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No Arctic-science events are scheduled for today.
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 A Ten-Year Projection of Maritime Activity in the US Arctic Region, 2020-2030. This document is the final U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) report, "A Ten-Year Projection of Vessel Activity in the U.S. Arctic Region, 2020-2030", developed by the Arctic Marine Transportation Integrated Action Team (Arctic IAT). An initial draft of this document was released for public and interagency review on July 3, 2019, with comments accepted through July 31, 2019 to [email protected]. A summary of the responses received is included in Appendix C. This report was presented and approved by the CMTS Coordinating Board for publication on September 24, 2019.
US Committee on the Marine Transportation System
Drawn From Poverty: Art Was Supposed to Save Canada's Inuit. It Hasn't. Hours before flying off to her debut show in Toronto, Ooloosie Saila, a rising star in the Canadian art world, was hiding in her grandmother's room on the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean, cowering in fear. Between her and the future stood the man in the next room, a relative who was drunk and raging - again. She perched on the bed, terrified he would burst in. Then, she packed in a frenzy.
The New York Times
Russian Military Finds New 'Definitive' Proof to Back Moscow's Arctic Shelf Claim- Deputy PM. Additional research and acoustic profiling carried out by the Russian military has provided new data that puts Moscow's claim on the resource-rich continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean beyond doubt, Deputy PM Yury Borisov said. The Defense Ministry has gathered "a large amount of data", which will be made public during a UN commission meeting in February, Borisov at a meeting of the maritime board on Friday. The UN body has already held 11 meetings to consider the Russian bid.
RT
Global Impacts of Thawing Arctic Permafrost May be Imminent. The Arctic permafrost, frozen soil that is chock full of carbon, is a ticking time bomb. When it thaws because of global warming, scientists believe it is likely to release more carbon than it absorbs from new plant growth-adding to the atmosphere's burden and accelerating climate change. But studies in the Arctic have been so limited that no one could say when that time would come. It's here now, according to research published today by a large team of scientists in
Nature Climate Change
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Science Magazine
 AFN Declares Climate Change State of Emergency. The Alaska Federation of Natives has declared a state of emergency on climate change. On Saturday, delegates considered dozens of resolutions, including one that would see AFN form a climate change task force. The resolution was drafted at the earlier Elders and Youth Conference and was presented to AFN by two high school students.
KTUU
George Mason University Team Receives NSF Grant to Study Arctic Industrialization Effects. New trade routes in the Arctic mean unprecedented traffic and industrialization are likely to follow, so George Mason University's Elise Miller-Hooks and her team of scientists will be taking a closer look at what that will mean for the region's infrastructure and governance thanks to a $3 million National Science Foundation grant for a project called "An Expanding Global Maritime Network, Its Arctic Impacts and Reverberations." Using mathematical modeling and geophysical, computational and social-systems knowledge, Miller-Hooks, a professor in the Volgenau School of Engineering and the Bill and Eleanor Hazel Chair in Infrastructure Engineering, will be joined in the five-year, multidisciplinary endeavor by a cadre of researchers, including Mason professors Celso Ferreira and Sara Cobb, along with Thomas Ravens of the University of Alaska-Anchorage, Anne Garland of Applied Research in Environmental Sciences, Jinlun Zhang of the University of Washington and Capt. Ralph Pundt of the Maine Maritime Academy.
EurekAlert!
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Future Events
** New this week **
Context is Everything Series: Arctic Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities, October 23, 2019 (Washington, DC USA). The Foreign Area Officers Association (FAOA) and the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security are coming together to begin a series of security, economic, and policy focused breakfast panels. The panels will bring together experts that will build your context on complex issues around the globe. The hosts kick of the series with a discussion on the Arctic. The political, economic and security dynamics of the Arctic have shifted over the past decade, garnering increased international attention and refinement to national strategies for a region, often overlooked in the past. Moderator Pablo Clemente-Colón is an advisor to the US Arctic Research Commission.
Alaska Board of Fisheries Meeting: Work Session, October 23-24, 2019 (Anchorage, Alaska USA). This event will include a presentation on ocean acidification in Alaska-- Ocean Acidification in Alaska - Hear the latest on ocean acidification in Alaska including current and future conditions and species response. Bring your questions! The presentation also includes a new project on pink salmon response in Alaska and exploring potential management and economic implications. Organizers welcome input and participation from the fishing community.
Narwhal: A Tusk with a Twist, October 28, 2019 (Washington, DC USA). After over a dozen years chasing the elusive and mysterious Narwhal in its Arctic habitat, conducting laboratory analysis, and applying a traditional study of Inuit and Greenlandic culture, Martin Nweeia, a dentist in Connecticut and lecturer at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and assistant professor at Case School of Dental Medicine, solved one of science's greatest riddles: the function of the narwhal's unicorn-like tusk. Join the National Museum of Natural History as Nweeia reveals his findings and what we can learn about the evolutionary history of the narwhal and its tooth, and asks us to consider adaptation of northern regions, animals, and peoples in a rapidly warming Arctic.
Greenland Science Week, December 1-5, 2019 (Nuuk, Greenland).
Greenland Science Week builds bridges between science and the Greenlandic society, business community and government, and creates a networking and cooperation platform for the Greenlandic and international science community around research in the Arctic.
ASM2019 Annual Scientific Meeting, December 2-5, 2019 (Halifax, NS Canada). Canada's North is experiencing unprecedented change in its sea and terrestrial ice, permafrost and ecosystems under the triple pressures of climate change, industrialization and modernization. The impacts of these pressures can be seen on food and energy security, shipping, sovereignty, northern community health and well-being, and sustainable development and resource exploitation. All these issues have brought the North to the forefront of national and international agendas.
With a focus on networking events, this gathering of
leading Arctic researchers, graduate students, Northern community representatives, government and industry partners and stakeholders from all field
s will provide all with
valuable connections where innovative ideas and initiatives
can
develop
in
support of health
and sound
governance in the Arctic.
Greenland Science Week, December 2-5, 2019 (Nuuk, Greenland). The Arctic research conference, Polar Research Day, will be held in Nuuk on December 4, 2019. Alongside the one-day conference, several additional science events are planned and organized, so that the conference, a public outreach day, themed workshops, seminars and networking activities will be part of Greenland Science Week. The event will include opportunities to meet and network with a broad range of researchers, business community, government employees and society in an Arctic context, and the organizers anticipate participants from all disciplines in discussions of Arctic science in relation to Greenland. Greenland Science Week is organized by Ilisimatusarfik, AAU Arctic, Sermersooq Municipality and Greenland Perspective.
ISAR-6: Arctic Research: the Decade Past and the Decade Future, March 2-6, 2020 (Tokyo, Japan). Rapid changes are taking place in the Arctic that impact regional human and natural systems, and affect the global environment. The International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR) will meet for the sixth time since its first symposium in 2008 to identify changes in the Arctic environment and society, and to discuss possible future sustainable development. The hosts invite all researchers with interests in the Arctic to participate in this multidisciplinary symposium and share their insights, their challenges, and to explore the possible futures of the Arctic.
Arctic Science Summit Week and the 5th Arctic Observing Summit. March 27 to April 2, 2020, (Akureyri, Iceland).
The Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is a high-level biennial summit that provides a platform to address urgent and broadly recognized needs of Arctic observing across all components of the Arctic system. The theme of AOS 2020 is Observing for Action. AOS 2020 will be held in Akureyri, Iceland (March 31-April 2) and will focus on pressing issues related to the use, design, optimization and implementation of the observing system. To that end, submissions in the form of white papers, short statements and poster abstracts are requested that address any and all aspects of the overarching theme and sub-themes. Currently seeking submissions to the AOS. See link for additional information.
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