• Daisy Gilardini is a conservation photographer who specializes in the Polar Regions, with a particular emphasis on Antarctic wildlife and North American bears. (eizo.se)
  • En route to Antarctica, take the opportunity to encounter iconic wildlife and immerse yourself in early Antarctic exploration on these sub-Antarctic islands of the South Atlantic Ocean. (quarkexpeditions.com)
  • Quark Expeditions offers solo travelers the chance to explore the Polar regions with exclusive single-occupancy discounts on some of the most incredible Arctic and Antarctic voyages. (quarkexpeditions.com)
  • It looks at the life and landscape of the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth and the climactic changes that affect them all. (booksquawk.com)
  • I have been to the Antarctic twelve times now, the Arctic eight, along with seven Iceland trips. (guragear.com)
  • In support of International Polar Year, this matching pair of images showing a global view of the Arctic and Antarctic were generated in poster-size resolution. (snopes.com)
  • The image can be found on NASA's website with the caption, "This image shows a view of the Earth on September 21, 2005 with the full Antarctic region visible. (snopes.com)
  • SVS: "Global View of the Arctic and Antarctic on September 21, 2005. (snopes.com)
  • As an expedition photographer aboard small ships in the Arctic and Antarctic, she has chronicled the accelerating effects of global warming on the jagged face of nearly fifty thousand icebergs. (photonola.org)
  • His awe-inspiring photographs raised awareness of the fragile state of the Arctic and the Antarctic, its effects on the rest of the planet through award-winning photo books and a documentary. (koreaherald.com)
  • Being athletic entire life, Copeland said it took him about a year or more to prepare for challenging journeys to the Arctic and the Antarctic regions. (koreaherald.com)
  • 2020). In addition, they are valuable resources for people living in the Arctic that also play a special role in the cultural identity of people in the North. (caff.is)
  • This document provides an update on the status of marine mammals in the circumpolar Arctic from 2015- 2020 (scientific references for factual information and a more detailed version of the text herein can be found in Kovacs et al. (caff.is)
  • Illustrated with photographs taken on an expedition. (donaldheald.com)
  • Expedition photographs--1880-1890. (loc.gov)
  • Arctic wildlife photographer Morten Hilmer mounted an expedition to Ellesmere Island, within the Arctic Archipelago, in Canada's Qikiqtaaluk Region, to chase his "dream about getting a glimpse and maybe even photograph the white Arctic wolf. (fieldnotesbrand.com)
  • In 1982, however, he was an aimless geography major who almost randomly took a job as a field assistant on an expedition to the Arctic to investigate how the great ice sheets formed during the Ice Age. (nybooks.com)
  • Dr. Roger Kirkwood is an Expedition Leader, Naturalist and polar expert who has been exploring the polar regions for over 30 years. (auroraexpeditions.com.au)
  • The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland. (mysticseaport.org)
  • Marine mammals are highly visible components of Arctic ecosystems that are important to the structure and function of these systems (Estes et al. (caff.is)
  • n 2017, the State of the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Report (SAMBR) synthesized data about biodiversity in Arctic marine ecosystems around the circumpolar Arctic. (caff.is)
  • The overall objective of the Canadian Arctic Marine Biodiversity Plan (Canadian Marine Plan) is to improve our ability to detect and understand the causes of long-term changes in the structure and function of Canadian arctic marine ecosystems. (caff.is)
  • We adapted distance sampling models and estimated the combined effects of distance, camera model, lens height, and vertical angle on the probability of detecting three different body sizes representing mammals that inhabit temperate, boreal, and arctic ecosystems. (bvsalud.org)
  • Because Arctic ecosystems help to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, they currently have a positive effect on the earth's climate. (lu.se)
  • The bay was photographed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson during his Arctic expeditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 21 years of polar exploration, she has joined almost 70 expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic. (eizo.se)
  • The Greenland ice cap, for example, contains enough water, were it to melt, to raise sea levels globally by around twenty-three feet, and the Arctic permafrost contains enough carbon, were it to be released, to increase atmospheric concentrations of CO2 by ninety parts per million (as of June 2018 it stands at 409.25 parts per million). (nybooks.com)
  • At the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) , researchers have found that rising temperatures and thawing permafrost in the northern region of the Alaskan tundra are leading to increased emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere-as much as a 70 percent increase in such emissions since 1975. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • So far, the average temperature in the Arctic has risen by over twice as much as in the rest of the world, and glaciers, permafrost and snow cover are changing. (lu.se)
  • Margareta Johansson, a researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University, maps how Arctic land regions with permafrost* are affected by climate change now and in future climate scenarios. (lu.se)
  • On social media, this argument was countered by people who claimed that wind turbines can function properly in extremely cold regions such as Antarctica. (snopes.com)
  • This is a genuine photograph of functioning wind turbines in Antarctica. (snopes.com)
  • This photograph was taken at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica base, a zero-emission polar research center that is powered by solar and wind energy. (snopes.com)
  • Is This Antarctica as Photographed from Space? (snopes.com)
  • An image shows an actual photograph of Antarctica taken from space. (snopes.com)
  • On July 15, 2022, a Twitter user posted an image that has since been widely viewed, allegedly showing Antarctica as photographed from space. (snopes.com)
  • The caption on the tweet may lead some viewers to believe that it's an actual photograph of Antarctica as taken from a space craft, but it is not. (snopes.com)
  • The report was published in February 2019 as part of the project 'Finland's Arctic Council chairmanship in the times of increasing uncertainty' funded by the Finnish Government's Analysis, Assessment and Research Activities unit. (helsinki.fi)
  • Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast, said the amount of CO2 emitted by Arctic wildfires between 1 June and 21 July 2019 is around 100 megatonnes and is approaching the entire 2017 fossil fuel CO2 emissions of Belgium. (independent.co.uk)
  • The chapter 'China, Climate Change and the Arctic Environment' examines in great detail China's ecological footprint in the Arctic and its role in international efforts to tackle climate change and pollution. (helsinki.fi)
  • Since 1980, computer models have been predicting that a rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide will cause the Arctic to warm twice as fast as areas at lower latitudes, putting it at high risk from climate change. (nybooks.com)
  • NSIDC 's Arctic Ice News website gives daily updates on the state of the poles, an exceptionally important service for those interested in the increasing effects of climate change. (nybooks.com)
  • In 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that the changes in the Arctic "could still be largely due to natural variability," and that unequivocal physical evidence of what the models were predicting might not be seen for at least a decade. (nybooks.com)
  • The Arctic regions are especially sensitive to the air pollutants and greenhouse gases that are contributing to climate change. (lu.se)
  • 2022 . Arthropod populations in a sub-arctic environment facing climate change over a half-century: variability but no general trend. (lu.se)
  • North of the Arctic circle, the high temperatures are facilitating enormous wildfires which are wreaking ecological destruction on a colossal scale. (independent.co.uk)
  • I think it's fair to say July Arctic Circle wildfires are now at unprecedented levels, having surpassed previous highest #Copernicus GFAS estimated July total CO2 emission (2004/2005), & last month's 50 megatonnes … and still increasing," he tweeted. (independent.co.uk)
  • Since the start of June, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service ( Cams ) has tracked over 100 intense and long-lived wildfires in the Arctic Circle," the WMO said in a statement . (independent.co.uk)
  • The mine was opened in 1955 and is four degrees south of the Arctic Circle. (rcinet.ca)
  • The ICOS Pallas Sammaltunturi station is situated about 200 km north from the Arctic Circle in Lapland, where the sun does not set in summer nor rises above the horizon in winter. (lu.se)
  • The second theme juxtaposes contemporary views of the Arctic by Donovan Wylieof Magnum Photos, Inuk photographer Jimmy Manning, and Canadian ethnographer Norman Hallendy. (mcmichael.com)
  • Wade Davis, NGS Explorer-in-Residence In this extra large-format (15" x 10") panoramic photo essay-the official companion book to the new IMAX® film To The Arctic 3D from Warner Bros. Pictures, MacGillivray Freeman Films and IMAX Corporation-award-winning nature photographer Florian Schulz takes readers on a personal journey to the remote-yet-vibrant Arctic. (joytripproject.com)
  • The stunning photograph was shot by Sebastian Copeland, polar explorer, photographer and environmental advocate. (koreaherald.com)
  • The Canadian Arctic Marine Biodiversity Plan (Canadian Marine Plan) is the Canadian contribution to the Arctic Council Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna's Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Plan. (caff.is)
  • This collection of photographs was captured while Matthew spent a month in Mara North Conservancy in Kenya in 2022. (robertharding.com)
  • polar bears snarling at the camera, Arctic foxes tearing across the snow, columns of musk oxen pursued by wolves, narwhals slaloming through channels in the ice, emperor penguins framed by twinkling stars, the great grey owl swooping over the snows, baby seals staring up from frigid waters, their bigger cousins bludgeoning each other during mating rites and crafty killer whales eyeing up their prey through holes in the ice. (booksquawk.com)
  • And it's in this frozen region known for its vast featureless landscapes where Florian has followed and photographed the great Polar Bears of the northern hemisphere. (joytripproject.com)
  • Although Siberia might be a challenging next step for research, Commane and her colleagues are already hard at work on NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, which will enable them to examine further the atmospheric conditions in northwest Canada and Alaska. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • This unique combination allows ICOS to observe, for example, how much carbon dioxide is taken up or released by the boreal forest and how greenhouse gases and air pollutants are acting over this boreal region. (lu.se)
  • A multi-million-dollar renovation means that the 128 guests aboard Ocean Adventurer travel to the most remote regions of the world in the utmost comfort. (quarkexpeditions.com)
  • Prior to this, China joined the Arctic Council as an observer in 2013 and included the Arctic region in its Vision for Maritime Cooperation under the 'Belt and Road' initiative in June 2017. (helsinki.fi)
  • She notes that the number of fires in the region have risen between 2015 and 2017, and the rise in temperature contributes to a dry climate that is perfect for wildfires. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • Precisely because the tundra is featureless, pipelines and roads in this wetland region bring predators access to nesting migratory birds. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • I had come to Mirny City in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) for a PhD course in Arctic extractive industries . (rcinet.ca)
  • Part of the problem was that the Arctic has a highly variable climate, influenced not only by year-to-year fluctuations but also by decadal cycles such as the shifts in atmospheric pressure known as the North Atlantic Oscillation. (nybooks.com)
  • Unfortunately, much about the soil structure there is unknown due to a lack of funding for research in the region, as well as difficulties in taking measurements of carbon and other atmospheric gases. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • Egill Thor Nielsson, Executive Secretary of the China-Nordic Arctic Research Center, will speak in the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, on 22 August 2018. (helsinki.fi)
  • This is more than was released by Arctic fires in the same month between 2010 and 2018 combined. (independent.co.uk)
  • Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD). (dal.ca)
  • This atlas and guide presents results of the Russian American Long-Term Census of the Arctic (RUSALCA) fish investigations conducted by bottom trawl in the Pacific Arctic region northward from Bering Strait. (caff.is)
  • All of the paintings and photographs are of sea- and skyscapes, primarily of the New Bedford region but with several Arctic scenes as well. (cloudappreciationsociety.org)
  • Primarily based in the Arctic regions of North America, and across northern Europe and Asia, the snowy owl's population is in a state of steady decline and the IUCN estimates only 14,000 to 28,000 snowy owls remain in the world. (petapixel.com)
  • I absolutely fell in love with wildlife and the real need for conservation work and the animals that do not have a voice, my focus right now is primarily the polar regions. (guragear.com)
  • The ongoing Arctic fires have been most severe in Alaska and Siberia, where some have been large enough to cover almost 100,000 football pitches, or the whole of Lanzarote. (independent.co.uk)
  • The average June temperature in the region of Siberia where wildfires are raging was almost 10 degrees higher than the 1981 - 2010 long-term average. (independent.co.uk)
  • Vast swathes of the Arctic are suffering from "unprecedented" wildfires, new satellite images have revealed. (independent.co.uk)
  • In the coming weeks, I'll post photographs and recollections of my time in this vast territory, which is extremely sparsely populated. (rcinet.ca)
  • Part of a 2009 donation to the McMichael of over 7,000 colour images, these photographs speak to the life and activities of the Inuit who inhabit Canada's most remote and inhospitable environments. (mcmichael.com)
  • how to take photographs in otherworldly landscapes. (apple.com)
  • The photographs taken by local people focus on everyday activities such as harvesting vegetables, herding cattle, playing instruments, and weaving blankets, all set against the lush landscapes of Yunnan Province in southern China. (amnh.org)
  • For ten years Camille Seaman has documented the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth's polar regions. (photonola.org)
  • Arctic Exposure is organized around two subthemes, the first of which focuses on the Inuit and features the work of historical photographers from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries-both professional and amateur-including Major Lachlan T. Burwash, Robert J. Flaherty, and Richard Harrington. (mcmichael.com)
  • Hallendy's photographs of "inuksuit", stone constructions made by the Inuit, are particularly arresting. (mcmichael.com)
  • Arctic Exposure is complemented by Inuit Traditions , the McMichael's permanent collection installation of drawings, prints, and sculptures, many of which are drawn from the collection of the historic West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, on long-term loan to the gallery since 1990. (mcmichael.com)
  • Despite darkness and cold, people live all year round in the Arctic, including local cultures such as Inuit and Sami. (lu.se)
  • Arctic Exposure is a striking photographic record of the Canadian Arctic over more than one hundred years, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. (mcmichael.com)
  • Peter Baumgarten has over 40 years of experience photographing on OM SYSTEM cameras . (petapixel.com)
  • The book offers an overview of China's economic engagements in the Arctic, China's policy regarding Arctic governance, and how it has evolved during the past years. (helsinki.fi)
  • Over seven years, she has simulated extra snowfall in test plots during fieldwork in sub-arctic Abisko in northern Sweden. (lu.se)
  • A journey through the Yellowstone to Yukon region that explored an ambitious wildlife corridor, and a conservation initiative connecting habitats. (amnh.org)
  • Facebook groups are refusing to publish photographs of snowy owls in a bid to stop photographers whose "paparazzi-like behavior" around the animals is harming conservation efforts. (petapixel.com)
  • McLoughlin Bay is an Arctic waterway in Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • Soils in the Arctic are unique because they hold high concentrations of carbon trapped inside frozen layers. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • From May 3 to June 1, 2014, the gallery will present the exhibition Arctic Exposure: Photographs of Canada's North , curated by Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, McMichael Assistant Curator, Collections, and Bonnie Rubenstein, CONTACT's Artistic Director. (mcmichael.com)
  • It is the relationship between the photograph as an image record and the Arctic as Canada's enigmatic expanse that is at the core of this exhibition. (mcmichael.com)
  • On its site articles, biographies, photographs and other materials devoted to the feat of battalions and the contribution of the indigenous peoples of the North to the Great Patriotic War will be presented. (northernforum.org)
  • The virtual museum will become a unique platform for articles, biographies, photographs and other materials on the feat of the reindeer transport battalions and the contribution of the indigenous peoples of the North to the Great Victory" - the statement said. (northernforum.org)
  • Florian Schulz's breathtaking and intimate photography of the Arctic shows us why this great and seemingly infinite land running away to the north remains one of our last true wild places. (joytripproject.com)
  • Item is a photograph taken from an airplane flying over Dawson City, Yukon. (dal.ca)
  • Despite its lunar-like remoteness, Mirny, like so many seemingly isolated places across the Arctic and sub-Arctic, is intricately woven into global currents. (rcinet.ca)
  • Behavioural responses of breeding arctic sandpipers to ground-surface temperature and primary productivity. (lu.se)
  • The lecture was delivered by Egill Thor Nielsson, Executive Secretary of the China-Nordic Arctic Research Center (CNARC) , Visiting Scholar at the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) and Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) , and Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of International Affairs, University of Iceland . (helsinki.fi)
  • I didn't even realize when the opportune time to photograph the Milky Way was, so when I first started actually shooting, it was in the winter. (petapixel.com)
  • While Baumgarten stresses that winter is a beautiful time to photograph the night sky, those who choose to venture out into the cold night air won't be rewarded with the Milky Way photos they see on their social feeds. (petapixel.com)
  • She has since devoted most of her time to photographing the Polar Regions. (eizo.se)
  • But as Mark Serreze explains in Brave New Arctic , until the 2000s many scientists working in the Arctic, including himself, were having a tough time finding conclusive evidence that humans were having an impact on the region's climate. (nybooks.com)
  • This document identifies marine benthos monitoring possibilities amongst Atlantic Arctic nations by identifying time- and cost-effective possibilities. (caff.is)
  • Time and again, my experiences illustrated that the region does not deserve its reputation for being a time-warped Soviet snowglobe. (rcinet.ca)
  • The photographs show Alaska natives engaged in activities and posed for portraits. (loc.gov)
  • The entire Coastal Plain of Alaska has the densest concentration of birds in the Arctic. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The ground observations were made from NOAA towers in Barrow, Alaska, where temperatures have been rising twice as fast as in the rest of the region. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • Regional Representative, ATSDR Region 10 about asbestos concerns in the City of Ambler, Alaska. (cdc.gov)
  • Between the months of April and November of 2012, 2013, and 2014, researchers deployed specially equipped aircraft (flown by NASA's Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment, CARVE) to supplement on-the-ground observations of the changing conditions. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • Because the northern tundra region is fairly remote, the fires often burn without human interference, unless there is a risk of flames spreading to populated areas. (harvardmagazine.com)
  • The station stands on an Arctic hill covered by Alpine tundra. (lu.se)
  • Teshekpuk is the largest lake in the Arctic and one of the most biologically important regions in the world for migratory birds. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Working in the most remote region of the planet he's tracked and documented the wild birds of Mexico, big game animals of the African continent as well as the migratory patterns of caribou in the Alaskan Arctic. (joytripproject.com)
  • Snowy owls are often in the U.S. to get through the winter before heading back to the Arctic to breed more and maintain the species' existence. (petapixel.com)
  • Information on 24 other species present only in the fringes of the Arctic Region or taxonomically problematic is given in the introductions to the fish families. (caff.is)
  • As the Arctic continues to warm, more cold-temperate species are expected to enter the region and the distribution of true Arctic species will likely retract as the area of ice-covered cold water shrinks. (caff.is)
  • Patagonia is a sparsely-populated, wildlife-rich region in the southern part South America. (quarkexpeditions.com)
  • Arctic marine mammals are all endemic to the Arctic region and hence a unique part of global biodiversity for which the Arctic range states have important stewardship responsibilities. (caff.is)
  • Since extensive reviews of China's policy and presence in the Arctic are scarce, the book poses as a valuable contribution to the current collection of scholarly work on the topic and a must-read for students and scholars of China studies and Arctic affairs. (helsinki.fi)
  • She is currently working on a contribution to a scientific synthesis report on the water budget in the Arctic. (lu.se)
  • What does it mean that China's so-called 'Belt and Road' initiative has entered the Arctic region? (helsinki.fi)
  • Vividly beautiful photographs highlight how the livelihoods and cultures of Bolivia's diverse peoples are inextricably tied to nature in many ways, from agriculture, architecture, and textiles, to traditional medicines and spirituality. (amnh.org)
  • The book is unique in the sense that it does not follow the predominant alarmist approach which views China as a threat, but attempts to provide an objective analytical analysis of Chinese Arctic policy', said Dr. Sanna Kopra. (helsinki.fi)
  • It offers a unique view of the country's remote northern regions through revealing portraits of the inhabitants and images of the spectacular polar landscape. (mcmichael.com)
  • Arctic Exposure and Changing Tides , combined with the McMichael's permanent installations, offer visitors the unique ability to experience Canadian art from coast to coast to coast. (mcmichael.com)
  • Nordic symposium on life in a traditional hunting and fishing milieu in prehistoric times and up to the present day / Harald Hvarfner, ed. 520 3# ‡a Consists of pictorial background to symposium in addition to photographs dedicated to individual chapters. (cam.ac.uk)
  • As an artist, I was frustrated by the short life span of (commercial) photographs. (koreaherald.com)
  • Please use the following steps to determine whether you need to fill out a call slip in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room to view the original item(s). (loc.gov)
  • Common & Arctic Terns quartered the ponds in constant search of food, while Great Reed Warblers were obvious by their rasping song, occasionally perching in full view. (birdtours.co.uk)
  • Capturing the Milky Way alone can be great, however if you can add a compelling foreground to the scene, that will take a good astro photograph and make it great. (petapixel.com)
  • Virtual museum of reindeer transport battalions of the Great Patriotic War will be created jointly by participants from the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) and the Komi Republic. (northernforum.org)
  • Navigating the icy channels of the High Arctic, follow in the footsteps of legendary explorers who braved the unknown to seek the fabled sea route to Asia. (quarkexpeditions.com)
  • The event will be of interest to researchers, policy-makers, civil servants and those from civil society, as well as business people with an interest in both the Arctic region and in China's overseas activities. (helsinki.fi)
  • Without the strong research on the Arctic led by people like Serreze, we would be flying blind into what could be a very dangerous future. (nybooks.com)
  • What I do is to communicate that feeling and bring that back to people (through my photographs) in order for them to experience what I've experienced," said Copeland. (koreaherald.com)
  • This lecture will focus on China's Arctic engagement, cooperation with the Nordic countries (including through the platform provided by CNARC), and its impact on Arctic developments in an evolving world order. (helsinki.fi)
  • This is a digital composite image, whereby the Beluga's were photographed in captivity and the image merged with a water background image. (oceanwideimages.com)
  • The workshop will begin with a slideshow where Camille will present examples of her own photographs to illustrate ways of seeing, discussing her technical and philosophical approach towards image making. (photonola.org)
  • Walking through the forest at Nedergard we eventually reached a coastal bay, where the birdwatching was very good: Arctic Terns, Common Eiders, Brent, Barnacle & Greylag Geese were all present, and a Hobby in flight was also a good sighting. (birdtours.co.uk)
  • The Arctic is geographically complex, with an even more complicated weather system, and conducting research there is hard, dangerous, and expensive. (nybooks.com)
  • In 1983, as Serreze was about to embark on his research career, he was "thinking about Arctic cooling and instantaneous glacierization" (the rapid growth of glaciers), and despite the computer models, "even secretly hoping for it. (nybooks.com)
  • Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region is intended for all who do research in and monitoring of marine eco-systems in the Arctic. (caff.is)