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Institute of Arctic Studies Participates In Virtual Antarctic School Fair

Nov 13, 2020

Since 2014, the Institute of Arctic Studies has brought US high school students to King George Island in Antarctica to participate in the annual Joint Antarctic School Expedition (JASE). The JASE program runs in conjunction with the Chilean Antarctic Institute’s (INACH) Expedición Antártica Escolar (EAE), a program that has been running for over 10 years to promote awareness and appreciation of Antarctica in young Chileans.

Each year, INACH hosts a Feria Antarctica Escolar (Antarctic School Fair)...

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Linda Behnken '84 Wins Heinz Award for the Environment

Oct 19, 2020

Dartmouth News | October 13, 2020 by Aimee Minbiole

Linda Behnken '84, who has fished commercially for nearly four decades, has received the Heinz Award for the Environment for her advocacy work, including her role as executive director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association.

One of seven recipients of this year's $250,000 unrestricted cash awards, she joins another Dartmouth recipient,...

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Prof. Pries Collaborates with UNH Researchers on Arctic Permafrost Carbon Project

Oct 16, 2020

Dr. Caitlin E. Hicks Pries, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College, has received NSF funding to collaborate with UNH researchers on an Arctic permafrost carbon project.

The University of New Hampshire will lead research as part of a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how interactions between plants, microbes and soil minerals in permafrost, a subsurface layer of frozen soil covering a fourth of the Northern Hemisphere, stimulate the release of...

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Kang-Chun Cheng '17 Published in Earth Island Journal

Oct 6, 2020

In the Arctic, a Conflict over Hoof and Claw | Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2020 by Kang-Chun Cheng

Former IAS Fellow, Kang-Chun Cheng's essay was recently published in the the Earth Island Journal. Her essay acknowledges Norway’s recovery of the golden eagle population and the threat it poses to reindeer and Sami culture. While conservationists remain...

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JSEP Students Remote Arctic Field Work Featured in Wall Street Journal

Oct 1, 2020

The Joint Science Education Project (JSEP) was recently featured in an article 'How to Do Scientific Field Work When You Can’t Get to the Right Field' by Daniela Hernandez in The Wall Street Journal. The article reflects on several US high school students expierences with performing Arctic field...

Learning Climate Science in Greenland … Virtually

Aug 13, 2020

July 24, 2020 by Charlotte Albright

The field trip for researchers and high school students moved online this summer.

COVID-19 has upended a lot of summer plans. But canceling Dartmouth's annual trip to Greenland seemed to organizers both necessary and ironic.

Of all destinations in the world during this pandemic, Greenland is among the safest, with relatively few citizens having contracted the virus. But the island restricted travel to its shores just as Dartmouth Arctic studies researchers were preparing for their annual trek, typically with five American high...

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Exhibition: Christina Seely

Jan 6, 2020

Please join the Studio Art Department on January 14, 2020 for the opening reception of Professor Christina Seely's show Dissonance. She will give a public lecture at 5:00 p.m. in the Loew Auditorium.

Christina Seely's show Dissonance will be installed in the Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries from January 14 to March 8, 2020. She will give a public lecture on the work on January 14, 2020 in the Black Family Visual Arts Center's Loew Auditorium at 5:00 p.m.

The exhibition Dissonance highlights works made since Professor Seely was hired as an Assistant...

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New Report Calls for Greater Collaboration Between U.S. and Greenland Researchers

Sep 10, 2019

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HANOVER, N.H. – Sept. 9, 2019 – With the Arctic warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, Greenland continues to be an epicenter for climate change research. Each year, hundreds of researchers from the U.S. visit Greenland to conduct fieldwork, often to remote areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet but they rarely collaborate with researchers from Greenland. A new report...

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In Memoriam | Weyman I. Lundquist ’52 (1930-2019)

Jul 2, 2019

The Institute of Arctic Studies will miss a faithful supporter, Senior Fellow, and former acting director Weyman (Wey) Lundquist who died May 19, 2019 in San Francisco. Wey graduated from Dartmouth in 1952 and Harvard Law School in 1955. He led a distinguished legal career and was a passionate voice for environmental protection, especially for the Arctic. Early in his public service Wey was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney in Alaska in 1961 and travelled the state meeting and representing people from small communities to urban centers where he learned about the environmental, social, and...

HiLDEN working group: Arctic drone synthesis to bridge the gap from plants to pixels

Apr 17, 2019

From the 24th to the 28th of March, 13 researchers met in New Hampshire to advance Arctic tundra research. Attendees (plus three remote participants) tackled one of the largest drone-imagery datasets ever compiled for high latitudes – all contributed from field teams using similar protocols – to commence the High Latitude Drone Ecology Network (HiLDEN, https://arcticdrones.org/) data synthesis.

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