Welcome to the Arctic Institute of North America, Canada’s first and longest-lived Arctic research institute. We are proud to have been created by an Act of Parliament in 1945 as a nonprofit, tax-exempt research and educational organization and equally proud to have been a part of the University of Calgary since 1976. We have been Permanent Non-State Observers at Arctic Council since Finland’s chairmanship 15 years ago and are privileged to contribute to the Council’s many initiatives, including most recently the 2016 Arctic Observing Summit .
In 2015 we celebrated our 70th anniversary with the unveiling of our vision for the future of the Institute— “Advancing Knowledge for a Changing North.” At AINA we work in partnership with northern and Indigenous organizations, researchers, governmental and non-governmental institutions and all others interested in Arctic issues from across Canada and around the world. Our parliamentary mandate is to advance the study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural and social sciences, the arts and humanities and to acquire, preserve and disseminate information on physical, environmental and social conditions in the North. We strive to meet that mandate through diverse multi- and interdisciplinary research activities, by providing infrastructure in support of research and education at our Kluane Lake Research Station in Yukon, and through our data and publication services, including the respected interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed research journal Arctic, which we have published continuously since 1948.
The Arctic Institute is a unique institution within Canada, and I am honoured to serve as Executive Director. We are excited about the coming years even as the challenges faced in Canada’s North and around the circum-Arctic are great, but they are not insurmountable. We look forward to collaboratively building the knowledge needed for a changing Arctic and a changing planet.
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Events
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Jan 21 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmMark Serreze, Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center will discuss Farewell to the Arctic of Old.We are pleased to announce we have... Read More
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Dec 17 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmTricia Stadnyk, a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Hydrologic Modelling and an Associate Professor with the Department of Geography at the University of... Read More
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Nov 19 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmJennifer Provencher, Research Scientist in the Ecotoxicology and Wildlife Health Division of the Science and Technology Branch of Environment and Climate... Read More
AINA News
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Jun 2 2020 - 1:27pmIn 2019 Bird Industrial established the Scott Ferguson Memorial Scholarship in the memory of our colleague and friend Scott Ferguson. This scholarship,... Read more
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Feb 3 2020 - 9:34amThe Inuvialuit Regional Corporation invites applications for the position of Research Data Specialist in Inuvik, NT. Under the guidance of the Director of... Read more
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Oct 9 2019 - 11:41amThe recordings of the Arctic on the Edge conference are now available on YouTube and below. Part 1 includes opening remarks by Dr. Marcello Tonelli and the... Read more
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Oct 2 2019 - 4:19pmVisit the Canadian Geographic website to see exclusive photos of Dr. Mike Moloney and Dr. Matthew Ayre's 2019 second expedition to the Nova Zembla wreck.
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Apr 29 2019 - 12:01pmBe aware a fraudulent website claiming to represent the journal Arctic has been set up by cybercriminals, requesting submissions to extort money from... Read more