Past Events

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](https://www.searcharcticscience.org/files/page/documents/29791/arctic_f…

Learn about our most current and exciting research through fast and informal virtual talks presented by Byrd Center PIs, Postdocs, and Grad students.

Everyone is welcome to attend via Zoom! Please follow the link above to register.

- Monday, May 18, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm (EDT)
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The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is proud to announce the much awaited 6th annual APECS International Online Conference to go live on 19 May 2020. This year’s theme, "Opening Doors: Collaboration Across Knowledge Systems" aims to encourage collaboration between early career

A virtual conference organized and hosted by the US Naval War College, the Wilson Center's Polar Institute, and the US Arctic Research Commission about the impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic. Please register to receive Zoom connection information, and updates to the program.

COVID-19 threatens

The Polar Research Board will be holding a short open session at the (virtual) Spring Board meeting. The session will include updates from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), and presentations from agency representatives. A more

The radar remote sensing discipline is going through a series of exciting changes right now. Increasingly free-and-open access to SAR data, improved sensor technologies, and a wealth of brand-new automatic processing services have been transforming the science and applications portfolio that can be

The Antarctic Sciences (ANT) and Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics (AIL) Sections in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) will be hosting virtual office hours this week to share information with the academic community regarding NSF’s current operations. These office hours will also allow the

Please register in advance for the seminars - it appears that you can't register during the seminar itself, but you have already registered you should be able to use the same link as last week. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the seminar

The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction

The Antarctic Sciences (ANT) and Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics (AIL) Sections in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) will be hosting virtual office hours this week to share information with the academic community regarding NSF’s current operations. These office hours will also allow the

The NASA Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) will convene their 6th Science Team meeting virtually. This is a great opportunity to connect with this major research effort, which has been working in Alaska and western Canada for 6 years and includes a focus on wildland fire disturbance

*Update: The 54th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), scheduled for May 24-28, 2020 in Ottawa, has been cancelled. This decision was based on the recommendations of local, provincial, and federal governments and public health agencies regarding actions needed to

SIOS invites abstracts from the Svalbard science community working on applications based on Earth Observation, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation. The conference will take place online 4-5 June 2020.

Svalbard is probably the region in the Arctic with the most in situ measurements; still, there

Update: Considering the situation with the COVID-19 outbreak, the Scientific Committee has decided to postpone the Colloquium to 17-21 May 2021.

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The coastal ocean is under increasing multiple (climate and not-climate) pressures that affect its functioning and health, and

Update: Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the XVII Glaciological Symposium scheduled for 26-29 May 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia. The new dates will be 17-20 November 2020.

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The XVII Glaciological Symposium will cover a wide range of

The NSF Arctic Data Center (https://arcticdata.io) plays a critical support role in archiving and curating the data and software generated by Arctic researchers from diverse disciplines. The Arctic community, comprising natural science and social science researchers, submits data from NSF-funded

The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Climate Change Program announces a webinar that will include an introduction to the Alaskan and Yukon Rivers Project and the Native Advisory Council application process.

During the webinar, participants can learn about a National

Twenty Years of Svalbard Fieldwork: A Couple of 100 Gigatons of Ice, Lots of Surges, Two Polar Bears and One Pandemic Later

Please register in advance for the seminars. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the seminar.

The seminar will

Update: The conference will be postponed because of coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. The new dates will be published later! Thank you for you patience.

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(Im)migration in the north is not a new phenomenon, but indeed an unexplored area of research and development. The Arctic

In November 2019, the US icebreaker RV Sikuliaq headed to the north side of Alaska for a combined oceanographic and biological expedition. The biological work was performed within the ARICE-funded project GO-WEST. GO-WEST aimed to investigate the association of young polar cod (or Arctic cod