Carbon released into the atmosphere by the increasing loss of Arctic permafrost, combined with higher solar absorption by the Earth’s surface due to the melting of sea ice and land snow, will accelerate climate change – and have a multi-trillion dollar impact on the world economy. A new paper in Nature Communications reveals a… Read more »
Read Full »Interview from COP23: Aqqaluk Lynge
ICE-ARC teamed up with EU-PolarNet and the German Development Agency – GIZ – to put together two events at the recent IPCC annual meeting, COP23, hosted by Fiji and held in Bonn, Germany in November 2017. Please see the video on youtube put together by EU-PolarNet from one of these events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRRzb3Kg6oM
Read Full »Video of Arctic Base Camp, Davos
CTN communications have put together a feature video of the Arctic Base Camp, held in Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January 2017
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COP23 – Arctic links to Small Island Developing States
BAS Press Release British Antarctic Survey scientists at 2017 COP23 climate event in Bonn This week (10-11 November) leading scientists and experts from EU-funded research programmes engage with political leaders from the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic to examine the economic and social consequences of climate change on Small Island States (SIDS). Scientific… Read more »
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More fieldwork in Greenland
Steffen Olsen (DMI) has just returned from another successful deployment of instruments in Qannaaq in North-West Greenland. He’s also deployed Martin Doble’s (Polar Scientific) Aquascat mooring successfully. This work was in collaboration with local Inuit hunters Rasmus Avike and Lars Jeremiassen, who were engaged in all components of the field programme.
Read Full »Postdoc job advert: oceanographer for Mercator
Mercator Ocean is the French ocean analysis and forecasting centre. It designs, develops, operates and maintains state-of-the-art scientific numerical-modelling systems that are able to describe, analyse and forecast the state of the ocean in 3D, continuously and in real time. Mercator Ocean is a subsidiary of five major French institutions involved in the development of… Read more »
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Field work blog from NW Greenland day 6
EMsled blog no. 4 ICE-ARC PI Jeremy Wilkinson and Francois Guerraz from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are working with colleagues from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC) and local Inuit in North West Greenland. They’re developing an instrument that will eventually be given to hunters to put on their… Read more »
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Field work blog from NW Greenland day 4
EMsled blog no. 3 ICE-ARC PI Jeremy Wilkinson and Francois Guerraz from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are working with colleagues from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC) and local Inuit in North West Greenland. They’re developing an instrument that will eventually be given to hunters to put on their… Read more »
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Field work blog from NW Greenland day 1
EMsled blog no. 2 ICE-ARC PI Jeremy Wilkinson and Francois Guerraz from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are working with colleagues from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC) and local Inuit in North West Greenland. They’re developing an instrument that will eventually be given to hunters to put on their… Read more »
Read Full »Field work blog from NW Greenland
EMsled blog no. 1 ICE-ARC PI Jeremy Wilkinson and Francois Guerraz from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are working with colleagues from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and the Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC) and local Inuit in North West Greenland. They’re developing an instrument that will eventually be given to hunters to put on their… Read more »
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