The University of Helsinki harbours top expertise in several disciplines of Arctic research, ranging from natural sciences to humanities.

In autumn 2022, the Arctic Graduate School with a focus on Sustainable Development started, an initiative to create an environment that promotes interdisciplinary research by supervisors and doctoral students from a wide range of disciplines at Umeå University meeting.

Canadian Studies Center managing director Nadine Fabbi and the Jackson School’s 2020-22 Banting Fellow, Patricia Johnston, co-edited a special edition the American Review of Canadian Studies.

We are glad to announce that registration for the 2023 UArctic Assembly has just been opened. The UArctic Assembly will be held on 22-26 May 2023 in Quebec City, Canada. The meeting is hosted by Université Laval.

Living in the landscape (LiLa) is an multidisciplinary summer school for MA and PhD students where landscapes are explored with culturally sensitive and new materialistic investigations and art-based processing.

UArctic Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies invites abstracts for the Panel "Post-anthropocentric approaches to Arctic International Relations" to be held at the 16th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Postdam, 5-9 September 2023.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites nominations to serve on the consortium’s Membership Committee.

From a distance, the mountain peaks of the Canadian Rockies look like a pristine landscape, untouched by human activity, but Caroline Aubry-Wake experienced firsthand how interconnected our world is while studying the impact of wildfires on the Athabasca Glacier.

An international team of scientists used a supercomputer at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) to calibrate their findings as they examine the impact of climate change on glaciers in Western Canada and around the world. Their work is the cover story in the latest issue of the journal Science.

The Government of Iceland, with financial support from the Nordic Council of Ministers, will host the Second International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region at Harpa, Reykjavík Concert Hall and Conference Center, 22-23 November 2023.

Relate North is an English language, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to the exploration and sharing of contemporary practices in arts-based research and art-based knowledge exchange in the fields of arts, design and visual culture education across the North and Arctic.

UArctic President Lars Kullerud will be one of the speakers of the session The Future of Arctic Science and Science Diplomacy at the Arctic Frontiers 2023.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) invites registration for their 2023 Polar Postdoctoral Leadership Workshop (PPLW). The workshop will take place 15-19 May 2023 at the University of Colorado Boulder’s (CU Boulder) Mountain Research Station in Nederland, Colorado.

The Arctic Encounter will take place on 29-31 March 2023 in Anchorage, Alaska.

The Arctic Ocean is one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth and is headed towards being ice free in the summer. However, this provides opportunities for new ecosystems to develop, biologist Karl Attard argues.