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...

The Northern Plant Ecology Laboratory (NPEL) in the Department of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan is currently recruiting a graduate student to work on disturbance ecology in the boreal forest or the arctic tundra. Graduate research may be conducted at the PhD or MS level.

The 2008 Annual Meeting of the AAAS Arctic Division will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska, on 15-17 September 2008. The theme of the meeting is "Growing Sustainability Science in the North: The Resilience of the People in the Arctic."

What started as a quick idea to spice-up an International Polar Year (IPY) event has resulted in a full-length musical composition in celebration of polar science and the uniqueness of the north.

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Lapland, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the University of the Arctic took place during an official ceremony on the morning of February 26, 2008 at the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi Finland. The UoL and UAF were appointed joint leads of the U...

Papers are invited for "Past, Present and Future Polar Climate Change" (session 1.5) being held at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) / International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) IPY Open Science Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 8-11 July 2008.

Registration for courses for the 2008 University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Summer Sessions opens on Monday, 25 February 2008. There are two 6-week sessions, one 12-week session, and numerous weekend courses. All registrants are eligible for in-state tuition for all summer courses.

In late December, Dr. Elena Sparrow of the UArctic IPY Higher Education and Outreach Office at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) was pleased to help welcome Dr. Rhian Salmon, coordinator of education and outreach activities at the IPY International Programme Office in Cambridge, UK, as Rhian celebrated the new year wi...

The European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) would like to invite participants to their 36th Annucal Conference, from July 2-5 2008 in Aalborg, Denmark. This year's conference themes will focus on: quality assessment, employability and innovation.

From February 27-29 2008, 76 participants will gather in Rovaniemi, Finland to attend the second University of the Arctic Rectors' Forum. Delegates will be convening to discuss a variety of things, including the possibility of adopting a UArctic Charter, as well as the Terms of Reference on how the Forum should proceed in the...

The Arctic Atlas dataholders meeting ended on good footing as all participants voiced their support for the proposed project. It was clear that the creation of an online atlas with Arctic data would be a very beneficial tool for students, decision makers and industry alike to identify Arctic issues.

From February 4-6, 2008, the Jokkmokk Winter Conference held its inaugral three day conference in Jokkmokk, Northern Sweden. The three day event was a resounding success, which drew 70 participants from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia and Canada, 60 of whom were students. The Conference was also attended and contributed by a...

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) in Longyearbyen, Norway, invites applications for a faculty position in Arctic Environmental Technology.