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  • Registration for ASSW 2014 is now open

    Registration for ASSW 2014 is now open

    Arctic Science Summit Week 2014

    The ASSW is the annual gathering of international organizations engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research.

    Its purpose is to provide opportunities for international coordination, collaboration and cooperation in all fields of Arctic science and to combine science and management meetings.

    Last year´s ASSW took place in Cracow, Poland and attracted great amount of scientists, academics and policy makers from many different countries.

    This year´s ASSW and AOS meetings will be arranged during April 5-8 and April 9-11 in Helsinki.

    The conferences will be arranged in the facilities of the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute located on the science campus Kumpula.

  • Effective polar data management needed

    Effective polar data management needed

    Northern lights - Aurora Borealis

    Registration for International Forum on Polar Data Activities in Global Data Systems opens 1st of July. The event will take place in Tokyo´s National Museum of Nature and Science.

    To manage the considerable data legacy of the International Polar Year (IPY), National Antarctic Data Centres under SCAR initiated several dedicated data-services.

    To construct an effective framework for long-term stewardship, data must be made available promptly, and adequate technologies should be employed (e.g., a repository service, such as the Polar Information Commons (PIC)).

    In addition to activities conducted within the communities of SCAR and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), stronger links must be established in the post-IPY era with other crosscutting scientific data-management bodies under the umbrella of the International Council for science (ICSU), namely, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology and the World Data System (ICSU-WDS).

    To this end, SCAR’s Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM), the WDS Scientific Committee, and IASC are planning a Joint International Forum on “Polar Data Activities in Global Data Systems”.

    The Forum will address effective polar data management, including submission of metadata and data, sharing of data to facilitate new interdisciplinary science, and long-term preservation and stewardship of data at the international level.

    To ensure the IPY data legacy, presentations on the successes and challenges encountered during IPY will highlight not only the best practices but also the shortcomings. This event is open to all scientific disciplines, and interdisciplinary data management topics are especially encouraged.

    A significant outcome of the Forum will be the development of a new strategy and structure for the Arctic Data Network under the auspices of SAON, IASC, and the Arctic Council.

    Discussions involving the different communities will provide a strong foundation to forge interdisciplinary connections and explore new horizons for polar data management. In particular, an updated plan for polar data archives, including as the PIC cloud system, will be discussed.

    For more information on how to register for the event, submit an abstract and more, please access the even´s homepage.

    Source

    Polar Data Activities in Global Data Systems

  • NRF 6th Open Assembly Open for registration

    Northern Research Forum

    Registration for the 6th 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