Posts Tagged ‘observation’
The Last Arctic Passion Field Trip
What was likely the last Arctic Passion field trip was conducted by local hunters Qillaq Danielsen and Gedion Kristiansen on the newly formed landfast sea ice in Qaanaaq, on 30th December 2025 including measurements of sea-ice thickness and installation of loggers under the sea ice. The instruments will be recovered in late May 2026 ensuring…
Read MoreOptimising Arctic observations factsheet
This is one of the factsheet series with key messages from Arctic PASSION. The series will be continued and new factsheets will be announced here. All factsheets can be found on Zenodo.
Read MoreCountdown to the Arctic PASSION Symposium and General Assembly in Potsdam
In just three months, on 29 September 2025, the Arctic PASSION Symposium and General Assembly will begin in Potsdam, Germany. The General Assembly, the annual meeting of project partners, collaborators, and invited guests of the Arctic PASSION project, will take place from 1-2 October 2025. This year, an Arctic PASSION Symposium will precede the General…
Read MoreFirst-Ever Inclusion Of Permafrost Measurement Best Practices In The Wmo Guide To Instruments And Methods Of Observation
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released Volume II of its Guide to Instruments and Methods of Observation (WMO-No. 8): Measurement of Cryospheric Variables. For the first time, the guide features a dedicated chapter on Permafrost! Co-authored by Anna Irgang from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), this milestone represents the culmination of a four-year writing…
Read MoreA New Database Of British Columbia’s Indigenous Knowledge Of Climate, Ecological, And Cultural Events
Arctic PASSION is launching a new database with Tahltan climate event observations, which helps us to understand ongoing changes in the Arctic region. The event database is a tool to document and share significant cultural and environmental events within Tahltan Territory, an area over 90 thousand square km, an area larger than Hungary. As a…
Read MoreArctic Passion Online Seminar & Dialogue “The Arctic Communities Event Databases”
In this online seminar, Arctic PASSION is introducing its recently launched Arctic Communities Event Databases, a major hub for Indigenous Knowledge and local Knowledge. The databases collect observations, oral histories and knowledge about climatic, ecological and socio-cultural changes in the Arctic. This multifaceted knowledge from hundreds of knowledge holders along the Arctic seas is useful…
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