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Today, no Arctic-science events are schedule.
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 Why is There So Much Oil in the Arctic? In 2007, two Russian submarines plunged down 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) into the Arctic Ocean and planted a national flag onto a piece of continental shelf known as the Lomonosov Ridge. Rising from the center of the Arctic Basin, the flag sent a clear message to the surrounding nations: Russia had just laid claim to the vast oil and gas reserves contained in this underwater turf.
Live Science
Russian Land of Permafrost and Mammoths is Thawing. The lab assistant reached into the freezer and lifted out a football-size object in a tattered plastic grocery bag, unwrapping its muddy covering and placing it on a wooden table. It was the severed head of a wolf. The animal, with bared teeth and mottled fur, appeared ready to lunge. But it had been glowering for some 32,000 years - preserved in the permafrost, 65 feet underground in Yakutia in northeastern Siberia.
New York Times
 A Nearly 100-Year-Old Physics Model Replicates Modern Arctic Ice Melt. It might seem bizarre to modify a physics model originally used to study the behavior of ferromagnets to explore patterns of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice. However, this approach makes intuitive sense to Kenneth Golden, a mathematician at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Golden said that he and his collaborators have been "really surprised with the response" to their New Journal of Physics study published on 21 June.
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Military Hydrographers to Study Arctic Seabed and Coastline. The Pacific Fleet's Sever (North) hydrographic vessel in August will participate in scientific studies of the Arctic's bottom topography and coastline, the Fleet's spokesman Nikolai Voskresensky told reporters. "In August, the Pacific Fleet's Sever hydrography vessel will depart from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky heading for the Arctic, where the Fleet's hydrographers will conduct hydrography works, including with latest equipment," he said.
TASS
Robotic Ocean Explorer to Take on 'Dangerous' Arctic Mission. A team from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, led by oceanographer Professor Mark Inall, will deploy a small autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) known as an ecoSUB to the foot of a melting glacier in Arctic Norway. The aim is to learn more about the effect of meltwater on a process called "calving", which causes huge chunks of ice to break off the glacier edge.
The Press and Journal
 CryoSat Conquers Ice on Arctic Lakes. The rapidly changing climate in the Arctic is not only linked to melting glaciers and declining sea ice, but also to thinning ice on lakes. The presence of lake ice can be easily monitored by imaging sensors and standard satellite observations, but now adding to its list of achievements, CryoSat can be used to measure the thickness of lake ice-another indicator of climate change.
Phys.org
Roscosmos Postpones Launch of Second Arctic Weather Satellite. The launch of the second Russian satellite for weather forecasting and monitoring climate and environment in the Arctic region, Arktika-M, has been postponed to 2023 from 2021, according to documents of Russia space corporation Roscosmos published on the public procurement website. In May, Roscosmos postponed the launch of the first Arktika-M satellite for the second half of 2020 from 2019.
Space Daily
At This Arctic Science Base, Life is Anything but Lonely. The summer evening is warm enough for the soldiers to sit outside with their shirts off. One person is playing the guitar, another is reading. There's a relaxed, vacation vibe despite the location: 575 miles from the North Pole at a Danish military outpost in northeastern Greenland called Station Nord. The generator hums in the distance, and occasionally the two Greenland dogs begin to bark. The sun circles the Arctic sky. The day-to-day operations of this base are mostly scientific.
National Geographic
URI-Led Expedition to Arctic Salvages Lost Research Buoy. A science expedition led by the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography studying the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean has made a discovery that's being hailed as an "Arctic miracle." The Swedish icebreaker Oden, which is carrying the Northwest Passage Project expedition, salvaged a research buoy that contained a year-long recording of the high-pitched clicks made by Beluga whales.
URI Today
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Future Events
2019 Sea Ice Symposium, August 18-23, 2019 (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada). IGS co-hosts a sea ice symposium every 5 years. The Centre for Earth Observation Science (University of Manitoba) is excited to be hosting the first IGS event to be held in Canada. The symposium will include oral and poster sessions, and will provide a friendly and intellectually stimulating environment to facilitate face-to-face interactions and networking. Additional activities will include an opening reception, a banquet dinner and a mid-symposium afternoon excursion.
Bridging Science, Art, and Community in the New Arctic, Sept. 23-25, 2019, (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia USA).
The University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, VA, is hosting a conference and workshop entitled "Bridging Science, Art, and Community in the New Arctic" from Sept. 23-25, 2019, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Navigating the New Arctic program, with additional support from UVA's Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures, and Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation. The UVA Environmental Resilience Institute's Arctic CoLab is organizing the event, with assistance from the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS).
EU Arctic Forum, October 3-4, 2019 (
Umeå, Sweden).
The European Commission, the European External Action Service, and the Government of Sweden will jointly organize a high-level EU Arctic Forum
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The EU Arctic Forum will bring together key Arctic players and stakeholders to assess recent developments in the region and to discuss the new challenges ahead.
The EU Arctic Forum will include several keynote addresses and two high-level panel sessions on the morning of 3 October. Foreign ministers from EU member states as well as the Arctic Council will be invited to participate.
112th Meeting of the US Arctic Research Commission. October 9, 2019 (Reykjavik, Iceland). Details to follow...
2019 Arctic Circle Assembly, October 10-13, 2019 (Reykjavík, 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.
Large-scale Volcanism in the Arctic: The Role of the Mantle and Tectonics, October 13-18, 2019 (Selfoss, Iceland).
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference will focus on the diversity of Arctic magmatism and tectonics from the Paleozoic to present-day. The conveners are Owen Anfinson, Bernard Coakley, Carmen Gaina, and Grace Shephard. The program will focus on five themes including: Theme I: pre-breakup and rifting;Theme II: seafloor spreading;Theme III: mantle-derived heterogeneity (including plumes and large-igneous provinces);Theme IV: subduction related volcanism, and, Theme V: HALIP and environmental effects.
The website (link above) is open for abstract submission until June 19th and for meeting registration until September 9th. Funding is available for travel support, particularly for early career scientists. Travel support will be awarded on the basis of submitted abstracts and to promote diversity among attendees.
IX International Forum "Arctic: Today and the Future," December 5-7, 2019 (St. Petersburg, Russia). Save the date for Arctic: Today and the Future. More information to follow.
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