Recent Activities

The final report (2014-2018) from The NOW-Project is out: LIVING RESOURCES AND HUMAN SOCIETIES AROUND THE NORTH WATER IN THE THULE AREA, NW Greenland.

May 8th-10th, 2017. The NOW-Project hosted an international symposium in the Royal Academy of Sciences in Copenhagen: The North Water: The Entanglement of Ice, Animals, and People in a High Arctic Oasis. 
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As an additional output of their research in the Thule area, the team of archaeologists of the NOW-Project have created a preliminary guide to the Uummannaq settlement. See the guide here (Danish only).
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A new report describes the research activities of the NOW Project carried out in 2016. Read the annual report here.
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New report out from The NOW-Project: PINIARIARNEQ. From interdisciplinary research towards a new resource management practice. 
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In January 2017, a team of NOW researchers travelled to Nuuk to communicate research methods, processes and findings to stakeholders and a broader public. Several meetings and events were held:

January 24^th: PINIARIARNEQ. From interdisciplinary research towards a new resource management practice. Presentation and dialogue meeting between researchers, hunters and stakeholders in the management of Greenland’s natural resources, Hotel Hans Egede. 

January 25^th: Public lectures about the NOW project, hosted by the National Museum and Archive of Greenland: ‘Fangere og fangstdyr omkring Nordvandet: det tværfaglige NOW-Projekt’. Presentations of research activities and findings given by: Bjarne Grønnow, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Anders Mosbech, Janne Flora and Astrid O. Andersen. Ilimmarfik, University of Greenland.

January 26^th: ‘At gå på fangst’, a public presentation of the interdisciplinary and collaborative research project Piniariarneq, hosted by culturehouse Katuaq and the Greenlandic Ministry of Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Church. Presentations of the innovative GPS project were given by five vocational hunters from NW Greenland: Mads Ole Kristiansen, Olennguaq Kristensen, Aaqqiunnguaq Qaerngaaq, Avigiaq Petersen, and Qillaq Danielsen. Anthropologists Janne K. Flora and Astrid O. Andersen, and GIS expert Kasper Lambert Johansen presented process and findings, and The NOW-project was introduced by Anders Mosbech.

News

Research findings from the NOW-Project reaches international media: The Danish science platform Videnskab.dk, the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq, the platform for environmental news, EarthTimes, and The Freshwater Blog.
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The little auk - a major engineer News article on Arctic Science Partnership about a new publication by NOW researchers Ivan González-Bergonzoni, Kasper L. Johansen, Anders Mosbech, Frank Landkildehus, Erik Jeppesen, Thomas A. Davidson: Small birds, big effects: the little auk (Alle alle) transforms high Arctic ecosystems 
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Interview in the news of Nuuk TV with NOW researcher Janne Flora and vocational hunter Mads Ole Kristiansen on January 26th, about the project PINIARIARNEQ and public activities in Nuuk.  
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Forskningsprojekt bygger bro mellem forskere og grønlandske fangere Article about an innovative and interdisciplinary research initiative carried out under the NOW-Project, in the science news website Videnskab.dk. 
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Global opvarmning giver Thules befolkning nye muligheder 
Interview with NOW-Project PI Kirsten Hastrup in the science news website Videnskab.dk. 
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"Hvaler på menukortet".
Interview in the Greenlandic newspaper AG (uge 14) with Asta Mønsted, MSc student in archaeology working on the NOW-Project. 
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Det store nord i forandring. Interview with NOW-Project PI Kirsten Hastrup on the Carlsberg Foundation website.
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New article about The NOW-Project in the journal Polarfronten. 
Read "Oasen i isen".