🌏 FREE climate change course from @UTAS_: "This is for anyone who wants to understand the climate story more deeply and be part of the solution, whether they’re starting out or looking to take the next step in their climate journey” — Dr @EDoddridge, AAPP utas.edu.au/about/news-and-s…

Australian Antarctic Program Partnership

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Join the SCAR INSTANT Casual Coffee & Networking event ☕ — a relaxed online meetup for ECRs to connect and share.

🗓️ 22 May 2025
🕘 21:00 CEST | 16:00 GMT-3
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This image shows variability in water storage in Earth’s hydrological basins observed by NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2. Variability in surface water level is highest in tropical basins & lowest in northern & Arctic areas. Get data: nsidc.org/data/icesat-2

National Snow and Ice Data Center

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Use the Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent-Northern Hemisphere Daily Image Viewer to see where Arctic sea ice is now and how that data compares to the last 4 years. The data is obtained nightly from the US National Ice Center. nsidc.org/data/masie

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Save the date! International #Antarctica InSync Science Webinar - May 19 or May 22, 2025 (UTC)

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Australian Centre for Antarctic Science (ACEAS)

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📬 Check out last week’s circumpolar news roundup with the #Arctic This Week Take Five! Online now! 🗞️❄️

🔗 Link to Take Five below! ⬇️ thearcticinstitute.org/arcti…

The Arctic Institute

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Did you know that a group of #PolarBears is called a celebration? 💙

There’s another reason to celebrate polar bears this week:
🐻‍❄️ We’ve launched a new Wildlife Tracker!

Discover it here 🔗: arcticwwf.org/wildlife/wildl… #Arctic

WWF Global Arctic Programme

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In extreme instances, rain on snow events in the Arctic can cause starvation of animals like reindeer and have serious impacts on ecosystems & communities. The Arctic Rain on Snow Study aims to better understand these events and how they're changing. bit.ly/3KlW49Q

National Snow and Ice Data Center

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The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center enables researchers and data users across the globe to better understand how changes in the cryosphere impact our planet. Learn how: nsidc.org/data/data-programs…

National Snow and Ice Data Center

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Two weeks ago, the sun set for the last time at Scott Base. Winter has begun, and the team of 12 are busy keeping the base running and making preparations for the next summer season. This flight, which will bring people and cargo, is the last one scheduled until August.

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📨 This week’s publication by Barry Scott Zellen: “#Arctic March of Folly? Misperceptions and Apprehensions Torpedo #America's Goodwill Mission to #Greenland After Stunning Election Turnabout” 🇺🇸

🔗 Find the full article below! ⬇️ thearcticinstitute.org/arcti…

The Arctic Institute

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The NASA ICESat mission's primary goal was to measure ice sheet mass balance: the difference between an ice sheet's snow input, and the ice loss through melting, ablation, or calving. Learn more and get data: nsidc.org/data/icesat

National Snow and Ice Data Center

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To make effective conservation decisions, we need the best available polar bear information 🐻‍❄️

Tracking polar bears movements is one way to know how to safeguard #PolarBears in a warming #Arctic. Learn more 🔗: arcticwwf.org/newsroom/featu…

WWF Global Arctic Programme

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On April 16, NASA NSIDC DAAC scientist Walt Meier spoke at his lunch series: “Everything you wanted to know about passive microwaves (PM) (but were afraid to ask).” Meier described how PM "sees" sea ice in the dark and through clouds. youtu.be/dkuW82zT0QI

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Curtis Rattray created a digital atlas of Tahltan land and culture with the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), a program at NSIDC. The interactive map allows communities and especially youth to learn ancestral knowledge. bit.ly/4dbcWNU

National Snow and Ice Data Center

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NSIDC's roots go back to 1957 when a World Data Center for Glaciology was established to archive all available glaciological information. The organization that we today call NSIDC started to take form in 1976. Learn more about our history: nsidc.org/about/about-nsidc/…

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For most of April, Arctic sea ice changed very little until month's end when extent dropped. Still, April tied for ninth lowest extent in the satellite record. Antarctic sea ice extent remained fickle, tracking 2024, but well above the record low in 2023. bit.ly/4lZCRw1

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