ArcticMission

Arctic Ocean - an exploration programme to discover, understand & report on the floating ice-reef ecosystem & wildlife of the North Pole’s international waters

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

For a one-off opportunity to own THE first watch worn atop Mt Everest to show the climber’s altitude, see https://t.co/Ed61KylO5I & check out Lot 529 - it’s a Favre-Leuba, the world’s first to design a barometer-altimeter into a wristwatch. Auction: Going, Going ... till 12 May!

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Delighted to appear on the latest episode @Planet_Pod with @TheGreenAmanda discussing #Arctic #protect90North where I shared my thoughts about how all Planet Pod listeners can help protect this precious & unique habitat. Listen here https://t.co/RazaALC3GI

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Map (unattributed) of Inuit language variants derived from Eskimo-Aleut across N America and Greenland. The Arctic Ocean’s northern coastline communities include Alaska/USA’s Qawiaraq and Inupiatun, Canada’s Sigitun (aka Inuktitut) and Greenland’s Avernersuaq (aka Kalaallisut).

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

... So here’s where we’ve got to with our capacity to remove mineral deposits from the seabed’s surface. As a young engineer, you cld devote your intellect to accelerating the depletion of your planet’s finite resources, or you cld devote it to ESSENTIAL renewables technology.

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

So here’s as good a date as any to mark initial human interest in minerals found on the surface of the seabed. Predictably, once their conversion from natural state to economic value was possible, we did what we’ve always done ... But I think the next generation may be wiser.

[The Metals Company @themetalsco]

Did you know that seafloor polymetallic nodules were first discovered in 1873 during the HMS Challenger Voyage? The dredge hauled up ‘several peculiar black oval bodies which were composed of almost pure manganese oxide’. @ISBAHQ

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Banning the use of shipping’s Most Polluting fuel in the Least Disturbed region/ecosystem of our planet, the Arctic Ocean, is a vital step towards securing a Science-Only marine reserve to protect the super-vulnerable wildlife in the international waters around the North Pole.

[Clean Arctic Alliance @CleanArctic]

#MEPC73: Buckle Up, the #Arctic HFO Ban Is On Its Way https://t.co/sWUpE1FMmr @IMOHQ @PenHadow #shipping #bunkerfuels #imo #cop24 #energy

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

For some of us this comprehensive listing of polar resources - funded and operated by European countries - is a precious resource.

[European Polar Board (EPB) @EuPolarBoard]

The European Polar Infrastructure Catalogue has been delivered!

The catalogue includes detailed information on European research facilities (stations, camps, laboratories, shelters, vessels and aircraft) in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Digital version: https://t.co/ApN9npWt0K

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Capturing, and ripping away from family and home, highly evolved Arctic marine mammals to boost the revenue of investors in zoos can now be seen for what it is: kidnap ... with no way out till dead @pacenvironment

[Pacific Environment @pacenvironment]

URGENT: Video footage shows 11 orcas & 87 belugas, likely bound for aquariums, are languishing in freezing waters & legal limbo in #RussiaFarEast. They're suffering from cold, bacteria & stress. @NatGeo https://t.co/RWnUyj3zWw
#whalejail #SrednyayaBAy https://t.co/OC11xjPBZv

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

More than 50% of marine fieldwork researchers on #CatlinArcticSurvey 2009-2011 were women - part of pioneering & ongoing commitment of @PenHadow to empower women worldwide to contribute in polar regions, since he enabled 1995 all-women expedition to North Pole. @ArcticCouncil

[Arctic Council @ArcticCouncil]

On today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we send out a greeting to all women, who are contributing to enhancing our understanding of the state of the #Arctic. Thank you for your valuable contributions, your strength, and dedication. #WomeninScience

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

If you saw this tulip-like life-form growing on the sea bed, what do you think it would be? A plant? A coral? A hoax? I’d like your thoughts - not least as I’d like to know!

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Visual summary of an investigation into world’s largest tourist cruise ship operator, Carnival Corporation, shows its focus on profit outweighs any concerns & risk to the survival of the very Arctic & Subarctic marine mammals it seeks to profit from! https://t.co/4qtZG4pbIK

[The Arctic Institute @ArcticInstitute]

#Sustainable Arctic #shipping seems to mean sustained shipping, argues TAI's Kathrin Stephen in The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic. Short version available on our website now https://t.co/zmYjVV4HM4

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

@IMOHQ #MEPC73 x900 delegates now aware of urgent need for international shipping community to avoid adding HFO impacts to extremely vulnerable Arctic marine wildlife that is already losing its sea ice habitat to GHG from eg shipping @Sian_Prior9 @CleanArctic @pacenvironment

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

My official intervention/speech yesterday recommending priority protection of the Arctic Ocean environment to the UN's International Maritime Organisation's MEPC73 Conference in London, is given here in full (it is also on record at the IMO) https://t.co/l8VyiA7rMc

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

In conversation with UN International Maritime Organisation’s Secretary General Kitlak Lim at its MEPC73 conference this week, following my official intervention in plenary session on behalf of @CleanArctic to ban disgusting Heavy Fuel Oils from Arctic waters @pacenvironment

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Today UN @IMOHQ considers banning disgusting Heavy Fuel Oil use & shipment in Arctic waters - a major opportunity for global shipping to publicly demonstrate its absolute commitment to reducing risks to vulnerable wildlife @CleanArctic @Sian_Prior9 @pacenvironment #MEPC73

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Addressing the UN International Maritime Organisation #MEPC73 plenary session, my formal intervention on behalf of the @CleanArctic to ban disgusting Heavy Fuel Oil use & shipment in the Arctic Ocean secured a rare outbreak of applause from 900 delegates led by Sec Gen Kitak Lim

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Commercial fishing banned across much of the Arctic https://t.co/emyGjUXMPx

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

These UN High Seas Treaty negotiations to introduce ‘conservation of biodiversity’ as grounds for creating internationally legally-binding marine protected areas in the world’s ‘international waters/high seas’ is 100% ESSENTIAL - otherwise NO enforceable protection will continue.

[Glen Wright 🐋 @MarinePolicy]

Negotiations for a treaty on high seas biodiversity begin tomorrow @UN in New York. Read our guide to the negotiations here: https://t.co/v4qUURV4Yr

#BBNJ #HighSeas #OneOceanOnePlanet

[ArcticMission @ArcticMission]

Really looking forward to meeting & contributing tomorrow to the valuable #MECN18 conference at Uni of Exeter’s Penryn base, specialising in Marine Ecology & Conservation @ExeterMarine⁩