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On 25 and 26 September 2014 the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, Tromsø, will host a conference on the legal issues associated with the developments and use of energy resources in the Arctic. The conference aims to bring together scholars, graduate students, practitioners, representatives of the energy industry, non-governmental organizations and indigenous peoples to discuss a range of legal issues associated with the development and use of energy resources in the Arctic.
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An intense seismic activity at Bárðarbunga (Vatnajokull area) has started on 16 of August. During the past 3 days, thousand of earthquakes in the area have been registered.
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The newly appointed U.S. special Arctic representative, former Coast Guard Commandant Robert Papp, has issued a call for ideas about policies that should be promoted at the Arctic Council once the United States assumes chairmanship of that eight-nation body next year.
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This year,Operation Nanook, the Canadian military’s largest recurring operation in the North, will run from August 20 to 29, and will focus on Search an Rescue(SAR) operations in the waters off the country’s northern coast, and will feature two exercises.
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Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Journal invites submissions for a Special Issue on "Emerging issues in Polar Energy Law and Governance" (Guest editorfor this special issue is Dr Tina Hunter, Director of the Centre for International Minerals and Energy Law Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland).
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NJF Seminar "Reindeer herding and land use management – Nordic perspectives" will take place in Rovaniemi 20-21 October 2014 at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland.
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The fourth International Meeting of the Arctic Council Member States took place in Naryan-Mar, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia on August 5-7.
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V International Workshop on Circumpolar Socio-cultural Issues is to be held in Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, on September 25-26, 2014, organized by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Iceland, under the auspices of the International Association of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues (IACSI).
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Since 2006, 11 different states have appointed Arctic ambassadors or envoys, and on July 16th the United States became the 12th, with Secretary of State John Kerry naming Admiral Robert Papp, the recently retired commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, as its Special Representative to the Arctic.
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The registration has opened for 2nd Arctic Circle General Assembly that will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland 31st – 2nd of November 2014.
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The Institute of the North is excited to announce the next Arctic Energy Summit (AES) to be held fall of 2015 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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10th International Youth Eco-Forum "Clean City – Clean Planet" under the auspice of the Northern Forum has started its work in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia.