The latest PEEX Arctic-Boreal Hub Newsletter is available.

UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker, PhD student Tamara Hultunen and colleagues have discovered the potential mechanism behind the surprising increase in High Arctic Svalbard Reindeer populations published recently in Global Change Biology.

UArctic Chairs gathered in their first joint meeting at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik on October 12, 2022, in connection with the Arctic Circle Assembly.

On October 14, Marius Jonassen and Hanne H. Christiansen became the second recipients of the Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award (FP Award). The award is a high-level recognition and a 100,000-euro grant given to a project that transforms knowledge into action, addressing the impacts of climate change in the Arctic.

Read about the activities of the Danish funded project "Creating Connections in the Arctic Educational Science Community" (ConnectED).

Prof. Jan Borm, UArctic Chair in Arctic Humanities, has translated the chapter dedicated to the Faroe Islands in Xavier Marmier’s official account of the French "La Recherche" expedition into English.

Anchorage Museum organizes an exhibition "Protection: Adaptation and Resistance" from Oct. 21, 2022 — March 5, 2023.  

Frontiers Research Foundation has launched the Planet prize to recognize and reward exceptional scientists. 

Registration is open for the 2nd ABC-iCAP Webinar on Arctic Fires, with presentations from UArctic members University of Alaska Fairbanks and University of Alberta.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) and the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Collaborations invite registration for an virtual networking event with Arctic research funders on Monday, 7 November 2022, 9:00–10:30 a.m. AKDT/1:00–2:30 p.m. EDT.

UArctic member University of Alaska Fairbanks' Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy (ACCAP) is hosting an online climate briefing.

In the video shot on site in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the two winners of the 2022 award explain the focus of their PermaMeteoCommunity project, and how it makes a difference towards mitigating the effects of climate change.  

NSF Arctic Data Center is facilitating a virtual workshop about data management and data science in R from February 27th to March 3rd 2023. Registration is open until 31st of October.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) Annual Meeting will take place online this year on Tuesday, 1 November 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. AK. 

The deadline is approaching for submitting abstracts for the Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-7). The deadline is 31 October. UArctic member, Hokkaido University, is one of the co-organizers of the Symposium.