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@cryopolitics.com
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Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Washington Arctic geopolitics / critical remote sensing / infrastructure / satellites / skiing ⛷️

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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 05/02/2026
Call for abstracts – RGS-IBG 2026 @rgsibg.bsky.social (1-4 Sept, London) Human Presence Beyond Earth: Critical Geographies of Outer Space 🧑‍🚀 Full CfP: shorturl.at/1LL4Y 🧪 #geography #outerspace #artemis #artemisII @nasaspaceflight.com
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 29/01/2026
Call for Papers: @rgsibg.bsky.social | London | 1-4 September 2026 Investigating the geopolitics of private satellite infrastructure: new pathways for connectivity and conflict Full CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪 #satellites #geography #Starlink
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 12/01/2026
Also interesting: #Starlink is also responsible for more mass in orbital space than any national or multinational entity save the US.
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 22/10/2025
Super cool to come across this Vantor (formerly Maxar) WorldView image of the NISAR (NASA - ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite in orbit. A satellite taking a picture of a satellite – very meta... 🛰️ www.linkedin.com/posts/tien-n...
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 24/09/2025
Just as Istanbul Bridge departs China for the UK via the Northern Sea Route, I was excited to be interviewed for the Weekly Biz cover story on #Arctic #shipping in Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's largest newspaper. Some excellent infographics, too. www.chosun.com/economy/week... #NorthernSeaRoute
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 27/05/2025
How can we prevent and mitigate space debris? In a new comment for Communications Engineering @natureportfolio.nature.com, I offer a few targeted interventions across the satellite lifecycle. 🛰️ rdcu.be/enJUS 🧪 #satellites #space #spacedebris
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 22/05/2025
someone went crazy with the z-factor on this map of the #Arctic shown at the #Kirkenes Conference 🧪
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 20/02/2025
Are you thinking about the exploration, exploitation, and enclosure of outer space in critical or creative ways? Participate in our session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham (25-29 Aug) on exogeographies! docs.google.com/document/d/1... @rgsibg.bsky.social @ellietheelement.bsky.social
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 31/01/2025
Eye-catching pictorial essays by Antonio Petrucelli for LIFE Magazine in 1960 depicting the #Arctic at the end of the last Ice Age and #Antarctica wracked by windstorms. The paintings conveyed findings from the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year. Source: books.google.com/books?id=4k0...
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 29/01/2025
The Polar Geography Specialty Group of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social is organizing two student competitions before the annual conference in Detroit this March. Spread the word to students in polar geography – the deadlines are fast approaching! More info: lnkd.in/gCAzSXHN #Arctic #phdlife
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 18/01/2025
getting ambitious are we
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 23/12/2024
Interesting map of fisheries production in the Soviet Far East (1956-1953). During this period, the Soviet Union sure caught a lot of creatures from the deep sea. It also sent a satellite into orbit. Source: US Department of the Interior (1964) spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 25/11/2024
so much for November Rain – so stoked that the stoke is back on in the Pacific Northwest! ❄️ awesome opening weekend with tons of fresh pow at Crystal, and it's not even Thanksgiving 🙏 #skiing
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 22/11/2024
What a cool funded PhD opportunity at Open Univresity on the "icy shells of other icy ocean worlds" – at the frosty intersection of the cryosphere and outer space! More info: tinyurl.com/yw56bzbt
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 21/11/2024
An interesting map of the coverage provided by the five locations in the U.S. Solid State Phased Array Radar System. Would love to photograph the massive radars at these sites and put together some sort of exhibit.
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 18/11/2024
A radioactive cathedral under the ice. In 1957, the U.S. Army built #CampCentury. The 3-km network of 26 trenches through the #Greenland Ice Sheet had a theatre, chapel, accommodations, and labs, all heated and electrified by a nuclear reactor, whose radioactive waste sits frozen the ice today.
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 18/11/2024
A US amphibious assault ship pauses from moving cargo to moving an iceberg. Source: www.coldwarvault.com/blog/2019/5/...
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cryopolitics @cryopolitics.com · 15/11/2024
reading about sounding rockets and how they are used to study the #aurora. came across this NASA photo of "colorful clouds formed by vapors from the two AZURE rockets," which allow scientists to measure auroral winds. wild stuff www.nasa.gov/solar-system...
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