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Arctic Portal News Portlet

19 November 2013

Arctic Science Summit Week 2015 will take place in Japan.

The website for the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2015 in Toyama (Japan) is now available.

18 November 2013

Oil barrels

The new report, prepared by Rystad Energy, the independent oil and gas consulting services, suggests that Norwegian Arctic waters will be more important with regards to energy resources, than the North Sea after 2030.

14 November 2013

Halldór Jóhannsson gives overview on IASC.

Representatives from Icelandic - Arctic organizations, academic institutions and businesses, gathered today at the Icelandic Marine Institute for one day of introduction on Icelandic – Arctic research.

13 November 2013

MAC

Northern (Arctic) Federal University announces Winter School "Model Arctic Council" (MAC) to take place February, 25 – 28, 2014 in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

12 November 2013

Arctic Science Summit Week 2014

The ASSW is the annual gathering of international organizations engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research.

11 November 2013

Fishing community of Nólsoy, 20 km outside of Thorshaven, Faroe Islands

Last week the government of Faroe Islands decided to launch the fishing restrictions dispute through World Trade Organization (WTO).

8 November 2013

University of Lapland main facilities

New application round for University of Lapland's European Master in Tourism, Culture and International Management (EMACIM) master's program will be open from December 2nd to January 31st 2014.

7 November 2013

A container ship enroute from Montreal to England was stopped by ice in the Strait of Belle Isle

Ice Information Services of the World Work to Enhance the Safety of Marine Operations in Ice-Covered Waters

25th of October 2013 in Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland hosted by the University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office this month, experts from the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) held their 14th annual meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.

6 November 2013

Aquaculture

The Day of the Arctic will officially take place on Thursday, 14th of November. The event will be held in Icelandic at the Icelandic Marine Research Institute in Reykjavik.

4 November 2013

Research station in Abisko, Northern Sweden

Canadian partners in INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic), Centre d'études Nordiques (Centre for Northern Studies, CEN) and Arctic Institute of North America (AINA), open a call for research grant proposals for European-based research groups to conduct research at two field stations operated by the partners. The call is open from Nov 1-Dec 15, 2013.

1 November 2013

Nordic Council's five prizes awarded at Gala celebration in Oslo.

Yesterday, 31st of October, for the first time all Nordic Council´s 5 prizes were announced and presented together at the Nordic Council Prize Gala.

31 October 2013

Halldór Jóhannsson, director at Arctic Portal, at the Northern Forum General Assembly

The month of October brought together international partners from all the Arctic states and their European partners at various events.

29 October 2013

Arctic research vessel

The European Arctic Initiatives Compendium has now been published.

The compendium, which is part of work package one of the project, compiles flagship initiatives undertaken in the Arctic regions by member states and actors operating within states belonging to the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA).

28 October 2013

Coast of Greenland

Meeting the challenges of their previous decisions, Greenlandic government decided to discuss controversial mining law that was passed at the end of last year.

25 October 2013

Permafrost research site, Abisko, northern Sweden

The University of Hamburg has an opening for 2 research associate positions (with opportunity to pursue a PhD dissertation) to work on the investigation of land-atmosphere carbon (CO2 and CH4) exchange of permafrost landscapes using eddy covariance flux measurements (position 1) and stable isotope (13CO2) techniques (position 2), respectively.

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