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Understanding the challenges to food security in the rapidly changing Arctic and ensuring safe and consistent availability, access, and usage of food resources for indigenous communities is critical for sustaining livelihoods, promoting health and well-being, and helping to preserve cultures

Organizers of the Energy Law Conference announce a call for papers. The theme of the meeting is "The legal issues associated with the development and use of energy resources in the Arctic." It will be held 25-26 September 2014 in Tromso, Norway.

Papers addressing the conference theme, broadly

The Integrated Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Project will convene an Open Science Conference from 23-27 June 2014 in Bergen, Norway, with the aims:

* to highlight IMBER research results;
* to promote integrated syntheses of IMBER-relevant research;
* to develop a new

Under the overarching theme “Arctic in the Anthropocene” (http://potsdam-summer-school.org/), this two-week (10 working days) interdisciplinary and interactive event running from 23 June to 4 July 2014 will be the first in a series of Potsdam Summer Schools to be held annually. The goal is to bring

Further details of the meeting, venue and accommodation, including instructions for on-line registration will follow in due course.

As always, we welcome presentations on all aspects of ice shelf research, including, but not limited to:

* formation, flow and disintegration of ice shelves and

We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2014 Juneau Icefield Research Program.

JIRP is an experience-based educational and research program that takes senior high school, undergraduate, and graduate-level students on an 8-week, self-powered expedition from

IARPC Collaboration Teams meet on a regular basis to implement the Arctic Research Plan: FY 2013-2017. Most meetings are open to the Arctic research community. Collaboration teams facilitate communication and collaboration between Federal agencies, the academic community, industry, non-governmental

Join assistant curator Dawn Biddison for a curator’s tour of the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center. Gain a better understanding of Alaska’s nine Indigenous cultures through 600 Alaska Native artifacts. Learn about traditional lifeways in Alaska’s diverse regions through clothing, tools, ceremonial

The University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Permafrost offers an International Bachelor Permafrost Summer Field School in Svalbard, 19 June to 11 July 2014. We welcome senior bachelor students, who are interested in obtaining an overall knowledge about permafrost. The course will offer insights

The period of global cooling commonly referred to as the 'Little Ice Age' (LIA) covered the period ca AD 1200-1900 and had a significant impact on landscapes in terms of glacial/periglacial processes, land use change, the redistribution of blown sand, etc. In the North Atlantic/European region