The Korea Polar Institute (KOPRI) announces the 16th International Symposium on Polar Sciences, to be held 10-12 June 2009 in Incheon, South Korea.

The Nordic Council of Ministers is committed to helping Iceland out of its current economic predicament.

The integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System (iAOOS), originally conceived and sponsored by the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (AOSB), is one of around 110 Coordination Proposals approved by the Joint Committee for the International Polar Year (IPY), designed in this case to optimize the cohesion and coverage of Arctic Ocean Sc...

Second Circumpolar Conference on Geospatial Sciences and Applications Westmark Hotel, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA August 4-6, 2009 Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2009

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) seeks two highly motivated students with backgrounds in botany/ecology, evolution/molecular ecology, or similar subjects for two master projects within a vegetation monitoring project from gene level to landscape level in a mining area, in Svea, Svalbard.

The Department of the Interior has issued a second call for nominations to the Science Technical Advisory Panel for the North Slope Science Initiative.

The Northern Review, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, based at Yukon College in Whitehorse, Canada, seeks reviewers for recent books in northern studies.

Lars Kullerud, President of the University of the Arctic (UArctic), along with other UArctic representatives, is attending the UNESCO International Experts Meeting on Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development: scientific, social, cultural and educational challenges, March 3-6, in Monaco.

The Alaska Center for Energy and Power at the University of Alaska Fairbanks seeks applicants to fill the position of Rural Energy Specialist.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) will be excavating at the Mead site, near Delta Junction, Alaska, as part of a summer field school directed by Dr. Ben A. Potter and Dr. Charles E. Holmes.

With a name like Moses Hernandez, one wouldn’t expect him to be from the North. 

The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation is delighted to announce the 2009 call for applications for the Gordon Global Fellowship programme.