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The project Arctic PASSION has started
The key motivation behind Arctic PASSION is the co-creation and implementation of a coherent, integrated Arctic observing system: the ‘Pan-Arctic Observing System of Systems - pan-AOSS’. It aims to overcome known flaws in the present observing system by refining its operability, improving, and extending pan-Arctic scientific and community-based monitoring and the integration with Indigenous and Local knowledge, by streamlining the access and interoperability of Arctic Data systems and services, and by ensuring the economic viability and sustainability of the observing system for years to come: https://arcticpassion.eu/
The Polar Observing Assets Working Group has started
The Polar Observing Assets working group (POAwg) facilitates the discovery and interoperability of information about research and monitoring assets in polar regions: sites, transects, observatories, projects, and networks or systems.
Goals
- make asset information more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
- promote best practices for interoperability “beyond the dataset level”
- help span a spectrum across science planning, data management, and disciplinary or interdisciplinary science
The POAwg was established in 2020 under the SAON Committee on Observations and Networks (CON) to reduce effort while showcasing and integrating the efforts of multiple system.
Sign up to participate or receive updates: https://www.polarobservingassets.org/
Survey on Polar Data observing assets
The diverse and distributed nature of observing systems in polar regions presents a fundamental challenge for assessment, planning, integration, and synthesis. There is an interest in creating overviews of these systems, since this, among other things, will allow more efficient use of facilities and allow for the understanding of where gaps in observation capacities exist. There is an interest in knowing answers to questions like “Who is going where? When are they going? What will they observe? What observing equipment will they have there? Who is responsible for organizing logistics?”, etc.
The purpose of this survey is to seek to create an overview of existing sources of information on polar observing facilities, systems and activities. This will allow the definition of procedures that can access these sources and compile the information from the various sources.
The survey is circulated to representatives from institutions, countries, initiatives and organizations that have an interest in polar observing, and it will seek to establish whether this information is already being coordinated and what interest there is in (further) developing the coordination of information about observing assets. The preamble of the survey emphazises the relationship with EU-PolarNet, but the we are encouraging all institutions, countries, initiatives and organizations (also outside Europe) to complete the survey. The resulting report will have a wider scope.
It should take no more than 10 min to complete the survey, and we should kindly ask you to do it by 1st August.
Link to survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLRzHLuXCTcfsfzeIv-wI3aZqirqe9jdrnOk31XUnjfcBDRA/formResponse
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Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) just released their June/July 2021 news highlights. Amongst their highlights are:
- The IcePod's Final Episode with Matt Shupe – Great Expectations
- Good Bye, Sara!
- The Daily Life of a Polar Scientist – Intimate Glimpses into The Quietness of an Expedition
- Two New Members Arrived at YOPP International Coordination Office
- New YOPP-Endorsed Project “Arctic PASSION” to Recast Arctic Observing Systems
All of YOPPs latest news highligths can be viewed on their website.
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Welcome to the July edition of the quarterly EU-PolarNet 2 newsletter! Over the last few months, the project has been active in gathering information for a catalogue of national Polar programmes and European Polar Research funding programmes.
Furthermore, EU-PolarNet 2 has opened its first Call for Services, searching for support from the scientific community in defining applicable research activities. These services will be an important piece of our research prioritisation process. The other important piece is our newly formed Polar Expert Group and we are very pleased that so many excellent experts volunteered to become a member of this group. A big thank you to all these helpful colleagues.
Newsletter content
- News from EU-PolarNet 2
- EU-PolarNet 2 Call for Services
- All-Atlantic2021 side event on Polar Research
- ICASS X Panel on Co-creation of knowledge and co-design in Arctic research projects: rethinking calls, seed money and evaluation criteria of funding organisations
- First European Polar Science Week report is now available!
- Contribute now to our survey on 'Polar Observing Assets'
- EU Polar Cluster News
- Partner highlights on polar research
- An overview about the EU-PolarNet 2 partners expertise in Polar Research
- Other news
- Upcoming events
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The full conference CMA Shipping 2021 agenda for CMA Shipping 2021!
Running between October 13-15, the three-day program spanning over 9 tracks will bring together high-level experts from across the entire international shipping industry to provide solutions and expert intelligence to your daily challenges.
The conference will run alongside exhibition hall featuring 80+ booths showcasing the very latest product innovations and services, in addition to our well known networking receptions and famous gala dinner where we will celebrate our Commodore in true CMA style - the pinnacle of our 36th annual event.
Highlights
- Insurance: COVID-19 impact & claims
- Drivers for change: working towards maritime digitalization
- Bunkering: collisions, capsizes & biofuels
- The human element: seafarers & crew vaccination programs
- Greener shipping: getting to zero and alternative fuels
- CLC credit legal sessions: ship leasing & the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Speaker line-up
- Lucinda Lessley - Acting Maritime Administrator, US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD)
- Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen - CEO, DNV
- Angie Hartmann - Executive Vice President / Crew Affairs, Starbulk
- Carleen Walker - Chief Evolution Officer, SHIPPINGInsight
- Paul Holtus - Founding President & CEO, World Ocean Council
- Tom Bowsher - Group CEO, West of England P&I Club
- Vivek Barve - Manager, Vessel Insight - Sales, Partners & Growth, Kongsberg Digital Inc.
- Lourdes Evans - Digital Services Sales Manager, Maritime Simulation, Kongsberg Digital
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The UArctic member bulletin for the month of July 2021 has just been released and contains the following highlights.
Editorial
Observer statement from the 12th Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council: Celebrating 20 years together.
Latest updates:
- UArctic Congress 2022 in Moscow: Save the Date Oct 4-7
- The UArctic Photo Competition: Arctic Polarities 2022
- Call for book chapters: "Supply chain operations in the Arctic: A multiple-perspective approach towards sustainable development"
Thematic network news:
- Thematic Networks interviews series, part 3: Focus on Social Sciences
- International Arctic School Summer 2021
- New Book "On the margins of digitalization: The social construction of older people and the Internet"
Study catalogue highlight
Winter School: Our Connection with a Fast-changing Arctic
The Arctic Centre - University of Groningen invites registration applications for their winter school. The upcoming winter school will have the theme of Our Connection with a Fast-changing Arctic, and will take place 24-29 January 2022 in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Student testimonial highlight
Marie Søndergaard, UArctic Secretariat Intern
Marie was an exchange student at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and an intern at the UArctic Secretariat
"The internship was a great experience, personally as well as educationally. It was also a challenge, resisting all the interesting courses, conferences and other exciting meetings that I constantly faced through my work. The internship provided a great deal of independence, as I worked with different tasks by myself, and I also got to work with what interests me."