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Call for interns at UArctic for fall 2021

UArctic is searching for motivated and enthusiastic interns for the fall 2021 who are interested in Arctic matters and willing to acquire knowledge of the No...

Thu, Mar 25, 2021

UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Telecommunications and Networking, member publication

A paper entitled “Telecommunication line infrastructure and the Arctic environment: past, present and future”, has just been published in the peer-reviewed,...

Mon, Mar 15, 2021

Increased, intensified and insightful collaboration among the universities

The Interreg Nord project "Academic (un)employment and mobility in the Arctic North – A Joint Socially Responsible Approach" was finished with concrete cross...

Tue, Mar 02, 2021

Invitation to submit to the Special Issue "Advances in Climate Change and Arctic Health"

For your information, kindly consider to submit your manuscript to the Special Issue Advances in Climate Change and Arctic Health. The issue will belong to t...

Mon, Feb 22, 2021

Scotland’s Role and Contribution in a Changing Arctic Environment – a new Research Network Series

The Network Event Series is being organised by the Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University in partnership with the University of Highland...

Thu, Feb 18, 2021

Invitation to online survey on European Polar Research

EU-PolarNet 2 invites European Polar research projects to take part to online survey on on-going and planned stakeholder and rightholder engagement in Europe...

Wed, Feb 03, 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

First kick-off meeting online. Credit: Anastasia Emelyanova

The new project on best practices in healthy ageing: Successful kick-off

The University of Oulu coordinated networking project “Indigenous and non-indigenous residents of the Nordic-Russian region: Best practices for equity in hea...

Mon, Nov 09, 2020

Participate in the 5G Technical Webinar arranged by the project Arctic 5G Test Network

The 5G Technical Webinar will take place on November 11, 2020 at 13-15 (Swedish time) or 14-16 (Finnish time). The 5G Technical Webinar will be conducted onl...

Fri, Nov 06, 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

Arctic Law Ships At The Roadstead Off Longyearbyen Svalbard

New project funding to the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law

The UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law, in cooperation with the Northern Institute for Environment and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre, has init...

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

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