The North Pole marathon concluded on July 13 this year but the annual race on the world’s northernmost point is also a scientific expedition to battle climate change in the Arctic.The North
The North Pole marathon concluded on July 13 this year but the annual race on the world’s northernmost point is also a scientific expedition to battle climate change in the Arctic.
The North Pole Forum, a scientific initiative by the marathon organiser Runbuk, offered the runners an opportunity to learn more about the North Pole’s ice sheets, the challenges around the region’s preservation and development.
The Forum played out as a series of talks by global Arctic experts aboard the French icebreaker cruise ship Le Commandant Charcot that carried the runners both to and from the North Pole Marathon.
Veteran Arctic explorer Peter Damisch who leads the ship’s scientific expedition added that the French vessel has been gathering “precious” scientific data like water samples from both at the pole and along the voyage.
The Forum’s lineup went beyond scientists with speakers such as Jennifer Spence, the director of the Arctic Initiative program and an expert on governance and rights. Spence highlighted that the onus of collecting data and reducing climate change in the Arctic should be a shared global responsibility.
“Scientific cooperation is very important. And that means working across boundaries because the types of data that we need to understand
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