Multiple Resources Available
Future Arctic Marine and Coastal Research Priority Sheets
Arctic in Rapid TransitionArctic Council Initiatives to Sustain Arctic Cooperation Report
Dartmouth College and the Institute for Arctic Policy2015 University of Minnesota Summer Polar Boot Camp
17-21 August 2015
Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Future Arctic Marine and Coastal Research Priority Sheets
Arctic in Rapid Transition
The Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) executive committee announces
availability of priority sheets addressing future Arctic marine and
coastal research from the perspective of international early- and
mid-career scientists.
The seven ART priority sheets comprise perspectives on arctic
biodiversity, arctic oceanography, physical processes in sea ice, arctic
land-ocean interactions, paleoceanographic time series from the Arctic,
proxy calibration and verification, and law in the Arctic.
The ART priority sheets are the product of the second international
science workshop entitled "Integrating spatial and temporal scales in
the changing Arctic System: towards future research priorities" (ISTAS)
organized in October 2014 by the Arctic in Rapid ART network, the
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and APECS France,
and the European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM). During this
workshop, future arctic research priorities were discussed with regard
to the natural variability of arctic marine and coastal systems over
various spatial and temporal scales.
The priority sheets are one of the ART network's contributions to the
third International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III)
conference in Toyama, Japan in April 2015. The sheets aim to foster an
improved understanding of the changing arctic system in future arctic
research.
The sheets will be distributed as printouts during the Arctic Science
Summit Week (ASSW) and ICARP III meetings in Toyama, Japan in particular
during the ART session on April 30, the APECS workshop on April 26, the
poster session on April 29-30, and in the exhibition area.
To download the priority sheets from the ART or ISTAS websites, please
go to:
http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/art/background/publications/art-priority-sheets
or to: http://istas.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/11.
For more information about the 2014 ISTAS workshop, go to:
http://istas.sciencesconf.org/.
- Arctic Council Initiatives to Sustain Arctic Cooperation Report
Dartmouth College and the Institute for Arctic Policy
Dartmouth College and the Institute for Arctic Policy announce
availability of a report entitled "Arctic Council Initiatives to Sustain
Arctic Cooperation" authored by James Collins, Michael Sfraga, Ross
Virginia, and Kenneth Yalowitz. The report, which recommends priorities
for the Arctic Council, resulted from meetings at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace in Washington, D.C. in 2014 and 2015 under the
auspices of the Institute for Arctic Policy (IAP) co-chaired by
Dartmouth and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Recommendations in the report address the necessity for keeping the
Arctic a region of cooperation and not conflict on issues of governance,
environmental protection, sustainable development, and military
cooperation, especially during this time of complex geopolitical
tensions between Russia and the West.
Experts who met at the Carnegie Endowment agreed that the Arctic Council
and the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) continue to be
the primary mechanisms to ensure cooperation, engagement, and
transparency in the Arctic.
The U.S. assumes chairmanship of the Arctic Council on 24 April 2015,
and it has set priorities in the following areas: Arctic Ocean safety,
security and stewardship; economic and living conditions; and the
impacts of climate change.
The report supports these goals and the need to address climate change
challenges resulting from loss of sea ice, sea level rise, and thawing
permafrost. Equally important are limiting black carbon pollution and
improving air quality, continuing research and programs to ensure
ecosystem health as energy development increases, and improving the
safety of arctic navigation.
To download the report from the "Reports" section of the Arctic Virtual
Forum or the Dartmouth Institute of Arctic Studies websites, please go
to: arcticforum.org
or to: dickey.dartmouth.edu/environment.
For further information, contact:
Ross Virginia
Email: ross.virgina [at] dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-0192
- 2015 University of Minnesota Summer Polar Boot Camp
17-21 August 2015
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Polar Geospatial Center and the University of Minnesota announce a
call for applications to the 2015 University of Minnesota Summer Polar
Boot Camp, which will be held 17-21 August on the Twin Cities campus of
the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Summer Polar Boot Camp is an intensive, five-day geospatial workshop
that will focus on applications of commercial satellite imagery for
polar science and operations.
Application deadline: 1 June 2015.
For further information, including a full summary of topics and courses
offered during the Polar Boot Camp, please see the Polar Geospatial
Center website: http://bootcamp.pgc.umn.edu/.
Or, Contact:
Lucas Winzenburg
Email: winz0017 [at] umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-6276
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