Past Events

In a 30-minute presentation followed by a Q & A and discussion, Dr. Brandon Boylan (Dept of Political Science, UAF) and Dustin Elsberry (Research Assistant, CAPS, UAF) discuss their recent jointly-authored CAPS report on maritime traffic increases in the Arctic, and the implications for international cooperation and security.

The 3rd IPICS Open Science Conference will take place 18-23 October 2020 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Ice cores provide information about past climate and environmental conditions as well as direct records of the composition of the atmosphere on timescales from decades to hundreds of millennia. With the pioneering work of Hans Oeschger of University of Bern on carbon dioxide in polar ice cores, a long tradition of ice core research in Switzerland began. Less known is that Hans Oeschger also initiated a high-alpine drilling project on Colle Gnifetti in Switzerland in the 1970s. To acknowledge Hans Oeschger’s important contribution to these two ice core fields and to foster the link between the corresponding communities the theme of the conference is Ice Core Science at the three Poles.

Scientific Topics:

• Glacial / interglacial dynamics, interglacials, and sea level
• Holocene and last 2000 year climate forcings and variability
• Progress in proxy development and interpretation
• Ice dynamics, ice sheet instability and geophysics
• High-alpine ice cores
• Ice biology, basal ice, subglacial lakes
• Pollution records
• Advances in drilling engineering and borehole observations
• Time scales and methods for ice dating
• Rapid changes and teleconnections
• Biogeochemical Cycles in the Earth system – data and models
• New ice archives
• The Oldest Ice challenge, and the preservation of climatic signals in the deepest ice
• Open session

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: April 30, 2020
Early bird registration closes: July 1, 2020
Online registration closes: September 1, 2020

As a consequence of the ongoing events associated with the COVID-19 outbreak in Chile, we regret to inform you that the local organizing committee of the 3rd meeting of the Chilean Cryosphere Society has decided to postpone the meeting (from May 13-15). This decision is a result of recent guidelines posted by the Universidad de Concepción restricting meetings, and is taken in close coordination with the SoChiCri's organizing committee. The new date is October 7-9 2020 and we will keep the submission platform open from now throughout April. We fully understand if some of the participants decide to withdraw their participation from the meeting given this change and we ask that everyone who wants to do so, please send us an email (sochicri at gmail.com) to arrange the refund. For any other inquiry regardingvthe meeting, please email Alfonso Fernández at alfernandez at udec.cl.

This is a reminder of the 3rd Annual Chilean Cryosphere Society (SOCHICRI) meeting to be held in Concepción, Chile 7-9 October, 2020. SOCHICRI invites researchers, professionals and students from Chile and abroad to participate in the annual meeting for 2020. This will be organised by the Geography and Geophysics Departments of Concepción University in Chile.

The Chilean Cryosphere Society (SOCHICRI) is a non-profit scientific association that brings together national and international scientists and professionals who work on issues related to the cryosphere, the glacial and periglacial environment.

SOCHICRI brings together specialists from different disciplines from both the academic and private worlds who work in the study of the national, South American and Antarctic cryosphere.

SOCHICRI's objective is to maintain communication bridges between professionals and academics in the study of cryospheres; promote new studies; increase the dissemination of new knowledge and support civil society in understanding the national cryosphere.

To participate as a presenter, we invite you to send your abstract via the online form: https://forms.gle/9NLTW4kJGnDt5KM56. Your contribution can focus on any part of the cryosphere, and can include field- or theory-based studies, remote sensing, simulations, legal frameworks, impact and/or risk analyses, water resource assessments and others. Please follow the instructions on the online form to register for the conference and to signal your preferred presentation format (oral or poster).

The closing date for abstracts is 30 April, 2020.

We are pleased to announce that the 16th ICRSS will take place at the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 14-18 September 2020.

The symposium provides a platform for the exchange of current applied research and best practices, the presentation of new technology and further innovation, and the advancement of international cooperation in the circumpolar regions of the world. We look to build on the more than 100 participants and the record 50% attendance by students and early career researchers at the 15th ICRSS!

This symposium deals specifically with remote sensing applications in the polar environments, both Arctic and Antarctic. Earth’s Polar Regions feature cold-climate environments characterized by unique landscapes, biota, and processes. Many of these features and dynamics are Cryosphere-driven and either are already subject to or have the potential for fundamental and rapid changes in a warming world. Earth observation technologies provide crucial tools to understand and quantify these changes.

This symposium will be of interest to scientists, scholars, and industry and government professionals involved in studying and quantifying Arctic and Antarctic Change, renewable and non-renewable resource management, and development of new technologies and methods targeting remote sensing observations of polar environments. The symposium will provide a platform for the exchange of current applied research and best practices, the presentation of new technology and further innovation, and the advancement of international co-operation in the circumpolar regions of the world.

The theme of the 16th ICRSS is Convergence at the Poles – Addressing urgent research questions and management needs through remote sensing in the Arctic and Antarctic.

The 16th ICRSS is being hosted at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Oral presentations will take place in the Wood Center Ballroom and various conference activities will be scattered through the greater University and Fairbanks community.

Abstracts submission deadline: 01 May 2020.
Registration deadline: 01 July 2020.

The EGU is officially announcing the cancellation of the physical EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria. Because the Union is committed to minimizing the impact of COVID-19 on scientific research and collaboration, we believe EGU has a responsibility and a duty to ensure these activities continue despite the current, extreme circumstances. We have therefore decided to host EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (#shareEGU20), a week-long series of online activities held during the first week of May that support our community by fostering scientific communication.

EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online will allow abstract authors to share presentation materials and open these for live discussion as well as participate in a selection of online networking events. We are also planning additional activities that will extend into the rest of the year and will provide more information about all of these events in the coming weeks.

We would like to personally thank our members and other attendees for their patience as the Union has navigated this difficult situation. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the hundreds of volunteers around the globe who have worked so hard to shape such an exciting programme, and especially the Programme Committee for their tireless efforts to make EGU2020 as inclusive, environmentally friendly, and progressive as possible.

For answers to pressing logistical questions regarding the cancellation, please refer to the list of frequently asked questions below. We look forward to virtually meeting during the online activities of EGU2020 and welcoming you in person to Vienna from 25–30 April 2021 at the next face-to-face General Assembly!

The EGU General Assembly 2020 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna.

Update: Unfortunately the Polar Microbes Symposium has been cancelled for 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and rescheduled for May 3-6, 2021. We hope that you and your families stay safe during this uncertain time and we look forward seeing you next year.

The 2nd Symposium on Polar Microbes and Viruses will take place at Tvärminne Zoological Station, 120km southwest of Helsinki, Finland, Monday May 4 to Thursday May 7, 2020.

This symposium will bring together molecular microbial ecologists specializing in different organism groups to share our latest results and discuss methodological problems, as well as future prospects in the field, including practical international collaborations. The environmental focus will be on cryospheric environments including sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, and permafrost, but excellent research in other polar environments is also invited. The methods to be discussed will focus on ‘omics’ techniques, ranging from single cells to metagenomes, but exciting research using additional methods is encouraged as well.

Organizers: Dr. Eeva Eronen-Rasimus (University of Helsinki) and Dr. Eric Collins (University of Manitoba & University of Alaska Fairbanks).

Deadline for Abstract Submission Extended: Friday, March 29.

Registration Deadline Extended: Friday, April 10.

Please note that the deadline for applications under this solicitation is 3:59 p.m. eastern time on May 4, 2020.

NIJ actively supports research that involves federally recognized tribes (or tribally-based organizations) on issues of crime and justice in the United States. In doing so, NIJ is committed to ethical and engaged efforts in line with responsible research conduct and federal trust responsibilities. This solicitation seeks applications for funding for planning grants to develop new and innovative criminal and juvenile justice research or evaluation projects that address the challenges of fighting crime and strengthening justice in Indian country and Alaska Native villages. To ensure proposed projects result in tangible and mutually beneficial studies, they must include a new tribal-researcher partnership component.

Wind is a climate variable with major impacts on humans, ecosystems and infrastructure, especially in coastal regions with cold climates. Climate-related changes in high-wind events have important implications for high-latitude residents, yet there has heretofore been no systematic evaluation of such changes in a framework spanning historical and future timeframes.

ACCAP has recently developed a visualization tool that displays wind information for 71 coastal and inland locations around Alaska, based on hourly station reports and hourly downscaled winds from two climate models.

We will introduce the tool by showing average monthly wind speeds, wind roses, and frequencies of high-wind events in past and future decades. High-wind events determined are most frequent during winter at coastal locations. High-wind events are projected by both climate models to become less frequent in Southeast Alaska but more frequent in the northern and western Alaska coastal regions, which are precisely the regions in which the protective sea ice cover is decreasing.

We strongly encourage pre-registration for webinars. It helps speakers tailor their presentations to the audience. Follow the link above to register.

In September 2019, the German icebreaker Polarstern and the Russian research vessel Akademik Fedorov set sail into the Central Arctic sea ice. With the aim to collect data around the coupled Arctic climate system, Polarstern will drift through the Arctic for an entire year as part of the MOSAiC project. MOSAiC education and outreach activities aim to create visibility of field research and awareness for globally important topics of Arctic change. Training of early career researchers was facilitated with a field camp for graduate students - the MOSAiC School. Further, educators and teachers collected materials and data which is now shared in classrooms and in online learning tools. During this webinar you will learn about the wealth of learning resources created through participation in the MOSAiC Expedition. Ask questions of young researchers, educators and teachers on how to use or implement experiments, exercises and personal experiences in classrooms and what you can take away from an massive open online course.

Speakers are Mauro Hermann MOSAiC Ambassador (ETH Zurich), Anne Gold (CIRES, CU Boulder), Rainer Lehmann (Polar Educators Germany), Falk Ebert (Herder Gymnasium) and Friederike Krueger (Integrierte Gesamtschule Bothfeld). Moderation: Josefine Lenz (AWI & APECS).

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) continues to expand its collection of snow data, including through NASA’s recent SnowEx campaign, the AirBorne Snow Observatory (ASO) mission, and ongoing global snow cover products from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) missions. Join us to learn about these snow-focused NASA missions and products through a live stream demonstration which will show how to discover, access, and couple NSIDC DAAC snow data across various geospatial scales.

Join NSF Office of Polar Programs (OPP) Officers to discuss the NSF response to COVID-19, including impacts on awards, regulations, and the 2020 field season. This is an opportunity for open dialog with OPP and they welcome the research community to join, ask questions, and share feedback.

More information about the topics to be covered in this webinar: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/coronavirus

UPDATE:

The 6th ABoVE Science Team Meeting will be held virtually 11-13 May 2020. The Organizing Committee has been discussing a revised focused agenda that can be conducted using online collaboration tools that will allow the entire team to participate. Plan to meet virtually each day starting at 1300 EDT in two 90 minute sessions separated by a one hour break.

During these sessions over three days we will discuss results from projects, hear about progress from the Working Groups, discuss ongoing and future field work and synthesis activities, as well as other business at hand.

We will provide guidance on the specific collaboration platform for the posters by early next week. Posters will need to be uploaded by 1 May so that they can be viewed prior to the meeting.

For the time being please:

• Decide who should represent each project
• Plan to have at least one poster for each project
• Students and postdocs are encouraged to submit posters
• Cancel any hotel and flight reservations you may have made

Note that the Research to Operations: Fire & Resource Management Workshop will be postponed to a future date. We look forward to meeting with that community in person in Fairbanks, Alaska, sometime in 2021.

Who should attend?

• 1-2 Science Team Members Per Project
• ABoVE Management
• Alaska Fire Science Consortium
• Registration for both meetings is open to ABoVE science team members, participants in the AFSC fire management workshop, and invited stakeholders.

Deadlines:

• Field trip registration deadline: April 20th
• Poster submission deadline: April 20th
• Hotel Deadline for discounted rate: April 25th

Update: The 26th ISPS, scheduled on 12-13 May 2020 in Incheon, Korea, is cancelled as a proactive measure against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in Korea.

This symposium aims to bring polar scientists together to discuss their research findings and to promote international collaborative research. We cordially invite you to share your knowledge and perspectives on future outlook in polar research.

Theme:
Humanity is undergoing dramatic global climate changes and facing global issues such as extreme weather, rising sea levels, food and water shortage. ‘IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate’ has also expressed concern about rapid sea level rise and the possibility of increasing frequency of extreme sea level events in the near future.

The polar region is the place that holds the oldest climate records and shows the environmental changes earlier and clearer than any other place on earth.

During the symposium, we will highlight the findings in polar science and technology to understand the changes we are currently experiencing in the global perspective and to find the solutions to those global issues.

Abstract submission deadline is extended until February 21, 2020.

Registration will be available at the symposium website until April 24, 2020.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway is a new NSF Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) award that will create an online platform for archiving, processing, analyzing, and visualizing permafrost big imagery products for discovery and knowledge-generation. This new online scientific gateway will provide access to high resolution satellite data products and visualization tools that expand on the Gapminder Foundation, Google Earth and Fluid Earth Viewer to enable exploration of changes in permafrost across decades. Designed as a community resource, we want input across all stages of development. Join us for this interactive webinar to learn about the Permafrost Discovery Gateway and inform initial development. Which geospatial data are critical for inclusion? How will you use the resource and what functionality do you need? How can we improve on efficiencies in your data discovery and access workflow?

Please also visit our website to learn more and to join our mailing list for future updates and opportunities to contribute.

Biography:

Anna Liljedahl is an Associate Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center and PI of the Permafrost Discovery Gateway. She describes herself as a scientist that enjoys science that spans multiple disciplines and approaches, while her main "currency" is water. More specifically, how climate change is affecting the flow and storage of water in permafrost and/or glacier affected landscapes. More recent interests include cyberinfrastructure enabling of big data science as well as solutions to climate change.
Anna will be joined by a panel of investigators and leaders from the project.

Update: The Arctic Days in St. Petersburg–2020: International Scientific Cooperation in the Arctic in the Era on Climate Change planned for May 13­–14, 2020 have been postponed due to the rapidly changing situation around COVID-19 pandemic.

The Russian State Hydrometeorological University is pleased to invite you to join the Arctic Days in St. Petersburg–2020: “International Scientific Cooperation in the Arctic in the Era on Climate Change” held in St. Petersburg on May 13–14, 2020.

The Conference will bring together social and natural scientists, industry professionals, policy makers, Indigenous leaders, and other stakeholders from across the Arctic. In response to ongoing climate change, the organizing committee invites you to participate in the formation of an international interdisciplinary platform for discussing pressing issues of socio-cultural, economic development and international cooperation in the Arctic. Learning from the past and planning for the future, we are welcoming the Arctic Days participants to discuss the themes that include, but are not limited to:

• International cooperation in the Arctic
• Climate change and environmental scenarios for the Arctic
• Science and diplomacy in the Arctic
• Paleoenvironmental archaeology and Arctic evolution
• The future of the Arctic economy
• The prospects for the Arctic shipping
• Human and social capital development
• The changing role of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic
• Gender studies in the Arctic

Working languages: Russian, English.

Free Registration: Registration is now open and there are no conference fees.

Registration and abstract submission deadline are March 5, 2020.

Visa support: If you need a visa, we encourage you to register as soon as possible.

Contact email: arctic.days.st.petersburg [at] gmail.com

Participants who wish to present a paper (oral or poster) at the conference will be required to submit an abstract information:

• Presenting author first and last name, e-mail address, organization, and country.
• If applicable, co-author(s) first and last name, e-mail address, organization, and country.
• Title of your presentation or poster.
• Abstract (length limit approximately 250 words/1600 characters, including spaces). This text is used by the Program Committee to assess the potential of the presentation.

We are looking forward to hearing from you soon and hopefully seeing you in St. Petersburg!

UPDATE: The Research to Operations: Fire & Resource Management Workshop will be postponed to 10-14 May 2021. We look forward to meeting with that community in person in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The Alaska Fire Science Consortium is working with the NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) to organize a hands-on workshop on using their data and products in operational and decision-making settings. The workshop will be coordinated with the 6th ABoVE Science Team Meeting in Fairbanks, May 11-14, 2020, with the workshop starting after lunch on Thursday, May 14, and continuing all day Friday, May 15. Managers are welcome to attend the Science Team Meeting as well.

This will be a great opportunity for researchers and managers to work directly together to follow up on the progress made by the 2017 AFSC remote sensing workshop and its report and explore the use of promising research products in a management context. ABoVE has a helpful online web portal to its data products. The ABoVE domain includes most of Alaska and western Canada, and we hope that the workshop will include our Canadian colleagues.

Please let Alison York (ayork [at] alaska.edu) know if you are interested in participating, and we will share more information as we have it.

The ADAC meeting will include reflections by Admiral Karl Schultz and is expected to include: an updated Project Video (which explains the project research and application); a pdf copy of the Project Investigator's Powerpoint presentation; and, a short video of the Project Investigator discussing/presenting the associated Powerpoint viewgraphs.

Register here: https://arcticdomainawarenesscenter.org/Registration_AnnualMeeting6

SEARCH invites you to read the Arctic Futures 2050 conference report and to discuss future directions for Arctic research. You can access the online version of the full, 48-page conference report here or the 4-page executive summary here. You also can request a printed copy of the report or summary from Andrea Fisher at afisher13 [at] alaska.edu.

Two webinars—open by registration—will allow you to discuss Arctic research needs in the context of the conference report and/or your own observations and research. Those discussions will help SEARCH develop both its future programs as well as offer input to the 5-year Arctic research plan being developed by the Interagency Arctic Policy Research Committee (IARPC). More information about the IARPC research plan is here.

We hope you will join us for one of these SEARCH-hosted webinars (90 minutes):

Webinar 1: Thursday, May 14 at 9:00 am AKDT, 10:00 am PDT, 11:00 am MDT, 12:00 pm CDT, 1:00 pm EDT

Register here: https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlcuGppzMiGdSgFiBda7K9vkwbao4…

Webinar 2: Monday, May 18 at 12:00 pm AKDT, 1:00 pm PDT, 2:00 pm MDT, 3:00 pm CDT, 4:00 pm EDT

Register here:
https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldOCgqTsqHdGdcurEnKEJFeGIO4h…

The webinars are open to all (whether or not you attended the conference) and reading the conference report beforehand is optional. While you are welcome to join both webinars, the format and opportunity to offer your input will be the same for both sessions. Please contact Andrea Fisher (afisher13 [at] alaska.edu) with questions about the report or the webinars.

We look forward to hearing from you on May 14 or May 18.

The Ocean Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF/OCE) encourages proposals to conduct workshops, conferences or other training events that will support members of the ocean sciences community, including undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty at two-year and four-year institutions of higher education, to develop and disseminate training material and/or use data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) (http://oceanobservatories.org) for research purposes or for educational purposes. Such activities are typically identified as conferences in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide.

Proposals may be submitted at any time, but they should be submitted at least six months prior to the planned event. To be considered for FY2020 funding, proposals should be submitted before May 15th.

Please follow the link above for complete details.

To further scientific and technological cooperation between the United States and the European Community, the National Science Foundation and the European Research Council signed an Implementing Arrangement on October 29, 2019 to enable U.S.-based scientists and engineers with active NSF awards, particularly those early on in their careers, to pursue research collaboration with European colleagues supported through EU-funded European Research Council (ERC) grants.

Connecting researchers with complementary strengths and shared interests promotes scientific progress in solving some of the world's most vexing problems. This international research opportunity is mutually beneficial to the U.S. participants and their hosts through cooperative activities during research visits and establishing international research partnerships to enrich future research activities in the U.S. and Europe.

Under the Arrangement, the ERC Executive Agency (ERCEA) identifies ERC-funded research groups who wish to host NSF grantees for research visits of up to one year within their ERC funding.

Requests must be received at NSF at least 3 months prior to the proposed visit, but no later than May 15, 2020, for consideration using Fiscal Year 2020 funds.

Please follow the link above for complete details.