The 5th SETAC World Congress will be held in Sydney, Australia, 3-7 August 2008. The session is entitled "Interactions Between Climate Change and the Fate of Contaminants in Polar Environments." Organizers seek to assemble a group of scientists to comment on and give examples of the dramatic changes in climate now taking plac...

On 5 November 2007, a forum on the global and local impact of climate change will be held at the Arendal library auditorium, in Arendal Norway.  The public is invited to attend and participate in this exciting discussion on a topic that has now been highlighted as one of the main global challenges facing the world today.

IASC and its Antarctic counterpart SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) have now issued the plan of sessions for the joint SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference that will take place in St Petersburg, Russia, on 8-11 July 2008.

Delegation from the University of Oulu / Thule Institute led by Dr. Kari Laine, Director, UArctic Thematic Networks Program Chair, Thule Institute, visited the University of Alberta / Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI) and the University of Manitoba in October 17-23, 2007.

The Barents Institute, in cooperation with the University of Tromsø, makes available one PhD student position in “Mining, Society and Development in the Barents Region.”

The collaborative research conducted by Norwegian scientists and Sámi reindeer herders was featured on the Earth & Sky Science Radio Show on October 22, 2007. The American radio program, which is listened by over 8 million daily, included a six minute segment on the detrimental impact of climate change on the reindeer po...

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) announce the SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference, "Polar Research: Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year," to be held 8-11 July 2008, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The conference will be held in c...

The Board of UArctic met in Fairbanks for a three-day meeting, hosted by the Chancellor of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, on October 24-26, 2007.

The School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) invites applications for three tenure-track, full-time Assistant/Associate Professors in the Institute of Marine Science located in Fairbanks, Alaska.

In an urgent call to action, UN Under Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner, warns that unless the issue of climate change is given global priority, the international community faces some tough challenges ahead.  To date, the global response has been “woefully inadequate” and shows “a remarkable lack o...

The University of Akureyri, located in Akureyri Iceland,  is offering a master program in polar law, commencing in September 2008, with a focus on the needs of rural areas, peripheral societies and small States in the circumpolar north.

The City of Iqaluit has joined forces with the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) and the Alberta Association, CIP to host a groundbreaking symposium on planning for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The conference will take place from July 20-23 2008, in Iqaluit, Nunavut Canada.

The workshop "New integrated approach of models and measurements to describe local soil climate and climate impacts at northern latitudes" will be held on 7-8 November 2007, in Lulea, Sweden.

Preparations have begun for the 5th NRF Open Meeting, to be held in Anchorage, Alaska USA, from 24-27 September 2008.

The School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) invites applications for tenure-track, full-time assistant/associate professorships in marine biology in the Institute of Marine Science, one with a specialty in mammalogy/population genetics and one with a specialty in early life ec...