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The Icelandic Meteorological Office, the WMO Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) and the International Glaciological Society (IGS) will, in cooperation with several international scientific organizations and research institutes, including the Stefansson Arctic Institute, host a symposium on the Earth’s Cryosphere in Reykjavík, Iceland, 21–24 September, 2020. Registration is open. See...

The new Nansen Professor, Gunnar Rekvig, will give his inaugural lecture at the University of Akureyri on Thursday, 28 November 2019 at 12:00 to 13:00 in M102. Click on heading for more info.

Travel support for attending the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in Akureyri, Iceland, 27 March - 2 April 2020 is currently available. Application dead-line is 12 December 2019. Late applications will not be considered. No exceptions will be made. Click on headline for more.

The University of Akureyri is accepting applications for the Nansen visiting professorship based on a cooperation between the governments of Iceland and Norway. The Nansen Professorship in Arctic Studies at the University of Akureyri is a tribute to the famous Norwegian polar scientist and humanist Fridtjof Nansen and is awarded for an academic year, with the possibility of an extension up to ...

Open Seminar: Friday 5 April 2019, from 13:00 to 16:00 at the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Climate science shows how the dynamics of the „cryosphere“ – the world´s snow and icecovered regions – are evidence for the urgency of keeping global warming within 1.5°C this century. High ambition for emissions reductions are key to preventing ever-growing global impacts from climate change. This is because later timing of ...

2018 Stefansson Memorial Lecture will be held at the University of Washington, Seattle, December 5, 2018 (CMU 120, 15.30-17.00). Professor Leslie King at Royal Roads University in Canada presents the lecture. Title: Learning from Northern Peoples. The lecture is open to the public. The Stefansson Arctic Institute and the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College , supported by the Evelyn Nef Stefansson Endowment, sponsor the annual lecture. The lecture is commemoration of the explorer and anthropologist Vilhjálmur Stefansson - his life, work and vision for the Arctic.

In September of 1871, 32 whaling ships were caught in the ice along the shore of the Arctic Ocean in Alaska. More than 1200 people were stranded. The raging winds and grinding ice surrounding them made survival only a remote possibility. An event of historical significance, leading to the end of Yankee Whaling in the early 20th Century. More...

Seminar and Roundtable discussion, Nordic House, Reykjavík, 14:00 – 16:45. Open to the public. Date: 15 May 2018 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 More...

The University Centre of the Westfjords is searching for an energetic individual to fill the demanding role of director of the new master’s program in Coastal Communities and Regional Development. The University Centre of the Westfjords is home to an international, multidisciplinary master’s program in Coastal and Marine Management, with around 40-50 active master’s students each year, and ...

University of Cambridge is looking for four three-year Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) to work on the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant project (2017-22), ARCTIC CULT, Arctic Cultures: Sites of ...