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Learning about Arctic Regime Shifts

Science magazine has an interesting question and answer interview with Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist from the USA’s Smithsonian Institution, who has a worked with indigenous communities in Alaska and northern Russia. They talk about learning about local ecological knowledge and … Continue reading

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Arctic Resilience Assessment research position at SRC

Stockholm Resilience Centre is looking for a researcher in Resilience in Arctic Social-Ecological Systems.  Applications are due Jan 23. The job ad states: In a joint venture with the Stockholm Environmental Institute,  Stockholm Resilience Centre seeks a researcher to be … Continue reading

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Loss of Old Arctic Sea Ice

Old sea ice, which had survived several summers, used to dominate the sea ice of the winter Arctic. However, today less than half of the sea ice at winter maximum has survived at least one summer.  NOAA’s climatewatch has a … Continue reading

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Yukon Delta from Space

A great picture of the organic complexity of the Yukon River Delta from NASA EOS.  They write: The Yukon River originates in British Columbia, Canada, and flows through Yukon Territory before entering Alaska. In southwestern Alaska, the Yukon Delta spreads … Continue reading

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Links: writing, activism, First Nations, Arctic, immigration, and walking

A selection of links I found interesting from around the web 1)  How to write about your science from SciDev.Net 2) Rob Hopkins from Transition Towns writes about the tension between creating change and activism in Transition and activism: a … Continue reading

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Resilience and Life in the Arctic

On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the Resilience Alliance Board voted to accept Eddy Carmack as the new Program Research Director. Eddy is a climate oceanographer studying water and people from oceans to estuaries as scientific lead for the Canada’s Three … Continue reading

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More PhD positions in Stockholm

There are three new PhD positions in hydrology at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, pertaining to the following projects: Nutrient sources, retention-attenuation and transport in hydrological catchments under climate change (Ref# 463-39-10) The role of … Continue reading

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Arctic Futures ReOrient

In Nature Reports Climate Change, Keith Kloor reviews Cleo Paskal‘s new book Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map.  He writes: Paskal convincingly argues that short-sighted domestic and foreign policies are already eroding “the … Continue reading

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Fire, climate change, and the reorganization of Arctic ecosystems

Alaskan nature writer Bill Sherwonit reports on Yale Environment 360 about the complex response of Arctic ecosystems to climate change in how Arctic Tundra is Being Lost As Far North Quickly Warms: Researchers have known for years that the Arctic … Continue reading

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Methane in the Arctic

Charles Hanley writes about current methane research in the Arctic for associated press in Climate trouble may be bubbling up in far north Pure methane, gas bubbling up from underwater vents, escaping into northern skies, adds to the global-warming gases … Continue reading

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