Applications are invited from leading scholars in the areas of northern andArctic inquiry to serveas Executive Director of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA), amajor multi-disciplinaryinstitute of the University of CalgApplications are invited from leading scholars in the areas of northern and Arctic inquiry to...

The Summary Report by the ICSU/WMO IPY Joint Committee, Understanding Earth’s Polar Challenges: International Polar Year 2007-2008  is available for pre-order from the CCI Press. An online version will be available soon through the University of the Arctic Press.

The Peatland Ecology Group at the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Forest Research Institute seeks a postdoctoral researcher to work on plant-soil processes in peatlands under a warming climate. The positionis for three years, and will be based in Helsinki, Finland.

On March 30 and 31,  2011, the second Polar Shipping Summit will be held in Montreal, Canada. The Summit will focus on technological, operational, and logistical challenges encountered by ship owners in harsh arctic conditions.

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is hosting a Career Development Webinar Series, with online presentations held Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. GMT (8:00 a.m. AKST, 9:00 a.m. PST, 10:00 a.m.MST, 11:00 a.m. CST, 12:00 p.m. EST, 7:00 p.m. in Norway).

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is proud to announce that the IASC Medal 2011 will be awarded to Professor Martin Jakobsson.

The Carleton University Centre for European Studies (European Union Centre of Excellence) will host a conference considering transatlantic relations in and comparative policy towards the Arctic, with particular attention to the role of Canada, the EU, and the EU's member states, as well as the interaction of these actors...

In the end of February 2011 the University of Oulu and the University of Lapland together hosted the meeting of the rectors of the Finnish and Russian partner universities of the Barents Cross Border University (BCBU) network in Oulu, Finland.  In this regular meeting the rectors convene for discussing current issues and cha...

On March 1st, the first day of spring, the Department of Northern Studies of the North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk, Russia) opened a photo exhibition “The Arctic in the camera objective”. The Department of Northern Studies is a young department of NEFU established in 2008.

Five Nunavut Nursing students were awarded this year’s Queen Elizabeth II Bursaries, recognizing their academic excellence and commitment to nursing in Nunavut.

Organizers for the upcoming "Classrooms for Climate: A Symposium on th eChanging Chugach, Northern Ecosystems, and the Implications for Science & Society" conference announce a second and final call for abstracts.The symposium will be held 5-7 May 2011 in Anchorage, Alaska and is organized by the Chugach National Forest a...

The College of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University ofAlaska Fairbanks is accepting applications for graduate studentscholarships in the Atmospheric Sciences. The positions will be based inFairbanks, Alaska.

The University of Tromsø has a research fellow position in biosystematics (botany) vacant from 1st of July 2011 for applicants who would like to complete a PhD degree.

22 year- old Arctic Studies Program student Sintija Dzelme from Riga, Latvia, has found her home in the North. Although Sintija’s background is not Arctic related, she does not regret her choice to come to Rovaniemi at all.

Registration is now open for a variety of field courses and teachertrainings offered by Alaska Geographic. The 3-8 day award-winningcourses explore Alaska's national parks, forests, and refuges, and areavailable in the months of June to September, 2011.