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Symposium on Cod Aquaculture

Mon, Aug 29, 2011
West Fjords
The Marine Research Institute of Iceland will host a symposium on Cod Aquaculture at the University Centre of the Westfjords on Wednesday August 31. The symposium will focus on two subjects, Integrated Coastal Zone Management relating to Aquaculture and Knowledge Dissemination and Authorization for Aquaculture. The symp...

Professor at UAkureyri/UWestfjords Discovers a New Ocean Current

Mon, Aug 29, 2011
North Icelandic Jet
A new current, the North Icelandic Jet, discovered by UAkureyri/Uwestfjords professor Steíngrímur Jónsson and his colleague Héðinn Valdimarsson at the Marine Research Institute Iceland, has raised attention in the international scientific world. The current has been measured and mapped by the Woods Hole Oceanographic In...

Call for papers: "Mapping Northern Places: Memory, Abandonment, Oblivion"

Wed, Aug 24, 2011
UQAM Universite de Quebec a Montreal
Please find enclosed a call for papers for the 7th international conference organized by the International Laboratory for the Comparative Multidisciplinary Study of Representations of the North from Université du Québec à Montréal: "Mapping Northern Places: Memory, Abandonment, Oblivion". Proposals, in English or in French,...

Arctic Visiting Speaker Grants Available

Wed, Aug 24, 2011
ARCUS new logo 2011
Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) Arctic Visting Speaker Grants now available. For further information, please go to:http://www.arcus.org/arctic_speaker/index.html or contact:Julie Griswold (julie@arcus.org), phone: +1-907-474-1600.

Online Course Available: Land, Environment, and People in the North (UAF)

Mon, Aug 22, 2011
uaf
The Center for Distance Education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is offering a fall semester online course entitled "Land, Environment, and People in the North." The fall semester begins Thursday, 1 September 2011. The last day for registration is Friday, 9 September 2011.

IMHE General Conference 2012: Call for Contributions

Thu, Aug 18, 2011
OECD
The OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) has launched a call for contributions for its General Conference: Maintaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education, 17-19 September 2012.

Introducing the new APECS Membership and Involvement Committee

Wed, Aug 17, 2011
APECS logo
We have been working hard over the summer to figure out better ways to connect with you - our members - and help to keep APECS growing. We are happy to present to you the new Membership and Involvement Committee (MIC). This committee was formally the Organizational Development Committee (ODC) but we have revamped it t...

Welcome back: UArctic International Secretariat is open for business

Wed, Aug 10, 2011
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The University of the Arctic International Secretariat has returned back from summer holidays. We are looking forward to  working again with our colleagues from around the circumpolar North. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact secretariat@uarctic.org.
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