05.12
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
The UN Climate Change Conference COP25 is currently taking place in Madrid Spain. The Cryosphere Pavilion will host a series of side event at COP25, including the Parmafrost Day today, December 5. Live stream from the event is available.
02.12
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
In connection with the Greenland Science Week in Nuuk 1-5 December 2019, DTU, ASIAQ and Pinngortitaleriffik/ Greenland’s Nature Institut are hosting a workshop on foundations and construction practices in permafrost areas. The workshop will take place on December 3 between 8-12.
20.11
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
Nunataryuk researchers from WPs 1, 3 & 6 participated in ITCH 2019 - It's The Cryogrid Hackathon outside of Potsdam, Germany, where users and programmers of the CryoGrid permafrost model gathered for an intense workshop of coding and programming.
07.11
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
Potentially large amounts of carbon dioxide are being produced by eroding permafrost coastlines in the Arctic, according to a new Nunataryuk paper published in Geophysical Research Letters.
25.10
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
PerCS-Net will tie together some 20 existing networks from Russia, Poland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Canada and the United States.
16.10
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- Written by Sofia Antonova, Edited by Dr. Martine Lizotte
At the end of the 4th Takuvik expedition to the Mackenzie Delta, Bennet Juhls (AWI) and I were asked by the Peel River team to repeat water sampling from the creeks along the Dempster Highway between Inuvik and Dawson City. Without much hesitation we agreed to do the job – who would say no to the opportunity to drive this legendary route...
14.10
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- Written by Dr. Martine Lizotte, Takuvik research associate, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada With contributions from Sofia Antonova and Bennet Juhls.
One of the fundamental goals of conducting science is to be able to communicate it to others. As scientists, we are not always effective communicators, especially when addressing non-peers. The challenge is sometimes even greater when it comes to capturing children’s attention with subject matters that, at first glance, seem very complex...
10.10
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- Written by Laurent Oziel
Everything is packed. The truck is fully loaded with our equipment meant for complete autonomy during several days. Bennet and I are gearing up as the temperatures are dropping close to 0oC in the Delta.
04.10
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- Written by Lauren Kipp, Dalhousie University and Gwénaëlle Chaillou, Université du Québec à Rimouski
Welcome to Tuk, the “Land of the pingos”!
02.10
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
The first Nunataryuk EU review was successfully concluded during the 2nd general assembly in Nice, France last week.
24.09
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
Application submission to the Nunataryuk-APECS-T-MOSAiC School 2020 on the topic of “Arctic Coastal Adaptation - Capacity building and knowledge exchange across borders” at Abisko Scientific Research Station (Abisko, Sweden) from 21 - 30 April 2020 is now open.
20.09
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
Permafrost under the Arctic seabed is more widespread than previously thought, and is mostly warming, a new study finds.
20.09
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
The Atlas of Population, Society and Economy in the Arctic provides an in-depth overview of the changes that are affecting populations in the circumpolar North.
17.09
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
The 2nd Nunataryuk General Assembly will take place 24. - 27. September 2019 in Nice, France. It is co-hosted by our partner Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) in Villefranche-sur-Mer in France.
09.09
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- Written by Gonçalo Vieira
The team of the University of Lisbon (Gonçalo Vieira, Pedro Pina, Pedro Freitas and Daniel Pinheiro) and Natural Resources Canada (Dustin Whalen, Angus Robertson and Paul Fraser) has been in the field in June – August 2019 to conduct surveys of coastal...
