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 North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission. Mana explains what are Marine Protected Areas (MPA), about the significance of indigenous voices when defining MPAs, and many of the other intricacies of polar law...
Apr 24, 2021•50 min•Ep. 19
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 Arctic or Antarctica - today we are once again at the third pole of the earth, namely in the Himalayas. In the episode, Jakob and Alexandra talk about his career path and how his studies in science benefi...
Apr 09, 2021•53 min•Ep. 18
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! Who are the Arctic Council? What do they do? Why are they important? How did they go from a small meeting in a church hall to the international power house of science, communication and geopolitics that it...
Mar 27, 2021•43 min•Ep. 17
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 than others? Who, if anyone, "owns" the Arctic? And most importantly: Can you make a slush puppy from the ice? Our panel tackle all of these and more! Thank you to everyone who sent us questions and apolog...
Mar 18, 2021•46 min•Ep. 16
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 places that makes us happy: the beauty, the diversity, the resilience and fragility of our frozen worlds. In order to celebrate here at Polar Times we have put together a special episode featuring a pan...
Mar 18, 2021•47 min•Ep. 15
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. Naomi is a museum educator-extraordinaire and here she talks about what it’s like to teach people about the polar regions every day. Naomi has been involved in some amazing projects and she tells us about ...
Mar 11, 2021•32 min•Ep. 14
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 glacier ice on Mars. We talk about in which sense glacier ice on Mars is similar to glaciers in Antarctica and how planetary science can benefit from polar science in many ways. Nanna chats about how her c...
Feb 26, 2021•40 min•Ep. 13
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 to some of the more widely-known figures of modern history. In particular she tells us the stories of Matthew Alexander Henson, one of the first men at the north pole, and the tale of Minik Wallace an In...
Feb 12, 2021•58 min•Ep. 12
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 Northeast Greenland National Park zone as part of an interdisciplinary expedition of scientists and artists. As well as sounds from the field the podcast is full of snippets with interviews from the scientists o...
Jan 29, 2021•49 min•Ep. 11
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 history of women in the Antarctic, how things have changed since the 20th century, what is left still to do on the road to equality and why everyone- that is EVERYONE- can and should be involved in polar sc...
Jan 15, 2021•54 min•Ep. 10
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 highlights from the polar world in 2020 and let you in on our plans for the podcast this coming year! If you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us s...
Jan 02, 2021•38 min•Ep. 9
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 excited dance* We chat about earth surface process, landscape evolution over the last million years (and more!) and the impacts climate change is having on our mountains. What is a glacier? Do rocks get ...
Dec 18, 2020•49 min•Ep. 8
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 return in fieldwork funtimes to the MOSAiC expedition and hear all about life on board the support vessel Akademik Federov! If you would like to contact Polar Times you can email thesearepolartimes@gmail...
Dec 04, 2020•39 min•Ep. 7
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 Alien Hunters. Your host, once again, is Jack Buckingham who will be asking WHAT are invasive species? HOW do they get to polar place? WHY are they bad news and most importantly CAN we do anything about i...
Nov 20, 2020•54 min•Ep. 6
Hello and welcome back! Today on Polar Times we have a palaeoclimatologist from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey. Join Jack Buckingham to hear all about her adventure to Sherman Island, drilling for ice cores as part of the Wacswain project (WArm Climate Stability of West Antarctic ice sheet in the last INterglacial!) and how we can use these icy time capsules to better predict what might happen to our climate in the future. Email us at thesearepolartimes@gmail.com if...
Nov 06, 2020•47 min•Ep. 5
Hi from Polar Times! Today's guest is marine biologist/conservation ecologist Jilda Caccavo of the Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI) and the Berlin Centre for Genomics in Biodiversity Research. Your host once again is Jack Buckingham who chats to Jilda this week about Chilean sea bass a.k.a toothfish, managing fisheries in the Southern Ocean, target catch ratios (more interesting than they sound in Jilda's own words!) and securing scientific funding as an early career researcher! Email us at thesear...
Oct 23, 2020•49 min•Ep. 4
Hello and welcome back to Polar Times! Our guest today is non-fiction documentary filmmaker Amy Richman of the University of Colorado Boulder. Join Jack Buckingham once again to chat to her about her film "Drifting North: Into the Polar Night", filming it onboard a research vessel trapped in Arctic ice and what it's like being an artist on board a ship full of scientists! If you have any questions for polar people or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as a podcast guest, you can email u...
Oct 08, 2020•46 min•Ep. 3
Our first ever guest on Polar Times is marine biogeochemist and microplastic researcher Kirstie Jones-Williams (IG: @kirstiejoneswilliams) of the British Antarctic Survey and University of Exeter! Join host Jack Buckingham to chat to her about microplastic in the Southern Ocean, hot-springs in Antarctica and making the most of PhD opportunities! If you have any questions or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as future guests on the podcast you can email APECS ( info@apecs.is ), Tweet us...
Sep 23, 2020•59 min•Ep. 2
A new podcast brought to you by APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists). Science and stories from the coolest places on the planet. Literally... In this trailer we just give you a bit of background on how/why Polar Times was set up and what to expect from the coming series. If you have any questions or recommendations for whom you'd like to hear as guests on the podcast you can email APECS ( info@apecs.is ), Tweet us (@Polar_Research) or message on Instagram (apecs.polar). Thanks fo...
Sep 23, 2020•4 min•Ep. 1
