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Economics and Globalization
Overcoming Remoteness: Arctic Innovation in Transportation, Energy and Connectivity
On Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 2:00 – 3:00 ET
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Environment
Technological Innovation and Arctic Climate Security
On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 3:00 – 4:30 ET
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Energy Security
POSTPONED | Achieving Security in the Arctic: the Role of DHS and its Components
On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 3:00 – 4:30 ET
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Environmental Security
Bering Strait: Navigation and Conservation in Times of Conflict
On Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 12:30 – 4:30 ET
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Governance
Unpacking the 2022 US National Strategy for the Arctic Region
On Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 2:00 – 3:15 ET
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Environment
Forty Years of Antarctic Marine Conservation: Policy Approaches in the Antarctic Treaty System
On Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 9:00 – 10:00 ET
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Critical Minerals
EXTERNAL EVENT | Alaska's Minerals: A Strategic National Imperative
August 22, 2022 – August 23, 2022
Chuquicamata, the world's largest open-pit copper mine
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Critical Minerals
Shared Risk, Shared Opportunity: Critical Minerals and the Transatlantic Climate Bridge
On Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 12:00 – 1:00 ET
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Critical Minerals
Trade, Minerals, and the Green Transition in Greenland: A Conversation with Prime Minister Múte B. Egede
On Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 1:00 – 3:00 ET
Salinas Grandes on Argentina Andes is a salt desert in the Jujuy Province. More significantly, Bolivas Salar de Uyuni is also located in the same region
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Critical Minerals
Opportunity and Risk: Mining and the Green Energy Transition
On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 3:30 – 5:00 ET
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Governance
Antarctic Diplomacy: Issues and Trends in 2022
On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 10:00 – 11:00 ET
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Security and Defense
Nordic Security Perspectives in the Arctic
On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 4:00 – 5:00 ET
COVID-19

Highlight: COVID-19 Impacts in the Arctic

A virtual conference organized and hosted by the US Naval War College, the Wilson Center's Polar Institute, and the US Arctic Research Commission about the impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic.

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