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Sharing Food, Building Resilience. Google the village of Port Heiden along the Alaska Peninsula and you'll likely stumble upon alarming images of erosion, maybe even a video of the community's Goldfish Lake breaching like Niagara Falls into the Bering Sea. The community started voluntarily relocating inland in the 1980s due to its shifting coastline. A big storm surge can reclaim up to 30 meters of the volcanic pumice shore at a time-roughly the length of two city buses. Erosion updates on the village Facebook page show the main access road to the original village site is nearly no longer. Hakai Magazine
 Coast Guard Sails Medium Cutter North of Arctic Circle as Nanook Exercise Kicks Off. The Coast Guard for the first time in years sent one of its medium-endurance cutters to the Atlantic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle, as the sea service joins the U.S. and Canadian navies for a yearly maritime exercise. Speaking at a virtual event hosted by the American Society of Naval Engineers on Tuesday, Coast Guard commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said the service sent the cutter north to partake in Canada's Operation Nanook. "That's up off of Greenland. We haven't had a medium-endurance cutter north of the Arctic Circle in the Atlantic in decades, so we're excited about that," Schultz said. USNI News
Inuit Organization in Canada's Western Arctic to Continue on the Land Program Over Summer. The IRC's On the Land program was set up to help promote social distancing in the NWT's Inuit communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, by providing funds that would enable families with hunting camps or cabins to go out on the land for 14 days or more."These financial supports for groceries, cleaning supplies and gas for on the land travel are made possible through IRC's advocacy work for Inuvialuit," IRC said in a news release. "Koana, Quyanaq, Quyannaini to Inuvialuit beneficiaries for your patience as well as your attentive participation in programs for those who can benefit from support for On the Land activities." Radio Canada International
 Arctic Emergency-and-Rescue Center to be Built on Taimyr. To ensure security in the Arctic, the Emergencies Ministry plans to establish a multi-purpose emergency-and-rescue center in Dikson, the northernmost village of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The center will be fitted out with new aviation, marine, fire-fighting, diving, rescue and other equipment, with due account of the extreme natural conditions typical for the region, complicated supply logistics and transport safety regulation in the Extreme North, as well as with cutting-edge communications technology. The Arctic
Russia to Remove Hazardous Nuclear Objects Dumped in its Arctic Water. Russia's state nuclear agency plans to remove several nuclear objects from the depths of Russia's Arctic waters in an effort to reduce environmental hazards, Rosatom said this week as it presented a clean-up plan for the region. From the late 1960s to the late 1980s, about 18,000 radioactive objects were dumped into Russia's remote northern waters. Most of them present little environmental risk. But some are increasingly seen as a hazard to Arctic ecosystems. The Moscow Times
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Future Events
Building Arctic Empathy through Virtual Reality, 2 pm EDT August 12, 2020 (Virtual). Learn how virtual reality and immersive learning can build empathy, connection, & commitment to conservation in Arctic research. Research shows that immersive media drives empathy, creates connection, and motivates positive social behaviors like no other platform. Join Emmy and Webby award winning immersive technology pioneer Wesley Della Volla as he presents ways you can use shared, synchronized immersive reality to integrate live presentations with a tangible connection with Arctic science research, traditional knowledge, and Arctic landscapes and ecosystems using the devices you already have. Migration In Harmony is an international, cross-disciplinary network of Arctic migration researchers funded by NSF. Learn more and sign up at migrationharmony.org.
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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