| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No Arctic-science events are scheduled for today.
|
New Online Science Gateway to Offer Insight Into Changing Arctic Conditions. A new online scientific resource will document changing permafrost conditions at the sub-meter scale throughout the Arctic, providing researchers, educators and the public with new opportunities for exploration and discovery. The Permafrost Discovery Gateway, funded by a $3 million National Science Foundation grant from the Navigating the New Arctic initiative, will use satellite images and high-performance computing to document and display a variety of changes in the Arctic.
Eurekalert!
 Russia Willing to Pay to Lure Shippers to the Arctic. Russia wants to make its Arctic waters more attractive to shippers than the Suez Canal and could be willing to compensate for potential risks to make that happen. President Vladimir Putin has made development of the Arctic one of Russia's top long-term priorities and huge projects to export liquefied natural gas via the Northern Sea Route have already lured investors above the Polar Circle. But shippers of other products remain reluctant to make the detour from the Suez Canal toward the Arctic due to multiple risks.
Hellenic Shipping News
Swimming Away! Arctic Fisheries and International Cooperation. In 2008, the European Union (EU) stated that 'the overall effect is that climate change will fuel existing conflicts over depleting resources, especially where access to those resources is politicised.' In 2009, Iceland and the Faroe Islands unilaterally decided to increase their annual quotas on mackerel by 6500% and 340%. Warmer waters had caused the mackerel stock to change its patterns and venture northwards, leading to an advantageous situation for the two island-states. Fisheries are especially prone to small-scale conflicts erupting, as both resources and maritime boundaries are hard to control and monitor.
The Arctic Institute
Traditional Values Inspire Guiding Principles. Every year, Elders & Youth is guided by a series of principles, or agreements, that set the stage for the gathering. This year, they focused on truthful communication and representation of oneself and others and were based, as always, in traditional values. "They help guide us in how we can be in good relationships with each other," said Ayyu Qassataq (Iñupiaq), vice president and indigenous operations director with First Alaskans Institute, speaking on Monday.
The Arctic Sounder
|
|
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.
** New this week **
Fulbright Arctic Initiative: Research and Policy Findings for Sustainable Arctic Communities and Economies, October 31, 2019 (Washington, DC USA). The Arctic faces critical policy challenges on many issues including climate change response, public health and healthcare infrastructure, energy, environmental protection, sustainable management of the Arctic Ocean, infrastructure, Indigenous rights, and governance. This symposium reports on research findings and selected policy recommendations from the Fulbright Arctic Initiative thematic research teams.
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.
|
| 
  
4350 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 510
Arlington, VA 22203, USA
External links in this publication, and on the USARC's World Wide Web site (
www.arctic.gov) do not constitute endorsement by the US Arctic Research Commission of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the USARC does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this newsletter and the USARC Web site.
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
