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Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)—IPY Meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada (June 2009), and AMAP Human Health Assessment 2009

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The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Human Health Assessment Group (HHAG) undertook an assessment and meeting to summarize arctic contaminant and human health research undertaken during the International Polar Years (IPYs). This meeting took place in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, on June 10–12, 2009. This report summarizes the much more voluminous document AMAP Assessment 2009: Human Health in the Arctic (AMAP 2009a) that was released and discussed at the Iqaluit meeting.

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In Memoriam for Jens C. Hansen

Jens C. Hansen passed away in 2012 only a few years after his retirement from Aarhus University, in Denmark. He devoted his academic life to research, which focused on understanding the exposure pathways for and the effects of contaminants on Arctic residents. Jens was a founding member and chair of the Human Health Assessment Group of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). He provided leadership and encouragement on all aspects of the work of the group and AMAP for over 17 years. He also created and became the first head of the Centre for Arctic Environmental Medicine at Aarhus University (now Centre of Arctic Health). His kindness and sensitivity toward all he met, worked with, and trained were inspirational. We very fondly dedicate this work to his memory: Jens C. Hansen, an excellent scientist, mentor, and friend to many.

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Hansen, J.C. et al. (2016). Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)—IPY Meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada (June 2009), and AMAP Human Health Assessment 2009. In: Kallenborn, R. (eds) Implications and Consequences of Anthropogenic Pollution in Polar Environments. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12315-3_7

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