Cryospheric Sciences

World Mental Health Day 2024 with a focus on workplace

Lina Madaj October 16, 2024

Maintaining mental wellness in academia is not always easy and steered by many external factors. Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay.

Friday the 10 October, was World Mental Health Day, a day that was founded by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) in 1992. This year’s official theme focuses specifically on mental health in the work environment. So let’s take a look at what this means for the field of academia and the cryosphere specifically. With this post, we aim to not only raise awareness of the mental health crisis ...[Read More]

Highlighted Paper: Breaking the ice – what’s new in modeling sea ice deformation

Lina Madaj October 9, 2023

Figure 1: What might look like art is actually an image of Arctic Ocean sea ice data from different days and with different lines and angles of deformation. [Credits: Ringeisen et al., 2023, Fig.3]

Most of the time when we speak or read about sea ice it is probably about its extent or thickness or the decline in both, or maybe even about the microorganisms living inside and underneath it. How sea ice breaks and deforms is normally not so much the topic of general discussions. This is actually a really important process that we do not know enough about, at the same time it is pretty co ...[Read More]

Did you know that thawing permafrost is impacting Arctic livelihoods already today?

Lina Madaj January 13, 2023

Figure 1: View from the helicopter on three houses outside Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada, June 2022. The town can be seen in the background in the upper right corner. [Credit: Lina Madaj]

Would you like to join me on a little trip up North today? We will be visiting a small community in the Canadian high Arctic – a community built on permafrost ground. This sounds pretty cool in the first place, but brings along quite a few challenges that most of us probably do not have to think about. Let me introduce you to Tuktoyaktuk, the community that is endangered to fall into the sea ...[Read More]