The Canadian Cryospheric Information Network (CCIN) and the Polar Data Catalogue (PDC) have been developed over the past two decades through collaborative partnerships between the University of Waterloo and numerous government, university, and private organizations to provide the data and information management infrastructure for the Canadian cryospheric community. The PDC is one of Canada’s primary online sources for data and information about the Arctic and is Canada's National Antarctica Data Centre. With over 2,500 metadata descriptions of projects and datasets and almost 3 million data files, the PDC contains data on physical, social, and health science and other research in Canada and globally, including significant collections from the ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence, the Government of Canada's International Polar Year, satellite imagery from the RADARSAT-1 and RADARSAT-2 missions, and hundreds of metadata from the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme, among many others. The PDC is the 100th member of the World Data System with certification as a Trusted Digital Repository, and committed to supporting polar research data management and growing in capacity. Read more.
- Stunning images show Arctic glaciers’ dramatic retreat - CNN
- Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink - Carbon Brief
- Melting Arctic glaciers have revealed 2,500km of new coastline - Euronews.com
- Greenland as 51st State: What US Taking Over Arctic Island Could Look Like - Newsweek
- Danish Prime Minister visits Greenland amid Trump’s bid for Arctic control - France 24
- Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins - WIRED
- Trump's tariffs hit remote Heard and McDonald Islands only inhabited by penguins, sea birds, and seals - Business Insider
- ‘Nowhere on Earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica - The Guardian
- How hidden lakes threaten Antarctic Ice Sheet stability - European Space Agency
- Trump announces tariffs on uninhabited islands - Axios
RADARSAT Image