Work On The Shared Arctic Variable On Permafrost – Living On Frozen Ground Continues

Ilkka Matero in front of the Svalbard Science Centre

Ilkka Matero from Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) presented Arctic PASSION’s progress on co-development of the Shared Arctic Variable (SAV) on permafrost in the workshop on “Longyearbyen permafrost activities” in March 15-16, 2023. Discussions in this workshop helped to identify new perspectives to gathering permafrost-related knowledge from different communities in Svalbard, and to initiate…

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International Workshop On Preparedness For Arctic Wildfires

A session on SAVs led by Dr. Heidi Sevestre

Shared Arctic Variables (SAVs) are co-defined taking into account global, regional, indigenous and local voices and interests, hence the ”shared” in their name. Ideally the point is to share knowledge and identify gaps and needs, from all mentioned perspectives, to better our understanding of variety of Arctic themes ranging from wildfires to sea ice and…

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Improving Data Interoperability In The Arctic

Øystein Godøy on Svalbard.

With new monitoring technologies and growing networks of observing systems, the amount of data is increasing rapidly. For the users, it is challenging to analyse data from different sources, and the amount of data in different formats can become overwhelming.  As a result, data are still not efficiently used to provide scientific information and knowledge…

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Copernicus Polar Workshop Coming Soon

Arctic PASSION partners will participate in the Copernicus Polar Workshop in 19-20 September 2022. The workshop will present how Copernicus supports EU’s policy actions by contributing to the monitoring of the Polar Regions. The workshop aims to address Polar resilience, the changing Arctic economy and not least the changing climate at both poles, and how…

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Scoping Workshop On Data-Driven Subnational Decision-Making

Data-Driven Subnational Decision

On June 8th we are hosting an online workshop to bring together local, regional and national decision-makers, experts and researchers to identify key issues between pan-Arctic observation systems and the needs of sub-national authorities and agencies. These issues will become topics for analysis and consecutive policy briefs, which we will elaborate on during the Arctic…

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