Arctic Passion 2025 Symposium And General Assembly In Potsdam
It’s a wrap! Arctic PASSION gathered for a final meeting full of reflection, celebration, and inspiration – marking the culmination of four years of passionate and successful collaboration across the Arctic and beyond. Over100 people attended the 4-day event consisting of two days of an open final Symposium, followed by two days of an internal…
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 MoreJoint Dbo Sessions At Assw 2023: Towards A Pan-Arctic Dbo
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…
Read MoreArctic Passion At The Agu Fall Meeting
The EU Polar Cluster had a booth at AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2022 in Chicago – the most influential event in the world dedicated to the advancement of Earth and space sciences. The booth was organised and managed for the EU Polar Cluster by the European Polar Board Secretariat and included information flyers…
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 MoreArctic Observing Systems webinar
On November 9th, 2022 40 people attended an hour-long webinar coordinated by Arctic PASSION on Arctic Observing Systems: what they are, why they are important, who uses them and how they can improve. Speakers Michael Karcher (Arctic PASSION coordinator at Alfred Wegener Institute) and Arild Sundfjord (Oceanographer at Norwegian Polar Institute/Arctic PASSION), who offered invaluable explanations on how…
Read MoreArctic Passion At Geo Week In Accra, Ghana
Read Mikko Strahlendorff’s personal account of how he experienced participating in the Group on Earth Observations‘ GEO Week, in Ghana. GEO week is always a full program for two full days. GEO activities presented themselves to the GEO community and many interesting new ideas were born and possible collaborations envisioned. Arctic Passion was involved in…
Read MoreHighlights Of Arctic Passion At The Arctic Circle Assembly 2022
Arctic PASSION organized two sessions on Friday October 14th at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2022 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland and a session on Saturday October 15th on funding International Arctic Science. 1. ROADMAP FOR ARCTIC OBSERVING AND DATA SYSTEMS (ROADS) – SHARED ARCTIC VARIABLES Introduction of the speakers for the session; Alice Bradley and Laura Divine. Photos: Lisa Grosfeld Lauren Divine,…
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