News & Press Releases
15 July 2015
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
The Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec, CANADA, is now advertising 3 PhD projects on permafrost thawing.
13 July 2015
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
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
"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
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
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
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
OSPAR has released the following press release after the Commission meeting in in Oostende (Belgium), last 26 June.
26 June 2015
Arctic Portal has now launched the new website for the International Permafrost Association (IPA).
26 June 2015
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
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
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.
22 June 2015
Wednesday 24th of June 2015, the European Commission will host in Reykjavik the third stakeholder workshop on further development of the EU's Arctic policy.
19 June 2015
Today, 19th of June 2015, Iceland celebrates the 100th anniversary of women’ rights to vote, accorded to women over the age of 40 in 1915 (at this time men were allowed to vote by the age of 25).
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