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Arctic Portal News Portlet

17 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

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.

16 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

On July 8th 2015, the Chinese general cargo Yong Sheng, has started its second Arctic voyage. The cargo left Dalian Port in Liaoning 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 follow the Northern Sea Route, off the coasts of the Russian Federation.

15 July 2015

Arctic Portal news

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". 

14 July 2015

Permafrost thawing

The Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec, CANADA, is now advertising 3 PhD projects on permafrost thawing.

13 July 2015

Iceberg

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.

10 July 2015

KMI President Kim Sung Gwi and Arctic Portal Executive Director Halldor Johannsson sign the Memorandum of Understanding

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 collaboration and partnerships in Arctic information and knowledge capacity development in the Arctic.

7 July 2015

Arctic Floating University

"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.

6 July 2015

3P Logo

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.

2 July 2015

Swedish icebreaker Oden

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.

30 June 2015

Iceberg in East Greenland

Tomorrow, July 1st 2015, will be the deadline for submitting abstracts for the Polar Data Forum II, that will be held on October 27 - 29, 2015 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 

29 June 2015

Map on MPAa, EEZa, Outer limits of continental shelves in the Northeast Atlantic

OSPAR has released the following press release after the Commission meeting in in Oostende (Belgium), last 26 June. 

26 June 2015

International Permafrost Association

Arctic Portal has now launched the new website for the International Permafrost Association (IPA).

26 June 2015

Siberian Taiga

Evenk are an indigenous community in the republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia's far east. As described by "The Red Book of the People of Russia"  "the Evenks inhabit a huge territory of the Siberian taiga from the River Ob in the west to the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north, to Manchuria and Sakhalin in the south".

25 June 2015

Arctic Sea Ice.

The 2015 Sea Ice Outlook June Report is now available online. This June Outlook report was developed by lead authors, Cecilia Bitz (UW), Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth (UW), and Jim Overland (NOAA), with contributions from the rest of the SIPN leadership team, and with a section analyzing the model contributions by François Massonnet, Université catholique de Louvain and Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences.

23 June 2015

Lars Kullerud, President of UArctic

Today we share the letter by the UArctic's President, Lars Kullerud, on the foremost importance to maintain cooperation and keep an open dialogue in Arctic.

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