Past Events

ARCUS invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Carolina Behe, the Indigenous Knowledge/Science Advisor for the Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska (ICC Alaska), titled "Circumpolar Inuit Protocols for Equitable and Ethical Engagement (EEE): Sharing the EEE Protocols - Publication to Implementation". The seminar will be held via Zoom.

Registration is required for this event. Instructions for accessing the webinar will be sent to registrants prior to the event.

Seminar Abstract

Increasingly, Inuit are faced with climate change, resource development, research, wildlife management, and a host of other issues and related discussions. Inuit hold solutions for how to address these challenges and proven sustainable holistic approaches to having a balanced relationship within the Arctic. At the international level, these topics as well as threats to biodiversity, shipping, and other adverse impacts to food security are constantly present. Yet Inuit communities and Knowledge have not been considered equitably. For years, Inuit have raised concerns about the top-down approaches often used by international organizations, researchers, and decision- and policymakers. More recently and because of Indigenous Peoples advocacy, the recognition of Indigenous Knowledge and the need for partnerships, is gaining consideration.

To achieve approaches that are equitable, approaches that respect and recognize Indigenous Knowledge, a paradigm shifts in how work is being done, how decisions are being made, and how policy is developed must take place. We need true equitable and ethical approaches. The 2018 Utqiagvik Declaration mandated ICC to facilitate the development of Equitable and Ethical protocols to aid in this paradigm shift. In June of this year, ICC released the “Circumpolar Inuit Protocols for Equitable and Ethical Engagement” – or EEE Protocols. The EEE Protocols are the result of many years of work and specifically over the past three years, Inuit from across Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka have worked together to create this document.

This webinar will share the process of developing the EEE Protocols, the Protocols, and welcome a discussion about how you, the attendees, can implement the EEE Protocols.

Speaker Bio

Carolina Behe is the Indigenous Knowledge/Science advisor for the Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska. As part of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska team, her work is diverse and ranges from topics within food security and biodiversity to management and policy. Within the past couple of years, Carolina has been part of a team with focus on Inuit food sovereignty. Internationally, Carolina acts as the Inuit Circumpolar Council Head of Delegation on the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna working group board and brings forward ICC’s positions within the Convention on Biological Diversity. Much of ICC’s work within these international foras are focused on ensuring an Inuit perspective and interest are at the table. Additionally, a high amount of focus is placed on the involvement of Indigenous Knowledge and promoting the use of a co-production of knowledge approach to bring together Indigenous Knowledge and science. Carolina's work allows for her to work within two knowledge systems, Indigenous Knowledge and science. Indigenous Knowledge takes a holistic view and sees how many pieces fit together. Working with this understanding and way of knowing, combined with science, will aid in making adaptive ecosystem based decisions.

Recent advances in sensors and methodology open up new opportunities for interpretation of the historical and modern record of both airborne and satellite imagery of glaciers. This meeting seeks to update the GSLCT on recent work using imagery to study Northern Hemisphere glaciers, with a focus on Alaska and Svalbard.

Speakers

• Zachariæ Isstrøm Ice Shelf Changes, East Greenland, From Landsat 1975 to 2021 – Christopher A. Shuman (UMBC and Mark A. Fahnestock, UAF)
• Historical glacier change on Svalbard – Jack Kohler (Norwegian Polar Institute)

In conjunction with International Polar Week, the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) is hosting the sixth annual Polar Film Festival in September 2022. For five days, the Polar Film Festival will showcase several short videos on topics related to the Polar regions to the public and broader APECS community. Films will be hosted digitally on the USAPECS website each day during Polar Week. This year’s festival theme is Stories of Environmental and Social Change in the Polar Regions.

Deadline for film submissions is August 19th, 2022 at 11:59 pm ET.

If you would like to submit or suggest any short films or videos (1-30 minutes long) for viewing, please submit them using this google form. Submissions of independently created films (created by you or someone you know) are welcomed and encouraged. In the past, the film festival has featured works ranging from feature films and documentaries to independently-produced videos, interviews, and news reports, so the organizers welcome a diversity of submission types and topics.

The organizers are also looking for people to host in-person screenings this fall, so if you’re interested in doing so, please indicate this on the film submission form.

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

Please register to attend.

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 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

Alaska’s mineral resources are key to both national security and the nation’s economy and clean energy goals. With this in mind, the University of Alaska is hosting a two-day summit for policy makers, agency representatives and industry leadership to discuss Alaska’s potential and the steps needed to fulfill that potential.

Monday’s sessions will focus on national needs for critical minerals, Alaska’s investment climate and an overview of Alaska’s critical minerals resources. Tuesday’s sessions will take a closer look at current research in Alaska related to critical minerals and industry needs for development, including workforce and infrastructure.

The Wilson Center is pleased to partner with the University of Alaska to provide a free livestream of the sessions.

For more information about the conference, including the agenda and list of speakers, please visit www.akminerals.org.

Moderators include:

• Mike Sfraga, Chair, U.S. Arctic Commission
• DNR Acting Commissioner Akis Gialopsos, Acting Commissioner

Speakers include:

• Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senator
• Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senator
• Mike Dunleavy, Governor of Alaska
• David Applegate, US Geological Survey
• Steve Douglas, Alliance for Automotive Innovation
• Halimah Najeb-Locke, Department of Defense

A 1.5-day ISMASS (Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level) Expert Group workshop planned for Reykjavik, sponsored by CliC, IASC and SCAR and affiliated with Cryosphere 2022.

The last two decades have seen various unusual changes in the ice sheets, with the breakup of massive ice shelves from the Antarctic Peninsula and several major surface melt events in Greenland perhaps being most iconic. But how reflective are short-term extreme events of longer-term change and what is role of external forcing (e.g. climate change) versus internal variability (e.g. short-term variations in atmospheric and oceanic circulation and ice dynamics)?

This workshop will explore the degree to which short-term fluctuations and extreme events in the ice sheets (both Greenland and Antarctica) in the last two decades reflect their longer-term evolution and response to ongoing climate change. Considerable recent progress, summarised in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s AR6 WG1 August 2021 report, has been made on current state-of-the-science understanding of ice-sheet change. However, despite amplified global warming that has recently occurred over Greenland and around the Antarctic Peninsula, significant uncertainties remain concerning mass changes of the ice sheets during the rest of this century. Two major open questions relate to dynamic mass losses and potential non-linear feedbacks from Antarctica but also melt- and dynamic- related feedbacks from Greenland. The workshop will consider the interplay of forcings from the ocean and atmosphere and their interactions with ice-sheet changes on timescales of days to centuries. Information on the historical mass changes of both Greenland and Antarctica before the modern satellite era is distinctly limited but may be improved through the recent availability of new datasets, whilst the modelling community has embraced advancing computer capability and novel simulation approaches. The workshop will discuss recent innovations and recommendations for the next 5-10 years that are required in observations, process studies and modelling efforts to make further major breakthroughs in understanding how ice sheets change and the resulting local to global impacts: for example, in sea-level rise and extreme weather. Fully realising advances in climate and ocean models, as well as ice-sheet modelling, is an essential part of improving the understanding of ice-sheet changes and sensitivity. This workshop will consist of a mix of invited keynote talks and panel/discussion sessions that will address these crucial issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

The organizers currently plan this to be an in-person event (COVID restrictions permitting).

Registration and abstract submission for the 3rd PalaeoArc International Conference have opened. The conference will gather together researchers who are interested in climatically-induced environmental changes in the Arctic during the Quaternary period and present day.

The Conference will be held in the Arctic Centre at the heart of the town Rovaniemi, in northern Finland.

Registration will close on 31st July 2022.

Abstract submission is already open and template for the abstracts are available in the registration page. Deadline for the abstracts is 8th July 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors on 18th July latest.

Furthermore, the organizers are also organizing a pre-conference field course for students from 21-22 August. Focus of the field course is in glacial geology and morphology as well as sedimentology in the central part of the last Weichselian glaciation, in the southern Finnish Lapland. The maximum number of places in the field course is 15 and PhD students are preferred. Places will be fulfilled according to the registration order. Field course will be free of charge for participants.

The 103rd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting will be held 8-12 January 2023 in Denver, Colorado and Online.

The theme of the Annual Meeting will be Data: Driving Science. Informing Decisions. Enriching Humanity.

AMS is committed to ensuring that their meetings and events allow their attendees and presenters to share their science and connect with one another, however they can. As such, the 103rd AMS Annual Meeting will be a hybrid meeting. You will be able to participate in all upcoming AMS Meetings in-person or virtually.

Plan now to present your work at the meeting. Most abstracts are due 24 August.

NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) recently launched a new website with the same information about cryospheric datasets, services, and tools plus some new features to make it easier for data users to explore, discover, and access NASA’s snow and ice data. Whatever your scientific discipline of interest, NSIDC may have open data that are relevant to your research. Why? The cryosphere is a global system stretching from the Arctic to the Antarctic and includes all the snow, ice, and other frozen regions across the planet. These frozen parts of Earth are important components of the global climate system and provide fresh water and other ecosystem services to people, plants, and animals.

Join NSIDC experts for an interactive walk-through of enhanced data product landing pages, new user resources, featured data visualization tools, and a Jupyter Notebook tutorial on how to programmatically access cryospheric data at NSIDC.

Registration is required to join this event.

Bios

Leslie Goldman, User Engagement Specialist, NASA NSIDC DAAC

Leslie focuses on user engagement strategies for the National Snow and Ice Data Center, including the NSIDC DAAC. She has a background in visual design, information architecture and website content management.

Gail Reckase, Data Support Specialist, NASA NSIDC DAAC

Gail is a Data support specialist at NASA's NSIDC DAAC. She supports data users in the discovery of and access to Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Nimbus, SnowEx and Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) datasets. She has a background in GIS and Remote Sensing.

The international conference in arctic fox biology is the most important meeting point for arctic fox researchers, conservation managers, policy makers, tour operators, students and any other people interested in arctic foxes and its arctic habitats and ecosystems. It has for a long time been a tradition that end-users of environmental research, i.e. various stakeholders and management authorities participate at these conferences.

Since 1991, circumpolar arctic fox biologists have established a network which has previously arranged five international conferences in arctic fox biology. The conferences took place in Sweden in 1991 and 2009, in the UK in 2001, in Iceland in 2013 and in Canada in 2017. The now upcoming conference will for the first time be arranged by Norway, through the Norwegian Polar Institute, in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.

The 6th international conference in arctic fox biology will be held at the Svalbard Research Park, University Studies in Svalbard (UNIS)/Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI).

The conference will be arranged as a hybrid conference. A hybrid conference will combine live in-person events for those able to travel to Svalbard with streamed talks and online discussions including also those unable to travel. Regarding travelling to Svalbard follow this link with updated information about Covid-19.

For everyone who have already signed up for the conference that was scheduled to be held in 2021, which now has been postponed to 2022 because of COVID-19, have to register again. There will be an opening for registration in January 2022.

The Forum is organized in cooperation with Naalakkersuisut - The Government of Greenland. Registration will open in the spring.

The Arctic Circle Greenland Forum will be held in Katuaq Culture Centre in Nuuk. The 2022 Forum marks the return of Arctic Circle in Greenland following the success of the 2016 Forum, the largest international forum held in the country at the time. The Focus of the 2022 Greenland Forum will be on:

• Climate and Prosperity
• Geopolitics and Progress

Governments, universities, companies, research institutions, organizations, associations and other partners are invited to submit proposals for Sessions to the Arctic Circle Secretariat.

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The 14th edition of the International Conference on Paleoceanography will be held in Bergen, the gateway to the Norwegian fjords. 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.

The YOPP Final Summit website has been launched now and the link for abstract submission is open.

The YOPP Final Summit is the apex of the decade-long Polar Prediction Project initiated by the World Meteorological Organization’s World Weather Research Programme in 2013. The conference aims to review progress, share key findings and success stories, and discuss and shape the legacy of the Polar Prediction Project. The summit will bring together polar science experts from operational prediction centres, academia and research institutes, government, and corporate representatives as well as northern communities and users of polar prediction services.

Contributors are invited to submit their abstracts on their research and achievements produced in the frame of PPP and YOPP, on the below topics:

• Advancements in polar prediction during YOPP (2017–2019) and their operationalization
• Building international cooperation amongst the polar prediction community
• Paving the way for the legacy of the Polar Prediction Project, to enable environmental safety in the Arctic and Antarctic in the future
• Representation of polar processes in numerical models, with a focus on coupling of the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice
• Ocean and sea ice modelling and services
• The MOSAiC expedition and other polar observation campaigns
• Supersite multi-variate observations and process studies (YOPPsiteMIP)
• Observing System Experiments (OSE) and reanalyses in polar regions
• Teleconnections linking polar weather to mid-latitudes predictability
• Science to services: tailoring polar forecasting products and services to meet user needs
• Societal and economic implications of accessible, relevant, and useable forecasts

Participation of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) is encouraged. A third Polar Prediction School will precede the YOPP Final Summit from 27–30 April 2022 in Rimouski, QC, Canada. Also, PPP Early Career Scientist fellowships will provide ECRs with the opportunity to showcase their research and networking with senior mentors at the YOPP Final Summit. For information how to apply to become a YOPP Final Summit Fellow (self-nominations are welcome) and to participate in the Polar Prediction School, please find more information on the YOPP final summit website (see link above).

Important dates

• Submit your abstract by 17 November 2021.
• Early Bird registration extended until 15 May 2022.
• Deadline for submission of presentations 10 August, 2022.

The organizers invite the ice-core and climate research community to join a 3-day symposium in Copenhagen, hosted by the Ice and Climate Research Group at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.

Willi Dansgaard (1922 – 2011) was a pioneer of isotope glaciology and ice-core-based climate research. The climate agenda makes his research contributions more relevant today than ever, and ice cores remain pivotal for understanding the climate system.

The symposium consists of two parts:

• A scientific symposium on Monday and Wednesday in the classic conference style with scientific presentations by both invited keynote speakers and participants selected based on submitted abstracts. The organizers particularly welcome contributions within Willi Dansgaard's work areas: climate reconstructions by isotope measurements, ice-flow modelling and dating, and the study of abrupt climate change.
• A symposium with dual focus on Willi Dansgaard’s life and work, and highlights of recent climate research takes up the Tuesday, Willi Dansgaard’s birthday. In the afternoon, the organizers will conclude with a formal celebration session with invited participants from the Royal Family, the Danish and Greenlandic political system, university leadership, research foundations, and Willi Dansgaard’s family, friends, and colleagues, followed by a reception and dinner.

Registration and abstract deadline: 5 August 2022.

UPDATE: The NISAR Science Community Workshop was originally schedule for 19-21 April, 2022, but was postponed. The event will now be held August 30 - September 1, 2022.

The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Science Workshop will be an in-person event organized by NASA and UNAVCO to bring together the science community in solid earth, ecosystems, cryosphere, hydro-geodesy and other areas of science that will benefit from the NISAR mission.

With launch planned in late 2023, NISAR will be the first radar of its kind in space to map Earth using two different frequencies (L-band and S-band). Its systematic mapping will provide consistent time series observation of our planet’s surface deformation and changes.

This 2.5 day workshop will inform the community about the upcoming mission, its planned science data products and upcoming funding opportunities to work on NISAR related science. Breakout sessions, poster sessions and plenary science talks provide a forum for building collaborations and discussing future directions for SAR data analysis, science and applications. The program will also include information on available data analysis tools, computing resources and training opportunities.

Registration is open through 15 July 2022.

The School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh will host a joint meeting of the International Glaciological Society British Branch (IGSBB) and the UK Antarctic Science Conference (UKASC). Both meetings will be hosted in the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute in central Edinburgh, adjacent to the School of GeoSciences’ Institute of Geography.

The IGSBB is an informal two-day meeting at which presentations are welcome on all aspects of ice and snow research, while the UKASC welcomes contributions on any aspect of Antarctic Science. The organizers strongly encourage early-career researchers, including postgraduate students, to attend and present their work.

Abstract submission deadline: 1 August 2022.
Registration for in-person attendance deadline: 19 August 2022.
Registration for online attendance deadline: 24 August 2022.

The WCRP Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity and Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Core Project are jointly convening a workshop to bring together all relevant communities interested in ultra-high-resolution modelling.

The workshop is planned to be in person from October 3-7, 2022 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO, U.S.A. Public health regulations permitting.

This workshop is motivated by the urgent need for improved climate information and the major advantages and scientific potential of ultra-high-resolution climate modeling.

This workshop aims to:

• Bring very high-resolution modellers of different communities (atmosphere, ocean, land, ice but also global and regional) and sub-components (physics and diagnostics) together
• Raise awareness of scientific and computational issues faced by the various communities when moving to ultra-high-resolution
• Discuss the applications and use of ultra-high resolution global models by identifying things that we already know do not work or that we anticipate not to work
• Share current progress in simulating various spheres at ultra-high-resolution and in coupling them
• Identify key challenges and joint community tasks that can be achieved within one- to two-years

The intended outcomes include the establishment of a global research network with expertise in ultra-high-resolution (kilometer-scale or finer) global and regional Earth system modelling including its individual components. The workshop outcomes will be documented in a white paper.

Deadlines

• Abstract submissions: 31 August 2022
• Registrations: 19 September 2022

The NNA-CO invites you to the Broader Impacts Network (BIN) collaboration accelerator. This meeting will use the Topia platform to break out into small groups facilitated by seasoned NNA project leaders. The focus of these groups will be to explore ways to broaden community connections and leverage resources. Groups will be organized by geographic region and research interests across diverse knowledge systems and career levels. Please invite your colleagues and students to join.

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.