Elisa Coates is of Caucasian descent and was born and raised in southern Ontario in Canada. The town she lives in ia a suburb of a larger city with 200,000 people, and there are many cities surrounding it that have many people as well with around 500,000 and 300,000. It is an area of many cultural diversities with people comi...

The Council of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) has concluded its 15th meeting, this year hosted by the University of Tromsø. The main message from the meeting is how UArctic is moving ahead to its next phase through the development of a new Strategic Plan 2020. Press Release (PDF)

Politics, Science and Environment in the Polar Regions edited by Mark Nuttall, The Polar Journal 2(1), 189pp.http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpol20/current

Today, during the Council meeting in Tromsø, the University of the Arctic and its member institution the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) in Arkhangelsksigned an agreement enabling NArFU to manage Russian funding on behalf of the University of the Arctic. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by UArctic Pres...

Arctic Frontiers (http://www.arcticfrontiers.com/) holds its 7th annual conference in Tromsø from 20-25 January 2013, Norway, with the title “Geopolitics and Marine Production in a Changing Arctic”. Arctic Frontiers 2013 will discuss the current status, challenges and future perspectives of Arctic geopolitics, security and ma...

New findings have been published by a NIVA (Norwegian Institute for Water Research) from a project commissioned by the Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency (Klif) to establish the occurrence of nonylphenol, octylphenol and bisphenol A in the marine and freshwater aquatic environments. The full publication can be found here....

UArctic's Board of Governors approve the UArctic Annual Report for 2011 at their recent meeting in Nuuk, Greenland. The report provides an overview of UArctic's activities for the year, organized by Strategic Area, with a particular focus on our Thematic Networks.

Peter Ferguson, a University of the Highlands and Islands student from North Uist, at the Skaftaell glacier in Iceland. Peter is studying for a degree in fine art through Lews Castle College UHI and visited Iceland for the recent Reykjavik Arts Festival. Source: UHI

The first time I’ve become involved into the Arctic in 2006, when I took the first course of the BCS program offered by the University of the Arctic. That time I did not even realize how it was going to change my entire life.

The University of the Arctic’s board meeting is taking place at Nuuk, Greenland from the 4th of June till the 6th of June, chaired by Barry Scherr. The Board will be reviewing the financial activity report of 2011. The Board will also discuss the strategic development and self evaluation of UArctic.

The new issue of UArctic's annual magazine Shared Voices has been released and is now accessible for download. This year's issue takes the theme of 'Our Northern Futures' - and features articles from many of our Thematic Networks and cooperation partners on how northerners are shaping a better future for themselves.

This Ph.D. course, Climate Adaptation Policy, is Organized by the NORD-STAR Graduate Training Program, 13-17 Agust 2012 at  the University of Iceland, Reykjavik (5 ECTS credits).

Rapidly changing health conditions in the Arctic, due in part to climate change and globalization, call for a dramatically new approach to research and delivery of services to improve the health and wellness in Arctic communities, according to a report released by the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the U...

Disputas - Cand.philol. Inger Marie Gaup Eira defender her doctoral dissertation, "The Silent Language of Snow. Sámi traditional knowledge of snow in times of climate change" on May 31 in the Auditorium Sahkaskaidi i Diehtosiida, (Science building in Kautokeino Norway). This PhD thesis is a linguistic study with an int...

The BCS diploma award ceremony has been held at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University. This year 15 NArFU students have been awarded bachelor degree in Circumpolar Studies. The delegation from the University of Nordland where the graduates took BCS courses came to NArFU. Marit Sundet, Eivind Karlsen and Håkan Sander...