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From the Wednesday, August 15 edition of the Globe and Mail:

Martha Crago, Dalhousie’s vice-president of research who helped organize the Halifax visit, said the joint research will examine the opportunities for resource extraction as the Arctic melts, as well as the environmental consequences.

She noted that the project will be partially funded through new federal research funds announced earlier this year, including a $25-million, five-year fund called Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response.

“I think that this is something that will help to keep informing Canadians and Canadian politicians,” Dr. Crago said. “Her interest in speaking with and being with the scientists is very profound. It’s really quite striking for us in a university because as many official-type events that we would try to plan, the word would come back: She wants to spend the time with the scientists.”

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