Hello dear Climate Sentinels follower, Here is the latest about Climate Sentinels! |
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Welcome to Climate Sentinels 2021! |
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We are so happy to confirm that our expedition to Svalbard will take place in April 2021. Our plans remain the same: we will ski across Spitsbergen, the main island of Svalbard, investigate the deposition of black-carbon on snow and ice, while conducting the first all-female carbon-neutral research expedition in the Arctic. As the school year is starting, we are partnering with hundreds of classrooms across the world to make our science accessible, exciting, and inspire the younger generations to act for our planet! We have updated our website, added a lot more content on our work and goals, check it out! |
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We are so happy to welcome a new team member, Dr. Anne Elina Flink! Anne did her Master's and PhD at The University Centre in Svalbard, where she spent five years studying the Holocene history of Svalbard’s surging tidewater glaciers and the deglaciation of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet. She obtained her PhD in 2017 from the University of Bergen and has since worked as a guest lecturer and a polar guide. Anne has wintered at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, where she worked as a field guide and spent two summer seasons guiding scientists on the Antarctic Ice Sheet. She is a passionate ski-tourer and mountaineer who enjoys painting mountain landscapes and writing stories. |
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Live Q&A on Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants |
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Last week Anne and Heidi got the chance to do a great Q&A with Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants! Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants is an exciting platform that uses technology to connect hundreds of thousands of students to experts in over 70 countries, often live from the most remote and endangered regions on the planet. Here is the video of this fun experience! |
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Record melt in Svalbard. Summer 2020 will leave a deep wound in the Arctic Cryosphere. At the end of July, a balmy 21.7°C was measured in Longyearbyen, the capital "city" of Svalbard, shattering a 41-year-old record. This "ice cream weather" was certainly not "glacier weather" as they have lost record amounts of ice this summer. Most of the protective snow layer disappeared, leaving ice exposed to these extreme temperatures. This is important news for our expedition: crevasses high up on the glaciers will likely to be covered only by a thin and weak layer of seasonal snow next April. We will have to be even more careful than usual when skiing over the glaciers of Svalbard. |
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How To Sponsor Our Expedition |
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There are many ways you can help make Climate Sentinels a reality! Every little bit helps. - Tell your friends and family about our expedition! - Find Heidi on the new MilkyWire App - Donate to our Go Fund Me page - If you know any brands, companies that could be interested in sponsoring us, please let us know! Our brand new Expedition Leaflets are out, check them out by clicking on the button below! |
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