Nonprofit’s Technology Helps Inuit Communities Adapt to a Warming Arctic

aurora borealis g52006824b 1920 Nonprofit’s Technology Helps Inuit Communities Adapt to a Warming Arctic

Takeaways:

  • In response to a warming Arctic, nonprofit organization SmartICE has been working with northern communities to help them adapt.
  • The technology they’ve created helps monitor the thickness of the ice and transfers the data via satellite.
  • The organization also teaches the youth in the community how to use the SmartQAMUTIK, which is towed behind a snowmobile and is used to measure ice salinity.

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