UArctic - University of the Arctic

Event: University of the Arctic and its thematic networks a platform for Arctic cooperation

Wed, Feb 08, 2023

This hybrid event will take place February 13, at the University of Oulu and online. In the event UArctic Vice-President Networks Kirsi Latola presents the UArctic, what it is and how it operates and what role University of Oulu has in it.

Cuttlefish recordings now available online

Wed, Feb 08, 2023

With funding provided by the National Recording Preservation Foundation, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program was able to have 59 ‘Cuttlefish Project’ magnetic audio reels digitized by a professional company.

Polar Night Week in Svalbard – Bridging the Fram Strait!

Tue, Feb 07, 2023

At the SIOS Polar Night Week in late January in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, UArctic Chair Hanne H. Christiansen gave a keynote lecture identifying the research and higher education potential across the Fram Strait.

Open position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Chemistry

Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Stockholm University is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Chemistry at the Department of Environmental Chemistry.

Registration open: Arctic Encounter 2023

Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Arctic Encounter 2023 will take place at the Dena'ina Convention Center and the Anchorage Museum in Downtown Anchorage from Wednesday, March 29, 2023, through Friday, March 31, 2023.

Open Call: Arctic Five Fellows

Tue, Feb 07, 2023

Apply for the Arctic Five Fellows call until March 17. Take the opportunity to receive funding and networking support for a year.

ARCTIC 6G - Developing 6G in northern Sweden and Finland

Mon, Feb 06, 2023

University of Oulu, Luleå Technical University and Lapland University of Applied Sciences have started a three-year project concerning Arctic connectivity using 6G.

University of Helsinki Arctic Programme 2022-2030

Mon, Feb 06, 2023

The University of Helsinki harbours top expertise in several disciplines of Arctic research, ranging from natural sciences to humanities.

Apply for a doctoral position at the Arctic Graduate School

Mon, Feb 06, 2023

In autumn 2022, the Arctic Graduate School with a focus on Sustainable Development started, an initiative to create an environment that promotes interdisciplinary research by supervisors and doctoral students from a wide range of disciplines at Umeå University meeting.

New publication on well-being in Canada’s Arctic

Mon, Feb 06, 2023

Canadian Studies Center managing director Nadine Fabbi and the Jackson School’s 2020-22 Banting Fellow, Patricia Johnston, co-edited a special edition the American Review of Canadian Studies.

UArctic Assembly 2023: Registration is now open!

Mon, Feb 06, 2023

We are glad to announce that registration for the 2023 UArctic Assembly has just been opened. The UArctic Assembly will be held on 22-26 May 2023 in Quebec City, Canada. The meeting is hosted by Université Laval.

Apply now for summer school: Living in the landscape

Fri, Feb 03, 2023

Living in the landscape (LiLa) is an multidisciplinary summer school for MA and PhD students where landscapes are explored with culturally sensitive and new materialistic investigations and art-based processing.

Call for Abstracts: "Post-anthropocentric approaches to Arctic International Relations"

Fri, Feb 03, 2023

UArctic Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies invites abstracts for the Panel "Post-anthropocentric approaches to Arctic International Relations" to be held at the 16th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Postdam, 5-9 September 2023.

Call for nominations: Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. Membership Committee

Fri, Feb 03, 2023

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites nominations to serve on the consortium’s Membership Committee.

A story of fire and ice: University of Saskatchewan research studies how wildfires impact glacier melt

Fri, Feb 03, 2023

From a distance, the mountain peaks of the Canadian Rockies look like a pristine landscape, untouched by human activity, but Caroline Aubry-Wake experienced firsthand how interconnected our world is while studying the impact of wildfires on the Athabasca Glacier.