The Fulbright workshop entitled “Shaping Arctic Change through Conscious Choices” brought together former Fulbright scholars to discuss what changes are affecting the Arctic. Sponsored also by the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and co-sponsored by the Stockholm Environmental Institute, and World Wildlife Fund for Nature / Sweden, the workshop sought to identify key threads / insights upon which to build synthesis of the overall theme of “shaping change through conscious choices.
With three focus topics discussed, “Security Challenges and Opportunities”; “Critical Thresholds, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity; and “Governing the Arctic – from Science to Governance”; the work product from this 2-day workshop will be a synthesis paper on the key issues identified as being necessary to shape Arctic change in a conscious and deliberate manner.
With several UArctic members represented, the participants of the workshop included:
Amy Lauren Lovecraft, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Annika Nilsson, Stockholm Environment Institute
Belinda Theriault Fulbright Iceland
Björn Dahlbäck Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Bruce Forbes University of Lapland
Catherine Chambers University of Alaska Fairbanks / Hólar University College
Christopher Nelson University of Southern Denmark
Daniel Govoni University of Alaska Fairbanks
Douglas Nord Western Washington University
Elisa Maria Lopez Uppsala University
Eric Jönsson Fulbright Sweden
Garry Peterson Stockholm Resilience Center
Golo Bartsch Ecologic Institute Berlin / University of Bielefeld
Guillaume St-Onge Université du Québec à Rimouski
Gustaf Lind Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Jeffrey Anderson U.S. Embassy Sweden
Jennifer Lail University of Washington / University of Akureyri
Jon Weadon U.S. Embassy Sweden
Lawrence Hislop GRID-Arendal
Marcus Carson Stockholm Environment Institute, Workshop co-chair
Marcus Hansson U.S. Embassy Sweden
Mark Brzezinski, US Ambassador - U.S. Embassy Sweden
Martin Sommerkorn World Wildlife Fund for Nature / WWF
Matt Ayres Dartmouth College
Paul Burgess Tulane University
Petter Naess Fulbright Norway
Pierre-Andre Forest University of the Arctic
Rolf Carman Swedish Ministry of Education
Sarah Cornell Stockholm Resilience Centre
Sari Graben Ryerson University
Sophia Albov University of Montana / University of Helsinki
Shiloh Fetzek IISS
Tehri Mölsä Fulbright Finland
Tim Frandy University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tom Arnbom WWF, Workshop co-chair
Tom Healy U.S. Fulbright Board (Chairman)
Wes Carrington U.S. State Department
Fulbright Starts Efforts to Help Arctic Alumni Keep Ties
Wed, Oct 30, 2013
The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which oversees the Fulbright Program has started holding conferences for alumni in specific areas of research; and one such event designed to maintain these connections was held in Abisko, Sweden, from October 30th to 31st, 2013.