There will be to groups for "Alive Arctic Art" and "Plain Air" courses. We invite students, post-graduate students, teachers, researchers all those who are interested in culture of Indigenous peoples of Siberia and Circumpolar region to take part in courses of our Summer School !

Yakutsk State University, Faculty of Geology and Survey and “Mineral raw material resources and evaluation technologies” research educational center invite undergraduate and post-graduate students to join Summer Geological School.

Lakehead University, located in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, is excited to announce that NORT 1111: Introduction to the Circumpolar World (equivalent to BCS 100) will be taught during their Spring 2010 session – May 25-June 15 – for the first time simultaneously on campus and will also be media-streamed on the Internet. Stud...

An interdisciplinary experience in Polar Studies In celebration of the IPY 2007-09 year, this three-week course will focus on environmental change in the Arctic and Antarctica through a series of lectures and field excursions in Svalbard, Norway. The course will cover topics on Glaciology, Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography,...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) seeks candidates for a two-year postdoctoral research opportunity: The Relationship between Climate and Ice Rheology at Dome C, East Antarctica. The position will be based in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The Environment and Natural Resources Institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is recruiting an ecosystem ecologist for a postdoctoral position on a new National Science Foundation (NSF) project with field studies in northwest Greenland. The position will be based in Anchorage, Alaska.

The International Barents Secretariat (IBS) seeks an Adviser on project funding and environmental issues. The position will be based in Kirkenes, Norway. The successful candidate will promote project funding for the multilateral cooperation in the Barents region. The adviser will also assist in maintaining a key database on e...

The first of two volumes written by members of the international IPY consortium 'The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development' is now available.

May 31 - June 4, 2010Tromsø

Those interested in the Arctic -- students, researchers, and anyone wondering how the northern polar region affects their life -- can learn about the longer-reaching impacts of the loss of arctic summer sea ice via a new website.

The Polar Education Resources webpage provides an annotated list of some of the best Internet resources for polar education.

July 2-4, 2010Petrozavodsk State University Lenina ave 33 Petrozavodsk, Russia

June 1-12, 2010Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Russia Tungulu village, Megino-Kangalassky region Khatystyr, Aldansky region

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) division of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) announce a new opportunity for the science and engineering communities to conduct research and education activities in cloud computing and data-intensive computing, and their appl...

30 July - 11 August 2010 Buenos Aires, Argentina Organizers of the 2010 XXXI SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) Meeting and Open Science Conference announce that the conference website is now available.