Organizers are seeking Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA) reviewers for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting session “Status, Trends, and Processes of Lake and River Ice.”

Organizers invite session abstracts for the 2025 Alaska Outdoor and Environmental Education Symposium: Strength in Community, to be held in-person Friday, 21 February 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Session proposal deadline: Sunday, 15 December 2024.

The co-chairs of the Research Priority Team 3 for the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) IV invite input via their survey,  Understanding the Dynamics and Resilience of Arctic Social-Ecological Systems to Foster a Sustainable Future .

UArctic staff from all around the North convened for the annual staff retreat last week, this year held in Pyhä, Finland on November 25-28.

I am originally from northern Canada, Yellowknife, and currently live in southern Sweden. I started with UArctic as an intern in 2004, coming fresh out of university in Canada. I was really lucky, because my internship was split between the UArctic International Secretariat in Rovaniemi, Finland and the north2north mobility o...

ARCUS invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Jessica Mejia (Syracuse University) and her presentation titled Cracks in the Ice: Using observations and models of crevasse growth to understand the transport of water to the base of glaciers and ice sheets.

The University of the Arctic has opened a call for travel grants to MA and PhD students, as well as early-career researchers, attending the ICARP IV Summit during Arctic Summit Week 2025. Application deadline: December 15, 2024. 

Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative is hosting an upcoming webinar on Arctic science diplomacy and U.S.-Russia relations. The event will be held on December 5, and registration is required to attend.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law is thrilled to announce the release of its latest volume of the Current Developments in Arctic Law (CDAL), Volume 12, 2024. This volume brings together a diverse collection of short academic articles, a commentary, a workshop report, and a note from the editor.

The thematic network of Social Work, along with Nord University, held an online course throughout October that looked at social work's relation to Indigenous peoples, climate, and urban and rural areas. Article text by Asgeir Solstad, Nord university, Norway.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School invites applications for their Arctic Initiative Fellowship.

The Lead and Vice-Leads of the UArctic Thematic Network (TN) “Health and Well-Being in the Arctic” have organized the first online meeting for its members and persons interested in Arctic Health networking after a long while! The meeting was held on 13 November 2024 and over twenty people took part in it. The meeting was insp...

Join us on December 3, 2024 at 12 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with Ambassador Nina Hachigian, the first U.S. Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy. Learn about what’s been achieved over the past two years—and what lies ahead. 

In mid-November, UArctic staff met with students and professors visiting from Canada at the University of Lapland, and later joined them in Inari, Finland, where they received an introduction to the students and programs at the Sámi Education Institute.

The team and guest experts convened in Copenhagen at the second mid-term international workshop of the three-year NAPA funded project “Arctic Healthy Aging communities: Safe and inclusive outdoor environment and public spaces (The Nordic AHA-Communities)” on November 21-22, 2024.