The end of the CHARTER project approaches. It has been a ride, navigating the impacts of a pandemic and war, the ramifications of which are still rumbling. CHARTER’s rumbling however will finish up early next year but our new data, publications and outputs will long outlive the project. As will the many connections and networks established over the course of
Annett Bartsch and others have just published an updated Circumarctic Landcover Units map. It now also includes Northern Scandinavia and Southern Greenland and many other areas have been reprocessed, representing an important addition to circumarctic remote sensing data. You can access and download all the data on the open source Zenodo platform here It includes an axillary dataset with dates
ESRI is the largest geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping organisation in the world. It’s a global GIS behemoth! So it was very nice to see that they highlighted on their Storyscape blog: “The science — and joy — of snow and ice | December 2024” CHARTER supported work. Both Jeff Kerby (who addressed the ESRI plenary
In mid November, the CHARTER project held its final general assembly on ‘home ground’ in Rovaniemi, closing the circle on this project that started in 2019. It was rather fitting that as we launched the project in the midst of the pandemic, and our first assembly was entirely online, that this last assembly was entirely in person. We are grateful
The holiday season in many countries means a large family dinner, and in the ‘anglosphere’ this often means eating a large turkey. In Finnish Lapland, it would be far more common for folks to sit around a large piece of reindeer (Santa’s reindeer notwithstanding). Of course, we happily live in a world where there are all kinds of dishes that
The CHARTER project is winding down, but we are still busy! Our final meeting wrapped up a few weeks ago, and during it, a large format poster exhibit that outlined the goals, field work and results from the CHARTER project over the last 4 years was formally opened. The exhibit is now hanging in the Arktikum Science Museum and will
Drones have come to play a critical role in science. At times it seems that drones are ubiquitous, buzzing in the sky. Some tourist destinations are now adding “No Drones” signs. They are increasingly being used as machines of war. However, much of the development of drone technology and use has been by hobbyists and scientists who immediately saw what
These last weeks have seen a flurry of activity as the CHARTER project begins to wind down its activities, but ramps up its outputs as the project will be drawing to a close at the beginning of 2025. Indeed last week the final CHARTER Assembly was held in Rovaniemi over several days and was attended by over 70 participants. More
TENSIONAL DREAMS: Policy Options for a Sustainable Arctic Tensional dreams – Policy options for a sustainable Arctic – Background for the policy brief – CHARTER Working Paper 4 CHARTER-FACE-IT-ECOTIP Collaborative Fact Sheets In partnership with our sister EU Horizon 2020 projects, who like this project are entering their final year, CHARTER, FACE-IT and ECOTIP partnered
A new publication has just come out with input from multiple CHARTER researchers, led by Cecile B. Menard. Published in EGU’s The Cryosphere, it is titled Exploring the decision-making process in model development: focus on the Arctic snowpack To summarise the article, the Arctic faces significant challenges for climate and snow models, which often struggle to accurately simulate key processes
