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In Fiscal Year 2021, the Polar Institute organized 31 events and published 46 articles, monographs, reports, essays, and editorials. We are pleased to share a look back on the Polar Institute’s work at the Wilson Center this fall and celebrate colleagues’ significant appointments and professional accomplishments.
Fall of 2021 seemed to Polar Institute staff, fellows, and partners like a programmatic crescendo: a testament to four years dedicated to scholarship and discourse elevating the Arctic and Antarctic regions in domestic and foreign policy arenas.
During this quarter
- Polar Institute staff organized and participated in eight panels and receptions at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland, with fellows participating in several more.
- President Joe Biden appointed Founding Director Dr. Mike Sfraga as Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
- Former Senior Fellow Ambassador David Balton assumed his responsibilities as the new Executive Director of the Arctic Executive Steering Committee.
- The Polar Institute’s 170-page monograph, Navigating the Arctic’s 7Cs, was published.
Two major proceedings were also released this autumn: Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations (in partnership with the United States Arctic Research Commission) and Proceedings of The Arctic in 25 Years: First Annual International Youth Symposium. Both publications provide important insights and public policy perspectives.
We welcome the burgeoning support and growing attention from our domestic and international partners and program attendees. We would like to thank Olgoonik Corporation for their continued support of the Polar Institute, as well as our staff, fellows, and colleagues across the globe for their crucial contributions to policy and decision-making in the polar regions.
Wishing you and yours Happy Holidays
Dr. Mike Sfraga
Polar Institute, Wilson Center
Highlights from this quarter
- Arctic Circle Assembly
- Policy and Action on Plastic in the Arctic
- Reinvigorated U.S. Government Presence in the Arctic
- IDA Proceedings: 8th Biennial Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations
- Navigating the Arctic's 7cs
- The Arctic in 25 Years: First Annual International Youth Symposium
- Arctic Futures Symposium
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EU-PolarNet 2 can look back to a successful year 2021 even if the ongoing pandemic has hindered some of the planned activities. Until now, the full consortium has not been able to meet in person and the 2nd EU-PolarNet 2 General Assembly took place as a hybrid meeting in October with the consortium attending online and the Executive Board in person from Brussels.
EU-PolarNet 2 has opened and evaluated its first Call for Services in 2021 and will announce the successful offers early in 2022. These services are an important contribution to our research prioritisation process. The other important piece is our newly formed Polar Expert Group consisting of many excellent experts who volunteered to become members of this group. We also updated our stakeholder map by mapping all stakeholder activities from relevant Polar projects including the EU Polar Cluster through an online stakeholder survey and summarising the results in a deliverable.
EU-PolarNet 2 organised several webinars in 2021, most of them jointly with the EPB and the EU Polar Cluster. Together we contributed to the EU Pavilion at the COP26 with a session on “Polar warming, global warming”. We also jointly organised a webinar discussing the new EU Arctic Policy with high-level speakers from the EC and the EEAS.
We have planned already several activities for 2022 and important deliverables will be published at the beginning of the year. We are looking forward to the first transdisciplinary EU-PolarNet 2 workshop jointly organised with our partner the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry in Kautokeino; Norway. The workshop is planned for early April and we cross our fingers that the pandemic allows us to carry it out.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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- News from EU-PolarNet 2
- Entering the second year – EU-PolarNet 2’s second General Assembly
- Webinar “The new Arctic Policy”
- COP26 EU Pavilion side event “Polar warming, global warming”
- EU-PolarNet 2 Call for Services
- Coming soon: ‘Catalogue of national Polar programmes and other large-scale programmes’ and ‘Directory of Polar research funding programmes in Europe’
- EU Polar Cluster News
- Partner highlights on polar research
- An overview about the EU-PolarNet 2 partners expertise in Polar Research
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Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) just released their November/December 2021 news highlights. Amongst their highlights are:
- We Have to Move with the Weather – The IcePod with Karin Strand
- Observations and improved model representation of heat and moisture exchange over sea ice
- The Drake Lake & the Drake Shake – The IcePod with Nina Gallo
All of YOPPs latest news highligths can be viewed on their website.
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This VIRTUAL dialogue is moderated by Mr. Dagfinnur Sveinbjörnsson, Arctic Circle Emissary on the Third Pole, Climate and the Oceans and is an introduction to the Arctic Circle Abu Dhabi Forum to take place in January.
Introductory remarks by H.E. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Chairman of Arctic Circle, President of Iceland 1996-2016.
The Third Pole – Himalaya will experience profound ecological and geophysical transformations as a result of climate change. The melting of the glaciers carries water security implications for up to 2 billion people across the river basins of Asia. In the face of this monumental challenge, new avenues of collaboration are called for.
This VIRTUAL event will explored if the Arctic model of collaboration can serve as an inspiration for the Third Pole – Himalaya.
The challenges facing the region and efforts to increase collaboration in recent years will be discussed; in particular the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment Report.
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Alaska World Affairs Council are hosting an interesting and unique Arctic Security related discussion between highly distinguished leaders, General (Ret) Carrol H. “Howie” Chandler, USAF and Air Vice Marshal John Blackburn, (Ret) Royal Australian Air Force. Please join them on Friday, 10 Dec 2021 from 12 Noon to 1 PM Alaska Standard Time for their discussion about "National Resilience is a National Security Issue."
This is a free webinar.