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Indigenous Week 2023 will take place from February 27 to March 3, 2023 on campus of Nipissing University.

Taking place on 27-28 March 2023, Ocean Hackathon will allow participants to live-test EMODnet’s data resources and services in the marine domain and to create and share innovative ideas for the development of useful ocean-related applications.

The Arctic Circle Secretariat is accepting Proposals for Sessions at the 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly, to be held on 19-22 October 2023 in Reykjavík, Iceland. The submission deadline is May 1st.

The session “Occupational health and safety in the Arctic” of the UArctic Thematic Network on Working in the Arctic will be held on January 30 at the Arctic Frontiers 2023 Moving North Conference, in Tromsø, Norway.

Hans Pettersson, the vice-lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Working in the Arctic, was appointed as a Arctic Five Chair In Occupation Medicine. The research questions of his project cover the impact of climate and weather on outdoor workers’ performance, health, and safety, including mitigative and adaptive strategies.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will host free public talks about tracking space debris, fostering education using the outdoors, new techniques for understanding aurora, the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, and climate change and its effects on Alaska’s wildlife. 

This is an opportunity for youth interested in environmental monitoring and technology to support safe travel in their community by participating in SmartICE sea-ice monitoring operations.

Governor General of Canada Mary Simon will make a state visit to Finland from 6 to 10 February 2023.

The PEEX Arctic-Boreal Hub Newsletter issue #23 is available.

A new article on "Permafrost Thaw and Adapting to its Multiple Effects in the Arctic" by Meinander et al. is published online in the Arctic Yearbook 2022. 

Call for nominations for the Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial Award to a creative scientist who has made breakthroughs in “Boundary layer studies in Atmospheric and Ocean sciences” is open from 1st December 2022 to 28th February 2023.

Last week, the Center of Arctic Policy Studies at the University of Alaska announced the release of a new research publication “Alaska’s Changing Arctic: Energy Issues and Trends.”

The University of the Faroe Islands is pleased to announce that the 16th Polar law Symposium will be held in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, between the 26th and 28th of October 2023, organized by the Kári á Rógvi Institute for Law and Legal Research.

The Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change (GIYSCC) is being convened by, for and among Indigenous youth (in contrast to Elders), who will participate in designing the agenda and invite the participants from three 8-hour time zones, in a 24-hour period, on 9th August 2023 (United Nations International Day of the Wor...