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Arctic Council Meeting Gets Underway in Portland, Maine - Why Some Experts Say We Should Be Paying More Attention

October 6, 2016 Media Mentions

Ben Ford was quoted in an Eye on the Arctic article titled "Arctic Council Meeting Gets Underway in Portland, Maine - Why Some Experts Say We Should e Paying More Attention." Ben offered his comments for the article after speaking as a panelist at the Marine Technology and the North Symposium co-hosted by Verrill Dana and the Marine Oceanographic Technology Network, and coinciding with the meeting of the Arctic Council in Portland, Maine.

Read "Arctic Council Meeting Gets Underway in Portland, Maine - Why Some Experts Say We Should Be Paying More Attention," from Eye on the Arctic.

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