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Polar Times

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

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33:17

Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern...

Polar Times ·

2025/11/28

Welcome back to our Polar Times mini-series: “Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis” episode 2/3.In this episode, we are very happy to welcome post-docs Dr. Nan Wu and Dr. Emily Rowlands and PhD student Alena Sakovich from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), an UK-based organization! We discuss especially about the CUPIDO project that stands for CalcUlating the strength of the Plastic pump in counteracting the Deep export of Oceanic carbon. In our next episode, we will be

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24:21

Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears -...

Polar Times ·

2025/11/13

Welcome back to our Polar Times mini-series: “Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears” episode 2/3.In this episode, we welcome Adrian Heath, a past graduate student from Oregon State University, who has done research on coast erosion in the Arctic continental shelf. In our next episode, we will be joined by Dr Kim Bernard, a professor at Oregon State University's College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer in the Southern Ocean. Stay

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10:24

Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern...

Polar Times ·

2025/10/27

Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern CrisisAPECS Podcast - Episode 1/3 Welcome to the first episode from the Polar Times mini-series: “Our changing oceans: from ancient waters to modern crisis”. This three-episode podcast series explores the complex relationship between humans and our polar environments. In the next episode, four guests from the British Antarctic Survey will discuss microplastics. Technical details : Podcast host : Nastasia Freyria, Nadia Frontier, Nathalie

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11:12

Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears -...

Polar Times ·

2025/10/03

Welcome to the first episode from the Polar Times mini-series: “Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears”.This three-episode podcast series explores the complex relationship between humans and our polar environments. In the next episode, one guest from Oregon State University, Adrien Heath, a past graduate student who has done research on coast erosion in the Arctic continental shelf. Technical details : Podcast host : Nastasia Freyria, Mayra Meléndez, Varvara Kharlamova and Sneha

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01:03:39

Sense of the Arctic: Episode 6

Polar Times ·

2023/08/25

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

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01:03:48

Antarctica on stage

Polar Times ·

2023/08/04

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

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01:02:32

Sense of the Arctic: Episode 5

Polar Times ·

2023/07/25

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

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03:53

[Bonus] Self-reflective Poetry - Polar Week 2023

Polar Times ·

2023/04/03

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

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01:11:00

Sense of the Arctic: Episode 4

Polar Times ·

2023/03/27

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

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01:08:15

Sense of the Arctic: Episode 3

Polar Times ·

2023/01/20

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

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51:40

Sense of the Arctic: Episode 2

Polar Times ·

2022/12/02

*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

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46:19

Sense of the Arctic: Episode 1

Polar Times ·

2022/10/20

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

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48:21

Mythical Monsters in the Ground

Polar Times ·

2022/06/02

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

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56:08

The Life Aquatic

Polar Times ·

2022/04/22

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

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40:14

Fieldwork Insights

Polar Times ·

2022/02/18

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

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58:50

A Polar Poet

Polar Times ·

2022/02/04

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

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45:50

Fieldwork Fun with Foxes

Polar Times ·

2022/01/21

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

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52:35

Greenland Caves

Polar Times ·

2021/12/17

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

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01:00:01

Shrubification!

Polar Times ·

2021/12/03

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

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28:23

Antarctica Day ‘21

Polar Times ·

2021/12/01

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”,

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