The WWF Arctic Tent is an opportunity for the people of Copenhagen and delegates to the COP to get a taste of the Arctic, a region of the world that is being affected faster and more severely by climate change than almost anywhere else on earth.

Finn Forum IX is an international, interdisciplinary conference in Finnish, Finnish-North American and Finnish Diaspora Studies, to be held at Lakehead University in 2010.

A French delegation including France's Arctic Ambassador, Michel Rocard, and Ambassador to Finland, Francoise Bourolleau, visited Rovaniemi's Arctic Centre today to commemorate the opening of the Tara photo exhibit.

The Nordic Council of Ministers is in a dialogue with Russian authorities about the development of a joint Nordic-Russian programme in education and research based on mutual interests and joint priorities and shared funding. Russian entities or projects that have received Russian federal funding will probably be prioritized i...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to conduct research about the Arctic. Arctic research includes field and modeling studies and data analysis in and about the arctic region.

Aubyn O’Grady from Pembroke, Ontario, Canada majors in Geography at Concordia University in Montreal. Currently, she is taking the Arctic Studies Program (ASP) at University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. This major transition from one country to another has been inspired by her interest in circumpolar regions throughout...

University of the Arctic along with The Scandinavian Seminar College, a non-governmental institution and the Danish Society for Futures Studies has cooperated to publish A Key Player in the Arctic, the University of the Arctic and the Challenges Ahead.

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An international conference entitled "Polar Climate and Environmental Change in the Last Millennium" will be held 1-3 February 2010 in Torun, Poland. The conference will be convened in the Uniwersytecki Hotel.

A meeting entitled 'Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in International Governance' is scheduled for Monday, 30 November - Thursday, 3 December 2009. It will be convened at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. 30 November - 3 December 2009 in Washington, D.C.

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The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) working groups of the Arctic Council announce a new web portal called ArcticData.

The Alaska Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) announces the availability of a new listserve and networking site, called SeaNET.

The Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database now describes more than 10,000 publications and research projects about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) in Canada's Northwest Territories and Yukon. The database can be accessed at: http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/isr

17th Inuit Studies Conference November 4-6, 2010 Val d'Or, Québec, Canada