Are you interested in climate change? Have you thought of applying for a student exchange? CLUVEX (Climate University for Virtual Exchanges) is a multidisciplinary international student exchange week held online. 



Jan Borm, UArctic Chair in Humanities, participated in the conference "The Arctic in Eastern and Central Europe: Knowledge, Perception and Communication,  17th -19th century" where he held a presentation on his paper "The Arctic Voyage of the corvette ‘Reine Hortense’ in 1856: Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte’s meeting with t...

Remembering Barry Scherr

Tue, Sep 17, 2024
Former UArctic Board Officer Barry Scherr passed away September 12, 2024 at the age of 79.

This year's Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change involved over 800 registrants from over 100 nations with nearly 240 languages included. This has been built on from the contributions with GIYSCC-2023, which involved over 1300 registrants representing over 112 nations and communicating with more than 88 languages.


To capture windblown dust, passive dust traps were installed in the RIF Field Station in the northernmost part of Iceland, 3 km south from the Arctic Circle. The aim was to capture and investigate local and long-range tranported dust. 


Passive dust traps have been installed in the Gobbefjord field station in west Greenland (64°08’ N, 51°23’ W) to capture local and long-range tranported dust.