Mary Simon, President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and former UArctic Board Member, was featured in the Hill Times on Monday August 24, 2009. Simon gave an extensive interview on many of the challenges facing the Canadian North and the importance of improving capacity-building and strengthening communities in the region....

The University of Tromso has 3-5 research fellow positions in earth observation/remote sensing available, for applicants who would like to complete a PhD. The positions are organized under the Department of Physics and Technology, and the research fellows will be enrolled in the Barents Remote Sensing School (BARESS).

The Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation seeks a Coordinator for its Northern Fellowship Program. The Foundation is an independent charitable foundation focused on strengthening public policy in Canada. For many years, the Foundation has focused much of its grant-making and related efforts on Canada’s far north: The Yukon...

The UA Museum of the North (UAMN) in Fairbanks, Alaska is recruiting an Education Outreach Specialist to collect and record Alaska Native oral histories about the night sky. These recorded stories will be incorporated into the portable planetarium presentations.

In connection with the Antarctic Treaty Summit celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty, the History Action Group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and the History Committee of the American Geophysical Union invite papers to be presented on the theme “History of International Spaces” at a wo...

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is proud to announce that its Ookpik community website for circumpolar youth has had a total makeover. It’s a completely new Ookpik! The new site is designed for circumpolar youth, with contributions from circumpolar youth. Over the past two years, Ookpik has b...

German Katharina Kamm (25) had visited Scandinavia only once before she decided to go study in the North. She ended up going on exchange to the University of Tromsø, a choice she has not regretted so far.

The School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in Fairbanks, Alaska, has extended the deadline for applications for a postdoctoral research assistant to work with the Ice-Covered Ocean Response to Atmospheric Storms (ICORTAS) project. The extended deadline is Tuesday, 15 Septe...

The Government of Canada's new Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) program has invited Laval University to submit an application for a Chair in Remote Sensing of the Arctic. For more information on the CERC program, please see below.

Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, seeks applicants for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program. Polar systems are at the forefront of global change science research.

The proceedings of the Linguistics Session of the 15th International Congress of Inuit Studies, which was held in Paris in October 2006, have been recently published. The publication is 'Variations on Polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages M.-A. Mahieu & N. Tersis (eds), 2009, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, Typ...

Registration is now open for the Northern Governance Policy Research Conference being held in Yellowknife, NT, November 02-05, 2009.

Researchers interested in learning more about PolarTREC (www.polartrec.com) and working with teachers in the field are encouraged to participate in an informational webinar (web conference), scheduled for Tuesday, 18 August 2009, at 18:00 UTC/GMT.

The organizers of the State of the Arctic Conference announce the launch of the conference website, which features an online community suggestions form. The State of the Arctic Conference will be held 16-19 March 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida.

The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force announces its first Public Meeting, scheduled for Friday, 21 August 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska. The meeting will be held in the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center, from 1:30 to 4:30 pm AKDT.