As part of a year long celebration of the centenary at the University of Alberta, the School of Energy and the Environment is hosting its signature event - the Canadian Arctic Summit - from the 28-30 of May, 2008.

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.