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UArctic appoints new Vice-Presidents

The UArctic Board has formally approved Diane Hirshberg (University of Alaska Anchorage) as Vice-President Academic and Kirsi Latola (University of Oulu) as...

Tue, Dec 15, 2020

Figure 1. Northern Alaska with a view to the Brooks Range looking south across the tussock tundra landscapes in the foreground. These tussock tundra systems are becoming snowier and subsequently becoming dominated by shrubs that are leading to greater above and belowground biomass that is being sequester at much higher rates, creating a negative feedback to rising atmospheric CO2 levels (DeFranco et al. 2020)

UArctic Chair's update: An Arctic Crystal Ball - Long-term Experiments as a Window into the New Arctic

Professor Jeffrey Welker* and Colleagues *UArctic Research Chair, University of Oulu, Finland & University of Alaska Anchorage The Snowier, New Arctic ma...

Tue, Nov 03, 2020

This picture along the NW coast of Greenland captures the island-wide thinning and melting with basal ice (in this case ~55,000 years old) directly on top of the landscape and the gradation along the slope of the ice layers that lead to the surface of the ice sheet today. The banding, or stratigraphy is marked by major dust depositional periods (surrogates for global drought & warm periods) that are validated by independent water isotope (δ18O, δ2H, and d-excess) measurements (Welker’s lab)

UArctic Chair Jeff Welker co-authored research on the cover of Journal of Glaciology

The UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker, University of Oulu, Finland and University of Alaska Anchorage, has co-authored a new set of discoveries r...

Mon, Aug 31, 2020

Climate striker in Iqaluit in September 2019

Highlights from UArctic Shared Voices 2020: policies, personal commitments, and current affairs

How does climate action look like in politics and leadership? What are current national priorities in the Arctic? What can we learn from COVID-19 to improve...

Wed, Aug 19, 2020

University of Alaska Anchorage in winter

UArctic welcomes Cathy Sandeen as new Vice-President Academic

University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor Dr. Cathy Sandeen has been named as UArctic's new Vice-President Academic, providing strategic leadership for all o...

Tue, Jun 16, 2020

Join NSF-funded Arctic Migration Research Coordination Network

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to Georgetown University, in partnership with the University of Alaska Anchorage and the Arctic...

Fri, Apr 17, 2020

Video available: IARPC seminar on the Arctic Water Cycle to the Arctic Atmosphere Team

UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker (University of Oulu & University of Alaska Anchorage) recently led an on-line IARPC seminar on the Arctic W...

Thu, Apr 09, 2020

UArctic Chair in the Arctic at Toolik Lake-Ancient C story

Here is on-site video from Arctic Alaska in a very snowy March 2020, shared by UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker (University of Oulu & Univer...

Fri, Mar 27, 2020

University of Alaska Fairbanks, along with campuses across the state, have moved to online classes to prevent Covid-19 spread.

Covid-19 Forces Arctic Schools to Go Virtual

From kindergartens to universities, schools across the Arctic are going virtual to slow the spread of the corona virus, or Covid-19. [Originally published at...

Thu, Mar 19, 2020

Round table discussion "Do you speak my language?" - Speakers now published

The event is organised by the UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education and the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Teacher Education and will be held at the FERA...

Fri, Nov 01, 2019

Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

Professor Jeffrey Welker from the University of Oulu and the University of Alaska Anchorage alongside with 30 co-authors from UArctic affiliated institutions...

Mon, Oct 28, 2019

International Summer School on Water and Sanitation in Cold Climates is Now Available as an Online Course

UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic WASH (Water, Sewer and Health) organized a summer school on water and sanitation in cold climates. The course is now avail...

Mon, Oct 21, 2019

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