Past Events

The NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) will convene their 8th Science Team Meeting 9-12 May 2022 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in-person and virtual participation. Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is working with ABoVE to organize an associated hands-on workshop on using their data and products in operational and decision-making settings on 12-13 May 2022. Note that these events were originally planned for May 2020.

The workshop will be an opportunity for researchers and managers to work directly together to follow up on the progress made by the 2017 AFSC remote sensing workshop and its report and explore the use of promising research products in a management context.

The Arctic is the epicenter of climate change, warming twice as quickly as the rest of the planet and driving increasing weather extremes across the northern hemisphere. But because the region is so remote, scientists have had a limited understanding of its processes. In 2019, the MOSAiC expedition set off on an unprecedented journey across the Arctic to take our knowledge about climate change to a new level.

Aboard the icebreaker Polarstern, researchers would spend a full year locked in the ice, collecting crucial data during polar winter for the first time ever.

In this lecture, MOSAiC expedition leader and atmospheric scientist, Markus Rex, will discuss his forthcoming book about the expedition, The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time. The MOSAiC expedition was a massive undertaking that involved twenty countries and hundreds of researchers, and plenty of logistical challenges — including curious polar bears, sudden ice cracks, months of darkness in the polar night, and a pandemic.

Rex will share highlights from the expedition and explore the urgency of MOSAiC’s research, describing an Arctic that is vastly altered by warming but that still has a chance to be saved.

Markus Rex is the head of atmospheric research at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, and a professor of atmospheric physics at the University of Potsdam. He has taken part in numerous expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctica, and other remote regions of the world to research the complex processes that can lead to dramatic changes in the climate. He heads the MOSAiC project, a unique research collaboration by ninety institutions from twenty countries.

The BEPSII Sea ice School 2022 will take place at the CHARS Station in Cambridge Bay, Canada. The school targets Early Career Scientists, preferably PhD students, but also Master students and early Post-Doc. Lectures, field and lab work will address basic sea-ice and snow physics, sea ice optics, primary production, carbon cycling, biogeochemistry together with, sea-ice biogeochemical modelling, gases fluxes at the interfaces and life in the North.

Deadline for school and funding application: 11 March 2022.

BEPSII is a network of sea ice scientists exploring biogeochemical exchanges at sea ice interfaces. BEPSII gathers sea ice biogeochemists and biologists, either experimentalists or modellers. The school is supported by POLAR KNOWLEDGE CANADA, SCAR, CLIC, IASC and NSF in collaboration with SOLAS and ECV-ice SCOR working group.

The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) invites registration for a training course on artificial intelligence (AI) in Svalbard. This week-long course will take place 5-9 September 2022 in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.

The course is intended for scientists, Masters/PhD students, engineers, and technicians with no or modest experience with AI and machine learning in their research. Basic knowledge of programming languages (python) is preferable.

This training course will consist of four components: lightning talks by speakers from the AI field, lecture series and hands-on sessions by AI experts, field excursions, and mini-project development after the training course.

There is no cost for registration, but participants are expected to cover their own accommodation, travel, and associated costs.

Registration deadline: 15 May 2022.

The 15th Polar Law Symposium (PLS) will be held in Reykjavík, Iceland, 12-14 October 2022. The Polar Law Institute and the Center for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland will be co-hosting the Symposium in partnership with the Arctic Circle.

You are invited to submit proposals for keynotes, panels, workshops and/or single topic presentations for inclusion on the PLS agenda. Please note that the deadline for the call for proposals has been extended to 15 May 2022.

An advisory committee is composed of Gudmundur Alfredsson (Stefansson Arctic Institute), Pia Hansson (University of Iceland), Julia Jabour (University of Tasmania), Timo Koivurova (University of Lapland) Akiho Shihata (University of Kobe), and Embla Eir Oddsdottir (Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network). Jonathan Wood, Symposium Manager and PhD fellow at the University of Iceland will be heading a planning committee with the members currently consisting of Federica Scarpa, (Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network – IACN) and Snæfríður Grímsdóttir (Centre for Arctic Studies).

Abstract Submission

The PLS Advisory Committee particularly welcomes submissions on the Arctic and Antarctic including, but not limited to topics addressing:

• Legal regimes in the Arctic and Antarctic within the fields of international law, national law, and regional law
• Arctic and Antarctic Governance & Policy
• Constitutional developments
• Sovereignty issues and boundary disputes on land and sea, land resource claims
• Human Rights, rights of Indigenous Peoples, decolonization and reconciliation
• Environmental law, Transitional Justice, Energy Justice, and Environmental Justice
• Biodiversity, wildlife use, and governance of natural resources
• Indigenous Peoples and Minorities, Self-Governance and Good Governance Law of the Sea, Shipping, and Fisheries Agreements
• International Arctic marine governance and management
• Arctic Geo- Politics and Security, including Non-Military Aspects
• Gender Equality in the Arctic
• Development Economics in the Arctic and Arctic Economies and business Future of Polar Law: existing and new challenges
• Sustainable and inclusive Development, Food security
• Policy - Relevant-Science within the context of Arctic; Antarctica and the third pole

Proposals should be sent to Jonathan Wood: wood.jonathan.w [at] gmail.com no later than 15 May 2022. Presentations are expected to be 10-12 minutes long.

UPDATE: Considering the circumstances, the event will be in a HYBRID FORMAT. Everyone will have the possibility to present their work either on site or at distance.

Oxygen is critical to the health of the planet. It affects the cycles of carbon, nitrogen and other key elements, and is a fundamental requirement for marine life from the seashore to the greatest depths of the ocean. Nevertheless, deoxygenation is increasing in the coastal and open ocean. This is mainly the result of human activities that are increasing global temperatures (CO2-induced warming) and increasing loads of nutrients from agriculture, sewage, and industrial waste, including pollution stemming from power generation using fossil fuels and biomass.

The 53rd Liege colloquium will investigate new developments and insights related to deoxygenation in open and coastal waters. It is jointly organized with the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE) and is a contribution to the Global Ocean Oxygen Decade (GOOD) program endorsed by IOC-UNESCO.

The following sessions are considered:

• Deoxygenation: understanding causes and attributing changes
• Assessing open ocean and coastal deoxygenation variability and trends
• Deoxygenation: observing and modelling
• Deoxygenation and ocean life
• Deoxygenation and co-stressors: understanding, monitoring and mitigating deoxygenation in the context of multiple stressors
• Ocean Deoxygenation - how the past can inform the future?
• Microbial Communities and their controls on biogeochemical feedbacks and interactions
• Deoxygenation, water quality and the climate system: understanding processes and feedbacks and developing actionable indicators
• Deoxygenation: ecosystem services, economic and societal consequences.
• Confronting deoxygenation and its impacts: translating science to management and policy

Important Dates

• Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 20 February 2022.
• Early bird registration: before March 31st 2022.

The conference has been postponed to 16-20 May 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (This conference was originally scheduled to take place 14-18 September 2020, then 16-21 May 2021, followed by 13-17 September 2021, and now moved to 16-20 May 2022.)

The symposium provides a platform for the exchange of current applied research and best practices, the presentation of new technology and further innovation, and the advancement of international cooperation in the circumpolar regions of the world. The organizers look to build on the more than 100 participants and the record 50% attendance by students and early career researchers at the 15th ICRSS.

This symposium deals specifically with remote sensing applications in the polar environments, both Arctic and Antarctic. Earth’s Polar Regions feature cold-climate environments characterized by unique landscapes, biota, and processes. Many of these features and dynamics are Cryosphere-driven and either are already subject to or have the potential for fundamental and rapid changes in a warming world. Earth observation technologies provide crucial tools to understand and quantify these changes.

This symposium will be of interest to scientists, scholars, and industry and government professionals involved in studying and quantifying Arctic and Antarctic Change, renewable and non-renewable resource management, and development of new technologies and methods targeting remote sensing observations of polar environments. The symposium will provide a platform for the exchange of current applied research and best practices, the presentation of new technology and further innovation, and the advancement of international co-operation in the circumpolar regions of the world.

The theme of the 16th ICRSS is Convergence at the Poles – Addressing urgent research questions and management needs through remote sensing in the Arctic and Antarctic.

The 16th ICRSS is being hosted at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Oral presentations will take place in the Wood Center Ballroom and various conference activities will be scattered through the greater University and Fairbanks community.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission (extended): 21 March 2022
• Abstract acceptance notification: 01 April 2022
• Registration deadline: 01 April 2022

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs (OPP) announces a solicitation, and related webinar, on Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining).

The program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering (S&E) research and education and contribute to the nation's overall economic competitiveness and security.

This solicitation calls for innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum/instructional materials, along with deeper incorporation of CI professionals into the research enterprise—targeting one or more of the solicitation goals—to address emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in S&E research workforce development, from the postsecondary level to active researchers to CI professionals. The funded activities, spanning targeted, multidisciplinary communities, should lead to transformative changes in the state of research workforce preparedness for advanced CI-enabled research in the short- and long-term.

The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI; (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven methods for advancing fundamental research, into the nation’s undergraduate and graduate educational curriculum/instructional materials; and (iii) build communities of research CI professional staff to deploy, manage, and collaboratively support the effective use of research CI, as well as establish career paths for those staff within and across institutions and science and engineering (S&E) disciplines.

Prospective principal investigators (PIs) are strongly encouraged to contact the Cognizant Program Officers in CISE/OAC and in the participating directorate/division relevant to the proposal to ascertain whether the focus and budget of their proposed activities are appropriate for this solicitation.

A related CyberTraining webinar will take place 7 April 2022. The webinar will review the CyberTraining solicitation (NSF-22-574), including all three project classes, and the priorities of the participating divisions. There will also be time for questions.

Solicitation deadline: 16 May 2022.

The 51st International Arctic Workshop will be held at the Svalbard Science Centre in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway from 19 to 23 June 2022, with an optional two-day field excursion in Isfjorden on 24 to 25 June.

The International Arctic Workshop is a friendly, informal, and relaxed conference open to all students and professionals interested in the Arctic. Originally starting at INSTAAR at the University of Colorado – Boulder, the Arctic Workshop alternates between INSTAAR and an international host. This year, and for the first time in the High Arctic, the Svalbard Science Centre is hosting the meeting in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.

The small size, informal focus, and strong student orientation makes this a perfect meeting for presenting your new research, networking between students and academics, discussing your current projects, and exploring a range of topics across multiple polar disciplines. Limited travel and accommodation support is available for presenting students. Organised in the heart of the Arctic and jointly between the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), the Norwegian Polar Institute, the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), and the Svalbard Museum, it promises to be a fantastic, stimulating, and fun event. This year’s meeting is made possible by funding from the Research Council of Norway through the Svalbard Science Forum. Funding for additional events has been provided by iEarth – the Centre for Integrated Earth Science Education and APECS – the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists.

All those interested in Arctic science are invited to attend. The meeting is based around a series of talks and poster sessions covering all aspects of high-latitude environments, with a conference banquet, mid conference field excursion, and an optional post-conference excursion in Spirtsbergen’s Isfjorden. Past Arctic Workshops have included presentations on arctic climate, glaciology, environmental geochemistry, geomorphology, hydrology, soils, ecology, oceanography, Quaternary history, archaeology and more. Arctic palaeoenvironments, terrestrial and marine, have traditionally been at the centre of the Arctic Workshop.

This year the organizers are also encouraging abstracts on topics relating to the challenges of polar field teaching as well as on sustainability in Arctic research and education.

Registration and abstract deadlines: Monday 16 May 2022.

The UArctic and the Arctic Circle invite nominations for two Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Awards. One award is open to any individual or small group, and another specifically catalyzing institutional collaboration in support of innovative action amongst UArctic members.

The Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award serves to promote and raise awareness of promising projects which address climate change through concrete actions and plans. The Award provides high-level recognition for innovative ideas that transforms knowledge into action to help address the impacts of climate change in the Arctic. Each prize comes with a 100,000 Euro unrestricted grant that is intended to help develop the ideas through outreach, engagement, and communication.

The two prizes will be granted at the Arctic Circle Assembly in October in Reykjavík, Iceland where the awardees will also be celebrated at a special reception. The recipients will be asked to give a short presentation at the Arctic Circle Assembly and other potentially beneficial venues.

Nomination deadline: 17 May 2022.

The idiom “All hands on deck” reflects the efforts that are currently needed to address the major environmental challenges of the current century. Knowledge in all forms and of all natures represent an essential component for designing a desirable and sustainable future both for Mankind and the Earth, along with the means to achieve such horizons. Knowledge inclusiveness, however, has not always been a concern in scientific and academic circles, although this could improve the ways we do research and interact with the rest of the society.

For the 2022 edition of its International Online Conference, the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) has thus chosen to dedicate a 24-hour online conference, on 18 May 2022, for sharing experiences and knowledge on Polar and Alpine regions from various perspectives.

The conference contains five sessions drawing on multiple disciplines from the social to the natural sciences:

• Voices from Alpine and Polar regions
• Bridging knowledge from Polar ocean beneficiaries
• Polar regions in motion
• Methods and ethics in polar research
• Advances in cryospheric sciences

The organizers decided to make natural, humanities and social sciences meet in three of the five sessions (i.e., bridging knowledge from Polar ocean beneficiaries; polar regions in motion; methods and ethics in polar research) and retained transversal, open themes so as to allow a wide array of discussions. They also dedicated sessions to particular realms such as the ocean, the coasts and the cryosphere.

The APECS International Online Conference 2022 is giving room for alternative ways for expressing self through a call for stories and art contributions that, we believe, will considerably enrich the experience of the participants.

Submissions can thus take the form of three different formats:

• Stand-alone presentation
• Oral narrative
• Artwork

All Stand-alone presentation and Oral narrative proposals must be sent to Nicolas Champollion by 20 March 2022 at 10:00 AM (UTC). All artwork proposals must be submitted via Google form by 01 April 2022 at 10:00 AM (UTC).

The annual Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) will be hosted this year by Germany from May 23 to June 2. Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute for a discussion, in advance of the 2022 Meeting, with the ATCM Chair and key heads of delegation to learn of their priorities for the Meeting and current issues in Antarctic relations.

Speakers

Tania von Uslar-Gleichen
Chair, Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting; Director International Law, German Foreign Office

Ambassador Fausto Lopez Crozet
National Director for Antarctic Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina

Adam McCarthy
Chief Legal Officer and First Assistant Secretary, Legal Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Government of Australia

Birgit Njåstad
Chair of the Committee for Environmental Protection, Program Leader (Antarctica), Norwegian Polar Institute

Miriam Wolter
Head of Division for the Law of the Sea, Antarctica, and Aerospace Law, Foreign Office, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Moderator

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

Rick Thoman will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for June 2022 and the summer season. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Please register to attend.

Polar Educators International (PEI) invites applications for PEI council members. Council members are virtual, volunteer positions. The one-year council term begins 4 June 2022.

PEI is an essential network of educators and researchers aiming to provide a deeper understanding of current polar sciences to a global audience. PEI Council members commit to, and benefit from, monthly online council meetings with fellow polar educators and researchers from around the world.

All PEI members can become council members if they are interested in being actively involved in the organization. There are both organizational and individual members who follow the same procedure for approval to take a council position.

Application deadline: 22 May 2022.

The European Space Agency’s 2022 Living Planet Symposium, which is held every three years, will take place in Bonn, Germany. The symposium is organised with the support of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

This symposium focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions.

Important Dates

Session Proposals: 10 September 2021
Abstracts deadline: 10 December 2021
Registration opens: February 2022
Preliminary Programme: March 2022

The EGU General Assembly 2022 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world for one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career scientists, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

The last two General Assemblies, Sharing Geoscience Online in 2020 and vEGU21: Gather Online, were organized as virtual meetings due to the Covid-related restrictions. In 2022, the EGU aims to provide an on-site experience again for those attending in-person, while at the same time introducing new concepts to include virtual attendees as much as possible. The EGU General Assembly 2022 (EGU22) will be a conference with a virtual component where everybody is welcome, in person or online! The organizers plan for the format of the conference to be flexible, giving them the opportunity to more easily adapt to the uncertain global context.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: 12 January 2022, 13:00 CET
• Travel Support application deadline: 1 December 2021, 13:00 CET

The Citizen Science Association (CSA) is a member-driven organization that connects people from a wide range of experiences around one shared purpose: advancing knowledge through research and monitoring done by, for, and with members of the public.

C*SCI 2022 is an annual event that connects researchers, practitioners, community members, and others to share experiences, ideas, and innovations. Regional events will complement a core central program, providing opportunities to connect with big ideas online and also build or strengthen connections close to home.

The strength of this field is our openness to learning across boundaries, particularly across the many approaches to research by, for, and with members of the public. Whether contributory, collaborative, or co-created, whether called community science, crowdsourcing, or citizen science (or efforts that don’t start with c!), CSA is a place for all perspectives and we want the language of this event to reflect that.

Nobody should have to do this work alone – this is the place to meet new collaborators, gain new skills, and expand your perspectives for the most meaningful and impactful research. We break down boundaries to both challenge and inspire each other in this work. This is a different kind of event, welcoming contributors from all roles and perspectives in this field. Insights from all improve this field – get connected!

A centerpiece of the conference will be online posters, presented in a way that encourages interactions among authors and across the community. It is the goal of the conference organizers to encourage poster submissions from all parts of the highly diverse citizen science community. Accordingly, CSA seeks contributions that do not necessarily fit the mold of posters at academic gatherings.

The call for posters is open now through January 31, 2022.

The core program will feature daily symposia amplifying three important themes that emerged from CitSci Virtual 2021:

• Working Across Boundaries
• Equity and Inclusion in C*Sciences
• The Future of C*Sciences

These themes are intentionally broad. Symposia are intended to provide thought-provoking and innovative perspectives to spark meaningful conversations and deep reflections about your own practice, research, or programs. Panel-style sessions will be followed by topical engaged sessions (workshops, discussions, or collaborations) to turn inspiration into action.

The Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability (CCADI), in cooperation with its partners, is pleased to welcome participants to the Canadian Polar Data Workshop IV, a follow-up to previous Canada-wide consultations held in 2015, 2017, and 2020.

CPDW4 will be held in Victoria, British Columbia, at the Delta Hotels Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort. Virtual access will also be available via Zoom.

ArcticX will culminate with an in-person event to solidify partnerships forged over this InnovationXLab series. Taking place at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage, this summit will focus on driving energy technologies for a more sustainable Arctic region. Attendees from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Alaska Native communities, national laboratories, and Arctic businesses will gather to leverage the strength and knowledge of local entrepreneurs to advance energy affordability, reliability, and innovation.

Panels will further existing energy projects, discuss new development ideas, promote funding opportunities, and highlight cutting-edge clean technologies. Networking events will foster connections that fuel technology and commercialization solutions for the people and communities of the Arctic.

This meeting is intended for anyone interested in ice core science or related fields, including ice-core analysis, ice or subglacial drilling, glacier geophysics that supports or depends on ice core records, paleoclimate, and contemporary climate and ice sheet change.

Goals of the meeting include:

1) sharing of the latest science
2) discussion of future ice core science projects in both the polar regions and in alpine environments
3) providing career development opportunities
4) improving communication about ice-core and related science both within and beyond the scientific community

The organizers hope to attract a diverse group of participants, including those who may not have extensive experience working with ice cores.

While this meeting is primarily oriented at researchers in the US, international attendees are welcome.

The meeting will begin the morning of Tuesday, May 24 and end by early afternoon Thursday, May 26, followed by the annual meeting of the U.S. Ice Core Working Group.

This meeting is jointly organized by representatives and leaders of the Hercules Dome Ice Core Project, the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, the U.S. Ice Drilling Program, and the Juneau Icefield Research Program.

The organizers do not anticipate COVID restrictions to require us to change the meeting to “all virtual”. If the meeting is canceled, the decision to do so will be made prior to March 21.

Registration

Registration and abstract submission will open on March 1 and close on April 15. Meeting registration is $100. Virtual attendance is free. Limited funds are available to support participant expenses, particularly for early career researchers.