The Mohn Prize seminar – Pathways to a warmer Arctic

Programme: 

• 09.30–10.00: Breakfast/early lunch will be served
• 10.00–10.30: John Walsh (IARC, University of Fairbanks, Alaska): The future of the Arctic under alternative climate pathways
• 10.30–10.45: Q & A
• 10.45–10.55: Pause, coffee will be served
• 10.55–11.40: Impact and nature:
  Rune Graversen (UiT): Recent Arctic warming and its widespread climate impacts
  Kim Holmén (Norwegian Polar Institute): Human induced climate change and biogeochemical cycle
  Bodil Bluhm (UiT): From sea ice to sea stars, from Alaska to Svalbard, connections and change
• 11.40–11.50: Q & A
• 11.50–12.05: Pause, coffee and snacks will be served 
• 12.05–12.50: Impact and society: 
  Grete K. Hovelsrud (Nordland Research Institute and Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research): Studying Climate Change Impacts on Arctic Peoples
  Vito De Lucia (Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS), UiT): Governing a melting Arctic 
  Igor Krupnik (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, member of Scientific Committee Mohn Prize): Are we losing human historical baselines with the melting ice?
  
• 12.50–13.00: Q & A

Moderator is Kari Anne Bråthen, professor and vice dean for research, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT. The seminar will be broadcastet digitally:

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