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Compliments to Paula Kankaanpää from Finnish Foreign Minister Tuomioja

Paula Kankaanpää appointed to the Finnish Environmental Institute

Professor Paula Kankaanpää, director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, will move to the Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), based in Helsinki. Starting in August, she will take the position as the new Director of the Marine Research Centre.

Second Arctic Human Development Report released

The second volume of the AHDR – Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages ¬¬– has just been released by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The first report was published in 2004.

Business community perspectives to the changes in the Arctic needed

A workshop session “Business voice to Arctic change” aims at gathering and discussing business community perspectives to the changes in the Arctic and the measures needed to advance adaptation. The workshop is organized by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and is part of the Arctic Business Forum breakout sessions in Rovaniemi on Thursday March 12th, 2015.

New challenges facing the Arctic Ocean and other fragile seas

International Conference on “New challenges facing the Arctic Ocean and other fragile seas” is arranged on the 20th of February 2015 at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Finland. The conference is organized by Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland in cooperation with EU Cost Action - MarSafeNet.

The 3rd China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium, 2015, Call For Abstracts

On the 26-28 May 2015 the 3rd China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium will take place in Shanghai and the conference theme is “Arctic Synergies: Polices and Best Practices”. The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland is the representative of Finland in the cooperation.

Merry Christmas from the Arctic Centre

Kone Foundation grants for the Arctic Centre

Two Arcit Centre researchers and one project have received grants from Kone Foundation.

Ecosystem-level consequences of climate warming in tundra under differing grazing pressures by reindeer

Grazing by reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L.) affects vegetation and soil microbial processes in tundra ecosystems. It is considered that grazing can induce two alternative vegetation states that differ in plant species composition and the rate of nutrient cycling. The doctoral dissertation of Master of Science Maria Väisänen shows that the grazing history by reindeer, with the associated vegetation shift from dwarf shrubs to graminoids, can significantly alter the ecosystem-level consequences of climate warming.

New European Funding for a Project Combing Humans, Animals and Climate Change

A research project on Human-Animal relations under climate change in Northern Eurasia (HUMANOR) has received major funding from a new European instrument. The European Joint Programming Initiative on Climate: “Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe” (JPI Climate ) has awarded about two million euros to the project which is led by Professor Bruce Forbes from the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland.