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International glaciological symposium, Winnipeg Canada 18–23 August 2019

08.05.2018

The first circular is now posted on the IGS website: https://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2019/winnipeg/winnipeg1stcirc.pdf

Arctic Science Study Programme - Climate, Environment and Society

23.04.2018
Four courses focusing on Arctic Environmental Management and Society is offered for natural and social science graduate students in Nuuk Greenland during the autumn semest

ARICE Call for ship-time proposals 2018 now open

19.04.2018
The EU funded project ARICE (Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium) offers fully funded transnational access to research icebreakers.

PhD fellowships/scholarships at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Aarhus University

17.04.2018
  • Patterns of arctic ecosystem variability and change. The position is available from 1 August 2018 or later.

EU Funding Opportunities MSCA - Individual Fellowship Call OPEN!!

17.04.2018
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Call – this funding supports individual North American researchers to conduct research at a university, research institute, or company in Europe. The MSCA IF also offer an opportunity for European researchers to conduct research in North America.

UM News: Arctic sea ice becoming a spring hazard for North Atlantic ships

20.03.2018

MARCH 19, 2018 — More Arctic sea ice is entering the North Atlantic Ocean than before, making it increasingly dangerous for ships to navigate those waters in late spring, according to new research led by the University of Manitoba.

CBC News: 'A wake-up call': Thick, High Arctic ice flowing south thanks to climate change

20.03.2018

In this July 21, 2017, file photo, broken sea ice emerges from under the hull of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through the Victoria Strait while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage.

ARICE - HEADS UP! Call for Ship-Time Proposals 2018

10.03.2018
Fully Funded Transnational Access to the Research Icebreakers CCGS Amundsen, RV Siquliak and PRV Polarstern

Four joint W3-professor positions in Marine Conservation Marine Governance Biodiversity Theory Ecosystem Informatics

09.03.2018
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Oldenburg jointly founded the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB). For the establishment of HIFMB, we invite applications for 4 joint W3-professor positions in Marine Conservation Marine Governance Biodiversity Theory Ecosystem Informatics.

Oil-eating microbes are challenged in the Arctic

07.03.2018
Bacteria play a major role in cleaning up oil spills and mitigating its environmental impacts. In a review published in ‘Science of the Total Environment’, researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, examine the major limiting factors for microbial degradation in Arctic environments.

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