The Explorers Club hosts this event about Dr. Sven Haakanson’s twenty-two-year journey to research Sugpiat collections and restore traditional knowledge to his community, the Sugpiat from Kodiak Island. Recognizing that many cultural items have ended up in museums around the world after being collected from indigenous communities, Sven collaborated with the Burke Museum at the University of Washington and the community of Akhiok to construct new boats from collected Angayaaq models. From 2015 to 2016, Sven and his team used what they learned from these reconstructions to build two, full-sized angyaaq. Thanks to collections like the model angyaaq at the Burke museum, Sven’s community was able to take back and celebrate their cultural ways and knowledge once again. Co-hosted by Alaskan Chapter Chair Joshua Lewis FN’04 and Mead Treadwell FN’02.

Polaris has developed a kit to convert the MRZR Alpha — used by U.S. Special Operations Command as its Lightweight All-Terrain Vehicle — for the Arctic and is gearing up to be able to produce it for customers early next year.

How clouds respond to a changing climate is an important area of research, since under certain conditions they can either enhance or dampen the effects of warming. Knowing which they are more likely to do helps researchers model future climates more accurately.

If the Coast Guard is successful in receiving funding for a commercial polar icebreaker and then acquiring the ship, the vessel will not only become part of the service’s inventory and add capacity but also help with generating requirements for a new class of medium polar icebreakers, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz told a House panel on Thursday.

The 2022 edition of its International Online Conference is hosted by the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS). The conference contains five sessions drawing on multiple disciplines from the social to the natural sciences: Voices from Alpine and Polar regions; Bridging knowledge from Polar ocean beneficiaries; Polar regions in motion; Methods and ethics in polar research; and Advances in cryospheric sciences.

This event is hosted by The Arctic Institute (TAI). This event will include topics on: cultural security, economic security, energy security, environmental security, food security, health security, military security, and political security.

The events during the week of August 1st, 2022, will include Enhancing Arctic Science and Engineering Workshop along with Regional Development Tours and forums on the Arctic science to plan for the next 25 years of Arctic research. Participants will include scientists and engineers, Indigenous leaders, Arctic community members, policymakers, government organizations and businesses to celebrate past research success, take stock of current challenges and opportunities and plan for the next generation of collaboration and knowledge co-production that will keep Utqiagvik and Indigenous knowledge at the forefront of Arctic science and contribute to a safe and sustainable future for

the Arctic.

The Forum is organized in cooperation with Naalakkersuisut - The Government of Greenland. The Focus of the 2022 Greenland Forum will be on climate and prosperity; and, geopolitics and progress.

The Arctic Circle Assembly is an open democratic platform with participation from governments, organizations, corporations, universities, think tanks, environmental associations, indigenous communities, concerned citizens, and others. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan.