The Conference Board of Canada recently launched a new five-year initiative called the Centre for the North. The Centre brings together Aboriginal leaders, businesses, governments, communities, educational institutions, and other organizations to achieve a shared vision of sustainable prosperity in the North. We are seeking a...

Friday, 19 March 2010Miami, FloridaWebstreaming for the International Day of the State of the Arctic Conference will begin Friday, 19 March 2010 at 8:30 a.m. EDT. An address given by Alaska senator, Hon. Lisa Murkowski, will begin at 3:00 p.m. EDT.

3-8 September 2010 Guovdageaidnu, Norway The First International Conference on Indigenous Place Names (ICIPN) will be held 3-8 September 2010 at Sami University College in Guovdageaidnu, Norway.

13-18 June 2010 Bremerhaven, Germany The 23rd Polar Libraries Colloquy (PLC), entitled "Cool Libraries in a Melting World," will be convened 13-18 June 2010 in Bremerhaven, Germany. Organizers announce the second call for submission of proposals for papers and panel session presentations, which are due by Friday, 19 March 2010.

Indigenous organizations representing groups such as the Sámi, Inuit, Nenet’s, etc have a wealth of information that is useful in helping to adapt to climate change. The incorporation of this knowledge through policy and decisions which affect the Arctic regions could be beneficial. To read more about this click here to read...

Seven Ph.D. students embark upon an educational experience on the coast of Greenland. 2009 is the first year that Dartmouth’s new Polar Environmental Program is offered and it expects to get five or six other students in the coming months.

Findings through the Arctic Species Trend Index (ASPI) reflect a decline of 26% in species populations in high arctic regions. The most current edition of the ASPI report will be presented at the State of the Arctic conference in Miami, Florida and it will be made available on the internet after March 17, 2010 at www.asti.is

The first major international project hosted by the Russian Geological Survey (RGS) will be held in Moscow, Russia on April 22-23 2010. For detailed information about the event click here

Tuesday - Friday, 16-19 March 2010 Miami, FloridaThe State of the Arctic will be a milestone for arctic science by providing an open international forum to review the current knowledge of the arctic system in a time of rapid environmental change and point to future research, resource management, and policy directions.

The workshop, held in Rovaniemi, Finland in March 8-10th, brought together the Arctic organizations working on metadata, electronic libraries and online learning. The goal was to share knowledge, discuss and find possible synergies and forms of co-operation that will benefit all.

The Faculty of Geology and Survey, and the “Mineral raw material resources and evaluation technologies” Research Educational Center invite undergraduate and post-graduate students to join Summer Geological School.

The Winter 2009/2010 issue of Witness the Arctic has been published online and is available online.

Scientific, social, cultural and educational challenges With forewords by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and the UNESCO Director-General, t his title is now available.

The Organizing Committee invites to take part in the International Conference “Professional Education, 21st Century» which will be hosted by Taymyr College in Dudinka on April 1-5, 2010. (Address: Krasnoyarsky Krai, Dudinka, Shors Street, 25)

Northern Notes is the newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, IASSA. It is published on the web by the IASSA secretariat twice a year with a Spring/Summer and a Fall/Winter issue, and is available to all web users.