College and university students around the world are invited to submit a poster for the Sustainable Indigenous Tourism Symposium in Nanaimo, British Columbia taking place from April 12-13th, 2017. The conference is titled, “Innovations in Community Based Research and Management for Sustainable Indigenous Tourism Development”,...


The Arctic Broadband Forum will unite educators, researchers and industry from across the World to discuss the challenges, successes and potential of telecommunications and broadband deployment in the Arctic for economics, healthcare and education.

On 24-26 May 2017, the 5th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium, hosted by Dalian Maritime University in collaboration with Polar Research Institute of China, will take place in Dalian, a port city in Northern China, with the conference theme of “Towards the Future: Trans-regional Cooperation in the Arctic: Development a...

13-15 June 2017 at University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway The Arctic is often claimed to be a unique region, both for its natural environment, as well as the peaceful political conditions that continue to prevail, despite the tensions and challenges taking place on a global scale. Cooperation in the Arctic has...


AMAP Assessment 2015 published

Tue, Feb 21, 2017
AMAP Assessment 2015: "Temporal Trends In Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Arctic" has now been published.

Northern Notes is the newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA). It is published on the web by the IASSA Secretariat twice a year with a Spring/Summer and an Autumn/Winter issue, and is available to all web users. To view previous issues, click here.


According to the new IASSA by-laws there will be an election of an IASSA president for the term 2017-2020. The candidates should include a presentation of the host university, financial and institutional commitments, experience and capacity in the proposal. Candidates will be presented in Northern Notes and on the IASSA website.