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  • TROLLSAT to Serve Antarctica

    20.04.2007

    After Tromsø, Svalbard and Grimstad (Norway), Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) is now operating a new satellite ground station located in Antarctica: "TrollSat".

  • SEDNA: a Close Look at Sea Ice Dynamics

    03.04.2007

    A team of scientists led by Jennifer Hutchings of the University of Alaska Fairbanks will spend two weeks at the U.S. Navy ice camp in the Beaufort Sea to study the relationship between ice movement, stress and the overall mass of sea ice. This field expedition is part of the…

  • Launch of Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)

    02.04.2007

    The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) aims to bring together young researchers and early career scientists and engineers with an interest in Polar Regions and the Cryosphere from around the world.

  • NASA and Local Arctic Communities Collaborate during IPY

    30.03.2007

    Changes in Arctic climate have resulted in changes in snow cover and snow conditions. Observing and understanding snow changes are important both for scientists and for local reindeer herders who have to know and even predict snow conditions, because they indicate availability of forage and mobility for herding.

  • NASA and USGS Produce Best Ever Satellite Images of Antarctica

    13.03.2007

    Researchers from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have woven together more than a thousand images from the Landsat 7 satellite in order to create the most detailed high-resolution map of Antarctica ever produced.

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  • An elder preparing country food her family has brought her. Inuit who have a hunter in the family have much better food security.
  • Preparing country food to share at the Tukisgiavarik drop-in centre.
  • The community centres are based on Inuit values, which put emphasis on taking care of others in their community. Inuit come to the centres not only to get food, but also to converse with other Inuit and feel a part of their culture.
  • Caribou in the Canadian Arctic, a traditional source of protien for the Inuit. Climate change is changing the natural distribution areas of animals and changing ice conditions, making it more and more difficult for hunters to get traditional country food.
  • With fewer and fewer hunters in the Candian Arctic and a transition to a mixed economy, many Inuit are increasingly becoming dependant on store-bought food.
  • Food that has to be shipped to the Arctic from elsewhere can be three times as expensive compared to Southern Canada. Traditional Inuit country foods sold in stores are often the most expensive products.

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