US Congressional Committee Select Committee on the CCP Democrats warns of "dual civil-military research efforts" in the #Arctic, including in Svalbard. Norway's @Dagbladet has the full story ➡️ borsen.dagbladet.no/nyheter/amerik…

⚠️🇺🇸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. John Ʌ Konrad V Dr Elizabeth Buchanan gcaptain.com/u-s-sanctions-…

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/20…

Excited to receive this book on the 1989 US-Soviet Bering Bridge Expedition, which counted six Indigenous people among its 12-member team of "dog sled diplomats". The book opens with stirring letters by Gorbachev and Reagan to the expedition. Unfathomable today. #Arctic #history

The U.S. National Science Foundation 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/documents/2024…

What a fascinating article by Kenny Holston 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/…

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

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…

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/170509/

‘Some token of being there’: Visuality and the Inuit Body in Early Modern England - a really interesting piece by Alister Wedderburn: niche-canada.org/2024/11/07/som… via @niche_canada

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/a… More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

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=XXbc6N…

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

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.

Scandinavian Airlines SAS - Scandinavian Airlines 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…

Does anyone know whether former Quintillion 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 Anchorage Daily News justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/f…

power move

An interesting The New York Times map of the airship Norge's flight across the North Pole – the first verified flight over the extremity – from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard to Teller, Alaska in 1926. Notice the "Unexplored Area" 👀 #Arctic #maps

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/nov…