The New England Arctic Network (NEAN)

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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)

Past Workshop Reports

NSF Convergence NNA Workshop Report

Charting the Course for a New England Arctic Network

Announcements

Vision for a New England Arctic Network

ARCUS has just released an ARCTIC CALENDAR

(NEAN will be transitioning from our own calender to posting on the ARCUS calendar)

IARPC is seeking input for the next 5-year research plan

comments due ~~2 July 2020~~ (extended until 2 Aug 2020)

Operating Short-Term to Long-Term through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Negotiating a Global Renaissance with Science Diplomacy

Paul Berkman, Tufts Fletcher School - presented at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation

Belfer Center's Arctic Initiative Takes Students on a Virtual Field Study to Greenland

The Arctic in U.S. National Identity (2019) is available

online survey to explore the role of the Arctic in U.S. national identity

Fulbright Arctic Initiative

open for applications (due May 11, 2020)

113th USARC Meeting - POSTPONED UNTIL FALL

24 March 2020 | Orono, Maine
Fran Ulmer will speak 23 March at noon

“Rapid Arctic Change: Why does it matter and how can the science community help?”

Oil Spill Modeling for Improved Response to Arctic Maritime Spills (AMSM)

ADAC-funded project led by UNH, Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC), and Center for Spills and Environmental Hazards (CSE)

Click here to read more...

"Arctic Climate Change and Maine"

Paul Mayewski, UMaine Orono

Maine Pubic Radio - now availabe on podcast

(Also see "Coastal Maine Climate Futures")

Exhibition: Christina Seely

Open through 8 March 2020

Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Dartmouth

Features "Dissonance," filmed this summer on the melting Greenland ice sheet

Synoptic Arctic Survey Report

from May 2019 Woods Hole, MA meeting

Now available

Arctic Leaders’ Summit Declaration and Declaration of the First Arctic Youth Leaders’ Summit

Representatives of Indigenous peoples’ organizations of the Arctic have identified priorities and actions for climate change and sustainable communities.

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

Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine

Continue to follow MOSAIC!

The Ice Pod Podcast

Recent Reports

Congressional Research Service Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress - 2020

Implementing Marine Management in the Arctic Ocean - 2020

Arctic Observing Summit Statement - 2020

Arctic Futures 2050 Conference Report - Fall 2019 (report released spring 2020)

Implementing Marine Management in the Arctic Ocean - April 2020

Report on Combating Plastic Pollutionin the Arctic Ocean - April, 2020

NOAA Arctic Report Card 2019

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

US Coast Guard Releases its Arctic Strategic Outlook

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

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

AMAP Climate Change Update 2019. An Update to Key Findings of Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2017.

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

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

SUMMARY OF Upcoming New England Events

Click here to see upcoming events outside of New England

Northern Imaginaries, MNAI Convenes

with Dr. Libby Bischof and Dr. Donna Cassidy
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Virtual Conference | COVID-19 Impacts in the Arctic

hosted by the US Naval War College, the Wilson Center's Polar Institute, and the US Arctic Research Commission

May. 19 – 20, 2020 12:00pm – 4:45pm

Maine Science Festival (canceled)

~~March 18-22, 2020 in Bangor, ME~~

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

113th USARC Meeting (postponed until next fall)

~~24 March 2020 | Orono, Maine~~
Fran Ulmer will speak 23 March at noon

Northeast Glaciology Meeting (postponed until next fall)

3-4 September, 2020

UMaine Orono

Visualizing Maine and the North Atlantic

Date: April 29, 2020
Time: 1 P.M.
Platform: Zoom Webinar

The Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College

A Resounding Beat: Music in the Inuit World (through Dec 31)
Colorful Arctic: Donald B. MacMillan’s Lantern Slides. January 7, 2020 - March 29, 2020

OPPORTUNITIES

Please help us by posting Job Opportunities and Student Opportunities on the NEAN Discussion Forum

in the news...

"Data gaps hamper monitoring of heavy metals that threaten Arctic communities" - Phys.org

"Ruth Varner appointed as visiting researcher at Sweden's Stockholm University" - UNH Today

"Ex-Alaska Governor Bill Walker Chosen for Harvard Fellowship" - USNews

"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

past new england arctic network EVENTS

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

New England Artic Network poster at Gulf of Maine 2050

"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) - pdf

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

Click here for workshop materials