The Winter 2026 Arctic Task Force brought Jackson School students together to examine Arctic geopolitics, environmental change, and Indigenous rights amid shifting regional leadership in the Arctic Council. Through collaborative research and engagement with expert evaluators, students developed policy recommendations centered on Indigenous knowledge, self-determination, and international cooperation. Michelle Koutnik, shares her experience as the

UW Libraries has updated the Arctic and Northern Studies Guide to become one of the most comprehensive databases on the Arctic in the country. Several years ago, UW librarians Siôn Romaine, Canadian Studies librarian, Maureen Nolan, Fisheries-Oceanography librarian, and Dan Mandeville, Nordic Studies and Linguistics librarian, built UW’s first Arctic and Northern Studies Research Guide,

This winter quarter, nine Jackson School undergraduate students traveled to Ottawa for a week to learn about Canada and changing sea ice. The students were part of the 2020 Task Force program. In the course, students looked at the impact of climate change on Arctic sea ice and engaged in a simulated exercise to draft