"Understanding the Role of Permafrost in a Rapidly Warming Climate" is a one-credit course developed especially for K-12 teachers being offered on 25-27 June 2008, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in association with the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost.

The hands-on "Field Course in Arctic Science" will be offered through the University of Alaska Fairbanks in summer 2008. Students will have he unique opportunity to travel from the boreal forest in Interior Alaska past the alpine tundra in the Brooks Range to the arctic tundra at the Beaufort Sea.

8-10 October 2008 Umeå, Sweden Abstract Deadline: 1 May 2008

15-17 April 2008 Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris, France

International conference: Sustainable Energy Supply – sun, wind, water etc. Sisimiut 1-3 March 2008

The “Summer in Siberia” Russian language course is a wonderful opportunity to immerse international students in the multicultural society of Yakutia in North East Siberia for nine weeks. Witness the historic social and economic changes occurring in Russia as you develop language skills in a Russian speaking environment. 

The Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS), part of the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) Calgary office invite applications for one PhD position to be involved in a project on reconstruction of Holocene primary productivity trends f...

The Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies Office would like to introduce Jeanette McKee to their UArctic team! Jeanette will be working as the BCS Program Officer, while Audra Krueger is away on maternity leave. Welcome Jeanette!

The University of the Arctic’s International Polar Year (IPY) Higher Education and Outreach project cluster encompasses a wide variety of IPY-approved projects, and among them is an exciting new college-level science course, “Environmental Radioactivity, Stewardship, and People of the North,” that successfully debuted during...

The International Arctic Research Center (IARC) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) invites applications for the first international Arctic System Model Workshop to be held on 19-21 May 2008, in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop will address a growing need for numerical tools to downscale information from global models...

A new call for proposals has been launched by the European Commission together with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) to fund joint study and/or training Programmes allowing transatlantic exchanges between European and Canadian education institutions.

Abstracts for papers and combined abstracts for sessions are invited for the 16th Inuit Studies Conference to be held on 23-25 October 2008, at St. John's College at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development, in partnership with the Canadian Embassy in Moscow, are inviting young northerners to contribute to their new website, North3. Interested participants are asked to share their views and experiences of living in the North, and help people better understand their unique c...

The UArctic is pleased to announce that the Studies Catalog Office, located in Amherst, Massachusetts USA, is now open.