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View fullsize Notes from the field: Following our time in #Iceland 🇮🇸, we headed to our second field site in South #Greenland 🇬🇱 with our colleagues in the @arcticeberg project. After landing and spending the first evening in #Narsarsuaq, we headed to #Narsaq
View fullsize The final stop of our @arcticeberg field site visit in #Iceland was in #Akureyri. On our journey from #Húsavík to Akureyri, we stopped at #Ásbyrgi, glacial canyon and forest, and #Dettifoss, reputed to be the second most powerful
View fullsize Some more outtakes from our @arcticeberg fieldwork in #Iceland this August: On our final day in #Húsavík, the clouds cleared enough for us to see the beautiful mountains everyone had mentioned during the intense rains we experienced. W
View fullsize We’re thrilled to see ‘Mapping Women+ of the Arctic’ featured in Maplines, the Magazine of the British Cartographic Society ( @bcsmaps )! Big thank you to our collaborators Carol Devine ( @antarcticcookandclean ), for leading
View fullsize WoA's Gosia and Sohvi attended this years @arctic_circle_org in the always wonderful Reykjavik! Three days filled with insightful panels, discussions and meetings. Gender was present in many of the panels, and while Sohvi moderated the panel Gender
View fullsize The day after our consultation meeting, the skies cleared enough for us to head to the beach to test out the @scidrones and get a sense of the marine litter we’d find on the beaches near #Húsavík. @scidrones uses drone tech and AI
View fullsize Our next two days in Húsavík, Iceland, were met with historic rains 🌧️ in the area. Nevertheless, we persisted with our first consultation meeting and were thrilled to see a wide range of stakeholders turn-out for a vibrant conversatio
View fullsize In August and September, we participated in field site visits to #Iceland and #Greenland with some of our colleagues in the @arcticeberg project. We held community consultations in Húsavík, Iceland, as well as in Narsaq and Qaqortoq, So
View fullsize And now back to our summer recap! In early June, we participated in the @arctic_passion project’s General Assembly. This year’s meeting of the project partners, external collaborators, and guests took place at the beautiful Sámi C
View fullsize CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: ICARP IV SUMMIT! Submit your abstract to our ICARP IV Summit session: “Gender, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Polar Research: Where do we stand, and what’s next in the ICARP IV and IPY 5 planning process?”
View fullsize Always the best to be reunited, this time en route to the @arctic_passion General Assembly meeting in Inari this past June!
View fullsize In early June, we met with some of our colleagues in the @arcticeberg project in Copenhagen to start planning for our fieldwork in #Iceland and #Greenland this summer. So many exciting collaborations on the horizon! 📸: Tahnee Prior & Ilona Mett
View fullsize It’s been a busy summer here at WoA, so we thought we’d share some of the many things we’ve been up to over the past months. In early May we were lucky to join colleagues from the Ocean Incubator Network 🌊 for a workshop on ocean
View fullsize As negotiations for a #PlasticsTreaty 📄 are currently underway at #INC4 , WoA is extremely happy to finally share that we are partners in ICEBERG, a new #HorizonEurope project focused on addressing #climate change and #pollution (incl. #plastic poll
View fullsize How do we observe, monitor and measure change in the Arctic? Together with the IASSA Working Group on Gender in the Arctic, Women in Polar Science (@polarwomen ) and Arctic PASSION (@arctic_passion ), WoA (@planarctic ) is looking forward to co-host
View fullsize Today, we’re reflecting on our @apecs, @planarctic and @polarwomen co-hosted workshop at Arctic Frontiers, and our amazing speakers - Anita Holmberg, Esther Horvath, Eilif Bremer Landsend, Sohvi Kangasluoma, Kendra MacDonald, Haliehana Stepeti
View fullsize What puts the wind in YOUR sails? Join us on Feb 1st (15:30-18:00) at Arctic Frontiers for the @apecs.polar , @planarctic and @polarwomen co-hosted event “Wind in their Sails: Leaders in Ocean Spaces”. We’re thrilled to have an ex
View fullsize We’re excited to become a member of The Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) 📊🌿💡, which aims to improve the availability, accessibility, understanding, and application of quality and robust data and information at the gender and envir
View fullsize It’s been a busy autumn and we’re finally sitting down to reflect back on all of the incredible people we’ve met! Following the @arctic_passion Sharing Circle in northern Finland, we joined colleagues from the ‘North American
View fullsize Join us for an @arctic_passion session on “The Gender Dimension of Environmental Observation, Monitoring, and Assessment in the #Arctic” at the #ArcticCongressBodø2024. Deadline: Jan 5, 2024. Check out the programme, session des