An interdisciplinary experience in Polar Studies In celebration of the IPY 2007-09 year, this three-week course will focus on environmental change in the Arctic and Antarctica through a series of lectures and field excursions in Svalbard, Norway. The course will cover topics on Glaciology, Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography,...


The Environment and Natural Resources Institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is recruiting an ecosystem ecologist for a postdoctoral position on a new National Science Foundation (NSF) project with field studies in northwest Greenland. The position will be based in Anchorage, Alaska.


The first of two volumes written by members of the international IPY consortium 'The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development' is now available.






The National Science Foundation's (NSF) division of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) announce a new opportunity for the science and engineering communities to conduct research and education activities in cloud computing and data-intensive computing, and their appl...


28-30 October 2010 Val d'Or, Quebec, Canada The organizing committee of the 17th Inuit Studies Conference announces a second call for papers. The University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue (UQAT) and DIALOG (research and knowledge network relating to Aboriginal peoples) will host the Conference from 28-30 October...


A warm welcome to the 39th EUCEN conference to be held in Rovaniemi, Finland on 27-29 May 2010. The major theme of the conference is "Lifelong Learning for the New Decade".