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ACCESS is an European Project supported within the Ocean of Tomorrow call of the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme. Its main objective is to assess climatic change impacts on marine transportation (including tourism), fisheries, marine mammals and the extraction of oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean. ACCESS is also focusing on Arctic governance and strategic policy options.
Arctic climate change will have significant impacts on both marine ecosystems and human activities in the Arctic, which in turn will have important socio-economic implications for Europe. ACCESS will evaluate Arctic climate change scenarios and their impact on specific economic sectors and human activities over the next decades. Particular attention will be given to environmental sensitivities and sustainability in the Arctic domain. ACCESS will also engage in close cooperation with indigenous people and other key stakeholders by means of a Stakeholders/End-users Forum and an Advisory Board.
The Port of Narvik in cooperation with Maritime Forum North and Ocean Futures will organize in Narvik (Norway) in April 2013 (dates will be decided very soon):
THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL NARVIK CONFERENCE ON ARCTIC PORTS will focus on ports, logistics, shipping, resources and trade flows.
A planning document, ...
05.03.2013 - 08.03.2013 The 2nd ACCESS General Assembly will be held from March 5 to 8, 2013 in Barcelona. Michel André has kindly proposed to host it at the Technical University of Catalonia -Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, http://www.upc.edu) - , and in particular by the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB, ...
21.02.2013 - 22.02.2013 Michigan State International Law Review Annual Symposium will take place on February 21-22, 2013, at Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center and MSU College of Law, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
This symposium will highlight the current concerns and questions surrounding the Arctic. The ...
20.01.2013 - 25.02.2013 University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
20-25 January, 2013 : information on http://www.arcticfrontiers.com
You can now rewatch the whole of the policy section held on Monday 21 January on the internet in English and Russian and on Tuesday 22 January in English and Norwegian.You can also watch the keynote ...
17.10.2012 - 19.10.2012 Social sciences meet natural sciences - interdisciplinary seminar on Arctic research for young scientists.
The Franco-German seminar "Gateway to the Arctic" is an approach to bring together young scientists from different disciplines of natural and social sciences. The seminar will cover aspects of intensive ...
22.05.2012 - 25.05.2012 The EU FP7-funded project "Sub-seabed CO2 storage: Impact on Marine Ecosystems" (ECO2 ) will hold its annual meeting from 22nd to 25th of May 2012 at NOCS in Southampton.
The meeting will start 22nd with an ice-breaker party and will end 25th with meetings of the different project workpackages and cross-cutting ...
22.04.2012 - 27.04.2012 Montreal, Canada, April 22-27, 2012.
The IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference will be one of the largest and most important scientific conferences for polar science and climate change, impacts and adaptation. Keynote presentations, thought-provoking panel discussions and workshops will provide ...
March 27th, 2012: Letter from Jean-Claude Gascard, ACCESS coordinator, to Gustaf Lind, President of the Arctic Council.
The objective of the letter was to bring to the attention of the Arctic Council, several activities the ACCESS consortium is developing that complement the objectives and activities ...
08.03.2012 - 09.03.2012 Registration is now open for the ACCESS General Assemby (8-9 March 2012) in Stockholm at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Partners can confirm that they will attend the General Assembly by either registering on Vitamib or by sending an email to Mélanie Pellen.
The presence of at least one representative ...
30.01.2012 - 01.02.2012 The first ISAC Responding to Change workshop, entitled "Responding to Arctic Environmental Change: Translating a Growing Understanding of Change into a Research Agenda for Action" is planned in collaboration with the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada and is scheduled for ...
22.01.2012 - 27.01.2012 Tromso, Norway, January 22-27, 2012.
The Arctic Frontiers (AFT) conference is a central arena for discussions of arctic issues. The conference brings together representatives from science, politics, and civil society to share perspectives on how upcoming challenges in the Arctic may be addressed to ...
Session A46 on "The Role of Aerosols in the Climate-Cryosphere System" at the Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
The Arctic is undergoing dramatic change including sea ice loss occurring at rates greater than anticipated, temperature increases above global means, and retreating glaciers. The role ...
Copenhagen, Denmark, November 29, 2011 at NBC in Copenhagen-Hellerup
Agenda of the meeting:
Click on the link to download the agenda [PDF]
Minute reports from the meeting:
The minute reports are available in the WP2 wiki page - WP2 meeting 29 November 2011 - (restricted area)
28.11.2011 - 30.11.2011 Oslo, Norway, November 28-30, 2011
The 7th Annual Arctic Oil & Gas conference, leading event in Europe for the Arctic oil and gas industry, will focus on market trends, commercial drivers and the technical challenges of offshore oil and gas production in Arctic and cold regions. In addition to the main ...
Invitation to this year´s Conference at Voksenåsen, Oslo, November 28-29, 2011
-a follow up of last year´s conference Where Gas meets Ore, Nov. 2010
Voksenåsen in cooperation with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassies of Finland and Sweden in Oslo, the EU Delegation and the Nordic ...
24.11.2011 - 25.11.2011 This ACCESS Workshop will be held in Villefranche sur Mer, France. It aims at informing all the partners about fieldwork scheduled within ACCESS and cooperations with external projects; logistic needs and opportunity will be discussed and data flow between partners, assimilation and archiving will be ...
Climate Research in Service to Society
Denver, USA, October 24-28, 2011
The WCRP will assemble for the first time ever its entire research community, and engage other key international research programmes, in a major Open Science Conference (OSC). Goals:
A better understanding of the behaviour of the climate system and its interactions with other Earth system components is critical to predict its future evolution, ...
Association of Fishing Enterprises of the Murmansk region initiated the Russian-Norwegian workshop to discuss the issues of interrelations between fishery and oil- and gas development sectors. The workshop will take place on 19.10.2011 in Murmansk. Anna Stammler-Gossmann and Marine Informatics representatives ...
Moscow, Russia, 18th - 20th October
PLanning to attend : SVen Hoog, Joe Berger
Call for Abstracts Now Open
The IPY 2012 Conference From Knowledge to Action is taking place in Montreal, Canada April 22-27, 2012 and will be one of the largest and most important scientific conferences for polar science and climate change, impacts and adaptation. The Call for Abstracts for oral and ...
ARCTIC CHANGE ASSESMENT SCOPING WORKSHOP.
Oslo, Norway, September 28-30, 2011.
The main task for an ‘Integrated and Regionalized Arctic Change Assessment (ACA)’ would be to clarify the significant consequences of some of the main drivers of change on Arctic ecosystems and peoples. The key concept for ...
OIL SPILLS IN SEA ICE – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Fermo, Italy (Istituto Geografico Polare Silvio Zavatti)
Tuesday 20th September – Friday 23rd September 2011
This Advanced Workshop is organised by the Istituto Geografico Polare “Silvio Zavatti”. The Institute was founded in 1945 by the famous polar ethnographer ...
See workshop schedule, download scientific presentations and watch videos of the speakers.
The idea for this workshop originates from the ACCESS kick-off meeting in Paris. The aim of the workshop is to communicate to non-climate experts a working knowledge of climate science issues that are important ...
