Past Events

The Arctic Development Expo welcomes all researchers, Indigenous leaders, circumpolar Governments, scientists, industry experts and passionate individuals.

​The Arctic Development Expo takes place in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada as the organizers strive to make knowledgeable decisions to enhance circumpolar life and create innovative solutions for northern realities. The organizers look to develop the Arctic through sustainable means and will do so by concentrating on the following four themes:

• Natural & Renewable Resources
• Climate and Energy Innovations
• Indigenous Leadership
• Circumpolar Governance and Knowledge Economy

EarthCube welcomes those interested in the intersection between cyberinfrastructure and geosciences to join the 2022 EarthCube Annual Meeting.

The theme of this year’s meeting is “Building Beyond”. The people of EarthCube have built increased capacity within the Earth sciences over the past decade. This year’s meeting recognizes the ways in which this community supports researchers, and how EarthCube is moving science forward into the future.

Meeting objectives

• Share novel approaches and architectures used in geoscience research
• Foster learning and collaboration
• Learn about opportunities and sustainability plans for EarthCube
• Promote topics that enhance the Earth Sciences
• And of course, networking!

Call for Abstracts

The organizers welcome abstracts for:

• Notebooks
• Posters, Oral Presentations and Demonstrations
• Working sessions

Abstracts are due 8 March 2022. Final notebooks are due 15 April 2022. Notification of notebook review​ will be 10 May 2022.

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The Arctic Data Center, Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), and Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) are jointly conducting a survey of the Arctic research community. The survey should take about 10-15 minutes to complete and will be open until June 15th.

The survey will help develop a better understanding of the networks, forums, tools, workshops, and courses that support Arctic research collaboration, as well as the management and use of Arctic data. Your feedback will help drive future courses, workshops, and other programming offered by the Arctic Data Center, IARPC, and ARCUS. The survey is open to all individuals who engage in Arctic research activities and we welcome diverse perspectives across disciplines, career stages, organizations, knowledge systems, and geographies.

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) play a key role in the global water cycle as the primary mechanism conveying water vapor through mid-latitude regions. The precipitation that ARs deliver in many parts of the world, especially through orographic precipitation processes, is important for water resources; but it also regularly is a hazard, triggering floods and landslides, as well as coastal windstorms.

The main objective of the International Atmospheric River Conference 2022 (the fourth IARC) is to advance the state of the AR science (dynamics, impacts, monitoring, forecast & projections) providing a forum to a growing community of researches and practitioners. This event effectively strengthens worldwide, cross-disciplinary collaboration. The organizers also aim to connect different disciplines, stakeholders and users.

The in-person conference will be held in Santiago, Chile from 10-14 October 2022, including plenary talks, poster sessions and breakout room discussions. Plenary sessions will be transmitted on-line, and participants may present remotely if needed.

Main themes

• Physics and dynamics aspects of ARs
• Hydro-meteorological impacts of ARs Observing, tracking, modeling and forecasting ARs
• ARs in past and future climates

Special Sessions

• Socio-economical impacts of ARs
• ARs and polar Meteorology and Climate
• Compound events

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission Period: 2 May to 15 June 2022
• Registration: 1 July to 10 October 2022
• Draft Program: 31 July 2022
• Final Program: 30 September 2022

Greenland has recently become an epicenter of interest in natural resource investment and development in the Arctic. With accessible deposits of minerals needed to satisfy rising global demand, and fisheries exports as a key component of Greenland’s economy, as well as other trade products, Greenland is poised to capitalize on its strategic geographic location and natural resources. However, investments in these and others areas must limit environmental impacts on the fragile Greenlandic ecosystem and more broadly consider how to implement the Green transition. How can such investments bolster Greenland’s economy? What role can the United States play in facilitating environmentally and socially responsible development?

Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute and the Greenland Representation in Washington, DC for a conversation with Greenland Prime Minister Múte B. Egede about these topics, followed by an expert panel discussion.

Keynote Speaker

Prime Minister Múte B. Egede
Prime Minister, Government of Greenland

Introduction

Ambassador Mark Green
President, Director, & CEO, Wilson Center

Michael Sfraga
Chair & Distinguished Fellow, Polar Institute // Chair, US Arctic Research Commission

Panelists

Dana Eidsness
Director, Maine North Atlantic Development Office

Kenneth Høegh
Head of Greenland Representation, Washington, DC

Thomas Lauridsen
Chief Advisor, Ministry of Mineral Resources and Justice, Government of Greenland

Paul Hueper
Director of Energy and Mineral Programs, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State

David Brown
Director, Technical Support Office, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, US Agency for International Development

Full title: NOAA’s Regional Climate Services (RCS) Program: what does it do and how does it work with other entities?

This talk provides an overview of the National Centers for Environmental Information’s Regional Climate Services Program and what services are specifically available for Alaska. Products available from NCEI’s parent organization, the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) will also be discussed, as well as the contractual relationship with the Regional Climate Centers. Within NOAA, coordination with the National Weather Service’s Climate Services Branch, Environmental Science and Services Divisions, Regional Integrated Science and Assessment Programs, Co-operative Institutes, and Regional Teams is essential. The RCS Directors also coordinate with state and federal partners such as the State Climatologists, the USDA Climate Hubs, FEMA, and the USGS Climate Adaptation Science Centers. Listeners should come away with an understanding of what Alaska’s Regional Climate Services Director can provide.

The Virtual Alaska Weather Symposium (VAWS) is a collaboration between ACCAP, the Geographic Information Network of Alaska, and the NOAA National Weather Service. The organizers present cutting-edge technologies in satellite remote sensing, forecasting, and modeling to a statewide audience through this webinar series.

Registration is required.

The Machine Learning for Polar Regions Workshop will start with presentations from climate and machine learning experts on current trends in each field, together and separately. The talks will be followed by a summary and a discussion of current projects that are pioneering the use of machine learning over polar regions. Posters will be presented in the evening and participants will be able to submit their work using the registration link (no later than May 31st). The Steering committee will select the work that will be presented during the Workshop and will notify the participants by June 4th. Submissions that already include both the polar and machine learning aspects will be given priority for presentation and are strongly encouraged. However, papers and work focusing also on a single aspect of the polar or machine learning disciplines (i.e. Generative Adversarial Networks, Deep CNNs in the case of ML or sea ice, Greenland and Antarctica mass loss and contribution of polar regions to sea level rise) are encouraged and welcome. Afterwards, participants will be broken down into working groups that will focus on the three following questions:

• What are the current mechanisms impeding or facilitating collaboration among disciplines?
• What are the mechanisms leading to the success of cross-disciplinary work?
• What are the current funding or collaborative opportunities for this area?

The outcome of the workshop will be a report containing a review of cutting edge applications, literature on machine learning and polar regions, current mechanisms that can support the success for cross-disciplinary collaboration, and funding opportunities for both the climate and machine learning realms.

Important Dates

• 31 May: Deadline for participants to submit work for presentations.
• 4 June: Steering Committee informs participants if work has been selected to present.

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 July 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.

The EU Horizon 2020 funded project ARICE has developed a novel 3D icebreaker platform that will be launched at an hybrid event in the headquarters of CNR in Bologna, Italy from 4:00 to 5:15 pm CEST. You can join the event online by registering.

The 3D icebreaker visualisation platform is part of ARICE's aim at enhancing virtual and remote access to data in WP7. The goal of this WP is to establish the project data management system and to develop and adapt strategies and tools for efficient data access and data dissemination.

Visit the Data Tools section in ARICE to explore this and other data management platforms developed by ARICE.

*Update: The Nordic Geographers Meeting has been moved due to COVID restrictions. The new dates are 19-22 June 2022. (The original dates were 7-10 February, 2022).**

Our planet is facing some of its greatest challenges. Especially in the North, the imminent threat of irreversible climate change, and its palpable effects on our physical, ecological and social worlds, is increasingly felt. In particular, the polar region is warming faster than any other area of Earth. There is an urgent need to assess the multiple relationships between these increasing natural hazards and our societies, geopolitics, economies and environment. Conversely, we are forced to seek new ecological, political and economic concepts and approaches to help mitigate climate change and adapt to inevitable transformations. Furthermore, the challenges facing the Nordic states are embedded in complex and spatially differentiated socio-economic and ecological landscapes, which requires multiple scientific approaches.

The University of Alaska Southeast and the International Glaciological Society are pleased to announce the International Symposium on Maritime Glaciers.

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.

Please note the participation is capped at 50 people and it is ‘first come, first served’ so please register early to avoid disappointment.

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 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.

Note: This event was originally scheduled to take place 21-22 October 2021, but was postponed to 23-24 June 2022.

Please join The Cryosphere in a Changing Climate in Davos for an exciting scientific symposium with high-level speakers, scientific poster sessions and ample networking time. The symposium aims to build a bridge between generations of cryosphere and climate scientists. Use this opportunity to present and discuss your latest research in a stimulating environment. The organizers invite Early Career Scientists interested in participating to apply for a travel grant.

The Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL announces that the registration to the above mentioned symposium in the memory of our past Director, Koni Steffen, is now open.

Konrad Steffen – or Koni, as everyone knew him – was a passionate researcher and teacher, who dedicated his life to science through the study of the cryosphere and the climate of cold environments. Koni was driven by the mission of informing about the ongoing, rapid human-driven changes and the resulting impacts on human and natural systems these changes could impose. This scientific symposium will honour Koni’s scientific legacy, covering a wide range of topics, including the study of Arctic sea ice, the dynamics of polar ice sheets, the quantification of climate-driven ice losses in Antarctica and Greenland, the effects of melting ice on global sea level, as well as more generally the impacts of climate change on polar and high mountain environments. By bringing together long-term colleagues that accompanied Koni over the years and early-career researchers that have recently embarked in the related disciplines, the event will aim at building a bridge between generations of cryosphere and climate scientists – a task in which Koni excelled.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline 10 May 2022.
• Registration deadline 31 May 2022.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) announces their upcoming IARPC Program Manager Chat webinar, Early Career Opportunities in Arctic Research.

Join IARPC for a federal program manager chat about research, funding, internship, employment, and other opportunities available for early career researchers in Arctic sciences. Staff from NASA, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of Energy, NOAA, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National Science Foundation will share information about opportunities offered by their agencies. After short presentations, there will be ample time for questions with the panel of program officers.

This webinar will be recorded and posted on the IARPC YouTube channel.

The School of Ice is an NSF-funded professional development program for faculty at Minority Serving Institutions. This program will train participants to understand paleoclimate evidence derived from ice cores and acquire the skills necessary to bring this exciting inquiry into new and existing Earth and environmental science classes on their campuses. The experiential nature of this workshop will build background knowledge of cutting-edge research and empower participants to communicate authentic paleoclimate research practices, ice core data, and results to their students.

There will be two opportunities to attend the School of Ice this summer. Besides thinking about the dates, the organizers would like you to reduce your carbon footprint by considering the one closer to you geographically. In both, you will interact with experts currently working in climate and ice science research, take interesting field trips, and engage in hands-on learning experiences you can use with your students. Travel expenses are paid, and all resources are provided freely to workshop participants.

Registration is open now. Priority consideration will be given to applications received by the due date but accepted on a rolling basis until the workshop is filled. Note: there is usually a waiting list to attend, so apply early!

School of Ice – Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Date: June 26-30, 2022
Applications Due: March 11, 2022

School of Ice – COLDEX-Oregon State University, Oregon
Date: August 6-12, 2022
Applications Due: April 14, 2022

This workshop was originally scheduled for 20-23 October, 2020, and then 12-15 July, 2021.

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

The SCAR Action Group RINGS will organize the 4-day First International Workshop on Antarctic RINGS. The primary goal of this workshop is to generate synergies and international cooperation to develop more accurate and complete reference bed topography data for robust assessments of ice discharge from all around Antarctica. The secondary goal is to discuss relevant science plans for the ice sheet's marginal zone.

The organizers welcome both Action Group members and non-members from multiple disciplines related to RINGS. The organizers uphold SCAR's values of diversity and inclusion and strongly encourage Early Career Researchers to attend the workshop.

The workshop was originally planned in March but postponed due to pandemic. The organizers hope recently improving pandemic situations will allow all interested travel to Norway in June. New registration is required even if you registered for the planned March workshop. To broaden the community, the organizers offer online participation to talk and poster sessions this time. However, discussion sessions are for onsite participants only.

Deadlines

• Registration deadline for onsite participation: 10 April.
• Registration deadline for online participation: 25 June.

The International Glaciological Society will hold an International Symposium on ‘Snow’ in 2022. The symposium will be held at the Davos Congress Centre,
Davos, Switzerland on 25–30 September 2022.

Snow is a complex material, transient and of singular beauty. While our understanding has improved over the recent decades, it still offers numerous scientific challenges.The snow cover plays a crucial role in the climate of cold regions – from high latitudes to high elevations – and impacts societies and their activities. Because of its high climate sensitivity, snow is declining, with far-reaching consequences for the environment and humanity.

Given these prospects and improvements in advanced technologies for monitoring and modelling, we announce a symposium focused on understanding snow and its impacts on the environment, people and infrastructure. Snow will be examined at all scales – from the microscale of snow structure to the
global scale.

This meeting seeks to address various challenges by bringing together scientists from diverse communities engaged in research on snow. The organizers welcome snow-related contributions, including ground-based observations, remote sensing, laboratory experiments, numerical modelling, data compilations and analyses, risk management, water resources, climate and social impact assessment.

Suggested Topics

These include (but are not limited to):

1. Observing and modelling of snow and its changes at different scales
2. Snow physics and chemistry
3. Snow as a component of climate
4. Remote sensing of seasonal snow and avalanches
5. Snow in motion and snow engineering
6. Snow and biosphere
7. Snow hydrology

Abstract and Paper Publication

Participants who wish to present a paper (oral or poster) at the Symposium will be required to submit an abstract by 28 June 2022. Accepted abstracts will be posted on the Symposium’s website. The Council of the IGS 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 IARPC June Atmosphere Collaboration Team Meeting will have updates on the current status of atmospheric observatories in Northern Alaska. It will feature the following presentations that are intended to spark a collaborative discussion:

• Merged Observatory Data Files (MODF) for Utqiagvik- Sara Morris (NOAA) (10 mins)
• Updates on Department of Energy Facilities- Andrew Glen (Sandia National Lab) (10 mins)
• The New BRW Observatory & Opportunities for Collaboration- Brian Vasel (NOAA) (10 mins)

The meeting will end with updates from the community. The organizers invite all meeting attendees to share announcements, recent findings (published or unpublished), ideas for collaboration, requests for future meetings, or anything that you wish to share or ask, etc.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) invites registration for their June 2022 Early Career Social Hour.

Join other polar early career scientists to connect, network, build community, and have some fun at PSECCO's Early Career Social Hour in the virtual world of Topia.

Topia is an interactive and unique way to connect with others remotely, in a virtual setting. Appearing in the world as an avatar, participants can move around the PSECCO space and meet people in a natural way. Sit and chat with other polar scientists who do science in the same region or move to gather with other folks chatting around a campfire. In Topia, participants can decide who to chat with and where to go within the space.

PSECCO will bring icebreakers for participants to kick off their conversations and/or provide natural breaks during which participants can choose to move on to chat to someone else.