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Online seminar: Indigenous Health Research Ethics in the Arctic

Organized on Tuesday 9 March, 2021 at 18:00 - 19:30 (UTC +1), the seminar brings together Indigenous health research experts from across the Circumpolar Nort...

Mon, Feb 22, 2021

Webinar "Social work teaching 2021: Where do we go from here?"

The UArctic Thematic Network on Social Work is organizing a webinar entitled "Social work teaching 2021: Where do we go from here?". The webinar will take pl...

Mon, Feb 01, 2021

Shrinking sea ice in the Chukchi Sea off the NW coast of Alaska. Photo J M Welker August 2015 from the US Coast Guard icebreaker, Healy

UArctic Chair's update: Trees of the Arctic record sea-ice loss affects around the North

Declining Arctic sea ice drives divergent shrub growth around the north. The implications of shrub growth responses to sea ice-induced changes in climate are...

Mon, Jan 11, 2021

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

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