10.05
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- Written by Juliane Wolter, AWI
For the second half of our expedition, the composition of our team has changed somewhat. Andreas Richter and Louis-Philippe Roy left on April 25, and Hugues Lantuit came in instead. This change had been coordinated with the rangers’ crew change flight...
06.05
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- Written by Juliane Wolter, AWI
Last week everything went according to our meticulously prepared plan. This week the reality of doing field work in remote places of the Arctic gripped us. Open water north of Herschel Island is creating persistent fog and low clouds...
03.05
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- Written by Dr. Martine Lizotte, Takuvik research associate, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada, with contributions from Bennet Juhls, Laurent Oziel, Caroline Guilmette, Marine Béguin and Thomas Bossé-Demers.
The Takuvik-AWI team successfully completed the first WP4 expedition. A fortunate stroke of serendipity? Undeniably. But beyond that, the expedition boasted an unbelievable streak of sunny days and a hard-working and seasoned team...
23.04
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- Written by Dr. Martine Lizotte, Takuvik research associate, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
The countdown before the ultimate lift off has begun. Six team mates. Five airplane take-offs and landings. Four pieces of luggage each. Three different nationalities. Two days of travelling. One unifying goal...
16.04
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- Written by Juliane Wolter, AWI
Up here in the North, the spring field season has started and we are busy preparing the Nunataryuk Expedition Yukon Coast 2019 Spring. On April 9, 2019, we started our journey from Potsdam (Jan, Jule)
08.04
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- Written by Dr. Martine Lizotte, Takuvik research associate, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
The gear is on the move! After a rushed session of box filling, stacking, identifying, enumerating and wrapping, the scientific gear for the 4 expeditions linked to the Nunataryuk WP4 “Coastal Waters” project is finally on the move.
03.04
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- Written by Joan Nymand Larsen, Jon Haukur Ingimundarson, Leneisja Jungsberg, Johanna Scheer, Ulla Timlin, Arja Rautio
The purpose of the Nunataryuk field visit to Ilulissat and Qeqertarsuaq in Greenland was to host local consultations and start conducting interviews with key stakeholder on the topics of coastal community planning...
05.03
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- Written by Dr. Martine Lizotte, Takuvik research associate, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
In February 2019, members of the Nunataryuk WP4 “Coastal Waters” team conduct a tour of the Northwest Territories communities involved in the field campaigns planned this year: Inuvik, Aklavik and Tuktoyaktuk in Canada.
21.02
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- Written by Natalia Doloisio, CEARC Laboratory (Cultures, Environments, Arctic, Representations, Climate)
We are six researchers from the CEARC Laboratory (Cultures, Environments, Arctic, Representations, Climate) which is located in France: Jean Paul Vanderlinden, Mateo Cordier, Charlotte da Cunha, Magali Vullierme, Alexandra Lavrillier...
19.02
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- Written by Dr. Martine Lizotte, Takuvik research associate, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
As part of the Nunataryuk WP4 project “Coastal water satellite tracking of organic matter in the Mackenzie Delta in the context of climate change permafrost thaw”, our team conducted an ice-safety training in the largest (412 km2) teaching and...
01.11
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
1st Nunataryuk General Assembly took place on San Servolo island in Venice Italy between 3-5 October. Prior to the Assembly, the project young researchers convened to a 3-day APECS organised workshop to...
24.09
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- Written by Gonçalo Vieira and Pedro Pina
As one of the teams involved in Nunataryuk's Work Package 2 that deals with the dynamics of Arctic coastal environments, our role is to conduct high resolution mapping to provide a snapshot of the present state of the coast and to assess on the rates of coastal change, especially after 2015...
31.08
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- Written by Niek Speejens and edited by Alison Beamish
One of the key aims of this year’s expedition was sampling and ground-truthing the soils and streams of the coastal tundra plain that run through the landscape. Challenging working conditions and a full working schedule left us with little time...
13.08
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- Written by Léo Chassiot Edited by: Alison Beamish
A couple of weeks ago the rebirth of our research vessel “Christine” allowed us to sail in the Herschel Basin (50-60 m water depth), southeast of the Island, to test the seismic imagery system. Strong winds, waves, and cold temperatures did not help us...
03.08
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- Written by Samuel Stettner and Niek Speetjens
Losing track of time and space, we only just realized that it has already been one week on Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island). While flying in to the Island with the Twin Otter we must have crossed some kind of portal that made time even more relative than usual. The days...
