The University of Massachusetts seeks a manager for their Climate System Research Center. The position is a 12-month calendar year appointment, and is based in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Florida International University (FIU) seeks Ph.D. candidates for opportunities in arctic plant ecophysiology and ecosystem ecology. The positions are available starting Fall 2010 and are based in Miami, Florida.

The Top-level Research Initiative launches a call for Nordic Centres of Excellence within the sub-programme ”Effect studies and Adaptation to Climate Change”. The sub-programme “Effect studies and Adaptation to Climate Change” aims to improve knowledge about society’s capacities for adaptation, and the risks and opportunities...

17th Inuit Studies ConferenceOctober 28-30, 2010Val d'Or, Québec, Canada

The Office of Undergraduate Studies would like to announce that it has chosen Marlon Davies as the successful entrant for the “What UArctic Means to You” student testimonial contest, for which her reward is $500.00! Please read below Marlon’s story.

If you want to be among the first to get the latest news on European higher education policy developments, join us on 22 January 2010 for our by now traditional event, held as always in lovely Brussels.

The team of UArctic's International Secretariat has taken on a new German intern for the next three months.

Organizers of Session CR9.1, "Sea Ice and Sea Ice-Climate Interactions," announce a call for abstracts. The year 2008 was another very low sea ice year in the Arctic. Some climate models now predict that summer arctic sea ice might altogether disappear in about 30 or 40 years. While the effects of a shrinking sea ice cover on...

The dates for the 17th Inuit Studies Conference, which will be held at the UQAT First Peoples Pavilion on the Val-d'Or campus in Quebec, Canada, have been changed. The event is now scheduled for 28-30 October 2010.

Following the tradition established by Stanford University and SRI International, the 6th Annual Polar Technology Conference will be hosted by UNAVCO from 25-26 March 2010 in Boulder, Colorado.

The Government of Canada has announced that the International Polar Year (IPY) "From Knowledge to Action" Conference will be hosted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 22-27 April 2012.

Extended deadline, oral presentation abstracts: Monday, 11 January 2010 Deadline, poster presentation abstracts: Monday, 1 February 2010

The UArctic project, Arctic Virtual Tools, has received continued funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers Arctic Co-Opeation Program, which is administered by Nordregio. The project is coordinated by the Thule Institute, University of Oulu and counts Arctic Portal (University of Akureyri), University of Lapland, and the...

Thomas Pollmann is an Artic Studies Program (ASP) student from Giessen, Hesse, Germany. After finishing up his intermediate exam with a focus on Spatial Planning, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Hydro Geography at University Giessen he thought it would be an interesting experience to enroll into the ASP pro...

The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) Autumn/Winter 2009 issue of the Northern Notes newsletter is now available at: http://www.svs.is/english/IASSA/IASSA.htm