The Undergraduate Studies Office for the University of the Arctic invites students from all UArctic member institutions to study northern topics in online global classrooms with students from Russia, Greenland, Denmark, Canada, Alaska, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland!

Galdu Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Nordic Sami Institute and Sami University College hereby extend an invitation to participate at the International Conference with the title: "Sami self-determination: Scope and Implementation". The conference will takeplace at Alta Rica Hotel, Norway from 4th to 6th...

The 2008 Little Alaska Weather Symposium will be held on 12-13 May 2008, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The symposium is sponsored by Alaska Region, NOAA National Weather Service; Arctic Region Supercomputing Center; College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Geophysical Institute; and...

"Arctic and Boreal Entomology," a summer introductory course on the diversity, abundance, and activity of insect life across the northern tree line, will be held on 7-18 July 2008, at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC) in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

The Nordic Council of Ministers gives more than eight million Danish kroner of funding to Arctic projects. Altogether the funding covers about 30 projects which will contribute to promoting and developing living conditions in the Arctic. Several of the projects are linked to climate changes which will especially affect the Ar...

The University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology and National Hydrology Research Centre, and Environment Canada in Saskatoon invite applications for a position carrying out research on arctic snow hydrology. The position is part of the IP3 Network (Improved Processes, Parameterization, and Prediction in Cold Regions) and...

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the UK Polar Network (the British branch of APECS) announce a one-day professional development workshop to be held on Monday, 7 July 2008, in conjunction with the SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Sustainable energy in the Arctic is an issue of increasing interest and with a lot of challenges.Held in Sisimiut Greenland, the conference will focus on the special arctic dimension, which among others include the structure of the energy supply system in the harsh arctic climate and the vulnerable arctic environment.

The deadline for submission of abstracts and applications for IASC travel grants for early career scientists for the SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference has been extended to Friday, 15 February 2008. 

The 2008 Annual Winter Conference, held in Jokkmokk Sweden, is titled 'Developing the North – the Next 20 Years'. This year's Conference will focus on climate change, genuine sustainability in the North and how to avoid conflicts in the ongoing global race for economic growth,energy, water, security and living space.

The International Arctic Research Center (IARC) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is hosting the summer school, "The Modeling of Arctic Climate," on 26 May - 7 June 2008.

The new deadline for submission of abstracts for the SCAR/IASC IPY Conference and for application for IASC travel grants for early career scientists to participate in the conference is February 15, 2008.

Sixth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, 22-26 August 2008, Nuuk, Greenland

Papers are invited for "Evolving Coastal, Nearshore and Shelf Processes in the Polar Regions" (session 1.3) 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.