three of 36 National Antarctic Programs’ expeditioner handbooks or field manuals mentioned sexual harassment.
She’s not confident the national polar program leadership will do much to help. In the NSF report, while almost 90 percent of senior leadership agreed that sexual harassment and assault are important to address, less than a quarter of them agreed that sexual assault was a problem in Antarctica.
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