June 21, 2006

Drs Gilles Gauthier (U. Laval), Dominique Berteaux (UQAR), and their colleagues were awarded a grant from the IPY program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for the Canadian component of ArcticWOLVES on trophic dynamics of Arctic food webs. The 3-year grant (2007-2009) is to the amount of CDN $920,000.

May 3, 2006

Dr Anders Angerbjörn (University of Stockholm) and his colleague submitted a proposal to the Swedish Research Council to secure funding for ArcticWOLVES research.

March 31, 2006

Drs Gilles Gauthier (U. Laval), Dominique Berteaux (UQAR), and their colleagues submitted a proposal to the Government of Canada IPY special program to secure funding for the Canadian component of ArcticWOLVES on the impacts of climate change on terrestrial animal biodiversity.

March 15, 2006

Drs Eva Fuglei (Norwegian Polar Institute), Nigel Yoccoz (University of Oslo), and their colleagues submitted a proposal entitled Arctic predators as indicators of tundra ecosystem state to the Norwegian Research Council to secure funding for ArcticWOLVES research in Norway and Russia.

January 18, 2006

Drs Marcel Klaassen (NIOO-KNAW), Bruno Ens (Alterra-Texel), and their colleagues submitted a proposal on Arctic shorebirds and climate change to the Dutch Funding Agency to secure funding for ArcticWOLVES fieldwork in Greenland and Russia.

November 30, 2005

ArcticWOLVES was fully endorsed by the ICSU/WMO Joint Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008.

November 21, 2005

Drs Gilles Gauthier (U. Laval), Dominique Berteaux (UQAR), and their colleagues submitted a proposal to the IPY program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to secure funding for the Canadian component of ArcticWOLVES on trophic dynamics of Arctic food webs.