ICR Staff activities this week
ICR Director Anders Oskal was in Bardufoss this week making a presentation 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). Topics covered included climate change and the ACIA report and added a circumpolar perspective. He also presented the EALAT project. In Tromsø, Oskal met with the folks at TV2 to discuss cooperation on outreach issues. Elna Sara was preparing for the visit of the Minister for Education of the Sakha Republic in the middle of May. Svein Mathiesen is currently in Alaska with ICR Board memeber Monica Sundset for a conference in Chicago and meetings in the University of Fairbanks with Gary Kofinas among others. Philip Burgess has spent the week creating the new look Reindeer Portal in online cooperation with the Arctic Portal folks in Iceland
