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Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week

Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week

Posted on 2 November 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Amber Kraft Only one winner will emerge. Contestants go head-to-head and winning is at the mercy of the participating audience. There are no rules for voting. Some looked at […]

Revisiting Arctic History

Revisiting Arctic History

Posted on 22 September 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Christian Drury In Britain, you are never far from the legacy of empire. The recent protests as part of the wider Black Lives Matter movement have highlighted systemic inequalities […]

Using the Polar Literacy Principles in Science Communication

Using the Polar Literacy Principles in Science Communication

Posted on 17 September 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Janice McDonnell, Science Educator, Rutgers University  In 2015, I had the opportunity to support a team of scientists working on the Long-term Ecological Research program (LTER for short) on […]

Interview: Geoff York – Polar Bears International

Interview: Geoff York – Polar Bears International

Posted on 23 July 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

In late April, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Geoff York (in front of our respective computer screens) to talk about the state of polar bear conservation and […]

Review: One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

Review: One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

Posted on 22 June 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Max Modell A haunting story of yesterday, One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk is a wholly unique film. It demands that you lean in close, to pick up every […]

Conjuring Matthew Henson: African-American Polar Explorer

Conjuring Matthew Henson: African-American Polar Explorer

Posted on 9 June 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Carole Boston Weatherford When I was growing up in Baltimore, my father taught at Frederick Douglass High School, his alma mater and for years one of only two local […]

Hooked on the Arctic

Hooked on the Arctic

Posted on 1 April 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Irene Quaile Back in 2007, I was sitting in my office at Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. I opened an intriguing email from Soundprint Media, a production company in the USA. They […]

Studies from Siberia

Studies from Siberia

Posted on 9 March 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Sophie Watson As someone whose research lies in the heart of polar ecosystems, I've been lucky enough to visit some of the world's remote and frozen regions. Nothing provokes […]

Telling Your Science Story

Telling Your Science Story

Posted on 27 January 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Euan Paterson, communications and media officer, Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) It was at a recent marine biology conference that a research colleague of mine had his science […]

The ’Greenland card’ – Arctic Colonialism in the Cold War Era

The ’Greenland card’ – Arctic Colonialism in the Cold War Era

Posted on 7 January 2020 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Iben Bjørnsson The Second World War had significant consequences for Greenland. Greenland was cut off from her colonial metropole and, for the first time in several hundred years, the […]