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This talk reviews community-based participatory research projects with indigenous people in Alaska, Guatemala, and Australia. The Alaskan project focuses on endocrine disrupting chemicals (PCBs, PFCs, PBDEs, pesticides) on St. Lawrence Island, and employs fish models to understand

In recent years with rapid changes of climate and environment in the Arctic region and China’s economic growth, the interaction between China and the Arctic has been increasingly deepened, which calls for a coherent and sustainable development of the Arctic and China.

China-Nordic Arctic research

This webinar is open to all educators around the world. In a special partnership, Polar Educators International will host two webinars:

Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 1700 GMT [6pm Italy, 8am AKST, 9am PST, 10am MST, 11am CST, 12pm EST] This webinar will be in presented in Italian.

Thursday, 25

In 2012, the Administration announced the National Big Data Research and Development Initiative to address some of the Nation's most pressing R&D challenges in extracting knowledge and insights from large, complex collections of digital data. To this end, NSF's Directorate for Computer and

Call of contributions for the 20th Alpine Glaciology Meeting AGM 2016
Munich 25/26 February 2016

The next Alpine Glaciology Meeting will be held again in Munich, an annual event that has found wide acceptance both among older “experienced” scientists and younger “enthusiastic” students from

The workshop sessions are:

* Physical interactions between ocean, atmosphere and land in the Arctic
* Biogeochemistry interactions between ocean, atmosphere and land in the Arctic
* Socioeconomic and ecological interactions in the Arctic
* Observations and methods: Remote sensing and

Speakers:
Paul Morin, University of Minnesota
Tracy Fuller, U.S. Geological Service
Brian Bates, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Cathleen Williams, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

This webinar will focus on the ArcticDEM project, which will produce the first very high

Speaker:
Dr. Nancy Fresco, Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning

Our world is changing – but it can be hard to predict the exact timing and extent of the impacts. One way to deal with the uncertainty associated with shifting climate and varied human responses is to explore a range

This webinar is open to all educators around the world. In a special partnership, Polar Educators International will host two webinars:

Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 1700 GMT [6pm Italy, 8am AKST, 9am PST, 10am MST, 11am CST, 12pm EST] This webinar will be in presented in Italian.

Thursday, 25

The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) was initiated in the Pacific Arctic in 2012 to track marine biological responses to changing physical conditions. The observatory consists of internationally-coordinated, multi-trophic level sampling, including physical, biogeochemical and biological