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Highlights, the UArctic Research platform, creates a space for sharing with the broader UArctic community, policymakers, and general public. The research projects and initiatives, written by scientists from different Thematic Networks and UArctic Institutes as well as UArctic Chairs, will particularly focus on multidisciplinary studies that have a high academic impact and contribute to the wellbeing of Arctic communities and ecosystems. In addition to the research conducted at the Thematic Networks and Institutes, all members of UArctic are welcomed to contribute. For more information please contact us.

FP Award winners: “We care about how the society we are living in is functioning”

Mon, Oct 24, 2022
Hanne Christiansen and Marius Jonassen in Longyearbyen, Svalbard
On October 14, Marius Jonassen and Hanne H. Christiansen became the second recipients of the Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award (FP Award). The award is a high-level recognition and a 100,000-euro grant given to a project that transforms knowledge into action, addressing the impacts of climate change in the Arctic.

UArctic Research Chair is leading another Arctic Icebreaker Study. This time Aboard the I/B Oden ArtofMelt: Interactive Processes in the NE Greenland region

Thu, Sep 01, 2022
The I/B Oden in the Eastern Arctic during late winter when the sun is just coming back to the north
UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker and colleagues have received funding from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FMoFA) to lead an isotope forensics study of the Arctic’s water cycle at the seasonal transition between winter and summer during sea ice melt into the High Arctic between NE Greenland and Svalbard,...

Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

Mon, Oct 28, 2019
Jeffrey
Professor Jeffrey Welker from the University of Oulu and the University of Alaska Anchorage alongside with 30 co-authors from UArctic affiliated institutions and research groups just published a paper on the large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region.

MOSAiC, The largest Arctic scientific expedition starting now

Thu, Jun 06, 2019
MOSAiC station in Arctic Finland, Sammaltunturi at Pallas National Park
UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker (University of Oulu & University of Alaska Anchorage) and colleagues from across the Arctic will be contributing to this monumental effort with their studies of the Arctic Water Isotope Cycle. 

"Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North" - Project Update

Tue, Apr 30, 2019
2nd Project Workshop, October 2018, Umeå, Sweden PHOTO: Gabriella Nordin
The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland is pleased to announce that the project "Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North" has been successfully s...

UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education launched a new publication

Mon, Apr 01, 2019
Editors Mhairi Beaton, Gregor Maxwell and Diane Hirshberg in the book launch event
UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education launched an online version of the book "Including the North: a Comparative Study of the Policies on Inclusion and Equity in the Circumpolar North" on March 26, 2019 in Rovaniemi, as part of the conference "Developing an Inclusive School". 

The new publication highlights the human security challenges in the Barents region

Thu, Sep 20, 2018
HumanSecurityBook_550x367.jpg PHOTO: Johanna Westerlund/Arctic Centre
The book - Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region – edited by Kamrul Hossain (lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Law) and Dorothée Cambou, gives a comprehensive analysis of vulnerabilities, challenges and needs that the Barents population experiences today or may encounter in the future. In...

UArctic Chair's Polar Bear collaborative research featured in Arctic Today

Wed, Aug 01, 2018
A polar bear eats a seal. Toxic chemicals can bio-accumulate in the fat of seals, contaminating the bears which eat them PHOTO: A polar bear eats a seal. Toxic chemicals can bio-accumulate in the fat of seals, contaminating the bears which eat them. Thomas Nilsen / The Independent Barents Observer
The UArctic Chair Jeff Welker's food web program on Polar Bears is featured in Arctic Today, sharing that high PFAS levels found in Barents Sea polar bears. This collaborative program lead by Jeff's Norwegian colleagues has been underway for many years and it reflects the breadth of the Chairship & research program.  In a...

Human rights and multiple discrimination of minorities within the Sámi minority

Wed, May 09, 2018
Sun through frosty branches PHOTO: Laura Olsen
Dr. Leena Heinämäki, PhD Candidate Laura Olsén and research assistant Assi Harkoma from the University of Lapland, Arctic Centre finished their interdisciplinary research project regarding the human rights and multiple discrimination of Sámi persons with disabilities and Sámi who identify themselves as sexual and/or gender mi...

UArctic Chair Update - The Arctic Water Isotope Cycle

Mon, Feb 26, 2018
Pallas, Finnish Meterological Institute's Sammaltunturi station PHOTO: Dr. Jeff Welker, UArctic Chair
As part of his UArctic Chairship, Professor Jeff Welker has completed establishing his first core set of collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects in Finland at the University of Oulu. This article will explain the first of two projects.