A 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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Stay Tuned With Arctic Passion

Arctic PASSION Instagram gallery

Arctic PASSION is regularly publishing videos,  photos and stories from the Arctic. Watch our interviews and meet a wealth of people across the Arctic and beyond, talking about themes like co-creation, Arctic observations, and more!  Stay tuned by subscribing to our YouTube channel or following us on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook!

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International Workshop On Preparedness For Arctic Wildfires

A session on SAVs led by Dr. Heidi Sevestre

Shared Arctic Variables (SAVs) are co-defined taking into account global, regional, indigenous and local voices and interests, hence the ”shared” in their name. Ideally the point is to share knowledge and identify gaps and needs, from all mentioned perspectives, to better our understanding of variety of Arctic themes ranging from wildfires to sea ice and…

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Joint Dbo Sessions At Assw 2023: Towards A Pan-Arctic Dbo

Happy collaborators by the end of the Joint DBO Community meeting

During two inspiring sessions at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 in Vienna, Austria, the recently initiated Atlantic-Arctic Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) community joined up with the teams from the pioneering Pacific DBO, and the two DBOs in formation for the Davis Strait and the East Siberian Sea. Through discussions and science presentations, the aim…

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Collaborative Workshop At Arctic Frontiers 2023: Land Use, Reconciliation, And Justice In The Arctic

The workshop participants

And so Arctic PASSION finally got together with its sister projects CHARTER, Arctic Hubs and JustNorth during Arctic Frontiers for a workshop hosted by NOFIMA (Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research). It was a pleasure to have been invited for the workshop were approximately 25 project members across Europe and from three other…

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