APECS invites you to join our Career Development webinar on Tuesday, Feb 8th at 17:00 GMT. This week's webinar is entitled "Working with the Media” and will be presented by David Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey.

As of February 1, the University of the Highlands and Islands has gained full university status and is therefore Scotland's newest university.

Jokkmokk Winter Conference 2011 “Pathways to Sustainable Northern Communities” was concluded on Thursday, February 3. The conference took place for the fourth time in Jokkmokk, Northern Sweden.

APECS is happy to announce Shaping the Future of AMAP early career researcher (ECR) workshop presented by APECS in association with AMAP this spring.  This one day workshop will be held before “The Arctic as a Messenger for Global Processes - Climate Change and Pollution” in Copenhagen, 3-6 May 2011, hosted by AMAP, the Unive...

The exchange opportunities available to Lakehead University students through the University of the Arctic's north2north program are highlighted in an article by Erin Collins in their university newspaper, The Argus.

For further information on AVS, please go to: http://www.arcus.org/arctic_speaker/index.html

Jokkmokk Winter Conference is in full progress. The conference deals with the empowerment of northern regions to achieve sustainable development.

The international n2n coordination office got last week  information about the North American waiver offerings for north2north mobility 2011/12.

Many thanks to all the organizers and participants of the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromso for a very successful event. The University of the Arctic was well represented in both the policy and science sections of the conference, as well as the supporting side events.

APECS is happy to present you with two more wonderful career development webinar video recordings: "Communicating Climate Change" and "US NSF Funding". 

Main theme: From Circumpolar Stability toward Nordic Peace Helsinki, May 11th – 12th Joensuu, May 13th Petrozavodsk, May 15th – 18th

Organizers of a conference entitled "Would you know more? Conversationon Roots" announce a call for contributions. The conference will beconvened 19-21 June 2011 in Akureyri, Iceland.

Arctic Doctoral Programme (ARKTIS) will organize 9th Annual Research Seminar “Local Knowledge and Participatory Research in the Arctic“ 4-5 April 2011. The seminar will be held at the Arctic Centre, in Rovaniemi , Finland (Arktikum, Pohjoisranta 4).

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. The full list ofpresentations, as well as previous webinar recordings, are available at http://apecs.is/webinars.

Young scientists at the Arctic Frontiers conference engaged in much more than traditional scientific pursuits, as a workshop organized through the Arctic Frontiers Young Scientist Forum, supported by APECS, put them behind -- and in front of -- the camera. Scientist-turned film maker Randy Olson helped the scientists to produ...