Past Events

Update:

We at UArctic, together with the local host organizations in Iceland, have made the difficult decision to postpone the UArctic Congress (originally scheduled to take place in Reykjavik Oct 6-8, 2020) until May 2021 in conjunction with the Arctic Council Ministerial.

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The annual Polar CORDEX workshop in 2020 will be held online on 5-7 October (each day 2 hours 15-17 UTC).

Please register for the meeting by September 25, 2020, at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3OYnEvCZx65tlq-WbLN8-9ouz8bf…;

The invitation to the

Due to the ongoing Pandemic an in-person conference as planned for Santiago (Chile) is impossible this year but in order to keep our AR community vibrant and united we decided to conduct a virtual Symposium in the original dates (October 2020). The structure of the event will be decided once we see

The Polar Institute and the Arctic Domain Awareness Center are pleased to announce the creation of a new series of programs entitled Arctic Security Dialogues. The Dialogues will address a broad spectrum of security issues to include, but not limited to national security, homeland security, and the

In an effort to ensure the health and safety of our community, we want to let you all know that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshop will not be an in-person meeting this fall. Instead, we are planning to have community-oriented discussions on 6-7 October 2020 focused on addressing racial

Arctic Frontiers 2021 goes digital!

The COVID-19 crisis continues to change the world, including the Arctic. What the effects will be remains unclear. In these uncertain times, one thing we know for sure is that Arctic Frontiers 2021 will be different. While we believe now more than ever in

Unfortunately, due to the recent developments in the COVID pandemic in Latin America and especially in Chile, the 2020 local committee in consultation with the National committee has decided to postpone the 3rd Annual Chilean Cryosphere Society Meeting (SOCHICRI) to March 2021. The specific

Although the physical meeting of the International Glaciological Society British Branch is cancelled, there will be a virtual meeting organised by the IGS British Branch and the IGS EGG from 7–9 October 2020.

We are planning 3 half days. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Abstracts

Explore how we can learn from past human-environment relationships through the archeology of migration to inform climate policy today.

From the hunter-gatherer populations who traversed across Siberia and into Beringia during the Late Pleistocene period to the 21st century Sami reindeer herders

International Glaciological Society Global Seminar #23:

Fiamma Straneo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego: "Ahoy Captain Is That a Glacier up Ahead? Lessons Learned From Working at Greenland's Marine Margins".

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The second Arctic Resilience Forum will be held online as a series of ten weekly webinars launching on October 7, 2020. Each session touches on a specific aspect of Arctic resilience, ranging from food security and Indigenous youth leadership, to gender, energy and connectivity. The forum seeks to

The Byrd Center's 2020 Climate Symposium will kick off with a keynote lecture by speaker Richard Alley, Falling dominoes? Ice, climate, sea level and our future, virtually via Zoom.

Sea level is rising because of human-caused warming, impacting coastal communities. Shrinkage of the ice sheets

Throughout October, IARPC Collaborations will be holding a "MOSAiC Month" focused on the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, MOSAiC is the first year-round expedition into the central Arctic exploring the

Due to COVID-19, it has been decided to postpone #ArcticCircle2020. The 2021 Assembly is scheduled for October 14-17.

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The annual Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from 60 countries. It is

The Byrd Center's 2020 Climate Symposium was developed with input from last year’s participants, the intent of this year’s symposium is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration on climate change research at OSU.

Discussion and planning are facilitated through the use of Breakout Groups in two

YOUMARES 11 and Covid-19:

*This year, YOUMARES embraces technology with a hybrid conference. A small physical event will be complimented by an online interactive streaming of the sessions. We ensure all our participants that the physical conference will take place with compliance to health and

We invite you to join us virtually to share results, discuss new ideas, and to build collaborations with fellow glaciologists from the northwest and around the world.

As always, the meeting will be informal with an emphasis on highlighting the work of students and early career scientists. We

International Glaciological Society Global Seminar #24:

Speaking: Ellyn Enderlin, Boise State University: "Exploring Controls on Glacier Dynamics: What Remotely-Sensed Iceberg Calving, Submarine Melting, and Frontal Ablation Datasets Tell Us About Ocean Forcing".

Please register in advance

The second Arctic Resilience Forum will be held online as a series of ten weekly webinars launching on October 7, 2020. Each session touches on a specific aspect of Arctic resilience, ranging from food security and Indigenous youth leadership, to gender, energy and connectivity. The forum seeks to