January, 23 First Announcement and Call for Papers for the Conference: Knowledge and Power in the Arctic, April 16-18th 2007. University of Lapland and its Arctic Centre.
Both scientific and traditional knowledge play a central role in modern environmental protection and sustainable development in the Arctic. The Arctic is an active region with innovative inhabitants and resilient communities, rather than a passive object of outsiders’ actions or a laboratory for scientific research.
February, 6 Youth IPY launch activities
If you want to get involved in International Polar Year right from the start now is your chance!! The IPY Youth Steering Committee is asking young people from around the world to write to their political leaders (and send a copy to us) about their concerns for the Polar Regions and what they personally are doing to make a difference (biking to school, recycling, starting a polar club in their school, doing a polar science project).
February, 6 Announcing the ARCUS 19th Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum 2007
23-25 May 2007
Washington, DC
on 23-25 May 2007, jointly hosted by
ARCUS and the Embassy of Sweden.
The focus of the Arctic Forum this year is: "Water in the Arctic:
International Collaborations and Understanding Environmental Change."
February, 6 Opening of Indigenous Peoples' International Polar Year
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Kautokeino, Norway
The opening of the Indigenous Peoples' International Polar Year takes
place on Wednesday, 14 February 2007, in Kautokeino, Norway.
Representatives of indigenous peoples from all arctic regions, climate
researchers, managers, public officials, and reindeer herders and Sami
youth from Kautokeino will participate in the opening ceremony.
February, 7 World's scientists to examine poles
2-YEAR STUDY: Sixty nations to come together beginning this spring.
By GEORGE BRYSON
Anchorage Daily News
Alaska will find itself in the spotlight this spring when thousands of scientists around the world launch the International Polar Year -- a two-year-long initiative to advance what we know about the polar regions in general and climate change in particular.
February, 12 New Website Available
Arctic Research Mapping Application (ARMAP)
The ARMAP website is available at:
Arctic Research Mapping Application (ARMAP) is an interactive, online mapping application for field-based scientific research in the Arctic. Users can navigate to areas of interest, view a variety of map layers,
and query and explore research projects by location, year, funding program, investigator, discipline, IPY designation, keywords, and other variables. Project information is displayed within the mapping application, with links to external websites for more information. This service is targeted to science planners, scientists, educators, and the general public. In sum, ARMAP goes beyond map display to analysis,synthesis, and coordination of arctic research.
ARMAP is funded by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs, and is a collaborative development effort of the Systems Ecology Laboratory at the University of Texas at El Paso, Nuna Technologies, the INSTAAR QGIS Laboratory, and VECO Polar Resources.
February, 19 Third Announcement and Call for Papers
Greenland IPY 2007 Space Science Symposium
Transport in the Coupled Solar Wind - Geospace System Seen From a
High-Latitude Vantage Point
4-9 May 2007
Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, 19 March 2007
For further information, please go to:
