Past Events

Update: While the COVID-19 situation in Europe is worsening, the organizers are still hoping to be able to welcome most of you to Tromsø in March 2022. The local organizing committee will make a final decision regarding the format of the ASSW latest February 15, 2022. The organizers will offer online participation irrespective of the COVID-19 developments.

UiT the Arctic University of Norway, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the Research Council of Norway, are pleased to invite you to the Arctic Science Summit Week and the Arctic Observing Summit 2022, taking place in Tromsø, Norway.

During Arctic Science Summit Week 2022 (ASSW2022) there will be three days dedicated to IASC & Arctic business and science community meetings (26-28 March); ASSW 2022 will also feature the 6th Arctic Observing Summit.

The application deadline for business and science community meetings at ASSW2022 is 30 September 2021. The entire Arctic community is encouraged to use ASSW as a venue for bringing together their organizations, collaborations, and teams. ASSW organizers provide the logistical support and your meeting attendees only have to register for ASSW2022 and show up. As ASSW 2022 will be organized as a hybrid conference, both opportunities for in-person and online meetings will be offered during the conference.

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) was initiated by IASC in 1999 to provide opportunities for coordination, cooperation and collaboration between the various scientific organizations involved in Arctic research and to economize on travel and time. ASSW is now an annual venue for meetings of Arctic organizations, scientific collaborations, and more.

Please fill out this form to request an in-person and / or online space and we will do our best to accommodate your request. The application deadline is 30 September 2021, and a draft program is expected to be ready in mid-November.

Important Dates

• 15 January 2022: Call for short statements for the AOS 2022
• 30 January 2022: Call for abstracts for poster session AOS
• 30 January 2022: Call for abstracts for Science Day poster session
• 1 February 2022: Registration opens

Are you interested in learning more about how you might benefit from and contribute to activities related to the Ocean Decade Arctic Action Plan? Would you like to play a role in shaping how activities related to the Plan are structured in the future? Can you help make sure that relevant voices are heard in this process? Join the Advancing Arctic Observation and Data Actions within the U.N. Ocean Decade Plan to continue the conversation, virtually or in-person at ASSW.

This event will serve as a forum for discussing how to implement the Ocean Decade - Arctic Action Plan, specifically focusing on how to advance observing and data actions within the Arctic/UNDOS plan.

The UN has declared a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (‘Ocean Decade’, UNDOS) for 2021-2030. In June 2021, the Ocean Decade - Arctic Action Plan was published. As the document reads, the “…target group for the Plan is broad, including the general global public and Arctic Indigenous and local Peoples but it is also relevant for strategic work that supports ocean science…” and “…the rights holders and other stakeholders are key actors in the global Ocean Decade given their role as decision makers at diverse jurisdictional levels, and are thus expected to take the initiative forward…” (10).

The plan identifies three types of challenges: research challenges, organizational challenges, and uptake challenges. One of the solutions suggested is to “observe the state of Arctic environments and development trends in near-real time supported by information services that are tailored to the needs of Indigenous peoples, science, environmental management and industry. This includes co-designed sustained observation programmes…” and, among other things, the “establishment of a distributed pan-Arctic observation programme.”

This event will serve as an opportunity to further discuss:

• how implementation of these solutions can be undertaken, specifically in reference to Arctic observation and data;
• mechanisms for evaluating and addressing the progress of the Arctic Action Plan, such as that currently undertaken by IASC in the form of the development of a task force
• possible input that may be provided to such a task force, once developed
• aspects that need broader community buy-in in order to prioritize initial concrete, actionable activities
• how to address the challenge of predicting future change in a way that meets stakeholder needs

Please see the background documents related to the workshop for more information.

Registration

Registration is encouraged but not required at the registration page.

If you are unable to attend the workshop, but would like to offer input or be included in future events related to this topic, please fill out the registration form and select “I am not able to attend, but would like to be included in future communications about the Ocean Decade Arctic process”.

Participants may join in person in Tromsø, or remotely. The organizers recognize the challenges for many participants given the time zone differences, so the plenary sessions of the workshop will be recorded for any who are unable to attend. This will also be the first of multiple sessions oriented around prioritizing actions and activities related to the Ocean Decade Arctic Action Plan.

The first hour of the session will be a designated "watch party" of pre-recorded presentations giving background on the Ocean Decade, the Arctic Action Plan and key Arctic research initiatives. You may also opt to watch these recordings on your own time prior to the workshop; links to recordings will be provided closer to the workshop date. The remaining three hours of each session will consist of a mixture of breakout rooms and plenary discussion.

The Conference on Innovations in Climate Resilience, presented by Battelle in collaboration with DOE National Laboratories, offers a curated technical program with invited keynote presentations, platform and lightning talks and a poster reception.

The organizers are expecting an audience of government leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators to explore breakthroughs in technology, science, policy and infrastructure that will help mitigate the threats to our environment, health, communities, national security and economic well-being from a changing climate.

Conference themes include:

• International Climate Risk Analysis and National Security
• Resilient Infrastructure: Energy, Water, Communications, Transportation, and Building
• Nexus of Resilience and Ecosystem Restoration: Carbon Capture, Circular Economy, Water, and Land
• Health Resilience, Risks, and Interventions
• Innovations in Climate Resilient Food and Agriculture

Organizers also continue to accept abstracts. Abstract submission information can be found on the conference webpage. There is limited capacity, so it is important that prospective participants submit abstracts as soon as possible so they can be included in the initial review. The abstract submission portal will remain open until program capacity is reached.

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: 11 February 2022.

Update: PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE COVID-19 WAVE, THE SUMMIT IS BEING POSTPONED. Please check the Arctic Rivers Summit website for updates as the organizers work on rescheduling the summit.

The Arctic Rivers Summit will be an in-person workshop to discuss the current and potential future states of Alaskan and Yukon rivers and fish and how we can adapt. The Summit will bring together up to 150 Tribal and First Nation leaders, community members, managers, and knowledge holders, western scientists, federal, state, and provincial agency representatives, academic partners, non-governmental organizations, and others. The Summit is being held as part of a five-year Arctic Rivers Project funded by the National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic Program.

The Arctic Rivers Project is co-led by the University of Colorado-Boulder and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and both the project and Summit are guided by an Indigenous Advisory Council. Additional project partners include the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Waterloo, and the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals. The project began on January 1, 2020, and runs through December 31, 2024. The ​project seeks to weave together Indigenous Knowledge, climate, river, and fish modeling, and monitoring data to develop Narratives of Change across the Arctic landscape to support resource and community adaptation.

The three-day Summit will take place at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage. A variety of COVID-19 precautionary policies will be in effect including a vaccine requirement to attend. The organizers will continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic situation and will adjust plans for the Summit to prioritize the safety of our Elders and Summit participants.

The Summit has three main goals:

• Exchange knowledge about current and potential future conditions for Alaskan and Yukon rivers, fish, and people and ways we can adapt.
• Inform the Arctic Rivers Project modeling of climate, river flows, river ice, and fish to make data generated as useful as possible for communities.
• Develop an action plan centered around the: (1) Status of Salmon, (2) Status of Rivers, (3) Partnering Indigenous Knowledge with Western Science to Inform Management, (4) Youth and Elders: Building a Bridge of Traditional Knowledge.

The second workshop of the QuIESCENT Arctic (Quantifying the Indirect Effect: from Sources to Climate Effects of Natural and Transported aerosol in the Arctic) programme will take place in Tromsø, Norway as part of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW). It is supported by the IASCAtmosphere Working Group and the PACES initiative.

Please note that the ASSW 2022 will be a hybrid event, with both in-person and online participation planned. The second QuIESCENT Arctic workshop will therefore also operate in this manner, and additional registration for the ASSW 2022 business meetings will be required.

This second workshop aims to build on cross-disciplinary bridge between aerosol and clouds, physicists and chemists, and observations and models, and scientists from all perspectives of this research question are encouraged to attend and contribute. The workshop will continue to focus on the role of transported air pollution in Arctic aerosol-cloud interactions, as the climatic effects of increasing industrialisation within the Arctic circle and transport from the polluted mid-latitudes are not well understood; however, these processes must be considered against an understanding of the evolving natural baseline of the Arctic aerosol budget.

Registration deadline: 18 March 2022.

The Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is a biennial summit that aims to provide guidance based on the best available knowledge for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long-term (decades) operation of an international network of Arctic observing systems.

The AOS provides a platform to foster international communication and the widespread coordination of long-term observations aimed at improving understanding and responding to system-scale Arctic change. The AOS is an international forum for optimizing resource allocation through coordination and exchange among all involved or interested in long-term observing activities, while minimizing duplication and gaps.

The Executive Organizing Committee for AOS 2022 is seeking community input, in the form of short statements, that will help guide discussions during the Thematic Working Group sessions.

Community input can highlight important data, management, or logistical needs or gaps, explore emerging opportunities, address a current challenge, present new initiatives or technology that can contribute to Arctic observing (including global programs), or review on-going observing activities or issues that are relevant for the development, application, operation, or support of a sustained Arctic observing network.

Important Dates

• Short statements – deadline extended to January 31, 2022.
• Poster abstracts – January 31, 2022.

Themes

A changing Arctic disrupts the environment from the local to the global scale. Rapid change threatens Indigenous livelihoods, communities, ecosystems, and the global climate system. AOS 2022 focuses on how sustained observations can contribute to well-being and better understanding of rapid Arctic change to build resilience and inform responses from the local to the global scale.

Conference sub-themes to support the overarching theme, Arctic observing at the intersection of health, understanding, and resilience:

• Sub-Theme 1: Food Security
• Sub-Theme 2: Regional to Global Observing
• Sub-Theme 3: Data Sharing
• Sub-Theme 4: System Integration (SAON ROADS)
• Sub-Theme 5: Utility and Benefit
• Sub-Theme 6: Capacity Building

Please join the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility as they gather feedback from the science community on ARM's radar strategy during a series of four radar listening sessions in March and April 2022. Hosted by ARM Instrument Operations Manager Adam Theisen, each session will feature a different topic related to ARM’s radar instrument suite. The sessions also will provide an opportunity for the ARM community to give feedback on ARM’s radar operations.

Radar Listening Session Topics:

• March 2: State of the Radars
• March 16: Southern Great Plains
• March 30: North Slope of Alaska
• April 13: Eastern North Atlantic

Originally planned: 18-22 October 2021, postponed to 25-29 April 2022.

The successful MOSAiC expedition collected terabytes of data and thousands of samples during the year of the expedition. Now, more than one year after the end of the expedition, a large meeting is being organized to present and discuss the scientific results. The “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” will be held from 25 to 29 April 2022 on the Telegrafenberg campus in Potsdam, Germany. The organizers hope to host an in-person meeting but they are planning a fully hybrid setting with strong online participation options, allowing everyone to adapt to any situation.

The “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” addresses the whole MOSAiC community and offers the chance to present preliminary experimental and modelling results and to enhance the interaction and interlinkages between the different disciplines of the coupled Arctic climate system. Supporting this, the meeting offers platforms to develop future analyses and publication strategies, support and foster connections to other groups and disciplines and to identify and develop joint projects. The meeting will advertise the unique data sets and attract the big modelling centers. In such a way the “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” will function as a big step towards the improvement of the sea ice and weather forecast and regional and global climate models.

The organizers envision a meeting concept that combines aspects of a conference and a workshop with sessions for oral and poster presentations and a great number of breakout sessions for detailed discussions. Therefore, the meeting offers plenary sessions in the beginning to inform generally about the scientific status of MOSAiC and breakout sessions for the individual MOSAiC Teams. In addition, there will be parallel sessions following the character of a conference with scientific oral and poster presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday. For those sessions, abstracts can be submitted. Furthermore, towards the end of the week, it is planned to have breakout sessions that allow detailed discussions. Many topics are already defined, but there will be capacity to spontaneously develop breakout sessions to respond to topics that will come up during the meeting.

Registration and Abstracts

The organizers would like to encourage new colleagues within MOSAiC related projects to attend the conference who started after the registration in 2021. The registration website will reopen by 1st of March 2022 and new registrations are possible until 31 March 2022.

Abstracts for talks can be submitted and will be used to fill free slots if any become available. New abstracts for posters are welcome as well. Abstracts to the proposed sessions can be submitted until March 31 2022.

USNORTHCOM “The Watch” Command Magazine and the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) would like to invite you to attend the March2021 Arctic Academic eTalks on "Greenland-Denmark-U.S. Defence Relationship Panel" featuring panel of distinguished speakers:

• Sara Olsvig, Greenlandic Indigenous Leader and Former MP, Parliament of Denmark
• Henrik Gram Pedersen, Head of Center for Arctic Security Studies, Royal Danish Defence College
• Dan Torweihe, Arctic Desk Officer, NORAD and USNORTHCOM/J5

The organizers would like to recognize their Global Partners including United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) United States European Command (USEUCOM), and United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), for supporting the Arctic Academic eTalks speaker series.

The Arctic Academic eTalks is a bi-monthly forum for open discussion in key issues affecting the Circumpolar Arctic for academics, defense and security professional, and military leaders from Canada, Finland, Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and Germany.

The panellists are scheduled to provide 10 minute presentations each which will be followed by a moderated 60-minute Q&A session (non-attribution).

Please register to attend at the registration link.

Global estimates of burned areas, enabled by the wide-open access to the standard data products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), are heavily relied on by scientists and managers studying issues related to wildfire occurrence and its worldwide consequences. While these datasets, particularly the MODIS MCD64A1 product, have fundamentally improved our understanding of wildfire regimes at the global scale, their performance may be less reliable in certain regions due to a series of region- or ecosystem-specific challenges. Previous studies have indicated that global burned area products tend to underestimate the extent of the burned area within some parts of the boreal domain. Despite this, global products are still being regularly used by research activities and management efforts in the northern regions, likely due to a lack of understanding of the spatial scale of their Arctic-specific limitations, as well as an absence of more reliable alternative products. In this study, we evaluated the performance of two widely used global burned area products, MCD64A1 and FireCCI51, in the circumpolar boreal forests and tundra between 2001 and 2015. Our two-step evaluation shows that MCD64A1 has high commission and omission errors in mapping burned areas in the boreal forests and tundra regions in North America. The omission error overshadows the commission error, leading to MCD64A1 considerably underestimating burned areas in these high northern latitude domains. Based on our estimation, MCD64A1 missed nearly half the total burned areas in the Alaskan and Canadian boreal forests and the tundra during the 15-year period, amounting to an area (74,768 km2) that is equivalent to the land area of the United States state of South Carolina. While the FireCCI51 product performs much better than MCD64A1 in terms of commission error, we found that it also missed about 40% of burned areas in North America north of 60° N between 2001 and 2015. Our intercomparison of MCD64A1 and FireCCI51 with a regionally adapted MODIS-based Arctic Boreal Burned Area (ABBA) shows that the latter outperforms both MCD64A1 and FireCCI51 by a large margin, particularly in terms of omission error, and thus delivers a considerably more accurate and consistent estimate of fire activity in the high northern latitudes. Considering the fact that boreal forests and tundra represent the largest carbon pool on Earth and that wildfire is the dominant disturbance agent in these ecosystems, our study presents a strong case for regional burned area products like ABBA to be included in future Earth system models as the critical input for understanding wildfires’ impacts on global carbon cycling and energy budget.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cryosphere 2020 (previously scheduled for September 27 to October 1, 2021) was postponed to 2022. The new dates are August 21-26 2022 and the symposium title will thus become Cryosphere 2022.

This symposium taking place in Reykjavík, Iceland will bring together scientists, stakeholders and policy makers for a discussion on the latest results from studies of the entire cryosphere, which plays an important role in the hydrological cycle and the Earth System and is one of the most useful indicators of climate change. The symposium will allow ample time for panel discussions on scientific results, new technologies, research gaps and future perspectives in the light of the Paris Agreement, which calls for limiting global warming to 1.5–2°C.

The organizers seek papers and presentations on timely topics related to all components of the cryosphere and its changes due to global warming. Contributions related to adaptation and mitigation strategies in view of the UN´s 2030 sustainable development goals and on the coordination of studies of snow and ice and associated hydrological changes on Earth through the Global Cryosphere Watch or other bodies are also welcome. Key focus areas will include (but are not limited to):

1. The state of the planet and its cryosphere
2. Earth´s snow cover
3. Glacier changes
4. The Greenland Ice Sheet
5. The Antarctic Ice Sheet
6. Sea ice on Earth
7. Permafrost/frozen ground
8. Lake and river ice
9. Climate variations, climate and Earth systems modelling
10. The cryosphere in high mountain areas
11. Research gaps and new technologies
12. Opportunities, adaptation and mitigation
13. The Global Cryosphere Watch

The symposium will include oral and poster sessions. The organizers will facilitate interaction between representatives of different research fields, and stimulate discussions on one of the most pressing issues facing humanity. Additional activities will include an opening Icebreaker reception, a banquet dinner and an optional full-day excursion after the symposium.

Participants who wish to present a paper (oral or poster) at the Symposium will be required to submit an abstract. The Council of the International Glaciological Society will publish a thematic issue of the Annals of Glaciology on topics consistent with the Symposium themes. Participants are encouraged to submit manuscripts for this Annals volume.

Participants who wish to present a paper (oral or poster) at the Symposium will be required to submit an abstract. The International Glaciological Society will publish a thematic issue of the Annals of Glaciology on topics consistent with the Symposium themes. Participants are encouraged to submit manuscripts for this Annals volume. The abstract should not contain any figures nor references and should not be longer than 2500 characters. Abstracts should be submitted through the conference website.

Important dates:

• Registration opens: 10 January 2022
• Abstract submission deadline extended: 1 April 2022
• Annals of Glaciology opening of paper submissions: 1 May 2022
• Annals of Glaciology manuscript submission deadline: 31 December 2022

The University of Alaska Southeast and the International Glaciological Society are pleased to announce the International Symposium on Maritime Glaciers, which will take place in Juneau, Alaska, from 19–24 June 2022.

Glaciers in most parts of the world are located well above treeline. However, in maritime climates it’s possible to stand on a glacier and look up at forested valley slopes. Maritime glaciers exist not because of especially cold temperatures, but because of high snow accumulation rates. In places like Southeast Alaska, snow accumulation rates often exceed 5 m per year at high elevations, melting can occur year round and can exceed 10 m per year at low elevations, and persistent rainfall is a significant component of glacier runoff. Temperate ice and wet snow are also characteristics of maritime glaciers. Due to their high mass turnover maritime glaciers respond quickly to climate change, and surging glaciers in maritime climates have shorter surge cycles than surging glaciers found elsewhere. A small percentage of maritime glaciers terminate in water, but these glaciers have outsized impacts on sea level rise due to their large size and susceptibility to rapid change.

The glacier-to-ocean distance is generally small for maritime glaciers, and as a result these glaciers constitute a large portion of their respective watersheds, with important consequences for stream temperature and chemistry and adjacent ecosystems. The short glacier-to-ocean distance also means that glacier runoff in these environments strongly affects the physical and chemical oceanography of near-shore waters, which serves as important habitat for fish, such as salmon, marine mammals, and sea birds. Glacier transition into or out of marine systems has profound impacts on fjord circulation, water properties, and ecosystem evolution. Deglaciation of these landscapes also increases the risk of landslides and landslide-generated tsunamis. The rich marine habitat provided in part by glaciers has sustained humans for centuries, and the peoples living along these coastal waters have important stories and legends related to glacier change. Glaciers continue to be an important component of maritime societies, although today the focus is shifting toward ecotourism.

Key focus areas of this symposium include:

• Instruments and methods for observing high-accumulation, high-melt glaciers
• Glacier hydrology and wet firn
• Glacier runoff and sediment and nutrient export
• Tidewater and lake-calving glaciers
• Glacier-ocean-sediment interactions
• Surging glaciers
• Hazards associated with landscape change: outburst floods, landslides, and tsunamis
• Impacts on terrestrial and marine ecosystems
• Social and indigenous perspectives

Online abstract submission is now open. Please note that the abstract submission system is separate from the IGS Connect. You will have to register your details.

Important Dates:

• Opening of online registration 25 March 2022.
• Abstract submission deadline extended to 1 April 2022.
• Early-bird registration deadline extended to 15 April 2022.

The 14th edition of the International Conference on Paleoceanography will be held in Bergen, Norway, the gateway to the Norwegian fjords from 29 August to 2 September, 2022. The ICP gathers world experts and newcomers in the field of paleoceanography working on past climate and ocean change on a range of timescales, using climate proxies or modelling approaches. The conference provides an opportunity to present and debate ground-breaking new observations while creating the ideal environment for fostering discussions of pressing challenges and new scientific initiatives.

Important dates

• Early bird registration: 1 September 2021 - 28 February 2022
• Regular registration opens: 1 March 2022
• Abstract submission deadline: 3 April 2022 at 23:59 CEST. The deadline is absolute. Please submit as soon as possible and avoid last minute submission (and an overloaded system). Everyone will be notified about their accepted abstracts by Monday 11 April.

Update: Due to COVID delays, the organizers have postponed the scheduled NSF-funded Polar Radar Conference to be held through the University of Maine and the Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Lab. The new virtual conference dates will be April 4-6, 2022. (The original dates were February 23-25.)

The Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine will host this virtual conference over the course of several days. The organizers plan to host several sessions or topics of discussion for several hours each day. The organizers hope that this format will encourage discussion and feedback between the shorter sessions.

What is the overall goal of this conference?

As the usage of radar continues to become more common and widespread in the Polar Sciences, it is important for the science community to have a coherent assessment of logistical and science interests and how we will address these.

More details will be coming soon that will be shared widely across the broader polar community. Please feel free to reach out with any questions:

Seth Campbell, Climate Change Institute, School of Earth & Climate Sciences, University of Maine
Email: scampb64 at maine.edu

The Center for Arctic Policy Studies (CAPS) and the Arctic and Northern Studies Program present the first of an inaugural series of webinars on Human Security in the Arctic.

The organizers are pleased to coordinate with the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies to bring you a Visiting Arctic Fulbright Fellow Lecture with Rauna Kuokkanen on "Indigenous Self-Determination and Gender Justice in the Arctic".

Bio

Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen is Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland, and Fulbright Arctic Initiative Fellow. Her research highlights the importance of human security and addresses it specifically in terms of justice in Indigenous political institutions. Dr. Kuokkanen's most recent book is the award-winning Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance and Gender (Oxford UP, 2019), an Indigenous feminist investigation of Indigenous self-determination, governance and gender regimes in Indigenous political institutions. She has also authored a book on Indigenizing the university in Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes and the Logic of the Gift (2007) develops an Indigenous, post-structural critique of the contemporary university.

The Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES) Conference will take place virtually 1-3 September, 2022.

Climate change is any change in the temperature or water levels that affects Earth for a long period of time. Humans today are experiencing rapid and unexpected changes in temperature where we witness hotter weather and sudden severe storms. However, the impacts of climate change do not stop at hotter temperatures. The rising temperatures that result from the burning of fossil fuels cause the melting of ice glaciers and the increase of water levels. On the other hand, drought in other regions causes changes in the subterranean layers of Earth due to the absorption of water from these layers. According to an article by NASA, these changes in the water levels are one possible reason behind sudden earthquakes due to the changes in the tectonic movements of Earth layers.

Rising oceans threaten the flooding of coastal cities like Alexandria, Miami, and Tokyo, which will result in the sudden and unplanned displacement of people. This affects the physical and mental health of human beings, causes the loss of crops and shortage of food supply, and disturbs the ecological system due to the loss of certain animal or plant species.

The first edition of the International Conference on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES) in 2021 discussed the effects of greenhouse gases on Earth’s temperature and global warming. This year, the conference’s second edition will take these previously-discussed pressing issues forward as well as tackle the new threats that arise every day.

The conference is a chance for scientists and researchers from around the globe to excavate solutions for the new threats as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which develop due to climate changes and try to figure out the reasons behind them. IEREK welcomes participants with various scientific backgrounds to gather and find solutions to save our planet Earth.

Abstract submissions deadline (extended): 05 April 2022.
Full paper submission deadline: 03 July 2022.

The Alaska Ocean Acidification Network announces their Spring Discussion Series with four specialized dialogue sessions from March through May, with the intention to:

• Address and explore topics within ocean acidification that are of most interest to Alaskans
• Discuss ideas and identify priorities
• Document key issues and needs so they can be communicated to funding sources, policymakers and potential collaborators

These dialogue sessions are spaces for you to both learn and provide input. Each session will run from 1-3pm AK time, beginning with a 30 minute presentation by topic area experts, followed by interactive discussion and breakouts. (The dialogue series will also be recorded and made available to registrants after each event).

Topics and Schedule

• March 23 – Regional Conditions: What do we know about ocean acidification conditions around the state, what parts are expected to change most rapidly in the future, and what areas may be most sensitive to change?
• April 5 – Species Response #1: OA and Local Communities: What does ocean acidification mean for mariculture and subsistence?
• April 20 – Species Response #2: Commercial Species: What does ocean acidification mean for commercially harvested species including groundfish, salmon, and crab?
• May 4 – Adaptation and Mitigation: How can carbon dioxide removal, carbon sequestration, and natural climate solutions help us adapt to or mitigate climate change and ocean acidification?

Connect to a Live Science Event in the Arctic! Join the PolarConnect event with Sarah Johnson and the International Arctic Buoy Program Team. Sarah and the IABP team will be calling in from Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Tell your friends, colleagues and family. Anyone with an e-mail address can register, and registration and participation is FREE!

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Biogeosciences Section is hosting a series of webinars addressing Safe and Inclusive Fieldwork, open to everyone, including those who aren’t members of AGU.

If you do field work or mentor people who do, this series is for you (and them)! Fieldwork presents inherent safety hazards (physical, psychological and emotional); can be unfamiliar or inaccessible; and can result in situations where you or team members are vulnerable to assault, harassment, or hostile environments and encounters. How can you prepare yourself, team or class for these risks? This virtual series will offer you resources and guidance to prepare for safety, respond to issues and help others.

Each event will stand alone, so please attend whenever you can.

AGU Frontiers in Safe and Inclusive Fieldwork (Webinar #1)

A conversation with AGU President Susan Lozier and AGU Senior Vice President Billy Williams. Share your questions, concerns and requests with our panel, and use real-time polling to guide future series content.

Moderated by B-Section President Margaret Torn .

Join the 'Icy Humanities: A Collaborative Symposium', a virtual symposium of roundtable discussions with Arctic humanists and glaciologists. This event represents a collaboration of Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute, the International Glaciological Society’s Symposium on Ice in a Sustainable Society (ISS), and the University of Bristol’s School of Geographical Sciences. Please register to attend.

Session I: Icy Humanities 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
SPEAKERS: Prof. Mia Bennett (University of Washington); Prof. Mark Carey (University of Oregon); Siobhan Mcdonald (Artist); Zachary Provant (University of Oregon).

Session II: Glaciology and Society 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET
SPEAKERS: Rebecca Dell (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge); Prof. Sérgio H. Faria (Basque Centre for Climate Change); Prof. Mark Jackson (University of Bristol); Sarah Tingey (University of Bristol).