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Three travel grants available for a multi-disciplinary workshop at the 2017 Arctic Science Summit Week in Prague for early career scientists and traditional indigenous knowledge holders

2016 Stefansson Memorial Lecture will be held at Dartmouth College, USA, Thursday, November 3, 2016. Hugh Beach, Professor Emeritus of Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden calls his lecture Managing the Wilderness: Arctic Perspectives. On Friday, November 4, 2016 there will be a panel discussion: People, policy and adaptations to rapid change in the Arctic: The role of multidisciplinary research and international collaboration for sustainability.

Two PhD positions are available at Nord University in Bodö, Norway, connected with a new Nordic Center of Excellence project – CLINF.

The third Whale Congress in Húsavík will take place Tuesday 21 June 2016.

Lecture by Dr. Anne-Marie Brady, Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Monday June 20th at 14:00-15:00. Room 262, Borgir, Akureyri. Coffee and refreshments provided. Hosted by the Stefansson Arctic Institute.

The sail-off meeting of Nordic Center of Excellence Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies (ARCPATH) took place at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) during April 11 and 12, 2016.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) seeks an Executive Secretary to direct the IASC Secretariat, to guide IASC activities and to manage IASC finances. As of 1 January 2017, the IASC Secretariat will be hosted by the Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannis) at its offices in Akureyri, Iceland.

Call for abstracts for the 4th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium open until 25 February 2016 The 4th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium (CNARC) will take place in the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland from the 6th to 9th of June 2016 under the theme "The Sustainable Arctic - Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization".

Norwegian and Icelandic Institutes Lead a New Nordic Centre of Excellence for Arctic Research The Stefansson Arctic Institute, the University of Iceland, and the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network are Icelandic representatives in ´ARCPATH´ - a NordForsk-funded Nordic Centre of Excellence in Arctic Research.

New Study on Climatic Complexity  (18.12.2015)Research on the climate of the past 1000 years has tended to focus on two periods that have come to be known as the "Medieval Warm Period" or "Medieval Climatic Optimum" and the "Little Ice Age". ...