News & Press Releases
23 July 2020
Reminder - Call for applications: NEFU Online Arctic Summer School 2020 from July 27 - August 7, 2020
Arctic Summer School 2020 is organized by North-Eastern Federal University. The school is co-organized with the Northern Forum and will be held online from July 27 – August 7, 2020.
23 July 2020
Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett unveiled the new, comprehensive Department of the Air Force Arctic Strategy, July 21.
17 July 2020
The 3rd international meeting of the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation on Arctic research co-operation, organized in co-operation between Iceland and Japan, has been postponed due to the effects of the COVID-19 epidemic. The meeting was to be held in Tokyo, Japan on 20-21 November 2020 but will instead take place on 8-9 May 2021.
3 July 2020
According to the newsprovider ArcticToday a group of Sámi reindeer herders intend to seek legal action against the owners of what is to be that country’s largest wind farm for violating their rights by hindering reindeer migration between winter and summer feeding grounds.
2 July 2020
The project EU-PolarNet came to its end in June 2020 and published its last newsletter.
23 June 2020
On June 22, 2020, a meeting of the Committee of Regional Coordinators of the Northern Forum International Organization of Northern Regions was held.
22 June 2020
The head of the Rosatom State Corporation, Alexei Likhachev, reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that in 2019, the volume of traffic along the Northern Sea Route amounted to 5.5 million tons, and in 2020 it could exceed 30 million tons.
12 June 2020
Today, on June 12, is the National Day of Russia or as locally called Den Rossii (Russia Day) an occasion for many Russians to demonstrate national pride. On this day in 1990, Russia became an independent nation following the official adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, which was then followed by the establishment of the national anthem and flag.
12 June 2020
The Icelandic Marine & Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) is working on a twelve year project aimed at mapping the seabed around Iceland. The project started in the year 2017.
7 May 2020
The report Moving a Conference from Iceland to Zoom gathers best practices and lessons learned from moving and hosting the Arctic Science Summit Week 2020 (ASSW2020) online.
30 April 2020
NOAA EarthData webinar will be held on 6 May 2020, 6-7 pm UTC on Accessing and Analyzing Snow Data at the NSIDC DACC (The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center) with Amy Steiker and Walt Meier.
27 April 2020
Rosneft Oil Company has launched the implementation of a programme to assess the sustainability of the Arctic ecosystems based on research on key Arctic animal species in the Russian Federation. By 2023, Rosneft will conduct eight expeditions to the Laptev, Barents and Kara Seas.
21 April 2020
This Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—and we are hoping you might be willing to help the Wilson Center celebrate by becoming a citizen scientist!
17 April 2020
The Icepot is a series of podcasts about polar science and the people managed and produced by Kirstin Werner and Sara Pasqualetto from the International Coordination Office of the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP). The IcePod is the official YOPP Podcast and will feature people involved in MOSAiC, the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate.
26 March 2020
The Arctic Science Summit Week 2020 will be held online from 27 March to 2 April 2020. You can find some useful information on the event and how to join different parts on the RANNIS website https://en.rannis.is/news/the-arctic-science-summit-week-updated-program
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