Northern environment places specific demands on the delivery of health care and well-being services in the North. The ongoing changes in climate, environment and social structures have significant influence on the health and wellbeing of Northern residents, as well as on cultures across the borders in the Northern region.

IPY EALAT invites 25 school teacher to Saami University College, Kautokeino Norway, betweem March 30 and April 4th to participate in a course which focusses on Saami society and Climate Change. 

The departments of Geography and History at Memorial University of Newfoundland are seeking graduate students at the Masters level to work on the project, "Mining and Northern Development: Toward a Historical Political Ecology," which will assess the social and environmental impacts of northern mining projects on Indigenous p...

The second workshop on Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks will be held on 9-11 April 2008, in Edmonton, Alberta, and will address the question: How will Arctic observing and data and information management activities be coordinated and sustained over the long-term?

In order to strengthen Nordic-Russian cooperation in the knowledge sector, the Nordic Council of Ministers is working to establish a joint Nordic-Russian programme in education and research in cooperation with relevant authorities in Russia.

Yukon College and University of the Arctic announce an international offering of the online course, International Polar Year IV: Context and Promise.

WWF, the global conservation organization, is building its capacity to achieve transformative change in the Arctic region. The Arctic Programme is seeking several key new staff to lead the network in achieving these goals. The positions are unique team leadership opportunities in adynamic international environment:

The Undergraduate Studies Office for the University of the Arctic invites students from all UArctic member institutions to study northern topics in online global classrooms with students from Russia, Greenland, Denmark, Canada, Alaska, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland!

Galdu Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Nordic Sami Institute and Sami University College hereby extend an invitation to participate at the International Conference with the title: "Sami self-determination: Scope and Implementation". The conference will takeplace at Alta Rica Hotel, Norway from 4th to 6th...

The 2008 Little Alaska Weather Symposium will be held on 12-13 May 2008, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The symposium is sponsored by Alaska Region, NOAA National Weather Service; Arctic Region Supercomputing Center; College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Geophysical Institute; and...

"Arctic and Boreal Entomology," a summer introductory course on the diversity, abundance, and activity of insect life across the northern tree line, will be held on 7-18 July 2008, at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC) in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

The Nordic Council of Ministers gives more than eight million Danish kroner of funding to Arctic projects. Altogether the funding covers about 30 projects which will contribute to promoting and developing living conditions in the Arctic. Several of the projects are linked to climate changes which will especially affect the Ar...

The University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology and National Hydrology Research Centre, and Environment Canada in Saskatoon invite applications for a position carrying out research on arctic snow hydrology. The position is part of the IP3 Network (Improved Processes, Parameterization, and Prediction in Cold Regions) and...

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the UK Polar Network (the British branch of APECS) announce a one-day professional development workshop to be held on Monday, 7 July 2008, in conjunction with the SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Sustainable energy in the Arctic is an issue of increasing interest and with a lot of challenges.Held in Sisimiut Greenland, the conference will focus on the special arctic dimension, which among others include the structure of the energy supply system in the harsh arctic climate and the vulnerable arctic environment.