May 7, 2024: Talk by Peter Schweitzer at the Arctic Circle Berlin Forum
InfraNorth’s principal investigator Peter Schweitzer gave a talk at the 2024 Arctic Circle Berlin Forum, as part of a session titled “Climate Change in Polar and High-Altitude Regions.” His contribution focused on anthropological perspectives on Arctic and Alpine climate change, including the role of (transport) infrastructures.
The session also featured Frederik Paulsen, the board chair of the University of the Arctic; Birgit Sattler, a limnologist at the Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck; Arwyn Edwards, a microbiologist at the Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University; and Jérôme Chappellaz, a glaciologist at the SENSE laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Antje Boetius, director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, and Heidemarie Kassens, senior researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, were the moderators. The session was organized by the German Society of Polar Research, the Austrian Polar Research Institute, the University of Vienna, and the Alfred Wegener Institute. It was held on 7 March at 13:30 CEST in the main hall of the Radialsystem Culture and Event Centre.
