Members of the Thematic Network on Ageing and Gender in the Arctic attended the CoE AgeCare (Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care) Summer School 2024, on August 19-20, 2024, in Valkeakoski, Finland.

Finnish Meteorological Institute is conducting two surveys to collect information (i.e. metadata) on in-situ data related to sea ice and snow, in order to prepare an inventory of in-situ datasets covering the Arctic and the Antarctica.

The Arctic Field Grant supports fieldwork for students and researchers collecting data in Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

The 12th National Seminar on Snow on the name day of Pyry (blizzard in Finnish) will be held the first time in Rovaniemi on October 31 - November 1, 2024.

Thematic Network on Sustainable Strategies for Waste Removal and Restoration of Arctic Mine Waste Areas, RAMWA, led by Roland Kallenborn, UArctic Chair in Arctic Environmental Pollution Research was accepted as a new Thematic Network at the UArctic Assembly in Bodø in June.

Two UArctic programmes, PermaIntern Program and SEDNA, were presented at the 77th GeoMontréal Conference.

Apply by December 2, 2024 for Polar Knowledge Canada's Student Awards and Scholarships. Applications are open to undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. students.

Many UArctic Thematic Networks, individuals with UArctic affiliation, and member institutions are organizing or involved in sessions at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík on October 17-19. 

Nicole Bonnett, a PhD candidate from the University of Alberta, and member of the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience, was awarded the highly competitive Steve and Elaine Antoniuk Graduate Scholarship in Arctic Research in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, for her work on managed relo...

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) is hosting its third free BAJEDI online workshop.

Apply by October 4, 2024 for Arctic Frontier's Emerging Leaders program. The 2025 theme is A Healthy Arctic.

UArctic financially supported the project “The first thousand days of Inuit children in the Arctic” under the Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic. In August 2024 a midwife, a public health nurse, four policy makers and two researchers from Nuuk travelled to Iqaluit to attend the Inuunguiniq workshop.

Recently, Desiree Rose and S. Jeff Birchall, from the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience and the University of Alberta, published ‘Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities’, with the...

In September 2023, the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland initiated the first “Inter-Polar Conference: Connecting the Arctic with the Third Pole” in Kathmandu, Nepal, in the heart of the Third Pole.  

In this video series, the finalists of the 2024 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award talk about their award-nominated ideas. In the third and final video, Allison Fong and Amy Lauren talk about Studio Impact and merging art, storytelling, science, and technology for impactful narratives and action on climate change.