Researchers interested in learning more about PolarTREC (www.polartrec.com) and working with teachers in the field are encouraged to participate in an informational webinar (web conference), scheduled for Tuesday, 18 August 2009, at 18:00 UTC/GMT.

The organizers of the State of the Arctic Conference announce the launch of the conference website, which features an online community suggestions form. The State of the Arctic Conference will be held 16-19 March 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida.

The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force announces its first Public Meeting, scheduled for Friday, 21 August 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska. The meeting will be held in the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center, from 1:30 to 4:30 pm AKDT.

Registration is now open for the IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium. The Symposium is organized by IPY Canada, the Association of Early Career Scientists and the Northern Research Forum and runs from December 4-8 2009 in Victoria, Canada. The Symposium is organized in conjunction with the 2009 ArcticNet Sc...

Organizers of Session A08, "Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snow (OASIS) Interactions in Polar Regions: Results From Recent Field Campaigns," announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 14-18 December 2009, in San Francisco, California.

The School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in Fairbanks, Alaska, invites applications for a postdoctoral research assistant to work with the Ice-Covered Ocean Response to Atmospheric Storms (ICORTAS) project.

Ookpik.org, a growing website devoted to promoting information and opportunities related to the Circumpolar Arctic region for youth, has a new design and plenty of new features. The site is maintained by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and is quickly becoming one of the most popular dest...

The European Centre for Arctic Environmental Research (ARCFAC), in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway invites applications for research proposals within all fields of Arctic environmental research, specifically within the following disciplines:

The Research and Analysis Directorate of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, in conjunction with the Inuit Relations Secretariat, have published a book on Canada's relationship with Inuit. This book provides an overview of the Federal Government's Inuit policy and program development from first contact to 2006.

The Environment and Natural Resources Institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) seeks an ecosystem ecologist for a postdoctoral position on a new National Science Foundation (NSF) project with field studies in Northwest Greenland.