Abstracts
ArcticNet: A Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada to Conduct the Integrated Natural/ Human Health/ Social Study of the Changing Coastal Canadian Arctic
Martin Fortier1, Louis Fortier
1ArcticNet Inc.
martin.fortier@arcticnet.ulaval.ca
ArcticNet is a newly funded Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada (NCE) that brings together scientists and managers in the natural, health and social sciences, and their partners in northern communities, federal and provincial agencies and the private sector to study the impacts of climate change in the coastal Canadian Arctic. Over 90 Canadian ArcticNet researchers from 23 Canadian universities and 5 federal departments collaborate with research teams in the USA, Japan, Denmark, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom, Spain and Belgium.
The central objective of ArcticNet is to contribute to the development and dissemination of the knowledge needed to formulate adaptation strategies and national policies to help Canadians face the impacts and opportunities of climate change and globalization in the Arctic. A major goal of ArcticNet is to engage Inuit organizations, northern communities, universities, research institutes, industry as well as government and international agencies as partners in the scientific process and the steering of the Network.
Since 2004, ArcticNet has been conducting Integrated Regional Impact Studies on societies and on marine and terrestrial coastal ecosystems in the Canadian High Arctic, in the Eastern Canadian Arctic, and in Hudson Bay. In addition to work conducted in northern communities, ArcticNet researchers from various fields use the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen to access the vast expanses of the coastal Arctic. This integrated research offers a unique multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral environment to train the next generation of specialists, from north and south, needed to manage the Canadian Arctic of tomorrow.
2005-04-05 |
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