This article provides a preview to our paper in review: Blair, B., Gierisch, A.M.U., Jeuring, J., Olsen, S.M., Lamers, M.: Mind the gap! A consensus analysis of users and producers on the usability of new sea-ice information. In review for Climate Services. Sea ice information products are constantly developed further Read more…
This online simulation, developed by SALIENSEAS project partners at Wageningen University and Research in collaboration with MET Norway, is a modified version of the ICEWISE gaming environment that was tested on January 28, 2020 at the SALIENSEAS workshop held at the University of Tromsø. ICEWISE facilitates a participatory simulation in Read more…
This week a new paper was published by SALIENSEAS researchers. The article is Open Access and can be downloaded for free here: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/2/448/htm ‘Four Paradoxes of the User–Provider Interface: A Responsible Innovation Framework for Sea Ice Services’ Abstract In the Arctic region, sea ice retreat as a decadal-scale crisis is Read more…
This week a new paper was published by SALIENSEAS researchers of Umeå University, University of Tromsø and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. The article is Open Access and can be downloaded for free here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1088937X.2019.1679270 ‘Toward valuable weather and sea-ice services for the marine Arctic: exploring user–producer interfaces of the Norwegian Meteorological Read more…
From January 2019 until May 2019, the SALIENSEAS project launched an online participatory mapping survey, targeted at maritime users around Greenland and Svalbard. The report containing the findings is now available. The goal of the survey was to get a more detailed understanding about the situated context of maritime activities, Read more…
The comprehensive Final Report from our workshop held at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in Copenhagen, on November 13 2018 has been published and is available for download here. Our workshop, Maritime Futures 2035: The Arctic Region brought together a select group of experts to deliberate metocean and sea ice Read more…
Researchers from SALIENSEAS partner MET Norway recently published in Geophysical Research Letters. The article is open access and can be found here. An Intercomparison of Verification Scores for Evaluating the Sea Ice Edge Position in Seasonal Forecasts Palerme, C., Müller, M., & Melsom, A. ( 2019). An intercomparison of verification scores for evaluating the sea Read more…
The SALIENSEAS project launched a Call for Participants for an online participatory mapping exercise. Are you involved in voyage planning for vessels in ice-infested waters or near the marginal ice zones around Svalbard or Greenland? Are you working as an expedition leader, captain, fisher, skipper, officer, hunter or master mariner, Read more…
On Monday 9 April 2018, the report of the Stakeholder Advisory Group workshop was published. The workshop report provides an overview of the activities and discussions that took place during the first SALIENSEAS Stakeholder Advisory Group workshop, held on 25 January at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway. The Read more…
On Wednesday, April 18th, noon to 5 pm, the Polar Prediction Project’s Societal and Economic Research and Applications subcommittee (PPP-SERA) in cooperation with the European Polar Board (EPB) will organize a PPP-SERA Open Session ‘Generating Societal Value from Improved Weather, Water & Ice Forecasts in the Polar Regions’ in The Hague, Read more…