The Introduction to Northern Small Scale Agriculture course at Lakehead University will bring students to Finland for field work and link them to the University of the Arctic.

The Winter 2008/2009 issue (Volume 13, Number 1) of the newsletter "Witness the Arctic" has just been published and is being mailed to more than 13,600 subscribers.

The Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University seeks abstract submissions for the upcoming Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change, to be held 15-19 June 2009. The deadline for electronic abstract submission is Friday, 20 March 2009, at 11:00 pm Universal Time.

Mobility grants are available for Russian students and scholars for visits starting in 2009-2010. Application deadline is 22 April 2009.

The ACUNS-APECS: Communities of Change - Building an IPY Legacy 9th Annual ACUNS International Student Conference on Northern Studies October 2 to 5, 2009 Yukon College - Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of the March 2009 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 62, Number 1.

Be in Hammerfest 21st and 22nd of April! The next step on the Norwegian Shelf is the Goliat field in the Barents Sea. The next step in exploration is the Barents Sea.

Even as a school girl, UArctic Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies student Colette de Roo was fascinated by anything that had to do with the North.

US-Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange offers Norwegian Students in the Sciences a 6-week Summer Course in USA 2009.

The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, announces the availability of a new issue of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (AAAR), Volume 41, Number 1 2009. This volume includes a special section with selected presentations from the second SEDIBUD Workshop, held in Abisko, Sweden,...

The Second Circumpolar Conference on Geospatial Sciences and Applications (GeoNorth-II) is a unique opportunity to discuss issues and present current research related to geospatial activities in the arctic environment.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) publishes a quarterly newsletter, "NSIDC Notes." NSIDC no longer distributes this newsletter in print.

Bodø University College launches an international bachelor’s programme in High North Perspectives, beginning in the autumn semester of 2009.

Fairview Campus and Grande Prairie Regional College will be combining strengths effective July 1, 2009, an opportunity which offers long-lasting benefits for the learners of our region. At a news conference held at both campuses today, GPRC discussed the coming merger and celebrated the complementary program mix of the two i...

A memorial evening in honor of Sir Wally Herbert, pioneering polar explorer, and his travelling companion and leading glaciologist, Dr. Fitzroy (Fritz) Koerner, will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on Tuesday evening, 7 April 2009, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the British Trans-Arctic Expediti...