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As climate change accelerates and the Arctic becomes more accessible than ever before, the geopolitical importance of the polar regions is growing. Arctic countries share a commitment to protecting the environment of those regions in the face of growing interest. In particular, Finland and the United States share a commitment to increasing Arctic and polar scientific cooperation, as well as a responsibility to creating awareness about the pace of climate change in the polar regions and the effects of global emissions on the Arctic environment. Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute and the Embassy of Finland for a discussion exploring how science and technology help the United Nations, Finland and the United States increase awareness about the changes occurring in the polar regions.

Moderator

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

Panelists

Ambassador Petteri Vuorimäki
Finland's Ambassador for Arctic and Antarctic Affairs & Senior Arctic Official in the Arctic Council

Dr. Petteri Taalas
Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

Timothy J. Mattimore, Jr.
President, Vaisala Inc.; Director of Legal, North America Vaisala Inc.

Evan T. Bloom
Senior Fellow, Polar Institute; Former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries and Director for Ocean and Polar Affairs, U.S. Department of State

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.

In view of the uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic we currently plan a hybrid format of the conference to facilitate participation in case of severe or uncertain conditions in parts of the world.

Natural hazards such as floods, wildfires, droughts, earthquakes, landslides, and compound events heavily affect human societies and call for better risk mitigation strategies. In the wake of changing hydro-climatological, geo-physical and socio-economic system conditions the magnitude, frequency and impacts of natural hazards might change as well. Therefore methods are needed for hazard and risk quantification accounting for transient nature of hazards and risks in response to changing natural and anthropogenic altered systems.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from natural sciences (e.g. hydrology, meteorology, geomorphology, hydraulics, environmental science, seismology, physical geography), risk research, human geography, nonlinear systems dynamics, and applied mathematics to discuss new insights and developments about impact modeling, risk assessments and risk mitigation, process understanding and the analysis of complex systems. Knowledge transfer, communication and networking will be a key issue of the conference. The conference will comprise keynote speeches and invited talks given by outstanding experts, oral presentations, poster sessions and discussions.

We will offer the following sessions:

• Session 1: Impact of land degradation, drought and wildfires on ecosystem services
• Session 2: Human contributions to climate risks
• Session 3: Floods and storms
• Session 4: Causes, impact and mitigations of earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes in an urban changing world
• Session 5: Geomorphological events
• Session 6: Analysis of complex changing systems

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 May 2021
Deadline for registration: 31 August 2021

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

The rapid pace of environmental change in the Arctic demands timely and well-informed policy responses. The Study of Environmental Arctic Change is beginning a new phase in which we are facilitating co-produced syntheses across disciplines and knowledge systems. We will make those syntheses available in formats tailored to diverse decision makers. In this webinar, we will introduce our team leaders, describe our approach, and seek participation of Indigenous, scientific, and decision-making experts.

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

NERACOOS and CIOOS Atlantic, with funding support from the U.S. Embassy in Canada, will host a three-part webinar series featuring discussions with local experts on scientific, economic, and policy issues facing coastal communities spanning the Arctic to the Northeastern seaboard of the United States. Each of the three seminars will coincide with part of the voyage of the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, which has partnered with Canada to undertake a research cruise the Northwest Passage and circumnavigation of North America. As the Healy passes through the Arctic, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia and the Gulf of Maine, experts in a variety of subjects will speak about the challenges they're encountering, and how we can come up with solutions that transcend borders.

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

In July the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued the report Call to Action for Science Education: Building Opportunity for the Future.

In the report – funded by the Carnegie Corporation – leading scientists, educators and other key stakeholders identify effective science education practices, call on federal agencies and state and local governments to make science education a core national priority, and outline clear steps policymakers can take to create a coherent K-16 science and STEM education for all students.

In this Zoom webinar, members of the committee and contributors to the study will share their perspectives on why and how we need to improve K-12 science and STEM education and speak to the core actions and recommendations for Congress and federal policymakers.

Panelists

• Heidi Schweingruber, Director, Board on Science Education, The National Academies
• Jim Short, Program Director for Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning, Carnegie Corporation
• Nancy Hopkins-Evans, Senior Director of State Partnerships, Instruction Partners, PA
• Pam Buffington, Director of Rural STEM Initiatives, Education Development Center
• James Brown, Executive Director, STEM Education Coalition (moderator)

*UPDATE: Due to the worldwide COVID19 pandemic the IPICS OSC initially planned for 2020 had to be postponed. Also in 2021 the global situation did not allow to organize a truly international ice core conference with safe participation from all regions of the globe. The IPICS SSC therefore decided to postpone by another year. The local organization committee is now proud to announce that the IPICS OSC will take place in October 2022 and is looking forward to see all of you in person in picturesque Crans Montana in the midst of the Swiss Alps.

New confirmed dates: October 2 - October 7, 2022*

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.

Important Dates:

• January 1, 2021: Submission for abstracts opens, Registration opens
• April 30, 2021: Deadline for abstract submission, Deadline for travel grant application
• June 1, 2021: Abstract confirmation, Travel award confirmation
• July 1, 2021: Early bird registration closes
• September 1, 2021: Online registration closes
• October 10, 2021: Ice Core Young Scientists (ICYS) Workshop
• October 11 - 15, 2021: IPCIS Third Open Science Conference
• October 16, 2021: Post-Conference Excursion

*Note: The 28th International Polar Conference was scheduled for 6 September to 11 September 2020 and then 28 February to 4 March 2021 in Cologne, Germany, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to ongoing restrictions it will not be possible to hold a larger conference in March 2021. Therefore, the DGP steering committee decided to further postpone the 28th International Polar Conference. We will carefully observe and assess the evolving situation. Thus, two time slots have been identified, one in October 2021 and one in March 2022.

So far, it is planned to hold the 28th International Polar Conference from 10 to 14 October 2021.*

Situated on Telegrafenberg, the Science Park „Albert Einstein“ will provide a marvellous venue for this conference. The conference will be hosted by the AWI Potsdam (Prof. Bernhard Diekmann). The colloquium of the Priority Program „Antarctic Research“ of the
German Research Foundation will be part of the conference. Detailed information will be given at the end of August/beginning of September 2020.

The German Society for Polar Research invites you to attend the 28th International Polar Conference to discuss the polar regions, climate change and consequences for the earth system and society. Contributions are welcome in the field of polar and high mountain research covering the following and related topics:

• Polar Research in a Changing Society
• Humans in the Changing Arctic
• Coole Klassen – Polarbildung in der Schule
• Atmosphere, Sea-Ice, and the Polar Ocean
• Glaciers, Ice Sheets and Sea-level Rise
• Hunting the Oldest Ice
• Tectonics and Geodynamic Processes of Polar Regions
• Stratigraphy and Evolutionary Dynamics at High Latitudes
• Facing Polar Climate Change: Insights from the Past
• Permafrost in a warming World: Impacts and Consequences
• Organisms in the face of Climate Change: Discoveries and New Approaches
• Astronomy and Astrophysics in Polar Regions
• Needs for Innovative Polar Infrastructure
• Polar Resources and Governance: Chances and Risks
• Polar Ecosystems: State, Changes and Management
• Polar Research through the Lens of an Artist

Conference language: English (special German Sessions are possible).

APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - www.apecs.is) and ARICE (Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium - www.arice-h2020.eu) invite you for a webinar on “Arctic Ocean Ventilation – Why it matters and how to measure it” on 11 October 2021 from 12:00 – 13:00 pm GMT.

The Arctic Ocean is a critical part of the global ocean and the global climate system, and we know climate change is happening faster there than anywhere else on the planet. With this in mind, the VACAO (Ventilation and Anthropogenic Carbon in the Arctic Ocean) project, funded by ARICE, set out to better quantify Arctic Ocean ventilation. With ventilation we mean the process that brings water from the surface ocean to the deep ocean, and back again. This process bring characteristics of the atmosphere to the interior ocean, such as extra heat and carbon dioxide, and eventually distribute this to the global ocean. We report on preliminary results from a very recent cruise on the IB Oden where we measured and took samples for a large range of ocean ventilation tracers.

Speakers are:

• Toste Tanhua (GEOMAR),
• Lennart Gerke (GEOMAR) and
• Yannis Arck (University Heidelberg)

Moderation:

• Franziska Pausch (ARICE, AWI & APECS)

To join the webinar, please register by following the link above.

The Sea Ice Prediction Network-Phase 2 (SIPN2) announces a call for registration for the upcoming webinar and discussion: 2021 Sea Ice Outlook Post-Season Review.

This webinar will provide a post-season review of the 2021 Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) with three 10-minute presentations from members of SIPN2 Project Team including:

• An overview of observed conditions during the 2021 Arctic sea-ice retreat season, by Walt Meier
• A summary of how the sea-ice extent predictions contributed to the SIO performed in comparison to the observed September monthly mean extent, by Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth
• An overview of lessons learned from the SIPN2 project, by Uma Bhatt

Twenty minutes for open discussion will follow each of the three presentations.

This webinar is designed for the sea-ice research community and others interested in information about sea-ice forecasting. While this is an open event, attendees should be aware that the discussions will largely be of a technical nature.

The webinar will be archived and available online after the event.

The symposium is organized in Rovaniemi, Finland in a hybrid mode via Teams.

”Arctic change” is a popular way to frame current developments and to discuss the future of the region as a complex set of interconnected environmental, social and economic changes taking place in the region and leading to its fundamental transformation. Different forms of governance to guide and govern these changes is yet another topical but a complex set of issues connecting different levels of societal actors, forms of action, and concerns, such as sustainability and equity. Also, the question remains whether these transformations are in anyway governable, and what are the possible unintended and unwanted effects of any efforts of governance. Consequently, it becomes evident that governance in Arctic regions goes far beyond the schemes of regional authorities and the policies of few supranational bodies (e.g. Arctic Council). This topical diversity will be addressed at the symposium.

In recent years, social science-based research has produced a myriad of concepts, approaches and methodologies to understand societal transformations and their governability, such as collaborative governance, interactive governance, metagovernance, governmentality and global governance, to name just a few. In order to understand better (un)governability of Arctic change, we invite critically oriented presentations to the Northern Political Economy Symposium 2021 to discuss governance of Arctic transformations as well as examples of empirical research into different processes of societal transformations and their governability.

The deadline for abstracts of proposed presentations is 24 September 2021.

For more information please follow the link above.

The annual Polar CORDEX (COordinated Regional Climate Downscaling EXperiment) meeting will be held online from Tuesday 12 October to Thursday 14 October at 15:00-17:00/ 3-5 pm UTC.

There will be 3 sessions, as follows:

• Tues Oct. 12: Arctic CORDEX
• Wed Oct. 13: Antarctic CORDEX
• Thur Oct. 14: Plans for 2022: plenum discussion

If you want to attend, please complete the online registration form.

Presentations are very welcome on all aspects of Antarctic and Arctic CORDEX work (e.g., processes, recent and future climate change, key drivers, coupled modeling, model evaluation, multi-model intercomparisons). Time allotted is maximum 10 minutes.

Deadline for registration is October 1st.

The Annual Meeting of the Northwest Glaciologists is an open and informal meeting of glaciologists nominally from the "Pacific Northwest" who study snow and ice around the world. The meeting has no abstracts, no formal pre-registration, and a strong history of student/early-career participation. Please consider joining us this year!

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 attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, indigenous representatives, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the future of the Arctic.

Please follow the link above for the most up-to-date information.

Join NASA for a webinar on the latest updates from the Cryospheric Science and Terrestrial Ecology programs. NASA program managers Thorsten Markus and Michael Falkowski will give an overview of recent and upcoming initiatives, including NASA ABoVE and ICESat-2, among others. The research community is welcome to join, ask questions, and share feedback.

Preregistration is not required. This webinar will be recorded and posted on this page and on the IARPC Collaborations YouTube channel.

Part of the NOAA in Alaska and the Arctic seminar series hosted by NOAA NCEI Regional Climate Services Director, Alaska Region and the NOS Science Seminar Series.

Remote Access

Register here:
https://noaabroadcast.adobeconnect.com/akandarctic101421/event/registra…

After registering, you will receive an email with a login link.

Abstract

Mercury (Hg) levels in Arctic ecosystems have risen markedlydue to global anthropogenic Hg emissions since industrialization, and are nowalso being altered as the region warms, with as-yet uncertain ecologicalconsequences. This presentation will highlight the key findings of the recentAMAP mercury report as well as discuss the resultant comprehensive assessmentof the present-day abiotic Hg mass balance in the Arctic that was recentlysubmitted for publication. Atmospheric Hg in the Arctic is primarily emittedoutside the region and is delivered to the Arctic Ocean through atmosphericdeposition, riverine inputs, ice melt and coastal erosion. While external Hginputs are overall decreasing, concentrations in biota are still increasing insome locations. The overall findings of the AMAP report and the Hg mass balancewill be discussed and the presentation will highlight the uncertainties inunderstanding that exist or are poorly constrained by measurements.

Bio

Robert Mason is a professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut and has been working on aspects of the global mercury cycle for more than 30 years. He is, and has been, involved in synthesis efforts on mercury for AMAP and for UNEP, as part of the efforts related to the Minamata Convention on Mercury. He has been involved in recent mercury studies in the Arctic and the adjacent waters, and in the atmosphere, in addition to studies in other coastal and offshore ocean regions.

Sponsors

NOAA NCEI Regional Climate Services Director, Alaska Region and the NOS Science Seminar Series.

Accessibility

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SnowHydro 2022 will provide an exceptional opportunity to discuss recent advances in all aspects of snow hydrology in a dedicated conference setting, including snow cover processes, distribution dynamics, model development, data assimilation, operational snowmelt forecasting, remote sensing of snow, climate change effects on snow water resources, snow vegetation interactions, and ecohydrology. It is the event to meet your international peers and exchange latest ideas in a focused and informal setting. Following on from the two previous meetings in 2018 and 2020, SnowHydro 2022 will take place 1-4 February in Grenoble, France in the foothills of the Alps not far from the famous Mont-Blanc.

Format

In-person meeting if COVID-19 conditions permitting. We greatly value networking via informal discussions and the exchange of ideas throughout the conference, and will only consider a virtual format if required.

Program

Days #1 to #3 will feature dedicated oral and poster sessions related to the above topics, with no concurrent sessions. An optional field excursion on day #4 will be organized.

Adjoint event

The annual meeting of the local glacier-snow-permafrost section of the French Hydrotechnics Society (SHF) will be held as part of SnowHydro 2022, with specific permafrost and glacier topics integrated into the program on day #3 (a separate announcement will follow).

Excursion

An excursion on day #4 will take you to Chamonix and the famous Aiguille du Midi cable car with a fantastic view on Mont-Blanc and its glaciers.

Venue

Hosted by the Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), the conference will take place in the historic building of the institute on Saint-Martin d'Hères campus near Grenoble, France.

Call for abstracts

Submission of abstracts for SnowHydro 2022 is now open until October-15th 2021.

The program will be announced and the registration opened on November 1st. This tight timeline is intentional to have a better understanding of the COVID-19 conditions at that time to allow adjustments of the meeting format if necessary.

First Alaskans Institute (FAI) announces the 38th Annual Statewide Elders & Youth Conference (Elders & Youth) will be held in the unceded virtual space of our Alaska Native peoples this October 17-20, 2021. The purpose of this gathering is to support the transference of traditional knowledge between our generations. Our Elders & Youth theme is presented in the Eyak language – “ahnuu dAXunhyuu AXAkihya’ iLka’ GAdAqeeLinuu” – which translates to “side by side in the same direction the people go by canoe.” This theme amplifies this critical movement and journey we are on. The importance of being in solidarity during this pandemic and a polarizing time in our state and nation. We look to our Elders and our youth to help set our course in the right direction for our peoples. The theme is an empowering example of breaking the reins of colonization by Indigenizing all aspects of life and forever practicing the ways of our peoples.

This gathering will include amazing Elder and Youth Keynotes, dynamic plenary presenters, engaging Living & Loving Our Cultures Workshops, Language Circles, and Community Engagement Workshops. We will also make time for Elder Coffeetimes, Regional Breakout Sessions, and our Healing Men's, Women's, and LGBTQA2S+ Houses. We will celebrate the many talents of our community by sharing Native's Got Talent videos and Chin'an: A Night of Cultural Celebration performances from the past.

Originally planned: 18th-22nd October 2021, Potsdam (Germany) postponed to 25th -29th April 2022.

The Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) was the largest Arctic expedition in our times and took place from September 2019 until October 2020. After years of planning under the umbrella of IASC and more than 80 institutions from 20 nations involved, the expedition was a big success and scientists collected tons of samples and terabytes of data.

One year after the expedition, the “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” will be held from 18th to 22ndOctober 2021 in Potsdam (Germany). The aim is to review the realized various instrumentations and measurements of the coupled Arctic climate system, to discuss the multifaceted linkages and key scientific results. The “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” addresses the whole MOSAiC community including early career scientist and offers the chance to present the preliminary experimental and modelling results and to enhance the interaction and interlinkage between the different subsystems and with the modelling community to achieve a better understanding of the coupled Arctic climate system. The “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” will advertise the unique data sets and attract the big modelling centers (e.g. from ECMWF and NOAA). In such a way the “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” will function as big step towards the improvement of the sea ice and weather forecast and regional and global climate models.

More information will be availble in the coming months.

Part of the NOAA in Alaska and the Arctic seminar series hosted by NOAA NCEI Regional Climate Services Director, Alaska Region and the NOS Science Seminar Series.

Full title: The Climate-Driven Decline of an Ice-Dependent Seabird in the Western Arctic: Insights and Alarms From a Half-Century of Observations

Remote Access

Register here:
https://noaabroadcast.adobeconnect.com/akandarctic-divoky/event/registr…

After registering, you will receive an email with a login link.

Abstract

TBD.

Bio

TBD.

Accessibility

Closed Captioning will be provided.