The first meeting of the Work Package 4 (WP4), covering both climate and economic modelling in the Arctic, was held at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) on the 9th September 2014. Over 15 participants joined for the day meeting, and all the WP4 partners were represented. The three main sessions covered: the PAGE model… Read more »
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Sediment cores taken with Greenland cruise
A sediment coring program was undertaken from the Danish navy vessel I/F Knud Rasmussen August 14th – 20 th 2014. The Danish Navy had generously placed the ship for the use of the ICE-ARC project team. 26 sediment cores were collected during the cruise and more that 150 kilometers of depth profiles recorded. Coring was… Read more »
Read Full »ICE-ARC deploys buoys with help from the USA and South Korea
In August the South Korean icebreaker Araon sailed into the northern region of the Beaufort/Chukchi Sea region of the Arctic Ocean. This scientific cruise, a collaborative effort between ONR’s Marginal Ice Zone programme (USA) and the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), aims the further our understanding of the changing Arctic marine environment. At about 77.4N… Read more »
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ICE-ARC General Assembly – Barcelona 2014
REGISTER NOW The first ICE-ARC General Assembly will be held in Barcelona, Spain. Pedro Elosegui (WP1 leader, CSIC) has kindly offered to host the meeting at the Institute of Marine Sciences. Date: 19th-21st November 2014 Venue: Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) Address: Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49. E-08003 Barcelona, Spain Registration deadline: 30th September Abstracts: Please… Read more »
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ACCESS workshop on Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic
Last week, ACCESS – the ICE-ARC predecessor project – held a workshop on Arctic Indigenous People and the results of the project on the long term climate change effect on the Arctic. This was hosted by the ACCESS coordinator at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris (9th-10th July 2014). Ten indigenous… Read more »
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Field work update: Methane and subsea permafrost studies in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf
Igor Semiletov and Natalia Shakhova of Arctic Marine Exploration, Russia, have recently completed the first phase of their field work in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, looking at methane escaping from submarine permafrost. They carried out a 24-day expedition, using a transport caravan, to the Laptev Sea. The main goal was to obtain new data for determining… Read more »
Read Full »Twitter account @ICEARCEU now has 200 followers
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Read Full »6th International Workshop on Sea Ice Modelling and Data Assimilation
The Organizing Committee of the workshop of the International Ice Charting Working Group Data Assimilation Working Group together with the EU FP7 ICE-ARC Project invite you to a workshop that will take place at the Novotel hotel in the heart of Toulouse, France on September 15th to 16th 2014. This workshop will continue a series of… Read more »
Read Full »Arctic Science Summit Week 2014
We have given three talks and two posters introducing ICE-ARC at the ASSW2014 in Helsinki this week. Kathy Law and Naja Mikkelsen have given talks at IASC working groups, Elaina Ford at the YOPP (Year of Polar Prediction) workshop with general introductions to the people involved in the project and what our aims are and… Read more »
Read Full »IPCC report released on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability
The IPCC have published the “summary for Policymakers” of the Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report http://www.ipcc.ch/ The report concludes that responding to climate change involves making choices about risks in a changing world. The nature of the risks of climate change is increasingly clear, though climate change will also continue… Read more »
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