9th ACUNS International Student Conference on Northern Studies and Polar Regions

October 2 to 5, 2009
Yukon College - Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

Second Call for Abstracts

The Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies/Association universitaire canadienne d’études nordiques (ACUNS), in partnership with Yukon College in Whitehorse, is soliciting Abstracts that encompass the following areas:

The impact of sustainable development, economic activity and polar law on communities, governance and natural habitats.
The use of natural, physical and social sciences to help understand the causes and effects of the changing polar climate.
Changes to polar marine and terrestrial communities over the short and long term.
Changes in research communities and how research is undertaken in the Polar Regions.

The Communities of Change