Two women in cold weather gear hold up sings that say 19 degrees Celsius, N 17.55, E 15.06, (Bamsebu), Happy Thanksgiving! (music notes) Love from Hilde, Sunniva, and Ettra" and "AGU 100."

Extreme Citizen Science: Seeing the Invisible

Posted on November 29, 2019December 12, 2019 by aurorasaurus

Hearts in the Ice—a two-woman citizen science team overwintering in Svalbard, Norway and doing citizen science—are volunteering to gather data for a set of Grand Challenge Initiative scientific rocket missions studying the mysterious north polar cusp. That’s right, we are now talking about extreme citizen science combined with rocket science! When conditions are right,[…]

Hearts in the Ice: Citizen Science in the Arctic

Posted on September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 by aurorasaurus

If you turn on the news for very long, you’re likely to hear about some of the changes our planet is going through. Temperatures are on the rise, glaciers are receding, precipitation patterns are changing ⁠— and many of these developments are most obvious in the polar regions. A formidable two-woman team is heading to[…]