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An international jury has now announced the six winners of the second Arctic Competition organized by EDU-ARCTIC (www.edu-arctic.eu).
The Executive Director position of the World Data System of the International Council for Science is open for applications until 15 June 2018.
by M. Mohammadi-Aragh, H. F. Goessling, M. Losch, N. Hutter T. Jung was published by Nature on April 25.2018
Preparation work for the construction of China's fifth Antarctic station has been completed, scientists on the icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon) said on Saturday, after the country's 34th national scientific expedition to Earth's southern polar region.
In a paper now published in Geophysical Research Letters, British climate scientists Jonny Day and Kevin Hodges find that Arctic warming will increase both the number and intensity of storms in Arctic summer.
On 11-12 April 2018, XIII General Assembly of the Northern Forum will convene in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. It is an international organization that brings together Arctic and Northern regions to improve the quality of life of all people living in the North and enhancing the principles of Northern territories sustainable development.
The European Polar Board (EPB) and EU-PolarNet are pleased to announce the launch of the European Polar Infrastructure Database.
This is a reminder that the deadline for submission of ‘Polar Climate Change’ Special Issue is 30 April.
On 23-25 May 2018 the 6th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium, hosted by Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI),University of Tromsø -The Arctic University of Norway in collaboration with Polar Research Institute of China, will take place in Tromsø, Norway, with the conference theme of “Integrated Ocean Management in the Arctic”.
Weather data collected by radiosondes launched in the Arctic in February and March 2018 as part of the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) are feeding into ECMWF forecasts.
The “North by North Festival” captures the spirit of Alaska and the Arctic – to address our challenges and opportunities with northern innovation and resilience, to build on a rich history and to ensure a prosperous future.
“This is a big day,” the mayor in Norway’s northern city of Kirkenes, Rune Rafaelsen, proclaimed after transport authorities in Finland said they want to move forward with plans for cargo train service between Rovaniemi and Kirkenes. They view Kirkenes as the best potential port for ongoing shipping routes through the Northeast Passage between Europe and Asia.
The Call for Abstracts for the UArctic Congress is now open until March 16, 2018 (16.00 CET). The abstracts have to be submitted online here. Please note we do not accept any late submissions or submissions sent by email.
A consortium of five Belgian universities is seeking PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and computer scientists to work in the framework of the PARAMOUR project (Decadal Predictability and vAriability of polar climate: the Role of AtMosphere- Ocean-cryosphere mUltiscale inteRactions) funded by the program EOS –The excellence of Science.
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