FROST

Helena, a Master’s student from Finland, recently spent a week at one of the FROST study lakes conducting interviews to better understand how warming winters are affecting local communities. During her visit to Finnish Lapland, she also joined fishers on the ice and took part in fishing and gutting, gaining firsthand insight into daily practices and changing conditions. She has kindly agreed to share some of her experiences with us. My fieldwork at Lake Muddusjärvi included interesting...

Last week, temperatures plunged to –50 °C in Cambridge Bay and our incredible field collaborators from the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) Shannon, Jasmine, Layla, and Spencer were out on the ice measuring thickness and collecting temperature/conductivity profiles in Lakes Greiner and Pelly. This work shows the power of long-term partnership between researchers, communities and Polar Knowledge Canada. By building research with Inuit communities, we strengthen year-round data...

A team of scientists from Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research ( Akvaplan-NIVA) just carried out the first field campaign for the FROST project. The project's main study location in Norway is Takvatnet, a large lake located 2 hours drive southeast of Tromsø city. Due to an extraordinarily mild autumn, the ice formation at Takvatnet that usually occurs during November, was very late this year. This delayed the first comprehensive...