Publication Available

Mon, Feb 16, 2009
The Smithsonian Institution announces a new publication: "Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science: Proceedings of the International Polar Year Symposium (2008)."


The Indigenous Fellowship Programme (IFP) was launched by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the context of the first International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples (1995/2004).






Undergraduate Research Opportunity, Toolik Lake Research SiteBrooks Range, Alaska, 5 June - 25 August 2009Application Deadline: Sunday, 15 March 2009

Scientia Canadensis, the Canadian journal of the history of science, technology and medicine, welcomes submissions for a special comparative issue on the History of Circumpolar Science.We invite submissions dealing with Arctic, Subarctic, and Antarctic regions and any national context. Papers from non-Canadianist perspective...

The University of Akureyri (Iceland) announces a new, international, master's program in polar law. Polar law describes the legal regimes applicable to the Arctic and Antarctica. Program emphasis will be placed on areas of international and domestic law concerning the polar regions, such as issues of human rights, environmen...


New Issue Available

Tue, Feb 10, 2009
The Past Global Changes (PAGES) project announces the latest issue of the PAGES Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 1.


New Publication Available

Mon, Feb 09, 2009
Polarworld, in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute, announces a new publication: "Face to Face: Polar Portraits." This publication brings together rare, unpublished, images from the historic collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge, and modern imagery from expedition p...