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Award for CHARTER supported publication and new paper published

Jan 14, 2025adminProject News, Published articlesBruce Forbes, Joachim Otto Habeck, Lake Inari, Mariana Verdonen, Otto Habeck, Philip Burgess, Sirpa Rasmus, Sirpa Rasmus, Timo Kumpula

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 dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems

CHARTER supported StoryMaps galore..

Jan 10, 2025adminClimate change

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

Jan 10, 2025adminArctic climate change, Biodiversity, Project NewsJussi Eronen, Leo Aikio, Lotta Manninen, Sanna Hast, Sirpa Rasmus

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 (or interested in) Arctic issues

Our Last Newsletter!

Dec 16, 2024adminProject Documents, Project News

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

CHARTER: New Circumarctic Data

Dec 16, 2024adminCryosphere, Project News, Published articlesAnnett Bartsch, bgeos, Remote sensing

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 feature CHARTER supported work

Dec 12, 2024adminProject NewsIrina Wang, Jeff Kerby, Philip Burgess, StoryMap

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

CHARTER’s last hurrah..

Dec 11, 2024adminProject NewsCHARTER Assembly, Rovaniemi

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

What do reindeer eat for the holidays?

Dec 9, 2024adminArctic climate change, Biodiversity, Project NewsIrina Wang, Philip Burgess, Reindeer, StoryMap

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

CHARTER Poster Exhibit – All Now Available for Download

Dec 4, 2024adminArctic climate change, Biodiversity, Project Documents, Project NewsIrina Wang, Philip Burgess, Science Communication

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

New CHARTER StoryMap on Drones ‘Launched’

Dec 3, 2024adminCHARTER Working Papers, Climate change, Project Documents, Project NewsDrones, Isla Myers Smith, Jeff Kerby, Miguel Villoslada, Philip Burgess, StoryMap

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