Polar Times APECS

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 research.
 
The conversation touches on past and current uses of community-based participatory research in Greenland and how the methodology has evolved over the past three decades. We also discuss Gitte's efforts to implement Greenland's recently-released national research policy, which emphasizes the local and nationwide importance of community-based participatory research.
 
We hope you enjoy this important final episode of Sense of the Arctic! 
 
Technical details:
Podcast Hosts: Inge Deschepper and Nicholas Parlato
Edition: Inge Deschepper
Mastering: Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA

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 from the Humanities and will help us tackle these questions, and even include a story about cows in Antarctica. Since this interview was recorded, Hanne Nielsen wrote a book, to be published later this year titled Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent.
 
Good listening!
 
If you would like to get in contact with us or recommend a guest, contact us on the APECS twitter: @Polar_Research or on Instagram apecs.polar. We would love to hear from you.
 
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Podcast Host: Jack Buckingham


Edition and Mastering: Damien Ringeisen


Cover art by Matthew Nelson


Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA

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 across a wide range of topics, including Arctic infrastructure, transport, and urbanization, as well as Indigenous resource management and resilience.
 
We speak about the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, how it is impacting research in Siberia, and how we can ensure the safety of research collaborators and communities whilst doing research in Siberia. We also spoke about the history of including northern communities in research from a Russian perspective.
 
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https://frozencommons.unh.edu/maps/
 
Technical details:
Podcast Hosts: Inge Deschepper and Nicholas Parlato
Edition: Inge Deschepper
Mastering: Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA

 

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 Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA

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 the report's findings. 
 
We spoke about winter seining, SnowChange, the past and present impacts of colonisation and the importance and differences of community-driven research in the Northern European context. He also gave some sound advice on how and when to do research in the polar systems. 
 

Here are some of the links spoken about during the podcast:
SnowChange: http://www.snowchange.org/

 

As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question, then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
You can download the episode transcript here: Transcript
The captions and transcript were partially generated using whisper.cpp

 
Technical details:
Podcast Hosts: Inge Deschepper and Nicholas Parlato
Edition: Inge Deschepper
Mastering: Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA

 

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 Qaujimajatuqangit is. They also spoke about a couple of key points and actions to take when thinking about doing research in the north.
 
Here are some of the links spoken about during the podcast:
Ikaarvik: https://ikaarvik.org/
ScIQ publication: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/as-2020-0015

 

As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question, then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.
You can download the episode transcript here: Transcript 
The captions and transcript were partially generated using whisper.cpp

 
Technical details:
Podcast Hosts: Inge Deschepper and Nicholas Parlato
Edition: Nicholas Parlato
Mastering: Damien Ringeisen
Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen
Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA