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ACCESS General Assembly 2013

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:19:42 +0100

The 2nd ACCESS General Assembly will be held from March 5 to 8, 2013 in Barcelona. Michel André has kindly proposed to host it at the Technical University of Catalonia -Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, http://www.upc.edu) - , and in particular by the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB, http://www.lab.upc.edu)

The schedule is planned as follow: - Monday 4 will be dedicated to travel - Tuesday 5 will be dedicated to WP meetings. - Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 will ...

Battle for the North: Is all quiet on the Arctic front?

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:23:53 +0100

Michigan State International Law Review Annual Symposium will take place on February 21-22, 2013, at Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center and MSU College of Law, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

This symposium will highlight the current concerns and questions surrounding the Arctic. The event will raise awareness of and encourage discussion about various topics such as: international security concerns; indigenous people in the Arctic region; environmental law; regulation, governance ...

ACCESS General Assembly

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:33:12 +0100

Registration is now open for the ACCESS General Assemby (8-9 March 2012) in Stockholm at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Partners can confirm that they will attend the General Assembly by either registering on Vitamib or by sending an email to Mélanie Pellen.

The presence of at least one representative per partner is mandatory.Please note that you must take care of your own reservations (hotel and flights). It is not necessary to fill in the Vitamib option for booking arrangement.Click on the appropriate link to get more information ...

Arctic Frontiers 2012 - Energies of the High North

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:47:19 +0100

Tromso, Norway, January 22-27, 2012.

The Arctic Frontiers (AFT) conference is a central arena for discussions of arctic issues. The conference brings together representatives from science, politics, and civil society to share perspectives on how upcoming challenges in the Arctic may be addressed to ensure sustainable development.

Arctic Frontiers (AFT) holds its 6th annual conference in Tromsø from 22-27 January 2012, Norway, with the title “Energies of the High North”. Arctic Frontiers 2012 will ...

Arctic Frontiers 2013 - Geopolitics & Marine Production in a Changing Arctic

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:18:53 +0100

University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.

20-25 January, 2013 : information on http://www.arcticfrontiers.com

You can now rewatch the whole of the policy section held on Monday 21 January on the internet in English and Russian and on Tuesday 22 January in English and Norwegian.You can also watch the keynote presentations from the science section held on Wednesday 23 January. These are in English only. click here to reach the section

Franco-German Seminar: "Gateway to the Arctic"

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:13:56 +0200

Social sciences meet natural sciences - interdisciplinary seminar on Arctic research for young scientists.

The Franco-German seminar "Gateway to the Arctic" is an approach to bring together young scientists from different disciplines of natural and social sciences. The seminar will cover aspects of intensive exchange through a series of lectures and workshops addressing the latest research advances in various fields of Arctic research. The casual and interactive meeting format will privilege the participants, ...

IPY 2012 Conference: From Knowledge to Action

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:30:35 +0200

Montreal, Canada, April 22-27, 2012.

The IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference will be one of the largest and most important scientific conferences for polar science and climate change, impacts and adaptation. Keynote presentations, thought-provoking panel discussions and workshops will provide the focal points for translating polar knowledge into actions that will enable people to live in, adapt to, or benefit from, our changing world.

Each day of the conference will feature a program of keynote ...

Letter from ACCESS to the Arctic Council

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:25:35 +0200

March 27th, 2012: Letter from Jean-Claude Gascard, ACCESS coordinator, to Gustaf Lind, President of the Arctic Council.

The objective of the letter was to bring to the attention of the Arctic Council, several activities the ACCESS consortium is developing that complement the objectives and activities of the Arctic Council through its working groups and task forces.

» see the letter

WP2 meeting

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:41:00 +0100

Copenhagen, Denmark, November 29, 2011 at NBC in Copenhagen-Hellerup

Agenda of the meeting:

Click on the link to download the agenda [PDF]

Minute reports from the meeting:

The minute reports are available in the WP2 wiki page - WP2 meeting 29 November 2011 - (restricted area)

WP1 workshop on fieldwork activities

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:31:36 +0100

This ACCESS Workshop will be held in Villefranche sur Mer, France. It aims at informing all the partners about fieldwork scheduled within ACCESS and cooperations with external projects; logistic needs and opportunity will be discussed and data flow between partners, assimilation and archiving will be considered.

Organizing committee: Peter Wadhams, Martin Doble, Jeremy Wilkinson, Rudiger Gerdes and Jean-Claude Gascard

The meeting will be organized into the following sessions:

Day 1:

Day 1 Morning: ...

Responding to change - ISAC workshop

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:04:50 +0100

The first ISAC Responding to Change workshop, entitled "Responding to Arctic Environmental Change: Translating a Growing Understanding of Change into a Research Agenda for Action" is planned in collaboration with the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada and is scheduled for 30 January - 1 February 2012, at Queen's.

We expect participation from a diverse group including representatives of the research community, local northern and indigenous people, industry, fisheries, ...

ECO2 annual meeting

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:53:17 +0100

The EU FP7-funded project "Sub-seabed CO2 storage: Impact on Marine Ecosystems" (ECO2 ) will hold its annual meeting from 22nd to 25th of May 2012 at NOCS in Southampton.

The meeting will start 22nd with an ice-breaker party and will end 25th with meetings of the different project workpackages and cross-cutting themes.

On the 24th time will be allowed to discuss interconnecting themes that run across the three projects supported under the 'Ocean of Tomorrow' call (ACCESS, VECTORS, ECO2 ), either ...

"The High North – Infrastructure and Industrial Development"

Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:17:43 +0100

Invitation to this year´s Conference at Voksenåsen, Oslo, November 28-29, 2011

-a follow up of last year´s conference Where Gas meets Ore, Nov. 2010

Voksenåsen in cooperation with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassies of Finland and Sweden in Oslo, the EU Delegation and the Nordic Investment Bank

This is the third conference highlighting the industrial development in the High North. The conference will focus on the infrastructure needed to meet future demands.

Highlights:

- Presentations ...

The First International Narvik Conference on Arctic Ports

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:07:53 +0200

The Port of Narvik in cooperation with Maritime Forum North and Ocean Futures will organize in Narvik (Norway) in April 2013 (dates will be decided very soon):

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL NARVIK CONFERENCE ON ARCTIC PORTS will focus on ports, logistics, shipping, resources and trade flows.

A planning document, which Ocean Futures is preparing for the Port of Narvik, will be ready in February next year. In April 2012 - a year before the conference will be held - the conference program will be presented. ...

Seventh Annual Arctic Oil & Gas Conference

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:42:13 +0200

Oslo, Norway, November 28-30, 2011

The 7th Annual Arctic Oil & Gas conference, leading event in Europe for the Arctic oil and gas industry, will focus on market trends, commercial drivers and the technical challenges of offshore oil and gas production in Arctic and cold regions. In addition to the main event, there will be two intensive one-day workshops on Arctic Pipelines and FPSOs for Arctic Operation.

The conference will be held at the Clarion Hotel Royal Christiania in Oslo.

The deadline for ...

Workshop on fishery and oil and gas development

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:46:58 +0200

Association of Fishing Enterprises of the Murmansk region initiated the Russian-Norwegian workshop to discuss the issues of interrelations between fishery and oil- and gas development sectors. The workshop will take place on 19.10.2011 in Murmansk. Anna Stammler-Gossmann and Marine Informatics representatives are invited to participate in the workshop. The questions that will be discussed meet directly the issues of a planned for 2012 'Sharing the Ocean' ACCESS workshop (Organiser: University of ...

WP1 Workshop on climate scenarios

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:16:25 +0200

See workshop schedule, download scientific presentations and watch videos of the speakers .

The idea for this workshop originates from the ACCESS kick-off meeting in Paris. The aim of the workshop is to communicate to non-climate experts a working knowledge of climate science issues that are important for their research on climate change impacts on different sectors and activities.

September 5 - 6 (starting at 9 or 10 am on the Monday) in Bremen, "Haus der Wissenschaft"

The workshop will cover the ...

World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference.

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:32:28 +0200

Climate Research in Service to Society

Denver, USA, October 24-28, 2011

The WCRP will assemble for the first time ever its entire research community, and engage other key international research programmes, in a major Open Science Conference (OSC). Goals:

A better understanding of the behaviour of the climate system and its interactions with other Earth system components is critical to predict its future evolution, reduce vulnerability to high impact weather and climate events, and sustain life. This ...

Session "The role of Aerosols in the Climate-Cryosphere System"

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:45:52 +0200

Session A46 on "The Role of Aerosols in the Climate-Cryosphere System" at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

The Arctic is undergoing dramatic change including sea ice loss occurring at rates greater than anticipated, temperature increases above global means, and retreating glaciers. The role of aerosols in these changes is uncertain. In addition, the 'opening' of the Arctic, and subsequent increases in resource extraction, development, and recreation carries unknown consequences. This session ...

ACA Scoping Workshop

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:02:14 +0200

ARCTIC CHANGE ASSESMENT SCOPING WORKSHOP.

Oslo, Norway, September 28-30, 2011.

The main task for an ‘Integrated and Regionalized Arctic Change Assessment (ACA)’ would be to clarify the significant consequences of some of the main drivers of change on Arctic ecosystems and peoples. The key concept for the work will be ‘integration and regionalization’ in order to develop options for actions, especially adaptation.

The objective for a scoping workshop is to develop the Terms of Reference (ToR) for an Arctic Council-led project to determine the consequences of and actions needed to address potential cumulative effects on Arctic ecosystems, ...

AEE 2011 - SPE Arctic and Extreme Environments Conference

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:49:27 +0200

Moscow, Russia, 18th - 20th October

http://www.arcticoilgas.com/

PLanning to attend : SVen Hoog, Joe Berger

Advanced study workshop on oil spills in sea-ice

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:47:47 +0200

OIL SPILLS IN SEA ICE – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Fermo, Italy (Istituto Geografico Polare Silvio Zavatti)

Tuesday 20th September – Friday 23rd September 2011

This Advanced Workshop is organised by the Istituto Geografico Polare “Silvio Zavatti”. The Institute was founded in 1945 by the famous polar ethnographer and explorer Prof. Silvio Zavatti, and is the oldest polar institution in Italy, with a Polar Museum, Polar library and Archives. It is the publisher of the polar journal “Il Polo”, now in ...

IPY Conference - Call for Abstracts closes September 30, 2011

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:48:44 +0200

Call for Abstracts Now Open

The IPY 2012 Conference From Knowledge to Action is taking place in Montreal, Canada April 22-27, 2012 and will be one of the largest and most important scientific conferences for polar science and climate change, impacts and adaptation. The Call for Abstracts for oral and poster presentations is now open. Conference organizers invite you to submit abstracts on the latest polar science, as well as the application of polar research findings, policy implications and how ...