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  • 4th Polar Shipping Summit

    4th Polar Shipping Summit

    ship in the arctic

    Today, 12th of March 2013, the 4th Polar Shipping Summit takes place in Montreal, Canada. The Polar Shipping Summit has been an annual even to summarize the past year of Polar navigation.

    The forum brings together Arctic experts from North America, Asia and Europe to share their experience and views on the best solutions for the current operational challenges as well as the strategy and most up to day technical solutions and current operational challenges of navigation in the polar waters.

    The policy makers, government officials and senior Arctic representatives explain policy and regulatory changes for the upcoming years and promote understanding for the strategy for the economic development for the Northern hemisphere.

    This year’s event will touch upon policy and regulatory challenges and considerations of Canadian short sea shipping in the Arctic, Arctic northern Sea Route and effective voyage planning, ice breaking operation in the North, satellite and port communications , crew training and many more.

    Delegates are drawn from the shipping operators, owners, coast guards and transport authorities, consultants, researchers and brokers. The event is open for public to attend. Registration starts on Tuesday, 12th of March 2013. For more information, please access the conference website.

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  • Read about IPY 2012 in Montreal

    Read about IPY 2012 in Montreal

    From the Arctic Portal side event

    The IPY 2012 conference in Montréal, Canada, was a fitting end to the International Polar Year. Around 3000 people attended the conference in the Palais de Congrés.

    Arctic Portal had four representatives in the conference, where our work was presented at various locations.

    We also took over 100 photos in Montréal.

    Click here to read about the conference and IPY.

  • A million dollar prize

    A million dollar prize

    Arctic Inspiration prize grant announced

    A new award was introduced today here at the IPY 2012 conference in Montréal, Canada. The new price is for 1 million Canadian Dollars. The price is the Arctic Inspiration prize.

    It will be rewarded annually to a group or individual who makes an extraordinary contribution of gathering Arctic knowledge and their plans to implement this knowledge, for the benefit of the Canadian Arctic, its peoples and therefore Canada as a whole.

    The award will be given to teams working in the Canadan Arctic, but the teams can be from anywhere in the world. The first prose will be rewarded in December this year.

  • High security at IPY in light of protest

    High security at IPY in light of protest

    High Security at IPY in Montreal

    The security at the IPY 2012 conference is very high, especially today. the last few days have been underlain by protesters here in downtown Montreal.

    The students are protesting the decision of the government of Québec to raise the tuition fees. The fees will rise of 500 Canadian dollars for the next five years.

    Around 100 people have been arrested in the protest which has seen the police using teargas to distribute protesters.

    Arctic Portal has learned that the Quebec government has been raising taxes, especially on both the health care system and now education. Together they are around 70% of the income of the government.

    The government wants to ensure the quality of the education system and therefore it feels the need to raise the tuition fees.

    There are many security guards around the conference, searching bags and ensuring everything is safe. There were great concerns of protesters smuggling in the conference rooms to protest Jean Cherast, the Premier of Québec.

    The tensions in the conference room were high but no protest was carried it whilst Cherast made his speech.

  • IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action – Call for Abstracts

    IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action – Call for Abstracts

    Arctic Portal news

    The IPY 2012 Conference From Knowledge to Action is taking place in Montreal, Canada April 22-27, 2012 and will be one of the largest and most important scientific conferences for polar science and climate change, impacts and adaptation. The Call for Abstracts for oral and poster presentations is now open.

    Conference organizers invites to submit abstracts on the latest polar science, as well as the application of polar research findings, policy implications and how to take polar knowledge to action.

    The Conference program is available at www.ipy2012montreal.ca

    The Call for Abstracts closes September 30, 2011.

    Conference Website Launched

    The IPY 2012 conference website is up and running and features the latest information on the development of the Conference program, as well as indepth articles and highlights of polar science news from around the world on our Conference Twitter page (IPY2012).

    Further Information