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A school district in Alaska takes the reins of the Yup'ik Atlas, an online, interactive platform that archives Yup'ik places names and culture passed down from their elders. The Exchange of Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), a NSIDC program, helps bring the atlas to life and continues to support communities in their ongoing efforts to thwart the loss of knowledge.
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31 March 2020
Sean Horvath, a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, gained Arctic research experience by taking part in the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) School. The school is affiliated with the MOSAiC expedition, a $150-million scientific research mission to study the Arctic climate system by freezing a German icebreaker into sea ice for a year.
24 March 2020
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 15.05 million square kilometers (5.81 million square miles) on March 5, 2020, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The 2020 maximum is the eleventh lowest in the 42-year satellite record.
4 March 2020
A new data visualization tool, the Sea Ice Analysis Tool, has just been added to the Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis (ASINA) website. The tool helps users customize sea ice extent and concentration data into graphs or maps based on their chosen criteria.
20 February 2020
Snow Today is a new tool available to help snow lovers monitor conditions. It provides near-real-time updates of snow conditions across the Northern Hemisphere as well as monthly analyses of the data, focusing on the Western United States.
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The Latest on Snow and Ice
2 June 2020
The seasonal decline of Arctic sea ice extent proceeded at a near-average pace in May. Extent... read more
19 May 2020
Mapping parameters for the 2020 Greenland melt season have been updated, and new results are... read more
14 May 2020
Snow-covered area and snow cover days were near average in April 2020.
Snow-covered area continued... read more
6 May 2020
The pace of sea ice decline in April was near average, while sea ice extent ranked fourth lowest... read more
13 April 2020
Snow-covered area continued to decline in March 2020 from its peak in February.
Both snow-covered... read more
