Final reminder: submit nominations for 2024 Arctic Academic Action Award

Thu, Mar 28, 2024

The Award includes a 100,000 euro grant to a promising project that could contribute materially to preventing, mitigating, adapting, and reversing the effects of climate change in the Arctic. Nominations can be submitted until April 30, 2024.

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Alumni Story: Victoria Mlakar shares her experience of studying at the University of Lapland

Thu, Mar 28, 2024

Originally from Austria, Victoria Mlakar came to Rovaniemi to study Arctic Art and Design master’s program at the University of Lapland. She shares her student story about studies and living in Rovaniemi, Lapland. 

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Position Available: Hydrologist Program Lead, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys

Thu, Mar 28, 2024

The Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys invites applications for a Hydrologist Program Lead. This full-time, permanent position will be located in Fairbanks or Anchorage, Alaska. The successful candidate will help facilitate collecting, interpreting, and analyzing baseline data in a state where critical info...

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Registration Reminder: UArctic Assembly Meeting 2024

Wed, Mar 27, 2024

Registration for the UArctic Assembly Meeting 2024 is open with the deadline on the 15th of May. The UArctic Assembly Meeting 2024 will be held from 2 to 3 of June in Quality Hotel Ramsalt, Bodø, Norway as a part of the Arctic Congress 2024. 

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COIL@UArctic event "Collaborative Online International Learning in the Arctic" - Recording available

Wed, Mar 27, 2024

Last month the Thematic Network on Collaborative Online International Learning and Biodiversity Education across the Arctic Circle (COIL@UArctic) held their inaugural event - the first in the bi-monthly workshop programme on Collaborative Online International Learning in the Arctic.

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Dr. Paddy Sullivan from the University of Alaska Anchorage contributes to Arctic research published in Science

Wed, Mar 27, 2024

Dr. Paddy Sullivan, director of the Environment and Natural Resource Institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage, recently teamed up with researchers from Alaska Pacific University and Amherst College on a study funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Science.

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Position Available: Interdisciplinary - Program Director, Arctic Natural Sciences Program, National Science Foundation

Wed, Mar 27, 2024

The U.S. National Science Foundation invites applications for an Interdisciplinary (Program Director) position for the Arctic Natural Sciences Program within the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), Office of Polar Programs (OPP). This full-time, permanent position will be located in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Sustainability Days at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF)

Tue, Mar 26, 2024

The event was held for the first time in Kuopio campus, March 12-14, 2024, and in Joensuu campus, March 19-21, 2024. The Sustainability Days aimed to provide an opportunity to explore UEF’s sustainability expertise across various disciplines and fields of study.

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Nordic - U.S. Research Collaboration on Sustainable Development of the Arctic

Tue, Mar 26, 2024

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NordForsk, the science funding body of the Nordic Council of Ministers, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration among U.S., Nordic, and Canadian research communities and sets out...

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Government of Canada joins international research initiative on sustainable development of the Arctic

Tue, Mar 26, 2024

The Government of Canada is joining NordForsk’s international research initiative on Sustainable Development of the Arctic with research funding organizations from Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the United States. 

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REMINDER: Call for Registration. Arctic Research Seminar Series, Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS)

Tue, Mar 26, 2024

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Christopher Marianetti (Found Sound Nation) and Yaari Walker (Alaska Pacific University). The presentation, titled Sounds of Beringia, will be held via Zoom on Thursday, 28 March 2024 at 9:00 a.m. AKDT (1:00...

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Nansen Professor Inaugural Lecture: Where next for Polar Law? Achieving Justice in an Age of Crises

Mon, Mar 25, 2024

This inaugural Nansen lecture for Dr. Romain Chuffart will discuss the role of justice in the evolution of Polar Law both as an academic field and as a practical objective in the addressing the current governance crises. The event will take place at the university of Akureyri, Iceland, on April 8, 2024 at 13:30-14:30 (UTC+0)....

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Nansen Final Lecture- Arctic Science Diplomacy in a NATO/BRICS-Divided World: Practical Problems or Moral Panic?

Mon, Mar 25, 2024

This was a concluding Nansen lecture for Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen as he discuss the place of science diplomacy in navigating changes to international and Arctic order. The lecture was held on February 12, 2024 at the Univesity of Akureyri.

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International Workshop on “India’s Polar Region Policy Towards Building Partnership with Sustainable Approach”

Mon, Mar 25, 2024

Rashtriya Raksha University shares its experience on the first International Workshop on India’s Polar Region Policy Towards Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development that was held on 12th and 13th March 2024.

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Polar Educators International: Connecting Communities Survey

Sat, Mar 23, 2024

The “Connecting Communities” project is exploring the feasibility of connecting Polar Educators, Early Career Researchers, and Arctic Indigenous representatives at "PEI2025 - Building Polar Bridges: Exchange, Inspire, Collaborate" in support of the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV).

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