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No Arctic-science events are scheduled for today.
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Arctic Reading for the Quarantine:
Newly shared reports this week.
(Ikaarvik Youth ScIQ Summit) ScIQ: Science and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Research and Meaningful Engagement of Northern Indigenous Communities, 2018. While there is a lot of research conducted in the North, Arctic research agendas, questions and methodologies are often determined in the South. Arctic communities are often not meaningfully engaged, consulted or informed. What counts as meaningful engagement and effective incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge into research is often left to individual researchers to interpret. The Ikaarvik youth who wrote these recommendations would like to make it easier for researchers to understand what meaningful engagement and incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge into research means at the community level in Nunavut. We are a group of youth from different Nunavut communities who are all interested in improving relationships between researchers and northern communities, and seeing more meaningful incorporation of IQ into research. We have been working on this for four years and came together in Cambridge Bay, NU November 19-23, 2018 to create these recommendations.
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 A Rapidly Changing Arctic. A new study found that freshwater runoff from rivers and continental shelf sediments are bringing significant quantities of carbon and trace elements into parts of the Arctic Ocean via the Transpolar Drift -- a major surface current that moves water from Siberia across the North Pole to the North Atlantic Ocean.
Science Daily
Tracking Trace Elements Across the Arctic Ocean. Researchers used data from a pan-Arctic survey of carbon and trace elements to better understand how climate change will affect primary production in one of the fastest warming regions of the world.The Arctic Ocean is uniquely influenced by biogeochemical processes on continental shelves, which underlie more than half the ocean's area.
EOS
Seeking Comment on the Next IARPC 5-Year Arctic Research Plan: Federal Register Notice Announcement. IARPC will begin developing the next 5-year Arctic Research Plan andwe want to know what should be included. Your thoughts and ideas are valued and welcome. A scoping Federal Register Notice (FRN) for the next Arctic Research Plan was published on April 3rd and will be open for comments until July 2nd. Pleasesee the full FRN here. The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (
) is initiating development of the next Arctic Research Plan, as called for in the Arctic Research Policy Act (
) of 1984 (15 USC 4108
).
IARPC Collaborations
Policy and Action on Plastic in the Arctic Ocean: October 2019 Workshop Summary and Recommendations. The Belfer Center's Arctic Initiative and the Wilson Center's Polar Institute co-hosted a workshop with the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council at Harvard Kennedy School entitled, Policy and Action on Plastic in the Arctic Ocean. The event convened global thought leaders, diverse stakeholders, and subject matter experts to begin developing a framework for tackling Arctic marine plastic pollution as one of the focus areas for the Icelandic Chairmanship.
Harvard Kennedy School: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
 Container Traffic Via Arctic Basin Ports Up. According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the total container throughput via the Arctic basin ports in February 2020 increased by 5.3% year-on-year. Cabotage, which accounts for the major share of the total, was up 3.8%. Export grew by 40%. Import made 188 TEU. The share of the Arctic basin in the total container traffic via all the Russian seaports in February 2020 amounted to 3.2%.
Sea News
New Energy Security Monitoring System for the Arctic. Experts from the Institute of Business Process Management and Economics of the Siberian Federal University presented their research on the monitoring system of threats to the energy security in the Arctic regions. It was presented by Senior Lecturer Tatyana Burmenko and Assistant Professor Irina Ruiga at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2020 held online in Akureyri, Iceland, on March 7 - April 2, 2020.
The Arctic
A Cop Skilled in Tracking Mobsters is Now Focused on the Coronavirus. Police Superintendent Ævar Pálmi Pálmason usually tracks mobsters. Since late February, he has been on the trail of people who may be infected with the new coronavirus. Mr. Pálmason, who serves the Reykjavik Metropolitan Police force, heads a team of so-called contact tracers in Iceland, deployed to try to keep anyone potentially infected from spreading the virus. Contact tracers use traditional detective methods-from online sleuthing to pounding the streets and knocking on doors-to sniff out anyone who could have been infected and send them into quarantine at home.
The Wall Street Journal
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Future Events
NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program Webinar Series, April 16, 2020 (Webinar). Deep-sea coral and sponge communities in the Aleutian Islands are important habitat features for many life stages of commercially important fish targets, including Atka mackerel, Pacific cod, and rockfish. The effects of commercial fishing activities on deep-sea corals and sponges has been difficult to quantify due to a lack of spatially-explicit fishery data, bottom contact by different gear types, undetermined location of corals and sponges, and the susceptibility and recovery dynamics these structure-forming invertebrates (SFI). To address these challenges, a fishing effects model was developed in the North Pacific to integrate spatially explicit VMS data with target-specific gear configurations for over 40,000 bottom trawls since 2003. Fishery observer coverage for Aleutian Island trawl fisheries is nearly 100 percent and records catch species composition. Species distribution models provide presence data for coral, sponge, Primnoidae, and Stylasteridae.
ICESAT-2 Cryospheric Science Hackweek, June 15-19, 2020 (Seattle, Washington USA). ICESat-2 Cryospheric Science Hackweek is a 5-day hackweek to be held at the University of Washington. Participants will learn about technologies used to access and process ICESat-2 data with a focus on the cryosphere. Mornings will consist of interactive lectures, and afternoon sessions will involve facilitated exploration of datasets and hands-on software development.
Arctic Circle Assembly, October 8-11, 2020 (Reykjavik, Iceland). The annual Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from 60 countries. It is attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, indigenous representatives, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the future of the Arctic.
3rd Arctic Science Ministerial, November 21-22, 2020 (Toyko, Japan). Since the last Arctic Science Ministerial in 2018, changes in the Arctic ecosystem and the resulting impacts locally and globally have been severely felt. While the reasons for these changes in climate largely stem from activities outside of the Arctic, the Arctic is warming at a rate of nearly double the global average. Considering the need for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and repair measures, the relevance of an international Arctic Science Ministerial has never been greater. It is necessary to strengthen scientific cooperation and collaboration among both Arctic and non-Arctic States in order to develop our understanding of the rapid changes impacting the Arctic. The First Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM1) was hosted by the United States in 2016, and two years later, the Second Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM2) was co-hosted by Germany, Finland, and the European Commission. The Third Arctic Science Ministerial will be co-hosted by Iceland and Japan.
Arctic Science Summit Week, March 20-26, 2021 (Lisbon, Portugal). The Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Local Organizing Committee will host the Arctic Science Summit Week 2021. The Conference is organized by FCT, Ciência Viva, AIR Center, the Portuguese Arctic Community and by IASC and partners. Framed by the overarching theme for the Science Conference "The Arctic: Regional Changes, Global Impacts," Lisbon invites International experts on the Arctic and Indigenous Peoples to discuss the "New Arctic" and also its impacts and interactions to and with the lower latitudes.
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