November 19, 2025

Recording of the “Polar Fieldwork Planning” Webinar Now Available Are you preparing for fieldwork in the Arctic or Antarctic? Whether you’re headed to land-based stations or embarking on polar research vessels, planning is key to a successful research campaign.   Watch this POLARIN fieldwork planning webinar to learn more about how to navigate permit processes and logistics challenges, understand risk assessment and field safety, implement ethical and sustainable research practices, and plan effective data management from the start.   This webinar will provide you with an overview on a variety of topics related to planning polar fieldwork: Introduction to the POLARIN project and its opportunities for researchers Best practices for planning your fieldwork, managing logistics, and ensuring team safety Insights into ethical research collaboration and community engagement in the Arctic Guidance on minimizing environmental impact and respecting cultural heritage Practical training on data stewardship, including the FAIR and CARE guiding principles, working with a data management plan Advice on media content creation and information about the POLARIN ambassador program Time for your questions and interaction with experts   The webinar was organised by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), Aarhus University (AU), the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), ETT Solutions (ETT), and FL Polar Operation (FLPO) together with experts from the POLARIN project.    

 From Pole to Pole Across the Atlantic: POLARIN at the AAORIA Forum 2025 On September 24, our Project Manager Veronica Willmott presented POLARIN at the side event “Polar oceans and climate: Advancing synergies for long-term global collaboration”, organized as part of the 2025 All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance (AAORIA) Forum in Brussels. The Forum this year was hosted by the European Commission. During her presentation, Veronica highlighted POLARIN’s mission to provide free-of-charge transnational access to polar research infrastructures for scientists worldwide. The event concluded with a Call for Action to the AAORIA partners. Both the Call for Action and the meeting report can be accessed here. “An absolute success story in EU funding -the transnational access projects- not only in the poles, but also in the ocean and on land. Something that really brought us (scientists and experts), closer together.” Nicole Biebow at the AAORIA Forum 2025 On September 26, the forum session “Our Linkages with the Polar Seas” opened by Lena Buth, PhD student at AWI and POLARIN team member, who delivered an inspiring talk on the future of polar regions and polar research through the eyes of an early-career ocean professional. Her talk starts at 12:09:17 in the recording.   The project coordinator Nicole Biebow reflected on the challenges of sharing information and research infrastructures. She highlighted lessons from the first POLARIN call, which exceeded expectations with nearly 100 proposal submissions showcasing the importance of transnational access to research infrastructures. You can watch Nicole’s response in the session “Our linkages with the polar seas” at 12:40:38 in the recording. Finally, Nicole and Veronica had the opportunity to speak with James Morrison, the new Director for Healthy Planet at the European Commission on topics including polar research infrastructures.

“It is Getting Hot in Here” – New POLARIN Ambassador blog post online! In “It is Getting Hot in Here”, Dr. Patricia Kaye Dumandan, PI of the POLARIN-funded TEMPNET project, gives an inside look at how her team set up experiments to understand how temperature shapes insect activity and species interactions in the Arctic.   Through POLARIN, Patricia and her team travelled to the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk and later to the Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland, where they built makeshift field laboratories, crafted creative experimental setups, and installed mesocosm boxes to capture how warming affects species interactions.   An inside look at the hands-on work behind studying a rapidly warming environment.Read the blog here.