New President
International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
For further information, please click on the 'news' link at:
http://web.arcticportal.org/iasc/
David Hik was elected the new International Arctic Science Committee
(IASC) President during the annual IASC Council Meeting in
Nuuk/Copenhagen.
Hik, Professor and Research Chair in Northern Ecology at the University
of Alberta, succeeds Kristjan Kristjansson as the IASC President after a
transitional period of about 3 months to handover responsibilities. The
newly elected Vice-Presidents Susan Barr (Norwegian Directorate for
Cultural Heritage) and Naja Mikkelsen (Geological Survey of Denmark and
Greenland) and the re-elected Jacqueline Grebmeier (University of
Maryland Center for Environmental Science) will join Byong-Kwon Park
(Korea Polar Research Institute) to complete the IASC Executive
Committee.
The full IASC Council and Secretariat would like to express their deep
appreciation and sincere thanks to Kristjan Kristjansson (Director of
Research Services at Reykjavik University) who served on the Executive
Committee as President from 2006-2010 and Vice-President from 2002-2006,
and Professor Emeritus Dieter Futter, Vice-President from 1994-1997 and
2002-2010, for all their work and highly valued input.
IASC's mission is to encourage, facilitate, and promote leading-edge
multi-disciplinary research to foster a greater scientific understanding
of the arctic region and its role in the Earth system. IASC is not a
funding agency, but IASC assists with science development by providing
scientific advice and also seed money. In general, IASC supported
activities are international, circumarctic, and of interest to several
IASC member countries.
For further information, please click on the 'news' link at:
http://web.arcticportal.org/iasc/.