Sirpa Rasmus – CHARTER

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

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

Last CHARTER Workshop, a New Herding Game!

Sep 6, 2024adminBiodiversity, Climate change, Project NewsBruce Forbes, Jussi Eronen, Knowledge, Landpaths, LUKE, Otto Habeck, Poro- ja kalapäivät, Sirpa Rasmus, Tim Horstkotte, Traditional knowledge

(by Sirpa Rasmus & Tim Horstkotte) In connection to the “Reindeer and fish research days” in Ylläs, northern Finland, organized by Natural Resources Institute, CHARTER organized one of its last participatory workshops. After several ones had been held in three countries, Finland, Norway and Sweden, a joint event was planned to bring together herders and researchers to bring together the

Article in Yale Environment 360 on ‘Rain on Snow’

Jun 17, 2024adminArctic climate change, Project NewsBruce Forbes, Irina Wang, Mark Serreze, Philip Burgess, Rain on Snow, Roza Laptander, Sirpa Rasmus

Excellent overview article by Ed Struzik on the phenomena known as ‘Rain on Snow’ in the Yale Environment360 and the AGU EOS online magazines. The article features an interview with the project leader of the Arctic Rain on Snow Study (AROSS), a project which shares several researchers and themes with the CHARTER project. CHARTER folks engaged in the AROSS project

Hva får myndighetene vite om Arktis?

Jun 17, 2024adminArctic climate change, Project NewsFramsenteret i Tromsø, Hans Tømmervik, NINA – Norsk institutt for naturforskning, Planning, Sirpa Rasmus

* Artikkel av Helge M. Markusson, Framsenter i Tromsø – I et raskt skiftende miljø er arktiske samfunn og deres levebrød sårbare, sier Hans Tømmervik. Han er forsker i NINA – Norsk institutt for naturforskning. – Disse samfunnene har også potensial til å gi et stort bidrag til å dempe klimaendringer og stanse tap av verdifull natur. Men da må

Comparing Jokkmokk and Savukoski through an environmental stressor lens

May 29, 2024adminArctic climate change, Biodiversity, Climate change, Published articlesBruce Forbes, Joachim Otto Habeck, Jokkmokk, Nora Fagerholm, Salla Eilola, Savukoski, Sirpa Rasmus, Teresa Komu, Tim Horstkotte

A new peer reviewed CHARTER publication has dropped – titled “Perceptions on and impacts of environmental changes under multiple stressors: a case study from two communities in northern Fennoscandia”. Salla Eilola of University of Turku is the lead author, with six co authors, all of whom are affiliated with the CHARTER project. The article looks at local perceptions of local

Meet the Nexus: New CHARTER Publication

Jan 11, 2024adminProject News, Published articlesArctic, European Arctic, Nexus, Policy, Sirpa Rasmus

The CHARTER project is entering its final year and concluding publications are beginning to roll out. An important new one led by Sirpa Rasmus, supported by a large number of CHARTER affiliated researchers has just been published in the One Earth journal. With the snappy title of ‘Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal

CHARTER at the Finnish Met Institute Snow Seminar

Nov 8, 2023adminArctic climate change, Project News, SnowCitizen Science, FMI, Leena Leppänen, Outi Meinander, Sirpa Rasmus, Snow

Many thanks to all the 90 registered participants of the FMI’s 11th Pyry snow seminar on 1.11.2023! The seminar was again a great success and the talks and poster presentations included topics such as (but not limited to) Antarctic and Arctic research, weather and climate modelling, snow model approaches, and citizen science (by Outi Meinander, FMI). Collaboration has always been in

Workshop Playing Cards Now Available to Download

Sep 12, 2023adminClimate changeCLIMINI, Dreams and Surprises, Future Scenarios, Irina Wang, Playing cards, POVAUS, Sirpa Rasmus

The CHARTER project in collaboration with two other projects, POVAUS and CLIMINI have held numerous workshops across Finnish Lapland, and also in northern Sweden. These workshops are held local people, often folks practicing traditional livelihoods such as herding and fishers with researchers, and administrators. The workshops have taken different formats and had varying themes as their focal point. A workshop

CHARTER Participates in Journalist Training Course in Inari, Finland

Mar 7, 2023adminProject NewsCommunications, Helen Honkasaari, Inari, Markku Heikkilä, Media, Sirpa Rasmus

The CHARTER project will have a visible role in journalist training course in Inari, Finland, 13th-14th March. The event is organized together with the Finnish Ministry of Environment and the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and the participants, about 20 in total, are mainly members of Finnish associations for science journalists and environment journalists. The themes of the training