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Start of the NRF Open Assembly

The NRF Open Assembly started in Akureyri this morning. Its theme is: Climate Change in Northern Territories, Sharing Experiences, Exploring New Methods and Assessing Socio-Economic Impacts.

Click here to see the conference program.

Pictures from day 1.

The conference started with words of welcome from Rector Stefán B. Sigurðsson, Professor Lassi Heininen and Professor Grétar Þór Eyþórsson.

But one of the highlights was the opening speech of Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president of Iceland.

He mentioned that now the eleven biggest economies in the world are now linked to the Arctic through the Arctic Council, amongst them the biggest Co₂ emission countries in the world.

He also welcomed interest from Arctic outsiders due to their work on climate change and their resource knowledge on related issues.

He demonstrated that China sent an icebreaker across the Arctic in 2012, conducting scientific research, confirming severe consequences of climate change. Consequently the weather in China in January and February was one of the worst in recent years, directly impacted by the Arctic changes.

Keynote sessions will continue over the two-day conference.

Recording will be available after the conference.

August 22, 2013
Our Ice Dependent world summed up
The 6^th NRF Open Assembly in Hveragerði, Iceland, was a success. From all over the world scientists, policy-makers and others gathered to learn and share their ideas about Our Ice Dependent World.

Arctic Portal was on site for the Assembly, recording the presentations.

Along with broadcasting the event live on its website, one can now access all the videos right here on the Arctic Portal website.

Available are also all the presentations from the lecturers.

Simply click on the links to download or open the presentations and click on the videos to watch.

Note that not all speakers had Powerpoint or PDF shows.

Here are over 100 pictures from the event, taken by Arctic Portal.

Click here to download the thematic program.

Important: Note that all the presentations are copyrighted.

Presentations:
- Sigurðsson, Stefán B. – Stefán B. Sigurðsson, Rector of University of Akureyri. Opening statement.
- Heininen, Dr. Lassi – Dr. Lassi Heininen, chair of NRF, opening statement.
- Thompson, Lonnie – Professor Lonnie Thompson: On Implications of Ice Melt.
- Kulkarni, Dr. Anil – Dr. Anil Kulkarni on Implications of Ice Melt.
- Mool, Pradeep – Monitoring and assessment of changes in Glaciers, Snow, and Glacio-hydrology in the Hindu Kush – Himalaya.
- Itta, Edward – Life in North Slope Borough.
- Su, Dr. Bob – Bob Su on Humanity, Communities, Minds, Perceptions and Knowledge on Ice.
- Gashiliva , Dr. Ludmila – Social adaptation of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North to the changing ice environment.
- Paudel, Keshav Prasad – Local effects of cryospheric change on agriculture and pasture in Nepal Trans Himalaya.
- Song, Yongjia – Sea Ice melting in Arctic.
- Vaughan, Jessica – The Quaternary glacial history of Banks Island, NWT: how the paleo-record can help us predict future glacier change.
- Ingólfsdóttir, Auður – Securitization of Climate Change in the Arctic – The Case of Iceland.
- Cela, Margrét – The Northern Research Forum, a case study for High Northern cooperation.
- Herr, Dr. Richard – Regional Constraints on Soft Law Legitimacy: Some Australian Geopolitical Perspectives.
- Pettersson, Dr. Lasse – Sea ice navigation in the Northern Sea Route.
- Kalentchenko, Mikhail – Russian Institutional Framework for International Environmental Cooperation in the Arctic.
- Khomiakova, Dr.Tatiana – Arctic Shipping Development Prospects Evaluation: Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet in the Northern Sea Route.
- Bertelsen, Rasmus – North Atlantic Micro State Security Governance: Facing Structural, Natural and Political Challenges Historically, Today and in the Future.
- Barry, Tom – Arctic sea ice associated biodiversity: importance and challenges.
- Jóhannsson, Halldór – Arctic Portal – The Arctic gateway.
- Johnson, Mona – How mobility and other UArctic-programs can be used to communicate new knowledge.
- Sudakov, Ivan – Permafrost and Greenhouse Gases: Towards Sustainable Development or Catastrophe of Our Ice Dependent World?
- Björnsson, Helgi – Can we imagine a World without Ice?
- Finger, Matthias – The “State” of the Arctic.
- Ogilvie, Dr. Astrid – Sea Ice as Enemy and Friend: The Case of Iceland and Labrador.
- Vardy, Mark – Sovereignty as a Social Issue: The case of Inuit Nunangat.
- Laliberte, Jennifer – Frozen in Memory?: Northern Identity in Imagination and Reality.
- Freeburg, Adam – Evaluating Prehistoric Sea Ice Variability and Culture Change in Northwest Alaska.
- Rogoff, Alice – AlaskaDispatch.com.
Videos:
- Bob, Su – Humanity, Communities, Minds, Perceptions and Knowledge on Ice.
- Itta, Edward – Mr. Edward Itta, Mayor of North Slope Borough, Alaska.
- Holmberg, Liisa – Ice and the Saami People.
- Gashiliva , Ludmila – Social adaptation of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North to the changing ice environment.
- Dorough, Dr. Dalee Sambo – The inter-related implications for Arctic Indigenous Peoples.
- Kulkarni, Anvil – Humanity, communities, Minds, Perceptions and Knowledge on Ice.
- Mool, Pradrep – Monitoring and assessment of changes in Glaciers, Snow, and Glacio-hydhe Hindu Kush – Himalaya.
- Prasad Paudel, Keshav – Local effects of cryospheric change on agriculture and pasture in Nepal Trans Himalaya.
- Song, Yongjia – Sea Ice melting in Arctic.
- Vaughan, Jessica – The Quaternary glacial history of Banks Island, NWT: how the paleo-record can help us predict future glacier change.
- Auður, Ingólfsdóttir – Securitization of Climate Change in the Arctic – The Case of Iceland.
- Margrét, Cela – The Northern Research Forum, a case study for High Northern cooperation.
- Alfreðsson, Guðmundur – Human Rights on Ice.
- Arteau, Jean-François – Our Ice Dependent World – Impacts and Challenges for the Inuit of Nunavik, Arctic Quebec, Canada.
- Herr, Richard – Regional Constraints on Soft Law Legitimacy: Some Australian Geopolitical Perspectives.
- Kalentchenko, Mikhail – Russian Institutional Framework for International Environmental Cooperation in the Arctic.
- Khomiakova, Tatiana – Arctic Shipping Development Prospects Evaluation: Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet in the Northern Sea Route.
- Bertelsen, Rasmus – North Atlantic Micro State Security Governance: Facing Structural, Natural and Political Challenges Historically, Today and in the Future.
- Degeorges, Damien – Greenland’s state-building in a changing Arctic: climate, energy and geopolitics.
- Barry, Tom – Arctic sea ice associated biodiversity: importance and challenges.
- Pettersson, Lasse – Arctic laws.
- Jóhannsson, Halldór – Arctic Portal.
- Johnson, Mona – How mobility and other UArctic-programs can be used to communicate new knowledge.
- Kullerud, Lars – Knowledge on Ice.
- Sudakov, Ivan – Permafrost and Greenhouse Gases: Towards Sustainable Development or Catastrophe of Our Ice Dependent World?
- Björnsson, Helgi – A world without ice.
- Finger, Matthias – The state of the Arctic.
- Ogilvie, Astrid – Sea Ice as Enemy and Friend: The Case of Iceland and Labrador.
- Vardy, Mark – Sovereignty as a Social Issue: The case of Inuit Nunangat.
- Freeburg, Adam – Evaluating Prehistoric Sea Ice Variability and Culture Change in Northwest Alaska.
- Laliberte, Jennifer – Frozen in Memory?: Northern Identity in Imagination and Reality.
- Rogoff, Alice – AlaskaDispatch.
- Heininen, Lassi – Closing remarks.
September 20, 2011
NRF open assembly videos online

The Northern Research forum hosted the 6^th NRF Open Assembly in Hveragerði, Iceland, in September. Arctic Portal broadcasted live from the event.

On our website you can now look at all the lectures from the event. In total 45 videos are now available.

Here you can access the vidoes, organized by dates and then after each session. You can see videos of people like Professor Lonnie Thompson, Dr. Arthur Chilingarov and the president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson.

Many excellet presentations were at the assembly, from indigenous people like Mayor Edward Itta from North Slope Borough (pictured).

You can find the program for the assembly here.

Here you can also see Arctic Portal´s pictures from the assembly.

September 19, 2011
The 6th NRF Open Assembly

Arctic Portal broadcasted the 6^th NRF Open Assembly this weekend. Shortly the presentations and discussion will be available here on the Arctic Portal website. Pictures and videos will also be uploaded shortly.

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On Sunday the 4^th of September and Monday the 5^th the Assembly will be held.

It´s title is Our Ice Dependent World.

A host of excellent hosts will hold sessions, beginning with opening words from amongst others the president of Iceland, Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and Kupik Kleist, the Premier of Greenland.

Professor Lonnie Thompson from the School of Earth Science will present in the session about Implications of the Ice Melt.

Open discussions will be held after each session.

The Assemblies program schedule can be found here.

September 2, 2011
NRF and Our Ice Dependent World
The 6^th NRF Open Assembly will be held in Hveragerði, Iceland in the beginning of September. From 3^rd – 6^th of September the theme “Our Ice Dependent World” will be addressed.

Representatives from Canada, USA, Russia, China, India and Nepal are amongst others joining forces to discuss this issue. It regards not only the Arctic and Antarctica, but also the Himalayas.

Arctic Portal will record the Assembly and webcast it.

The overall objective is to address the impact of dwindling ice – terrestrial as well as ocean bound – on the complex interface of nature and society in all climatic zones of the world. In light of the man-made part of climate change, particularly meaning global warming, and the natural phenomena of ice is gradually becoming a concept of global politics – a common heritage of humankind- affecting societal life in quite dramatic ways on a global scale.

This turn in the interrelationship and working of the society/nature interface is the focus of the Assembly requiring two intertwined questions to be addressed:
- First, what will the economic, industrial, cultural and political consequences of the accelerating global ice melt be in different time spans, i.e. in the short (5-10 years), medium (10-20 years) and long term (20- years)?
- Second, what economic, industrial, cultural and political possibilities and challenges are facing human kind in light of global ice reductions?
There are also more subthemes which can be seen at the Assemblies website along with more information about the Assembly.
August 30, 2011
NRF 6th Open Assembly Open for registration

Registration for the 6^th NRF Open Assembly is now open. The 6th NRF Open Assembly will be held at Hotel Örk in Hveragerdi,south Iceland.

The overall objective of the Open Assembly in Hveragerði, Iceland, is to address the impact of dwindling ice – terrestrial as well as ocean bound – on the complex interface of nature and society in all climatic zones of the world, with an emphasis on the Arctic, the Antarctic and the Himalayans. In light of the man-made part of climate change, particularly meaning global warming, and the natural phenomena of ice is gradually becoming a concept of global politics – a common heritage of humankind- affecting societal life in quite dramatic ways on a global scale. This turn in the interrelationship and working of the society/nature interface is the focus of the Assembly.

Further information about the 6th NRF Open Assembly

Registration for the 6th NRF Open Assembly

July 8, 2011
The 6th NRF Open Assembly to be held in Hveragerði, Iceland

The 6^th Northern Research Forum (NRF) Open Assembly which was originally planned to be held in Oslo and Kirkenes in the autumn of 2011 has been moved to Iceland. The move of congress venues was prompted by unforeseen financial challenges, according to the NRF Secretariat.

The venue of the 6^th Open Assembly is a small town in the south of Iceland located 45 km to the east of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. The town of Hveragerði is well known for its geothermal park, which is centrally located in the town.

The NRF secretariat says that all preparations are well underway and the Open Assembly will be held on the 4^th – 6^th of September.

For further information, please visit the NRF Webpage

May 4, 2011
Plenary themes and sub-themes of the 5th NRF Open Assembly
The future of Northern co-operation
- New Northern policies of the Arctic States
- The Arctic Council and multilateral co-operation
- Bilateral relationship
The new Geography of a warming North
- Climate change: Facts – Scenarios
- Threats to manmade environment
- Human security e.g. health and wellbeing – education
- Threats to sovereignty and local autonomy
- Human – environment relationship
The accessible Arctic in the global Economy
- Oil, gas and coal
- Renewable energy
- Energy Security of the Arctic and the world
- New Sea Routes – Revolution in Global Shipping and Trade
Leadership in the age of uncertainty
- Impacts of climate change
- Climate change: “awakening” and Good governance
- Citizenship and climate change: Adaptation – implementation
September 22, 2008
The Fifth Open Assembly of the Northern Research Forum

Anchorage, Alaska, 24 – 27 September 2008

The 5^th Open Assembly of the Northern Research Forum, Seeking Balance in a Changing North, will take place in Anchorage, Alaska, USA on September 24^th – 27^th 2008. The event is being organized by the Northern Research Forum, together with the 5^th NRF Host Organizing Committee representing the Office of the Governor of Alaska, Office of the Mayor of Anchorage, US Arctic Research Commission, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Institute of the North, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Native Science Commission, The Northern Forum, Chickaloon Village Traditional Council, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Cinza Research, and Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The purpose of the Northern Research Forum is to promote intensive dialogue among members of the research community and a wide range of other northern stakeholders. This dialogue addresses the critical issues, problems and opportunities facing circumpolar peoples in the context of social and environmental changes and economic globalization. The Forum provides an open meeting for policy-relevant discussion on the role of research in addressing issues of sustainable development, community viability, peace and security, social and environmental policy, and the impacts of global change.

The purpose of the Northern Research Forum is to promote intensive dialogue among members of the research community and a wide range of other northern stakeholders. This dialogue addresses the critical issues, problems and opportunities facing circumpolar peoples in the context of social and environmental changes and economic globalization. The Forum provides an open meeting for policy-relevant discussion on the role of research in addressing issues of sustainable development, community viability, peace and security, social and environmental policy, and the impacts of global change.

September 21, 2008