Past Events

On behalf of USNORTHCOM and the Command’s “The Watch Magazine (https://thewatch-magazine.com/), United States European Command (USEUCOM), United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), and the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN - https://www.naadsn.ca/), we would like to invite you to our July 2021 Arctic Academic eTalks distinguished speaker presentation on "Geopolitics and Military Diplomacy in the Arctic" with Dr. Andrea Charron and Dr. Joshua Tallis on Wednesday July 14th, 2021 at 0900 AK/ 1100 MT/ 1300 EST/ 1900 CET.

Please register at the following link:

https://alaska.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wz2O7flGRC2T0x2wejbaYw

The Arctic Academic eTalks is an academically-focused, bimonthly forum for open discussion (non-attribution) on key issues affecting the Circumpolar Arctic for scholars and practitioners from Canada, Finland, Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands), Norway, Sweden, and the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and Germany.

Dr. Charron and Dr. Tallis will provide 15 minute presentations each which will be followed by a moderated 60-minute Q&A session (non-attribution). Of note, presentations are posted for later viewing on the event website (https://www.naadsn.ca/arctic-academic-etalks/) but the Q&A discussions are not – these are very interesting, insightful and are not to be missed!

Our Arctic eTalks partners include:

• Center for Arctic Security and Resilience - University of Alaska Fairbanks (https://www.uaf.edu/casr/)
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory - United Kingdom (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-science-and-technol…)
• George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (https://www.marshallcenter.org/en)
• Joint Task Force North - Canadian Armed Forces (https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/operation…)
• Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom (UK MOD - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence)
• NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (StratCom - https://www.stratcomcoe.org/)
• Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS - https://www.forsvaret.no/en)
• Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI - https://www.nupi.no/en)
• Royal Danish Defence College (https://fak.dk/en/)
• United States Coast Guard - Arctic (https://www.uscg.mil/arctic/)
• William J. Perry Center, National Defense University (https://www.ndu.edu/)

We look forward to your participation. Thank you for your support!

Dr. Shannon Nash and Dr. Ben Gochman

Shannon Nash, PhD (she/her)
Director of Operations
North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network
shannonnash [at] trentu.ca
naadsn.ca

Dr. Benjamin P. Gochman, DAFC
Chief, Engagements
Arctic, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean
Directorate of Operations (N&NC/J39)
HQ NORAD - USNORTHCOM/J3
250 Vandenberg, Suite B 016
Peterson AFB, CO 80914-3808
COMM: (719) 554-1663

We’re happy to announce this year’s joint PALSEA-SERCE meeting scheduled for September 13-15, 2021, which will be an online and in-person hybrid meeting: participants can attend via Zoom or in-person at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (New York).

This meeting will focus on developing a better understanding of the physical processes that drive ice sheet collapse and solid earth deformation. These processes are highly uncertain due to a lack of observational constraints, yet they are the dominant drivers for local sea level change. Overcoming this uncertainty requires drawing from observations and expertise from a variety of fields complementary to PALSEA (Paleo Constraints on Sea Level Rise) and SERCE (Solid Earth Response and Influence on Cryospheric Evolution) including rheology, hydrology, glaciology, and geodesy. In this meeting, we aim to bring empiricists and modelers from the sea level and ice sheet communities together in order to unify solid Earth deformation and ice sheet evolution across time and spatial scales. Pairing our improved understanding of physical processes with enhanced paleo datasets will allow us to narrow in on ice sheet contributions to past and future sea level rise.

Abstract submission is now open. Submissions and registration are due on July 15th. Abstract selection and a full agenda will be announced on August 1st to allow sufficient time to plan travel for those who plan to do so.

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 Center’s forecast for August and early fall season. Join the gathering online to learn more about Alaska climate and weather.

Please follow the link above to register.

The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS), the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), and the International Association of the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) are pleased to announce a week of online seminars, 19-23 July 2021. Registration is FREE at the link above. Details of the programme can be found here.

The programme of invited speakers includes Early Career Scientist award recipients. From IACS, we are delighted to present our 2021 awardees David Bigelow and Giulia Mazzotti. The IACS Early Career Scientist award is a cash prize of €1000 awarded every two years to two early career scientists who have published the best scientific papers on a cryospheric subject as assessed by an ad-hoc evaluation committee.

One of the most conspicuous signals of climate change in high-latitude tundra is the expansion of thermokarst pools above melting ice wedges. Beyond expressing permafrost degradation, this process exerts strong feedbacks on subsequent thaw rates through a series of positive and negative feedbacks which play out over timespans of decades. In this study, we assessed circumpolar thermokarst pool expansion from 2008-present at twenty-seven survey areas dispersed throughout the Arctic. Our workflow, based on convolutional neural networks and executed on a single GPU, segmented thermokarst pools from submeter-resolution panchromatic imagery from the WorldView satellites. The results revealed that recent circumpolar pool expansion has been uneven but widespread, including in very cold settings. Among other findings, the observations indicate that topography plays a significant role in determining ice wedge vulnerability to climate change, as pool expansion was often concentrated in convex regions within upland landscapes.

Register today for the PolarConnect event with PolarTREC teacher Mark Goldner! Learn all about what is happening with a retreating glacier in Svalbard, Norway. This event will focus on the National Geographic supported expedition with the team working with Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette. Teacher Mark Goldner will share what they are learning about the changing glacier and fjord. Learn more about the science at their expedition page.

The US Department of the Air Force released its first Arctic Strategy on July 21, 2020. Signed by the Secretary of the Air Force, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and Chief of Staff of the Space Force, the Strategy noted that the “Arctic is among the most strategically significant regions of the world today.” Four lines of effort were included:

• Vigilance in all domains
• Projecting power through a combat-credible force
• Cooperation with allies and partners
• Preparation for Arctic operations

Over the past year, the Department of the Air Force has worked to optimize air and space capabilities throughout the Arctic region in support of Department of Defense objectives. What progress has been made? Which obstacles and opportunities have arisen?

Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute for a facilitated round table discussion with distinguished Department of the Air Force leaders to explore paths forward in implementation of the Arctic Strategy.

Speakers

Kelli L. Seybolt
Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, International Affairs

Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote
Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy, Integration and Requirements, Headquarters U.S. Air Force

Lt. Gen. William J. Liquori
Deputy Chief of Space Operations, Strategy, Plans, Programs, Requirements, and Analysis, United States Space Force

Moderator

Michael Sfraga
Director, Polar Institute // Director, Global Risk and Resilience Program

NOAA/NESDIS is moving to an enterprise suite of algorithms for all of its remote sensing products. This seminar will describe the NOAA Enterprise Cloud Products which are the operational suite for the JPSS/VIIRS sensors and are soon the operational suite for the GOES-R/ABI sensors. These products are available operationally and from software packages such as the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP). These products are currently being used in aviation applications over Alaska. In addition to the move to Enterprise Algorithms, NESDIS is also planning the next series of GOES satellites (GeoXO) for the 2030’s. With high spatial resolutions, GOES data are becoming more and more relevant to Alaska. This seminar will provide the current plans for GeoXO and how to become involved in the process.

A hybrid 2021 WAIS Workshop is scheduled for September 20-23, 2021 at The Algonkian in Sterling, Virginia with an option to participate virtually. The meeting, sponsored by NSF and NASA, hosts transdisciplinary and societally relevant science focused on marine ice-sheet and adjacent Earth systems, with particular emphasis on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The meeting will follow a similar format as past meetings with each topical session followed by panel discussions. As we have done in recent years, the meeting will include a community health session as well as an optional mentoring program for early-career scientists. Prior to the start of the workshop on the evening of September 20, all interested attendees are welcome to participate in an icebreaker dinner and Steering Committee meeting to discuss the future of WAIS Workshops and relevant community issues.

Session themes for our 2021 workshop will include focuses on novel process investigations, big picture integrative science, marine ice sheet sensitivity, innovative data or model applications, and civic engagement.

The deadline for abstract submission is July 30, and the deadline to register for the workshop is August 23.

Thanks to our NSF and NASA sponsors, we have funds to support early-career scientists to attend WAIS Workshop 2021 in person; applications for early-career support will also close July 30.

Please follow the link above for more information.

UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Academia Borealis - The Academy of Sciences and Letters of Northern Norway, and Tromsø Research Foundation welcome nominations for The International Mohn Prize for Outstanding Research Related to the Arctic (The Mohn Prize).

The Mohn Prize, which carries a cash award of 2 million NOK (approximately 195 000 €), is awarded biennially.

The prize is awarded to an individual or to a research group who has published excellent research related to the Arctic, who holds a leading position internationally in his/her/their field of research, and who has brought to light groundbreaking new knowledge related to nature and/or culture in the Arctic.

Nominees for the prize will be evaluated by an international scientific committee.

The recipient of the Mohn Prize will be announced in October 2021, and the award ceremony will take place in Tromsø in early 2022.

We hereby invite you (or your society or institution) to nominate candidates for the Mohn Prize 2022.

Nominations should be submitted using the nomination form available at the link above.

The deadline for nominations is the 31st of July 2021.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) invites abstract submissions for their Fall Meeting 2021 (AGU21). The theme of AGU21 is “Science and Society.” This meeting will take place in-person in New Orleans, Louisiana and will also be available for virtual attendance.

Abstracts should focus on new scientific results, enabling Earth and space science or its application, and/or the contribution of Earth and space science to society. Most sessions at AGU21 will be held as discussion sessions with short summary presentations and discussions. Authors in oral sessions will be asked to record a longer presentation. Poster authors will be asked to make a PDF or dynamic version of their poster available. Authors will be able to present in-person or online.

View the sessions before submitting an abstract.

Abstract submission deadline: 4 August 2021.

The CLEO (Climate Leadership Engagement Opportunities) Institute is holding their annual workshop on Climate Across the Curriculum. Their 2021 professional development Climate Across the Curriculum workshop for teachers is now open for registration, with new resources for elementary educators. Climate-Ready Classrooms will help K-12 teachers understand climate change, its impacts, and solutions to be able to incorporate climate into their curriculum. Attendees will receive a short climate overview presentation, including the latest data covering common areas of miscommunication. A series of lightning talks will highlight strategies and resources for teachers, as well as the intersection of climate issues, equity, and justice.

Please follow the link above for more information and to register.

We have taken the decision to move the IGS British Branch Meeting, due to be held in-person at the University of Liverpool, to online only. Needless to say, this is not a decision we wanted to make. The UK COVID situation is continuing to deteriorate such that we felt that to hold the meeting in-person posed an unacceptable level of risk.

Registration is now FREE and will be over three half-days, 6th-8th September, with a mix of oral presentations, poster flash talks and sessions, and social events. To register for the online meeting please just fill out [this short form](https://forms.gle/4oqni72cCriUQiAa6 by Friday 6th August).

We invite abstracts for oral or poster presentations on any aspect of snow, ice, or frozen ground in the past, present or future. We plan for two days of conference activities.

Abstract submission deadline is also extended to Friday 6th August and can still be submitted as before here

We will update the website and contact those who have already registered with details on refunds and switching over to an online registration asap. Your patience is really appreciated here but we will get it sorted!

The 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost will be a completely virtual meeting from October 24-29, 2021. We will use exciting virtual platforms and this type of venue will allow for international and underserved researchers and engineers to attend and present. A variety of events are planned from Young Researcher events to oral and poster presentations and unique networking opportunities.

Organizers of the 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost (RCOP) request abstract submissions by August 9, 2021.

For the first time the U.S. Permafrost Association hosted Regional Conference on Permafrost will be combined with the bi-annual International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering. RCOPs are convened by the International Permafrost Association (IPA) as part of their motto to "foster permafrost research to the ends of earth". The Conference will bring together international participants through an all virtual platform.

Session proposals address science and/or engineering topics with a focus on permafrost and cold regions. Organizers encourage equity, diversity, and inclusion in all conference aspects and seek presentations from varied teams representing as broad a perspective as possible.

Please visit the abstract submission page to learn more about sessions and the submission process.

Due to the continued uncertainties created by the pandemic, we have made the decision, like many other events in 2021, to move the IBFRA 2021 Conference to an entirely online format.

This year's conference is all virtual, so you can share your research with an international community of scientists, policy makers, managers and other stakeholders of the boreal biome, directly from anywhere. You can apply for an oral or a poster presentation to one of this year's twelve sessions.

Abstracts are due before February 1st, 2021. Earlier submissions are encouraged.

Abstracts should contribute to the conference theme: "a changing boreal biome: assessing the vulnerability and resilience of boreal ecosystems to climate change and their socio-economic implications". A list of sessions have been developed by the Conference Committee members and external contributors. Sessions are covering topics such as the effect of climate and disturbances on ecosystem vulnerability to change, and the consequences of these changes on ecosystem services, from carbon sequestration, to wood production and management, to permafrost and hydrology and to people subsistence and economy. Depending on the abstracts we receive, adjustments may be made to the current list of sessions.

ARCUS invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Jens Terhaars of the University of Bern. Jens Terhaars’ presentation, titled “Stressors of Arctic Ocean Ecosystems: Improved Understanding of Primary Production and Ocean Acidification” will be held via Zoom.

Registration is required for this event.

Abstract

The Arctic Ocean is changing faster than any other ocean region in the world. Uptake of anthropogenic carbon, amplified warming, sea ice reduction, coastal erosion, and enhanced riverine runoff are driving important changes in the Arctic Ocean ecosystems through changes in primary production and ocean acidification. However, the current understanding of primary production and ocean acidification in the Arctic remains highly uncertain. Furthermore, projections of both processes by Earth-System Models diverge strongly in this region.

During this webinar, Dr. Terhaar will present: (1) a modelling study that quantifies the impact of terrigenous nutrients from rivers and coastal erosions on Arctic Ocean primary production, a process that was (wrongly?) neglected so far, and (2) results from two studies on emergent constraint on ocean acidification in the Arctic Ocean that suggests that projections of Earth-System Models collectively underestimated the extent of future ocean acidification in the Arctic Ocean.

Speaker Details

Dr. Jens Terhaar is a postdoctoral fellow in the division of Climate and Environmental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern (Switzerland), and is affiliated to the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research in Bern. Dr. Terhaar is currently studying the future of the ocean carbon and heat uptake with a special focus on the Southern Ocean and is developing an adaptive approach that allows to reach the temperature goals of the Paris agreement by determining the necessary greenhouse gas reductions at every stocktake solely based on past observations and not projections. Before he started his postdoctoral work in Bern, he had a short-term postdoc contract at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (France) to develop an emergent constraint on Arctic ocean acidification. Dr. Terhaar completed his PhD at the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (France) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). During the PhD, Dr. Terhaar studied the impact of terrigenous carbon and nutrients on the Arctic Ocean. He completed a MSc. in Physics at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and a MSc. in Water, Air, Pollution and Energy at local and regional scales at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (France). During his studies, he had research internships in Woods Hole (USA), the National Oceanographic Centre Southampton (UK), and the Laboratoire d'Oceanographie et de Climatologie (France).

The vast and complex terrain of Alaska can make it difficult to forecast and assess the severity of heavy precipitation events in remote communities, especially in areas where traditional observation sensors, such as radar and ASOS, are not available. This presentation will show deterministic and ensemble model guidance for 1 to 6 day projections along with satellite data that can help to anticipate the potential for heavy precipitation. We will also show satellite products and other real-time situational awareness tools that can be used to monitor and quantify areas of excessive precipitation during an event.

Please follow the link above for more information and to register.

The GCC is an interdisciplinary conference run by graduate students, for graduate students. The organizers of GCC strive to feature a diverse representation of students and research topics to create a broader, more inclusive community for emerging leaders in climate-related fields. Historically, the GCC has been organized by graduate students associated with the University of Washington’s Program on Climate Change and the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. This year, we are excited to expand our organizing committee to include students from Boston College, Simon Fraser University, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Otago, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Oklahoma, Kansas State University, and University of California Berkeley.

We encourage students from all backgrounds and stages of their graduate careers to apply. GCC highlights climate research from a variety of disciplines from the physical, natural, and social sciences and humanities, including anthropology, atmospheric sciences, biology, communication, environmental sciences, economics, engineering, ethics, geography, geology, law, oceanography, public health, public policy, resource management, and more.

We highly encourage abstracts from students with traditionally underrepresented backgrounds.

The deadline for abstract submission and applications has been extended to August 20th. Limited funding to cover any costs incurred by attending the conference will be awarded on an as-needed basis to as many participants as possible.

Climate Week 2022 anticipates all the eminent personalities interested in participating from worldwide to this Global Conference on Climate Change, during August 22-24, 2022 at Mainhaus Stadthotel Frankfurt, Germany. It will focus on a variety of advanced research topics including Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change and Global Warming Evidences, Greenhouse Gases, Pollution, and Climate Change, Climate Hazards, GIS and Remote Sensing, Climate Change & Health, Ecology and Ecosystems, Renewable Energy, Bioenergy, Climate Solutions, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Policy, and Entrepreneurs Investment Meet.

Join us for three intensive and interesting days of discussing contemporary challenges and new advancements in climate change. We invite you to contribute and help to shape the event through submissions of your research abstracts and e-posters. Also, high-quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Climate Change and Global Warming at this Conference.

We all need to take climate action to prevent the next pandemic because Climate Change is even more destructive than Covid-19, although its effects are less visible, less concentrated, and less present in the industrialized Northern countries that have to date been hit hardest by the coronavirus. Climate change impacts are much harder to trace.

The World Conference on Climate Change and Sustainability invites scientists, researchers, candidates, and engineers from the academic, scientific, engineering and industrial sectors to participate and address the various themes and topics including climate change, earth science, biodiversity, global warming, food insecurity, renewable energy, agriculture, health consequences, and sustainability development. All the paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research depth, accuracy, and relevance with the theme of the meeting.

Learn More About Topics:

• Agricultural Sustainability and Climate Change
• Air Pollution
• Atmospheric Changes
• Weather Sciences
• Climate and Energy Policy
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Climate Change and Climatology
• Climate Change and Coastal Stressors
• Climate Change and Health

For online abstract submission and to view a detailed list of conference topics, please visit the link above.

This online event is scheduled for October 5-7, 2021.

This virtual conference, integrated with social media, will focus on sharing best practices and challenges of conducting citizen science research in the Arctic. This conference is in response to a growing community of Arctic researchers, Arctic communities, and Arctic visitors that are becoming more engaged in citizen science research. Although there are many resources regarding citizen science available online, they are not specific to the Arctic. A virtual conference will enable participants from across the Arctic to participate. A post-conference white paper, as well as archived presentations, will contribute to the overall citizen science community’s shared knowledge base, long-term goals, and a growing community of practice.

This online conference is FREE! There are no abstract or registration fees.

The conference language will be English.

Important Dates

- Abstract submission deadline has been extended to Monday, 23 August 2021, 5:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time.
- Abstract selection notifications will be emailed by Wednesday, 1 September 2021.
- General registration will open for all attendees on Monday, 16 August 2021 (the same date as the abstract submission deadline) and close on Friday, 1 October 2021.