Hello guys, I am from Zábřeh, a small town in Czech Republic. Our most known hometown hero is Jan Eskymo Welzl. It's a guy who was living on New Siberian islands with eskymos and few other arctic enthusiasts. This was at the beginning of the 20th century. He described many things in a book that we have (he got into a shipwreck near USA and American officials sent him back to Czechoslovakia). He wanted to make money to get back to north, which he eventually did by going to Dawson, where he died, but in order to make that money, he sold his stories to 2 guys from Czech newspapers who wrote 2 books about him.

Anyway, long story short, these books are the best description of arctic cicle that I've ever seen. Everything is recounted with so much detail - from how people hunted there, to how eskymos lived, to how people were looking for gold back then in Alaska and Canada.

However, there is a strange thing in the books (or couple of strange things) that i think Welzl might have added since he maybe thought "I need to sell these books more in order to get back to north asap, so to make more money from the books, I am gonna add something crazy". Everything seems believable more or less, but then he recounts stories about the so called "devil fish" a weird animal, that sounds like something of a horror movies and that supposedly lives in the arctic regions. I can't find anything online AT ALL about the devil's fish. He says that after getting back to Europe he couldn't find this animal in any atlas, nor after talking to various professors, but he says that Eskymos and "polarmen" who hunt in the arctic know this animal very well.

What do you think, can the devil's fish be real?

Does someone have experience with studying at UNIS in Longyearbyen, and do you think that it is good for carier or not?

Hey!

I am starting a bachelor thesis for my "Nature guiding and arctic outdoor life" degree.
I would like to write it about the physical discomfort and the negative emotions during long (>20 days) ski tours. I have not decided of my research question yet, but here are some questions I am interested in:

• evolution of the negative feelings: does it get better or worse, and why?
• nature of the negative feelings: temperature, anxiety, unknown, equipment fail, loneliness, boredom, phyiscal pain, bad smell, being dirty, being sweaty....
• coping mechanism: state of mind, actual improvement, ignoring your needs...

I am trying to collect testimonies and information to have an idea of what could be an interesting focus. My focus is long solo ski tours in cold climate (under -10 degrees), but I can for sure find interesting information in long tours in warmer climates and with more than 1 person, in remote nature.

Thank you for your help!

It is one of my first flags. I wanted to create a flag for the Arctic Ice Pack, the frozen (and therefore solid) part of the Arctic Ocean. The blue at the bottom represent the ice, the top represent the dark winter sky. The triangle represent an iceberg (witch sometimes collide with the ice pack, fuse witch create a sort of icy mountain), it is also a reference to the Greenlandic flag and to the flag of Antarctica (the true south one). there is the North Star and on it’s right, a stylised Ursa Major (witch would be somewhat accurately placed) since it’s in winter). (Sorry for my English, I am a native French speaker from Quebec).

History Podcast that did an episode on the Arctic Explorer Robert Peary. Not historians just friends having a discussion.

https://youtu.be/fzaf0YxPRo0?si=R-7LUNIYtlSXEMU1

From https://spaceweather.com/

PROTONS ARE RAINING DOWN ON EARTH: Giant sunspot AR3664 is no longer facing Earth. That makes it extra dangerous. Right now, the Carrington-class sunspot is passing over the sun's western limb--a region of the sun that is magnetically connected to our planet. Indeed, we are feeling the effects of that connection; take a look at this map of ongoing radio blackouts.

Head to website for full imagery: https://spaceweather.com/

Red zones in the map show where shortwave radio signals are being absorbed. Frequencies below 20 MHz are almost completely blacked out, a nuisance for long-distance aviators and ham radio operators.

What's causing this? Protons accelerated by solar flares in the magnetic canopy of AR3664 are following the Parker Spiral back to Earth. Think of it as a magnetic superhighway. Arriving particles are funneled by our planet's magnetic field toward the poles where they ionize the atmosphere and interfere with the transmission of shortwave radio signals.

This polar cap absorption event could last for days, especially if it is boosted by more flares from AR3664. You can can monitor its progress here.

Head to the website for full details. Thanks Dr. Tony Phillips.

Auroras stem from the arctic. I think this study belongs here.

An Extreme Auroral Electrojet Spike During 2023 April 24th Storm: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023AV001101

"Abrupt variations of auroral electrojets can induce geomagnetically induced currents, and the ability to model and forecast them is a pressing goal of space weather research. We report an auroral electrojet spike event that is extreme in magnitude, explosive in nature, and global in spatial extent that occurred on 24 April 2023."

"Therefore, the event exhibits a potentially new type of geomagnetic disturbance and highlights a solar wind driver that is enormously influential in driving extreme space weather event"

Sourced from S0.

Volcano Lightning, More Pole Shift Effects | S0 News May.2.2024: https://youtu.be/faXoLxdAdXI?si=YruGjoZUc6f0uYkb

The site I'm advising for in Nunavut Canada has several old barrels of diesel and petrol that need to be safely removed. They are more than 5 years old so the fuel is likely not good. The desired plan is to haul it out but are there other options for safe burn-off or methods of removal? We could run the diesel through an old generator and just clean out the carburetor if it clogs, but this could take a few weeks and could harm the generator.

So I’m writing a story. It’s set in medieval times so the characters don’t have access to synthetic fabrics. They’re needing to stay outside all day, with no access to fire since the smoke would give their position away. So what clothes would they have to wear in order to stay comfortable in that situation?