An NSF funded postdoc in the Atwood lab at Utah State University is available starting in fall of 2020. The successful applicant will also work closely with the Beard Lab at Utah State University and the Waring Lab at Imperial College-London.

NordForsk has opened a call for proposals in the field of Sustainable Aquaculture. Deadline for proposals is 5 May 2020.

Dr. Kaisa-Riikka Mustonen, a UArctic Postdoctoral fellow with Professor Jeff Welker, has been awarded a 3-year personal research grant from the exclusive Kone Foundation.

The call is open until May 1, 2020 to enrolled MA and PhD students from UArctic Nordic member institutions working in the field of northern or Arctic research.  

Eight new Thematic Networks were approved by the Assembly of UArctic at their fist annual meeting held on February 25-26, 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Arctic Ambassador of Kingdom of Denmark Thomas Winkler gave an influential video interview during the first meeting of the UArctic Assembly on the importance of Arctic Cooperation, Education and Connectivity.

PEEX Arctic-Boreal Hub Newsletter Issue #12 - March 2020 is now available. In this issue: News, PEEX Blog, Upcoming conferences, PEEX Special Issue articles, Education, Visual Corner, UArctic News Corner and Future-Earth News Corner.

Twenty-seven students from universities in the circumpolar north and beyond participated in the fourth UArctic Model Arctic Council. Although organizers had been planning for months to hold the program face-to-face in Akureyri, Iceland, they moved it online, owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Students and organizers videoconf...

The 7th newsletter for INTERACT is now available online. 

Dr. Gerlis Fugmann comes to IASC with extensive experience in Arctic research and international organizations. She held the position of Executive Director of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) since October 2013 based at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) i...

24 March 2020 An interview with epidemiologist Dr. Anders Koch  

At a time when the COVID-19 outbreak means considerable disruptions to the educational operations of our members and more and more teaching moves online, UArctic and its partners are working to collect openly available learning resources to be used as needed by the circumpolar higher education community.

Here is on-site video from Arctic Alaska in a very snowy March 2020, shared by UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker (University of Oulu & University of Alaska Anchorage)  

The Organizing Committee regrets to announce that the Arctic Days in St. Petersburg–2020: International Scientific Cooperation in the Arctic in the Era on Climate Change planned for May 13­–14, 2020, have been postponed due to the rapidly changing situation around COVID-19 pandemic.

Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) is inviting the Asian Arctic research community to participate in its 2020 Arctic expedition. The cruise for the 2020 field season will be conducted aboard IBRV Araon, and consist of four legs covering different areas of the Arctic Ocean.