International Polar Year 2007-2008The International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) has beenupdated and currently contains 1,466 publications.



UArctic Intern Nikolas Sellheim presents UArctic and the BCS program in the latest newsletter-special of Kulturhus-Berlin, which exclusively deals with Greenland and the Arctic. The emphasis of the article lies on the exchange of Arctic knowledge on a global level.


A Northern University in NWT?

Sun, May 17, 2009
The Premier of Canada’s Northwest Territories Floyd Roland expresses the need for a Northern University in his home state.




High-North Politics in Tromsø

Mon, May 11, 2009
On April 28th and 29th Tromsø was visited by several high-ranked politicians from the Arctic countries, climate change experts and Nobel Prize Laureate and former US Vice-President Al Gore.

The Second Circumpolar Conference on GeospatialSciences and Applications (GeoNorth-II)Fairbanks, Alaska, USA4-6 August 2009Abstract Deadline: Monday, 1 June 2009




A Celebration of International Polar Year 2007-2008National Academy of Sciences and The National Science Foundation