The following is Anna-Pauliina Kokko's Autumn 2024 student mobility story, who went on exchange from Tampere University to UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
The Arctic Research Center (ARC) at Hokkaido University (HU) invites registration for the First Asia Arctic Conference (AAC) of the Asia-Arctic Network for Research and Education (AANRE). This hybrid conference will take place 13-14 February 2025 at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan and online.
Angel Ellis and US Embassy visit Rovaniemi and the University of Lapland (ULapland) to tour university studios, talk with university professors and students, and air the American Film Showcase (AFS) film BAD PRESS.
Recently, Nicole Bonnett and S. Jeff Birchall from the University of Alberta (Canada), and the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience, published "Local planning for climate induced relocation: A systematic review", with the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Professor Tiina Ikäheimo from UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, has been appointed as the UArctic Chair in Arctic Climate and Occupational Health for the next five years
The call for papers is now open, and abstracts are being accepted until February 1 on the theme "Canada: Spaces of Change." Canadian Studies Center director Nadine Fabbi, of University of Washington, is chairing the section on North and Arctic Studies and hopes you will consider submitting an abstract!
The University of Lapland's new 2-year Arctic Indigenous Cinema M.A. program was unveiled yesterday during a panel discussion at Skábmagovat Film Festival.
The Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) Arctic Observing Technologies Working Group announces several funding opportunities. Priority will be given to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Early Career Researchers. The application deadline is January31, 2025.
The project EduPermaGR of the UArctic Thematic Network on Permafrost aims to develop interdisciplinary higher education on permafrost in collaboration with a Greenlandic community.
"What do you think we will find in here?" I ask Svein as we stand outside an 18th-century naval arsenal in East London that houses the archive of Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Svein Buvik served as a Captain in the Norwegian Navy, patrolling Northern Norway's coastline in the 1990s, and has joined me on this visit. “Untold Arc...
The Arctic Research Center (ARC) at the University of Virginia (UVA) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in social science. This two-year position will be located in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The PermaIntern and SEDNA projects were presented during ArcticNet's Annual Scientific Meeting 2024 "Arctic Change 2024", held in Ottawa in December 2024.
The in-situ snow data inventory was based on the surveyed 22 institutions, gathering 42 datasets, and reviewed numerous data portals to identify additional resources. The report highlights the critical role of in-situ snow measurements, such as snow depth, density, and Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), for understanding climate ch...