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A high-level document discussing research needs in relation to the use and provision of environmental forecasts for the Arctic and Antarctic regions during the Year of Polar Prediction has just been published.
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The First International Film Festival of the Arctic Countries will take place in Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk. It is from these very places the exploration of the Russian North began and the first polar expeditions were started during which large geographical and geological discoveries were made in the Arctic.
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Arctic Circle 2017 started this morning at 8:30 at the icelandic cultural house Harpa. 2000 people from 50 countries are expected to be there.
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During the first YOPP Online Conference, Thomas Jung, chair of the Steering Group of the WMO Polar Prediction Project, will give an update on the Year of Polar Prediction
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The INTER ACT September newsletter is out now. More news and information can be found on the INTER ACT website
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The Arctic Council 2011 Nuuk declaration decides that the Arctic Council through AMAP appoints the chair of SAON.
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The "Power of Storytelling" for teaching and learning science subjects. A scientist organizes a free webinar about storytelling during lessons.
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The EU H2020 funded INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) project opens a call for research groups to apply for Transnational Access to 43 research stations across the Arctic and northern alpine and forest areas in Europe, Russia and North-America.
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What kind of information is needed by the captain of a vessel navigating polar waters? Our knowledge of what really matters at the end of the forecast chain is rather limited. In order to strengthen the dialogue between polar forecast providers and users, the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) together with partners APPLICATE and Blue-Action are launching the Polar Prediction Matters dialogue platform.
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Video clips and presentations from the7th Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operationsare now available.
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The UArctic Congressis an integral part of Finland’s Arctic Council chairmanship program, and open to the scientists, students, policy makers, businesses and all other interested stakeholders. The science section will focus on the themes and priorities of the Finnish chairmanship, including thegoals of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and theParis Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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The EGU newsletter is short email publication sent to EGU members on a monthly basis. It aims to inform the Union membership about EGU events and activities, from highlighting papers published in our open access journals to providing news relating to EGU’s scientific divisions and meetings, including the General Assembly.
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The last few months have been a very busyperiod, as can be seen from this third issue ofPolarPredictionNews.
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The Ice Watch ship observations initiative is an international collaborative program to coordinate Arctic-wide visual sea ice observations collected from ships operating in ice-covered seas of thenorthern hemisphere (https://sites.google.com/a/alaska.edu/ice-watch/). The associated observation protocol was developed in collaboration with the WCRP Climate and Cryosphere Arctic Sea Ice Working Group (CliC-ASIWG).
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China's ice breaker, the Xuelong, on Wednesday finished crossing the central Arctic area, This is the second time the Xuelong goes through the Arctic. It's first time was to Iceland in 2012, there through North-East passage and back through the Central route. Detailed information on the firstvoyage can be found atChinare5
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