Online Issue Available Fall 2009, Volume 13, Number 3

THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, 467th Meeting, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Anthony Cary

To provide information for the 2009 edition of the Northern Dimension Information System please go here You can send in your questionnaire by January 15, 2010. There will be no extensions in deadlines.

Please join the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. for the upcoming real-time Live from the International Polar Year (IPY)! webinars (web seminars).

“Higher Education Spaces and Places: for Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange” 6-8 December, Riga, Latvia.

17.-19.11.2009, Turku As in the previous seminars, the aim of the seminar is to provide a forum to discuss the current state and future perspectives of cooperation between Finland and Northwestern Russia, as well as to give an opportunity to foster existing cooperation arrangements and explore funding possibilities.

Indigenous Tourism and Recreation: UNBC’s new course – ORTM 306-3 Indigenous Tourism and Recreation – will be offered for the first time during the Spring 2010 semester, May 3-14, through distance learning.

One final printing of the “Second” edition of the fourteen-volume book set “Pipelines in Permafrost and Freezing Ground” equipped with a CD-ROM containing pipelines in permafrost and freezing ground database will be released by our publisher.

17th Inuit Studies Conference, November 4-6, 2010, Val d'Or, Québec, Canada. The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) and DIALOG (Research and knowledge network relating to Aboriginal peoples) will host the 17th Inuit Studies Conference which will take place from November 4 to 6, 2010.

The International Permafrost Association (IPA) announces its brand new website: http://ipa-permafrost.org.

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Newsletter: Issue 20, September 2009  

The School of Community and Public Affairs, a bilingual inter-disciplinary school at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, invites applications for up to two tenure-track positions for a new undergraduate Major Program in First Peoples Studies to be implemented in stages beginning in the Fall of 2010.

The Arctic Visiting Speakers Series (AVS), managed by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) with funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Arctic Sciences, is accepting travel grant applications for arctic experts to share their knowledge in communities where they might not otherwise conn...

The International Arctic Science Committee has published its IASC PROGRESS Fall 2009 newsletter.

Texas A&M University, American Museum of Natural History.