The Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS) is pleased to announce that the first issue of its bi-annual e-Newsletter is now available on the NDPHS website.

Polar Resource BookInternational Program Office for IPYDeadline for Intent to Submit: Monday, 20 July 2009Deadline for Accepted Submissions: Monday, 31 August 2009

Tenure-track Faculty Position Available - MicrometeorologyDepartment of Atmospheric SciencesUniversity of Alaska FairbanksApplication deadline: Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United StatesRenewed Focus for DecisionsGlobal Change Research Program

Characterizing and Modeling Complex SystemsCenter for Complex Systems StudiesUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks2-4 August 2009Application Deadline: Friday, 17 July 2009

The Center for Complex Systems Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is pleased to announce the 4th annual meeting in the Dynamics of Complex Systems, to be held 5-7 August 2009, on the UAF campus.

The Spring 2009 issue of the Northern Review, a multidisciplinary journal of the arts and social sciences of the North, is now available. The issue contains a special collection on the social economy of northern Canada.

The scientific conference of Arctic Frontiers 2010 (27-29 January 2010 in Tromsø, Norway) consists of three parallel sessions that will focus on the effects of ongoing climatic changes on sea-ice and marine biodiversity as well as social science and health research on economy, self-governance, and well-being in Arctic commun...

The State of the Arctic Conference, to be held 16-19 March 2010 in Miami, Florida, will be an international meeting to present, exchange, and discuss the latest knowledge on the state of the Arctic and future directions of arctic science and policy.

The leaders of the Nordic governments will turn to the other countries’ of the world with a view to reaching binding agreement for global climate efforts to be given a prominent position on the political agenda in the years to come. The prime ministers will make a particular effort to build commitment at the highest politi...

Arctic Forum Abstracts 2008 - Tipping Points: The Arctic and Global ChangeArctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)

Academic Research Infrastructure Program: Recovery and ReinvestmentSolicitation 09-562National Science Foundation

Eddy Covariance TechnicianInstitute of Arctic BiologyUniversity of Alaska FairbanksFairbanks, AlaskaPosition is open until filled.

If there is one word that seems to describe Chen Yichao it is first. Chen is the first Chinese student to study Polar Law, in the first class of the Polar Law program, after recently graduating from the first ever graduate studies program in human rights law in China. Indeed, doing something new is nothing new at all to Chen.

 The spring 2009 issue (#62) of the Polar Libraries Bulletin is now available. The Polar Libraries Bulletin is published at least twice yearly in the Fall and Spring.