Every year around spring, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) publishes its yearbook. Around 1500 copies of the IASC bulletin are widely circulated by mail and distributed at the Arctic Science Summit Week. For graphics and photographs we depend solely on what our council members, related research institu...

Being a partner in the aqua-tnet Socrates Thematic Network on Aquaculture, Fischeries and Aquatic Resource Management, UWestfjords' director, Dr. Peter Weiss, ic currently joining aqua-tnet's annual meeting in Faro, Portugal, as well as a aqua-tnet group meeting on establishing and enhancing MSc-Programmes within aquacu...

Help build sustainable prosperity in Canada’s North Canada’s northern communities, environment, and resources are receiving much attention from governments, businesses, and the media across Canada and around the world. Global economic growth is creating a new hunger for the resources that the North holds in...

Presentation made by Jean-François Arteau, Legal Counsel and Executive Assistant to the President of Makivik Corporation Pita Aatami. Makivik (www.makivik.org) is the organization that represents the 10,000 Inuit in Nunavik, northern Quebec, Canada. The Presentation was made at the 6th Open Assembly of the North...

Under the theme "Our Ice Dependent  World, the sixth Northern Research Forum (NRF) successfully took place on the 4th and 5th of September in Hveragerdi, Iceland. Dr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland (pictured) as well as Kupik Kleist, the Premier of Greenland, spoke during the opening session.

Mona Johnson, Chair of UArctic’s Mobility Strategic Area, gave a presentation on How Mobility and other UArctic programs can be used to communicate new knowledge at the 6th Northern Research Forum Open Asembly in Iceland on September 5 in a session moderated by President Lars Kullerud.

Scott Forrest, Information Manager at the UArctic International Secretariat has been attending the 2011 European Universities Public Relations and Information Officers association (EUPRIO) at the Czech Technical University in Prague. EUPRIO is an excellent resource for university communications staff to learn new developments...

The meeting is organized by NILU, The Norwegian Institute for Air Research, in advance of the NySMAC meeting on 27 October 2011.

The first UArctic TN Network on Social work conference 'Supporting Healthy Communities through Social Work' made a lot of new people familiar with this Thematic Network and opened new possibilities for cooperation.

Arctic Centre researchers Adam Stepien and Leena Heinämäki have designed and created new web-pages for the Thematic Network on Arctic Law.

 Come be part of an exciting program featuring the latest polar research results, thought-provoking keynote presentations from global leaders and outstanding sessions on how Arctic and Antarctic knowledge is being applied and used to enable people to live in, adapt to and benefit from our changing world.

The August 2011 issue of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) newsletter is available online. This issue highlights the contributions of early career researchers to polar science.

Date: Venue: University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland Organizers: Citizens' Global Platform (CGP) http://www.globalplatform.fi/, UN Association of Finland

Evgeny Shepelev is a student of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (http://narfu.ru/en/), Arkhangelsk, Russia. His specialty is “Regional studies” and it concerns studying everything about the North of Europe – from culture to diplomacy.