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The Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment (AMSA) is circumpolar in focus and promotes cooperation and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders and relevant organizations. The assessment should cover all ship based activities and ship types in the Arctic.

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APECS is an international and interdisciplinary organization for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early faculty members, educators and others with interests in Polar Regions and the wider cryosphere. Our aims are to stimulate interdisciplinary and international research collaborations, and develop effective future leaders in polar research, education and outreach.

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The Arctic-HYDRA project consists of a core network for the observation of the Arctic Hydrological Cycle. Impacts of a warming Arctic are already raising serious concerns about the stability of the sensitive balance between climate conditions, freshwater input, oceanic circulation and the state of cryospheric components.

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The Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat is a support Secretariat for the International Indigenous Peoples’ Organisationsthat are Permanent Participants to the Arctic Council . IPS does not speak for the Permanent Participants. Instead, it createsopportunities for the Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations to speak forthemselves, and helps provide them with necessary information and materials.

IPS work includes: Ensuring that Permanent Participants are sent documents and reports connected to the work of the Arctic Council and its working groups. Helping Permanent Participants to present their views to the Arctic Council and its Working Groups. Collecting and communicating information about the Arctic Council and its results to the Indigenous Peoples in the various parts of the Arctic. Providing co-ordination for the Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations to meet with each other, and to participate in the Arctic CouncilWorking Groups.

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Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) mission is to address the conservation of Arctic biodiversity, and communicate its findings to the governments and residents of the Arctic, helping to promote practices which ensure the sustainability of the Arctic's living resources.

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The purpose of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) is to strive for the conservation of biological diversity in the Arctic, to halt or significantly reduce the loss of this biodiversity, and to provide information to the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, other Arctic residents, and stakeholders.

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EALÁT is a Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network Study and is a project that examines reindeer pastoralism in the light of climate change, in particular, on the integration of reindeer herders' knowledge in the study and analysis of their ability to adapt to environmental variability and change.

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The International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR) was established by the Norwegian Government in 2005 in Kautokeino, as a contribution to the unique international cooperation of circumpolar reindeer herding peoples. ICR is an independent professional unit, with its own board and budget. Its activity is funded by the Norwegian Government through annual grants from the budgets of the Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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The International Permafrost Association has as its objectives to foster the dissemination of knowledge concerning permafrost and to promote cooperation among persons and national or international organizations engaged in scientific investigation and engineering work on permafrost.

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International Polar Year (IPY) is an international cooperative research initiative first introduced in 1882, with an objective to provide scientific information about the fundamentals of meteorology and geophysics as well as further people’s knowledge on the Polar Regions.

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IPY Sverige is a Swedish secretariat for the International Polar year 2007-2008.

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The main objective of the International Polar Year 2007 Kuuvik River Expedition was to canoe the Kuuvik River in northern Quebec, traversing a remote Arctic territory between Hudson Bay and Ungava Bay, as an expedition of four paddlers using two wood-canvas heritage canoes, along a classic Canadian Crown geographical exploration route that was mapped in 1896 by the geoscientist A.P. Low.

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The Northern Research Forum (NRF) provides a platform for effective, policy-relevant discussion and the sharing of research on northern issues. Meetings are held biennially with the participation of a wide variety of scientists, policy makers and representatives of other stakeholders.

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The Pacific Arctic Group (PAG) is a group of institutes and individuals having a Pacific perspective on Arctic science. Organized under the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the PAG has as its mission to serve as a Pacific Arctic regional partnership to plan, coordinate, and collaborate on science activities of mutual interest. The four PAG principle science themes are climate, contaminants, human dimensions and structure and function of Arctic ecosystems.

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The program for the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) was established with the mandate to address policy and non-emergency pollution prevention and control measures related to the protection of the Arctic marine environment from both land and sea-based activities.

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Sustained Arctic Observing Network (SAON) is composed of representatives of international organizations, agencies, and northern residents involved in research and operational and local observing, that has been formed to develop a set of recommendations on how to achieve long-term Arctic-wide observing activities that provide free, open, and timely access to high-quality data that will realize pan-Arctic and global value-added services and provide societal benefits.

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The Finnish Reindeer Sámi, Suoma Boazosámit, is an association with an objective of sustaining, monitoring and advancing teh rights and interests of Finnish Reindeer Sámi. They work for the development of the Reindeer Sámi  livelihood in national and international fora.

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