Today a delegation from Canada's Northwest Territories headed by Premier Floyd Roland visited the University of Lapland, accompanied by Canada's Ambassador to Finland, Chris Shapardanov.

The IPY 2012 Conference From Knowledge to Action is the final conference for International Polar Year 2007 - 2008.

As part of UArctic's north2north mobility program, and the Thematic Network on Social Work, the Human Services Program of Cambridge Bay, Nunvaut, Canada hosted Jan-Erik Henriksen and Nina Hermansen, Professors of the Social Work Program of Finnmark University, Alta, Norway.

Six of eight Russian higher education institutions have up to now signed a cooperation agreement with social scientists at Bodø University College.

For further information, please go to: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/

Abstract submission deadline: December 20, 2010 Conference registration opens in January 2011 Website: www.iassa.org

Northern leaders in Canada are calling for the creation of a physical university in northern Canada that could work with the University of the Arctic.Read the full story at Nunatsiaq News.

Organized through the Thematic Network on Geopolitics and Security, the final report of the 7th International Summer School in Karelia 2010 is now available online.

Northern Dimension Ministerial meeting praises the good progress made by the NDPHS Recent meetings held by the Partnership bring promising results NDPHS Secretariat moves to new premises

The workshop is held at Martin’s Central Park, Boulevard Charlemagne 80, B-1000 Brussels.Registration is open until 5 November 2010.

1. Call for Abstracts 2. Session Announcement; State of Glaciers and Permafrost and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System 3. Session Announcement; Observing, Modeling, and Prediction of Arctic Change

November 2010 Community Lectures Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. For further information on AVS, please go to: http://www.arcus.org/arctic_speaker/index.htmlOr contact: Julie Griswold Email: julie@arcus.org Phone: 907-474-1600

NordForsk, which funds co-Nordic research, has awarded Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE) status to a research team, led by Ecology Professor Lauri Oksanen. The scope of the NCoE is to study how the negative impacts of global warming on arctic and alpine nature can be minimized.

Organizers of the 10th Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies (NACS), "The North Atlantic Connection: Canada and the Nordic Countries," to be held in Aarhus, Denmark, 10-13 August 2011, invite proposals for presentations on any relevant topic pertaining to Canada and the Nordic countries.

To view articles or to download a PDF file of this issue, please go to: http://www.arcus.org/witness-the-arctic/2010/4For further information, please contact: Betsy Turner-Bogren Email: betsy@arcus.org