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The 2nd INTAROS E-Newsletter for the year 2018 is out.
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Yury Trutnev, Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the ‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’ 5th International Arctic Forum, held a working visit to Arkhangelsk on 12 December 2018.
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Recently published report from the AREA Singapore Workshop is now available. The Arctic Renewable Energy Atlas (AREA) Project workshop was held 29–31 August 2018, hosted by the Energy Studies Institute (ESI) and National University of Singapore.
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The 7th Arctic Policy Forum, titled “The Arctic and Innovation”, took place on Tuesday, 11 December in BEXCO, Busan, hosted by the Korea Maritime Institute (Director Yang Chang-ho), the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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On December 10-14, the Arctic Partnership Week 2018 is being held in Busan, Korea. The Arctic Partnership Week is focused on Arctic policy, science, technology, shipping, energy and resources with international participation.
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COP24 is now in Katowice, Poland from 2-14 December 2018. COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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There is a new contribution to the Polar Prediction Matters dialogue platform hosted by the Helmholtz Association. In this new article, Tanja Joona who is senior researcher at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, provides a personal report on the everyday life in Finnish Lapland (see also here).
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Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). There is no sign of a reversal in this trend, which is driving long-term climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification and more extreme weather.
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This week, the Special Observing Period in the Antarctic starts. For three months, weather services and international scientists will increase the number of atmospheric and sea-ice observations from different Antarctic land stations, during terrestrial field expeditions and aboard research vessels in the Southern Ocean.
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Online now an EU Science Innovation booklet "Arctic Research Innovation - Understanding the changes, responding to the challenges" . An overview of ongoing EU- funded Arctic research and innovation.
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In the new contribution to Polar Prediction Matters, two forecasters from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) report on automated prediction products to help forecasting blizzards in the Canadian Arctic.
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Recently two very interesting articles on Permafrost were published in the Nordregio Magazine. The article "Cities on ice: Population change in the Arctic" summarises findings from two Nordregio projects – Polar Peoples, which examines aspects of population change in the Arctic, and Nunataryuk, which studies the impact of permafrost thaw.