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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · May 6

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

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Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.

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Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) @earth-observation.org · Apr 15

Ongoing #uas #vtol #earthobservation in the #Arctic by @schwalb-willmann.de and @bevanda.bsky.social together with several #eagle msc students in collaboration with #unis @larissabeumer.bsky.social - #lidar and #multispectral #snow measurements #remotesensing #earthobs #Gischat #science

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Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) @earth-observation.org · Apr 13

Another field work mission in the #Arctic using #lidar and #multispectral snow property analysis for #ecology #reindeer by @schwalb-willmann.de in collaboration with @larissabeumer.bsky.social - #earthobservation #remotesensing #gischat

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Jakob Schwalb-Willmann @schwalb-willmann.de · Apr 2

The #Arctic climate is changing rapidly! Our efforts at the @eor-wuerzburg.bsky.social & #UNIS on Svalbard to jointly develop research & teaching on understanding polar ecosystem dynamics using UAV remote sensing has been covered by @uni-wuerzburg.de's magazine einBLICK (German): go.uniwue.de/k00gq

Researchers preparing a drone on Svalbard for flight.

Researchers and students taking in-situ measurements in the snow on Svalbard.

A researcher preparing a UAV/drone for an imaging mission on Svalbard.

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Movebank @movebank.bsky.social · Mar 31

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) has a PhD position open on movement ecology of Svalbard reindeer. Read more and apply here! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Ph.D. position in Arctic Biology (Svalbard Reindeer Movement Ecology) (278052) | UNIS

Job title: Ph.D. position in Arctic Biology (Svalbard Reindeer Movement Ecology) (278052), Employer: UNIS, Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025

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Larissa Beumer @larissabeumer.bsky.social · Mar 28

Come study these most adorable - and tough - #Arctic ungulates with us! 🦌 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Svalbard Reindeer Movement Ecology at The University Centre in #Svalbard: shorturl.at/DaHpw Application deadline is the 25th of April 2025!

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Larissa Beumer @larissabeumer.bsky.social · Mar 28

Was great to have you here and to learn from you! Thanks so much for coming!!! ☺️ And hopefully see you in Scotland soon! 🤗

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AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · Feb 19

To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Jan 2

Check our two open PhD positions in #ecology at @econovoau.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/svenni... (note - as always in #Denmark - these positions come w/ full academic salaries) 🐎🍃🌎🌤️ #megafauna #vegetation #wildhorse #modelling

Jens-Christian Svenning on LinkedIn: #modeling #wildhorses #wilderness #herbivores #ecosystems #ecology…

📢 Exciting PhD Opportunities in Ecology & Biodiversity! 🌍 Are you passionate about understanding and shaping the future of ecosystems? At Center for…

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 26

They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?

Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go Built like a small bison, weighing as much as a grand piano and covered in thick, shaggy coat, the musk…

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Dr Urska Demsar @udemsar.bsky.social · Nov 30

How @animaltracking.bsky.social plans to track animals with Icarus to create the Internet of Animals and be able to study not just how/if they react to geological phenomena, but also monitor disease spread and find out many other cool things from their movement: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Can goats predict earthquakes? Can dogs forecast volcanic eruptions? These scientists think so

Tracking the behaviour of tagged animals from space could transform the research into a host of natural phenomena

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Larissa Beumer @larissabeumer.bsky.social · Nov 20

I think Audun Stien at UiT has!

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