The 'International Arctic science committee' (Iasc), presented its annual calendar. Every year, IASC opens a photo call to the scientific community to receive photos to be published on the calendar, to which many researchers working in the various scientific bases in the Arctic respond. The Secretariat collects and selects the best Arctic pictures from the field, animals, landscapes, everyday life, and more - submitted by the IASC community. The 2020 calendar, downloadable from the IASC website, collects many pictures describing moments of life and work in the various Arctic regions, from Siberia to Canada, from Iceland to Svalbard Islands. In Svalbard there is rhe Arctic Station "Dirigibile Italia", managed by CNR in the Ny-Alesund settlement, which every year hosts researchers who conduct their research on climate, marine environment, atmosphere and Arctic ecosystems. For October 2020, the picture of three researchers from the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of the CNR was selected, in which the researchers are preparing to board the dinghy that will take them back to the base of Ny Ålesund after a day of sampling the meltwater of the Mistre glacier in the Kongsfjorden. Since 2015, the CNR has been working in the Svalbard Islands on the research project 'Ismoglac', which investigates the dynamics of the Arctic glaciers subjected to melting due to climate change and analyses the chemical-physical and isotopic characteristics of the glacial melt waters that flow into the fjord.
The picture was taken in July 2019 by Silvia Giamberini (CNR-IGG)