Hurray! We’ve got a video from Fairbanks, Alaska. It was created by Ronn Murray, a great photographer living in the US coldest state. By the way, he’s got breathtaking pictures of Aurora Borealis. Love following his photostream on Facebook and his website Ronn Murray Photography.

Ronn, thanks a lot for joining our movement Show Your Place! Well, currently we have videos from Yakutsk (Yakutia/Russia), Reykjavik (Iceland), Fairbanks and New York City (USA). Who’s next?

PS. Oh, there is a video from Finland, but its author need to upload it on YouTube. We’ll wait for it. We are not in a hurry :)

Tagged with:
 
Polar Airlines is rescuing the French Arctic explorer-balloonist Jean-Louis Etienne in Arctic Yakutia, Siberia, after his 5-days The North Pole crossing. April 11th, 2010. See more exclusive photos at http://eYakutia.com

Polar Airlines is rescuing the French Arctic explorer-balloonist Jean-Louis Etienne in Arctic Yakutia, Siberia, after his 5-days The North Pole crossing. April 11th, 2010. See more exclusive photos at http://eYakutia.com

In the last May, Cold United announced about 2010 Arctic Aviation Expert Conference that eventually took place on October 12-13 in Fairbanks, Alaska/USA. Arranged and hosted by the Institute of the North.

The 2010 Arctic Aviation Expert Conference in Fairbanks provided a valuable platform for experts and stakeholders from across the Arctic to come together and forge new relationships. The energy and enthusiasm throughout demonstrated the importance of increased communication and collaboration.

This time Arctic aviators paid much attention to climate changes. The word “change” was the most popular in discussions and presentations. Participants could hear often such phrases as adaptations to cold and changing climates, impacts of climate change, new products for aviation in a changing climate, changing Arctic, our changing home and so on.

They do not reveal any proposals about ways to stop global warming (i.e. climate changes) or calculate the effect of global warming. They just need to know how to operate in the current Arctic conditions, as they admit the Arctic warming on default.

Further, please, find the list of conference speakers, their reports and links for downloading all presentations in the PDF format.

Are you interested to know how climate changes affected the Arctic and what aviators should do?

(more…)

Arctic Aviation by MuseumOffLight.org

“You are invited to participate in the 2010 Arctic Aviation Experts International Conference, October 12-13, in Fairbanks, Alaska, organized by the Institute of the North in collaboration with LPS AVIA Consulting.”

“You can expect to join other experts from fields such as Arctic aviation regulation and policy, weather and climate change, as well as airport, airplane and airline industries; academic institutions; Arctic aviation consultants, Northern energy and mineral companies and Arctic communities.”

“We are very excited about the possibility of such a collaborative effort and looking forward to an exciting event, with thorough analysis of the issues, expert opinion and outcomes that reflect the extreme importance of Arctic aviation.”

(more…)

Cold weather hits Interior Alaska

Renato, I’ve read the following news from The Associated Press on Nov. 22, 2009. Is it true? Confused with all these F/C degrees. Can you give clearification?

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – It’s been bitter cold in Bettles, a small village 200 miles north of Fairbanks.

The village in the foothills of the Brooks Range recorded a new record low temperature of 47 degrees below zero on Saturday. It was the fifth day in a row a new record low was set in the town, and the sixth day in a row that the temperature was more than 40 below zero. (more…)

Tagged with:
 

Harnessing the dogs

Harnessing the dogs

A musher is harnessing his sled dogs.

Yukon Quest       Alaska

Tagged with:
 

Frigid in Alaska

That’s how cold it can be in Alaska!!! Fantastic!!!
Just take a look at a Flickr resident patcaribou‘s photo album!

Thanks to Silandi. She found this amazing photographs on Flickr. Think, Renato will be very surprised to see the below pictures taken in his neighborhood :)

Tagged with:
 

Getting ready for winter

Today started a cloudless day here in Faibanks, Alaska. People would think that a day like this would be warmer since the sun is out; but because of the short length of our days, exactly 7 hours and 48 minutes today, the sun does not have the time to bring temperatures up much. Today’s high was 5 degrees fahrenheit, about -14  celsius. Wintery temperatures for sure.

Feeling the gradual temperature drop and knowing I wasn’t yet fully ready for winter I used this weekend for winter preparation. I had a long list of things to do for ther: I had wood to split, I had winter tires to install on my wife’s Subaru, I had to clear my driveway of snow, finish winterizing my Jeep, and also fix a small leak on our water heater.

Saturday started with me on our driveway with the snow thrower. (more…)

Tagged with:
 

2009 - 2011 (c) ColdUnited.com
The project is powered by AskYakutia.com & eYakutia.com