The melting of the Greenland ice sheet has the potential to increase global sea levels by tens of centimeters during this century. The exact amount depends on the surface melting which increases with global warming, and on the calving of icebergs where huge glaciers drain the interior icesheet.

We live in Longyearbyen, Svalbard’s main settlement, located in a narrow valley with steep slopes.

The 8th IPTRN conference and community tour will take place in Arctic Sweden from 5-9 June 2024. 

Nor-Shipping conference took place from June 6-10 in Lillestrøm, Norway. UArctic President Lars Kullerud presented at the 1st Ocean Campus Conference.

Université Laval is receiving $19 million from the Government of Canada to fund the new pavilion that will bring the campus’s international studies researchers and academics together under one roof.

The Arctic REIHN tabletop exercise 1 (TTX 1) was conducted 26 April 2023 in Oslo, Norway by Norwegian Coastal Administration, The Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Nord University, Danish Emergency Management Agency, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, and Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority.

Mike Sfraga, PhD serves as chair of the US Arctic Research Commission. He is the nominee to serve as the first US Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic Region.

Several members of UArctic TN “Health and Well-being in the Arctic”, sub-group on Healthy Ageing, are about to start a new project. The Nordic Arctic Co-operation Programme, NAPA has allocated funding to the first kick-off year of the project “Arctic Healthy Aging communities: Safe and inclusive outdoor environment and public...

The webpages have now been published for the five new Thematic Networks, which were approved by the UArctic Assembly in their meeting held on 22-26 May, 2023 in Québec City, Canada. 

The Calotte Academy is an annual traveling symposium and international forum in Europe’s North Calotte region, designed to promote interdisciplinary discourse, and implement the interplay between senior and young researchers for to train and supervise early-career scientists in circumpolar Arctic studies (see, a short history...

We are seeking nominations for Arctic researchers at all career stages, as well as individuals and community leaders with knowledge, skills, and experience relevant to Arctic research planning, particularly Indigenous Knowledge Holders, to join the ICARP IV Research Priority Teams!

On the occasion of UArctic’s 20th anniversary seminar, held in Rovaniemi in September 2021, we honored the memory of Bill Heal who was one of UArctic’s Founders and the person behind the original idea of UArctic. At that event we welcomed Bill’s son, Stephen, who announced the launch of a UArctic Founders’ Fund - the Heal Fund.

The results for the 2023 UArctic Project Call for Networking Activities on Arctic Research and Education are now ready, and three projects will receive funding from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science for their projects. All three are two-year projects that kick off this fall. In total 1,5 mil DKK was distribu...

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia suspended partnerships between Russian institutions and UArctic’s Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design. The focus of ASAD's initiatives has now shifted towards forming partnerships within the Canadian Arctic with the overall goal of the network to promote art, culture, and e...

University of Lapland co-hosted discussions related to Arctic research with the University of Helsinki and University of the Arctic.