https://xitter.cf/t.co/qAj5SI1klX 🦋 Assoc. Prof. @UW Geography | Arctic geopolitics / critical remote sensing / infrastructure / satellites / skiing
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🎵 be more like the sky and welcome every kind of weather🎵
following the masses to bluesky 🦋🌞
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Blog: First there was the post-Soviet #Arctic, when all the walls came down. Then they started coming back up. Now, after having to reconsider the Arctic post-Crimea & post-Ukraine, we need to brace ourselves for pre-Trump 2.0–but not without some history.
cryopolitics.com/2024/11/14/…
Does anyone know whether former @QuintillionNet CEO Elizabeth Pierce, who was sentenced to five years in prison in June 2019 for defrauding investors of $270 million, was released this year? #Alaska @adndotcom
justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/for…
Scandinavian Airlines @SAS has cut its route between Copenhagen and Shanghai as of 7 Nov 2024 due to "difficult market conditions" – aka not being able or willing to access Russian airspace. Meanwhile, China plows ahead...
flyertalk.com/articles/europ…
Remembering when the Transpolar Dream was alive and well when Russian and American air traffic regulators would regularly meet in cities like Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Anchorage, and...Las Vegas to discuss flight planning across Siberia.
Photos of Russian icebreaking research vessel Akademik Fedorov looking for an ice floe in Sept 2024 in which to position Severnyy Polyus (in the back) as it floats for 2 years (!) across the #Arctic.
Source: Russia's Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute t.me/s/aari_official
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‘Some token of being there’: Visuality and the Inuit Body in Early Modern England - a really interesting piece by @ali_wedderburn: niche-canada.org/2024/11/07/… via @niche_canada
Coming out in February 2025: A Russian movie "North Pole" (Северный полюс) about the Soviet submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, which was the country's first to surface at the North Pole in 1962.
youtube.com/watch?v=XXbc6N0Z…
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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group @uw_ischool in 2025-26. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit!
PhD apps due Dec 2: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd/…
More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship
mixed media: a video of the first time a radio was used to talk on the phone between the UK and Japan (1935)
britishpathe.com/asset/17050…
When NATO and natas meet 🥚:
A Portugese submarine, Arpão, carried out a 70-day deployment to the #Arctic, sailing under the marginal ice zone, ice shelf, and even making a port call in Nuuk.
navalnews.com/naval-news/202…
TIL that the second-tallest structure in Iceland is this 1,000 ft guyed mast, which is used for communicating with US and NATO submarines.
the mind boggles
What a fascinating article by @KennyHolston about life aboard a US nuclear submarine. It appears that even underneath the #Arctic sea ice miles from any internet connection, we remain tethered to our phones.
nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/po…
The @NSF has requested input on building a Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (SMART) Subsea Cable between #Antarctica and New Zealand (deadline closed Monday, but still an interesting proposal).
federalregister.gov/document…
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Some striking repeat photography of glaciers in Svalbard. The contrast between 2002 and 2024, let alone the early twentieth century, is remarkable: theguardian.com/environment/…
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⚠️🇺🇸U.S. Sanctions Fail to Stop Chinese Power Plant, Delivery Salvages Next Stage of Russian #Arctic #LNG Plant
👉US missed window to stop delivery
👉Wison power plant delivered allowing for Train 2 of #ALNG2 startup next month.
@johnkonrad @BuchananLiz
gcaptain.com/u-s-sanctions-f…
US Congressional Committee @CmteOnCCPDems warns of "dual civil-military research efforts" in the #Arctic, including in Svalbard.
Norway's @Dagbladet has the full story ➡️
borsen.dagbladet.no/nyheter/…
