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What does the Polar Code mean for ship safety?
(International Maritime Organization, London, UK, 2017)The aim is to provide for safe ship operation and the protection of the Polar environment by addressing risks present in Polar waters and not adequately mitigated by other instruments -
Effects of Measuring Devices and Sampling Strategies on the Interpretation of Monitoring Data for Long-Term Trend Analysis.
(2021)A thorough and reliable assessment of changes in sea surface water temperatures (SSWTs) is essential for understanding the effects of global warming on long-term trends in marine ecosystems and their communities. The ... -
INTERACT Research and Monitoring Report 2020. D3.13. 2nd edition
(INTERACT Consortium, 2020)The Arctic is still an understudied part of the world, and restricted access or lack of infrastructure makes arctic research more complicated than elsewhere. Coordinating activities, implementing standards and data ... -
Prevalence of heavy fuel oil and black carbon in Arctic shipping, 2015 to 2025.
(International Council on Clean Transportation, Washington D.C.., 2017)Dwindling sea ice is opening new shipping routes through the Arctic, with shipping activity expected to increase with oil and gas development and as ships take advantage of shorter trans-Arctic routes from Asia to Europe ... -
Using local ecological knowledge as evidence to guide management: A community-led harvest calculator for muskoxen in Greenland.
(2020)Indigenous people manage or have tenure rights on over a quarter of the world's land surface. While there is growing interest in “evidence-based” natural resource management, there are few documented experiences with ... -
Evaluation of proposed common standards for benthos monitoring in the Arctic-Atlantic – pilot study in Greenland (INAMon).
(Pinngortitaleriffik, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland, 2017)In 2015, the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources realized a concept for long-term and large-scale monitoring of marine bottom-living invertebrate fauna (benthos) in the Arctic-Atlantic as part of the international ... -
Knowledge for a sustainable Arctic, 3rd Arctic Science Ministerial Report, 08–09 May 2021 | Tokyo, Japan.
(Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2021)To strengthen international cooperation and respond to the severe threat of climate change and biodiversity loss in the Arctic, the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and the Japanese Ministry of ... -
INTERACT Fieldwork Communication and Navigation.
(Aarhus University, DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus, Denmark, 2021)When preparing for fieldwork, there is a wealth of things to keep in mind and to make decisions about. Communication and navigation are essential elements of conducting science in cold and remote areas of the world. ... -
INTERACT Management planning for Arctic and northern alpine research stations – Examples of good practices.
(Aarhus University, DCE – Danish Centre for Enviroment and Energy, Aarhus, Denmark, 2014)This book is about management of arctic and northern alpine research stations. It has been produced by a group of station managers participating in the EU 7th Framework Programme Infrastructure project called INTERACT. ... -
Retrieval of Ice Samples Using the Ice Drone
(2019)The ecological impacts of meltwater produced by icebergs and sea ice in the waters around Greenland are poorly understood, due in part to limited observations. Current field sampling methods are resource and labor-intensive, ... -
Community-based monitoring of Alaska’s coastal and ocean environment : best practices for linking Alaska citizens with science.
(Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks, AK, 2015)A Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) workshop was convened in Anchorage, Alaska, on April 1-2, 2014. The purpose was to bring together scientists, practitioners, community members, and funders involved in CBM to identify ... -
INTERACT Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Arctic Fieldwork.
(Aarhus University, DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus, Denmark, 2021)The environmental impacts of fieldwork at and around research stations may be small in comparison to the impacts of all other human activities and in relation to the often vast and remote areas in which the fieldwork ... -
White paper on management and utilization of large whales in Greenland. [Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission].
(Government of Greenland, Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting & Agriculture, Greenland, 2018)Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland is a Self-Governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark with full legislative and executive responsibility in many fields including the management of natural living resources. Foreign policy (including ... -
White paper on management and utilization of large whales in Greenland. [Presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission].
(Government of Greenland, Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting & Agriculture, Greenland, 2012)Within the IWC context, Greenland’s hunt of large whales falls in the category of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling (ASW) together with the whaling of the Russian Federation, St. Vincent and The Grenadines and the USA. For ... -
Inuit Priorities for Canada’s Climate Strategy: A Canadian Inuit Vision for Our Common Future in Our Homelands.
(Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami,, Ottawa, Canada, 2016)This report provides First Ministers and Canadian stakeholders with an overview of the diverse and growing needs Canadian Inuit face as we adapt to climate change in Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland spanning four ... -
Consolidation of Wildlife Act S.Nu. 2003,c.26 In force July 9, 2005, except s.40,41,66(2),82,152(4): SI-001-2005 s.40,41,66(2),82,152(4) NIF: SI-001-2005 (Current to: February 13, 2020)
(Government of Greenland, Department of Justice, Greenland, 2020)This consolidation is not an official statement of the law. It is an office consolidation prepared for convenience only. The authoritative text of statutes can be ascertained from the Revised Statutes of the Northwest ... -
Resilient Alaska Native Coastal Communities: Integrated Social-ecological Monitoring and Assessment Supporting Adaptation Decisions. Project narrative.
(Alaska Institute for Justice, Anchorage, AK, 2015)Introduction to the Problem: A rapidly changing climate in the Arctic is dramatically impacting the health and well-being of Alaska Native communities. Erosion and repeated extreme weather events damage infrastructure, ... -
Alaskan Inuit Food Security Conceptual Framework: How to assess the Arctic from an Inuit Perspective.
(Inuit Circumpolar Council, Anchorage, AK, 2015)Drastic changes are occurring within our world. We are on the forefront of these changes. We have lived here for millennia and have grown and changed with all that is around us. All that is around us physically and ... -
Wildlife Management Summit Report November 6–8, 2017 Ottawa, Canada.
(Inuit Circumpolar Council, Ottawa, Canada, 2018)The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) hosted the Wildlife Management Summit that took place on November 6 to 8, 2017 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to deliver on the commitment made in Article 40 of the Kitigaaryuit Declaration, ... -
People of the Ice Bridge: the future of the Pikialasorsuaq.
(Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 2017)Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) name for the North Water polynya shared by Canada and Greenland. Polynyas are areas of open water that remain ice-free throughout the winter due to ocean and wind currents. They are incredibly ...
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