WIN A WEEK ABOARD AN ARCTIC ICEBREAKER!!
(INCLUDING TRANSPORTATION FROM YOUR HOME COUNTRY)

In April 2008, join journalists from all over the world for a week aboard the Canadian research icebreaker Amundsen.

The World Federation of Science Journalists - in collaboration with the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the International Polar Year Circumpolar Flaw Lead Project - announces a competition offering science journalists the chance to win one of three week-long trips aboard the Canadian research icebreaker Amundsen. You will fly all the way to Inuvik (Canada), and hop aboard a Twin Otter aircraft to the famous icebreaker, where you will get first hand experience of global warming where it is unfolding the fastest.

ENTRY GUIDELINES
Send your CV, coordinates, key pages of your passport, and a one-page essay on why you should win this competition to:

World Federation of Science Journalists
28, rue Caron, suite 200, Gatineau (Quebec) Canada J8Y 1Y7
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Tel.: +819 770-0776
Fax: +819 595 2458
www.wfsj.org

Clearly indicate "Amundsen Competition" on your documents
(whether by mail, email, or fax).

ENTRY DEADLINE
Applications must be received before November 5, 2007.
(Candidacies will need to be submitted in English
since there will be an international panel that will evaluate them).




About the IPY-CFL project
The results of global warming are seen first and strongest in the polar regions of our planet. The Arctic sea ice has shrunk at an average annual rate of about 70,000 km2 per year since 1979, with 2005 being the minimum.

The Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) system study is designed to examine how changes in the physical system affect biological processes. An international team of researchers will study what effect these changes will have on the marine ecosystem, contaminant transport, carbon fluxes, and the exchange of greenhouse gases across the ocean-sea ice-atmosphere interface.

The Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) is a perennial characteristic of the central Arctic. The CFL system is formed when the central pack (which is mobile) moves away from coastal fast ice, opening a flaw lead which occurs throughout the winter season, forming first in the fall and continuing as thin ice areas in the winter season. The flaw lead is circumpolar, occurring in the Norwegian, Icelandic, North American and Siberian sectors of the circumpolar Arctic. Due to a reduced ice cover, these regions are exceedingly sensitive to changing atmospheric and oceanic conditions and provide a unique laboratory from which to gain insights into the changing polar marine ecosystem.

More information with the World Federation of Science Journalists