INNOVATING USER-DRIVEN ARCTIC EUROGEO SERVICES
Leads: Tero Mustonen, Snowchange and Johanna Roto, Snowchange
Following priorities of Arctic Council, its Working Groups, the Arctic Science Ministerials, and the Arctic Observing Summit, we are developing eight Arctic Services (AS):
- AS-1: Arctic Service ‘Event Database of CBM Using Oral Histories, Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge’
- AS-2: Pan-Arctic requirements-driven Permafrost Service (ALEX)
- AS-3: State of the Arctic Environment service
- AS-4: Integrated Fire Risk Management (INFRA)’ Service
- AS-5: Local Atmospheric Pollutant Forecast’ Service (AURORAE)
- AS-6: Improving Safety for Shipping in the Polar Seas’ Service (POLARIS)
- AS-7: CBM for Arctic marine climate change, noise pollution & impacts on marine living resources’
- AS-8: Lake Ice Service for Arctic Climate and Safety (LIS)
The Arctic Service aim to:
- establish user-demanded Services that have high societal and economic benefit
- ensure Services are developed and implemented through the co-creation approach
- safeguard user-relevance through a process of rolling reviews
- provide easy access through web-based portals information provided by these Services
- enhance sustainability through the production of a business model for each Service (with Work Package 5)
The Arctic Services provide information in areas of societal and economic relevance that are presently inadequately served: food security (AS-1, AS-2, AS-6, AS-7), emergency preparedness (AS-2, AS-4, AS-5, AS-6, AS-8), wildfire and pollution risk reduction (AS-4, AS-5, AS-7), environmental change information (AS-1, AS-3, AS-8), and infrastructure, transport, and safe shipping (AS-2, AS-6, AS-8).
Co-design and co-production of these services with end-users ensure their relevance, and free access to the Arctic Services empowers users to make knowledge-based decisions in support of a prosperous, sustainable, and environmentally secure Arctic. You can access the Arctic Services via our ‘Arctic Window’ site.
Work Package 4 is contributing to the Arctic Seas Portal developed by the non-profit Snowchange Cooperative, a network of Indigenous communities around the north. The portal provides information about Indigenous Communities and ecology of the Northern Waters.
News highlights
Lake ice factsheet
Air quality and wildfires factsheet
Arctic PASSION final results factsheet
A New Database Of British Columbia’s Indigenous Knowledge Of Climate, Ecological, And Cultural Events
New Method To Map Wildfire Fuel Types For Improved Risk Management
Major Northern Indigenous Hub and Databases launched, documenting observations and knowledge of the Arctic
Sharing Alex And Discussing Permafrost In The Canadian North
Arctic PASSION Innovation Exhibition
Permafrost Field Work And Consultations On The Arctic Landscape Explorer (Alex) In Western Alaska
Collaborating with local hunters in Qaanaaq, Greenland
Introducing Arctic PASSION’s Lake Ice Service
Neriulluarput naak suleqatigiinneq unammillernaraluartoq – Remaining hopeful despite co-production challenges
First deployment of heavy recording equipment with the aid of Inuit dog sledge teams
Indigenous Knowledge is a treasure chest for Arctic partnerships
Good Advice On The Co-Production Of Knowledge
Lake Ice Service For Arctic Climate And Safety
President Of Saami Council’s Advice On Co-Production Of Scientific Research
Busy Summer For The Arctic Passion Pilot Services
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