Sea ice vocabularies of similar magnitude and sophistication are reported from Inuit communities across the circumpolar North.

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They have amplified their power by banding together in the Inuit Circumpolar Council, (ICC), a body created in 1977.

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No matter how it may be expressed, the phenomenon of increasingly variable and unpredictable weather resonates from one Arctic community to the next across the circumpolar North.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The ICR partnered with Polar View in a trial of the maps to examine how satellite observations could help by gathering information on snow change in a timely manner for such vast circumpolar regions.

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They say there is particular concern over the very long-lived northern low pressure zone of circumpolar winds, called a vortex, found at between 13 and 34 km (8 and 21 miles) above the Earth's surface.

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He previously served as President of Inuit Circumpolar Council - Alaska, Vice Chairman of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, and has served on the Board of Directors of Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, the village corporation of Barrow, Alaska.

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In addition to a sea floor mapping project, the researchers will make chemical analyses of water samples that will help them determine the temperature, salinity and composition of a strong circumpolar current that flows around the boundary of the Arctic Ocean.

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An international experts workshop will contribute to this effort, bring together a select group of natural and social scientists, and indigenous peoples, from across the circumpolar region to enhance collaborative indigenous-scientific work on global change impacts, monitoring and adaptation, and thus advance thinking on the emerging paradigm of knowledge co-production.

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