Papers are invited for the Scientific sessions of the Arctic Frontiers Conference 2008, to be held at the University of Tromsø, Norway, from January 20 to 25.

The West Coast and Polar Regions Undersea Research Center of NOAA's Undersea Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks invites pre-proposals for research and technological innovation beginning in 2008.

The latest edition of "Northern Notes," the newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) is now available online.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) has published the August 2007 edition of its newsletter, IASC Progress.

The closing meeting for the GoNorth Erasmus Mundus Project will be held at Luleå University of Technology in Luleå, Sweden, on 17-19 September.

The next UArctic Rectors' Forum is planned to take place at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland on February 27-29, 2008. The meeting will be organized in conjunction with the meeting of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (SCPAR).

The Council of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) has decided to establish three Regional Offices of Undergraduate Studies. The three offices will be responsible for the distance degree completion delivery of UArctic’s Circumpolar Studies Program within their respective regions: North America, Russia, and the Nordic-Baren...

The deadline for registering to participate in the upcoming Arctic Energy Summit Technology Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, is September 1.

The 2008 Canadian Science Writers' Association (CSWA) convention will focus on the International Polar Year and science in the North.

A special session dedicated to northern students and northern research policy has been incorporated into the prorgramme of the upcoming 8th International Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) Student Conference on Northern Studies, to take place at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada,...

The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at University of Helsinki announces a PhD student opportunity in "Baltic Sea Ice Biogeochemistry: The Role of Photochemistry and Bacterial Processes."

The European Union's budget for 2007 includes funding to support transatlantic projects in the area of Arctic marine environment policy.

The book Into the Ice, published by Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, is the first collected presentation of Norwegian polar history available to an international public.

Registration is now open online for the First Biennial Forum on Sustainable Northern Shelter to take place in Fairbanks, Alaska, October 28 to 30, 2007.

Text: Asgeir Solstad Photo: Peter Glanfield It was a true international course. The approx. 25 students came from Cameroon in south to Canada in the north. And the teachers came from Russia, Norway, Canada, USA, Finland and Sweden. The first course on master level in “Social Policy in the High North” was held at Bodø Univers...