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”,...

In this interview to UArctic Research office Heikki Hokkanen, Professor of agricultural entomology and applied ecology in University of Helsinki shares his experience of creating a new Thematic Network.

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...

The organizing committee from Swiss Polar Institute calls for poster proposals by PhD and Early Career Researchers to "High Altitudes meet High Latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues" Conference, September 11-12, 2017 Switzerland, Crans-Montana.

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.

Registration to ICASS IX, June 8-12 in Umeå, Sweden is now open!

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.

We are pleased to invite representatives of academia, business and government with professional interests to participate in the Conference in order to discuss future development in the High North as well as create a firmer foundation for decision-making and sustainable economic development in the Arctic.

Lea Giffard, a student at Science Po University (France), shared impressions on her internship in UArctic Research Office in Arkhangelsk.

Throughout 2017 we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Barguzinsky Nature State Biosphere Reserve. This September's Forum and Conference, “Nature Reserves as the Pillar of the Future,” will be the year's major environmental event dedicated to Barguzinsky. 

Dear students! Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia) will hold a youth forum "PROFormat" from 15 to 16 March. One of its sessions is called "PROPlanet" and connected with environmental awareness. Organizers ask young representatives of the Circumpolar region to record a 3-minute video on how to protect the pure nature of the...

Russian State Hydrometeorological University invites you to take part in Pytroll Seminar, taking place in Saint Petersburg on  March, 27 –  April, 02, 2017.