Posts Tagged ‘Arctic’
Arctic Passion Science Communication Webinars
On March 22nd GRID-Arendal’s documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist Olivia Rempel led a Zoom webinar about Storytelling in Science, open to anyone wanting to participate, as part of a series of webinars that Arctic PASSION will offer relating to communication of project results. There was a very high number of participants who registered for the…
Read MoreUsing Oral Histories, Indigenous Knowledge And Local Knowledge For Monitoring Environmental Change In Canada
The Arctic PASSION project attempts to address what needs to be done to improve and extend terrestrial, marine and cryospheric measurements and community-based monitoring systems; What services and networks are necessary for adaptation to climate change in regions; What is the best way to involve Indigenous Peoples, local populations and other actors in the region…
Read MoreNew Gtn-P Strategy And Implementation Plan Published
The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) Secretariat at Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) proudly released their GTN-P Strategy and Implementation Plan for the years 2021 to 2024 this week. Image credit: Streletskiy, D., Noetzli, J., Smith, S.L., Vieira, G., Schoeneich, P., Hrbacek, F. and A.M. Irrgang (2021): Measurement Standards…
Read MoreCnrs Paris Deploys Instruments For Arctic Sea Ice Monitoring
On September 12 2021, CNRS Paris deployed an Ice Atmosphere Arctic Ocean Observing System (IAOOS) platform and a basic ice mass balance buoy in the Amundsen Basin at 86.5N – -16.7E from the Norwegian research vessel R/Kronprins Haakon. Zoé Koenig, a Postdoc in Physical oceanography at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), was leading the deployment. The NPI cruise…
Read MoreObserving Arctic Sea Ice In Arctic Passion
Since the start of Arctic PASSION, the partners have been out in the field installing instruments and collecting data for the project’s pilot services. One example is a sea ice mass balance buoy which was deployed on sea ice in the Arctic Ocean by Arctic PASSION’s Work Package 1, Establishing an adaptive and more complete…
Read MoreMonitoring Marine Noise And Mammals Together With Local Hunters In Greenland
Arctic PASSION’s work package 4 is innovating user-driven Arctic EuroGEO pilot services. The work package is led by Tero Mustonen, Chairperson of Snowchange Cooperative, and Malene Simon, who works at the Greenland Climate Research Centre at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. In this work package, eight teams will develop essential Pilot Services, taking into account priorities…
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