Past Events

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.

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 International Oil Spill Science Conference 2022 (IOSSC) will be in Halifax, Canada. This conference is co-hosted by the Multi-Partner Research Initiative of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Industry Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC), and Oil Spill Research Group of Concordia University. The conference aims to provide a platform for professionals, scholars and students from the oil spill response community, government, industry, and academia to work together to deal with the challenges in the field of oil spill response. The conference will bring experts from around the world to present their latest research in the field of oil spill science including spill prevention, contingency planning, and environmental rehabilitation.

The program at this conference that will allow members to reflect upon and celebrate past accomplishments, renew friendships, extend networks, and jointly explore current and future research directions. The organizers welcome you to join for an exciting four days of learning, sharing ideas, and networking in IOSSC 2022.

International Oil Spill Science Conference (IOSSC) 2022 is now ready to receive abstracts and the deadline to submit an abstract is June 17, 2022.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at iossc2022 [at] gmail.com

The topics of International Oil Spill Science Conference (IOSSC) 2022 include, but are not limited to arctic oil spill response, oil containment and recovery, spills of opportunity and field trials, oil spill waste management and disposal, etc.

This IARPC Program Manager Chat features the Marine Mammal Commission, which provides independent, science-based oversight of domestic and international policies and actions of federal agencies addressing human impacts on marine mammals and their ecosystems. Executive Director Peter Thomas and Energy Policy Analyst/Alaska Native Liaison Vicki Cornish will provide an overview of the Marine Mammal Commission's work, research funding opportunities, and ways for the Arctic research community to collaborate with the commission. After their presentation, there will be time for Q&A.

Please register for this event via Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research is please to announce the 2023 international conference One Health, One Future from February 28th- March 3rd, 2023 at the Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

This years theme for the conference is Voices of One Health: Embracing Change & Transformation (Innovation & Creativity leading to Change, Reengagement, and Resilience).

The organizers invite faculty, staff, and students of higher education, researchers, K-12 educators, community leaders, administrators, non-profit partners, government agencies, and other professionals to participate.

The conference will engage in dynamic conversations and networking opportunities through hands-on workshops, individual/panel presentations, posters, and plenary sessions.

This is expected to be the largest circumpolar One Health conference held in the United States in 2023, with participation anticipated from across the Arctic region.

In the event that there are still COVID-19 restrictions, the organizers will also be offering an online, non-participatory, zoom link to watch the conference presentations.

Important Dates

• Registration Opens: August 2nd, 2022
• Call for Proposals & Poster Release: August 2nd, 2022
• Abstract Proposal & Poster Submission Deadline: October 5th, 2022
• Accepted Proposal & Poster Notification: October 21st, 2022
• Last Date to Register as Presenter: November 4th, 2022
• Presentation & Poster Submissions Due: January 5th, 2023
• Review Process: January 6th – Feb 6th, 2023
• Standard Registration Deadline: February 14th, 2023

Organizers invite registration for the Greenland Natural Science Data Workshop: A National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Workshop to Assess the Current Data Ecosystem and Map the Path Forward.

With the swift expansion of Greenland-focused research, NSF and other funders have supported the development of key data, tools, and programs. As these projects mature, coordination and community discussion are required to ensure that projects are working together; that gaps in data, tools, and workflows are identified; and that there is a shared vision for future development that can support efficient and effective research across a broadening group of participants.

This workshop will focus primarily on data, tools, and workflows necessary to improve organization and insight within the natural sciences and ensure this community is well-prepared to contribute within broad models of co-production and interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or convergent research. Organizers hope that the workshop is one activity within a larger continuum that should include data use, data sovereignty, and co-production discussions hosted in Greenland.

Workshop attendees will work together to:

• Map the ecosystem of Greenland natural science data archives, tools, and workflows
• Identify and prioritize gaps in the data and tool ecosystem
• Brainstorm routes to close gaps in the data to insight system
• Bring judgment and prioritization to identified routes

Participants will be selected based on application information, achieving a large cross section of perspectives, and available participation support budget.

Registration deadline: 1 August 2022.

ARCUS invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Charlie Paull, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), titled "Decomposing Submarine Permafrost in the Canadian Beaufort Sea". 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

Sediments beneath the Arctic continental shelf are undergoing substantial warming. This warming is associated with the sea level transgression at the end of the last ice age, when relatively warm ocean water flooded over a much colder terrestrial periglacial landscape. The warming is still propagating down into subsurface sediments causing the glacial-aged permafrost wedge to thin and retreat landwards. Models of the impact of transgression on subsea permafrost have recognized the potential existence of a slowly moving groundwater system that carries waters seaward under the extensive glacial-age relict permafrost bodies hosted within shelf sediments. Pore waters sampled in 50 sediment cores taken from 90 to 1000 meter water depths along the shelf edge and upper slope of the Canadian Beaufort Sea freshen with sub-bottom depth, suggesting near-seafloor sediments are pervasively bathed in brackish water. Their isotopic composition suggests relict permafrost is the source for the freshening waters along the shelf edge. High-resolution bathymetric surveys of the shelf edge of the Canadian Beaufort Sea reveal a remarkable coalescence of seafloor morphologic features (e.g., slump-scars, submarine-pingos, and steep-sided closed depressions) in the areas where these waters are emerging. Repeat mapping also shows multiple new steep-sided depressions that developed in the 9-year-long interval between surveys. The largest is 28 meters in depth and 220 meters across. These morphological changes occur near the maximum seaward limit of the submerged glacial-age permafrost and are attributed to groundwater flow, ascending along the relict permafrost boundaries and inducing segregated ice in relict permafrost to melt.

Speaker Bio

Charlie Paull presently holds a position as a Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). He is a marine geologist with ~45 years of experience studying seafloor morphology, sediment transport, and pore water geochemistry to understand the processes that shape continental margins. In recent years he has focused on the utilization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and Remotely Operated Vehicles to image, observe, and sample the seafloor. Through collaborations with colleagues at the Geological Survey of Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Korean Polar Research Institute, he as participated in seven expeditions to the Canadian Beaufort Sea. On all these expeditions MBARI’s robotic tools have been utilized to investigate seafloor geomorphic features that may have geohazard implications.

SCOPE (Student-led Conference On Polar Environments) is a conference where students (bachelor/master/PhD) can present their research, thesis or project work in a low-pressure environment and practice the skill of presenting. You are all welcome to participate and listen to other students' presentations and the invited keynote
speakers.

The organizers are now finalizing the program, the final version can be found on the webpage. You can look forward to the three keynote speakers:

• Svalbard Science Forum gives an interactive lecture about applications for funding, and they will explain the “Research in Svalbard” portal and all the other resources they offer.
• Rudolf Denkmann from Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) will talk about his experience of Ny-Ålesund and about his work for SIOS: A cooperative international research infrastructure - Building an observing system to answer big questions of Earth System Science. Posters of SIOS will be present at the poster session about remote sensing.
• Vegard Stürzinger will talk about: Cruise life, and why it all matters. He will also talk about the Norwegian Polar Institute, environmental science, a North pole trip, and much more!

Register now – deadline for participants is 3 October 2022.

The next Landscapes Live online seminar will be by Gino de Gelder, IRD-Univ. Grenoble Alpes. This seminar will be live on Zoom and open to anyone interested (with a limit of 300 participants). Register in advance for this meeting.

Abstract

Quantifying paleo sea-level variations is of fundamental importance to understand the complex relations between paleo-climate, -ice-sheets and geodynamics, yet uncertainties prior to the Holocene currently span several tens of meters. The world’s coastlines present an enormous geomorphologic dataset of relative sea-level changes, and recent studies have shown how they can be used within forward landscape evolution models. We take a next step, and apply a Bayesian approach to invert the geometry of marine terrace sequences to paleo sea-level. Using a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling method, we test our model on both synthetic profiles and observed marine terrace sequences from Santa Cruz (Ca, US) and the Corinth Rift (Greece). The synthetic profiles – with known input parameters – show that there are optimal values for uplift rate and erosion rate to obtain a well-constrained inversion. Both the inversion of synthetic profiles and real sequences show how sea-level peaks are easier to constrain than sea-level troughs, but that also solutions for peaks tend to be non-unique. Synthetic profiles and profiles from several sites in the Corinth Rift both show how inverting multiple profiles from a sequence can lead to a narrower range of possible paleo sea-level, especially for sea-level troughs. This last result emphasizes the potential of inverting coastal morphology, suggesting that joint inversion of globally distributed marine terrace profiles may eventually catalyse a better understanding of local/global paleo sea-level and glacio-isostatic adjustments.

In the summer of 2021, a group of Indigenous and conservation leaders traveled to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to connect with each other and the land, and to engage in place-based dialogues using traditional methods including talking circles, ceremonies and the stories of Elders who spoke of the history, importance and future of the refuge. Their goal was to promote healing and reimagine management of this landscape in ways that will incorporate traditional knowledge, as well as the traditions and ways of life of Indigenous peoples.

The IMAGO Initiative is a transformative process with the potential to reshape how our nation’s public lands – the historic homelands of Indigenous peoples – are managed. In this webinar, you will join the IMAGO team virtually as you watch a film produced during their trip, and you will hear directly from key leaders of this effort as they engage in a panel discussion.

Please join us for this virtual film screening and Q&A as we reimagine conservation through an Indigenous lens.

Panelists

Kaushik Amruthur
Owner, Photographer & Cinematographer
Kaushik Studios/Third Eye Media

Dr. Natalie Dawson
Former Vice President and Executive Director
Audubon Alaska

Meda DeWitt
Sr. Specialist/IMAGO Initiative Coordinator
HAA JOONÍ & The Wilderness Society

Karlin “Nageak” Itchoak
Senior Regional Director, Alaska Region
The Wilderness Society

Dr. Sarah James
Gwich’in Leader
Arctic Village, Alaska

Doreen Nutaaq Simmonds
Inupiat Environmental Leader
Utqiaġvik/Barrow, Alaska

Robert Thompson, aka “Captain Bolo”
Owner-Guide, Kaktovik Arctic Adventures
Kaktovik, Alaska

The 9th International Conference on Polar and Alpine Microbiology will be a continuation of the eight highly successful previous meetings of this conference series.

The objective of the Potsdam meeting is to bring together researchers from all over the world to discuss various aspects of microbial diversity, function and activity related to cold-adapted microorganisms in polar and alpine environments. The organizers' aim is to foster discussions about recent developments in the field and to exchange ideas and experiences on an international scale.

The meeting will cover different aspects of polar and alpine microbiology:

• Microbial diversity and biogeography in permafrost environments
• Metabolic activity at subzero temperature
• Mechanisms of microbial adaptation and survival in permafrost environments
• Permafrost astrobiology
• Plant-microbe interaction
• Microbial communities and global change
• Carbon and nitrogen turnover
• Microbial gene pool of cold environments
• Biotechnology for cyrospheric microorganisms
• Eukaryotic microbial diversity (e.g. algae and fungi)
• Viruses in polar and alpine environments

The organizers cannot offer a hybrid mode option for participation but aim to stream selected talks each day for free, to broaden the audience.

Abstract submission is extended to 15 July 2022.

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, 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

Satcom Forum meetings are a place where scientists who use satellite communications to collect data from remote instruments (such as weather stations, drifting buoys or hydrological gauging stations) can meet both the satellite network operators and the manufacturers of instrumentation. It’s a chance to learn about new products and services, and for the networks and manufacturers to learn about the challenges that the scientific community are facing.

The meeting is conducted only in English in a hybrid format.

You are more than welcome to join the meeting physically in Paris, but remote participation is also possible, both for speakers and attendees.

Seeing ice first form on lakes and rivers signals the start of winter for many Alaskans. Despite longer and warmer falls in recent years, trends in freeze-up timing are often inconclusive. Part of this challenge may be defining whether freeze-up occurs as a single-day event or a progressive process with widely varied timing depending on the waterbody and season of interest. Defining freeze-up in terms that matter to how people use waters for travel, recreation, and subsistence is likely just as important. As part of a new freshwater ice observation program, Fresh Eyes on Ice, we are looking for citizen observations and insights into freeze-up and the entire ice cycle. This webinar will discuss new efforts being made to improve ice observation in Alaska and ways that you can help.

Please register to attend.

The 15th Polar Law Symposium (PLS) will be co-hosted by the Polar Law Institute and the Center for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland in partnership with the Arctic Circle.

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

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

Abstract Submission

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

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

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

SIOS Knowledge Centre and the SIOS Remote Sensing Working Group invites abstracts from the Svalbard science community working on applications using Earth Observation (EO), Remote Sensing (RS), and Geoinformation (GI).

The organizers are pleased to announce this years' conference on Earth observation and Remote Sensing applications in Svalbard. The conference aims to:

• Promote the work of PhD students, postdocs, researchers, senior scientists, and academics who are actively contributing to the science of Svalbard
• Review the state-of-the-art EO and RS applications in Svalbard

Abstract submission extended deadline: 12 September 2022.

Registration is free, but required for attendance. Once registered, participants will receive information for joining the Zoom platform.

The 2022 Arctic Circle Assembly will be held in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre, Reykjavík, Iceland. Registration will open in early June.

Governments, universities, companies, research institutions, organizations, associations and other partners are invited to submit proposals for Sessions to the Arctic Circle Secretariat. Proposals are submitted through the online submission platform. Deadline: May 15th, 2022.

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

People living in the Arctic witness dramatic landscape changes affecting their livelihood and subsistence, especially in terms of permafrost thaw. By combining Citizien Science and Machine Learning methods, we aim to support the monitoring of surface changes attributed to permafrost thaw. Together with young citizen scientists from schools in Northwest Canada and Germany, the ongoing project UndercoverEisAgenten aspires to empower Arctic communities to enhance the data basis of permafrost degradation. During the project, students from both countries exchange and discuss climate warming, permafrost and the associated regional and global challenges. A core element of the project is the development of a web application that enables citizen scientists to map landscape changes. To this end, students in Canada operate drones to capture high-resolution aerial imagery of the Arctic land surface. The imagery is processed and divided into manageable batches of simple mapping tasks (“micro tasks”). Through volunteer contributions , a unique reference data set is generated to support efforts to better understand and monitor permafrost degradation. Thereby, we build on expertise gained from MapSwipe, an open-source mobile app designed to make mapping around the world more coordinated and efficient with about 30,000 volunteers and 3 million square kilometers already mapped. We will present the current status of the UndercoverEisAgenten mapping application, discuss challenges regarding data quality of crowdsourced data, and envision future combinations of automatic and human-interactive approaches for mapping permafrost structures.

The meeting of Northwest Glaciologists will be an informal event, and abstracts will not be requested in advance of the workshop.

The meeting will run from approximately 9 am – 5 pm on both days. The registration fee will likely be between $20 and $50 per person depending on career stage, in order to cover the cost of food and refreshment.

Northwest Glaciologists is a warm, supportive, and inclusive meeting, with a strong emphasis on building and maintaining community. Graduate students and other early career researchers are especially invited to present. Many attendees may choose to give ~15 minute oral presentations, including those at the beginning of their studies, although poster presentations will also be a part of this meeting. While this has traditionally been a regional meeting of northwest institutions, all are welcome to attend, particularly those working on glaciers within Northwest North America, including Alaska and the Yukon.

Climate Accessibility is an important element of the climate change discourse, comprising two aspects. 1) Ensuring minority voices and those most impacted by climate change are represented and heard, and 2) Ensuring the conversation around climate change is accessible to the general public. By highlighting the issue of climate accessibility, the organizers hope to contribute to the advancement of climate solutions.

The Online Workshop on Ice-Ocean Interactions is organized by the Joint IAPSO/IACS Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI), and aims to draw together researchers interested in the processes that govern ocean-driven melt of glaciers and ice sheets. The organizers hope that this meeting will draw together the
community, sharing knowledge across different research areas, and identifying critical knowledge gaps. The workshop will address four key science themes:

1. The physics of the ice-ocean boundary
2. The role of glacial melt in the wider ocean
3. The impact of ocean-driven melt on glacier and ice sheet mass balance
4. New and emerging technologies for studying ice-ocean interaction

The workshop will be entirely online, with a format primarily consisting of keynote presentations, followed by an open breakout session to discuss priority research questions and strategies for addressing existing gaps and limitations. There will also be a limited number of short presentations allowing participants to present their own work, with priority given to students and early career researchers. Sessions are spread over a broad schedule to facilitate interactions across time zones, including three virtual "coffee" sessions to facilitate networking.

The meeting is open to any interested participants, and the organizers particularly encourage involvement from students and early career researchers.

Registration is free, and will remain open until 7 October 2022.