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Science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet! It's said that the poles are the thermometer for the rest of the planet- what happens to the rest of us, has already been happening there for years. It's easy with the state of the world currently to bunker down in a little private bubble, but its more essential than ever that we broaden our horizons and remember that there's a world out there that is incredible- and needs us! And if that sounds too heavy for you then instead why not join us to escape as we take to on audial adventures to these strange and remote and beautiful places? We'll speak to guests who've looked polar bears in the eye, who drive 12k ton ships through ice 9ft thick or who spend years doing science with no-one but three other people and thousands of penguins for company! These are Polar Times we live in. Join us, and we'll take you there!
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Welcome back for the sixth and final episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times.
We round out our series by hopping over to Greenland and chatting with Dr. Gitte Reimer, the rector at the University of Greenland, and Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Rink, a professor at Montana State University whose research examines sexual and reproductive health in Greenland through community-based participatory research.
The conversation touches on past and current uses of community-based participatory research in Greenland and how the methodology has evolved over the past three decades. We also discuss Gitte's efforts to implement Greenland's recently-released national research policy, which emphasizes the local and nationwide importance of community-based participatory research.
We hope you enjoy this important final episode of Sense of the Arctic!
Technical details: * Podcast Hosts: Inge Deschepper and Nicholas Parlato * Edition: Inge Deschepper * Mastering: Damien Ringeisen * Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen * Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! On today’s episode, we are excited to welcome Hanne Nielsen, a Senior Lecturer of Antarctic Law and Governance at the University of Tasmania in Australia.
We always say that we bring you stories from the coldest places on the planet. And today's episode, we really bringing you stories! We are going to talk about how Antarctica is represented in the media and popular culture, how that representation has changed over time, and why. Hanne Nielsen comes to us from the Humanities and will help us tackle these questions, and even include a story about cows in Antarctica. Since this interview was recorded, Hanne Nielsen wrote a book, to be published later this year titled Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent.
Good listening!
If you would like to get in contact with us or recommend a guest, contact us on the APECS twitter: @Polar_Research or on Instagram apecs.polar. We would love to hear from you.
Technical details: * Podcast Host: Jack Buckingham * Edition and Mastering: Damien Ringeisen * Cover art by Matthew Nelson * Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome back for the fifth episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times.
In this episode, we have the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Vera Kuklina, a Buryat scholar from Ust-Ordynskiy Buryat Autonomous Okrug (now part of the Irkutsk region in Russia) who is currently a research professor in the Department of Geography at George Washington University. Dr. Kuklina has conducted and published research across a wide range of topics, including Arctic infrastructure, transport, and urbanization, as well as Indigenous resource management and resilience. We speak about the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, how it is impacting research in Siberia, and how we can ensure the safety of research collaborators and communities whilst doing research in Siberia. We also spoke about the history of including northern communities in research from a Russian perspective. Links to add to bio: https://artslink.space/ https://arcticinfrascapes.com/ https://frozencommons.unh.edu/maps/
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! Today’s episode features self-reflective poems submitted to APECS for the International Polar Week of March 2023.
The poems here are presented by (in order):
- Marilena Dracea-Chelsoi
- Parnika Gupta
- Sarah Johnson
- Damien Ringeisen
The text of these poems and the other submitted self-reflective poetry are available here, as well as on Twitter (@Polar_Research), Facebook (APECS4u), and Instagram (@apecs.polar).
Technical details:
- Edition and Mastering: Damien Ringeisen
- Cover art by Matthew Nelson
- Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome back for the fourth episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times.
In this episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Tero Mustonen, a Finnish researcher at the University of Eastern Finland and the president of SnowChange cooperative. He was also a lead author of the 6th IPCC assessment released in 2021, which had the first attempt at including traditional and indigenous knowledge in the report's findings.
We spoke about winter seining, SnowChange, the past and present impacts of colonisation and the importance and differences of community-driven research in the Northern European context. He also gave some sound advice on how and when to do research in the polar systems.
Here are some of the links spoken about during the podcast:* SnowChange: http://www.snowchange.org/
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question, then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
You can download the episode transcript here: TranscriptThe captions and transcript were partially generated using whisper.cppTechnical details:
- Podcast Hosts: Inge Deschepper and Nicholas Parlato
- Edition: Inge Deschepper
- Mastering: Damien Ringeisen
- Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen
- Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome back for the third episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with Polar Times. In this episode, we had the pleasure of chatting to two members of the organization Ikaarvik, Justin Sigluk Milton, who is from Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Nunavut, now living in Ottawa, and Shelly Elverum, currently living in Mittimatalik.We spoke about Ikaarvik and the importance of community-driven research, as well as what Qaujimajatuqangit is. They also spoke about a couple of key points and actions to take when thinking about doing research in the north. Here are some of the links spoken about during the podcast:* Ikaarvik: https://ikaarvik.org/ * ScIQ publication: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/as-2020-0015
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question, then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
You can download the episode transcript here: Transcript The captions and transcript were partially generated using whisper.cppTechnical details:
- Podcast Hosts: Inge Deschepper and Nicholas Parlato
- Edition: Nicholas Parlato
- Mastering: Damien Ringeisen
- Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen
- Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
TRIGGER WARNING: discussion of systemic racism and inequality were discussed and may be triggering to those that have experienced similar situations
Welcome to the second episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times.
This series highlights the importance and implementation of scientific collaboration with Arctic communities through community-based monitoring (CBM), co-production of knowledge, and equitable data management.
Our second guest is Margaret Rudolf, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, working at the International Arctic Research Center with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy and the Research Networking Activities for Sustained Coordinated Observations of Arctic Change (CoObs RNA). Margaret talked with us about her experiences as an Inupiat woman in the sciences that led her into her current field of research in evaluation and success metrics of Indigenous-led co-production of knowledge and the role of boundary spanners in enhancing scientist-community relations.
Below are some links and references that are mentioned in the podcast that you may be interested in:
- Margaret’s research website: https://uaf-accap.org/research-activities/understanding-coproduction-ak-native-communities/
- https://sites.google.com/view/tektalks/home
- Links to programs mentioned in the podcast:
- Arctic Food Sovereignty Working Group- https://arcticobservingsummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/AOS2022_poster_P-015.pdf
- https://akcasc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FSWG-Presentation-2022.pdf
- SAON Roadmap- https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532146/1/ARCTIC_2021_SAON_Roadmap.pdf
- Arctic PASSION- https://arcticpassion.eu/
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question, then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
Podcast Hosts: Inge Deschepper and Nicholas Parlato
Edition: Inge Deschepper
Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome to the first episode from the Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times Team mini-series: Sense of the Arctic
This series highlights the importance and need for collaboration with communities through community based monitoring (CBM) and how it started and has changed over the years.
Our first guest is Dr. Noor Johnson, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She provides us with some information about what CBM is, where it was effectively used, its importance, and how you can start incorporating CBM into your own research.
Below are some links and references that are mentioned in the podcast that you may be interested in:
- Professional Website: https://nsidc.org/about/our-people/Noor_Johnson
- ELOKA: https://eloka-arctic.org/
- SIKU: https://siku.org/about
- SIZONet and AAOKH: https://eloka-arctic.org/sizonet
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Arcticcbm.org
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Graeme Reed, Nicolas D. Brunet, David C. Natcher, 2020, Can indigenous community-based monitoring act as a tool for sustainable self-determination?, The Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1283-1291, ISSN 2214-790X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.04.006.
- David C. Natcher, Nicolas D. Brunet, 2020, Extractive resource industries and indigenous community-based monitoring: Cooperation or cooptation?, The Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1279-1282, ISSN 2214-790X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.005.
- Wilson NJ, Mutter E, Inkster J, Satterfield T. Community-Based Monitoring as the practice of Indigenous governance: A case study of Indigenous-led water quality monitoring in the Yukon River Basin. J Environ Manage. 2018 Mar 15;210:290-298. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.01.020. PMID: 29407189.
To contact Dr. Noor Johnson about the book published by Finn Danielsen contact her through the email available on her website.
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
Episode edited by Nicholas Parlato and Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello and thank you for tuning in to another episode of Polar Times!
In this episode, our host Henrietta talks to Christie Grekul and Dr Grant Zazulaabout all things Beringia, palaeontology, archaeology and museums. Christie is the Manager of the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre and Grant is Manager of the Yukon Government Palaeontology Program. They both live and work in city of Whitehorse in the Canadian Yukon, and between them know everything there is to know about Beringia–the land bridge that once connected Siberia to the Yukon. Staytuned for mammoth fossils, a mummified wolf pup, and to find out what Thomas Jefferson has to do with giant ground sloths...
To learn more about the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre and their amazing science-communication work, visit their website here: https://www.beringia.com/
If you have anything you’d like to tell us, no matter how big or small, please get in touch via email (therearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research). We’d love to hear from you!
Episode edited by Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: “Scuba” by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! On today’s episode we are excited to welcome Pierre Coupel, oceanographer, biogeochemist and documentary maker for ArctiConnexion, currently based in Canada!
Post-PhD, Pierre has been fortunate enough to participate in many field seasons and chats to Jack all about life at ice camps and on board research vessels from several nations. From Chinese icebreakers to the salt pans of Bolivia, we talk travel, how this led to an exploration of his love for film-making, how this led to the decision to leave academia, and how these two talents (science and cinema!) come together in his current position at ArctiConnexion. We then talk all about his current work as well as his past documentary endeavours. ArctiConnexion is an organisation which aims “to support, through mentorship and knowledge sharing, indigenous communities in the development of local competencies and leadership for research and applications promoting community well-being.”
We’ve talked on Polar Times before about the power of the picture when it comes to science communication, and yes we’re going to revisit it again because creative scicomm is obviously something that we can’t get enough of!
If you would like to see Pierre’s winning photo, follow this link:
https://www.apecs.is/component/phocagallery/category/34-category-research.html?Itemid=392
If you would like to see his body of other work then go here:
https://pierrecoupel.wixsite.com/life-patchwork
Or check out his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pierre_coupel/
Finally, for ArctiConnexion, here’s the tea:
https://arcticonnexion.ca/mission/
Episode edited by Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Get ready for an episode all about fieldwork!
The guest of today’s episode is Floreana Miesen who is a field technician at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Floreana came in contact with fieldwork at the beginning of her studies, and it excited her from the start. After participating in field campaigns in Svalbard and in the Andes, she decided to make her passion her profession. By now, she organises complete field campaigns and manages all the details from scientific issues and sample transport to security and the little things in everyday life, such as a toilet. She tells us how the organization of a camp works, what are the nice sides of her job and what situations can be tough in her job.
Read a blog post on Floreana’s field experiences in the Swiss Alps: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2020/11/04/running-a-live-stream-of-proglacial-processes/
If you would like to get in contact with us or recommend a guest, send us an email to thesearepolartimes@gmail.com or tweet APECS: @Polar_Research. We would love to hear from you.
Episode edited by Alexandra Zuhr
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Today on Polar Times:
We welcome Samantha Jones from the University of Calgary who speaks to Jack all about her research on carbon cycling and fluvial biogeochemistry in the Canadian Arctic, her experience of fieldwork there and her niche method of science communication- yes Sam is our first Polar Poet! Winner of the APECS Polar Week Poetry Competition with Spring Pulse, and feature at the COP26 Ocean Pavilion with Ocean Acidification, Sam tells us all about the inspiration behind her work, why poetry is such a good metric for scicomm and even the benefits of using it to reframe and view your own scientific data.
Read Spring Pulse here: https://www.apecs.is/news/apecs-news/4753-polar-poetry-competition-winner-is.html
View/listen to Ocean Acidification here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2HQr_mWKKI
Or read check out Samatha's work on Watch Your Head here: https://www.watchyourhead.ca/watch-your-head/poetry-samantha-jones
As ever, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
Episode edited by Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome back to Polar Times!
On today's episode, Jack is joined by Dominik Arend an ecologist from the University of Freiburg who is currently writing an MSc thesis on Arctic foxes, specifically looking at their denning activity and how this impacts soil nutrition and vegetation. Turns out foxes are ecosystem engineers! We talk about fieldwork in Iceland and Domink's experiences with Arctic foxes, how Iceland's Arctic foxes differ from their more northern relations, and how Arctic foxes interact with and are impacted by human activities...
We also chat about funding and Dominik has some great tips for writing your own research proposal and getting funding for a project, even at the early-career stage!
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
Episode edited by Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Polar Times!
Have you ever been crawling around in a cave and collecting speleothems? If not, then this episode is definitely made for you! Alexandra is joined today by Gina Moseley who is an Ingeborg Hochmair Professor at the Institute for Geology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Gina is passionate about speleothems from caves all around the world and especially in Greenland. Her project about greenlandic caves started in a pub during her PhD in Bristol, UK, but it took her many years until she finally travelled to northeast Greenland in 2015 to visit the first caves.
Gina and Alexandra chat about how to use speleothems to reconstruct past climatic conditions and the related advantages and disadvantages of them in the context of different climate archives as well as how Gina ended up in the American breakfast television (hint: check out the movie Ancient Caves)! We hope you enjoy today’s episode. More information on Gina’s project can be found here: https://northeastgreenlandcavesproject.com/ and on Twitter @Greenland_Caves.
If you would like to get in contact with us at Polar Times, send us an email to: thesearepolartimes@gmail.com OR tweet APECS: @Polar_Research
Episode edited by Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello one hello all, and welcome back to Polar Times!
Today we are delighted to feature a former Polar Times team member, our original head-editor, Elise Gallois, Arctic tundra biogeographer extraordinaire from the University of Edinburgh! Elise comes on to talk to Jack all about her research including dendrochronology, shrubification, and microclimates. We hear all about the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), Team Shrub and the Teabag Index. What is Elise’s favourite shrub? What happened with fieldwork during Covid? What will the Arctic tundra look like in the future? All these questions answered and more!
Moreover, Elise chats science communication, about her passion for science stand-up comedy and why this is a great tool for communicating difficult topics like climate change.
For info on the Bright Club, check out this link: https://scienceshowoff.wordpress.com/bright-club/
For the Coding Club Elise mentioned in her plug, go here: https://ourcodingclub.github.io
And finally, to see Elise’s comedy set at the British Ecological Society’s Science Slam go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVKQm07kCcY
As ever, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
Episode edited by Elise Gallois
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome back to a special episode of PolarTimes in celebration of Antarctica Day 2021!
Every year on the 1st of December the polar community celebrates the signature of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. As such, the annual event serves the purpose to increase global awareness about the frozen continent and the establishment of the Antarctic Treaty System, under which Antarctica is designated as a space for science and peaceful purposes.
Under the motto “What we always wanted to know about Antarctica”, Katharina Heinrich is joined by Jack Buckingham and Azamat Tolipov in answering questions that have been submitted by K-12 students. As such, this episode aims to increase the interest, knowledge, and awareness about Antarctica also amongst younger people.
In line with the podcast a FAQ Handbook, soon available as a pdf file with answers to all the questions that have been submitted, will be released. Keep a lookout for the release of the Handbook on the APECS Antarctica Day Website https://apecs.is/upcoming-event-highlights/apecs-antarctica-day-2021.html
If you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (therearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time-we would love to hear from you!
From all of us here at Polar Times and APECS, Happy Antarctica Day!
This episode has been edited by Katharina Heinrich
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: “Scuba” by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Welcome back to Polar Times! In today’s episode, Alexandra is interviewing Ronja Gronemeyer and Hanna Knahl, two fellow podcasters. Together with four other members, their podcast Climbing Climate is going to be launched in the beginning of December 2021. Ronja and Hanna tell us all about their podcast, how it all started and what they are going to feature. They also chat about the different ways into (polar) science and the importance of having fun projects, like a podcast, next to scientific tasks and how enlightening/revealing it can be for a personal academic development.
Tune in to hear all about Climbing Climate!
Tweet APECS (@Polar_Research) or email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) to get in contact with us!
Episode edited by Alexandra Zuhr
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
We're back!
Here we go launching into Season 2 of Polar Times and the team here at APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) couldn't be more excited! Join Alexandra and Jack here in the trailer to hear what we have coming up in the near future and what we'd like to bring to you on our lovely polar podcast.
We also put a call out there for guests, so if you're a polar person and you'd like to feature on Polar Times then please let us know!
As ever you can contact us via email (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or you can tweet APECS (@Polar_Research).
We can't wait for you to hear what we have in store for Season 2!
Episode edited by Alexandra Zuhr
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! We have a very exciting episode for you today. Our guest this episode is James Karner of the University of Utah who chats to Jack all about the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET). Aside from answering some vital questions (how on Earth do you find a meteorite in Antarctica?!), James gives us all the facts about how to spot a meteorite, where they may come from and where they go having been plucked from the Antarctic ice by the ANSMET team. We also hear about some of his many field experiences, the lows of sheltering in a tent on the brink of blowing away, and the highs of discovering objects from out of this world!
You can find out more about ANSMET and how to potentially join the team here: https://caslabs.case.edu/ansmet/
And, as usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you!
Episode edited by Swati Nagar & Ryan O’Hara
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello hello from the Polar Times Team! We have another excellent episode for you today. We’re pleased to welcome Klaus Dodds from Royal Holloway University of London! Klaus is a professor of geopolitics and researches security, media/popular culture, ice studies and the international governance of the Antarctic and the Arctic. He joins us today to speak about all things Antarctic Treaty!
You may have heard of the Antarctic Treaty- perhaps you’ve heard it’s the most successful peace treaty the world has ever known… but is it all its cracked up to be? Why was it established? How does it work today? What will happen to Antarctic governance in the future? Klaus answers all of these questions and more! But if international politics doesn’t usually tickle your pickle then stick around for the drama because the tale of the Treaty is one of intrigue and compromise, set in the crucible of 20th century history…
You can read the Antarctic Treaty here: https://www.ats.aq/e/key-documents.html
And find links to some of Klaus’ body of work here: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/klaus-dodds(fb99b223-7661-4aa1-95f6-1cd527dd0fc7)/publications.html
As ever, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
Episode edited by Swati Nagar & Ryan O’Hara
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hallo an alle da draußen,
Katharina und Friederike, zwei junge Wissenschaftlerinnen, präsentieren euch die erste deutschsprachige Polartimes Podcast Folge. Seid gespannt auf einen Mix aus eigenen Erfahrungen, Eindrücken und interessanten Neuigkeiten aus den Polaren Regionen. Die beiden tauschen sich aus über die Neustrukturierung des Arktischen Rates und die daraus resultierenden Neuerungen für Grönland und Färöer-Inseln. Katharina hat einen Masterabschluss in Polarrecht und studiert in Island Küsten- und Marines Management und hat daher einen besonderen Bezug und Hintergrundwissen zu politischen Themen in Polaren Regionen. Aber es gibt es auch Neuigkeiten aus der Antarktis, 2022 soll die 1915 gesunkene Endurance, das Schiff vom Polarforscher Ernest Henry Shackleton aufgespürt werden. Friederike selbst an Board auf dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern in der Antarktis und spricht über ihre Eindrücke der Reise und den Unterschieden zu Expeditionen von vor 100 Jahren.
Schaltet ein und freut euch auf den ersten Podcast auf Deutsch von APECS über spannende Themen über polare Neuigkeiten.
Wie immer kannst du Kontakt zu uns aufnehmen, um uns Feedback zu geben, Fragen zu stellen, um uns einen Gast oder Thema beziehungsweise Polare Neuigkeiten vorzuschlagen, oder selbst Gast zu sein. Schreib uns eine E-Mail (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) oder nutze Twitter APECS @Polar_Research. Wir freuen uns von euch und euren Ideen zu hören.
Die Folge wurde bearbeitet von Katharina Heinrich.
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Musik: „Scuba“ von Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unverändert) CC BY-NC-SA.
Welcome back to Polar Times! This is part 2 of our interview with Maaike Weerdesteijn (Centre for Earth and Evolution Dynamics at the University of Oslo and representative for APECS Norway) and Renato Borras-Chavez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departmento de Ecología and representative for APECS Chile).
In this episode we hear more about Maaike’s research on magnetotelluric analysis of ice and the earth’s crust beneath it, and Renato’s research on the foraging ecology of Antarctic fur seals. Plus we hear about their experiences in the field, including tips on how to tell a seal from a rock and how to make the most of it when your snowmobile breaks down on the ice sheet!
You can check out the Chile vs Norway series on Twitter by searching the hashtag #CLvsNO or visit the APECS website to find out more about their events coming up!
As ever, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
Episode edited by Elise Gallois
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA
Hello and thanks for joining us once again on Polar Times!
We have two lovely guests joining Jack on the podcast today: firstly Maaike Weerdesteijn of the Centre for Earth and Evolution Dynamics at the University of Oslo and representative for APECS Norway, and also Renato Borras-Chavez of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departmento de Ecología and representative for APECS Chile! They have been working together to produce the CLvsNO science communication series all about highlighting/celebrating the differences and similarities between our poles so that’s what we talk about today on Part 1. How and why are our poles so different? What are the unique challenges that each of them face? How did our lovely guests meet and start this project? All that before we even get to Part 2!
As always, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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Polar Bears! Yes you've finally reached the Polar Times episode about polar bears! Join Christy today as she chats to wildlife biologist Alyssa Bohart who comes to the podcast to talk all things polar bear: her research on their migration, her experiences with them in the field and how the destiny of these massive mammals is inextricably linked to climate change.
As always, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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Hear all about it!
Hi all, Jack and Christy here, bringing you our first polar news episode! Mixing up the usual format, today we chatted about a few polar-related stories that have been in the headlines recently as well as our thoughts, reactions and a general Polar Times hot take! Topics this week are oil drilling in Alaska, Wally the walrus vacationing in Europe, Canadas residential schools and Polar Pod...
Tune in for a Polar Times exclusive and stay tuned for more polar news in the future!
As always, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback, ask a question OR highlight a polar news item to us, then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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Hello hello! Welcome back to Polar Times! This is part two of Jack’s interview with Huw Griffiths, marine biologist and biogeographer of the British Antarctic Survey. Have talked all about his research in the previous episode (go back an listen if you’re interested in benthic sea critters, icy boreholes and paradigm shifts in science), in this episode Huw tells us all about his field experiences in the Arctic and Antarctic and his work communicating polar science to the wider public. This episode is full of amazing stories and chock full of tips and tricks for young academics getting into science communication!
For more info on Polar Horizons check out this link: https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/diversity-in-uk-polar-science-initiative/uk-polar-horizons-2021/
And for the Women in Polar Science (WiPS, Twitter: @WomeninPolarSci) initiative go here: https://www.facebook.com/WomeninPolarScience/
As always, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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Hello and welcome back to Polar Times. Our guest today is marine biologist and biogeographer Huw Griffiths from the British Antarctic Survey! Huw is interested in the benthic (seafloor) organisms of polar places and talks about the recent discovery of new life filmed down a borehole, deep under the Antarctic sea ice. He chats to Jack about the significance of such a finding: why is it surprising? What does it mean for our understanding of the polar depths? He also speaks about the logistical challenges of studying this region, the time the RV Polarstern (of MOSAiC fame) took its life in its hand to explore an icy Grand Canyon, and why in general sea pigs rule and penguins drool.
And that’s just part one! Join us in part two of the interview to hear about Huw experiences in the field and all about polar science communication!
As always, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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Hello and thanks for joining us today on Polar Times- welcome!
On today's episode Jack chats to Daniela Liggett of the University of Canterbury! Daniela specialises in environmental management and tourism regulation in extreme environments and we welcome her onto the show today to talk all about that as well as her role as co-project leader of the SCAR Antarctic COVID-19 Project Team.
Yes, it's partly a covid episode but as Antarctica is the only continent in the world with no confirmed cases, hopefully it's not too triggering! What was polar tourism like pre-pandemic? How has the pandemic impacted polar operations? How will polar tourism start up again post-pandemic? Has it possibly been a good thing for polar wildlife experiencing less human disturbance? Daniela answers all of these questions and more, delving into the role of tourism at polar places and perhaps even debunking any negative connotations one might have with the word "tourist".
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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New episode! Our guest today is Thea Schneider, a soon-to-be PhD student and former participant of the MOSAiC summer school. Our host, Alexandra, and Thea chat about the MOSAiC summer school on board the Russian icebreaker Akademik Federov. Thea introduces us to the daily life on board the Russian icebreaker and the many diverse aspects of fieldwork, despite the exciting hours of watching polar bears from a safe distance.
Next to her degree in physics, Thea also has a BA in Photography. She therefore also talks about how to use photos to bring the scientific world closer to a public audience. They talk about Theas motivation for doing outreach and talk about the importance of showing photos from the polar regions to the public in order to highlight the changes happening in these regions. She is currently compiling an exhibition with her photos about the expedition which will be held in summer this year. You can find more about her art work on her website http://theaschneider.com/ and on Instagram @the.answer.is.north.
Tweet APECS (@Polar_Research) or email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) to get in contact with us!
(Contains explicit language)
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Welcome back to Polar Times! This week Jack is joined by Tayana Arakchaa, a cultural anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, currently working on the importance of Antarctic krill to food security in the former Soviet Union.
As well as discussing her current research we chat all about the understudied nomadic indigenous groups of the Tyva Republic in Siberia (where Tayana originally hails from, "Тыва тайга кызы" meaning "Daughter of the Tuvan taiga"), particularly the human-animal relations among Tozhu reindeer hunter-herders from the north of the province. Tayana tells us all about her experiences of riding reindeer through the taiga forests of Siberia with the Tozhu! This is not one to miss!
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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Hello and welcome back to Polar Times, the podcast that brings you science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet. Join our host Christy with guest Mana Tugends, a polar law researcher who studied in Iceland at the University of Akureyri and currently works in Norway at the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission. Mana explains what are Marine Protected Areas (MPA), about the significance of indigenous voices when defining MPAs, and many of the other intricacies of polar law. Come along to learn of how this French woman came to fall in love with the Arctic, and hear Mana's beautiful stories of her adventures in Iceland and Norway and the positive impact and inspiration of those that she met along the way. Edited by Christy Rouault Cover art by Matthew Nelson
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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Polar Times!
Join Alexandra today for a chat with Jakob Steiner, a glacier hydrologist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal. The location of his workplace already reveals that today we are not going to the Arctic or Antarctica - today we are once again at the third pole of the earth, namely in the Himalayas.
In the episode, Jakob and Alexandra talk about his career path and how his studies in science benefited from his degree in classical music. Jakob shares exciting fieldwork experiences from his numerous expeditions to many different places on earth. They talk about the differences between fieldwork in polar regions like Greenland and expeditions in the Himalayan and High Asian Mountains. He also chats about the importance of collaborations with the local people in Nepal and how both, he and the local community, rely on and interact with each other.
Feel free to email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research) to get in contact with us!
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Hello hello and welcome back to Polar Times, the podcast that brings you science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet!
Normal service has been resumed post-Polar Week and this week Jack is joined by Robert Kadas of Global Affairs Canada to talk all things Arctic Council!
Who are the Arctic Council? What do they do? Why are they important? How did they go from a small meeting in a church hall to the international power house of science, communication and geopolitics that it is today? As someone who has been involved with the Arctic Council since its inception, Robert is the perfect man to answer all of these questions and more. We also chat all things Arctic for a bit of background info!
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Arctic Council! Check out their website to find out what is being done to mark the occasion, as well as for lots more info on all of their exciting projects!
https://arctic-council.org/en/
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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Hello hello, welcome to Part 2 of our March Polar Week Special episode! In this section our Polar Week Panel (Ingrid Medby, Stephen Roberts and Mathieu Casado) answer some questions from the public which have been sent to us by you lovely lot!
Why are some parts of the Antarctic melting faster than others?
Who, if anyone, "owns" the Arctic?
And most importantly: Can you make a slush puppy from the ice?
Our panel tackle all of these and more!
Thank you to everyone who sent us questions and apologies that we could not get through them all. We will be doing this feature again soon so stay tuned to Polar Times in the future!
If you would like to ask a polar person a question then please get in touch with us. You can email (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research) questions, feedback, guest recommendations, anything at all, we would love to hear from you!
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It's March Polar Week! Or rather, just drawing to the close of March Polar Week! For those of you who don't know, this week has been one of celebration in the polar community. A time for polar academics, residents, visitors and aficionados to come together and celebrate everything about our polar places that makes us happy: the beauty, the diversity, the resilience and fragility of our frozen worlds.
In order to celebrate here at Polar Times we have put together a special episode featuring a panel of guests from a range of backgrounds bringing a range of experiences.
We are pleased to welcome Ingrid Medby of Oxford Brookes University, Stephen Roberts of the British Antarctic Survey and Mathieu Casado of the Alfred Wegner Institute!
Part 1 (of 2) features the discussion from our panel on the theme of "Change" a topic which will likely resonate with a lot you after the last year!
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you!
From all of us at Polar Times, Happy Polar Week!
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Hello and thank you for tuning in to another episode of Polar Times!
This week’s episode is with one of our new hosts, Henrietta. She gets chatting to Naomi Chapman, Education and Outreach Assistant at the Polar Museum, part of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. Naomi is a museum educator-extraordinaire and here she talks about what it’s like to teach people about the polar regions every day. Naomi has been involved in some amazing projects and she tells us about her work on everything from a co-curated exhibition to a one-of-a-kind fabric map of Antarctica (complete with Lake Vostok silk-pocket!). Stay tuned for some advice for people interested in non-academic polar careers and to see if you can shed some light on a question from a primary school child that no one seems to know the answer to…
For everything from educational videos to polar sewing projects, check out the Polar Museum’s awesome teaching resources here:
https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/resources/
If you do have anything you’d like to tell us, no matter how big or small, please do get in touch via email (therearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research). We’d love to hear from you!
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Welcome back to Polar Times! Today, we are leaving our cosy planet for a moment and we follow our guest to Mars. Your host Alexandra is joined by Nanna Karlsson from the Geological Suvery of Denmark and Greenland. Nanna chats about her career which started in planetary sciences with a focus on glacier ice on Mars. We talk about in which sense glacier ice on Mars is similar to glaciers in Antarctica and how planetary science can benefit from polar science in many ways. Nanna chats about how her career took her to many different places in Antarctica and Greenland, and how she ended up as a glaciologist. We also talk about inclusivity in science and what difficulties you can have in polar research, especially as a woman. Nanna also gives valuable advice on how to pursue a career in science.
If you would like to get in contact with us at Polar Times, send us an email to: thesearepolartimes@gmail.com OR tweet APECS: @Polar_Research
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Hello hello, thanks for joining us again on Polar Times!
This week Jack is joined by anthropologist Genny LeMoine who is also curator/registrar of the Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College in Maine. She chats to us about the human history of the Arctic all the way from the paleo-Inuit to some of the more widely-known figures of modern history. In particular she tells us the stories of Matthew Alexander Henson, one of the first men at the north pole, and the tale of Minik Wallace an Inughuit boy raised in the United States and we talk about what these stories continue to teach us today.
We also chat about some of the exhibits the museum currently holds- how to build a Kayak!- and the issues that Arctic archaeologists are facing due to climate change!
You can check out the museum's virtual exhibits here:
https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/index.html
And, as always, please feel free to email (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research) to get in contact with us about anything at all!
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Today on Polar Times we welcome fellow podcaster (and artist and photographer) Chloe Russell to the show to talk about her podcast Kalerrâ.
Kalerrâ is a Greenlandic word which means "the sound of it" and the podcast is full of sounds recorded by Chloe during an trip to Weisboylund in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone as part of an interdisciplinary expedition of scientists and artists. As well as sounds from the field the podcast is full of snippets with interviews from the scientists on the trip (Anne Lydiat, Laura Melissa Williams, Amy Pryor and Wanda Bodnar), music from Ben Imber and narration from Chloe herself, which combine to create an immersive listening experience designed to help the listener feel connected with the remote Northeast Greenland.
Chloe chats to jack about her experiences in the field, the decisions behind releasing Kalerrâ as a podcast and how sounds can be used to foster a greater sense of connectedness than almost anything else.
You can listen to Kalerrâ on Spotify, Apple and lots of other places where you get podcasts from. It has the full Polar Times seal of approval so definitely check it out!
As always if you would like to contact us at Polar Times you can:
email: thesearepolartimes@gmail.com
tweet APECS: @Polar_Research
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New episode! On today’s Polar Times we welcome Morgan Seag of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Morgan is a social scientist who’s current research examines scientific institutions in Antarctica to see how they have evolved over time to become more gender inclusive. We chat to her about the history of women in the Antarctic, how things have changed since the 20th century, what is left still to do on the road to equality and why everyone- that is EVERYONE- can and should be involved in polar science!
Here is a link to Morgans interview with Ellen Mosley-Thompson, mentioned in the episode, as well as to the site where you can find more of her interviews:
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/43987
For more info on this topic check out on Twitter:
- Women in Polar Science (@WomeninPolarSci)
- Minorities in Polar Research (PolarImpact)
- Pride in Polar Research (PridePolar)
And finally, for an article on intersectionality, written by todays guest, go here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/intersectionality-and-international-polar-research/4F9424A0A634F12565ED9AB903C4336F
As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
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Happy New Year to all Polar Times listeners!
On todays episode we are introducing some of the new members of the Polar Times team- you will be hearing from a lot of them in upcoming episodes as they strive to bring you more lovely polar content in 2021.
We introduce ourselves, chat about highlights from the polar world in 2020 and let you in on our plans for the podcast this coming year!
If you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research
We would love to hear from you!
Thanks, best a happy 2021 from the 2020/21 Polar Times Team
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Our guest is Elizabeth Orr of the German Research Centre for Geosciences and this week on Polar Times she and your host Jack Buckingham are not going North and they're not going South either. Instead we investigate a previously unmentioned part of the cryosphere: alpine regions!
Mountains!
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We chat about earth surface process, landscape evolution over the last million years (and more!) and the impacts climate change is having on our mountains. What is a glacier? Do rocks get sunburnt? How can you tell what mountains regions looked like so long ago? All these questions answered and some PLUS Fieldwork Funtimes from the Himalayas!
As always if you would like to contact us you can:
email: thesearepolartimes@gmail.com OR
tweet APECS: @Polar_Research
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Our guest on this weeks Polar Times is researcher Sean Horvath from the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the University of Colorado Boulder. Sean and host Jack break down the complexities of using satellite data to model sea ice growth and shrinkage in the Arctic's future. We also return in fieldwork funtimes to the MOSAiC expedition and hear all about life on board the support vessel Akademik Federov!
If you would like to contact Polar Times you can email thesearepolartimes@gmail.com with questions and/or recommendations
OR you can tweet APECS: @Polar_Research
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Today on Polar Times we're talking aliens! By which we mean invasive non-native species of course. Our guests today are Jesamine Bartlett from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and Arlie McCarthy of the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey who are the founders of Polar Alien Hunters.
Your host, once again, is Jack Buckingham who will be asking WHAT are invasive species? HOW do they get to polar place? WHY are they bad news and most importantly CAN we do anything about it?
You can check out Polar Alien Hunters' great resources at: www.polaralienhunters.com or find the on twitter @Polar_Aliens
Email Polar Times at thesearepolartimes@gmail.com, tweet APECS @Polar_Research and let us know your questions for polar people or guest recommendations!
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Hello and welcome back! Today on Polar Times we have a palaeoclimatologist from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.
Join Jack Buckingham to hear all about her adventure to Sherman Island, drilling for ice cores as part of the Wacswain project (WArm Climate Stability of West Antarctic ice sheet in the last INterglacial!) and how we can use these icy time capsules to better predict what might happen to our climate in the future.
Email us at thesearepolartimes@gmail.com if you have any questions, recommendations or if you are a polar person who would like to be on PT!
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Find the Wacswain group on Twitter: @wacswain
Read this guests excellent blog to find out more about their fieldwork at: https://blog.esc.cam.ac.uk/?author=36
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Hi from Polar Times! Today's guest is marine biologist/conservation ecologist Jilda Caccavo of the Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI) and the Berlin Centre for Genomics in Biodiversity Research.
Your host once again is Jack Buckingham who chats to Jilda this week about Chilean sea bass a.k.a toothfish, managing fisheries in the Southern Ocean, target catch ratios (more interesting than they sound in Jilda's own words!) and securing scientific funding as an early career researcher!
Email us at thesearepolartimes@gmail.com if you have any questions for polar people or any guest recommendations, or tweet APECS at @Polar_Research.
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Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! Our guest today is non-fiction documentary filmmaker Amy Richman of the University of Colorado Boulder.
Join Jack Buckingham once again to chat to her about her film "Drifting North: Into the Polar Night", filming it onboard a research vessel trapped in Arctic ice and what it's like being an artist on board a ship full of scientists!
If you have any questions for polar people or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as a podcast guest, you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.co), tweet us (@Polar_Research) or message us on Instagram (@apecs.polar).
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Our first ever guest on Polar Times is marine biogeochemist and microplastic researcher Kirstie Jones-Williams (IG: @kirstiejoneswilliams) of the British Antarctic Survey and University of Exeter!
Join host Jack Buckingham to chat to her about microplastic in the Southern Ocean, hot-springs in Antarctica and making the most of PhD opportunities!
If you have any questions or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as future guests on the podcast you can email APECS (info@apecs.is), Tweet us (@Polar_Research) or message on Instagram (apecs.polar).
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A new podcast brought to you by APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists). Science and stories from the coolest places on the planet. Literally...
In this trailer we just give you a bit of background on how/why Polar Times was set up and what to expect from the coming series.
If you have any questions or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as guests on the podcast you can email APECS (info@apecs.is), Tweet us (@Polar_Research) or message on Instagram (apecs.polar).
Thanks for joining and we hope you enjoy!
Polar Times Team
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