Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
Arctic Frontiers
20-25 January 2008
Tromso, Norway
Abstract Submission Deadline: Sunday, 30 September 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.arctic-frontiers.com
or contact:
Reinhold Fieler
E-mail: Reinhold [at] akvaplan.niva.no
The 2nd annual Arctic Frontiers conference will take place at the
University of Tromso, Norway on 20-25 January 2008. Hosted in
cooperation with the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), a
permanent working group of the Arctic Council, Arctic Frontiers 2008
includes a Policy Making Conference and Scientific Conference and will
feature discussions on the associations between arctic oil and gas
activities and environmental challenges, society, and indigenous
peoples. AMAP will launch the results from its three-year circumpolar
study, "Assessment of Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic."
Sessions at the Policy Making Conference include:
Session 1: Social, economic, and cultural perspectives of arctic oil and
gas development
Session 2: Environmental challenges of arctic oil and gas development:
risk management and technological solutions
Session 3: Dynamics of permafrost and the consequences of climate change
Oral and poster presentations are invited for the six sessions of the
Scientific Conference with its focus on the AMAP report, "Assessment of
Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic":
Session 1: Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic: Past, Present, and
Future
Session 2: Social Economic Aspects of Arctic Oil and Gas Development and
Indigenous Peoples' Perspectives
Session 3: Sources, Inputs, Concentrations, and Fate of Petroleum
Hydrocarbons and PAHs in the Arctic Environment
Session 4: Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons on Arctic Biota and Humans
Session 5: Status and Vulnerability of Arctic Ecosystems and
Effectiveness of Regulations and Emergency, Preparedness, and Response
Session 6: Arctic Environmental Technologies
Instructions for submitting an abstract for oral and poster
presentations are available at:
http://www.arctic-frontiers.com