On September 24, 2024, Dr. Mike Sfraga was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first ever U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Arctic Affairs.

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) invites applications for a Public Health Program Specialist. This full-time, permanent position will be located in Anchorage, Alaska. The deadline to apply is October 8, 2024.

During Climate Week NYC—which ran from September 22 to September 29—Dartmouth, UArctic, and the Finnish Consulate partnered together to host an event that focused on climate tipping points and their relation to the Arctic.

The UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund is accepting grant applications until October 31, 2024.

The application period for the 2025 Saami Council’s cultural grants is open until November 1, 2024, at 23:59 (CEST).

UNESCO is pleased to announce that the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Routes of Enslaved Peoples programme will be held on Wednesday, 9 October, and Thursday, 10 October 2024, at UNESCO Headquarters.

The 2024 International Congress on Circumpolar Health (ICCH18) will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from Sunday, November 3 to Tuesday, November 5.

9.30am-5pm, 6 Nov at Middleton Hall, University of Hull. The Coast-R Network (https://www.ukcoastalresilience.org/) looks forward to welcoming colleagues from university, industry, government and the voluntary and community sectors to our launch event. Together we are building an inclusive and collaborative network to build k...

On September 20, 2024, U.S. Embassy Representatives from Helsinki arrived at the University of Lapland with Leo Michel, an expert in U.S. defense and foreign policy, to discuss transatlantic security and the upcoming U.S. elections.

The UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education organized a panel session at the 17th Polar Law Symposium 2024 at the Mid-Sweden University in Östersund, Sweden

Members of the Thematic Network on Ageing and Gender in the Arctic attended the CoE AgeCare (Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care) Summer School 2024, on August 19-20, 2024, in Valkeakoski, Finland.

Finnish Meteorological Institute is conducting two surveys to collect information (i.e. metadata) on in-situ data related to sea ice and snow, in order to prepare an inventory of in-situ datasets covering the Arctic and the Antarctica.

The Arctic Field Grant supports fieldwork for students and researchers collecting data in Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

The 12th National Seminar on Snow on the name day of Pyry (blizzard in Finnish) will be held the first time in Rovaniemi on October 31 - November 1, 2024.

Thematic Network on Sustainable Strategies for Waste Removal and Restoration of Arctic Mine Waste Areas, RAMWA, led by Roland Kallenborn, UArctic Chair in Arctic Environmental Pollution Research was accepted as a new Thematic Network at the UArctic Assembly in Bodø in June.