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Referat af workshop med kommune og borgere om projektet ”Åbne døre for lokal viden”
(NORDECO, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009)Proceedings from Kick Off Workshop for the project "Opening Doors to Native Knowledge" or PISUNA (Piniakkanik Sumiiffinni Nalunaarsuineq). The workshop was held in Ilulissat, 11 Nov 2009 The Greenland Government with ... -
Polar Region Bathymetry: Critical Knowledge for the Prediction of Global Sea Level Rise.
(2022)The ocean and the marine parts of the cryosphere interact directly with, and are affected by, the seafloor and its primary properties of depth (bathymetry) and shape (morphology) in many ways. Bottom currents are largely ... -
Expanding the scientific basis for how the world can monitor and manage natural resources.
(University of Copenhagen, and NORDECO (Nordic Foundation for Development and Ecology), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016)This D.Sc. thesis presents research into the theory, practice, application and results of ‘citizen science’ as applied in the developing world (Africa, South East Asia, Latin America) and in the Arctic (Greenland). It ... -
The Best of Both Worlds: Connecting Remote Sensing and Arctic Communities for Safe Sea Ice Travel.
(2020)Northern communities are increasingly interested in technology that provides information about the sea ice environment for travel purposes. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing is widely used to observe sea ice ... -
INTAROS Community-based Monitoring Experience Exchange Workshop Report, Fairbanks, Alaska, May 10, 2017.
(Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC), University of Alaska Fairbanks, ELOKA, and INTAROS (Integrated Arctic Observing System), Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, 2017)The workshop “Engaging Community-based Monitoring in Decision-Making and Assessment” was held May 10, 2017, in Fairbanks, Alaska. It offered an opportunity for practitioners of community-based monitoring (CBM) and observing ... -
INTAROS Community-Based Monitoring Experience Exchange Workshop Report, Québec City, Québec , December 11 to 12, 2017.
(Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), Nordic Foundation for Development and Ecology (NORDECO), Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC), International Arctic Research Center (IARC) at University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), and Integrated Arctic Observation System (INTAROS), Québec City, Canada, 2018)This INTAROS Community-Based Monitoring Workshop was held in Québec at the Québec Convention Centre on December 11-12, 2017 concurrently with the Arctic Change 2017 Conference. The workshop offered an opportunity for ... -
Requirements for environmental monitoring and investigation of cultural deposits: English version of the Norwegian National Standard.
(Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage [Riksantikvaren], Oslo, Norway, 2012)This standard is based on the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage’s [Riksantikvaren] strategy for monitoring of subsurface deposits of archaeological or cultural significance (“cultural deposits”) and on the guidance ... -
INTAROS Community-Based Monitoring Capacity Development Process in Yakutia and Komi Republic, Arctic Russia.
(CSIPN, RIPOSR, NORDECO and INTAROS, 2019)INTAROS (Integrated Arctic Observing System) is an effort funded by the European Union to extend and improve existing and evolving observing systems that encompass the land, air and sea in the Arctic. INTAROS has been ... -
Directory of European Polar Research funding programmes.
(EU-PolarNet, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2022)The polar regions are sentinels of climate change and human resilience and they are also a proven bastion for international cooperation in research and nature protection. European researchers have made significant contributions ... -
White Paper on European Polar infrastructure access and interoperability, including an infrastructure implementation plan for the European Polar Research Programme.
(EU-PolarNet, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2020)European nations operate world-class research infrastructures in the Arctic and Antarctic, which result from a long history of polar research and significant investments made by national polar programmes. The European Polar ... -
White Paper on Status of Stakeholder Engagement in Polar Research.
(EU-PolarNet, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2020)Polar stakeholders include both Arctic and Antarctic stakeholders. However, while including both, the White Paper focuses more on the Arctic, as it is inhabited, and hence higher on the European agenda. This white ... -
Baltic Sea Clean Shipping Guide 2016 : Information for mariners on environmental and safety of navigation measures in the Baltic Sea.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2016)This information publication aims to give you a general overview of the regional environmental and safety of navigation measures applied in the Baltic Sea to maritime traffic. The focus is on commercial shipping which ... -
Guidelines for coastal fish monitoring.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2019)Coastal fish communities are influenced by a plethora of impacting variables, including human-induced pressures related to overexploitation, climate change, eutrophication, contaminants, habitat degradation, effects of ... -
HELCOM Guidelines for Management of Dredged Material at Sea and HELCOM Reporting Format for Management of Dredged Material at Sea . Adopted by HELCOM 36-2015 on 4 March 2015 and amended by HELCOM 41-2020 on 4 March 2020.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2016)Scope: 2.1 The guidelines are designed to assist Contracting Parties in the management of dredged material in ways that will prevent and eliminate pollution in accordance with Article 3 to the 1992 Helsinki Convention, ... -
HELCOM Manual on Co-operation in Response to Marine Pollution: within the framework of the Helsinki Convention.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)According to the Helsinki Convention the Contracting Parties shall agree bi- or multilaterally on those regions of the Baltic Sea, in which they act together. This is to maintain ability to respond to spillages of oil and ... -
Guidelines for collecting citizen observations on non-indigenous species (NIS).
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)Monitoring of non-indigenous species (NIS) is required through several international agreements and guidelines, such as the EU Regulation on Invasive Alien Species (The European Parliament and the Council of the European ... -
HELCOM Guidelines for monitoring beach litter.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)Litter on the coastline is one of the most obvious signs of marine litter. Surveys of litter on the beach allow for a detailed evaluation of litter in terms of amounts and composition. Its strength lies in the provision ... -
Guidelines for monitoring of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and biomass.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)Long-term monitoring has enabled determination of the annual phytoplankton succession and facilitates the recognizing of aberrant phenomena and their progression in the phytoplankton community (e.g. Hajdu et al. 2006, ... -
Guidelines for the monitoring of marinas.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)NIS monitoring in major commercial ports has been guided by the Joint Harmonized Procedure of the HELCOM and OSPAR (HELCOM & OSPAR, 2013). However, monitoring of marinas has received less attention until now. PVC fouling ... -
Guidelines for the monitoring of mobile and sessile epifauna.
(HELCOM, Helsinki, Finland, 2021)The Joint Harmonized Procedure by HELCOM and OSPAR (HELCOM & OSPAR, 2013) has been used to monitor mobile and sessile epifauna among other taxa, but only in port areas, and further observations on the presence of these ...
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