Rovaniemi – CHARTER

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 in person. We are grateful

Bringing Citizen Science & Snow to the Classroom

Feb 28, 2022adminCryosphere, Project News, SnowCitizen Science, Leena Leppänen, Rovaniemi, Sirpa Rasmus, Snow, Snow pit

Under gorgeous spring skies by the banks of the Ounasjoki river last Friday, CHARTER Arctic researchers Sirpa Rasmus and Leena Leppänen brought their snow science to the next generation of researchers. With the participation of the Grade 5 students from the Rovaniemi Steiner school students and their teacher, the principles of snow structure, snow pack, snow layers and the tools