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  • French Arctic Initiative conference

    French Arctic Initiative conference

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    The French Arctic Initiative’s inaugural symposium entitled “Arctic: the Major Scientific Issues” will be held June 3-5, 2013 at College de France, in Paris. It will be followed, on June 6, 2013, by a day of reflection on future prospects for the Arctic and, in the evening, public event at l’Institut Océanographique.

    The objectives of the symposium are: to address the major scientific issues and recent developments with regard to the Arctic, to mobilize the scientific community, from multiple disciplines, around these issues and to highlight the most promising avenues for improving our understanding of this complex system.

    This symposium will lead to the production of a white paper on future research priorities confronting the French scientific community.

    The organizers of the symposium hope to attract the attention of the best researchers in the country, including those who have never worked on scientific problems in the Arctic.

    It is important to note that researchers with leading-edge expertise that is not necessarily focused on a particular environment may contribute to the development of innovative research in the Arctic. We will address the Arctic in a broad context in terms of discipline and temporal (past, present future) or spatial (polar, global) dimension.

    The symposium is organized in the framework of a partnership between the French Arctic Initiative and la Chaire de l’Evolution du Climat et de l’Océan du Collège de France.

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    French Arctic Initiative

  • J.C. Gascard talks about new EU project

    J.C. Gascard talks about new EU project

    J.C. Gascard gives the speech on new EU Arctic - related project

    J.C Gascard, representative from the LOCEAN in Paris, France, gives the speech on new EU project for Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS) which is a joined call from different departments of European Commission.

    Under The University Pierre et Marie Curie coordination and involving 27 partners from 10 countries, the 4 years ACCESS project (Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society 2011-2015) was selected in response to the first call ‘the Ocean of Tomorrow’ of the EU 7th Research and Development Framework Program (FP7-Ocean-2010) under Transport, Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Energy, Environment, Socio-economic sciences and Humanities supervision.

    The main objective of ACCESS is to build the knowledge for a sustainable growth of sea-based activities in the Arctic a) by improving understanding of Arctic marine ecosystems’ response to a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors and b) by providing a scientific foundation for feasible, sustainable management measures supporting policies and related technologies.

    ACCESS will evaluate the latest Arctic climate change scenarios and establish their impacts on marine transportation (including tourism), fisheries, marine mammals and the extraction of hydrocarbons in the Arctic for the next three decades with particular attention to environmental sensitivities and sustainability.

    Understanding the socio-economic impacts of these changes on markets, economies and on European policy objectives along with their influence on Arctic governance, are key areas of research within ACCESS. An open and inclusive forum will give the opportunity to all stakeholders interested in the ACCESS consortium activities and cross-cutting research to interact with ACCESS.