The New England Arctic Network (NEAN)

The New England Arctic Network (NEAN) will address links between Arctic change and the natural, social, and built systems throughout the Arctic and the North Atlantic Arctic region. NEAN combines the wealth of academic expertise in Arctic research across New England with researchers, stakeholders, and external partners concerned with environmental, economic, and social impacts, providing an ideal community for anticipating and responding to Arctic change and its impacts on the eastern coast of North America. (...click for more)

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Announcements

Draft of a New England Arctic Network Vision

The NSF Navigating the New Arctic 2020 call is out

Proposals due February 11, 2020

Arctic Community Rooms are available through ARCUS at Fall AGU

University of the Arctic (UArctic) meeting in Stockholm - 18-20 September

New England members include the Univeristy of New England, Tufts, UMaine Climate Change Institute, Dartmouth, Antioch, Center for Circumpolar Studies and new member institutions the University of Southern Maine and the Univeristy of New Hampshire

Recently Released!

Peary's Arctic Quest: Untold Stories from Robert E. Peary’s North Pole Expeditions

Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine

Recent webcasts now avaialble...

8th Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations (IDA-8) - 17-18 Jul

Arctic Futures 2050 - SEARCH -- 4-6 September, 2019

Greenland-US Research Cooperation: Exploring a New Model for Research in Greenland - 9 Sept

Remember to follow MOSAIC!!!

Juneau Icefield Research Program 2020

Student applications are now open!

Due before December 13

2020 Polaris Project

Applications now open. Due by 13 Jan 2020

Recent Reports

Arctic Leaders’ Summit Declaration and Declaration of the First Arctic Youth Leaders’ Summit - November 12, 2019

Fostering the Culture of Convergence Research - Proceedings from a 2019 National Academy workshop

Facilitating increased engagement between the research communities of Greenland and the U.S.

Report on the Goals and Objectives for Arctic Research 2019-2020 - United States Arctic Research Council

Canada defines its continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean - the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

US Coast Guard Releases its Arctic Strategic Outlook

INTERACT Fieldwork Planning Handbook - International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic

Draft UN High Seas Treaty - First Draft of the U.N. Law of the Sea “BBNJ” Agreement on Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Arctic Studies Center Newsletter, Smithsonian Institution

Other announcements:

IARPC Collaborations virtual meetings (ongoing)
Join this growing community of Arctic researchers!
Also sign up for USARC Arctic Updates, ARCUS Arctic Info, and the UArctic newsletter

OPPORTUNITIES

Please join us in posting Job Opportunities and Student Opportunities on the NEAN Discussion Forum

Gulf of Maine 2050 Collaborative Action Grants

Open to all registered participants of the Gulf of Maine 2050 Conference

Due Thurs 7 Nov at 5 pm

Dear Colleague Letter: Support for Engaging Students and the Public in Polar Research

various deadlines

Workshop: Transdisciplinary Research on the Changing Arctic and its Global Impacts: Enhancing Capacity for Convergence Science

October 31, 2019 - November 1, 2019, Irvine, CA -- sponsored by NSF NNA

Applications for in person attendance Sept 23rd (virtual registration open until Oct 29)

NSF INCLUDES Planning Grants

03 Dec 2019; 13 Jul 2020

“Gender in Polar Research: Gendered field work conditions, epistemologies and legacies”

A two-day workshop in the framework of Arctic Science Summit Week 2020, Akureyri, Iceland, 29-30(TBC) March 2020

in the news...

"Special Report: The three young women racing to defuse a climate-change bomb" - Matthew Green

"Looking Northward" - UNH joins UArctic

"Mercury Reallocation in Arctic Circle Causes Environmental Problems"

Featuring Florencia Fahnestock and Julie Bryce from UNH

"Telling the Untold Stories of Peary's Arctic Voyages"

Featuring Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine from Bowdoin, written by Symone Marie Holloway

"Exhibition at Colby shows Wabanaki art as it is today"

"UNH Launches New Center on Environmental Acoustics"

"UNH Graduate Student, Jesse Ross, Named 2020 Knauss Fellowship Finalist"

Congratulations to Jesse Ross and advisor Nancy Kinner!

"Telling the Untold Stories of Peary's Arctic Voyages"

Featuring Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine from Bowdoin, written by Symone Marie Holloway

"Trump’s New Arctic Policy Has a Familiar Ring"

Rebecca Pincus

"A Strategic Plan for the Arctic Council"

David Balton and Fran Ulmer

"The poisons released by melting Arctic ice"

BBC News - featuring Sue Natali from WHRC

"From crisis to resilience in the Arctic"

Joel Clement

Upcoming New England Events

Click here to see upcoming events outside of New England

Book Launch - The North American Arctic

Date: 2019-11-25 17:30:00 PM - 2019-11-25 19:30:00 PM
Venue: The Commonwealth Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Northeast Regional Environmental Acoustics Seminar Series

12 Nov 2019 (12:00-13:00) -- Developing a biomimetic acoustic deterrent to reduce bat mortalities at wind turbines

Mike Smotherman, Texas A&M University

10 Dec 2019 (12:00-13:00) -- Using acoustic mapping technology to understand the Gulf of Maine ecosystem

Jennifer Dijkstra, University of New Hampshire

4:00-6:00 pm

Bowdoin College

UN Decade Of Ocean Science: North Atlantic Regional Workshop

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,

January 7 - 10, 2020

Maine Science Festival

March 18-22, 2020 in Bangor, ME

Featuring The Warming Sea, an original symphonic composition on climate change in the Gulf of Maine!

past new england arctic network EVENTS

Please send us links to workshop materials or online videos of seminars to post

"The Arctic is Melting! Is it time to Panic?" (flyer)

Nina Kirchner, Larry Mayer, Hideaki Murayama, Niklas Eklund,

Nancy Kinner (moderator)

Tues April 9th, 4-6 pm, Huddleston Hall

The University of New Hampshire

Sponsored by the Arctic Science IntegrAtion Questi (ASIAQ)

and the School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering (SMSOE)

Direct link to media:

Charting the Course for the New England Arctic Network (NEAN)

October 3, 2018 -- The University of New Hampshire

Thanks for attending!!!

Click here for materials, agenda., and notes....

Workshop Report (draft)

Preparing for a Northwest Passage: A Workshop on the Role of New England in Navigating the New Arctic

March 25 - 27, 2018 -- The University of New Hampshire