Organizers of Session CR9.1, "Sea Ice and Sea Ice-Climate Interactions," announce a call for abstracts. The year 2008 was another very low sea ice year in the Arctic. Some climate models now predict that summer arctic sea ice might altogether disappear in about 30 or 40 years. While the effects of a shrinking sea ice cover on...

The dates for the 17th Inuit Studies Conference, which will be held at the UQAT First Peoples Pavilion on the Val-d'Or campus in Quebec, Canada, have been changed. The event is now scheduled for 28-30 October 2010.

Following the tradition established by Stanford University and SRI International, the 6th Annual Polar Technology Conference will be hosted by UNAVCO from 25-26 March 2010 in Boulder, Colorado.

The Government of Canada has announced that the International Polar Year (IPY) "From Knowledge to Action" Conference will be hosted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 22-27 April 2012.

Extended deadline, oral presentation abstracts: Monday, 11 January 2010 Deadline, poster presentation abstracts: Monday, 1 February 2010

The UArctic project, Arctic Virtual Tools, has received continued funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers Arctic Co-Opeation Program, which is administered by Nordregio. The project is coordinated by the Thule Institute, University of Oulu and counts Arctic Portal (University of Akureyri), University of Lapland, and the...

Thomas Pollmann is an Artic Studies Program (ASP) student from Giessen, Hesse, Germany. After finishing up his intermediate exam with a focus on Spatial Planning, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Hydro Geography at University Giessen he thought it would be an interesting experience to enroll into the ASP pro...