Cryospheric Sciences

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An inclusive field team is a great field team: Strategies and resources

TJ Young and Marianne Karplus June 23, 2023

A scheme showing the 6 aspects leading to positive and inclusive fieldwork environment, including physical and mental well-being, team values, recognising and valueing diversity, rest days, dealing with stress, communication and daily checkin.

Fieldwork is essential to polar sciences, but who are the people that actually do the fieldwork these days? A great field team includes people spanning a diversity of scientific skills, but at the same time, a diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and identities also adds intrinsic value to team dynamics and the overall field work experience. …[Read More]

The Cryosphere meets the Twittersphere

Emma Pearce June 24, 2022

Twitter is a place that can be full of an overwhelming amount of information, and often it becomes difficult to hear about new information amongst the noise of all the tweeting. To help our fellow cryo-enthusiasts learn more about equality, diversity and accessibility within the cryosphere, we’re highlighting a few twitter accounts that we think …[Read More]

About

Welcome to the blog of the Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division of the European Geosciences Union. The aim of the blog is to get you, the reader, excited about all things related to ice, whether it be the tiniest ice crystals, permafrost, snow drifts, beautiful mountain glaciers or the vast polar ice sheets. Here, the latest fieldwork programmes, research projects, and scientific discoveries will be showcased by authors from within the cryospheric community.

Are you interested in writing a blog entry or wanting to get more involved in the CR Division? Contact our chief editors, Leah Sophie Muhle (email: leah-sophie.muhle (at) student.uni-tuebingen.de) and Mack Baysinger (email: mackbaysinger (at) gmail.com).