Videos
These videos are published by the International Polar Foundation to illustrate it's projects and activities. Some of them are works that the IPF was commissionned to do for other organisations.
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Arctic Futures Symposium 2011: Interview with Rodion Sulyandziga
28.10.2011
Rodion Sulyandziga is the Board Chair of the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat. In this interview Mr. Sulyandziga talks about the issues indigenous Arctic peoples are facing and the legal frameworks needed to ensure a sustainable and equitable future.
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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…
