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Apply now for Arctic WASH online Summer School, June 2021

Arctic WASH Online Course "Water, Sanitation and Health in the Arctic" will be organized online, June 7th-25th 2021 by UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic WASH.

Mon, Apr 12, 2021

Dr. Diane Hirshberg at Basher Trail Head in Anchorage

UAA brings UArctic to the spotlight

Newly appointed Vice-President Academic of the University of the Arctic, Dr. Diane Hirshberg is honoured by the University of Alaska Anchorage through an enl...

Mon, Mar 29, 2021

Winners of the 2021 photo competition awarded

The University of the Arctic (UArctic) and its Arctic Sustainable Art and Design Thematic Network (ASAD) are pleased to announce the winners of its first ann...

Thu, Mar 25, 2021

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Wilson Center Webinar: Realities of Life in the 49th State

Wilson Center Webinar "Realities of Life in the 49th State" will be held online on Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 4:00-5:30 pm EDT (UTC -4).

Tue, Mar 23, 2021

Northern lights over the main campus of Umeå University

Online seminar: Indigenous Health Research Ethics in the Arctic

Organized on Tuesday 9 March, 2021 at 18:00 - 19:30 (UTC +1), the seminar brings together Indigenous health research experts from across the Circumpolar Nort...

Mon, Feb 22, 2021

Webinar "Social work teaching 2021: Where do we go from here?"

The UArctic Thematic Network on Social Work is organizing a webinar entitled "Social work teaching 2021: Where do we go from here?". The webinar will take pl...

Mon, Feb 01, 2021

Shrinking sea ice in the Chukchi Sea off the NW coast of Alaska. Photo J M Welker August 2015 from the US Coast Guard icebreaker, Healy

UArctic Chair's update: Trees of the Arctic record sea-ice loss affects around the North

Declining Arctic sea ice drives divergent shrub growth around the north. The implications of shrub growth responses to sea ice-induced changes in climate are...

Mon, Jan 11, 2021

UArctic appoints new Vice-Presidents

The UArctic Board has formally approved Diane Hirshberg (University of Alaska Anchorage) as Vice-President Academic and Kirsi Latola (University of Oulu) as...

Tue, Dec 15, 2020

Figure 1. Northern Alaska with a view to the Brooks Range looking south across the tussock tundra landscapes in the foreground. These tussock tundra systems are becoming snowier and subsequently becoming dominated by shrubs that are leading to greater above and belowground biomass that is being sequester at much higher rates, creating a negative feedback to rising atmospheric CO2 levels (DeFranco et al. 2020)

UArctic Chair's update: An Arctic Crystal Ball - Long-term Experiments as a Window into the New Arctic

Professor Jeffrey Welker* and Colleagues *UArctic Research Chair, University of Oulu, Finland & University of Alaska Anchorage The Snowier, New Arctic ma...

Tue, Nov 03, 2020

This picture along the NW coast of Greenland captures the island-wide thinning and melting with basal ice (in this case ~55,000 years old) directly on top of the landscape and the gradation along the slope of the ice layers that lead to the surface of the ice sheet today. The banding, or stratigraphy is marked by major dust depositional periods (surrogates for global drought & warm periods) that are validated by independent water isotope (δ18O, δ2H, and d-excess) measurements (Welker’s lab)

UArctic Chair Jeff Welker co-authored research on the cover of Journal of Glaciology

The UArctic Research Chair, Professor Jeff Welker, University of Oulu, Finland and University of Alaska Anchorage, has co-authored a new set of discoveries r...

Mon, Aug 31, 2020

Climate striker in Iqaluit in September 2019

Highlights from UArctic Shared Voices 2020: policies, personal commitments, and current affairs

How does climate action look like in politics and leadership? What are current national priorities in the Arctic? What can we learn from COVID-19 to improve...

Wed, Aug 19, 2020

University of Alaska Anchorage in winter

UArctic welcomes Cathy Sandeen as new Vice-President Academic

University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor Dr. Cathy Sandeen has been named as UArctic's new Vice-President Academic, providing strategic leadership for all o...

Tue, Jun 16, 2020

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