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...

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.