Posts Tagged ‘Arctic’
First deployment of heavy recording equipment with the aid of Inuit dog sledge teams
Malene Simon Hegelund from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources shared with us an update on the fieldwork in Qaanaaq for Arctic PASSION’s community-based management work on Arctic marine climate change, noise pollution and impacts on marine living resources. Springtime deployment of sound recorders are necessary to capture the sea ice breakup period when the…
Read MoreThe power of Indigenous voices and data supporting the green transitional Decision-making in the Arctic: The power of indigenous voices and data supporting the green transition
A new policy brief: “Data-driven Subnational Decision-making in the Arctic: The power of Indigenous voices and data supporting the green transition” will change the way we look at green transition. Published by the team at the University of Lapland, a partner in the Arctic PASSION project. Photo: Snowchange Cooperative The policy brief summarises the preliminary…
Read MoreArctic 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…
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