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The 1st Central European Polar Meeting will be held from 10th to 13th November 2015, at theAustrian 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.
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The Alaskan Arctic, a Summit on Shipping and Ports, will be held onAugust 23–25, 2015 atHotel Captain Cook - Anchorage, Alaska. The summit isconvened under the umbrella of the Arctic Circle as the first in a series of issues-based forums held around the world.
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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.
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On July 8th 2015, the Chinese general cargo Yong Sheng, has started its second Arctic voyage. The cargo leftDalian Port inLiaoning 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 followthe Northern Sea Route, off the coasts of the Russian Federation.
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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".
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The Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec, CANADA, is now advertising 3 PhD projects on permafrost thawing.
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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.
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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 collaborationand partnerships in Arctic information and knowledge capacity development in the Arctic.
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"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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Since its inauguration in 2009, the bi-annual 3P (Polar Petroleum Potential) Arctic event has focused on the geological history and exploration potential of the Circum-Arctic basins.
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The Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee (AICC), a committee of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) seeks nominations for several new members willing to serve the Arctic scientific community in meeting these needs over a three-year term, starting in the fall of 2015.
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Tomorrow, July 1st 2015, will be the deadline for submitting abstracts for the Polar Data Forum II, that will be held onOctober 27 - 29, 2015 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.