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29 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

The Center for Arctic Study and Policy (CASP) at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy seeks a Visiting Professor of Arctic Studies for a two-year teaching/research fellowship position. The successful applicant will deliver Arctic-related undergraduate courses, seminars, or other academic instruction at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Develop and conduct rigorous academic law, social science and/or policy based research on Arctic-specific issues.

28 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

The U.S. Department of State will host a major event in Anchorage, Alaska on August 30-31, 2015 entitled the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER).

27 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

On Friday, July 24, a session of the Russian Defense Ministry took place in Moscow under the leadership of the Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu. The Board session was attended by the representatives of federal executive authorities and the leadership of the Armed Forces.

24 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has called the ambassadors of the United States of America, Denmark, Canada, Norway and the Russian Federation to a meeting in the ministry and made observations on the consultation of the five states on fishing in the Arctic Ocean, signed in Oslo last week.

23 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

It is now available on YouTube, the animation of maps of sea ice age classification from 1978 through mid-July 2015. The animation has been created by the Arctic Portal Team (http://arcticportal.org), based on research data provided by Mark Tschudi, CCAR, University of Colorado (http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/nsidc).

22 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

The third Arctic Circle Assembly will be held, as the previous years, in Reykjavik, on October 16-18, 2015. However, this year,for the first time, two additional events will be hosted, the first in Alaska (August 23-25, 2015) and the second in Singapore (November 12th, 2015), both under the umbrella of the Arctic Circle Assembly.

21 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

The 1st Central European Polar Meeting will be held from 10th to 13th November 2015, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. This meeting is a memorial to the Austrian polar explorer and scientist Julius Payer (1841-1915), to commemorate his achievements for the international polar sciences. It is jointly organized by the Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Centre for Polar Ecology, Czech Republic, and the Austrian Polar Research Institute, in cooperation with the National Committee for Global Change of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

20 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

The Alaskan Arctic, a Summit on Shipping and Ports, will be held on August 23–25, 2015 at Hotel Captain Cook - Anchorage, Alaska. The summit is convened under the umbrella of the Arctic Circle as the first in a series of issues-based forums held around the world.

17 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

The five states that surround the central Arctic Ocean – Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark in respect of Greenland, the Kingdom of Norway, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America – met in Oslo on July 16 to sign a declaration to prevent unregulated commercial fishing in high seas portion of the central Arctic Ocean.

16 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

On July 8th 2015, the Chinese general cargo Yong Sheng, has started its second Arctic voyage. The cargo left Dalian Port in Liaoning Province (People's Republic of China) and it is expected to arrive at Varberg Port in Sweden around the middle of August and back to China by October. The Yong Sheng will follow the Northern Sea Route, off the coasts of the Russian Federation.

15 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

SEARCH, the Sea Ice Action Team and the National Academies' Polar Research Board have convened a call for abstracts for the Session #8477 of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, titled "Global Eyes on the New Arctic: Impacts of Rapid Warming on Ecosystems, Society & Policy". 

14 July 2015

Permafrost thawing

The Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec, CANADA, is now advertising 3 PhD projects on permafrost thawing.

13 July 2015

Iceberg

The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Summit will be hosted from today, July 13th 2015, to Wednesday, July 15th 2015, at the WMO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland.

10 July 2015

KMI President Kim Sung Gwi and Arctic Portal Executive Director Halldor Johannsson sign the Memorandum of Understanding

On July 9th, 2015, the President of the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI), Kim Sung Gwi, and the Executive Director of the Arctic Portal, Halldor Johannsson, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop a three-year collaboration and partnerships in Arctic information and knowledge capacity development in the Arctic.

7 July 2015

Arctic Floating University

"The seventh expedition of the project "Arctic Floating University", which started on July 1, continues to investigate the high latitudes according to the schedule. Not much time has passed since the beginning of the expedition, but its participants had a lot to see and to learn.

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