Polar Times

Hello hello from the Polar Times Team! We have another excellent episode for you today. We’re pleased to welcome Klaus Dodds from Royal Holloway University of London! Klaus is a professor of geopolitics and researches security, media/popular culture, ice studies and the international governance of the Antarctic and the Arctic. He joins us today to speak about all things Antarctic Treaty! You may h...

Hallo an alle da draußen, Katharina und Friederike, zwei junge Wissenschaftlerinnen, präsentieren euch die erste deutschsprachige Polartimes Podcast Folge. Seid gespannt auf einen Mix aus eigenen Erfahrungen, Eindrücken und interessanten Neuigkeiten aus den Polaren Regionen. Die beiden tauschen sich aus über die Neustrukturierung des Arktischen Rates und die daraus resultierenden Neuerungen für Gr...

Welcome back to Polar Times! This is part 2 of our interview with Maaike Weerdesteijn (Centre for Earth and Evolution Dynamics at the University of Oslo and representative for APECS Norway) and Renato Borras-Chavez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departmento de Ecología and representative for APECS Chile).  In this episode we hear more about Maaike’s research on magnetotelluric analysis...

Hello and thanks for joining us once again on Polar Times! We have two lovely guests joining Jack on the podcast today: firstly Maaike Weerdesteijn of the Centre for Earth and Evolution Dynamics at the University of Oslo and representative for APECS Norway, and also Renato Borras-Chavez of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departmento de Ecología and representative for APECS Chile! They ha...

Polar Bears! Yes you've finally reached the Polar Times episode about polar bears! Join Christy today as she chats to wildlife biologist Alyssa Bohart who comes to the podcast to talk all things polar bear: her research on their migration, her experiences with them in the field and how the destiny of these massive mammals is inextricably linked to climate change. As always, if you would like to ge...

Hear all about it!  Hi all, Jack and Christy here, bringing you our first polar news episode! Mixing up the usual format, today we chatted about a few polar-related stories that have been in the headlines recently as well as our thoughts, reactions and a general Polar Times hot take! Topics this week are oil drilling in Alaska, Wally the walrus vacationing in Europe, Canadas residential schools an...

Hello hello! Welcome back to Polar Times! This is part two of Jack’s interview with Huw Griffiths, marine biologist and biogeographer of the British Antarctic Survey. Have talked all about his research in the previous episode (go back an listen if you’re interested in benthic sea critters, icy boreholes and paradigm shifts in science), in this episode Huw tells us all about his field experiences i...

Hello and welcome back to Polar Times. Our guest today is marine biologist and biogeographer Huw Griffiths from the British Antarctic Survey! Huw is interested in the benthic (seafloor) organisms of polar places and talks about the recent discovery of new life filmed down a borehole, deep under the Antarctic sea ice. He chats to Jack about the significance of such a finding: why is it surprising?...

Hello and thanks for joining us today on Polar Times- welcome! On today's episode Jack chats to Daniela Liggett of the University of Canterbury! Daniela specialises in environmental management and tourism regulation in extreme environments and we welcome her onto the show today to talk all about that as well as her role as co-project leader of the SCAR Antarctic COVID-19 Project Team. Yes, it's pa...

New episode! Our guest today is Thea Schneider, a soon-to-be PhD student and former participant of the MOSAiC summer school. Our host, Alexandra, and Thea chat about the MOSAiC summer school on board the Russian icebreaker Akademik Federov. Thea introduces us to the daily life on board the Russian icebreaker and the many diverse aspects of fieldwork, despite the exciting hours of watching polar be...

Welcome back to Polar Times! This week Jack is joined by Tayana Arakchaa, a cultural anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, currently working on the importance of Antarctic krill to food security in the former Soviet Union. As well as discussing her current research we chat all about the understudied nomadic indigenous groups of the Tyva Republic...

Hello and welcome back to Polar Times, the podcast that brings you science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet.    Join our host Christy with guest Mana Tugends, a polar law researcher who studied in Iceland at the University of Akureyri and currently works in Norway at the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission.    Mana explains what are Marine Protected Areas (MPA), abou...

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Polar Times! Join Alexandra today for a chat with Jakob Steiner, a glacier hydrologist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal. The location of his workplace already reveals that today we are not going to the Arctic or Antarctica - today we are once again at the third pole of the earth, namely in the Himalayas....

Hello hello and welcome back to Polar Times, the podcast that brings you science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet! Normal service has been resumed post-Polar Week and this week Jack is joined by Robert Kadas of Global Affairs Canada to talk all things Arctic Council!  Who are the Arctic Council? What do they do? Why are they important? How did they go from a small meetin...

Hello hello, welcome to Part 2 of our March Polar Week Special episode! In this section our Polar Week Panel (Ingrid Medby, Stephen Roberts and Mathieu Casado) answer some questions from the public which have been sent to us by you lovely lot!  Why are some parts of the Antarctic melting faster than others?  Who, if anyone, "owns" the Arctic?  And most importantly: Can you make a slush puppy from...

It's March Polar Week! Or rather, just drawing to the close of March Polar Week! For those of you who don't know, this week has been one of celebration in the polar community. A time for polar academics, residents, visitors and aficionados to come together and celebrate everything about our polar places that makes us happy: the beauty, the diversity, the resilience and fragility of our frozen worl...

Hello and thank you for tuning in to another episode of Polar Times! This week’s episode is with one of our new hosts, Henrietta. She gets chatting to Naomi Chapman, Education and Outreach Assistant at the Polar Museum, part of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. Naomi is a museum educator-extraordinaire and here she talks about what it’s like to teach people about t...

Welcome back to Polar Times! Today, we are leaving our cosy planet for a moment and we follow our guest to Mars. Your host Alexandra is joined by Nanna Karlsson from the Geological Suvery of Denmark and Greenland. Nanna chats about her career which started in planetary sciences with a focus on glacier ice on Mars. We talk about in which sense glacier ice on Mars is similar to glaciers in Antarctic...

Hello hello, thanks for joining us again on Polar Times!  This week Jack is joined by anthropologist Genny LeMoine who is also curator/registrar of the Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College in Maine. She chats to us about the human history of the Arctic all the way from the paleo-Inuit to some of the more widely-known figures of modern history. In particular she tells us the stories of...

Today on Polar Times we welcome fellow podcaster (and artist and photographer) Chloe Russell to the show to talk about her podcast Kalerrâ.   Kalerrâ is a Greenlandic word which means "the sound of it" and the podcast is full of sounds recorded by Chloe during an trip to Weisboylund in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone as part of an interdisciplinary expedition of scientists and artists....

New episode! On today’s Polar Times we welcome Morgan Seag of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Morgan is a social scientist who’s current research examines scientific institutions in Antarctica to see how they have evolved over time to become more gender inclusive. We chat to her about the history of women in the Antarctic, how things have changed since the 20th century, what is left still to d...

Happy New Year to all Polar Times listeners! On todays episode we are introducing some of the new members of the Polar Times team- you will be hearing from a lot of them in upcoming episodes as they strive to bring you more lovely polar content in 2021. We introduce ourselves, chat about highlights from the polar world in 2020 and let you in on our plans for the podcast this coming year! If you wo...

Our guest is Elizabeth Orr of the German Research Centre for Geosciences and this week on Polar Times she and your host Jack Buckingham are not going North and they're not going South either. Instead we investigate a previously unmentioned part of the cryosphere: alpine regions! Mountains! *does excited dance* We chat about earth surface process, landscape evolution over the last million years (an...

Our guest on this weeks Polar Times is researcher Sean Horvath from the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the University of Colorado Boulder. Sean and host Jack break down the complexities of using satellite data to model sea ice growth and shrinkage in the Arctic's future. We also return in fieldwork funtimes to the MOSAiC expedition and hear all about life on board the support vessel A...

Today on Polar Times we're talking aliens! By which we mean invasive non-native species of course. Our guests today are Jesamine Bartlett from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and Arlie McCarthy of the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey who are the founders of Polar Alien Hunters.  Your host, once again, is Jack Buckingham who will be asking WHAT are invasive species?...