An interdisciplinary investigation into scenarios of national and international conflicts of ecosystem services in the Svalbard zone under a changing climate in the Arctic
Hello! We ran our last round of #REGIMESproj climate workshops focussing on the generational aspects of climate dialogues June 4th and 5th. Many thanks to our participants from 3 different generations who weighed in on our ecological-economic-social-geopolitical scenarios based on our REGIMES “Melting Snowball Effect” heuristic! The 15 minute generational discussions are being transcribed and Read More …
Hello from Tromsø! The REGIMES project is again represented in Tromsø for the annual and high-level Arctic Frontiers conference. On Wednesday Jan 23rd, Dorothy will present the latest results from REGIMES, including a transdisciplinary “Scenario 2060”, an eco-social-techno-geopolitical scenario of what matters could be like for people of Svalbard and Longyearbyen in 2060. An important Read More …
REGIMES researchers, Yajie Liu and Dorothy Dankel participated October 18-19th at the bio-economic modelling workshop hosted by Sturla Kvamsdal and the ARC-Change project. Dorothy gave a 30 minute introduction and overview of the REGIMES project while Yajie used the next half-hour to explain the REGIMES adaptations to the Cheung and Lam et al. Dynamic Bioclimatic Read More …
To av elevane frå Amalie Skram VGS,Kaia og Lea, har skrevet eit debattinnlegg om studieturen til Longyearbyen i regi av REGIMES prosjektet. Du kan lese den her: https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/oRbMzV/-Vi-stotter-Greta Bra jobbet, Lea og Kaia!
by REGIMES Project Leader, Dorothy Dankel (University of Bergen) Sunday is traditionally a day of rest. And rest was definitely needed after the intense week we had with our student group from Amalie Skram high school and two days of hard work during the Annual Meeting and all the social pleasantries during the free time. Read More …
Editor’s note: This post is from three of the 5 students from Amalie Skram high school in Bergen, Norway, who were chosen to join the REGIMES Team in Longyearbyen, Svalbard August 7-10, 2017. Text & photos by: Annika Torsvik, Kaia E. Lehmann and Lea T. Knutsen. The third day of the Svalbard trip, we got to Read More …
The REGIMES project, including students from Amalie Skram High School in Bergen, and Lisbeth Iversen, researcher at the Nansen Center for Remote Environmental Sensing in Bergen, representing the INTAROS project, are on a research field trip to Svalbard this week. Tuesday the 8th of August we visited the Longyearbyen school and had the opportunity to ask questions about the Read More …
Editor’s note: This post is from one of the five students from Amalie Skram high school in Bergen, Norway, who were chosen to join the REGIMES Team in Longyearbyen, Svalbard August 7-10, 2017. Svalbard Day 1, by Liam McCafferty, Amalie Skram VGS «The landing might be rougher than you’re used to», the pilot warns us, explaining that Read More …
Editor’s note: This post is from three of the 5 students from Amalie Skram high school in Bergen, Norway, who were chosen to join the REGIMES Team in Longyearbyen, Svalbard August 7-11, 2017. by: Annika Torsvik, Kaia E. Lehmann and Lea T. Knutsen After a brief night’s sleep, we were ready for our second day in Read More …
The Snow Crab drama continues…. Rachel Tiller, REGIMES research and work package leader, has recently been cited in two very interesting articles: http://www.politico.eu/article/of-crustaceans-and-oil-the-case-of-the-snow-crab-on-svalbard/ Rachel comments on the recent legal decision that the benthic (ground-crawling and bottom-dwelling) nature of snow crab gives it a different legal status under the Svalbard Treaty (of 1920) than, say, fish. In Read More …
REGIMES partner Yajie Liu (NTNU-SØF) writes from Vancouver: Hello from Vancouver! I was awarded a visit grand from the Norwegian Research Council in relation to the REGIMES project for a short stay at University of British Columbia UBC), Canada. The main objective of this short visit is to closely work with Dr. William Cheung and Read More …
Here, REGIMES colleague Yajie Liu (NTNU-SØF) writes from Mexico: The NAAFE Forum 2017 (North American Association of Fisheries Economists) took place at the beautiful city, La Paz, on March 22-24, 2017 (https://www.xcdsystem.com/naafe/website/). The theme of the forum is: The Economics of Aquaculture, Fisheries and Seafood Trade: Managing the Socio-Ecology of Sustainable Marine Resource Use, and hosted by Read More …
In the REGIMES project, we are applying many different methods to illuminate the question “What will future Norwegian regimes of the Arctic look like?” I have many impressions from the Arctic Frontiers 2017 conference in Tromsø related to this question. Since the REGIMES project has an overrepresentation of women (for good reasons…) I will Read More …
This past week, Dorothy Dankel, Yajie Liu and Rachel Tiller have represented the REGIMES project at the annual Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø. The first two days were filled with Arctic policy and politics plenary sessions, where Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende were top names. Dorothy presented the REGIMES Read More …
The current climate trend on the archipelago of Svalbard is very clear: each season is warming, not just the winters. Locals in Longyearbyen, the largest town on Spitsbergen, say that Svalbard is becoming more like Bergen, rain gear and umbrellas are replacing snow suits and snowshoes. See the original article here (in Norwegian): http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/2016-ble-det-varmeste-aret-som-noen-gang-er-registrert-pa-Svalbard-Men-med-varmen-kommer-ekstremvaret-328383b.html See Read More …
Dr. William W.L. Cheung, REGIMES Scientific Advisory Board member and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Changing Ocean Research Unit and Director of Science of the NF-UBC Nereus Program, published a new article in the journal Science 23 December 2016. Dr. Cheung, with colleagues Gabriel Reygondeau from UBC and Thomas Frölicher from ETH Zürich Read More …
Dorothy has now had two very productive and fun meetings with 2 of our 3 generational groups: Nordahl Grieg VGS (high school) and Besteforeldrenes Klimaaksjon (Grandparents’ Climate Campaign). Soon Dorothy will be able to follow up also with Elisabeth Engum at Amalie Skram VGS and we will solidify the dates for the first Workshop, lead by Rachel, in November. Read More …
Dorothy wins BEST POSTER at ICES Annual Science Conference 2016 Riga
Dorothy will present REGIMES to the Bergen Polar Science Network tomorrow. Check out the Prezi here: http://prezi.com/qcaqtsjxxx0g/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share #polardagen #regimesproj
Economic impacts of climate change on fisheries in Norwegian Arctic Waters The world ocean has warming up, snow and sea ice are melting, glaciers are retreating, sea levels are rising, and seawater is becoming more acidic. All these changes in climate have produced noticeable effects on ecosystems and ecosystem services. It has become more evident Read More …
Dorothy Dankel presented a poster for the REGIMES project at the @ 4th Annual Nordic Conference on Climate Change Adaptation today in Bergen. You, too, can check it out here: REGIMES project poster
We have started the brainstorming session on how to designa serious game “Artic Climate in Society” (ARCtIS) to elucidate intra- and intergenerational decision-making under scenarios of climate change for communities of Norway. Once the game is underway, we take a bold intra- and inter-generational approach to radical climate change communications by involving high school students, adult active stakeholders (from Read More …
Dr. Yajie Liu from SØF-NTNU is the leader for WP1 PREDICT. The main objective of WP1 is to assess the ecosystem services and changes in these services by integrating social, economic and cultural values in relation to climate change, and to explore potential possibilities how to incorporate these services into potential conflict resolution and negotiation processes Read More …
REGIMES starts June 2016 and will last until June 2019. The project is fully financed by the Research Council of Norway under the POLARPROG research program.
