Posts Tagged ‘Arctic’
Arctic Passion General Assembly 2023 Started
Arctic PASSION General Assembly 2023 started in Baveno, Italy, this week. Almost 100 project members and invited speakers meet for three days to discuss the progress over the first two years and planning the way forward for the second half of the project. Follow the updates via our social media channels including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter…
Read MoreKnowledge co-creation for policy
Arctic PASSION interviewed Kotryna Markeviciuto, former research trainee at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), regarding advice on partnership for knowledge co-creation for policy, emphasizing that arts-based methods could provide the space for dialogue. We are delighted to share this video as a small taste of what is to come in a coming workshop on knowledge…
Read MoreThe development of Shared Arctic Variables in Arctic PASSION
People living in the Arctic are facing a rapidly changing environment and increasing human activity in the region. Observations inform actions in the face of these changes, but observing system design and coordination approaches developed for more focused networks at mid- and low latitudes are not necessarily directly applicable in more complex Arctic settings. Requirements for these are…
Read MoreIntegrating local environmental observations and remote sensing for researching permafrost landscape changes
The formation and drainage of lakes in the Arctic represent dominant landscape change processes in permafrost regions. Better understanding these processes and documenting drainage events is of importance to climate change research, wildlife and habitat studies, access to subsistence resources, and the wellbeing of northern socioecological systems. During an AWI Perma-X ground expedition in northwestern…
Read MoreIndigenous Knowledge is a treasure chest for Arctic partnerships
We were fortunate to meet with Tero Mustonen, President of Snowchange Cooperative and recent winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, and capture an interview which we would like to share for their invaluable perspectives and advice on how scientific research and Indigenous Knowledge can better cooperate. Tero has been working for Snowchange for the past 22…
Read MoreA Trip to Sevettijärvi: Meeting people of the Skolt Sámi
On Monday March 27th morning, the three of us Arctic PASSION scientists Michael Karcher, Lisa Grosfeld and Nadine Hillenbrand from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany started our 35-hour long journey to visit the Arctic PASSION partners of the Skolt Sámi community in Sevettijärvi, Finland. The visit was all about learning about the community,…
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