Posts Tagged ‘Arctic’
Get Introduced To The Lake Ice Service And Give Us Feedback!
On November 10th, 2022 speakers Kirsikka Heinilä (Senior research scientist at the Finnish Environment Institute/Arctic PASSION) and Timo Pyhälahti (Senior expert at the Finish Environment Institute/Arctic PASSION ) beautifully presented the newly developed Lake Ice Service at the Arctic PASSION coordinated webinar. The speakers gave valuable information on the Lake Ice Service; what it is,…
Read MoreReflecting On Arctic Passion’s First Year
As 2022 is coming to a close and the second year of Arctic PASSION is in full swing, it is a good time to revisit our first General Assembly last summer and look back at the first year of the project. The year included a full range of activities, a few bigger challenges and sprinkles…
Read MoreMonitoring environmental changes in Tahltan Territory
Tero Mustonen, President of Snowchange Cooperative and Aslak Holmberg, President of the Saami Council, met with Curtis Rattray, an Indigenous leader from the Tahltan Nation and TWILD‘s co-lead for community-led environmental monitoring to check out the feasibility of setting up a field monitoring camp in the Tuya Mountain area. They wanted to fly into Upper Tuya…
Read MoreArctic Passion At Cop27
Last week I attended the second week of COP27 on behalf of the EU project Arctic PASSION. COP27 is the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The COPs (Conference of the Parties) are the chance, every year, for countries to present and discuss their strategies to fight climate change…
Read MorePreliminary Tool To Explore Changing Arctic Permafrost Regions
Introducing the first preliminary tool to explore Arctic permafrost region disturbances and landcover changes at 30 m resolution developed within CCI Permafrost, Permafrost Discovery Gateway, and Arctic PASSION. You can access the permafrost tool via this link. After entering the portal, you will see that the tool uses the time period between 2000 and 2019.…
Read MoreDialogues on improving terrestrial monitoring in the Arctic
One objective of the Arctic PASSION project is to establish ten terrestrial environmental monitoring sites in the Arctic. This part of the work is led by the INTERACT Non-Profit Association (INPA), which unites and represents a network of field stations in the Arctic and northern alpine areas. INPA invited the following ten INTERACT stations to…
Read More