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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:57
Master's in Polar Law announced at Iceland's University of Akureyri
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Commencing in August 2008, the University of Akureyri will be offering a Master's Program in Polar Law. This Program is designed for both lawyers (two semesters leading to an LLM-degree) and non-lawyers (four semesters leading to an MA-degree), preparing them for work in both public and private sector, in national and local governments, international organizations, with indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar North, academic institutions and non-governmental organizations, and national and transnational corporations. The deadline for applications is June 5 for Home/EU students and April 15 for overseas students.
The Master's Program will provide a unique focus on Polar Law. It lays emphasis on certain chapters in public international law, such as...
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 01:06
Preparing for Antarctica!
Hello, everyone--
The departure date for my Antarctic voyage is rapidly approaching (May 26). Preparations are well underway, with many last-minute items to attend to. I'm posting to my two blogs as often as I can ("Rime of the Modern Mariner" for teens and up, and "Unarctica" for middle-graders). Some of what I'm writing about now is personal preparations, and some is about preparations the researchers are making. My most recent "Unarctica" post is about Chaiten volcano, which we may be seeing from the airplane on our flight southward from Santiago to Punta Arenas to catch the NSF icebreaker that will be our home for a month. Most recent "Rime" post concerns the radio-controlled airplane the researchers will use for reconaissance and planting GPS beacons on i...
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Monday, 12 May 2008 20:44
IPO Planning - 2008 and Beyond
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Many IPY participants consider post-IPY activities and events. IPY Project Coordinators consider project data responsibilities, special publications, project summary meetings, and the possibilities to extend or renew research funding. National polar organizations and IPY National Committees consider celebratory events, ways to enhance their national programmes, and (we hope) data access and archiving. International groups consider IPY-wide conferences and events, scientific and political impacts, and the benefits, if any, of continuing the international IPY networks of young researchers, teachers, jou...
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Monday, 12 May 2008 20:18
IPY Report: May 2008
Contents: 1. IPO Planning - 2008 and Beyond 2. February 2009 dates and events 3. Canada 2012 4. UNEP Children's Conference - call for material 5. Polar Books 6. IPY.org,- , bloggers needed, fly the IPY flag! 7. Report from SAON 8. IPY Science at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) meeting 2008 Report no. 13, May 2008 From: IPY International Programme Office To: IPY Project Coordinators cc: IPY Community Google Groups 1. IPO Planning - 2008 and Beyond Many IPY participants consider post-IPY activities and events. IPY Project Coordinators consider project data responsibilities, special publications, project summary meetings, and th...
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 16:46
Ice Crash Antarctica: FIDS Pilot W.H. Thomson, 1946-48
On Christmas Eve morning 2007, as I listened intently to the steady and pleasing voice of 85-year-old William H. "Tommy" Thomson, I detected only a faint accent — not what one usually encounters with a Scottish native. Sensing a story, I asked Thomson about his accent, and his past began to roll smoothly off his lips.
In the early years of the Second World War, Thomson was at Glasgow University — and bored. Since the nearest recruiting station was a naval one, that's where he ended up. Given his education standard, it was suggested he try for the Fleet Air Arm, and Thomson duly became an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). The obvious necessity for clear radio communications while flying meant only one thing: the suppression of Thomson's Sco...
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Friday, 09 May 2008 20:45
Edith Fanta
PRESS RELEASE
Commencing in August 2008, the University of Akureyri will be offering a Master's Program in Polar Law. This Program is designed for both lawyers (two semesters leading to an LLM-degree) and non-lawyers (four semesters leading to an MA-degree), preparing them for work in both public and private sector, in national and local governments, international organizations, with indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar North, academic institutions and non-governmental organizations, and national and transnational corporations. The deadline for applications is June 5 for Home/EU students and April 15 for overseas students.
The Master's Program will provide a unique focus on Polar Law. It lays emphasis on certain chapters in public international law, such as...
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:27
Spring Equinox measures
By Turtle Haste, M.S. Ed.
It may be long after the initial project has completed, but the continuation of the measurement of a shadow cast by a 1-meter stick at different latitudes has become an international effort. With assistance from a member of the US Geological Survey who placed a message on a bulletin board, the spring equinox measurement gathered recordings from a variety of locations across the northern hemisphere. Collaborators in Norway, China, Russia, Egypt, the South Pole, and ...
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 23:44
Field Notes: Inuit ecology and the changing sea ice
The latest edition of field notes, the magazines of CH2M HILL's Polar Field Services, is out. In this issue (PDF): Learn how Shari Gearheard, a research scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSDIC), is combining the rich ecological knowledge of the Inuit with scientific investigations to better understand just how the sea ice in three arctic communities is changing. Read about how Fairbanks residents celebrated their frozen habitat ...
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Friday, 18 April 2008 17:30
PlentyMag features IPY project SIKU
A feature in Plentymag this week features the IPY Project SIKU: Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. "SIKU (the term, appropriately, is also the most common Eskimo/Inuit word for sea ice) is a consortium of projects involving research in more than 20 communities in Alaska, Canada, Russia, and Greenland. While researchers in each country are pursuing their own agendas and using different approaches, they are united under one common theme: recording indigenous knowledge of sea ice. Unlike many traditional research projects, which rely on data and measurements obtained directly by scientists, SIKU researchers are interested in the personal perspectives and observations of Arctic peop...
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Friday, 18 April 2008 14:41
IPY at EcoScience International Science School
IPY Day Flyers with Classroom Activities (PDFs):
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Sea Ice
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Changing Earth
Land and Life
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