• Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards. (rcinet.ca)
  • Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions. (steidl.de)
  • To do the study, researchers looked at the satellite data for 40 tagged Narwhals from 1997 to 2018 in Canada's eastern Arctic. (rcinet.ca)
  • Researchers in Canada's western Arctic have found evidence of a crater that formed when a huge meteorite slammed into Earth millions of years ago. (space.com)
  • In August, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker and a Canadian icebreaker will conduct a seismic survey of the bottom of the Beaufort Sea to north of the border of American Alaska and Canada's Yukon territory. (oilandgaseurasia.com)
  • The focus of Zero Arctic is to develop regional concepts for Arctic construction that can be carbon neutral over their full life cycle with the ambitious goal of integrating "the methodological novelty of uniting traditional architecture and life cycle assessment approaches to develop concepts that are sustainable and carbon neutral", says Sarah Cox, Canada's head of delegation to the Sustainable Development Working Group. (arctic-council.org)
  • A Canadian icebreaker is setting sail Friday to collect scientific information to support Canada's submission on the extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean that could include a claim to the North Pole seabed. (rcinet.ca)
  • The expedition is a collaborative project with Sweden and Denmark, with Sweden's largest icebreaker Oden joining Louis S. St-Laurent in the Arctic off the northern coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island and nearby Greenland. (rcinet.ca)
  • Securing international recognition of the outer limits of Canada's continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean is a Canadian priority," Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion said in a statement. (rcinet.ca)
  • Instead of following Stephen Harper's lead and pretending that the expedition will enhance Canada's Arctic Ocean submission, the new government should admit that the only benefits are scientific," Byers said. (rcinet.ca)
  • The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) is Canada's national agency for geoscientific information and research. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The government was partly motivated to create the Survey by petitions from Canada's growing scientific community at the York Literary and Philosophical Society and the Natural History Society of Montreal. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Data for Alaska Natives are measured by the Arctic Investigations Program, CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • In April 2008, the Arctic Investigations Program (AIP) of CDC was informed by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) of a large number of Alaska Native (AN) children living in a remote region of Alaska who required full mouth dental rehabilitations (FMDRs), including extractions and/or restorations of multiple carious teeth performed under general anesthesia. (cdc.gov)
  • Narwhals are whales whose natural habitat spans the arctic regions of Russia, Greenland and eastern Canada. (rcinet.ca)
  • The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years. (independent.co.uk)
  • In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Igor Semiletov of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who led the 8th joint US-Russia cruise of the East Siberian Arctic seas, said that he has never before witnessed the scale and force of the methane being released from beneath the Arctic seabed. (independent.co.uk)
  • Bordering on several nations, including the United States, Russia, Canada, Norway, and Denmark, the Arctic serves as an important waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, particularly as the accelerating melting of Arctic ice creates the potential to open up new global shipping routes, energy markets, and create competition among other commercial and national security interests. (senate.gov)
  • The Yamal region of Russia is an ideal site as it spans four of the five Arctic bioclimatic subzones and has an unprecedented large-scale survey of Yamal in the late 1980s as well as voluminous Soviet-era anthropological research on reindeer herders. (boisestate.edu)
  • Canadian scientists claim they have accumulated enough scientific evidence to prove that Lomonosov and Alpha-Mendeleyev Ridges, stretching under the Arctic Ocean from Canada and Greenland to Russia, are submarine elevations, thus giving Ottawa the right to claim the ocean floor beyond the 350 nautical miles limit all the way to the North Pole. (rcinet.ca)
  • China's burgeoning role in the Arctic could translate into direct competition with Russia. (thediplomat.com)
  • While Russia has long enjoyed dominance in the Arctic, the expanding presence and influence of other countries - most notably, China - suggest a tidal shift is on the horizon, one that does not necessarily include the United States. (thediplomat.com)
  • As the thawing of the Arctic has increased its geopolitical prominence and potential economic viability, Russia and China have emerged as major players in the future of the region. (thediplomat.com)
  • Moscow's involvement has been significant and long-lasting, with Russia advocating for the development of the Northern Sea Route along its Siberian coast as an alternative to southern routes through the Suez Canal and investing in the construction of the only icebreakers capable of operating in the Arctic Ocean. (thediplomat.com)
  • The cooperation between China and Russia in recent years adds an intriguing complexity to Arctic geopolitics. (thediplomat.com)
  • Russia has two primary economic interests in the Arctic. (thediplomat.com)
  • Second, Russia is well-positioned both geographically and logistically to be a critical player in the development of shipping routes through the Arctic as retreating sea ice permanently opens those routes. (thediplomat.com)
  • Historically, Russia has bemoaned the fact that all major rivers in Siberia flow north into the Arctic Ocean rather than south to irrigate the deserts of Central Asia. (thediplomat.com)
  • The maintenance of health of residents of the Northern Regions of Russia, including those living in the Arctic zone of the cbountry, is a condition of its advance development in XXI century. (bvsalud.org)
  • Availability of experience of vaccination against COVID-19 is conditioned by higher level of general health literacy.In the Arkhangelsk Oblast and other circumpolar regions of Russia the programs of increasing loyalty of citizen to measures of population prevention, including vaccine prevention, is to be implemented with consideration of established determinants of of vaccinations against COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • The impacts of climate change and sea-level rise around the Pacific and Arctic Oceans can vary tremendously. (usgs.gov)
  • The expedition will add to scientific knowledge about the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, and this is a good thing," Byers said. (rcinet.ca)
  • Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North. (rcinet.ca)
  • on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category. (rcinet.ca)
  • Attention Arctic and Indigenous youth, early career scientists and colleagues. (uarctic.org)
  • The EU project Arctic PASSION plans activities for early career scientists and Arctic and Indigenous youth to exchange knowledge, experiences and learnings multilaterally and also to promote the next generation in the use of Arctic observing systems. (uarctic.org)
  • With this survey Arctic PASSION asks Arctic youth, Indigenous youth and early career scientists living in the Arctic, or working in Arctic Regions (from graduates up to about 5 years after PhD) to help design the capacity sharing activities . (uarctic.org)
  • Dr. Kuittinen is one of the co-leads of "Zero Arctic: Concepts for carbon neutral Arctic construction based on tradition", a project of the Arctic Council's Sustainable Development Working Group, which brings together an international consortium led by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs in Canada. (arctic-council.org)
  • Each case study consisted of a survey of Indigenous housing, of structural solutions and settlements, and a review of the energy consumption of the existing building stock. (arctic-council.org)
  • Globalization, such as the growing presence of industrial and urban centers, also impacts the Arctic tundra and livelihoods of indigenous peoples as never before. (boisestate.edu)
  • The Geological Survey, in that sense, has a complex, historical legacy - on the one hand contributing to the natural and social sciences , and on the other contributing to the colonization of Indigenous lands and the exploitation of ecological resources. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Not all countries with indigenous or tribal populations systematically include ethnicity as a category in national reporting systems, and few include it in national health surveys and analyses. (who.int)
  • For the next five years, instruments on NASA aircraft will target areas of rapid change to yield an unprecedented 3-D view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves, and sea ice. (nasa.gov)
  • This data set contains resampled and smoothed elevation measurements of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, and Greenland, Antarctic Peninsula, and West Antarctic region land ice surface acquired using the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) instrumentation. (nsidc.org)
  • Her favorite experience along the way was collecting plankton in the Southern Ocean as part of the British Antarctic Survey Cruise. (drexel.edu)
  • Bookplate from Kenn Back (1942-, Meteorologist for the British Antarctic Survey and descendant of the Arctic explorer Captain George Back) Additional photos are available upon request. (pbfa.org)
  • Scientists from NERC's British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena California explain why, unlike the dramatic losses reported in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change. (earthscape.org)
  • According to the U.S. Geological Survey, 30 percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 13 percent of its undiscovered oil are under this region. (yahoo.com)
  • The United States Geological Survey tells us that the region has up to 30 percent of the world's undiscovered gas and 13percent of its oil. (senate.gov)
  • The best shorebird scientists in the hemisphere worked together for almost a decade to develop and perfect the system, which relies on rapid surveys at many randomly chosen sites, with a correction rate for birds missed in the rapid surveys determined through intensive surveys on a small sample of sites where we compare full season counts with the same rapid surveys we do across the landscape. (manomet.org)
  • Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane - a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region. (independent.co.uk)
  • Scientists estimate that there are hundreds of millions of tons of methane gas locked away beneath the Arctic permafrost, which extends from the mainland into the seabed of the relatively shallow sea of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. (independent.co.uk)
  • In the Arctic, for example, scientists used ICESat to map Greenland's dramatic surface elevation, rising to 4,000 meters above sea level. (nasa.gov)
  • Investment by UKRI-NERC to coincide with this 30th anniversary will see a range of cutting-edge kit, including remotely operated and autonomous vehicles available for use in the nearby Kongsfjorden, extending the reach and range of their activities for the next generation of Arctic scientists. (bas.ac.uk)
  • The work of Canadian scientists and researchers on this survey, in collaboration with their Swedish partners, is vital to improving our collective knowledge of the Arctic, said Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr. (rcinet.ca)
  • Knowing how the structure and function of arctic terrestrial ecosystems are responding to recent and persistent climate change is paramount to understanding the future state of the Earth system and how humans will need to adapt. (usgs.gov)
  • Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC's flagship news cast. (rcinet.ca)
  • Growing Arctic ship traffic will bring with it air pollution that has the potential to accelerate climate change in the world's northern reaches. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Ships operating in or near the Arctic use advanced diesel engines that release black carbon into one of the most sensitive regions for climate change. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Recent observations from Alaska suggest that beavers ( Castor canadensis ) are also moving into tundra regions, possibly due to climate change increasing habitat ( e.g. shrubs, open water in winter, longer growing season), population rebound following overtrapping, or other factors 14 . (nature.com)
  • One of the greatest fears is that with the disappearance of the Arctic sea ice in summer, and rapidly rising temperatures across the entire Arctic region, which are already melting the Siberian permafrost, the trapped methane could be suddenly released into the atmosphere leading to rapid and severe climate change. (independent.co.uk)
  • This week marks its 30th birthday, beginning a year-long celebration of crucial science, innovation and outreach, at a critical time when Arctic science has never been more important on the eve of the COP 26 climate change conference in Glasgow in November. (bas.ac.uk)
  • By "leverage and focus" of university students and facility, definitions on how to control future conflicts regarding resources in key regions of the world would give the DoD the influence they need with regard to climate change. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • The US Navy Energy, Environment and Climate Change task force (TFCC) was created in 2009 "to address the naval implications of a changing Arctic and global environment. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • While the TFCC is concerned about Arctic ice melt, sea levels, resource "challenges" and "humanitarian assistance" with regard to "disaster response", they consider the effects of "ocean acidification on ecosystems, abrupt climate change, and geo-engineering challenges. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • Pachauri said: "If the impact of climate change is going to make regions of violence poorer, then they really provide a level of fertility for inciting disaffection, resentment against the prosperous world. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • John Ziker, a professor of and chair of the anthropology department is a principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant titled Navigating the New Arctic Research: Collaborative Research: Interactions of natural and social systems with climate change, globalization, and infrastructure development in the Arctic. (boisestate.edu)
  • [ 7 ] Climate change and appearance of carnivorous and omnivorous species in new regions is having an influence on distribution of the various Trichinella species. (medscape.com)
  • This mirrors what's been observed for climate-driven sea ice loss in the region, the researchers say. (rcinet.ca)
  • Happy Birthday to the NERC Arctic Research Station and many congratulations on 30 years of fantastic and influential Arctic science by British researchers. (bas.ac.uk)
  • Congratulations to the NERC Arctic Station and the researchers who have worked there over the last three decades, who are all playing their part in this critical task. (bas.ac.uk)
  • Despite their significant impacts on the environment and climate, the built environment and construction methods in the Arctic have received very little attention from researchers. (arctic-council.org)
  • Navigating the New Arctic empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. (boisestate.edu)
  • In May, in interviews with Radio Canada International, Canadian officials revealed that Canada plans to submit its Arctic continental shelf claim in 2018. (rcinet.ca)
  • In 2018, China released an official white paper entitled "China's Arctic Policy" - a step that in and of itself signals the country's intent to play a larger role in the region - in which it outlines its priorities in the Arctic and describes itself as a " near-Arctic state . (thediplomat.com)
  • The total amount of methane stored beneath the Arctic is calculated to be greater than the overall quantity of carbon locked up in global coal reserves so there is intense interest in the stability of these deposits as the polar region warms at a faster rate than other places on earth. (independent.co.uk)
  • They are also planning for a near wholesale replacement of their icebreaker fleet in order to better operate in the polar region. (senate.gov)
  • In October, Cassini's radar will look even closer to the north pole, searching for more lakes and mapping more of the polar region covered by these features. (spacearchive.info)
  • Inuktitut-speakers generally associated with the northern polar region. (bvsalud.org)
  • GREENLAND - Today, U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) arrived in Greenland for a three day fact-finding mission focused on examining the environmental and security implications of the warming Arctic climate. (senate.gov)
  • It was almost as though someone laid a bull's-eye around the whole north pole of Titan, and Cassini sees these regions of lakes just like those we see on Earth," said Larry Soderblom, Cassini interdisciplinary scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Ariz. "Titan has turned out to be like a musical crescendo -- each pass is more exciting than the last. (spacearchive.info)
  • James J. Corbett , professor of marine science and policy at UD, is a lead author of the first geospatial approach to evaluating the potential impacts of shipping on Arctic climate. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • By considering impacts of multiple climatic and socioeconomic drivers on the functioning of an increasingly industrialized Arctic region, this project crystalizes processes that are or represent potential threats to the well-being of Arctic communities relying on reindeer herding economy. (boisestate.edu)
  • The Sustainable Development Working Group's "Zero Arctic" project develops concepts for carbon neutral constructions in the Arctic. (arctic-council.org)
  • Zero Arctic is based on case studies from Finland, Canada and the Arctic Council's Observer state Japan. (arctic-council.org)
  • Grays Bay is an Arctic waterway in Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • Upon arriving, Senator King, along with Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Paul F. Zukunft and Danish defense and meteorological officials, surveyed the Jacobshavn Glacier. (senate.gov)
  • Following the briefing, Senator King will survey marine vehicles used in the Arctic before boarding them to tour an iceberg and receive a briefing from the Director of the Danish Meteorological Institute. (senate.gov)
  • According to earlier estimations, up to 25 percent of the world's hydrocarbon fuel-and much more of other rare and extremely sought-after mineral resources-lies at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. (oilandgaseurasia.com)
  • Per the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Arctic may account for as much as 22 percent of the world's oil and gas reserves. (dowjones.com)
  • Some 70 percent of Russia's reserves are on the continental shelf off its coast (primarily in the Arctic) and its status as the world's largest supplier of oil and natural gas makes it a leading player in exploiting further reserves in international waters. (thediplomat.com)
  • The survey was developed by Accountemps, the world's first and largest specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals. (mbchamber.mb.ca)
  • the Arctic is undergoing a system-wide response to an altered climatic state. (usgs.gov)
  • Our camp along Kealok Creek is a welcome sight at the end of a very long day surveying on the tundra. (manomet.org)
  • Beavers were not previously recognized as an Arctic species, and their engineering in the tundra is considered negligible. (nature.com)
  • Recent findings suggest that beavers have moved into Arctic tundra regions and are controlling surface water dynamics, which strongly influence permafrost and landscape stability. (nature.com)
  • Here we use 70 years of satellite images and aerial photography to show the scale and magnitude of northwestward beaver expansion in Alaska, indicated by the construction of over 10,000 beaver ponds in the Arctic tundra. (nature.com)
  • In Alaska, wildlife such as moose ( Alces alces ), which depend on shrub forage protruding from the snow in winter, have moved into tundra regions during the last century concurrent with an increase in their shrub habitat 12 . (nature.com)
  • How extensive is beaver engineering in the Arctic tundra, and how has it changed in recent decades? (nature.com)
  • We surveyed satellite images of nearly every stream, river, and lake in the Alaska Arctic tundra and identified 11,377 beaver ponds on streams, sloughs, and lake outlets, revealing the recent footprint of this disturbance regime (Figs. 1 and 2 ). (nature.com)
  • The goal of this five-year project project is to understand the natural, social, and built environment systems within a tundra region are linked in their responses to stressors. (boisestate.edu)
  • These towers, constructed in the mid-1980s primarily in the mountainous border region of South Armagh, were landmarks in a thirty-year conflict in and over Northern Ireland. (steidl.de)
  • An ethnic group inhabiting primarily arctic areas. (bvsalud.org)
  • The International Forum of Young Leaders of the Arctic Council Countries invites participation in their survey on threats to the Arctic region. (uarctic.org)
  • The International Forum of Young Leaders of the Arctic Council Countries "ICE: Inspiration. (uarctic.org)
  • Our hope is that this study will enable better communication of emerging science with policy makers and aid the eight Arctic Council nations with climate policy. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Even so, China has in recent years pressed for a greater role in Arctic affairs, becoming one of the 13 observer states of the Arctic Council in 2013. (thediplomat.com)
  • Dr Semiletov's team published a study in 2010 estimating that the methane emissions from this region were in the region of 8 million tons a year but the latest expedition suggests this is a significant underestimate of the true scale of the phenomenon. (independent.co.uk)
  • The Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Louis S. St-Laurent is heading from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia for Tromsø, in northern Norway, where it will take on board personnel from the Geological Survey of Canada, the Canadian Hydrographic Service and Global Affairs Canada experts before embarking on a six-week expedition in the Arctic Ocean. (rcinet.ca)
  • However, with the melting of Arctic sea ice and permafrost, the huge stores of methane that have been locked away underground for many thousands of years might be released over a relatively short period of time, Dr Shakhova said. (independent.co.uk)
  • Seasonality shifts, thawing permafrost and the occurrence of extreme weather conditions in the Arctic today have led to cascading effects in the natural and human worlds. (boisestate.edu)
  • Teshekpuk Lake looks like the Arctic Ocean in the distance because it is so big. (manomet.org)
  • From the University of Delaware - As the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms, ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • If the Arctic Ocean continues to warm, new shipping lanes could emerge at the top of the world, as shown in these scenarios. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • A Northwest Passage and Northeast Passage through the Arctic Ocean would provide a distance savings of about 25 percent and 50 percent, respectively, with coincident time and fuel savings. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • They watched as thin, seasonal sea ice replaced thick, older sea ice as the dominant type in the Arctic Ocean. (nasa.gov)
  • Arctic survey drills 'hole in the pole' to collect water samples that will be used to measure ocean acidification. (berkeley.edu)
  • 2004. Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (Mexico), Geological Survey (U.S.), and Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. (utexas.edu)
  • Geological Survey Museum Bulletin. (wikipedia.org)
  • USGS Geologists Ann Gibbs and Alex Nereson collaborated with Richard Buzard (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) to develop rapid response flood hazard maps by taking the existing topobathymetric digital elevation model (TBDEM) and raising water elevations based on forecasted water levels. (usgs.gov)
  • Recently the U.S Geological Survey published the first national evaluation of the mineral resources of this region. (oilandgaseurasia.com)
  • The Report of the U.S. Geological Survey is the result of four years of research, and it is the first comprehensive research available to the public. (oilandgaseurasia.com)
  • And this report is eagerly awaited at Artic Fox Lithium because, as Gary Claytens, the company's special consultant, explained, the LiDAR survey will give the technical and geological teams a clearer picture of the potential pegmatite structures on the three projects. (goldinvest.de)
  • www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/geological-survey-of-canada. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • The Canadian Encyclopedia , s.v. 'Geological Survey of Canada,' by C. Vodden, L.a. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • William Edmond Logan, founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada, c 1860-1870. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • In 1841, the government of the Province of Canada (the area that is now the southern parts of Ontario and Québec ) budgeted £1,500 to carry out a geological survey of the province. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • This made it among the early publicly funded geological surveys in the world, following the establishment of surveys in France, the US, Ireland, Scotland and Britain between 1823 and 1835. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • geological surveys, in Canada and elsewhere, were established with the objective of advancing the mining economy of the province. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Zaslow's observation applies equally to geological surveys throughout the world. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • In late summer, the Russian research vessel Academician Lavrentiev conducted an extensive survey of about 10,000 square miles of sea off the East Siberian coast, in cooperating with the University of Georgia Athens. (independent.co.uk)
  • Please follow this link to fill the survey , ideally until 15 May 2022! (uarctic.org)
  • Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International's Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. (rcinet.ca)
  • Our collaboration with Sweden, Denmark and the United States is a prime example of positive cooperation in the region. (rcinet.ca)
  • 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)
  • To better understand the potential impact of black carbon and other ship pollutants on climate, including carbon dioxide, methane and ozone, the research team produced high-resolution (5-kilometer-by-5-kilometer) scenarios that account for growth in shipping in the region through 2050, and also outline potential new Arctic shipping routes. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • The rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic is forcing bears to sometimes swim up to more than 12 days at a time, the research found. (yahoo.com)
  • Russians realize why they need the Arctic, and in the Putin and Medvedev era they have begun to behave very aggressively," said Robert Hubert, Deputy Director of the Center for Military and Strategic Research at the University of Calgary, as quoted on the Inopressa website. (oilandgaseurasia.com)
  • Natalia Shakhova, a colleague at the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said that the Arctic is becoming a major source of atmospheric methane and the concentrations of the powerful greenhouse gas have risen dramatically since pre-industrial times, largely due to agriculture. (independent.co.uk)
  • ARCUS facilitates cross-boundary Arctic knowledge, research, communication, and education in the US, and with partners across the globe. (arcus.org)
  • She hopes to someday do research in the Arctic, where the ecosystem is changing more rapidly than in other regions, to explore how those changes affect the lowest levels of the food chain. (drexel.edu)
  • Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region and the globe. (boisestate.edu)
  • According to research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, vanishing Arctic sea ice could drive future California Pacific ridges, spurring more droughts, which in turn result in these hellacious statewide firestorms . (huffpost.com)
  • Her investigative report " Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change ," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for "Best Investigative Article or Series" at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. (rcinet.ca)
  • Alone, this fact makes credible the possibility of the Arctic becoming yet another maritime-based geopolitical conflict. (dowjones.com)
  • The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Due to changing environmental conditions in recent years, cruise ships have been able to access more regions of the Arctic for a longer operating season. (mdpi.com)
  • I was visiting a plot I had surveyed 16 years ago, although the thousands of plots I have surveyed since then meant that I had no particular memory of this one. (manomet.org)
  • METHODS: The sample included 4,914 children aged 8 to 15 years from the 2005 to 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (representing 20.7 million children). (cdc.gov)
  • During the years 1970-1979, surveys were conducted on an environmental issue within what was called "Sydlänens Kustkontrollundersökningar" (SKU). (lu.se)
  • Canada and the United States have declared that the earlier argument over possession of the 12,000 square kilometers of the sea bottom in the Beaufort Sea is temporarily set aside because of the necessity to rebuff Russia's Arctic ambitions, since they threaten the claims of the United States, Canada, Denmark and Norway. (oilandgaseurasia.com)
  • Dark regions in radar images generally mean smoother terrain, while bright regions mean a rougher surface. (spacearchive.info)
  • A team of geologists spotted this newly identified meteorite crater while surveying the region for possible energy and mineral resources. (space.com)
  • The ominous unseasonable heat along the western coast of the North American continent extending into the Arctic region and across into the North Atlantic, December 3, 2017. (huffpost.com)
  • After Extratropical Typhoon Merbok struck western Alaska, HWM data were collected by the State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, USGS, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USDA-NRCS, and private engineering and surveying firms. (usgs.gov)
  • Its projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. (boisestate.edu)
  • Their partnership on Arctic affairs, both formally and informally, represents an important component of understanding the long-term strategic balance in the Arctic. (thediplomat.com)
  • Russia's involvement in the region is to be expected, as one of the eight countries with territory above the Arctic Circle - and vast territory at that, with thousands of miles of coastline. (thediplomat.com)
  • Through fieldwork in seven fieldsites across the Arctic from the Russian Federation, to Fennoscandia, Canada, and Alaska, we have worked to document a wide variety of relations between humans, animals and places where they live. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • AIP and Alaska DHSS conducted an investigation of dental caries and associated risk factors among children in the remote region. (cdc.gov)
  • This kind of activity in the Arctic, combined with declining summer sea ice, has positive implications for energy security across borders, because LNG and oil tankers will in some cases be able to have alternatives to their current, more dangerous and clogged routes through South-East Asian straits and the Gulf of Aden and of course the Suez Canal. (senate.gov)
  • In almost every discipline represented, we show how the biocomplexity of the Arctic system has highlighted and challenged a paucity of integrated scientific knowledge, the lack of sustained observational and experimental time series, and the technical and logistic constraints of researching the Arctic environment. (usgs.gov)
  • Operation Ice Bridge began in 2009, becoming the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. (nasa.gov)
  • On behalf of Arctic Fox Lithium (CSE: AFX, FSE: O5K, WKN: A3D7WN) , XEOS Imaging Inc. has conducted an airborne LiDAR survey on the Kana Lake, Delta Lake and Pontax North properties in the James Bay region of Quebéc. (goldinvest.de)
  • This study supports ongoing efforts to strengthen the interdisciplinarity of arctic system science and improve the coupling of large scale experimental manipulation with sustained time series observations by incorporating and integrating novel technologies, remote sensing and modeling. (usgs.gov)
  • MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sister Study participants, a cohort of women with a family history of breast cancer, were surveyed on family cancer history, family communication, social support, and interactions with healthcare providers (n = 11,766). (cdc.gov)
  • With combined capacities, visions and ideas, we can improve relevant Arctic observations together in order to better understand Arctic environmental change, and to adapt technologies and data acquisition for societal needs. (uarctic.org)
  • Both countries are gathering data to support their claims to Arctic territories, where immense natural riches are hidden. (oilandgaseurasia.com)
  • Operation Ice Bridge is allowing us to get much higher resolution data over smaller, targeted regions," said Lora Koenig of NASA Goddard, and acting project scientist for the Ice Bridge mission. (nasa.gov)
  • The data were collected as part of Operation IceBridge funded aircraft survey campaigns. (nsidc.org)
  • This award fulfills part of that aim by addressing interactions among social systems, natural environment, and built environment in the following NNA areas: arctic residents, data and observation, forecasting, global impact, and resilient infrastructure. (boisestate.edu)
  • With data collection now complete, Artic Fox Lithium expects XEOS Imaging to provide a full report on the survey in approximately two weeks. (goldinvest.de)
  • The Analysis of survey data / edited by Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh and Clive Payne. (who.int)
  • Despite the end of ICESat's mission, NASA's observations of Earth's polar regions continue. (nasa.gov)
  • So, we designed these arctic surveys to get a highly precise measure of shorebird populations over time. (manomet.org)
  • This will not only save Arctic Fox Lithium valuable time, but will also allow them to determine the targets of particular interest with a higher degree of certainty. (goldinvest.de)
  • For instance, George Mercer Dawson , one of the first topographers of the Canadian Rockies, wrote ethnographic reports on the Haida and Cree peoples, while at the same time surveying the west coast for coal deposits and charting the expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railway . (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • at the time of the investigation, four full-time dentists were working in the region. (cdc.gov)
  • Our partners in the Arctic exploration received this news with extreme nervousness. (oilandgaseurasia.com)
  • This year, the region has seen frenetic activity by the military as well as civilian vessels, including gas exploration operations and international military drills. (dowjones.com)
  • This makes energy exploration among the most important and perhaps the most serious issues for Arctic policy moving forward. (senate.gov)
  • The exploration, the production, and certainly the construction necessary to develop Arctic resources is going to require all types of financing not just for the sheer scale and remoteness of the projects, but for the levels of technology needed to bring them online in a way that's safe for workers, safe for the environment, and as insulated from risk as possible. (senate.gov)
  • In relation to the Forum, a survey have been launched to learn which threats people think are key for the Arctic region and how they see the solutions to these problems. (uarctic.org)
  • The title of the paper our team wrote based on our earlier surveys says it all: "Shorebirds Nest in Unusually High Density…" in this special place… If one were to pick out a part of the north slope to set aside as a wildlife refuge to benefit shorebirds, the Teshekpuk Lake area would have a strong case as a prime contender. (manomet.org)
  • In sickness and in health" may apply to marriage, but it's also an increasingly common workplace vow, a new Accountemps survey reveals. (mbchamber.mb.ca)
  • This provides an interesting set of studies from Northern Finland, Northern Canada and the island of Hokkaido in Japan, where buildings face similar challenges to Arctic regions. (arctic-council.org)
  • I was there - my second journey to the region around the southernmost continent - early this year on a five-week voyage as a photographic expert aboard the National Geographic Endurance. (mtpr.org)
  • We always need a strong team to do this work in the harsh conditions of the arctic. (manomet.org)
  • Russia's involvement in the Arctic and interest in the Northern Sea Route (NSR) perhaps goes without saying, with over 24,000 miles of coastline above the Arctic circle, and a centuries-long history in the region. (thediplomat.com)
  • The Arctic is of increasing strategic importance to the United States and its allies in the region. (senate.gov)
  • But the historical significance of the Canadian Survey was distinct from many of its precursors because it was part of a broader project of promoting the settlement of the frontier by white subjects loyal to the British Crown. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Today, through this project, thousands of samples have been preserved from the survey, that has been collected from Hanö Bay in the southeast to Laholmsbukten in the southwest. (lu.se)
  • 2012. Arctic sea ice freeboard from IceBridge acquisitions in 2009: Estimates and comparisons with ICESat. (nsidc.org)
  • In addition, dental caries severity for the region was compared with estimates for same-aged U.S. children from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999--2004 ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)