New NABO Website

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We have launched the new NABO website which replaces the old one that was some 14 years old. The development of the new website was part of the NSF funded NABO Response (Response to Threats to Science and Heritage in Greenland) project. The National Science Foundation funded RESPONSE project is part of a larger umbrella program North Atlantic Encounters (NAE) sponsored by the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization and the Humanities for Environment Circumpolar Observatory.

As stated in a test blog in November 2023, the aim was to create an online resource that contains much more information about the NABO community in a responsive, interactive website which enables contributions to be made directly by the people doing the research. In particular, we will be hosting lots of information about the RESPONSE project. This include blogs such as this, more details on NABO-related publications, ongoing projects, conferences, postgraduate research, job and research degree opportunities, as well as the revised NABO Project Management system.

Much of the work on designing and creating this WordPress site has been undertaken by Annabel Treshansky, for which I am very grateful and really appreciate all of her hard work. Her depth of understanding about how to design and build what is a complex website has been essential and I’d also like to thank Eduardo Serafin for allowing her to work on this project. Louis Kinnear who has overseen the transfer of the NABO Project Management system from the original Oracle database system to the new PostgreSQL one and has rewritten all the code that searches the database and displays the results and integrates with WordPress. Help and advice from Chris Hill with many database issues is also really appreciated.

Although launched, there is still work to do to add full functionality and update and add more content. So please let us know what you would like added. Please also contact us if you would like to write a blog, include a news story and/or become an editor of the website.