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Description: In a world where all types of information are available online, science and its outreach also needs to expand. Content creation has become an important aspect of science communication and IAGA scientists are playing a major role in it. IAGA is one of the associations under IUGG which promotes the work of Earth and space scientists studying the magnetic and electrical properties of planets, interplanetary bodies, the Sun and their different phenomena. An outcome of the last IUGG meeting in 2019 was the formation of a dedicated IAGA social media working group to provide an easily accessible platform and an online community for IAGA members; to bridge the gap between scientists and the general public; to increase awareness of the varied work of IAGA; and to promote the work of early career researchers (ECRs) and under-represented groups in IAGA. This abstract covers an overview of the work undertaken by this working group and content shared on our many different social media platforms - Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and a blog. The blog posts cover a range of topics including PhD stories on academic life, updates from the community, and historical information. On our other platforms, we share our blog as well as job opportunities, upcoming conferences, workshops, outreach opportunities, new publications, and videos covering the work of IAGA. We hope to attract other members to the group by describing the idea behind our content creation and in turn take ideas from the community to improve our reach.

Description: Unique information about the dynamo process acting at Jupiter can be inferred by modeling and interpreting its magnetic field. Using the fluxgate magnetometer measurements acquired during the first 5 years, or first 38 orbits, of the Juno mission, we derive a magnetic field model which describes simultaneously the main field and the secular variation (SV) up to spherical harmonic degrees 16 and 8, respectively. Apart from the Earth's, this is the first time another planetary magnetic field along with its time variation is described to such a high degree. We use properties of the power spectrum of the static field to infer the upper boundary of the dynamo convective region at 0.830 ± 0.022 Jupiter radius. The SV varies at a rate of 0.6% per year while the correlation times are relatively comparable to the Earth's and indicate that the field is dominated by advection. The field and SV morphologies suggest zonal as well as non-zonal deep fluid motions.

Description: The project “Bimbim’s Team: A Journey to the Planets” was awarded by Europlanet with the main goal to awaken children’s curiosity for planetary sciences. Science outreach to children is a major challenge for professionals in any field, especially because of the complexity involved. Initiating children into scientific subjects is not a trivial task. In his project, we tackle the challenge of reaching as many children as possible, combining science and art in an innovative strategy. “Bimbim’s team” are puppets theater characters which have the power to fascinate children and transmit science in an unconventional way. Short movies were produced with three stories about the planets: general overview of all solar system planets, Earth and Mars. The videos come with illustrations and animations to better express the scientific content. They were recorded in three languages (Portuguese, English and French) in hopes of reaching an international scale. We expect that these stories will also call the attention of schools and parents to bring science closer to their children. Another outcome of the project is the involvement of female scientists and the possibility to attract more scientists, especially the minority groups.

Description: “Geoscience Connections” is a project to connect the eight IUGG Associations through interviews with early-career scientists (ECS), secretary generals and presidents of each association. The main objective of this project is to transfer scientific knowledge to the general public by connecting a variety of scientific subjects from all IUGG associations. Science outreach movies have a great potential to attract the attention of the public, especially through social media. The project is interdisciplinary, diverse, international and inclusive.Short movies were produced especially with ECS to emphasize the importance of the great variety of topics related to IUGG and to encourage young students to pursue careers related to geodesy and geophysics. The interviews with the IUGG secretary generals and presidents will be filmed during the IUGG Assembly, where most of them will be present. The documentary containing these interviews will be published at the IUGG Social Media Channels until December, 2023. In this talk we will show how the interviews were designed and some examples of short movies with ECS.