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  • PAGE21 researchers meet in Abisko

    PAGE21 researchers meet in Abisko

    PAGE21 young researchers meet in Abisko, northern Sweden

    Today, Sunday the 22nd of September, permafrost young researchers gathered in Abisko during the 2nd Page21 General Assembly Young Researchers workshop.

    Scientists are being part of PAGE21 project which is is a Large-scale integrating collaborative project under the ENV call topic “Vulnerability of Arctic permafrost to climate change and implications for global GHG emissions and future climate” (ENV.2011.1.1.3-1) coordinated by Professor Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten from AWI.

    Young researchers discussed several topics to include protocols and data management, general challenges in permafrost research as well as cooperation with Page21´s Canadian partner – ADAPT.

    Presentation on project´s communication and outreach strategies was given to inform about great success of this summer´s blogs that were written by young researchers during their work in the Arctic field sites.

    Blog have received over 10 000 entries during few months and the number is still growing.
    Arctic Portal who is hosting PAGE21 website and administrating Work Package 1: ´´Communication and Outreach´´ decided to keep on with blogs project to bring even more awareness to important permafrost research.

    At the beginning of next month both partners will also start new series of Young Researchers Profiles in order to bring more recognition to scientists committed to the project.

    After indoor part of the workshop, group of scientists attended field exercises.

    Young scientists will attend PAGE21 General Assembly that starts tomorrow and lasts until Tuesday.

  • PAGE21 General Assembly decided

    PAGE21 General Assembly decided

    Abisko scientific research station

    The PAGE21 General Assembly date and venue has been decided. The 2nd PAGE21 General Assembly will take place 23 – 24 September 2013 at the Abisko Scientific Research Station in Sweden. In addition to the General Assembly, a joint Media Event with the FP7 project INTERACTwill be organized on 25 September 2013.

    A WP4 workshop as well as a Young Researcher workshop for PAGE21 and ADAPT PhD students and Post Doctorates are planned on 21 and 22 September respectively.

    PAGE21 Project aims to understand and quantify the vulnerability of permafrost environments to a changing global climate, and to investigate the feedback mechanisms associated with increasing greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost zones.

    This research will make use of a unique set of Arctic permafrost investigations performed at stations that span the full range of Arctic bioclimatic zones. The project will bring together the best European permafrost researchers and eminent scientists from Canada, Russia, the USA, and Japan.

    The PAGE21 is a Large-scale integrating collaborative project under the ENV call topic “Vulnerability of Arctic permafrost to climate change and implications for global GHG emissions and future climate” (ENV.2011.1.1.3-1) coordinated by Professor Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten from AWI.

    Click here to read more about the project.

    Source

    PAGE21

  • PhD course in Abisko on snow

    PhD course in Abisko on snow

    Abisko

    The Abisko Scientific Research Station introduces a PhD training course on multidisciplinary issues related snow and climate change effects on it. “Snowtalks” will be held on the 19th of March til the 23rd of 2012.

    It is held in a co-operation with University of Arctic Thematic Networks on Global Change and Arctic Medicine.

    There are four topics for this course:

    1. Long-term environmental changes (climate, permafrost, feed-back mechanisms, ecology).
    2. Changes in snow, what snow and ice means to Sámi and impacts of changes in snow.
    3. People’s health and wellbeing, infections, injuries and security, genetics, adaptation to climate change.
    4. Adaptation to climate change, sustainable land and resource use.

    The course includes student presentations and assignments which will be informed in second circular. The course also includes outdoor activities. Students will be awarded 5-6 ECTS of completion of the whole course with the presentation (short presentation = 5 ECTS, long presentation with written abstract 6 ECTS).

    The course is funded by Nordforsk Top-level Research Initiative “Effect studies and adaptation to climate change” as the fourth course organized by the Nordic Network “People and Ecosystems in a changing world”. The participation for the whole week will give PhD students certificates for gaining credits in their home organizations. Nordic PhD students are asked to apply for free participation including the travel grant, free admission and free accommodation when submitting the registration form.

    Registration opens at course website in January 2nd, 2012, deadline February 17th 2012. Number of PhD students for the course is limited to 20.

    The course is tought in English.

    University of the Arctic