The Polar Resource Book - Polar Science and Global Climate: An International Resource for Education and Outreach - was created to ensure efforts catalysed by the International Polar Year (IPY) will continue to inspire educators, students, and emerging polar researchers into the next generation of young, international, polar r...

Shawn Jantzen from University of Saskatchewan, Canada was an exchange student at Finnmark University this spring semester (January to June 2010). After his arrival back home he wrote the following article in the local student paper.

The Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks seeks an instructor to teach geoscience computer and field methods and to manage their computer network and geology field camp.

The Clim-ATIC conference is a free 2 day seminar in Florø, Norway on 26th and 27th October 2010, with presentations, poster sessions, round table debates and local excursions designed to:

The Seventh Congress of the International Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII) will be held 22-26 June 2011 in Akureyri, Iceland. ICASS meetings are held every three years.

The Second International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-2) will be held 7-9 December 2010. The meeting will be convened at the Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, in Tokyo, Japan. The conference webpage is available at:http://www-arctic.nipr.ac.jp/isar2/toppage/isar2top.htm.

The Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromso is offering a fully funded 4 year PhD fellowship to conduct field research in Siberia and/or the Russian North. The fellow will work in partnership with several funded research projects with indigenous societies in the region. Deadline 1 Septemb...

Science section – Call for papers Arctic Frontiers (AFT) holds its 5th annual conference in Tromsø from 23-29 January 2011, Norway, with the title “Arctic Tipping Points”. AFT comprises a policy section and a scientific section. This call for papers addresses the scientific section.  

Bodø University College (Bodø, Norway) is opening up its course, “Energy Management in the High North,” for UArctic Students. The course introduces several relevant topics in business administration of energy management and will include site visits to several Norwegian enterprises. The course will be delivered August 8-13th,...

The fourth UArctic Rectors’ Forum will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska, from August 13-15, 2010. The forum will be hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks under Chancellor Brian Rogers.The central theme of this year's Forum will be "Sustainability, Resilience and Community Adaptation to Climate Change in the North: Postseco...

The use of UArctic’s Circumpolar Studies courses for an international bachelor degree is gaining ground. Finnmark University College has recently established a bachelor degree programme, making use of the core Circumpolar Studies courses and their already established Advanced Emphasis courses on “Management of Local and Regio...

On the occasion of a trip of H.S.H. the Sovereign Prince to Oslo for the International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, within the framework of its actions in the Polar Regions, has signed on June 8th a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of the Arctic, a cooperative...

An electronic version of the 2010 magazine is available for download and viewing from here. The print publication has become a yearly signature for UArctic and its members. Featuring articles on UArctic’s programs, stories from its students, as well as contributions from outside of UArctic, the magazine covers a broad spectr...

Jan Henry Keskitalo was introduced as UArctic’s first Vice President Indigenous Affairs during the recent Council of UArctic meeting in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, on June 4. Keskitalo recently completed his second term on the University of the Arctic’s Board of Governors, where he had served since 2002.

Representatives of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), the International Antarctic Institute (IAI), and the University of the Arctic have come together at the IPY Oslo Science Conference 2010 to sign a memorandum of understanding to advance the academic and professional development of early career polar...