About the author: Senior researcher Tanja Joona works at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. Joona’s research interests focus on indigenous peoples’ rights, especially the Sámi rights, the ILO Convention No. 169 and other relevant international instruments, as well as traditional ... [Read more]

In this series we present talks of the Helmholtz Horizons Symposium 2018. Today's featured talk is by Obi Felten. Her keynote was titled: 'Solving problems that matter: Insights from X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory'. Helmholtz Horizons took place 6 November 2018 in Berlin. The motto was 'The ... [Read more]

In this series we present talks of the Helmholtz Horizons Symposium 2018. Today's featured talk is by Gesche Joost. Her keynote was titled: 'Digital Sovereignty for Citizens – a European perspective?' Helmholtz Horizons took place 6 November 2018 in Berlin. The motto was 'The Digital (R)Evolution ... [Read more]

William Burrows works in the Observation Based Research Section, Meteorological Research Division, of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). He has enjoyed a lengthy career with ECCC, first as an operational forecaster, then Instructor of Meteorology, and finally as a Research Scientist. ... [Read more]

By Damien Ringeisen | (Last blogpost from PS115.2 expedition to the Arctic after Polarstern's arrival in Bremerhaven) Is there a more iconic picture than a polar bear stranded on a piece of ice to illustrate climate change? As everybody surely knows, the artic sea ice is melting away. ... [Read more]

By Myriam Caron | 81°N 128°E. As an ArcTrain PhD Student studying geology in the polar regions, it is with great excitement that I came on board the R/V Polarstern, with the Arctic Ocean as a destination. After several years spent studying the Arctic, what a joy to finally be able to ... [Read more]

By Charles Bruntte | 82N, 143E. We wake up to a radiant Sun and a calm sea. This is a very pleasant surprise after a few days of high waves that challenged everyone's tolerance to motion sickness. Today the wind is low and the air is not too cold. Samira and I take this opportunity to pay ... [Read more]

We have been back in Germany for 3 weeks now. It takes a while to adapt again to the daily routine here. Of course there is the jet lag.  but then it is also a big contrast between living and working in the still and vast Arctic landscapes to doing office work and managing city life. For me, ... [Read more]

We drove a lot on this expedition! We started in Whitehorse, driving all the way up North to Inuvik on the Dempster Highway and then further on to Tuktoyaktuk at the Arctic Ocean, altogether 1500 km… and back. At our arrival in Whitehorse, we could pick up our two huge pick-up trucks, ... [Read more]

Our Postdoc Sonya Antonova is a remote sensing specialist in the ongoing project PermaSAR. She analyses optical and radar satellite images to detect changes in the land surface. Prior to our expedition, Sonya had identified several locations in the Trail Valley Creek area where vegetation ... [Read more]