Förhoppningar och spänningar: Policyalternativ för ett hållbart Arktis
Förhoppningar och spänningar: Policyalternativ för ett hållbart Arktis Nu tillgänglig på svenska! Our CHARTER project 2 pager is now available in Swedish!
Spenninger og drømmer: Politiske alternativer for et bærekraftig Arktis
Nå på norsk! Our CHARTER project 2 pager policy brief is now available in Norwegian!
Updated Drone StoryMap, Exciting New Footage!
As part of one of its deliverables, the CHARTER project promised a white paper on the use of drones in the Arctic, as several work packages were actively using and planning to use drones in their fieldwork campaigns. Given that drones produce some eye watering visuals, we decided to create a more visual approach to
Award for CHARTER supported publication and new paper published
Every year, the Editors of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research select an article from the previous year’s issue for the Editors’ Choice Award. The award recognizes an influential paper demonstrating research excellence contributing substantially to our understanding of physical and environmental science in cold environments. We are thrilled to post that the academic article “Socioecological
CHARTER supported StoryMaps galore..
The CHARTER project has created and supported the writing of a number of StoryMaps, a powerful online storytelling platform that enables the combination of text, audio, image, video and above all, maps. We have collected all our StoryMaps in one place for you to explore
Arctic future pathways – CHARTER policy event held in Helsinki
As its last policy event, CHARTER organized an ‘Arctic afternoon’ in Helsinki, on 8.1.2025. This was planned and carried out as a collaboration between WPs 6 and 7 – University of Lapland researchers and science communication, and researchers from universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä. The event was targeted to decision makers and others working on
Our Last Newsletter!
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
CHARTER: New Circumarctic Data
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
ESRI feature CHARTER supported work
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
CHARTER’s last hurrah..
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