Organizers announce that registration is available for the 4th Symposiumon the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations. The event will be held 20-22 June 2011 at the Navy Memorial Naval Heritage Center (701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW) in Washington, D.C.

The International Centre for Responsible Tourism Canada, Inc. (ICRT CANADA) will be hosting the 5th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations (RTD5) in Edmonton, June 27-29, 2011 at the University of Alberta Lister Centre.

"Our Ice Dependent World", organized by the Northern Research Forum and its partners as the Northern Research Forum 6th Open Assembly, will be hosted by the University of Akureyri in the town of Hveragerði, Iceland 4. - 6. September 2011

The new issue of UArctic's annual magazine Shared Voices has been released and is now accessible for download.

Arctic reindeer can see beyond the "visible" light spectrum into the ultra-violet region, according to new research by an international team.

The Shtokman project is comparable with the conquering of the cosmos, deputy leader of the Shtokman Development AG says.

Applications are invited from well-qualified candidates for the post of Research Fellow at the Thule Institute of the University of Oulu.

In a little less than a year the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada, April 22 27, 2012.

The program for the 9th International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar, held in Luxembourg July 17-22, 2011, has been updated. Please click here to view the program.

Registration is now open for the Polar Symposium in Siena, Italy, September 23-24, 2011 "Research urgencies in the Polar Regions and their links to the ICSU Grand Challenges in Global Sustainability". It will address all aspects of polar science, with a focus on the functioning of the Earth System in the Arctic and Antarct...

Research professors Bruce Forbes and Timo Koivurova were interviewed for an article dealing with Arctic development.

The most recent German OSTEUROPA Volume ”Logbook Arctic – Space, Interests and Law” makes reference to UArctic in the context of regionalization and the future of the Arctic.

The Environment and Natural Resources Institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage is seeking a landscape/ecosystem ecologist for a 2-3year postdoctoral position on a Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) -funded project focused on climate-ecosystem processes and their influence on caribou populations in...

The May newsletter of the OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) is now available.

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will host a webinar entitled "What We Know About Walrus and Sea Ice: The Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook" on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. AKDT. The webinar will be presented by Gary Hufford from the National Weather Service, Alaska Region