Policy support for the Arctic Science Funders Forum

Arctic PASSION held a workshop with the Arctic Science Funders Forum in January 2025 focusing on challenges and possibilities for a sustainable pan-Arctic Observing System of Systems (pan-AOSS) from a funder’s perspective. In this frame, 10 recommendations towards a sustained pan-AOSS were formulated by the project. The key themes are:  You can read the detailed…

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Science Diplomacy Through Conferencing at the Arctic Circle Assembly

Reykjavik, Iceland. On Thursday, October 18th, the annual Arctic Circle Assembly kicked off its three-day conference, bringing together political decision-makers, researchers, and industry representatives to discuss the most pressing issues facing the Arctic. The topic of science diplomacy was heavily featured in the conference program, leading my colleague Beate Steinveg and I to organise a…

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Arctic Science Summit Week/Arctic Observing Summit 2024

Michael Karcher speaking in the panel discussion for the 'White paper session'. Photo: jfdmedia

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) is organised annually by the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) to provide opportunities for coordination, cooperation and collaboration between the various scientific organisations involved in Arctic research. It was initiated by the IASC in 1999 and has evolved into the most important annual gathering of the Arctic research organisation.…

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DBO community meeting at ASSW2024

March 21st we held our “Community meeting for the pan-Arctic network of Distributed Biological Observatories (DBOs)” in the beautiful St Leonard’s venue. It was the second joint DBO meeting organized* by all four sectors in the pan-arctic network; the Pacific, Siberian, Atlantic and Davis Strait/Baffin Bay DBOs. Together with 54 participants onsite and online, representing 11…

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Arctic Passion Supports The Saon Data Portal

For the past two months, Arctic PASSION has supported the SAON Data Portal development, a metadata-driven data portal. The background for this portal is that there has been a longstanding need for a well-coordinated and sustained Arctic Observing Network that meets scientific and societal needs, and in January 2007 the Sustained Arctic Observing Networks Initiating Group (SAON IG) was…

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