The Arctic Permafrost Atlas - A journey through icy worlds
Speaker: Helena Bergstedt, Susanna Gartler, Alexandra Meyer, Victoria Martin, Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer, Rodrigue Tanguy und Barbara Widhalm
On 16 October 2024 at 18:30, the #15 Polar Talk will take place at the Natural History Museum Vienna.
The Arctic Permafrost Atlas translates and consolidates the available knowledge on permafrost. It is a timely book suffused with the compelling enthusiasm of its authors and contributors. Close to a hundred individuals participated in its making, and it does a magnificent job at describing permafrost with maps, words, art, and stories.
Far from being an academic product in the traditional sense, it gathers the knowledge from the voices of scientists, Indigenous Peoples, northern residents, and local practitioners to provide a holistic and inclusive view of today’s challenges in the “country of permafrost”.
Speakers”: Dr Helena Bergstedt; scientist at b.geos, Mag. Susanna Gartler; scientist in the NUNATARYUK project, Dr Alexandra Meyer; PostDoc at the University of Vienna, Victoria Martin, MSc; PhD student at the University of Vienna, Dr Olga Povoroznyuk; PostDoc at the University of Vienna, Dr Peter Schweitzer, professor at the University of Vienna, Rodrigue Tanguy, MSc, PhD student at the University of Vienna, Dr Barbara Widhalm, scientist at b.geos.
Polar Talks is a series of lectures organised by the Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI) in which polar researchers from the natural and social sciences report on their research in the polar regions in a generally understandable form.
The lecture is in English
Admission free!
When: Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 6:30 pm
Where: Natural History Museum Vienna in room 16 (at the end of the Arctic exhibition)
Cover picture: Frozen and possibly very old roots protruding from a frozen section of a permafrost drill core (©Victoria Martin).
