The 12th National Seminar on Snow on the name day of Pyry (blizzard in Finnish) will be held the first time in Rovaniemi on October 31 - November 1, 2024.
Thematic Network on Sustainable Strategies for Waste Removal and Restoration of Arctic Mine Waste Areas, RAMWA, led by Roland Kallenborn, UArctic Chair in Arctic Environmental Pollution Research was accepted as a new Thematic Network at the UArctic Assembly in Bodø in June.
Apply by December 2, 2024 for Polar Knowledge Canada's Student Awards and Scholarships. Applications are open to undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. students.
Many UArctic Thematic Networks, individuals with UArctic affiliation, and member institutions are organizing or involved in sessions at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík on October 17-19.
Nicole Bonnett, a PhD candidate from the University of Alberta, and member of the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience, was awarded the highly competitive Steve and Elaine Antoniuk Graduate Scholarship in Arctic Research in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, for her work on managed relo...
UArctic financially supported the project “The first thousand days of Inuit children in the Arctic” under the Thematic Network on Health and Well-being in the Arctic. In August 2024 a midwife, a public health nurse, four policy makers and two researchers from Nuuk travelled to Iqaluit to attend the Inuunguiniq workshop.
Recently, Desiree Rose and S. Jeff Birchall, from the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience and the University of Alberta, published ‘Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities’, with the...
In September 2023, the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland initiated the first “Inter-Polar Conference: Connecting the Arctic with the Third Pole” in Kathmandu, Nepal, in the heart of the Third Pole.
In this video series, the finalists of the 2024 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award talk about their award-nominated ideas. In the third and final video, Allison Fong and Amy Lauren talk about Studio Impact and merging art, storytelling, science, and technology for impactful narratives and action on climate change.
The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. has opened registration for an online seminar presentation entitled Sustainability of Indigenous Communities and Global Change: perspectives from Sakha, NE Siberia.