Alaska Senator’s Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski met with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and indigenous representatives to the Arctic Council At the Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
An Arctic Council attendee makes a phone call in front of the inflatable mammoth Pingo Peat outside of the Fine Arts building on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. The mammoth is used in a National Science Foundation funded outreach program in Alaska villages. The program uses hands on science and demonstrations to teach children about the permafrost. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
Jessica Brunacini shows cards from the ECOCHAINS Arctic Life food web card game at the Polar Partnership booth at the Arctic Council meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. The card game produced with A National Science Foundation grant teaches players about the arctic food web and ice and the effects of climate change. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
Thomas Orri Ranarsson, Counselor, Arctic Affairs, Directorate for international and Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iceland, speaks at The Arctic-A Global Perspective session during the Arctic Council in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Listening is fellow panel member David Balton, Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
Donna Anger, International Programs & Initiatives Director, and Peter Skold President of the International Arctic Social Science Association talk during a break at the Arctic Council in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Behind them is an Arctic Lavvo that is part of the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry display at the UAF fine arts building. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
Alaska Senator’s Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski met with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and indigenous representatives to the Arctic Council At the Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)
Representatives from the eight Arctic States gathered this week in Fairbanks for the 10th biennial Arctic Council Ministerial meeting. The centerpiece of the “Week of the Arctic” with events in Anchorage and Fairbanks, the meeting will see Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday hand over chairmanship of the council — which the U.S. has held for two years — to Finland.
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