International Arctic Science Committee For further information, please go to: http://dels.nas.edu/global/prb/iascFor questions, please contact: Jackie Grebmeier jgrebmei@cbl.umces.edu

The Marine Research Institute of Iceland will host a symposium on Cod Aquaculture at the University Centre of the Westfjords on Wednesday August 31. The symposium will focus on two subjects, Integrated Coastal Zone Management relating to Aquaculture and Knowledge Dissemination and Authorization for Aquaculture. The symp...

A new current, the North Icelandic Jet, discovered by UAkureyri/Uwestfjords professor Steíngrímur Jónsson and his colleague Héðinn Valdimarsson at the Marine Research Institute Iceland, has raised attention in the international scientific world. The current has been measured and mapped by the Woods Hole Oceanographic In...

Olga Bakhireva, leader of the Thematic Network on Environmental Training and Education for Sustainable Development of the Arctic (NETESDA) has moved to Syktyvkar State University. She was invited by the SSU Rector to chair  a new SSU Department – the Euro-Arctic Center of International Initiatives.

Winter Season 2011/2012 and Summer Season 2012.  New Submission deadline: Wednesday, 31 August 2011For further information, please go to: http://www.eu-interact.org/ For questions, please contact: Hannele Savela (hannele.savela@oulu.fi) or Kirsi Latola (kirsi.latola@oulu.fi)

Please find enclosed a call for papers for the 7th international conference organized by the International Laboratory for the Comparative Multidisciplinary Study of Representations of the North from Université du Québec à Montréal: "Mapping Northern Places: Memory, Abandonment, Oblivion". Proposals, in English or in French,...

Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) Arctic Visting Speaker Grants now available. For further information, please go to:http://www.arcus.org/arctic_speaker/index.html or contact:Julie Griswold (julie@arcus.org), phone: +1-907-474-1600.

Final Report and Main Findings of the 3rd Workshop of the UArctic Institute for Applied Circumpolar Policy, “Climate Change and Human Security”, September 6 – 8, 2010, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

The Center for Distance Education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is offering a fall semester online course entitled "Land, Environment, and People in the North." The fall semester begins Thursday, 1 September 2011. The last day for registration is Friday, 9 September 2011.

Introduction to Changing Permafrost in the Arctic LandscapeU.S. NSF Arctic Systems Science Thermokarst Project and Association of Polar Early Career ScientistsWednesdays, 7 September - 30 November 2011 (7:30-9:00 GMT)For further information, please go to: http://apecs.is/permafrost-course-2011

Dear Colleagues, Enclosed please find the first circular for the XXXII SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) Open Science Conference in Portland (Oregon), 13-25 July 2012.

The OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) has launched a call for contributions for its General Conference: Maintaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education, 17-19 September 2012.

The International Permafrost Association has released the second circular for the Tenth International Conference on Permafrost.

We have been working hard over the summer to figure out better ways to connect with you - our members - and help to keep APECS growing. We are happy to present to you the new Membership and Involvement Committee (MIC). This committee was formally the Organizational Development Committee (ODC) but we have revamped it t...

The University of the Arctic International Secretariat has returned back from summer holidays. We are looking forward to  working again with our colleagues from around the circumpolar North. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact secretariat@uarctic.org.