Polar and Alpine Community News

I write on behalf of the eo4alps snow consortium, an ESA project with the objective to create an online snow monitoring platform for the whole Alps.

In order to better understand the role of snow and in particular of snow water equivalent (SWE) in the decision making at various levels, we are collecting information on the state of the art of snow monitoring active in various organizations and the requirements for a new operational service.

For this reason, we would kindly ask you to fill in a short Questionnaire available at this link:

https://forms.gle/rszzeQVZGm3eriRAA

“Arctic Ecology” came out in January.

https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Arctic+Ecology-p-9781118846544

The Polar Impact Network is seeking to establish a mentor/mentee program that focuses on mentorship within the polar sciences and polar communities across the world, and would value your input on a survey put together by one of our volunteers.

Polar Impact’s mission is to support, connect, and highlight the stories of Black, Asian, Indigenous, people of color, and minority ethnic professionals in the polar research community. You can learn more about Polar Impact here: https://www.polarimpactnetwork.org/. 

After a great success at our last PYRN Seminar Series, the PYRN ExCom decided that it would be great to hear more about the research being conducted by our members.

We will be hosting monthly seminars from March until June, with 3 speakers at each 1 hour seminar.

The International Arctic Science Committee awards the 2021 IASC Medal to Atsumu Ohmura Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), for outstanding achievements in understanding complex climate and glacier relationships, global energy budgets, and thermal energy flow in the Arctic; and for excellence in program building, international collaborations, and mentorship in the cryospheric sciences.

COVITA (Arctic COVID) project at the ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa published COVID-19 public health educational materials in Indigenous languages from the Russian Arctic.

We are pleased to announce that the second, updated edition of the Elsevier book Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters is now available; see:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128171295/snow-and-ice-related-hazards-risks-and-disasters

We are very excited to announce that the first QGreenland v1.0.1 public release is now available! You can find all the details at https://qgreenland.org/. 

QGreenland was inspired by Quantarctica and funded through NSF EarthCube. QGreenland is a free, open source GIS data package and data-viewing tool for Greenland. The package works with QGIS, which is also free and open source (https://www.qgis.org).The download package comes with a complete User Guide, so even folks who have never used QGIS will be guided through working with QGreenland.