Arctic Regions

Greenland

20181

• GCRC participated in the OceanCanada Annual Conference in August 2018, and presented the Arctic Ocean Atlas. (oceancanada.org)

Bering Strait4

• The study seeks to identify community-level protective factors, and explore their relationship to suicide-related risk behavior, in 65 villages throughout the Bering Strait, Northwest Arctic and Yukon-Kuskokwim regions. (nih.gov)
• The U.S. Coast Guard finalized a Port Access Route Study for Alaska's Bering Sea and Bering Strait region that outlines a preferred route for vessels transiting between the Pacific and Arctic oceans as well as additional safety measures for shipping traffic. (pewtrusts.org)
• Q: Why did the Coast Guard conduct such a study for the Bering Strait region? (pewtrusts.org)
• Continued retreat of summer sea ice in the Arctic has led to an increase in shipping traffic through the Bering Strait, a relatively narrow chokepoint between Russia and Alaska. (pewtrusts.org)

Norway2

• Event is moderated by Aileen A. Espiritu, Juha Saunavaara and Kamrul Hossain, and organized by UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Hokkaido University Arctic Research Center, University of Lapland Arctic Centre, ArCS II-project, HaRP-project, UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic in Asia, Asia in the Arctic, and UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law. (uarctic.org)
• 11. Systemic lupus erythematosus in the Arctic region of Norway. (nih.gov)

Subarctic3

• Persistent organic pollutants and metals in the freshwater biota of the Canadian Subarctic and Arctic: an overview. (nih.gov)
• This contract will evaluate and enhance the atmospheric health and safety conditions in open pit mines, with special reference to air inversion in arctic or subarctic regions. (cdc.gov)
• A bibliography on the relation of mosquitoes to vegetation in the Eurasian arctic and subarctic. (nih.gov)

Antarctic3

• Forty-four nations led expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic, resulting in greater understanding of the aurora, magnetism, and meteorology. (cdc.gov)
• and Petteri Vuorimäki (Ambassador for Arctic and Antarctic Affairs, Finland). (uarctic.org)
• Antarctic & Arctic Cruise Blogs. (oceanwide-expeditions.com)

Circumpolar1

• The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP), the cornerstone program of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) working group, received official end. (arctic-council.org)

Centre1

• The Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC) has continued to work actively developing its partnership with Arctic groups over the past year, and this has included negotiating and consolidating funding for on-going atlas maintenance and technological development work, and for training and development. (oceancanada.org)

Outlines2

• In a guest article for the Biodiversity Policy and Practice website, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) working group Executive Secretary Tom Barry outlines th. (arctic-council.org)
• [3] Since that time, region outlines and numbers have remained unchanged, but region names have changed to reflect official place name changes, e.g. the Queen Charlotte Islands have been known as Haida Gwaii since 2010. (wikipedia.org)

Populations3

• Life expectancy in Arctic populations has greatly improved since the last IPY. (cdc.gov)
• These beluga populations have some of the lowest (Arctic sites) and highest (St. Lawrence estuary) concentrations of PCBs in blubber of all cetaceans. (nih.gov)
• The systemic high-level expression of CYP1A1 in Arctic beluga suggests that effects of PAHs or PHAHs may be expected in Arctic populations, as well. (nih.gov)

Council9

• Most of the population in the Arctic live in urban or urbanizing towns and cities, yet, as Mayors in the Arctic and High North have averred, municipalities have no voice in the politically constituted organization that is supposed to represent the Arctic and steer its development and environmental security --that is the Arctic Council. (uarctic.org)
• The lack of inclusion of Arctic municipalities in the work of the Arctic Council is one of the main reasons for the establishment of the Arctic Mayors' Forum in 2019. (uarctic.org)
• How can the Arctic Council accommodate cities in Arctic governance? (uarctic.org)
• How Arctic municipalities want to be heard within the Arctic Council? (uarctic.org)
• The Arctic Council Working Group CAFF recently announced a major milestone in scientific cooperation in the Arctic - the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to guide. (arctic-council.org)
• The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity Working Group of the Arctic Council, is arranging the Arctic Biodiversity Congress in Trondheim, Norwa. (arctic-council.org)
• At the May 2013 Ministerial meeting in Kiruna, Sweden, the Arctic Council released the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) - a wide-ranging and detailed scientific repor. (arctic-council.org)
• The Arctic Council Working Group, the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) has released the "Life Linked to Ice: a guide to sea-ice-associated biodiversity in th. (arctic-council.org)
• The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council, released the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) at the Kiruna Minist. (arctic-council.org)

Ecosystems2

• The White House recently announced the administration's Arctic Region strategy, stating, "The Arctic-home to more than four million people, extensive natural resources, and unique ecosystems-is undergoing a dramatic transformation. (presidentialprayerteam.org)
• The film "Status and Trends in Arctic Biodiversity" addresses current biodiversity issues in the Arctic, and ongoing pressures on its ecosystems. (arctic-council.org)

Atmospheric4

• In this highly dynamical region, both oceanic and atmospheric large-scale transports of heat and moisture interfere with spatially inhomogenous surface conditions, and the corresponding energy exchange strongly shapes the atmospheric boundary layer. (awi.de)
• Therefore, the terms in the diagnostic temperature equation in the Arctic-wide lower troposphere are examined for the Era-Interim atmospheric reanalysis product. (awi.de)
• The new study shows that water transpiration can have a large effect as well, especially in "closed" environments like the Arctic, where there is greater confinement of atmospheric gases. (berkeley.edu)
• The Arctic is subject to long-range atmospheric deposition of globally-distilled semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) that bioaccumulate and biomagnify in lipid-rich food webs. (nih.gov)

Indigenous3

• Health concerns of Arctic peoples include the remaining health disparities that exist between indigenous and nonindigenous segments of the population as well as the potential impact of a changing Arctic environment, characterized by rapid economic change and modernization, environmental pollution, alterations in the traditional subsistence food supply, and climate change ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
• Taylor, Hayes, and Oikle of the GCRC and Pulsifer of ELOKA (Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic) supported the development of the atlas, and funders include TidesCanada, Crown-Indigenous Relations, and Northern Development Canada Indigenous Community-Based Climate Monitoring Program. (oceancanada.org)
• All vessels transiting between the Arctic and Pacific must pass through the strait, so the Coast Guard became concerned about an increased risk of groundings and collisions with potential loss of life, oil spills, and impacts on the Arctic ecosystem and indigenous communities in Alaska. (pewtrusts.org)

Governance4

• As part of the stewardship and protection of the region to maintain a peaceful, stable, prosperous, and cooperative status, the White House highlighted four pillars of policy: security, climate change and environmental protection, sustainable economic development, and international cooperation and governance. (presidentialprayerteam.org)
• The Part 2 of the seminar (Strengthening Region-building through Multilevel Governance and Interregional Cooperation: Urban Sustainability through the Arctic Mayors' Forum) is planned to be organized in Tromsø at the time of the Arctic Frontiers 2022. (uarctic.org)
• The Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East, the Corporation for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic, the restructuring of the State Commission for the Development of the Russian Arctic - all of that was finished in 2019-2020, which, in general, led to forming an integrated governance system for the Russian Arctic. (arctic.ru)
• The guidelines for the state policy were adopted in 2008, the Strategy was adopted in 2013, and the governance entity (Presidential Executive Order No. 296 On Land-Locked Territories of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation, which they focused on, was adopted in 2014. (arctic.ru)

Cooperation5

• and a spirited history of cross-border cooperation on issues of concern to Arctic peoples. (cdc.gov)
• Yet, the international and interregional cooperation involving Arctic and northern cities and regions has a history that dates back to the 20th century. (uarctic.org)
• Platforms supporting cross- and trans-border cooperation between/among the Arctic and northern cities. (uarctic.org)
• What kinds of challenges are Arctic and Northern cities facing and what has been achieved through multilateral and bilateral cooperation between Arctic, Northern and non-Arctic cities? (uarctic.org)
• On July 12 the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna and the Ramsar Secretariat signed a Resolution of Cooperation, at the 11th Ramsar Conference of the Parties, in Buch. (arctic-council.org)

Boundary2

• Arctic Region- The Arctic Ocean is located on the northern boundary of the Earth.The North Pole is located in its central part.This ocean is covered with ice and almost all four It is surrounded by land.The northern fringes of Asia, Europe and North America surround it on all three sides.On the fourth side are the large islands of Greenland and other smaller islands. (edudurga.com)
• The boundary of the Arctic is the Arctic Circle, an imaginary line around the Earth (at about 66.5° North Latitude) where, for at least one day each year, the sun does not completely set (June 21) or rise (December 22). (nps.gov)

Survival3

• Arctic survival and rescue reports. (nih.gov)
• Cold room test of five small stoves to ascertain suitability as components in personal type arctic survival kits. (nih.gov)
• arctic survival equipment. (nih.gov)

Polar Regions3

• On 3 occasions over the past 125 years, scientists from around the world have worked together to organize scientific and exploration activities in polar regions ( www.ipy.org ). (cdc.gov)
• The first International Polar Year (IPY) in 1881-1884 marked the first major coordinated international scientific initiative to collect standardized meteorological and geophysical data in polar regions. (cdc.gov)
• further our understanding of the physical and social process in Polar Regions, examine their globally-connected role in the climate system and establish research infrastructure for the future, and serve to attract and develop a new generation of scientists and engineers with the versatility to tackle complex global issues" ( www.ipy.org ). (cdc.gov)

Temperatures2

• A new study indicates that as trees move northward with increasing temperatures, they will enhance warming over the entire Arctic north above 60 degrees north latitude, accelerating the melting of sea ice. (berkeley.edu)
• Global warming already is predicted to increase temperatures in the Arctic between 5 and 7 degrees Celsius within the next 100 years. (berkeley.edu)

Birds1

• Marine birds as indicators of Arctic marine ecosystem health: linking the Northern Ecosystem Initiative to long-term studies. (nih.gov)

Climate change3

• Driven by climate change, this transformation will challenge livelihoods in the Arctic while at the same time creating new economic opportunities. (presidentialprayerteam.org)
• This thesis focuses on the climate change and related processes on Svalbard, an archipelago in the North Atlantic sector of the Arctic, which is shown to be a "hotspot" for the amplified recent warming during winter. (awi.de)
• Climate change is already affecting every inhabited region across the globe," affirms the first installment of the IPCC AR6. (nih.gov)

Species3

• This checklist includes all bird species found in Bird Conservation Region 03: Arctic Plain and Mountains , based on the best information available at this time. (bsc-eoc.org)
• The Arctic contains many species not found elsewhere, and many habitats and ecological processes and adaptations that are unique. (arctic-council.org)
• The high-level expression of CYP1A1 in the Arctic beluga suggests that this species is highly sensitive to CYP1A1 induction by aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists. (nih.gov)

Coastal3

• The Arctic Working Group, based at Carleton and McMaster universities, is working to connect current knowledge of key issues of concern to Arctic Ocean coastal communities to broad questions of science and policy integration. (oceancanada.org)
• The coastal plain and especially the river delta is rich in bird life, some of the best in Arctic Alaska. (arcticwild.com)
• Specific health effects and overt disease in fish have been linked to high concentrations of contaminants in some coastal regions of North America (e.g. (nih.gov)

Wildlife1

• Wildlife in the Arctic are particularly adapted for the climate and environment. (nps.gov)

Alaska6

• ANCHRR builds on established tribal partnerships in the three regions of Alaska with needs for effective, culturally congruent and community-based suicide prevention. (nih.gov)
• ANCHRR is a strategy for strengthening existing research partnerships, developing new partnerships, and conducting research - thereby broadening the potential impacts from suicide prevention research efforts throughout Alaska, as well as throughout the Arctic more generally. (nih.gov)
• Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Alaska Region Director Mark Fesmire traveled to Helsinki, Finland, this week for the fifth meeting of the Arctic Council's Task Force for Oil Pollution Prevention on November 24 and 25, 2014. (thecre.com)
• Alaska has the only Arctic parks in the National Park System, and together, those parks make up more than a quarter of the total amount of land managed by the National Park Service. (nps.gov)
• Alaska is one of the few places in the United States that has large, intact natural landscapes, this is particularly true in the Arctic. (nps.gov)
• Legacy and emerging semi-volatile organic compounds in sentinel fish from an arctic formerly used defense site in Alaska. (nih.gov)

Peoples2

• The 2007-2008 IPY also features human health as a research theme for the first time and thus presents an opportunity to do the following: 1) increase global awareness and visibility of health concerns of Arctic peoples, 2) foster human health research, 3) promote health protection strategies, and 4) ultimately improve the health and well being of Arctic peoples ( www.arctichealth.org/ahhi ). (cdc.gov)
• The nomadic peoples of the North, belonging to the Arctic world, can be regarded as a unique result of the dynamics of earthly civilization. (edu.ru)

Reveals2

• A study employing kinematic air-back trajectories for Ny-Ålesund reveals a shift in the source regions of lower-troposheric air over time for both the winter and the summer season. (awi.de)
• Archaeology in the Arctic reveals cultures adapted to local conditions. (nps.gov)

Greatly1

• Contrary to scientists' predictions that, as the Earth warms, the movement of trees into the Arctic will have only a local warming effect, University of California, Berkeley, scientists modeling this scenario have found that replacing tundra with trees will melt sea ice and greatly enhance warming over the entire Arctic region. (berkeley.edu)

Geographic1

• The seismic regions are grouped into 50 larger geographic regions. (wikipedia.org)

Organizations1

• The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is a network of universities, colleges, research institutes, and other organizations concerned with education and research in and about the North. (uarctic.org)

Trends1

• Significant positive trends in diabatic heating rates, consistent with latent heat transfer to the atmosphere over regions of increasing ice melt, are found for all seasons over the Barents/Kara Seas, and in individual months in the vicinity of Svalbard. (awi.de)

Issues1

• This article is part of a series highlighting issues from the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) working group's landmark Arctic Biodiversity Assessment. (arctic-council.org)

News1

• Subscribe to our monthly newsletter for Arctic news, views and interviews. (arctic-council.org)

Greenhouse1

• But UC Berkeley graduate student Abigail L. Swann, along with Inez Fung, professor of earth and planetary science and of environmental science, policy and management, doubted this local scenario because, while broad-leaved trees are dark, they also transpire a lot of water, and water vapor is a greenhouse gas that is well-mixed throughout the Arctic. (berkeley.edu)

Infrastructure1

• These threats are especially challenging in the Arctic due to the remoteness of the region, long distances from response resources, lack of infrastructure, and difficult, often rapidly changing weather conditions. (pewtrusts.org)

North1

• The trip will start in the majestic Brooks Range and progress north to the Arctic Coast. (arcticwild.com)

Life2

• For many centuries, they managed to preserve a peculiar way of life and a nomadic life arrangement as the basis for the evolution of the Arctic culture. (edu.ru)
• Protecting Life in the Arctic - U.S. (pewtrusts.org)

Communities1

• The ANCHRR Study is a 3-region research project to evaluate what AN rural communities are doing to support young people and promote their wellbeing. (nih.gov)

Program3

• Konstantin Zaykov, Professor of the Department of Regional Studies, International Relations and Political Science at Lomonosov Northern Arctic Federal University (NARFU), talked to Arctic.ru correspondent Kristina Khramtsova about how the Arkhangelsk Region is benefitting from participation in the state program for the development of the Arctic, what obstacles stand in the way of implementation and how they can be overcome. (arctic.ru)
• The previous decade was beset with several back-to-back economic crises, which led to slashing Russian Arctic socioeconomic development program budgets, which, in turn, stalled the plans that were set in the 2013 Strategy and the 2008 Guidelines. (arctic.ru)
• The Program for the Socioeconomic Development of the Russian Arctic was adopted that same year. (arctic.ru)

Global1

• Over the last decades, the Arctic regions of the earth have warmed at a rate 2-3 times faster than the global average- a phenomenon called Arctic Amplification. (awi.de)

Research1

• The hub will extend a successful model of AN research collaboration to include all of the tribal health regions across the state. (nih.gov)

Unique3

• The Arctic is unique in many respects. (cdc.gov)
• A complex, non-linear interplay of physical processes and unique pecularities in the Arctic climate system is responsible for this, but the relative role of individual processes remains to be debated. (awi.de)
• Regarding winter, they are regionally confined to the Barents Sea and Fram Strait, between 70�-80�N, resembling a unique feature in the whole Arctic. (awi.de)

Environment1

• In addition, locally contaminated sites may also contribute SVOCs to the arctic environment. (nih.gov)

Community1

• The group holds as a key goal the empowerment of community voices in the Arctic region and is currently establishing collaborative activities that can support this work. (oceancanada.org)

Working Group1

• Two OCP book chapters of particular interest in terms of Arctic Working Group contributions, (Chapters 2 and 11), are currently in review. (oceancanada.org)

Study2

• The Study of Soil Bacterial Diversity and the Influence of Soil Physicochemical Factors in Meltwater Region of Ny-Ålesund, Arctic. (nih.gov)
• In this study, we examined CYP1A1 protein expression immunohistochemically in multiple organs of beluga whales from two locations in the Arctic and from the St. Lawrence estuary. (nih.gov)

Entire region1

• It's inexpensive to get coverage in your entire region. (startlocal.com.au)

High1

• People who live in parts of Asia, northern Africa, and the Arctic region where NPC is common, typically eat diets very high in salt-cured fish and meat starting at an early age. (cancer.org)

Health1

• Although cetaceans in the Arctic have contaminant concentrations that are at least 10 times lower than the most highly contaminated cetaceans from other locations ( Norstrom and Muir 1994 ), Arctic animals may yet be at risk for adverse health effects. (nih.gov)