Submission Deadline: Monday, 6 December 2010 Please email submissions to: Lara Olafsdottir Email: larao@svs.is To view previous editions, please go to: http://www.iassa.org/news-letter

Climate variability, climate change and the societal/cultural transformations associated with globalization have been, and continue to be, responsible for major changes in the physical environment, the biota and the cultures of the indigenous and other communities in the Arctic.

The most recent volume, "The Inuit and Climate Change," is now available at: http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/etudes-inuit-studies.

Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of AlaskaEdited by Aron L. Crowell, Rosita Worl, Paul C. Ongtooguk, and Dawn D. Biddison. Smithsonian Books 

The fall issue Number 73 of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) publication is available online. NSIDC Notes is published quarterly in electronic format, and can be accessed as a PDF file at: http://nsidc.org/pubs/notes/. Archived versions of the newsletter are also available at the website.

Organizers of an interdisciplinary session entitled "Arctic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future" announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the Arctic Science Summit Week, 27 March - 1 April 2011 in Seoul, Korea.

Organizers of a session entitled "Societal Changes in the Arctic and North-South Relations" announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the Arctic Science Summit Week, 27 March - 1 April 2011 in Seoul, Korea.

Founding partners of EALÀT Institute; Association of World Reindeer Herders( WRH), Sámi University College (SUC) and Intemational Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR) signed Memorandum of Understanding, Founding Principles and Terms of Reference on Kautokeino, November 5, 2010.

Local community and economic development in Indigenous regions of the North has been one of three main priority areas of the network in 2010. The other two are the establishment of a joint international master programme in northern governance and development, and finally three different book projects based on our last exper...

Today a delegation from Canada's Northwest Territories headed by Premier Floyd Roland visited the University of Lapland, accompanied by Canada's Ambassador to Finland, Chris Shapardanov.

The IPY 2012 Conference From Knowledge to Action is the final conference for International Polar Year 2007 - 2008.

As part of UArctic's north2north mobility program, and the Thematic Network on Social Work, the Human Services Program of Cambridge Bay, Nunvaut, Canada hosted Jan-Erik Henriksen and Nina Hermansen, Professors of the Social Work Program of Finnmark University, Alta, Norway.

Six of eight Russian higher education institutions have up to now signed a cooperation agreement with social scientists at Bodø University College.

For further information, please go to: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/

Abstract submission deadline: December 20, 2010 Conference registration opens in January 2011 Website: www.iassa.org