The Calotte Academy 2008 will take place on 22-26th May, 2008 in three locations in Finland, Norway and Russia. There will be sessions with presentations and open discussions in Inari, Finland, 23rd May, in Kirkenes, Norway on 24th May and in Murmansk, Russia, on 26th May, 2008.

As part of a nation-wide education cooperation programme with Russia, UNIS is co-ordinating two academic exchange programmes for Russian and Norwegian students and scientists. The programme is supported by the Research Council of Norway.

On April 4 2008, the President of the UArctic, Lars Kullerud, and Director of Administration and University Relations, Outi Snellman, will be visiting Salekhard in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to discuss, among other things, the development of a reindeer institute for the Yamal Peninsula.

The University of Washington (UW) seeks students to join a field crew this summer in Northwest Alaska as part of a joint UW - National Park Service research project. The field team will be conducting archaeological survey and testing and will do GPS mapping at CapeKrusenstern, Alaska.

The Alaska Native Language Center (ANLC) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is hosting "Climate, Language and Indigenous Perspectives (CLIP)," an informal workshop on how linguistic knowledge can form a link between scientific inquiry and indigenous perspectivesof climate. The workshop will be held at UAF on 13-15 Au...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites applications for one or more postdoctoral positions to conduct modeling studies in two projects associated with the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program: 1. The Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX) 2. "Assessing the impacts of fire and insect disturbance on the terrestria...

The University of Lapland's Arctic Centre and the International Studies Centre at Department of Research Methodology host Arctic Visiting Speakers´ Series lectures and film showing by visiting lecturer Kathleen Osgood Dana, PhD, from the University of the Arctic from March 17-19, 2008. The visit is sponsored by the National S...

The March 2008 monthly report issued by the IPY International Programme Office is now available.

The Russian Academy of Sciences announces its 8th annual conference, "Nature of the Shelf and Archipelagos of the European Arctic," to be held 9-11 November 2008, in Murmansk, Russia. The conference will focus on important aspects of scientific studies of the shelf and archipelagos of the European Arctic, plans and research p...

The Canadian Science Writers' Association (CSWA) announces its 2008 annual conference, "Science Under the Midnight Sun," to be held from 24-27 May 2008, at Yukon College, in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Researchers are invited to submit a 100-word poster abstract discussing their work on major initiatives.

The Norwegian Hydrological Council announces the "Hydrology in the Arctic Climate" Conference, to be held 16-18 June 2008, at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. The hydrological system of the Arctic is highly vulnerable to climate change. Permafrost conditions, precipitation changes and...

Marianne Jorgensen has recently started a new position as UArctic catalog studies coordinator.  She will be working with Camilla Hansen, the Director of the UArctic Catalog project, on the development of the UArctic online course catalog.  Marianne has worked for Scandinavian Seminar in Amherst, Massachusetts, for the last ei...

Papers are invited for the Sixth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VI) being held in Nuuk, Greenland, on 22-26 August 2008. ICASS VI is an IPY-endorsed project, though papers with or without IPY affiliation are welcome.

The consequences of climate change are already visible in our region and not least in the Arctic areas. As a result of their geographic location, the Nordic countries have a special responsibility for the environment in the Arctic. The rapid melting of the polar ice is a serious problem that must not be ignored.

The Resilience and Adaptation Program (RAP), an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks invites applications for PhD and masters studies, starting in autumn of 2008. RAP trains scholars, policy-makers, community leaders, and managers to address issues of sust...