Wildlife Conservation Society Canada’s W. Garfield Weston Foundation Fellowships

Friday January 13th, 2012 | admin

With generous support from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS Canada) is pleased to offer research fellowships in the field of applied conservation science to established or new graduate?level students working at our two long?term sites where WCS is pursuing various science?based conservation efforts. These fellowships are intended to provide all or partial funding of graduate level field research?related activities for students to carry out their thesis?related research and are not intended for salaries. The research undertaken by these students will be relevant to WCS Canada’s conservation objectives at our two long?term sites in the boreal region of northern Ontario and the northern boreal mountains of Yukon and British Columbia.

Please circulate the attached announcement to your list for students who may be able to take advantage of this opportunity.

WCS Canada Fellowship_Posting_Dec2011

The application deadline is February 21, 2012 and it is also posted on our website: (www.wcscanada.org)

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The W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellowship in Northern Research

Monday November 28th, 2011 | admin

The Guidelines and Application Form for The W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellowship in Northern Research are now available. The deadline for this competition is January 31, 2012. Please refer to the guidelines for more information, or contact the ACUNS office.

Guidelines and Application Form

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Call for Papers: Gateways North: Expansion, Convergence and Change – The Pas, Manitoba, May 3, 2012.

Monday November 14th, 2011 | admin

CALL FOR PAPERS

GATEWAYS NORTH: EXPANSION, CONVERGENCE AND CHANGE
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE NORTH
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
THE PAS, MANITOBA

The University College of the North invites presentation proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium of the Humanities and Sciences: Gateways North: Expansion, Convergence and Change to be held in The Pas, Manitoba, on May 3, 2012.

For more information please click here.

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Employment Opportunity at Canadian Polar Commission

Thursday November 10th, 2011 | admin

The Canadian Polar Commission is seeking a new Executive Director to lead the Commission’s growth as a national polar knowledge centre to help advance Canadian engagement, knowledge, leadership and authority on Arctic and Antarctic issues.
For more information, see the job description: http://www.polarcom.gc.ca/index.php?page=cpc-executive-director

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ACUNS 2012 Student Conference – Call for Abstracts

Friday October 28th, 2011 | admin

The organizing committee of the 10th National Student Conference for Northern Studies of the ACUNS has released the first call for papers for the student conference to be held from November 1 to 3, 2012 in Val-d’Or , Quebec, Canada. We encourage students who are conducting Northern Studies to submit the abstract (paper) for this conference, which has the theme “Nikan*: The Future of The North”.

 Call for Abstracts 2012

For further information about the conference, please visit our Website at: http://www.uqat.ca/sce2012/.
Please note that the abstract should be sent by email at sce2012@uqat.ca before March 2 , 2012.

*Nikan means “the future, to go forward ” in the Anicinape (Algonquin) language. It was included in the conference title because we want to emphasize that the conference will be held on Anicinape territory and that aboriginal, social, and cultural issues will have a prominent place.
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