Workshop Series Announcement and Opportunities for Community Input
Arctic Social Sciences in the 21st Century
Arctic Horizons
Spring 2016
For more information, go to: http://arctichorizons.org/home
The Arctic Horizons Program, recently funded by the NSF Arctic Social
Sciences Program (ASSP), is organizing a series of five workshops and a
web-based community survey to solicit input from members of the Arctic
social sciences and indigenous communities to reassess the goals,
potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and ASSP within the
context of a rapidly changing circumpolar North. The outcome of this
effort will be a report that includes the community's recommendations
for the future funding priorities in Arctic social science research.
The NSF Arctic Social Sciences Program is undergoing a re-envisioning
process as announced in the Dear Colleague Letter NSF 15-109
(http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15109/nsf15109.jsp). In response to
this opportunity the Arctic Horizons Program is working as part of a
national team to re-envision the next 10-15 years of Arctic social
science research. To accomplish this goal, the program is organizing a
series of five topical and regional workshops held across the country that
will bring together approximately 150 western and indigenous scholars to
discuss the future of Arctic social science research. Although direct
participation is by invitation, indirect participation will be supported
via webcasts from each of the workshops, online blogging, and other
social media.
Additional participation by the broader Arctic social sciences,
indigenous science, and stakeholder communities will be solicited
through an interactive web platform that will also share workshop and
project outcomes. Community participation will also be supported by
special sessions and town hall meetings at national and regional
conferences.
The results of the workshops and on-line input will be compiled at a
final synthesis workshop with a report produced to describes the
community's vision for the future of Arctic social science research.
This re-envisioning process will help shape future Arctic social science
research and inform Arctic economic, environmental, and political policy
development.
For more information about the Arctic Social Sciences in the 21st
Century workshop series, go to: http://arctichorizons.org/workshops.
For more information about plans for the web-based community survey, go
to: http://arctichorizons.org/node/43.
For more information about the Arctic Horizons Program, go to:
http://arctichorizons.org/home.
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