Past Events

Convergence research brings together diverse participants to craft – together – new languages of understanding and form new perspectives and solutions pathways around complex societal challenges and opportunities. Convergence is an intentional, careful process requiring relationship building and open sharing of individual perspectives so that groups can create integrated pathways to make progress together, often towards community-level activities or applications. Rapid climate change in the Arctic is causing unprecedented environmental shifts that are intrinsically connected with complex social and community activities and concerns, from food security to infrastructure, conservation to geopolitics.

The NSF-funded Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) is supporting new and future Arctic-focused convergence research. One activity of support is development of four Convergence Working Groups that will bring together researchers, local experts, and engaged community representatives to work together on a focused, self-formed project; for example, hosting community workshops, creating shared Arctic Data Center portals, developing policy briefs, or crafting science storytelling products. The Convergence Working Groups themselves will attempt to apply convergence concepts and act as test beds and examples for best practices. The process for Working Group formation has already been available for community feedback, with an ongoing workflow aimed to solidify areas of focus and participation by early 2023.

Join this webinar to find out more about convergence research, formation and activities of upcoming Convergence Working Groups, and broader opportunities for cross-community interaction within the NNA-CO.

The course provides a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. Topics include: continuum mechanics, sliding and hydraulics, numerical modelling, polar meteorology, ice-ocean interaction, ice cores, interaction of ice sheets with the solid earth, etc. The course is meant for Ph.D. students that work on a glaciology-related climate project. Some places are available for junior scientists.

Deadline for applications is 15 January 2022.

The Northern Arctic Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov is pleased to announce the International Forum of Young Scientists 2022.

This year the Forum welcomes PhD, Master and Bachelor students and is held under the auspices of the Russia’s Chairmanship at the Arctic Council 2021-2023 and aligns with its priority areas: Arctic people, including indigenous peoples of the North; environmental protection and climate change issues; socio-economic development of the region and strengthening the Arctic Council.

The participants will have an opportunity to broaden their knowledge about the Arctic Region in various scientific fields, learn about the large-scale industrial and environmental Arctic projects, participate in discussions addressing the following topics related to the key challenges of the Arctic Region development and exploration:

• Russian Arctic agenda 2035
• Logistics and transport systems in the Arctic
• Environmental challenges and risk management in the Arctic
• Local communities in the changing region environment
• Geopolitics and international relations in the Arctic

The highlight of the Forum remains NArFU annual International PhD School which serves a platform for young researchers to share their knowledge with the leading Russian and foreign scientists, high-officials, project managers and practitioners about the current global and local Arctic agenda. The PhD School will be held online (Zoom platform) and include lectures, discussion panels and students’ presentation sessions. The working language is English.

Master and Bachelor students are invited for an off-line session in Arkhangelsk. The working language is Russian.

Application for PhD School: PhD students and early-career researchers from the HEIs of Arctic and non-Arctic countries are asked to fill in the application form indicating a topic of their research project and attaching its abstract to the form.

Workload: 3 ECTS (certificate of participation; transcript of records upon request).
The deadline for application is 15th of March 2022.
Financing: No participation fee.
Questions to: articschool [at] narfu.ru

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) invites input into their draft 2022 Long Range Science Plan.

Each year in the spring, the IDP works with its Science Advisory Board and the research community to update the Long Range Science Plan. This Plan identifies the science in the coming decade that will require the use of ice drilling technology and expertise for the community. This also drives the formation of other plans, for example, the Long Range Drilling Technology Plan. The plans provide the basis for multi‐annual planning for the actions and drill development projects of IDP and others, and the plans give the funding agencies advance notice of upcoming community science needs.

Those that need an ice core or a hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade or a rock core from under shallow glacial ice, should ensure their science is captured in the current draft update of the Long Range Science Plan.

Those interested can read through the draft Long Range Science Plan and send corrections, updates, or additions to Icedrill [at] Dartmouth.edu by 27 May 2022. When sending corrections/updates, reference the appropriate line number in the draft Long Range Science Plan where the correction/update is needed.

Deadline to submit input: 27 May 2022.

Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee: "Come celebrate our colleague and friend Sara Bowden as she retires from the IARPC Secretariat at the end of May. As Executive Secretary of IARPC, Sara has driven the creation and implementation of several federal Arctic research plans, supported interagency collaboration in Arctic research, overseen the development of the innovative IARPC Collaborations website, and more. Sara has been the backbone of IARPC for over a decade. Before serving in IARPC, she was the Executive Officer for the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and helped coordinate international Arctic research efforts. We welcome this opportunity to honor her many contributions to Arctic research. Old and new friends near and far are invited to share stories, raise a toast, and celebrate Sara."

Registration required. After you register, you will receive the Zoom information.

The International Polar Foundation (IPF), Schneider Electric, and Venturi would like to cordially invite you to the official EU Green Week 2022 partner hybrid event, Striving to Reduce the Environmental Footprint of Polar Research.

The event will take place at Atelier 29, Rue Jacques de Lalaing 29, 1000 Brussels. It will also be streamed interactively online for those unable to take part in-person.

From 2007-09, the International Polar Foundation, with the support of its many private sector partners and the Belgian State, designed and constructed the world’s first zero-emission polar research station - the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA).

Fully operational since 2009, the primary goal of constructing the groundbreaking station was to serve as a zero-emission platform for scientists working in the Dronning Maud Land region of East Antarctica.

Now that the revolutionary Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station has been in operation for more than a decade, IPF would like to showcase the latest innovations at the revolutionary research platform that reduce even further the environmental footprint of doing scientific research in Antarctica. Improvements and initiatives that will be explained during the event include:

• Industry-leading upgrades to the station’s renewable energy production and management
• A brand new water treatment system with higher capacity - a system that goes above and beyond the requirements of the Madrid Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty
• The entry into use of the Venturi Antarctica, the first electric polar exploration vehicle, which is now used to support of polar research at PEA

Please register if you're interested in attending we can accurately prepare catering. Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

A limit of 100 people will be admitted to this in-person part of this event. Online participation is also possible. A link to participate online will be sent to those interested in participating only online.

The new Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026 articulates the need for continued work towards ethically open data and research practices. But what does “open science” mean for Arctic research funders? And how can you get funding to support it?

Come to this IARPC Program Officer Chat with Thorsten Markus & Kaitlin Harbeck (Program Officers for Cryospheric Sciences at NASA) and Allen Pope & Kelly Brunt (Program Officers in the NSF Office for Polar Programs) to talk about what open science means in their programs, and how NASA and NSF provide funding and support to advance open polar and cryospheric science. After short presentations, there will be ample time for Q&A with the panel of program officers.

UArctic invites its members to attend the 3rd Annual Assembly meeting of UArctic. This meeting will take place 1-3 June 2022 with a pre-conference to be held 30-31 May 2022.

All UArctic members are represented in the Assembly of UArctic, which oversees the development and direction of the organization. Meetings of the Assembly (previously known as Meetings of the Council) also serve as a forum of consultation, networking, and cooperation between all members.

The Assembly meets once per year, with meetings hosted by UArctic member(s). The 2022 meeting is hosted by the University of New Hampshire, the University of Maine, the University of New England, the University of Southern Maine, and Dartmouth College.

The meeting highlights include a Traditional Lobster Bake at the University of New England, a Strawbery Banke Tour, a New England Arctic Network (NEAN) Research Symposium, and more to be announced.

Registration deadline: 15 May 2022.

The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 56th Congress, the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Annual Meeting, and the 78th Eastern Snow Conference (ESC) will be held jointly over a 6-day period, 1-3 June 2022 and continuing 6-8 June 2022. Due to the continuing impact and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the joint meetings will be held using a virtual (online) format. More detailed information will be posted as it becomes available on the Congress website.

The theme of the joint meeting is "Science Serving Society", recognizing that the science we all do provides an essential service to our society. This ranges from discovery that pushes the boundaries of our understanding, to the provision of climate, water, weather, oceanic and geophysical services (including policy and regulation development), and even extends to the development of the effective mechanisms for the delivery of services to stakeholders and the users of our work. The organizers hope that this Congress will help maintain and sharpen the focus of the broad professional community on the science while also paying specific attention to the specific needs of users. Proposals for scientific sessions are being invited for all areas of CMOS, CGU, and ESC interest, especially relating to the following areas:

• Advances in observational science including new and updated data sets, methodologies, campaigns and instruments
• Advances in our understanding of observed variability and change, including process knowledge and the ability to represent those processes in models
• Advances in predicting and projecting future variation and change on all times scales
• All aspects of extremes, past, present and future
• Applied science and the development and evaluation of user services
• Service delivery mechanisms

The abstract submission deadline is February 28, 2022.

The Observing, Modeling, and Understanding the Circulation of the Arctic Ocean and Sub-Arctic Seas Workshop will take place 27-30 June 2022 in Seattle, Washington.

In recent decades we have seen major changes in Arctic Ocean circulation, salinity, and temperature and associated declines in sea ice coverage and thickness. There is evidence of connections of these changes with climate indices, and the changes arguably affect climate by altering the radiative heat balance at high latitudes, impacting the strength of the global overturning circulation, and influencing the interaction between the ocean and Greenland ice sheet. There are also indications that Arctic sea ice and atmospheric circulation can play an important role in extended range predictability of extreme weather events in mid-latitudes. In spite of its importance, Arctic Ocean observations are limited. Several major in situ observing programs that existed in the 2000s have ended, and today sustained oceanographic observations outside the Canada Basin have almost ceased to exist. This workshop will aim to assess our understanding of the Arctic Ocean circulation and discuss observing system requirements needed to confirm and extend that understanding.

More specifically, the workshop will explore changes in Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas circulation related to global change and the observing system required to track those changes in the future. The observing system design effort will be cognizant of the practical, geopolitical, and operational constraints of Arctic Ocean observing, but will incorporate modern objective experimental design and data assimilation using numerical models as fundamental guiding principles. Its work will contribute to evaluations of model simulations and observational analyses to assess opportunities for model improvements.

The US CLIVAR Observing, Modeling, and Understanding the Circulation of the Arctic Ocean and Sub-Arctic Seas Workshop will include presentations addressing:

A. The state of knowledge of Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas circulation with an eye toward identifying critical gaps in observations of modes of variability
B. The observing system needs and data assimilation approach to track those modes of variability
C. The practical, institutional, technical, and geopolitical challenges of increasing the coverage of Arctic Ocean observations that are required by A) and B)

Important Dates

Organizers are currently accepting abstracts for talks and posters. Abstract submission is through the registration platform and abstracts have a 250-word limit.

Registration is on a first come, first-served basis until capacity is reached. The organizing committee anticipates 100-120 participants at the workshop. Abstracts are not a requirement for participation.

• Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2022
• In-person registration deadline: 13 June 2022
• Virtual registration deadline: 26 June 2022

UPDATE: The 28th PLC Organising Committee, with the approval of the PLC Steering Committee and the Université Laval Library administration, have made a decision, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, to postpone the event from June 6-12, 2021 until June 5 – June 11, 2022.

The conference will focus on contribution of librarians and archivists to the sharing of northern and polar cultures and knowledge. The event will be an excellent opportunity to:

• Bring together specialists in northern and polar information, from more than 15 different countries.
• Highlight the unique expertise of librarians and archivists in this field through stimulating presentations.
• Showcase the work of renowned researchers in northern or arctic studies.
• Address the issue of metadata decolonization in a special workshop.
• Discuss various issues related to the management of research data for polar studies in a panel session.
• Introduce participants to the culture of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal of northern Quebec.

Université Laval’s Library, an organization that believes in values of collaboration and sharing practices between colleagues and institutions, is proud to host the 28th Polar Library Colloquy. Here are some highlights of the Library:

• The Collections includes more than 6 million documents.
• The Library team is composed of 220 employees, including 46 librarians.
• The acquisition Budget was CAD$ 12.2 million in 2017-18.
• More than 600,000 visits in 2017-2018, an increase of 8% from 2016-17.

Université Laval’s Library owns an extensive collection of documents on northern and Arctic studies, including:

• Monographs and periodicals covering emerging multidisciplinary fields on these topics.
• Geospatial data covering the North and the Canadian Arctic areas.
• First editions of travel accounts and exploration diaries of the Arctic.
• Antique maps of the Arctic.
• Scientific, artistic and heritage objects and specimens related to northernness.
• Cutting-edge expertise consisting of librarians, library technicians and geomatics experts to support research in this field.

The International Glaciological Society (IGS) and the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) are glad to announce the ‘International Symposium on Ice in a Sustainable Society’ (ISS). The ISS Symposium will be held at the Bizkaia Aretoa Convention Centre in Bilbao (Spain). This venue is located on one of the most emblematic sites of Bilbao, which opens out onto the estuary and the Guggenheim Museum. The Symposium will take place from Monday morning, 6 June, until the afternoon of Friday 10 June. On World Environment Day, Sunday 5 June, there will be several celebration activities and a pre-symposium icebreaker event at Bizkaia Aretoa. Different Social Events are scheduled thorough the Symposium.

During the ISS Symposium we will celebrate the 85th anniversary of IGS. The first official meeting of the ‘Association for the Study of Snow and Ice’ was held in April 1937. The Association would go through a few name changes through the years until it acquired its current name, ‘The International Glaciological Society’ in 1962. We will be celebrating the anniversary throughout the year, and of course during the ISS Symposium in Bilbao.

Important dates

• Opening of online abstract submission: 15 January 2022
• Opening of online registration: 21 February 2022
• Extended abstract submission deadline: 18 March 2022
• Early-bird registration deadline: 25 March 2022
• Deadline for full refund: 22 April 2022
• Late registration: 8 May 2022

This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) from the NSF Office of Polar Programs announces the opportunity to participate in this developing project. This announcement invites participation in the development and operation of this prospective Antarctic Research Vessel, through the issue of two Requests for Information, or RFIs.

Deadline for responses is 6 June 2022.

After two pandemic-related cancelations, the Sixth International Summer School in Glaciology organized by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) / Oslo University, will (hopefully) be held in McCarthy, central Alaska, from 7 to 17 June 2022 (just before the IGS Symposium on Maritime Glaciers, to be held in Juneau, Alaska, 19 - 24 June; https://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2022/juneau2022).

The summer school will provide a comprehensive overview of the physics of glaciers and current research frontiers in glaciology with focus on quantitative glaciology and remote sensing. The course is open to 28 graduate students from around the world targeting primarily early stage PhD students who perform glacier-related research. It will be taught by faculty of UAF’s glaciology group and several invited guest instructors from outside Alaska.

Application deadline: 15 January 2022.

The Challenger Society Conference 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the Challenger expedition and celebrates the birth of international and interdisciplinary oceanography. The conference will be held in person at the Royal Geographical Society, Natural History Museum and Imperial College in South Kensington, London from 6 to 8 September 2022, with side events 5 and 9 September.

On 7th December 1872, the HMS Challenger departed the Royal Navy Dockyard at Sheerness on the River Medway in Kent, England, on a four-year global scientific expedition across the world’s oceans. It was the first truly interdisciplinary grand scientific project, international in scope and involving the study of the physics, chemistry, biology and geology of the global ocean.

The UK Challenger Society and the Challenger Conferences are named after this expedition and exist to bring together UK marine scientists and international colleagues to discuss the latest science and inspire new generations of ocean researchers.

Challenger 150 will be the opportunity to take stock of where we have come in our science, the way we do oceanography, and an opportunity to discuss, imagine and design the future of open, international, collaborative, inclusive and diverse marine science.

The conference will include plenary sessions covering the very latest research in oceanography and a wide variety of special science sessions covering the physical, biological and chemical oceanography, marine conservation and biodiversity and marine geology and geophysics.

Important Dates

• Early bird registration closes 1 May 2022
• Abstract submission deadline extended to 8 June 2022
• Registration closes 1 July 2022

The Arctic Institute (TAI) proudly celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2021. Their mission is to help inform Arctic policy in the context of the climate crisis, and they believe that circumpolar decision-making must be based on interdisciplinary, inclusive research. As the TAI begins their second decade, they see an opportunity to broaden their mission, and proudly announce their first conference with traditional paper presentations, scenario workshops, and special sessions.

The climate crisis destabilizes traditional understandings of security in the Arctic. Many conferences and scholars have produced invaluable scholarship that seeks to understand how climate change affects security, regional development, and social and Indigenous welfare in the Arctic. The Arctic Institute chooses to upend the narrative by reframing their central question. How will global developments affect the circumpolar north? TAI offer graduate students and early career scholars a call for papers to address this question by applying different forms of security studies on global issues that affect the circumpolar north.

• Cultural Security
• Economic Security
• Energy Security
• Environmental Security
• Food Security
• Health Security
• Military Security
• Political Security

Submissions

The organizers welcome university students and early career scholars who seek to cultivate new networks and interdisciplinary conversations related to Arctic scholarship. The organizers welcome submissions on topics such as (but not limited to): Arctic studies, Indigenous knowledge, global affairs, international relations, political science, security studies, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, public administration, and legal studies. The outcomes of the roundtable discussions and special sessions will be summarised in a report on The Arctic Institute’s website.

The deadline for abstracts is March 25, 2022.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Polar Technology Collaboration Team invites participation at their June 2022 meeting on Web Based Software for End Users Living and Working in the Arctic.

This session of the Polar Technology team will focus on characteristics of web-based software that can be used by IARPC for engaging with end users who live in the Arctic. Two aspects of this include 1) presenting scientific and technical information in context so that it is relevant to end users, and 2) providing sensemaking capabilities for local residents while protecting their privacy. From the technology perspective, we need to understand how these software systems function, and how to sustain and scale them to address pan-Arctic societal challenges.

Participants must be IARPC members to attend. Joining IARPC is free and membership can be requested through the IARPC webpage.

The International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM) is a forum for earth scientists who study the Arctic Ocean and adjacent landmasses. It was founded to promote scientific cooperation and collaboration in Arctic geoscience. There have been eight meetings since its inception in 1991. Canada last hosted an ICAM meeting in 2003, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. ICAM 9 will be held in Canada’s National Capital in June 2022.

CAM scientific themes include: Geology and Geophysics; Mapping; Remote Sensing; Plate Tectonics; Climate, and studies that are related to Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The ICAM 9 Technical Program is the result of a community effort, and it includes a Special Session on the Communication of Science.

Abstract submission deadline is February 16, 2022. Registration opens March 16, 2022.

Abstract submission for the 10th SCAR Open Science Conference (1-10 August 2022) is now open. The theme of the conference is "Antarctica in a Changing World". The conference will be held online.

Abstracts can be submitted electronically via the Abstract Submission Portal on the SCAR 2022 Meetings website. There is no abstract submission fee.

The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, is hosting the SCAR Open Science Conference 2022. The 10th SCAR Open Science Conference will feature a comprehensive schedule of meetings, symposia, virtual side events and social activities, daily plenary lectures and poster sessions in an innovative online format.

Important Dates

• 02 June 2022: Registration opens.
• 12 June 2022: Extended abstract submission deadline.
• 27-29 July 2022: SCAR Business Meetings.
• 01-10 August 2022: SCAR 10th Open Science Conference 2022.
• 05-07 September 2022: SCAR Delegates Meeting.

Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 will be held in Vienna, Austria from 17 - 24 February 2023. Organizers are now accepting session proposals for the ASSW 2023 Science Symposium entitled “The Arctic in the Anthropocene”.

Never before has the Arctic experienced such a high pressure by human impact either by local environmental disturbances or by global climate change leading to long-term changes and massive challenges to the resistance and resilience of polar ecological systems and Arctic societies. The Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 will bring together scientists, Indigenous people, Arctic community members, and Arctic science stakeholders from all over the world to present and discuss the most recent advances on Arctic knowledge in the natural sciences, social sciences, the humanities as well as in the field of Indigenous knowledge. Besides the major Arctic focus of ASSW 2023, the OSC will also be an opportunity to foster research synergies between both Polar Regions, with sessions that integrate Arctic and Antarctica in order to understand global dimensions of anthropogenic impact.

The OSC will have plenary lectures and a large number of parallel science sessions, accepting both oral and poster presentations. Organizers invite the Arctic community to propose sessions of relevant topics in all science fields, framed in the overall conference theme “The Arctic in the Anthropocene”. IASC aims to bridge gaps in Arctic science, and therefore the hope is that session conveners will embrace this international and interdisciplinary approach in their proposed sessions. The OSC organizers hope to see a diverse set of sessions submitted by diverse groups of conveners.

The ASSW was initiated by International Arctic Science Committee (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. Over the years the summit evolved into the most important annual gathering of the Arctic research organizations.

The Conference is organized by the Austrian PolarResearch Institute (APRI), the Austrian Arctic Community, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and partners. The venue will be the University of Vienna, one of the oldest universities in Europe. To meet the requirements of a potential influence of Covid-19 on the conference, but also to make the event as CO2 friendly as possible, the conference is planned as a hybrid event.

Important Dates

• 12 June 2022: Call for sessions extended deadline
• May - October 2022: Call for Community / Business Meetings
• July - September 2022: Call for Abstracts
• October 2022: Notification of Abstract Acceptance
• November 2022: Registration opens