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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), about the significance of indigenous voices when defining MPAs, and many of the other intricacies of polar law. Come along to learn of how this French woman came to fall in love with the Arctic, and hear Mana's beautiful stories of her adventures in Iceland and Norway and the positive impact and inspiration of those that she met along the way. 

 

Edited by Christy Rouault

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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

The Third Pole

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.

In the episode, Jakob and Alexandra talk about his career path and how his studies in science benefited from his degree in classical music. Jakob shares exciting fieldwork experiences from his numerous expeditions to many different places on earth. They talk about the differences between fieldwork in polar regions like Greenland and expeditions in the Himalayan and High Asian Mountains. He also chats about the importance of collaborations with the local people in Nepal and how both, he and the local community, rely on and interact with each other.

Feel free to email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research) to get in contact with us!

Episode edited by Ryan O’Hara

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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

The Arctic Council

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 meeting in a church hall to the international power house of science, communication and geopolitics that it is today? As someone who has been involved with the Arctic Council since its inception, Robert is the perfect man to answer all of these questions and more. We also chat all things Arctic for a bit of background info! 

This year is the 25th anniversary of the Arctic Council! Check out their website to find out what is being done to mark the occasion, as well as for lots more info on all of their exciting projects!

https://arctic-council.org/en/

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.

Episode edited by Elise Gallois

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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

March Polar Week 2021 (Part 2)

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 the ice? 

Our panel tackle all of these and more!

Thank you to everyone who sent us questions and apologies that we could not get through them all. We will be doing this feature again soon so stay tuned to Polar Times in the future! 

If you would like to ask a polar person a question then please get in touch with us. You can email (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research) questions, feedback, guest recommendations, anything at all, we would love to hear from you! 

Episode edited by Ryan O'Hara

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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

March Polar Week 2021 (Part 1)

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 worlds. 

In order to celebrate here at Polar Times we have put together a special episode featuring a panel of guests from a range of backgrounds bringing a range of experiences. 

We are pleased to welcome Ingrid Medby of Oxford Brookes University, Stephen Roberts of the British Antarctic Survey and Mathieu Casado of the Alfred Wegner Institute!

Part 1 (of 2) features the discussion from our panel on the theme of "Change" a topic which will likely resonate with a lot you after the last year! 

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!

From all of us at Polar Times, Happy Polar Week!

Episode edited by Elise Gallois

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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

His real sleeping-bag?

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 the polar regions every day. Naomi has been involved in some amazing projects and she tells us about her work on everything from a co-curated exhibition to a one-of-a-kind fabric map of Antarctica (complete with Lake Vostok silk-pocket!). Stay tuned for some advice for people interested in non-academic polar careers and to see if you can shed some light on a question from a primary school child that no one seems to know the answer to…

For everything from educational videos to polar sewing projects, check out the Polar Museum’s awesome teaching resources here:

https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/resources/

If you do have anything you’d like to tell us, no matter how big or small, please do get in touch via email (therearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research). We’d love to hear from you!

Episode edited by Elise Gallois

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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

 

Ice on Mars

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 Antarctica and how planetary science can benefit from polar science in many ways.
Nanna chats about how her career took her to many different places in Antarctica and Greenland, and how she ended up as a glaciologist. We also talk about inclusivity in science and what difficulties you can have in polar research, especially as a woman. Nanna also gives valuable advice on how to pursue a career in science.

If you would like to get in contact with us at Polar Times, send us an email to: thesearepolartimes@gmail.com OR tweet APECS: @Polar_Research

Episode edited by Alexandra Zuhr

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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

Matthew & Minik

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 Matthew Alexander Henson, one of the first men at the north pole, and the tale of Minik Wallace an Inughuit boy raised in the United States and we talk about what these stories continue to teach us today. 

We also chat about some of the exhibits the museum currently holds- how to build a Kayak!- and the issues that Arctic archaeologists are facing due to climate change! 

You can check out the museum's virtual exhibits here:

https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/index.html

And, as always, please feel free to email (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research) to get in contact with us about anything at all!

Episode edited by Elise Gallois

Cover art by Matthew Nelson 

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

Kalerrâ

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. As well as sounds from the field the podcast is full of snippets with interviews from the scientists on the trip (Anne Lydiat, Laura Melissa Williams, Amy Pryor and Wanda Bodnar), music from Ben Imber and narration from Chloe herself, which combine to create an immersive listening experience designed to help the listener feel connected with the remote Northeast Greenland.

Chloe chats to jack about her experiences in the field, the decisions behind releasing Kalerrâ as a podcast and how sounds can be used to foster a greater sense of connectedness than almost anything else.

You can listen to Kalerrâ on Spotify, Apple and lots of other places where you get podcasts from. It has the full Polar Times seal of approval so definitely check it out!

As always if you would like to contact us at Polar Times you can:

email: thesearepolartimes@gmail.com

tweet APECS: @Polar_Research

Episode edited by Elise Gallois

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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

 

Herstory of Antarctica

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 do on the road to equality and why everyone- that is EVERYONE- can and should be involved in polar science!

Here is a link to Morgans interview with Ellen Mosley-Thompson, mentioned in the episode, as well as to the site where you can find more of her interviews:

https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/43987

For more info on this topic check out on Twitter:

• Women in Polar Science (@WomeninPolarSci)
• Minorities in Polar Research (PolarImpact)
• Pride in Polar Research (PridePolar)

And finally, for an article on intersectionality, written by todays guest, go here:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/intersectionality-and-international-polar-research/4F9424A0A634F12565ED9AB903C4336F

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.

Episode edited by Elise Gallois

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

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