Past Events

FRISP is an annual meeting to share research related to ice shelves, and their interactions with the ice sheet, ocean, and atmosphere. It is an Expert Group of the Scientific Committee on AntarcticResearch (SCAR), and has organised regular meetings in Europe since 1984. FRISP is an appropriate meeting to present work in progress and discuss emerging research ideas, and is well-suited to early career researchers as well as senior scientists.

The organisers welcome presentations on all aspects of ice shelf research, including, but not limited to:

• formation, flow and disintegration of ice shelves
• response of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers to past, present and future climate variability
• surface and basal mass balance of ice shelves
• ice-ocean interaction at the calving front of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers
• mass transport across the grounding line
• ocean circulation and water mass transformation beneath ice shelves and within pro-glacial fjords
• impact of ice shelves on the global ocean
• processes controlling the delivery of ocean heat to glaciated coastlines
• climate records from on or near current or former ice shelves
• iceberg calving, drift, melting, and decay

Whilst presentations from all participants are encouraged, attendance without a presentation is also welcome.

Abstract submission will be done at the same time as registration. There is a word limit of 350 words for abstracts.

Extended registration deadline: 21 August 2022.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites proposals for funding through their Ideas Lab: Engineering Technologies to Advance Underwater Sciences (ETAUS) solicitation. NSF’s Office of Polar Programs (OPP), along with other Directorates and Offices, are seeking proposals aimed to advance underwater sciences through the Ideas Lab.

An Ideas Lab is an intensive meeting that brings together multiple diverse perspectives to focus on finding innovative cross-disciplinary solutions to a grand challenge problem. The aim of this Ideas Lab is to bring together experts from diverse scientific and engineering backgrounds to develop innovative engineering technologies and solutions that will enable real-time and reliable sensing, communications, localization, navigation, and mapping of aquatic environments, including glaciers, rivers, lakes, and oceans, for scientific research and economic development in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner.

This Ideas Lab will seek and prioritize proposals which will measurably increase the diversity and participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM.

The "preliminary proposal" is simple - two pages primarily about the applicant and how they might work with a team during the Ideas Lab.

Preliminary Proposal deadline (due by 5 p.m. submitter's local time): 19 September 2022.

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter's local time): March 01, 2023.

Ahead of International Polar Week 2022, USAPECS is hosting the 6th Annual International Polar Film Fest. For five days, the Polar Film Fest will feature short films about the Arctic, Antarctic, and wider cryosphere. This year's themes include: Wildlife, Indigenous Perspectives, Observing a Changing Arctic, and Dreamland Fieldwork.

During the Polar Film Fest, the films will be available at the film festival website.

The Institute of Arctic Studies in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College announces their upcoming webinar, titled Empowering Arctic Indigenous Peoples: Our Role in Addressing Climate Change.

Abstract

The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report tells us that we need global, coordinated, and immediate efforts to mitigate climate change if we are to keep temperatures from rising to catastrophic levels for our planet and people. Arctic Indigenous Peoples have been stewards of these northern regions for tens of thousands of years.

In this talk, Dr. Dorough will discuss the global leadership roles, perspectives, and knowledge that Inuit and other Arctic Indigenous Peoples bring to climate change solutions and decision-making within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Paris Climate Agreement, and the IPCC. Dr. Dorough will also discuss the importance of Indigenous-led climate solutions in the future of Arctic research and planning.

Bio

Dr. Dalee Dorough Sambo (Iñupiat), is the past International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), serving from 2018-2022 and representing approximately 180,000 Inuit from Canada, Greenland, Russia, and the United States on the Arctic Council and diverse United Nations fora. Currently a Senior Scholar and Advisor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, she has also served as an expert member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, is former co-Chair of the International Law Association Committee on Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and was recently appointed to the Expert Panel on the Future of Arctic and Northern Research in Canada. She is also co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Arctic Health and the recipient of the 2022 International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Medal for outstanding achievements in advocacy for the rights of Indigenous peoples, service to Arctic communities, and influence as a legal scholar.

A U.S. House Science and Technology Committee Hearing will take place at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC and online via Zoom.

With the Arctic warming two to four times faster than the rest of the planet, the purpose of this hearing is to discuss the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee’s Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026, which is informed by the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. The hearing will explore gaps in research and analysis, needed improvements to federal science capabilities, research vessels and infrastructure, and barriers to strengthening our response to local and global climate change impacts, such as carbon and methane emissions released from permafrost thaw. Additionally, this hearing will discuss gaps in Arctic system monitoring, observing, modeling, and prediction efforts. Importantly, this hearing will examine the role of traditional knowledge holders and equitable practices in the coproduction of research, especially in critical areas such as food security and biodiversity. Finally, the hearing will be an opportunity to discuss the impact of geopolitical tensions on science diplomacy in the Arctic and challenges for future international collaboration in key research including boreal forest fires, sea ice melt and land ice loss, particularly the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Witnesses:

• Dr. Larry Hinzman, Assistant Director of Polar Sciences, Office of Science and Technology Policy and Executive Director, Interagency Arctic Research and Policy Committee
• Dr. Mike Sfraga, Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
• Ms. Vera Kingeekuk Metcalf, Executive Director, Eskimo Walrus Commission
• Dr. Susan Natali, Arctic Program Director, Woodwell Climate Research Center

Overarching Questions:

1. How did IARPC identify the priorities in the latest 5-year research plan? Why is the two-year implementation plan necessary? What discussions are taking place to consider longer-term research planning for the Arctic?
2. What outstanding research questions remain to be answered to improve our understanding of climate change impacts in the Arctic? What research infrastructure, vessels, capabilities, and partnerships are necessary to support this work? What is the status of the U.S. Arctic Observing Network?
3. What guidelines exist to help researchers improve communication and collaboration in Arctic communities when carrying out field work? How is the science community addressing barriers to coproduction of knowledge?
4. How are geopolitical tensions from Russia’s war on Ukraine impacting domestic Arctic research under IARPC and international research through the Arctic Council? What are the future considerations for scientific collaboration in the Arctic?

The NSF GEO wide P4CLIMATE (Paleo Perspectives of Present and Projected Climate) will host two virtual office hours on Tuesday 20 September and Wednesday 28 September from 2:00-5:00 pm EDT.

P4CLIMATE program directors will present a brief overview of this new solicitation and will be available to answer solicitation-specific questions, such as expectations for the research themes and topics supported by P4CLIMATE.

Registration is required in advance for this meeting.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway hosts a monthly webinar series on the second Thursday of each month at 9:00 am Alaska time, raising topics of interest to the permafrost community. The webinar aims to 1) connect the international science community interested in big data remote sensing of permafrost landscapes, and 2) provide the Permafrost Discovery Gateway development team with end-user stories (by the presenter and webinar participants), such as exploring tools the community needs to create and explore big data.

Abstract

Commercial satellite sensors of Maxar Technologies have imaged the entire Arctic multiple times at sub- meter resolution over the last few decades. The pan-Arctic Maxar data set (> 2 PB) is freely accessible to the NSF-funded Arctic research community via the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC). High-resolution multispectral images enable transformational opportunities to characterize different permafrost landforms and to monitor micro-topographic transitions/disturbances occurring in the Arctic permafrost landscapes at finer granularity without compromising the geographical extent. Despite the unprecedented opportunities, the image repositories at PGC are largely underutilized and imagery- derived pan-Arctic science products are yet rare. Traditional remote sensing image analysis methods fail to grapple the sheer data volume and semantic complexities of image scenes, thus, limit the scalability of mapping applications. Knowledge discovery through AI, big imagery, high-performance computing (HPC) is just starting to be realized in Arctic permafrost science. We have developed a novel high- performance image analysis framework – Mapping application for Arctic Permafrost Land Environment (MAPLE) that enables the integration of operational-scale GeoAI capabilities into Arctic permafrost modeling. Interoperability across heterogeneous HPC systems, optimal usage of computational resource, and extensibility of mapping workflows are some of the key design goals of MAPLE. We have recently deployed MAPLE across the Arctic tundra to map ice-wedge polygons from thousands of Maxar imagery. Our mapping exercise has produced the first pan-Arctic ice-wedge polygon map, which consists of more than one billion individual ice-wedge polygons.

The U.S. Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) will be hosting a “Get to Know Us & Listening Session” webinar. Join to hear what the USAPECS is planning for the upcoming year and to share your ideas about what they can do in the future. USAPECS focuses on activities geared toward the Early Career Polar and Alpine research community but all those interested are welcome to attend. Please register ahead of time as space is limited.

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.

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 30 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 conference will kick off with an informal dinner on Monday 9/26, and the formal science agenda will conclude by lunch on Thursday 9/29, with an optional Thursday afternoon workshop. More details about the 2022 workshop will be available in the coming months! Sponsored by the NSF and NASA, the workshop will focus on marine ice-sheet and adjacent earth systems, with particular emphasis on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Please contact the Organizing Committee if you have any questions or concerns regarding the WAIS Workshop.

Deadlines

The deadline for Abstract Submission is August 12 at 5:00 PM PDT (UTC-7). Abstract submission is separate from the registration process.

Early-career travel support request deadline is also August 12. There are limited funds to support air or ground travel to the meeting as well as registration fees (including lodging). Please submit your application or early-career travel support.

Registration deadline is August 26 at 5 PM PDT, but the workshop has reached capacity before this deadline in the past, so register early!

Arctic Frontiers welcomes you to submit abstracts to their upcoming conference Moving North, which will take place in Tromsø, Norway and Online from 30 January to 2 February 2023.

Sea ice, new species, technology hubs and the impacts of climate change are all moving closer to the Arctic, whilst simultaneously, the people of the Arctic are moving south, providing both challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. The knock-on effects of the war in Europe are vast, including food and fuel security, fertilizer and agriculture limitations, energy demand, and supply chain issues.

The conference will have seven science sessions with the following titles:

• Occupational health and safety in the Arctic
• City transformation by and for the citizens of the Arctic using digital technologies and visualisation
• Modelling and monitoring challenges to maritime safety in a changing Arctic
• Plastic pollution, priorities and perspectives in the Arctic
• Impacts and adaptations in response to Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean
• Adaptive management of rapidly changing Arctic ecosystems using interdisciplinary and system-science approaches
• Assembling the valuable and vulnerable North

The extended abstract deadline is 26 September 2022.

The Metrology for Climate Action Workshop is on online workshop open to experts and stakeholders active in the fields of climate science, observations, modelling, GHG mitigation and measurement and measurement science willing to contribute to the development of recommendations on key technical challenge areas for metrology in these fields.

Workshop Aims

• Present progress and identify requirements for further development of advanced measurements, standards, reference data, comparisons, calibration supporting the physical science basis for and adaptation to climate change
• Identify stakeholders’ metrology needs, assess current metrological techniques, analyses, and modeling capabilities, and identify gaps in quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and uptake for effective actions on mitigating climate change and its impacts

The output of the workshop will be a set of recommendations on key technical challenge areas for metrology over the next decade.

The annual Polar CORDEX (COordinated Regional Climate Downscaling EXperiment) meeting will be a hybrid meeting, but the organizers encourage people to attend in person. It will be hosted by NORCE and held in Bergen, Norway. The meeting venue will most likely be the Bjerknes Centre (Jahnebakken 5, Bergen). The organizers plan for 2.5 days (Wednesday 28th Sept, 11am to Friday 30th Sept., 1pm).

There will be 3 sessions, as follows:

• Wed 28: Arctic CORDEX
• Thur 29: Antarctic CORDEX
• Fri 30: Plans for 2023: plenum discussion

If you want to attend, please complete the online registration form.

Presentations are very welcome on all aspects of Antarctic and Arctic CORDEX work (e.g., processes, recent and future climate change, key drivers, coupled modeling, model evaluation, multi-model intercomparisons). Time allotted is maximum 10 minutes.

Deadline for registration is September 1st.

The NSF GEO wide P4CLIMATE (Paleo Perspectives of Present and Projected Climate) will host two virtual office hours on Tuesday 20 September and Wednesday 28 September from 2:00-5:00 pm EDT.

P4CLIMATE program directors will present a brief overview of this new solicitation and will be available to answer solicitation-specific questions, such as expectations for the research themes and topics supported by P4CLIMATE.

Registration is required in advance for this meeting.

Åsa Rennermalm is an associate professor at the Department of Geography at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research interest is hydrology and glaciology of the Arctic region. Her current work explore how climate change is transforming the Greenland ice sheet by studying ice sheet melting and river discharge.

Before coming to Rutgers, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Geography at University of California Los Angeles. Her Ph.D is from Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University.

Organizers invite registration for the 3rd Workshop on Food Life History of the North. This hybrid workshop will take place 30 September–1 October 2022 in Kyoto, Japan and online (29-30 September in the United States).

With a focus on the study of traditional food and local knowledge in the past, present, and future, organizers seek to learn from Indigenous and academic presenters from various disciplines and regions on “Food Life History: from Global to Local perspectives.”

This workshop is organized as part of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature feasibility study, “Food Life History of Cold Storage of the North using Natural Freezing Energy – History, Transformation, and Future Vision of Food Preservation Under the Influence of Global Shift,” and the U.S. National Science Foundation-funded “Changes in Traditional Underground Food Storage Practices: Exploring Food Life History in Beringian Communities” grant.

Registration deadline: 28 September 2022 (27 September in the United States).

Organizers invite session abstracts for the Sixth Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences (XMAS-VI). This symposium will take place 9-12 January 2023 in Xiamen, China and online.

To promote interdisciplinary studies in marine environmental science and to foster the next generation of ocean scientists, the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University (MEL) initiated the first Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences (XMAS) in 2014. Since then, XMAS has grown to become one of the largest international conferences in the field of marine sciences in Asia and acts as a hotspot to exchange research interests in global and regional oceans.

In its sixth iteration, XMAS-VI will be held in Xiamen from January 9th to 12th, 2023 with the theme focusing on Multidisciplinary and Solution Sciences for a Sustainable and Healthy Ocean. The symposium will consist of various interconnected sessions covering physical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, biological oceanography, geological oceanography, and marine ecotoxicology along with workshops and other events for emerging topics in marine environmental sciences such as ocean-based carbon removal, ocean sustainability, etc.

Abstract Deadline: 30 September 2022.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), in cooperation with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), is launching its IASC Fellowships Program 2023.

The IASC Fellowship Program is meant to engage early career researchers in the work of the IASC Working Groups (WGs): Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Marine, Social & Human and Terrestrial. This year, there will be 8 IASC Fellowships. As part of the Polar Initiative with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, two of those Fellowships will be generously funded by the foundation.

• At least one IASC Fellow will be chosen per IASC WG
• At least one IASC Indigenous Fellow will be chosen; this individual will be an early career Arctic Indigenous Scholar or Knowledge Holder who can choose which IASC WG to engage in

The deadline for applications for all fellowships is 30 September 2022.

*UPDATE: Due to the worldwide COVID19 pandemic the IPICS OSC initially planned for 2020 had to be postponed. Also in 2021 the global situation did not allow to organize a truly international ice core conference with safe participation from all regions of the globe. The IPICS SSC therefore decided to postpone by another year. The local organization committee is now proud to announce that the IPICS OSC will take place in October 2022 and is looking forward to see all of you in person in picturesque Crans Montana in the midst of the Swiss Alps.

New confirmed dates: October 2 - October 7, 2022*

Ice cores provide information about past climate and environmental conditions as well as direct records of the composition of the atmosphere on timescales from decades to hundreds of millennia. With the pioneering work of Hans Oeschger of University of Bern on carbon dioxide in polar ice cores, a long tradition of ice core research in Switzerland began. Less known is that Hans Oeschger also initiated a high-alpine drilling project on Colle Gnifetti in Switzerland in the 1970s. To acknowledge Hans Oeschger’s important contribution to these two ice core fields and to foster the link between the corresponding communities the theme of the conference is Ice Core Science at the Three Poles.

Abstract submission, registration, and travel support application is open since January 1st, 2022. Deadline for abstract submission is April, 30th, 2022.

The Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 will be held 17 - 24 February 2023 in Vienna, Austria and Online.

The general theme of the ASSW 2023 Science Symposium is "The Arctic in the Anthropocene". Vienna and the Austrian Polar Research Institute invite researchers from all scientific disciplines to discuss the role of the Arctic in the Anthropocene, spanning the time frame from the past to the future.

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. Abstract submission for the ASSW 2023 Science Symposium is now open!

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 in the Anthropocene” is a quite appropriate theme to focus on the increasing pressure of high latitudes. Several sessions offer space to shed light on short- and long-term changes, respectively, on human, terrestrial, aquatic or aerial systems. Despite the focus on the Arctic, contribution on the Antarctic, aiming at fostering networking and advances on research on both poles, are accepted and appreciated.

The conference will be held in a hybrid format including opportunities for both in-person and online oral / poster presentations.

Extended deadline for abstract submission is 2 October 2022.

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
• 2 October 2022: Abstract submission extended deadline
• November 2022: Notification of Abstract Acceptance
• November 2022: Registration opens