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  • Aurora Borealis competition has a winner

    11.4.2013 12:29

    Petri Haapasaari won Arktikum Science Centre’s Aurora Borealis competition. His story begins with the word “our son” and ends with “the world”.

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  • What are the impacts of reindeer and caribou on arctic and alpine vegetation?

    11.4.2013 11:00

    The present-day consensus is that overgrazing of Swedish reindeer ranges has been temporary and local, and that it rarely has caused permanent damage. Today, many scientists actually fear that parts of the Fennoscandia mountain range are becoming overgrown because of limited grazing pressure.

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  • Photo competition: My Barents Region

    10.4.2013 14:13

    Photo competition “My Barents Region” encourages anyone interested in photography to capture your own image of the Barents into pictures. The competition is organized in order to find inspiring cover pictures for Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics – a new academic journal concentrating on the developments of the Barents Region.

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  • The Norwegian Parliament's delegation visits the Arctic Centre

    5.4.2013 15:00

    The arctic delegation of the Norwegian Parliament Stortinget will visit Rovaniemi and Helsinki from April 8 to April 10. In Rovaniemi, the delegation gets to know the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, as well as to discuss with the mayor Esko Lotvonen about issues related to Barents region economic cooperation.

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  • Funding for research on land use questions in Lapland related to the ILO Convention

    5.4.2013 9:30

    Finnish Agricultural Development Fund (Makera) has granted a EUR 130 000 for postdoctoral researcher Tanja Joona from the Arctic Centre’s Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM).

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  • Call for papers: The first issue of the Barents Studies Journal

    4.4.2013 17:08

    “Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics” is an international, multidisciplinary academic journal for delivering and discussing original and current research results concerning the peoples, economies and politics in the Barents Euro-Arctic region. The first issue will be published in autumn 2013 and the first call for papers is open until May 15.

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  • Climate change and lessons learnt discussed in the Arktis seminar

    25.3.2013 14:10

    The annual research seminar of the Arctic Doctoral Programme focuses on past climatic changes and their impacts in the Arctic and what we can learn from them for the future. The seminar is held at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi on April 4–5.

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  • Arctic anthropology workshop on indigenous ecological knowledge

    21.3.2013 14:58

    The Anthropology Research Team at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland organizes a workshop on indigenous ecological knowledge on Saturday 6 April 2013 at 12:00 in Arktikum, Rovaniemi.

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  • New title for the science journal – Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics

    19.3.2013 0:00

    Title of the new academic journal that will be developed by a project consortium led by the Arctic Centre has been reformed. The new title of the journal is Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics. The journal will provide scientific knowledge and latest research news related to developmental processes within the Barents Region.

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  • Decline of vegetation seasonality is increasing greening in the Arctic

    11.3.2013 9:12

    A new NASA-funded study "Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands" published in Nature Climate Change reports that decreasing temperature difference between the seasons in the North is increasing plant growth and blurring the distinction between the normally more-seasonal North and abutting less-seasonal South. Research Professor Bruce Forbes from the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland was one member of the international team of researchers participating in the study.

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