A 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 MoreIndigenous Knowledge is a treasure chest for Arctic partnerships
We were fortunate to meet with Tero Mustonen, President of Snowchange Cooperative and recent winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, and capture an interview which we would like to share for their invaluable perspectives and advice on how scientific research and Indigenous Knowledge can better cooperate. Tero has been working for Snowchange for the past 22…
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 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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