Juan-Ignacio Ramirez: New CHARTER Post Doc

The CHARTER project may be entering its final year, but there is still time to squeeze in one more PostDoc (likely the projects last!). His name is Juan-Ignacio Ramirez and he is going to be working with Dr. Dorothee Ehrich at The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. His overall research interest is to understand both how consumers (not the shopping

New CHARTER publication on ‘Rain-on-Snow’ events

We are excited to let you know about an important new CHARTER publication which has just been released. Published in the journal The Cryosphere, the article is lead authored by Annett Bartsch, who is the leader of Work Package 1 is titled: Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data. The article has input from many

Some fieldwork in Russia is underway

Conducting fieldwork in the midst of a pandemic has been a challenge for all academic projects that rely on fieldwork to be carried out ‘in the field’ to test hypotheses and gather raw data. Multiple fieldtrip have been cancelled, scaled back, or carried out in much-reduced circumstances. This has certainly been the case for the CHARTER project.  Now, all research projects

Interested in Red Foxes, Corvids and Lemmings?

We have just posted a new video interview with Dr. Dorothee Ehrich (Dept. of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø), and a researcher the Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra COAT, where she works mostly with arctic foxes on the Varanger Peninsula, northern Norway but also with snow, red foxes, small rodents and other components of the tundra ecosystem affected by climate change.