Water and Environmental Research Center
Seminars
18 September 2009
Highlights from the 17th International Northern Research Basins Symposium and Workshop: Eastern Canadian Arctic August 12-18, 2009
Douglas Kane, Amy Tidwell, and Sveta Berezovskaya
Credit: Amy Tidwell
Fjord off Cumberland Sound near Baffin Island
Abstract
Every two years an ad hoc group of northern hydrologists convene a meeting in one of the eight circumpolar Arctic countries (United States, Canada, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Greenland/Denmark). Initially this group was convened under the auspices of UNESCO's International Hydrologic Decade (IHD) in the mid 1970s. Today it proceeds forward on the momentum of previous meetings and participants.
This past August, the 17th of these meetings was held in Northeastern Canada, in the vicinity of Baffin Island. These meetings are unique in that they are generally limited to ~50 people (the number of people that can fit in one bus) and they often meet in very remote regions of the world (interesting northern places that we would like to visit but usually do not have the opportunity).
This seminar is about the experiences of the excellent 17th NRB meeting of Amy, Sveta and Doug.