Past Events

he K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, The Faculty of Law, at the University of Tromsø is pleased to announce the call for papers for the energy law conference.

You are invited to submit proposals to present a paper addressing the conference theme, broadly construed. Without intending to be prescriptive, examples of topics that would fall within the scope of the conference include legal issues (domestic and international law) related to any of the following in an Arctic context: the role of strategic and project-specific environmental assessments; energy markets; energy security in an Arctic context; energy relations between the EU and Russia; the energy relations of Nordic States; energy relations between the EU and Arctic states; the role of renewables in the Arctic including wind, geothermal, tidal; non-conventional energy resources such as gas hydrates; the oil and gas leasing regimes of Arctic states; infrastructure issues (transmission lines and pipelines); navigation and other law of the sea issues associated with getting Arctic resources to market; liability issues and liability regimes for energy projects; insurance issues; project financing issues; delimitation of maritime zones and the management of transboundary hydrocarbon resources; extended continental shelf claims; energy resource projects on indigenous lands; social licence to operate; climate change issues (e.g. regulation of black carbon); Arctic energy resources and endangered species; energy as a human right; energy efficiency; regional governance issues (e.g. the role of the Arctic Council, OSPAR etc).

Confirmed Keynote Speakers include:

• Else Berit Eikeland, Member of the Arctic Council - Senior Arctic Official, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Professor Timo Koivurova—Arctic Centre/University of Lapland
• Professor Kim Talus—University of Eastern Finland
• Dr. Anatole Boute—University of Aberdeen

This one-day workshop brings together users and developers of sea-ice models to start a joint effort for improving sea-ice models. We will discuss the analysis of sea-ice biases in CMIP5 models, determine the most pressing needs for model development, identify the most helpful observational data, and compile a list of the most useful sea ice variables to be saved for CMIP6. The workshop is the first in a series of planned activities from the Sea ice and Climate Modeling Forum, which is a WCRP-CliC initiative that aims at improving and better understanding large-scale sea-ice simulations by coordinating a joint effort of the international sea ice modeling community. Following a few short plenary talks, the workshop will consist of breakout group and discussion sessions. For further information about the workshop and to register for it (by June 30th 2014), please go to: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/activities/groups/seaicemodeling.

This workshop is the final one in a series of related sea ice workshops around that time in central Europe, including

• 16-17 September: 6th IICWG/ICE-ARC workshop on sea ice modeling and data assimilation, Toulouse
  http://www.ice-arc.eu/2014/04/16/toulouse-modelling-workshop/

• 18-19 September: International Sea ice concentration and thickness inter-comparison and evaluation workshop, Hamburg
  http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/meetings/seaice-conc-2014

• 22-23 September: Arctic sea ice reduction: the evidence, models, and global impacts, Royal Society, London
  https://royalsociety.org/events/2014/arctic-sea-ice/

• 24-25 September: Arctic sea ice reduction: the evidence, models, and global impacts - further discussion, The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall
  https://royalsociety.org/events/2014/sea-ice-reduction-satellite/

Please send us an email if you have any questions.

Alexandra Jahn, NCAR: ajahn [at] ucar.edu
Dirk Notz, MPI for Meteorology: dirk.notz [at] mpimet.mpg.de

We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming INTERNATIONAL SNOW SCIENCE WORKSHOP (ISSW) taking place in Banff from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, 2014.

The ISSW is biennial conference that brings together researchers and a wide range of practitioners in snow science and avalanche safety from all over the world. The conference aims to facilitate the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and experiences within the wider community to improve avalanche safety practices and foster innovative snow and avalanche safety related research.

For more information on the ISSW 2014, please visit the conference website.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 25, 2014. We encourage submissions from both researchers and practitioners. See http://issw2014.com/papers/ for more details on presentations at the ISSW.

Pascal Haegeli (Papers Chair) Simon Fraser University & Avisualanche Consulting

IARPC Collaboration Teams meet on a regular basis to implement the Arctic Research Plan: FY 2013-2017. Most meetings are open to the Arctic research community. Collaboration teams facilitate communication and collaboration between Federal agencies, the academic community, industry, non-governmental organizations, and State, local and tribal groups.

Contact Sara Bowden, bowden [at] arcus.org, if you would like to join this meeting.

​Matt Macander of ABR, Inc. will present "Extensive mapping of coastal change in Alaska by Landsat time-series analysis, 1972–2013". The landscape-scale effects of coastal storms on Alaska's Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska coasts includes coastal erosion, migration of spits and barrier islands, breaching of coastal lakes and lagoons, and inundation and salt-kill of vegetation. In areas experiencing moderate to large effects, changes can be mapped by analyzing trends in time series of Landsat imagery. ABR, Inc.—Environmental Research & Services and the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (WALCC) performed a time-series trend analysis for over 22,000 kilometers of coastline along the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska over the time period 1972–2013.

An annual time-series of suitable Landsat imagery was compiled and analyzed for changes in near-infrared reflectance to identify areas that transitioned from land to water, or vice-versa. Thousands of coastal changes over the 42-year study period exceeded the 60-m pixel resolution of the Multispectral Scanner (MSS) data, including coastal erosion and aggradation, estuarine and delta channel dynamics, coastal lake drainage and expansion, and migrations of coastal spits. Coastal erosion was mapped for approximately 100 km² and coastal aggradation was mapped for approximately 113 km². Although an accuracy assessment based on review of patches >5 ha in size suggested that aggradation was slightly overmapped in tidal flat areas, coastal erosion and aggradation overall were close to balanced. Locally, many areas with changes appeared to have steady state coastal dynamics, with eroding sediment aggrading nearby. Many local examples of directional change (e.g., substantial and sustained coastal erosion) were also observed. An in-progress analysis of changes in temporal trends in the rate of erosion / aggradation events will be summarized. The data products of the study will be summarized, including: raster maps of change by type, physiography class, and year; point and polygon maps of change patches; and annual Landsat mosaics for the entire WALCC coastline. ​

You can either join the presentation in Anchorage at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Regional Office, 1011 E. Tudor Rd., Anchorage​, Office of Science Applications Conference Room (1st floor) or connect to the webinar​ online:
1. Go to https://mmancusa.webex.com/mmancusa/j.php?MTID=m1d79339b7223de43228f6a4…
2. If requested, enter your name and email address.
3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: WALCC
4. Click 'join'.
5. Call-in toll-free number (Verizon): 1-866-730-5871 (US)
Attendee access code: 111111​

Organizers of a workshop on biomass burning and effects of ammonium and ozone deposition announce an extended deadline for abstract submissions. The workshop will convene 1-3 October 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Extended abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2014.

The workshop, which is co-funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers, will address topics related to the high air concentrations of ammonium detected during the spring and summer of 2006 at low and high altitude sites in Sweden, Finland, and Norway. These events coincided with polluted air from biomass burning in eastern Europe, which passed over central and northern Fennoscandia. Unusually high values for through fall deposition of ammonium were detected at one low altitude site and several high altitude sites in northern Sweden. The ammonia dry deposition, in combination with high ozone concentrations, may have contributed to unusual visible injuries on the tree vegetation in northern Fennoscandia that occurred during spring and summer 2006.

Workshop organizers encourage students and scientists to submit abstracts within the following topics:

• Emissions from biomass burning,
• Pollution transport to the Arctic,
• Nitrogen and ozone deposition in the Arctic,
• Vegetation injuries, and
• Remote sensing based monitoring.

Extended abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2014.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words, and written in the English language, must be submitted via email (lrh [at] met.no).

Travel support of up to 500 Euro is available for Russian and Nordic students and scientists. Notification of abstract acceptance and travel support will be given within the end of May.

For information about the venue for this meeting, please go to: https://www.sokoshotels.fi/en/st-petersburg/sokos-hotel-palace-bridge.

For relevant background information, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749112005313.

For questions, contact:
Lars Hole
Email: lrh [at] met.no

IARPC Collaboration Teams meet on a regular basis to implement the Arctic Research Plan: FY 2013-2017. Most meetings are open to the Arctic research community. Collaboration teams facilitate communication and collaboration between Federal agencies, the academic community, industry, non-governmental organizations, and State, local and tribal groups.

Contact Sara Bowden, bowden [at] arcus.org, if you would like to join this meeting.

The Institute of the North will host the 2014 Week of the Arctic. The 2014 Week of the Arctic is a platform for community leaders, subject matter experts and interested stakeholders to learn about the Arctic while contributing to a growing list of priorities and perspectives. Presentations, roundtable discussions and workshops will be held in Nome, Kotzebue and Barrow. Throughout the week, presentations and interviews will be captured on video for distribution through social media and web-based sharing.

Topics include:

• Energy and Mineral Development in Northern Regions
• Collaborative Approaches to Science and Research
• Local Governance and Consultation
• Maritime Response Operations – Communications and Community Engagement
• Food Security and an Ecosystem Approach
• Preparation for the 2015 U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council
• Emerging Arctic Careers and Workforce Development Programs
• Offshore Development – Risk Mitigation and Impact Benefit
• Celebrating Bering Strait Relationships through Storytelling

The Week of the Arctic not only educates Alaskans but delivers key insights and recommendations, providing clear guidelines for state and federal officials while promoting informed local decision-making.

We are pleased to invite you to Berlin, Germany to participate in the international conference “Our Climate – Our Future, Regional perspectives on a global challenge” which will be held from 6–9 October, 2014 and in particular to consider submitting an abstract to our Session2: Sea level changes from global to regional and local scales and to Session 3: Arctic Change. Internationally outstanding scientists will present their keynotes during the conference, namely Prof. Dr. Jason Box (Kopenhagen, Denmark) for Session 2 and Prof. Dr. Larry Hinzman (Fairbanks, Alaska) for Session 3.

The Climate Initiative REKLIM, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and the Helmholtz Association are pleased to be your host at this conference. The scientific programme will offer a broad and interdisciplinary spectrum of current international and national research in the field of regional climate change.

At this conference following topics will be addressed:

• Session 1: Regional climate system modelling
• Session 2: Sea level changes from global to regional and local scales
• Session 3: Arctic Change
• Session 4: The land surface in the climate system
• Session 5: Atmospheric composition and climate: Interactions from global to regional scale
• Session 6: Extreme meteorological events and their impacts in a changing climate
• Session 7: Integrated strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Session 8: Rapid climate change in the past – mechanisms, processes and regional patterns

The conference will consist of plenary meetings, parallel sessions and poster sessions. It is followed by a public engagement day on 'Regional climate change – causes and effects' on the 9th of October 2014 focusing on the dialogue between scientists and decision makers (Please note: this event will be in German to include local stakeholders!).

The deadline for abstracts submission has been extended to June, 15, 2014

Dr. Phillip Loring, Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan will give a seminar for the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) on "Making progress on Food Security in the North American North: Building on 15 Years of Research".

Food security is a world-wide societal challenge, and one area of the world where food insecurity is increasing is the North American Arctic and Subarctic. In this presentation Dr. Loring reviews research on food security in general and as it has been executed in the North over the last 15 years. He reviews a comprehensive set of findings regarding why people are food insecure: challenges like remoteness and climate change play a role, but the primary drivers of food insecurity for northern peoples continue to be governance and policy issues, issues that have been recognized and critiqued for many decades. In light of new challenges to the rights of indigenous peoples in the North such as climate change and development, Loring offers suggestions for future research and policy that focuses on place-based and rights-based approaches to planning and development.

Pre-registration for webinars is strongly encouraged. The audio portion of the call is through a toll-free phone line and the slide presentation is streamed via computer. For instructions on participating through your home office or at a satellite viewing location with others in your community, please see our webinar information page at https://accap.uaf.edu/?q=webinars.

The Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) announces an open webinar focused on post-season analysis and discussion of the 2014 Sea Ice Outlook (SIO). The SIO produces reports in June, July, and August that synthesize a variety of predictions and perspectives on the arctic sea ice minimum. More information about SIO, including this year's reports, is available at: http://www.arcus.org/sipn/sea-ice-outlook.

The webinar is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. AKDT (12:00-1:00 p.m. PDT, 1:00-2:00 p.m. MDT, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CDT, and 3:00-4:00 p.m.EDT) on Thursday, 9 October 2014. More details, including registration instructions, will be announced closer to the event.

This webinar will provide a venue for discussion of the 2014 SIO, including processes that influenced sea ice melt this year and a review of the differing approaches to predicting the sea ice minimum extent. The webinar is open to all interested participants, including sea ice researchers, students, decision-makers, and others.

The webinar will be archived and available online after the event.

For further information about the Sea Ice Outlook or Sea Ice Prediction Network, please go to: http://www.arcus.org/sipn.

For questions about the upcoming webinar, please contact Betsy Turner-Bogren at ARCUS (betsy [at] arcus.org).

Satellite observations are a key element in an integrated and sustained climate observing system and have been critically important for monitoring and understanding the Earth’s climate system during the past several decades. The expected completion of the IPCC Fifth Assessment (AR5) in 2013-2014 makes it timely to discuss these achievements, to assess future opportunities and challenges with satellite derived climate information, and to provide guidance on future priorities.

The symposium will be an important step towards defining requirements, and the further development of an efficient and sustained international space-based Earth observing system. This symposium is intended to bring together the international experts in climate observations, research, analysis and modelling to present and discuss results from their studies, with a particular emphasis on the role of space-based Earth observations in improving our knowledge of the current climate at global and regional scales, and in the assessment of models used for climate projections.

Important dates include:
31 March 2014 – Deadline to submit applications for travel support
15 April 2014 – Deadline to submit abstracts
15 May 2014 – Early registration deadline

Online registration is available through the conference website.

The aim of this three day workshop is to bring together experimental and theoretical scientists who work on the physics, chemistry or biology of the atmosphere-snow-sea ice system in order to discuss research status and challenges, which need to be addressed in the near future. An important objective is to foster new research collaborations and identify opportunities for international collaborative funding proposals. One expected workshop outcome will be a publicly available white paper outlining research priorities and pathways how to address them.

Scope
A three day workshop, organized by the British Antarctic Survey and co-sponsored by the EGU and IGAC, will be held in Cambridge (UK). Its aim is to bring together experimental and theoretical scientists who work on the physics, chemistry or biology of the atmosphere-snow-sea ice system in order to discuss research status and challenges, which need to be addressed in the near future. An important objective is to foster new research collaborations and identify opportunities for international collaborative funding proposals.

Sessions
S1: Climate impacts of Chemical Atmosphere-Snow-Sea Ice interactions – what are the mechanisms & are they relevant at the regional or global scale?
S2: “Biogeochemistry of the air-snow-sea ice-ocean system – processes & impacts“
S3: “Air-snow exchange processes – closing the gap between Field, Lab and Models”
S4: ”New strategies – Developing optimal probes and systems to study AICI in lab & field”
S5: “Taking the next steps – challenges & opportunities”
S6: “Open discussion - What are research priorities & how do we get them funded?”

A preliminary scientific program is published on the conference web site.

Registration and abstract submission
Please register, book accommodation and submit an abstract as soon as possible through the conference web site, but no later than Friday, 15 August 2014. Space is limited to 80 participants. Early career scientists are encouraged to submit an abstract and are eligible for partial financial support.

Further information can be found on the meeting web site: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/events/cassii2014/index.php.

This workshop will bring together data collectors and modelers working on reconstructions of climate, ice, atmosphere, and ocean variability of the past 11,500 years. The objectives of the workshop are threefold: bring together key personnel working on the Holocene epoch to discuss and identify the past, present, and future directions of research on this interval; establish collaborations and networking amongst the various groups to facilitate future and ongoing research plans; and to develop a data-model synthesis for the Holocene that will guide future research in the area and be published in a major research journal.

In addition, the Holocene is one of four themes for the 2nd Focus group under the PAGES Science Structure. Another workshop objective will be to explore whether to establish one, or possibly two, new PAGES working groups that will fall under the Holocene Theme and overlap, but not conflict, with the Last 2 Millennia network. The group discussion and recommendations will be disseminated to the PAGES community in our workshop reports.

Abstract submissions will be accepted from early May to June 21th, and a link to the abstract submission page will be made available on the website homepage. We seek abstracts and contributors working on Holocene ice, ocean, and climate reconstructions and complementary modeling efforts. Abstracts and presenters that place their work into a global or regional framework will be favored, as will contributions from early career scientists (PhD, Postdoc, new Assistant Professors).

Because of the small venue, the number of participants will be limited to 30-40 people. Acceptance to the workshop will be based upon the aforementioned criteria as well as the committee chairs’ and organizing committees’ charge to provide a balanced meeting where multiple scientific groups are represented.

Those invited to the meeting will be notified no later than July 1st, and will be expected to register for the meeting no later than July 15th. The costs of registration will be made available in June, but pending funding we anticipate sponsoring most of the meeting costs, as well as some travel costs to the meeting.

Further details will be posted on the workshop homepage.

IARPC Collaboration Teams meet on a regular basis to implement the Arctic Research Plan: FY 2013-2017. Most meetings are open to the Arctic research community. Collaboration teams facilitate communication and collaboration between Federal agencies, the academic community, industry, non-governmental organizations, and State, local and tribal groups.

Contact Sara Bowden, bowden [at] arcus.org, if you would like to join this meeting.

This is an informal meeting of glaciologists that work in the northwestern U.S. and Canadian Northwest. Please e-mail Martin Truffer as soon as possible if you are planning to attend. Please include the following information: your name, your affiliation, whether you are planning to give a talk, whether you are planning to go to the permafrost tunnel, whether you are a student or not, and whether or not you would like floor space at someone's home (i.e., free accommodation). No abstracts need be submitted. The meeting will be held in the Geophysical Institute (Elvey Building) at UAF.

Talks should be no longer than 15 minutes (including discussion and speaker change). Following the informal character of previous meetings a listing of the specific presentations and their dates/times will be compiled on 17 October in the morning, i.e., it will not be available prior to the meeting. If you have not already done so, please let us know if you intend to give a talk so that we have a rough idea of how many talks to expect. Poster presentations are also welcome.

Discover new science in the hundreds of sessions, trips, courses, and events. GSA is where geoscience professionals come to get engaged, get educated, get inspired, and enjoy each moment.

Please visit the conference website (above link) for information regarding to the program, registration, pre-conference field trips and more.

Organizers announce open registration and a call for abstracts for the 2014 Joint Meeting of the Alaska Sections of the American Water Resources Association, American Fisheries Society, and the Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership. The meeting, entitled "Bridging Disciplines to Solve Today's Challenges in Resource Management," will convene 20-24 October 2014 in Juneau, Alaska.

This meeting is focused on research and management in hydrology, fisheries, fish habitat, and other aspects of aquatic science and aquatic resources in Alaska. Plenary speakers include Alaska Department of Fish and Game Subsistence Fisheries Manager, Jim Fall; White House Director of Ocean Policy, Beth Kerttula; Earth Systems Institute geomorphologist, Lee Benda; and University of Alaska, Fairbanks ecologist, Terry Chapin.

Eight workshops are planned for Monday and Tuesday, 20-21 October. These workshops cover a number of topics from the application of unmanned aircraft systems to aquatic research and fisheries applications with ArcGIS. The meeting will include 34 special sessions representing a wide range of research and management topics, many of which will focus on interdisciplinary research.

The Alaska Section of the American Water Resources is offering a number of student travel grants to its student members to help defray the cost of conference attendance. There is no formal application process; applicants will be judged based on the abstracts they submit. Interested students should contact Trey Simmons (trey_simmons [at] nps.gov).

Early registration deadline: Friday, 26 September 2014.

Preregistration deadline: Friday, 17 October 2014

Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 15 September 2014.

For further information about abstract submission, registration, travel, and accommodations; see the conference website.

This seminar is second in the line of Nordic reindeer husbandry seminars organised in the framework of NJF (Nordic Association of Agricultural Sciences). The organiser of the seminar is a recently established Reindeer Husbandry Section at the NJF (http://www.njf.nu/site/redirect.asp?p=3926), promoting research on reindeer husbandry related issues in the Nordic countries.).

In the northern Fennoscandia, different land use activities (forestry, tourism, mining, power production etc.) effectively utilize wide areas that have been used for centuries by people living on semi-domesticated reindeer herding. The increasingly expanding land use activities in all Nordic countries affect reindeer herding environments, reindeer herding communities and reindeer herding livelihood as a whole in several ways. The present day reindeer management systems, on the other hand, have also various effects on pasture lands and preconditions of reindeer herding itself. Degradation and decrease of reindeer pastures, difficulties in reindeer herding work, decreased productivity and profitability of reindeer husbandry, different kinds of conflicts and social problems are often connected to unfavorable and, at the same time, multilateral changes on pasture environment.

However, the position of reindeer herding is still strong in the North and it is traditionally an unique and valuable way to benefit northern areas and to sustain rich Sami culture and other local cultures adapted to the North. Reindeer husbandry strongly supports living grounds of small northern villages and remote areas and, at the same time, promotes also other livelihoods based on sustainable use of renewable resources in northern areas (e.g. local livelihoods such as fishery, hunting, gathering of forest products and processing of their products as well as handicrafts and tourism). There exists a high concern how to maintain resilience on the subsistence nature-based livelihoods and secure their preconditions along with increasing industrial land use and pressure. Therefore more comprehensively governance systems for all land use and reindeer husbandry activities should be developed between different interests and stakeholders in order to enhance more sustainable development in the North .

Focus of the seminar
The main focus of the meeting is on issues related to reindeer herding and land use questions in the Nordic reindeer herding area. The aim is to discuss reindeer herding and land use activities at different levels, and to figure out frames not only for sustainable reindeer husbandry but also for sustainable co-management of land use between different interest groups in the Nordic countries, including reindeer herding areas. Also other topics related to reindeer ecology and welfare and cultural and social questions related to reindeer herding are handled.

Session topics
1. Relations of reindeer herding and other land use activities
2. Reindeer herding in a changing environment
3. Predators and reindeer management
4. Sustainable and profitable reindeer management – challenges and opportunities
5. Social and cultural security and sustainability of reindeer herding livelihood; future prospects

Organizers:
• Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
• Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (RKTL)
• Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
• Reindeer Herders' Association, Finland
• Sámi Educational Centre in Inari, Finland

This seminar is second in the line of Nordic reindeer husbandry seminars organised in the framework of NJF (Nordic Association of Agricultural Sciences). The organiser of the seminar is a recently established Reindeer Husbandry Section at the NJF (http://www.njf.nu/site/redirect.asp?p=3926), promoting research on reindeer husbandry related issues in the Nordic countries.).

In the northern Fennoscandia, different land use activities (forestry, tourism, mining, power production etc.) effectively utilize wide areas that have been used for centuries by people living on semi-domesticated reindeer herding. The increasingly expanding land use activities in all Nordic countries affect reindeer herding environments, reindeer herding communities and reindeer herding livelihood as a whole in several ways. The present day reindeer management systems, on the other hand, have also various effects on pasture lands and preconditions of reindeer herding itself. Degradation and decrease of reindeer pastures, difficulties in reindeer herding work, decreased productivity and profitability of reindeer husbandry, different kinds of conflicts and social problems are often connected to unfavorable and, at the same time, multilateral changes on pasture environment.

However, the position of reindeer herding is still strong in the North and it is traditionally an unique and valuable way to benefit northern areas and to sustain rich Sami culture and other local cultures adapted to the North. Reindeer husbandry strongly supports living grounds of small northern villages and remote areas and, at the same time, promotes also other livelihoods based on sustainable use of renewable resources in northern areas (e.g. local livelihoods such as fishery, hunting, gathering of forest products and processing of their products as well as handicrafts and tourism). There exists a high concern how to maintain resilience on the subsistence nature-based livelihoods and secure their preconditions along with increasing industrial land use and pressure. Therefore more comprehensively governance systems for all land use and reindeer husbandry activities should be developed between different interests and stakeholders in order to enhance more sustainable development in the North .

Focus of the seminar
The main focus of the meeting is on issues related to reindeer herding and land use questions in the Nordic reindeer herding area. The aim is to discuss reindeer herding and land use activities at different levels, and to figure out frames not only for sustainable reindeer husbandry but also for sustainable co-management of land use between different interest groups in the Nordic countries, including reindeer herding areas. Also other topics related to reindeer ecology and welfare and cultural and social questions related to reindeer herding are handled.

Session topics
1. Relations of reindeer herding and other land use activities
2. Reindeer herding in a changing environment
3. Predators and reindeer management
4. Sustainable and profitable reindeer management – challenges and opportunities
5. Social and cultural security and sustainability of reindeer herding livelihood; future prospects

Organizers:
• Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
• Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (RKTL)
• Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
• Reindeer Herders' Association, Finland
• Sámi Educational Centre in Inari, Finland