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Arctic Futures Symposium 2011: Interview with Rodion Sulyandziga
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Arctic Futures Symposium 2011: Interview with Vladimir Romanovsky
28.10.2011
Vladimir Romanovsky is a Professor of Geophysics at the Permafrost Laboratory at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Prof. Romanovsky gives a brief overview of how permafrost is warming and the consequences on infrastructure and the carbon cycle as well as the importance of the IPY ‘Thermal State of Permafrost’ research project in providing new data sets.
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Arctic Futures Symposium 2011: Interview with Paula Kankaanpää
28.10.2011
Paula Kankaanpää is the Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. Prof. Kankaanpää offers a brief description of the new EU Arctic Information Centre initiative she is coordinating.
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Arctic Futures Symposium 2011: Interview with Jean-Claude Gascard
28.10.2011
Jean-Claude Gascard is an Emeritus Research Director at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. He was the coordinator of the DAMOCLES project under FP6 and is now coordinator of its follow-up project, ACCESS under FP7. Prof. Gascard gives an overview of the ACCESS project in this interview.
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Arctic Futures Symposium 2011: Interview with Lawson Brigham
28.10.2011
Lawson Brigham is a Distinguished Professor of Geography and Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and chaired the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment (AMSA) the Arctic Council released in 2009. Prof. Brigham was able to describe the current situation of maritime transport in the Arctic, what’s being done to improve infrastructure, and reasons for increased interest in shipping in…
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Arctic Futures Symposium 2011: Interview with Danila Bochkarev
28.10.2011
Danila Bochkarev is a senior research fellow at the East-West Institute in Brussels. As a leading expert on energy security issues, Dr. Bochkarev was able to talk about oil and gas development in the Arctic, how its exploitation might affect energy prices elsewhere, and how future development of hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic might unfold.
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Arctic Futures Symposium 2011: Interview with Tom Barry
28.10.2011
Tom Barry is the Executive Secretary of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) working group of the Arctic Council. Mr. Barry talks a bout the work CAFF does, the Artic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA), the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP), how CAFF monitors various species, and the benefits CAFF delivers to policymakers and industries such as fisheries.
