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January Organised re-issue of Sophus Tromholdt's 'Under the Northern Star'
Feb 1 Established www.ealat.org (web site of EALÁT research project).
Feb 14 ICR Planned, Coordinated, Documented Indigenous Peoples International Polar Year Opening-IPY Opening, Guovdageaidnu.
Feb 15-16 ICR Planned, Coordinated, Documented first EALÁT Scientific workshop, Guovdageaidnu
March 1 EALAT presented in Paris IPY Opening by IP IPO Director David Carlson. ICR and Director Oskal singled out for thanks and attention. Attended by Dr. Svein Mathisen.
March 1-5 Coordinated EALÁT / ICR / WRH Visit to the WRH ten year Celebration in Nadym, YNAO
March 2 Organised second EALÁT Scientific workshop, Nadym.
March 18 ICR host delegation from Arctic Centre, Uni of Lapland, which included B. Forbes, F. Stammler, A. Degteva, A. Stammler and S. Khudi, a Nenets herder now involved with a construction company in Salekhard, called Yamaltranstoi. ICR organized a short presentation by Aslak Anders Sara related to his experience of oil and gas development in Hammerfest, home to his reindeer husbandry's units summer pastures and the home of the Snohvit development and proposed Wind Park. Mathisen accompanied group to Snohvit and attended presentation by Statoil PR representative.
March 20 EALAT presented at a well attended NBR-NRL conference in Alta. S. Mathiesen presents EALAT. Philip Burgess webcasts conference to the Arctic Portal. Elna Sara in attendance
March 20-21 ICR and EALAT attend a Swedish organized conference in Umea, ‘Future Challenges for Reindeer Husbandry’ workshop in Umeå, 20-21 March, organised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. ICR emerged with an MOU with the Royal Swedish Academy. ICR/WRH proposed a future workshop related to reindeer husbandry, Traditional Knowledge and ethical guidelines with a circumpolar focus.
March 26. Two reindeer herding students of Sami Oahppahusguovddas (SAKK), Inari, Finland visit ICR to be informed of work of ICR.
March 27 - April 1. ICR employee Philip Burgess attends a 4 day training session in Akureyri, Iceland at the Arctic Portal. A redesign of the Reindeer Portal was agreed upon. Assists in webcasting the PAME Conference, Akureyri.
March 28. Anders Oskal attends 2nd Statoil Impact Assessment, Tromsø.
www.reindeercentre.org redesigned and visitors directed to new site. www.reindeerblog.org established.
April 10-14 ICR and WRH are attending the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group in Tromso this week as Norway kicks off it’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council for the next two years. At the end of the week, the Senior Arctic Officials meet and will be attended by WRH and ICR. For the SDWG Dimitry Khorolia is the WRH Head of Delegation. ICR Director Anders Oskal, Elna Sara, Svein Mathiesen and Philip Burgess are in attendence.
April 11-13. Elna Sara attends Statoil 2030 preliminary meeting, Svalbard.
April 14 Anders Oskal, World Reindeer Herders Assocation and Director of the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry made a brief presentation to the Senior Arctic Officials in Tromsø, as the SDWG gave a progress report to the SAO’s. Dmitry Khorolia, WRH President makes a short statement to the SDWG.
April 14 EALÁT presented to the SAO's by Anders Oskal after it has been accepted as a Arctic Council SDWG project.
April 16. Anders Oskal met with State Secretary Liv Monica Bargem Stubholt to whom he presented an IP-IPY calender and a copy of Sophus Tromholdt’s book.
April 16. ICR presented by Anders Oskal to sixteen State Secretaries who are visiting Kautokeino.
April 16-22. Svein Mathiesen and ICR Board member and EALÁT researcher Monica Sundset in Chicago (conference presentation) and University of Alaska Fairbanks meeting with the LARS staff and CARMA network participants.
April 20. ICR Director presents ICR to the Crisis Response Group which comprises of people from the reindeer herding districts of Troms County and the Reindeer Husbandry Administration (Reindriftsforvaltningen) and the Food and Drug Administration (Mattilsynet) in Bardufoss.
May1-3 Anders Oskal meets with Winfred Dallman, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø.
May 2. ICR provide presentation materials to Olav Mathis Eira, Sami Council, for his Arctic Voices tour of the U.S.
May 8-9. ICR presentation to Agderforskning
May 10. ICR coordinate and organise Storm Weather Centre's'Himmel og Hav' presentation by Siri Kalvig and Hilde Holstad (over 100 participants in Kautokeino). ICR presented their work to Kalvik and Holstad.
May 11-12. WRH Secretary General Johan Mathis Turi and ICR Director Anders Oskal present ICR and WRH to the Saminuorra AGM, Sweden
May 11. EALÁT WP 4 Meeting, Kautokeino. Facilitated by Svein Mathiesen. Philip Burgess presents ICR web resources.
May 14-16. Workshop on Adaptation of Climate Scenarios ACIA, Oslo AMAP offices. Svein Mathiesen in attendance.
May 15. Svein Mathiesen facilitates EALÁT WP meeting, Oslo, with participants from EALAT WP 1 and the Norwegian Meteorological Organisation.
May 18. Gjetedagbok – Karakterisering av Guohtun EALÁT meeting, Kautokeino, Svein Mathiesen in attendance.
May 19-20. ICR receives Yamal delegation, which includes oil and gas representatives, Nenets reindeer herders and administrators, including the Vice Governor of Yamal NAO. ICR organise seminar and visit to local slaughter house.
May 23. ICR meet Sami Parliament delegation, SEG and a delegation of reindeer herders from the Kola Peninsula to discuss future cooperation in Karasjok.
May 25. ICR work is presented to two Canadian journalists visiting Kautokeino.
May 28. ICR film short interview with Johan Mathis Turi about climate change and reindeer husbandry.
May 29-31 Anders Oskal and Elna Sara attend SSØ training course.
June 1. Anders Oskal meets with Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Labour and Social Inclusion, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Oslo.
June 1. Philip Burgess and Svein Mathiesen meet with Bjorn Kristofferson and Heike Pflasterer, Statoil, Kautokeino.
June 4-5. Sven Mathiesen and Elna Sara attend World Environment Day Launch in Tromsø.
JUne 5, IPY IPO Director David Carlsen uses interview with Johan Mathis Turi and highlights EALÁT in his presentation about IPY to WED launch
June 4-5 ICR displays the Tromholdt pictures in the University of Tromsø, as part of the WED events.
June 11-12 Philip Burgess webcasts and photographs the 'Building the Sami University conference' and King Harald V attendence at the ground breaking ceremony in Kautokeino.
July 28, Anders Oskal and Svein Mathiesen meeting with GRID Arendal, (Joan Eamer) and Lars Kullerud (GRID, Uni of the Arctic).
July 31-Aug 1, Svein Mathiesen meets with Prof. Erik Reinart, Oslo, to discuss EALAT Work Package 6
August 6-12, Anders Oskal attends the Arctic Ungulates Conference, Yakutia, Sakha Republic. Meets with ICR Board member Vladimir Etylin, Signs MOU with Dr. Vassily Robbek, of the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch, Institute of the Indigenous Peoples of the North.
August 13, Philip Burgess films Lena Pogodaeva for the Reindeer Portal, trains Lena on the Reindeer Blog.
August 15, Anders Oskal and Svein Mathiesen plan hosting of EALAT Outreach workshop with Mayor of Topolini, Sakha, for April 8, 2008.
August 17, ICR host delegation of teachers, administrators from Topolini, Sakha (Yakutia) in Kautokeino and present sthe work of ICR and discuss future cooperation.
August 18, Svein Mathiesen meeting with Bob Corell, EALAT WP 7 Synthesis, Oslo
August 22-3, Anders Oskal attends Innovasjon Norge/Bioforsk Verdiskaping conference, Tromso.
August 29, Anders Oskal, Svein Mathiesen, Philip Burgess attend Norwegian Research Council IPY overview meeting, Oslo. EALAT outreach and Reindeer Portal presented.
August 30, Anders Oskal, Svein Mathiesen, Philip Burgess meet with Inger Hanssen Bauer, Rasmus Benestad and Dagrun Vikhamar Schuler of the Norwegian Meteorological Organisation and Grete K. Hovelsrud of CICERO.
August 31, Anders Oskal, Johan Mathis Turi, Elna Sara meet with Ellen Inga O. Haetta of the Reindeer Husbandry Administration to discuss Alaska delegation visit 2008 with media.
September 10, Johan Mathis Turi and Elna Sara meet with Ellen Inga O. Haetta at ICR, Kautokeino to discuss 2009 Congress.
Sept 11-12, Philip Burgess webcasts Seminarium om dokumentation av samisk kunskap, Jokkmokk, Sweden
Sept 10-12, Anders Oskal attends and presents at UNFCC workshop on adaptation planning and practices under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, Rome, Italy.
September 19-27, Svein Mathiesen, Johan Mathis Eira, Philip Burgess participate in EALAT Outreach and Information Workshop in Yar Sale, Yamal Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
September 26, Svein Mathiesen, Johan Mathis Turi and Philip Burgess meet with Alexander Komarov, President of the Russian Reindeer Herders Union, Moscow.
September 21-22, Elna Sara participates in public outreach actvities in EALAT Outreach and Information in Forskningsdagene, Tromso.
September 24, Anders Oskal presents EALAT Outreach and Information, and the Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples, Bodo. (Programme)
September 25, Anders Oskal presents EALAT Outreach and Information, and the Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples, Tysfjord (Programme).
September 25, Elna Sara receives Vlad Peskov (President of YASAVEY) and Naryan Mar delegation at the offices of ICR
October 1, Philip Burgess webcasts IMB Seminar by Dr. Perry Barboza, University of Tromso.
October 2, Svein Mathiesen and Philip Burgess participate in Polarview Overview meeting at Meteorological Institute, Tromso.
October 3, Svein Mathiesen participates in University of the Arctic Thematic Network Meeting, Tromso
October 4, Svein Mathiesen, Anders Oskal participate in Statoil 2030 Scenario workshop. Oskal presents ICR work.
October 5, Anders Oskal meets with Åshild Kolås, Senior Researcher of International Peace Research Institute, Oslo re. Chinese reindeer husbandry and delegation visit.
October 6-8, Philip Burgess webcasts Same Voice, But Different Conference, Alta.
October 8-13, Elna Sara hosts Minister for Education, Sakha / Yakutia in Oslo, bardufoss, Kautokeino and Inari, Finland.
October 9, Philip Burgess attends Norwegian Research Council seminar oganised by NRK on using film and new media for effective outreach.
October 10, Svein Mathiesen attends CICERO meeting, Oslo.
October 12, Philip Burgess interviews Feodosia Gabysheva, Minister of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
October 16-18, Svein Mathiesen attends Norwegian-German IPY and climate change seminar with King Harald of Norway.
October 20-22, Anders Oskal, Elna Sara host Hao Shiyuan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at autumn slaughter near Solstad, Troms and Sami school, Bardufoss.
October 24, Haavard Hagen of Reindeer Husbandry Administration, Alta, visits ICR, future cooperation is discussed, maps are exchanged.
October 30-November 1, Anders Oskal, Svein Mathiesen, Ole Isak Eira attend Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group, Vadso as part of World Reindeer Herders delegation to present EALAT-Information.
November 9, Juha Magga visits ICR, discuss further cooperation on Reindeer Portal.
November 9, Anders Oskal present ICR and WRH to a visiting delegation from SOGSAKK, Inari, Finland.
November 9-16, Elna Sara attends Education for Everybody conference, Yakutia. Presents ICR and planning for EALAT-Information workshop, 2008.
November 20, ICR host information seminar for Ministry's of Labour and Social Inclusion, Foreign Affairs, Environment and Agriculture, Oslo, Norway. All ICR Board members make presentations. Anders Oskal presents EALAT-Information. Philip Burgess presents Reindeer Portal.
November 21-22, Oslo. ICR Board Meeting, Oslo.
November 28-9, Anders Oskal, Svein Mathiesen, Ole Isak Eira attend Arctic Council SAO meeting, Narvik.
November 30, Anders Oskal takes Dmitry Khorolia (WRH President) on tour of reindeer slaughter house, Bardufoss.
December 10-11, Svein Mathisen, Anders Oskal, Ole Issat Eira and Philip Burgess attend ENSINOR Social Impacts of Oil and Gas extraction seminar, Rovaniemi, Finland
December 12-14, ICR/WRH hosts Mikhail and Sofie Yar, reindeer herders from YNAO in Oteren and Kautokeino