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Polar Times
by APECS
Science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet! It’s said that the poles are the thermometer for the rest of the planet- what happens to the rest of us, has already been happening there for years. It’s easy with the state of the world currently to bunker down in a little private bubble, but its more essential than ever that we broaden our horizons and remember that there’s a world out there that is incredible- and needs us!And if that sounds too heavy for you then instead why not join us to escape as we take to on audial adventures to these strange and remote and beautiful places? We’ll speak to guests who’ve looked polar bears in the eye, who drive 12k ton ships through ice 9ft thick or who spend years doing science with no-one but three other people and thousands of penguins for company! These are Polar Times we live in. Join us, and we’ll take you there!An APECS Production (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists). Music credits:”Scuba” - Metre Unalte
Episodes
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Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears - Episode 3/3
Welcome back to our Polar Times mini-series: “Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears” episode 3/3. In this final episode, we sit down with National Geographic Explorer Dr. Kim Bernard from Oregon State University to explore the tiny but mighty world of Antarctic krill. We discuss life...
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Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis - Episode 3/3
Welcome back to our Polar Times mini-series: “Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis” episode 3/3. Join hosts Emilie Pillon and Nadia Frontier for the third episode of the Polar Times min-series, our changing oceans, where we are joined by Dr. Melanie Bergmann from the Alfred...
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Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis - Episode 2/3
Welcome back to our Polar Times mini-series: “Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis” episode 2/3. In this episode, we are very happy to welcome post-docs Dr. Nan Wu and Dr. Emily Rowlands and PhD student Alena Sakovich from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), an UK-based...
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Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears - Episode 2/3
Welcome back to our Polar Times mini-series: “Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears” episode 2/3. In this episode, we welcome Adrian Heath, a past graduate student from Oregon State University, who has done research on coast erosion in the Arctic continental shelf. In our next…
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Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis - Episode 1
Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis APECS Podcast - Episode 1/3 Welcome to the first episode from the Polar Times mini-series: “Our changing oceans: from ancient waters to modern crisis”. This three-episode podcast series explores the complex relationship between humans and...
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Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears - Episode 1
Welcome to the first episode from the Polar Times mini-series: “Polar Plunge in the Science Beyond the Polar Bears”. This three-episode podcast series explores the complex relationship between humans and our polar environments. In the next episode, one guest from Oregon State University, Adrien...
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Sense of the Arctic: Episode 6
Welcome back for the sixth and final episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times. We round out our series by hopping over to Greenland and chatting with Dr. Gitte Reimer, the rector at the University...
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Antarctica on stage
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! On today’s episode, we are excited to welcome Hanne Nielsen, a Senior Lecturer of Antarctic Law and Governance at the University of Tasmania in Australia. We always say that we bring you stories from the coldest places on the planet. And today's episode, we...
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Sense of the Arctic: Episode 5
Welcome back for the fifth episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times. In this episode, we have the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Vera Kuklina, a Buryat scholar from Ust-Ordynskiy Buryat Autonomous...
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[Bonus] Self-reflective Poetry - Polar Week 2023
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! Today’s episode features self-reflective poems submitted to APECS for the International Polar Week of March 2023. The poems here are presented by (in order): Marilena Dracea-Chelsoi Parnika Gupta Sarah Johnson Damien Ringeisen The text of these poems and the...
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Sense of the Arctic: Episode 4
Welcome back for the fourth episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times. In this episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Tero Mustonen, a Finnish researcher at the University of Eastern...
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Sense of the Arctic: Episode 3
Welcome back for the third episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with Polar Times. In this episode, we had the pleasure of chatting to two members of the organization Ikaarvik, Justin Sigluk Milton, who is from...
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Sense of the Arctic: Episode 2
*TRIGGER WARNING: discussion of systemic racism and inequality were discussed and may be triggering to those that have experienced similar situations* Welcome to the second episode of Sense of the Arctic, a podcast miniseries from the APECS Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration…
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Sense of the Arctic: Episode 1
Welcome to the first episode from the Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times Team mini-series: Sense of the Arctic This series highlights the importance and need for collaboration with communities through community based monitoring (CBM) and how it started and…
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Mythical Monsters in the Ground
Hello and thank you for tuning in to another episode of Polar Times! In this episode, our host Henrietta talks to Christie Grekul and Dr Grant Zazulaabout all things Beringia, palaeontology, archaeology and museums. Christie is the Manager of the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre and Grant is...
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The Life Aquatic
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! On today’s episode we are excited to welcome Pierre Coupel, oceanographer, biogeochemist and documentary maker for ArctiConnexion, currently based in Canada! Post-PhD, Pierre has been fortunate enough to participate in many field seasons and chats to Jack…
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Fieldwork Insights
Get ready for an episode all about fieldwork! The guest of today’s episode is Floreana Miesen who is a field technician at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Floreana came in contact with fieldwork at the beginning of her studies, and it excited her from the start. After participating in...
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A Polar Poet
Today on Polar Times: We welcome Samantha Jones from the University of Calgary who speaks to Jack all about her research on carbon cycling and fluvial biogeochemistry in the Canadian Arctic, her experience of fieldwork there and her niche method of science communication- yes Sam is our first…
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Fieldwork Fun with Foxes
Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome back to Polar Times! On today's episode, Jack is joined by Dominik Arend an ecologist from the University of Freiburg who is currently writing an MSc thesis on Arctic foxes, specifically looking at their denning activity and how this impacts soil nutrition and...
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Greenland Caves
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Polar Times! Have you ever been crawling around in a cave and collecting speleothems? If not, then this episode is definitely made for you! Alexandra is joined today by Gina Moseley who is an Ingeborg Hochmair Professor at the Institute for Geology at...
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Shrubification!
Hello one hello all, and welcome back to Polar Times! Today we are delighted to feature a former Polar Times team member, our original head-editor, Elise Gallois, Arctic tundra biogeographer extraordinaire from the University of Edinburgh! Elise comes on to talk to Jack all about her research...
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Antarctica Day ‘21
Welcome back to a special episode of PolarTimes in celebration of Antarctica Day 2021! Every year on the 1st of December the polar community celebrates the signature of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. As such, the annual event serves the purpose to increase global awareness about the frozen…
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Climbing Climate
Welcome back to Polar Times! In today’s episode, Alexandra is interviewing Ronja Gronemeyer and Hanna Knahl, two fellow podcasters. Together with four other members, their podcast Climbing Climate is going to be launched in the beginning of December 2021. Ronja and Hanna tell us all about their...
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Season 2 Trailer
We're back! Here we go launching into Season 2 of Polar Times and the team here at APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) couldn't be more excited! Join Alexandra and Jack here in the trailer to hear what we have coming up in the near future and what we'd like to bring to you on our...
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Bit of the Moon
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! We have a very exciting episode for you today. Our guest this episode is James Karner of the University of Utah who chats to Jack all about the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET). Aside from answering some vital questions (how on Earth do you find a...
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A Quixotic Twelve
Hello hello from the Polar Times Team! We have another excellent episode for you today. We’re pleased to welcome Klaus Dodds from Royal Holloway University of London! Klaus is a professor of geopolitics and researches security, media/popular culture, ice studies and the international governance…
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Etwas Neues auf Deutsch
Hallo an alle da draußen, Katharina und Friederike, zwei junge Wissenschaftlerinnen, präsentieren euch die erste deutschsprachige Polartimes Podcast Folge. Seid gespannt auf einen Mix aus eigenen Erfahrungen, Eindrücken und interessanten Neuigkeiten aus den Polaren Regionen. Die beiden tauschen...
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Foca o Roca?
Welcome back to Polar Times! This is part 2 of our interview with Maaike Weerdesteijn (Centre for Earth and Evolution Dynamics at the University of Oslo and representative for APECS Norway) and Renato Borras-Chavez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departmento de Ecología and...
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#CLvsNO
Hello and thanks for joining us once again on Polar Times! We have two lovely guests joining Jack on the podcast today: firstly Maaike Weerdesteijn of the Centre for Earth and Evolution Dynamics at the University of Oslo and representative for APECS Norway, and also Renato Borras-Chavez of...
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Climate Change Ambassadors
Polar Bears! Yes you've finally reached the Polar Times episode about polar bears! Join Christy today as she chats to wildlife biologist Alyssa Bohart who comes to the podcast to talk all things polar bear: her research on their migration, her experiences with them in the field and how the…
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Extra extra!
Hear all about it! Hi all, Jack and Christy here, bringing you our first polar news episode! Mixing up the usual format, today we chatted about a few polar-related stories that have been in the headlines recently as well as our thoughts, reactions and a general Polar Times hot take! Topics this...
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The Gateway Drug to Polar Science
Hello hello! Welcome back to Polar Times! This is part two of Jack’s interview with Huw Griffiths, marine biologist and biogeographer of the British Antarctic Survey. Have talked all about his research in the previous episode (go back an listen if you’re interested in benthic sea critters, icy...
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It's a Jungle Down There
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times. Our guest today is marine biologist and biogeographer Huw Griffiths from the British Antarctic Survey! Huw is interested in the benthic (seafloor) organisms of polar places and talks about the recent discovery of new life filmed down a borehole, deep under…
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Visitors and the Virus
Hello and thanks for joining us today on Polar Times- welcome! On today's episode Jack chats to Daniela Liggett of the University of Canterbury! Daniela specialises in environmental management and tourism regulation in extreme environments and we welcome her onto the show today to talk all about...
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It's all about photography!
New episode! Our guest today is Thea Schneider, a soon-to-be PhD student and former participant of the MOSAiC summer school. Our host, Alexandra, and Thea chat about the MOSAiC summer school on board the Russian icebreaker Akademik Federov. Thea introduces us to the daily life on board the…
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Тыва тайга кызы
Welcome back to Polar Times! This week Jack is joined by Tayana Arakchaa, a cultural anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, currently working on the importance of Antarctic krill to food security in the former Soviet Union. As well as discussing...
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þetta reddast
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times, the podcast that brings you science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet. Join our host Christy with guest Mana Tugends, a polar law researcher who studied in Iceland at the University of Akureyri and currently works in Norway at the...
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The Third Pole
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Polar Times! Join Alexandra today for a chat with Jakob Steiner, a glacier hydrologist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal. The location of his workplace already reveals that today we are not going to the...
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The Arctic Council
Hello hello and welcome back to Polar Times, the podcast that brings you science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet! Normal service has been resumed post-Polar Week and this week Jack is joined by Robert Kadas of Global Affairs Canada to talk all things Arctic Council!…
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March Polar Week 2021 (Part 2)
Hello hello, welcome to Part 2 of our March Polar Week Special episode! In this section our Polar Week Panel (Ingrid Medby, Stephen Roberts and Mathieu Casado) answer some questions from the public which have been sent to us by you lovely lot! Why are some parts of the Antarctic melting faster…
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March Polar Week 2021 (Part 1)
It's March Polar Week! Or rather, just drawing to the close of March Polar Week! For those of you who don't know, this week has been one of celebration in the polar community. A time for polar academics, residents, visitors and aficionados to come together and celebrate everything about our polar...
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His real sleeping-bag?
Hello and thank you for tuning in to another episode of Polar Times! This week’s episode is with one of our new hosts, Henrietta. She gets chatting to Naomi Chapman, Education and Outreach Assistant at the Polar Museum, part of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge....
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Ice on Mars
Welcome back to Polar Times! Today, we are leaving our cosy planet for a moment and we follow our guest to Mars. Your host Alexandra is joined by Nanna Karlsson from the Geological Suvery of Denmark and Greenland. Nanna chats about her career which started in planetary sciences with a focus on...
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Matthew & Minik
Hello hello, thanks for joining us again on Polar Times! This week Jack is joined by anthropologist Genny LeMoine who is also curator/registrar of the Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College in Maine. She chats to us about the human history of the Arctic all the way from the paleo-Inuit…
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Kalerrâ
Today on Polar Times we welcome fellow podcaster (and artist and photographer) Chloe Russell to the show to talk about her podcast Kalerrâ. Kalerrâ is a Greenlandic word which means "the sound of it" and the podcast is full of sounds recorded by Chloe during an trip to Weisboylund in the…
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Herstory of Antarctica
New episode! On today’s Polar Times we welcome Morgan Seag of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Morgan is a social scientist who’s current research examines scientific institutions in Antarctica to see how they have evolved over time to become more gender inclusive. We chat to her about the...
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Times they are a-changing!
Happy New Year to all Polar Times listeners! On todays episode we are introducing some of the new members of the Polar Times team- you will be hearing from a lot of them in upcoming episodes as they strive to bring you more lovely polar content in 2021. We introduce ourselves, chat about…
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Do Rocks Get Sunburn?
Our guest is Elizabeth Orr of the German Research Centre for Geosciences and this week on Polar Times she and your host Jack Buckingham are not going North and they're not going South either. Instead we investigate a previously unmentioned part of the cryosphere: alpine regions! Mountains! *does...
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Sea Ice Modelling Explained
Our guest on this weeks Polar Times is researcher Sean Horvath from the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the University of Colorado Boulder. Sean and host Jack break down the complexities of using satellite data to model sea ice growth and shrinkage in the Arctic's future. We also…
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Polar Alien Hunters
Today on Polar Times we're talking aliens! By which we mean invasive non-native species of course. Our guests today are Jesamine Bartlett from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and Arlie McCarthy of the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey who are the founders of Polar...
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Science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet! It’s said that the poles are the thermometer for the rest of the planet- what happens to the rest of us, has already been happening there for years. It’s easy with the state of the world currently to bunker down in a little private bubble, but its more essential than ever that we broaden our horizons and remember that there’s a world out there that is incredible- and needs us!And if that sounds too heavy for you then instead why not join us to escape as we take to on audial adventures to these strange and remote and beautiful places? We’ll speak to guests who’ve looked polar bears in the eye, who drive 12k ton ships through ice 9ft thick or who spend years doing science with no-one but three other people and thousands of penguins for company! These are Polar Times we live in. Join us, and we’ll take you there!An APECS Production (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists). Music credits:”Scuba” - Metre Unalte
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