Applicants wanted for a temporary 'Climate Change Communicator' post, to work in Scotland, the Nordic countries and Greenland. The Centre for Mountain Studies (CMS), based in Perth, Scotland at Perth College UHI, an Academic Partner of the UHI Millennium Institute (the future University of the Highlands and Islands), is seek...

The Triple I Project consortium, University of Turku as the coordinator together with ten Russian universitiess and eight other European universities, is applying for EU funding to continue the Erasmus Mundus Mobility Project in 2010-2011.

The Calotte Academy is once again ready to embark on its annual tour of the Barents region. The group, comprised of academics and students from Finland, Russia, Canada, France, Norway and Germany will be making stops in Salla (Finland), Apatity (Russia), Murmansk (Russia), Kirkenes (Norway) and Inari (Finland) on its Barents...



The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) invites contributions for the next issue of the Northern Notes Newsletter. Contributions are invited from both members and non-members of the Association on issues of interest to arctic social scientists. Articles, reports, announcements or reviews (books, films, e...




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