New Arctic services

Following priorities established by Arctic Council, its Working Groups, the Arctic Science Ministerials, and the Arctic Observing Summit, we are developing eight new Arctic Services (AS):

• AS-1: Arctic Service ‘Event Database of CBM Using Oral Histories, Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge’
• AS-2: Pan-Arctic requirements-driven Permafrost Service (ALEX)
• AS-3: State of the Arctic Environment’ service
• AS-4: Integrated Fire Risk Management (INFRA)’ Service
• AS-5: Local Atmospheric Pollutant Forecast’ Service (AURORAE)
• AS-6: Improving Safety for Shipping in the Polar Seas’ Service (POLARIS)
• AS-7: CBM for Arctic marine climate change, noise pollution & impacts on marine living resources’
• AS-8: Lake Ice Service for Arctic Climate and Safety (LIS)

As-1 AS-2 AS-3 AS-4
AS-5 AS-6 AS-7 AS-8

Each Service has its own objectives, milestones and deliverables, but collectively they aim:

• To establish user-demanded Services that have high societal and economic benefit
• To ensure Services are developed and implemented through the co-creation approach
• To safeguard user-relevance through a process of rolling reviews
• To provide easy access through web-based portals information provided by these Services
• To enhance sustainability through the production of a business model for each Service (with Work Package 5)

The Arctic Services (AS) provide information in areas of societal and economic relevance that are presently inadequately served: food security (AS-1, AS-2, AS-6, AS-7), emergency preparedness (AS-2, AS-4, AS-5, AS-6, AS-8), wildfire and pollution risk reduction (AS-4, AS-5, AS-7), environmental change information (AS-1, AS-3, AS-8), and infrastructure, transport, and safe shipping (AS-2, AS-6, AS-8).

Co-design and co-production of these services with end-users ensure their relevance, and free access to the Arctic Services empowers users to make knowledge-based decisions in support of a prosperous, sustainable, and environmentally secure Arctic. Access to the Arctic Services will be via our ‘Arctic Window’ site.

the Arctic Seas portal

Work Package 4 is contributing to the Arctic Seas Portal developed by the non-profit Snowchange Cooperative, a network of Indigenous communities around the north. The portal provides information about Indigenous Communities and ecology of the Northern Waters.