Alexander Tøsdal Tveit, Lisa Y. Stein, and Fang Qian became the winners of the 2024 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award with their project on methane capture with Arctic bacteria. The 100,000-euro award was announced on October 18 at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland. 

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) have recently announced that their 2030 joint Polar Conference will be hosted in Incheon, Republic of Korea. 

The Thematic Network on Arctic Law “Arctic Archives” subgroup delivered two seminars at the 17th Polar Law Symposium that took place in Östersund, Sweden, September 23-25, 2024.

UArctic Thematic Networks Office launches a new initiative to highlight and promote the excellent, relevant and valuable research, education and other activities conducted by UArctic Thematic Networks.

The following is a student report by Mads Bjørn Bjørnsen about his experience at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2024, where he was a speaker in the "My Northern Project" session. This opportunity was made possible thanks to a private donor.

In this online seminar, Arctic PASSION is introducing its recently launched Arctic Communities Event Databases, a major hub for Indigenous Knowledge and local Knowledge.

The Consortium for the Advancement of Marine Arctic Science (CAMAS) announces the publication of their report from their inaugural workshop and Early-Career School.

UArctic member, World Maritime University has the Professor, Maritime and Ocean Socioecology (Nippon Foundation Chair), job position open for applicants. The application deadline is December 1, 2024.

The “ARCSUS+SDG: Governing Arctic Urban Sustainability through the lens of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals” project, funded by the NAPA Arctic Cooperation Programme, Nordic Council of Ministers, held its second annual seminar and roundtable on 16 October 2024 at the Nordic House at the University of Iceland as a pre-ev...

The One Ocean Science Congress 2025, set to take place in Nice, France on June 4-6, 2025, is now accepting abstracts for its sessions. Submission deadline: Thursday, November 14, 2024, 13:00 CET.

UArctic member, Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative, is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 fellowship cycle.

UArctic member, International Polar Foundation, and its many Arctic stakeholder partners would like to cordially invite you to take part in the 15th edition of the Arctic Futures Symposium in Brussels, Belgium.

UArctic member Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research (NVP) has published an article of highlights from the 2024 NVP Summer School in Svalbard.

A collaboration between UiT The Arctic University of Norway, The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, and the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Marine Biodiversity is setting the stage for a better understanding of Arctic's deep-sea ecosystems.

Submit a session proposal by December 10, 2024 for ISAR-8, taking place October 28-31, 2025 in Hachioji City of Tokyo, Japan.