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Media
Sea Ice in Denmark Strait-Drifted More Than 1,000 km (600 Miles) From the Arctic Ocean. Arctic sea ice is subject to some serious travel restrictions. Penned in by major land masses, most ice that forms in the Arctic Ocean stays there for the duration of its existence-typically one to four years before melting. Some ice, however, escapes the Arctic Ocean through a handful of passages and then drifts south. That's the origin of the sea ice pictured here. When satellites acquired these images in July 2020, the ice had drifted more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the Arctic Ocean. SciTechDaily
 Online Lessons, Animated Films, Phrasebooks as Ways to Preserve Arctic Languages. Experts have been working on an Arctic multi-lingual website, animated films based on Enets and Nenets fairy tale plots and videos dedicated to the ancient culture of Yukaghirs, all to preserve the endangered languages of the low-numbered peoples of the North and Arctic. On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, August 9, experts told TASS about their initiatives to preserve the Northern languages. Russia's state national policies strategy to 2025 prioritizes state support and protection of cultures and languages of the peoples of the country. Tass Russian News Agency
Russia Develops Unmanned Heavy-duty Helicopter for the Arctic. Russian engineers from the Rus design bureau have developed an unmanned helicopter to haul up to 80 kg of cargo for up to 200 km in the Far North. The R-2200 will be able to land on unstable surfaces such as a ship's deck or a moving cargo platform. The designers note that 80 kg is the average weight of equipment for oil production and geological exploration, and such cargoes account for most of the traffic in hard-to-reach regions of the North, Siberia and the Far East. The Arctic
 Pacific Walruses are Again Gathering Much Earlier Than Usual at Alaska Chukchi Beach Sites. Pacific walruses have begun massing onshore in Alaska on a Chukchi Sea beach, one of the earliest of the now-annual congregations at that site yet recorded, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. Walruses were spotted on July 29 a beach near the Inupiat village of Point Lay and numbered about 5,000 as of Aug. 5, said Andrea Medeiros, a spokeswoman for the Fish and Wildlife Service. Last year, after a record-hot Alaska summer and in a year that was notable for its sparsity of ice in the Chukchi, walruses also gathered at Point Lay at the end of July, at the time earliest such congregation on record. Arctic Today
SUSU Scientists Develop a Hybrid Power Complex Simulator for the Arctic. The program simulating the operation of the power complex was developed and registered by SUSU scientists. With its help, it was possible to predict the behavior of the system of generator sets that will ensure uninterrupted power supply to facilities in the Arctic. The developed program is the first step towards implementing an energy complex that is not yet available in the world.Currently, the Arctic is being actively developed, and for the correct operation of all objects on this territory, an uninterrupted power supply is required. Science X
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Future Events
** New this week ** Whale Acoustics Webinar From the Gulf of Alaska, 2 pm EDT August 18, 2020 (Virtual). Learn how high school students use long-term acoustic recordings to monitor marine mammals and anthropogenic activities in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic in this webinar. Presented by students from the Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka, Alaska, this webinar will highlight the important contributions to marine mammal research through an internship and technology training program, called SeaTech. This webinar is a good opportunity for anyone interested in the Arctic, marine mammals, acoustics, or exploring collaborative approaches to science-based education and outreach. Migration In Harmony is a network of Arctic migration researchers funded by the National Science Foundation. Learn more and sign up.
** POSTPONED ** 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.
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.
Save the Date: 2nd Symposium on Polar Microbes and Viruses, May 3-6, 2021 (Hanko, Finland). Organizers announce, that due to the coronavirus outbreak, the 2nd Symposium on Polar Microbes and Viruses has been postponed to 2021. This symposium will bring together molecular microbial ecologists specializing in different organism groups to share our latest results and discuss methodological problems, as well as future prospects in the field, including practical international collaborations. The environmental focus will be on cryospheric environments including sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, and permafrost, but excellent research in other polar environments is also invited. The methods to be discussed will focus on 'omics' techniques, ranging from single cells to metagenomes, but research using additional methods is encouraged as well.
3rd Arctic Science Ministerial, May 8-9, 2021 (Toyko, Japan). The Japanese and Icelandic organizers of this ministerial continue to plan for an in-person ministerial, in Tokyo, but have moved the dates from November 21-22, 2020 to May 8-9, 2021 because of Covid-19. Since the last Arctic Science Ministerial in 2018, changes in the Arctic ecosystem and the resulting impacts locally and globally have been severely felt. 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. ASM3 will be co-hosted by Iceland and Japan.
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