Past Events

Through ANILCA, Congress designated new national parklands, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, and other conservation lands in Alaska; for a total of 139 million acres (more than one third of the state). Congress balanced the unprecedented scale of these designations with similarly unprecedented accommodations for Alaskans’ way of life and reliance on a resource-based economy.

ANILCA Training Objectives

The ANILCA Training Objectives include seeking a greater understanding of this sweeping legislation and its influence on conservation policy, business opportunities, Alaska residents’ way of life, resource development, and public land management in Alaska. Understanding ANILCA assists both federal managers and non-federal stakeholders in finding implementation solutions that continue to balance conservation and Alaska’s unique circumstances. Participation by multiple agencies and non-federal stakeholders enriches the learning experience.

Recommended for Federal agencies with ANILCA implementation responsibilities, state and local land and resource managers, Native corporations, tribal entities, rural residents, inholders, as well as community leaders, policy makers, consultants, news media, the academic community, and interested public.

Cost

General Registration $875. Tuition includes four half-days of a combination of live online instruction and videos, mailed copy of ANILCA & Amendments; presentation and other supporting documents; and a portable USB drive with an extensive collection of relevant laws, regulations and other reference materials.

Nomination submissions for The International Glaciological Society (IGS) Awards for 2022 are due 15 Nov 2022. The awards include:

• The Seligman Crystal (awarded to a single person or a collaborative group/team that has made exceptional scientific contributions to glaciology, defined as any snow and/or ice studies)
• The Richardson Medal (awarded to a single person or a collaborative group/team that has provided outstanding service to the International Glaciological Society and/or to the field of glaciology)
• Honorary Membership (recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of glaciology at a national or regional level)
• Early Career Scientist Award (recognizes significant scientific and/or community contributions to Glaciology by an ECS)

All IGS nominations are expected to provide evidence of high moral and ethical standards along with a commitment to IGS core values within the glaciological and wider communities.

The result of successful 2022 nominations will be announced in December.

The International Conference on Sámi Research Data Governance will take place 25–27 January 2023 in Romsa/Tromsø, Norway.

The conference aims to identify pertinent issues concerning Sámi data governance. The conference will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, understanding, and experiences regarding Indigenous and Sámi data governance and promote collaboration between Sámi and non-Sámi researchers in the Nordic context on data governance and management.

Deadline for registration is 15 November 2022.

The conference organisers call for abstracts for oral presentations (15–20 min.) on topics related to Sámi or Indigenous peoples’ knowledge and data governance, including (but not limited to):

• Forms of Sámi governance and stewardship for different research data sources (public data, archives, health data, biobank, etc.)
• Operationalizing the CARE principles in the Sámi context. Ways of enhancing Sámi participation in decision-making on data governance and sovereignty.
• Advancing ethical policies regarding Sámi data and digitization of Sámi traditional knowledge and data.
• Proposals for roundtables and panels are also welcome for which a group (3–5 panelists) submits the title of the roundtable/panel and individual abstracts for each participant.

Authors presenting at the conference will be invited to expand their papers into a submission in the conference proceedings in a special issue of a journal or an edited volume. Students are also welcome to present!

Abstract deadline is 15 November 2022. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by November 30th.

This year’s Yellowknife Geoscience Forum will provide an intimate setting for delegates from industry, academia, and government to exchange information on resource exploration, mining activities, and geoscience research in Canada’s North. The Forum consists of a trade show and a technical program. The technical program for the 2022 Forum is seeking oral and poster presentations on the following topics:

• Geoscience & Exploration
• Diamond Geology & Exploration
• Energy in Canada’s North
• Environmental Monitoring & Research
• Changing Permafrost Landscapes
• Permafrost Monitoring and Data Management
• Community Engagement & Education
• Regulatory & Policy Updates
• Mining and Advanced Project Updates
• Critical Minerals Geology and Exploration

Abstracts are required for both oral and poster presentations with a maximum limit of 500 words. Presentations from all relevant disciplines are welcome.

Abstracts are to be submitted before 11:59 pm MT on Wednesday, October 12 via online submission.

The National Science Foundation is hosting a webinar entitled The Story of Ice. This webinar is aimed at students of all ages interested in learning about Antarctica, Antarctic science, ice cores, and climate change.

Researchers have traveled to Antarctica to find, drill, and process the oldest ice on the continent, culminating in the collection of a continuous ice core record that extends at least 1.5 million years ago.

Join NSF-funded researchers from the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX) live from Antarctica as they embark on a journey to answer critical questions to understand past and future climate change.

Registration is required for this event.

The 2022 fire season in Alaska was unprecedented. Southwest Alaska experienced record-breaking fires that impacted local communities and challenged management resources. This webinar will review the weather, climate, and ecological factors that contributed to the severe wildfire season, with an in-depth look at the Southwest region. Additionally, this webinar will cover vegetation types and potential changes in the context of intensifying fire in Southwestern Alaska.

Please register to attend.

Presenters: Emily Hayden, M.S, Oregon State University, and Jens Nielsen, Ph.D., University of Washington CICOES/NOAA AFSC

Sponsors: This seminar is part of NOAA's EcoFOCI bi-annual seminar series focused on the ecosystems of the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and U.S. Arctic to improve understanding of ecosystem dynamics and applications of that understanding to the management of living marine resources. Since Oct 21, 1986, the seminar has provided an opportunity for research scientists and practitioners to meet, present, develop their ideas and provoke conversations on subjects pertaining to fisheries-oceanography or regional issues in Alaska's marine ecosystems, including the US Arctic. Visit the EcoFOCI webpage for more information.

Abstract

These presentations will provide an overview of ocean temperature and sea ice variability, paired with a discussion of its potential impacts on phytoplankton bloom timing and zooplankton diapause in the Bering Sea. Atmospheric variability is driving the majority of air-sea heat flux anomalies in the Bering Sea, which are contributing to recent elevated ocean temperatures and low sea ice concentrations. One potential impact is an offset between phytoplankton bloom timing and zooplankton coming out of diapause. After hearing about both of these topics, there will be time for a panel discussion with the speakers about variability in the Bering Sea.

Bios

Emily Hayden is a Graduate Research Fellow at Oregon State University in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, with a concentration in Physics of Oceans and Atmospheres. Her research focuses on the link between atmospheric variability and the ocean state, and the mechanisms that drive this coupling in the subpolar North Pacific.

Jens Nielsen is an aquatic ecologist focusing primarily on plankton ecology at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center. His research aims to understand community and trophic dynamics in ecosystems in an effort to develop biological indicators of ecosystem changes along the US west coast from California to Alaska.

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 December 2022 and the winter. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Please register to attend.

SINTER's (Snow INTERnational) next quarterly seminar will be by Mike Durand (Ohio State University) discussing the main messages in a recent review paper Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high-frequency radar remote sensing and the community effort behind it.

Chris Derksen (Environment and Climate Change Canada) will be linking some of the outcomes from this community review article to recent developments and future directions of the Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission.

The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) was an international, interdisciplinary Arctic scientific expedition that drifted across the central Arctic from autumn 2019 to autumn 2020. The 2nd International MOSAiC Science Conference will be held 13-17 February 2023 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Conference objectives are to foster cross-cutting scientific analysis, address issues of spatiotemporal scaling of information, and promote advancement of modeling and predictive capabilities. The weeklong conference will offer a mix of plenary sessions with visionary keynote presentations, focused breakout sessions on a variety of thematic topics, poster sessions, flex-time for ad hoc meetings, a planetarium film viewing, and much more. The conference will build upon the 1st International MOSAiC Science Conference from April 2022. Since MOSAiC observational data are expected to be publicly available by the start of 2023, this conference is an opportunity to expand the MOSAiC science community through the use of these data. Conference participation is open to all, with the expectation that all contributions are focused on MOSAiC-related research.

Key Dates

• October 12: Session announcement, abstract submission open
• November 18: Abstract submissions due
• December 1: Registration open
• December 16: Full program published
• January 11: Registration deadline

The Yukon Chamber of Mines and partners are hosting the 50th Annual Yukon Geoscience Forum and Trade Show, showcasing Yukon’s resource industry. With more than 700 delegates and hundreds more in trade show, public, and student participants, this annual event has been hosted in Whitehorse for half a century, creating connections, fostering partnerships, and sharing highlights and best practices of the industry.

The 50th – Golden – Anniversary, marks an important milestone for the Yukon Geoscience Conference. The theme of this year’s event will be: Resources, Resilience and Relationships.

Join IARPC and the National Science Foundation for a program manager chat focused on the Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) program. NNA program officers will provide an overview of the recently released solicitation, highlight major changes, review goals of the NNA program, and answer questions in breakout rooms focused on different proposal tracks.

Program officers in attendance will include Colleen Strawhacker, Siobhan Mattison, Kendra McLachlan, Roberto Delgado, Jonathan Wynn, Maddie Midyette, Xoco Shinbrot, Katsumi Matsumoto, Yu Gu, Kate Ruck, Liam Frink, and Mamadou Diallo.

Climate Change Conferences 2022 melds brief keynote presentations, speaker talks, exhibitions, symposia, workshops, and speaker sessions. Climate Congress 2022 will join world-class professors, scientists, researchers, students, and environmentalists, to discuss the methodology to reduce global warming, climatic change, and its effect, pollution, and recycling. Climate Change Conferences 2022, Climate Science conferences 2022, and environmental meetings 2022 are planned to give various information that will keep helpful scientists next to each other on the issues impacting the expectations, finding, and solutions for climatic change and its effect. The assembling of this event will be dealt with the subject “Tackling Climate Change for a Sustainable Future".

The next Workshop on the Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers & IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology Annual Meeting will be held at the University Center in Obergurgl, Austria, on 26-28 January 2023.

The organizers welcome oral and poster contributions on all aspects concerning the mass balance and dynamics of Arctic glaciers, including the Greenland Ice Sheet.

The purpose of the meeting is:

• To present and discuss new results on observations and modelling of the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers, including the Greenland ice sheet
• To plan and coordinate field work on Arctic glaciers with the aim of using the available infrastructure and logistics in the most efficient way
• To develop ideas for future projects and collaboration

In addition to the workshop, the meeting will host a special session on "Glacier - atmosphere interactions in a warming and wetting Arctic".

With funding from IASC, the organizers will be able to provide financial support to a selection of early career researchers.

Please register and submit your abstract by 25 November 2022.

The International Polar Foundation and its many Arctic stakeholder partners are hosting the 13th edition of the Arctic Futures Symposium.

This year's Symposium will focus on:

• Evolving Arctic Governance
• Arctic Cooperation and Research in the Current Geopolitical Climate
• The Evolving Role of Arctic Stakeholders
• Arctic Energy and Resource Security
• Arctic Innovation
• The Arctic as an Attractive Place to Live and Work

The Arctic Futures Symposium promises to deliver lively discussions on Arctic issues.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) is pleased to announce the release of the 2022-2024 Implementation Plan for the Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026. This new plan provides specific actions that IARPC and its partners in the Arctic research community will take to promote research aimed at improving community resilience and well-being, advancing scientific understanding of ongoing changes in the Arctic system, creating more sustainable economies and livelihoods, and improving risk management and hazard mitigation.

The IARPC Secretariat will give an overview of the new plan as well as ways the Arctic research community can get involved via IARPC Collaborations.

Historically, the Arctic Region has served as a natural strategic buffer between nations competing for geopolitical and economic interests. The impacts of climate change on the Arctic’s physical environment have coincided with the reemergence of great power competition for resources, influence, and governance around the globe. The White House’s recent release of the National Strategy for the Arctic Region emphasizes the convergence of these competing interests and for the first time, the Arctic is included as a regional priority in the National Security Strategy. The Department of Homeland Security’s multi-faceted mission through agencies like the United States Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement makes it integral to upholding and advancing the nation’s priorities under the NSAR’s four pillars.

Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute for a conversation with DHS’ Deputy Secretary John Tien on DHS’ unique and significant role in the Arctic region. This chat will be followed by a panel of experts from DHS agencies who will discuss DHS’ role in upholding the NSAR’s pillars through maritime security, disaster preparedness and recovery, and law enforcement collaboration.

Keynote

Deputy Secretary John K. Tien
Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

Speakers

Ambassador David Balton
Executive Director, Arctic Executive Steering Committee, Office of Science & Technology Policy, White House; former Senior Fellow, Polar Institute, Wilson Center

Vice Admiral Peter W. Gautier
Deputy Commandant for Operations, U.S. Coast Guard

Willie G. Nunn
Regional Administrator, Region 10, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Robert J. Hammer
Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, Department of Homeland Security

Moderator

Dr. Rebecca Pincus
Director, Polar Institute

Organizers invite panel submissions to the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society 2023, 21-23 March in Rovaniemi, Finland after a four years’ pandemic-induced break. The general topic of the conference is “Relations and beyond”.

For the first time hosted by the Arctic Anthropology Research Team in Lapland, this conference invites contributions to an anthropology of relations and beyond, celebrating the multiplicity of facets and “theoretical heterogeneity [that] may strengthen rather than weaken the force of relations as a general concept” (Strathern 2018, in CEA, p.8). These theoretical avenues will be addressed by the three keynotes at this conference, by Dame Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge), Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) and Piers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge).

During the final plenary discussion these keynote speakers shall engage with selected specialists in the field and the plenary audience to advance our understanding of relations and beyond to the next level. Within Finnish Anthropology, we aim to foster conversations between anthropologists working in the Arctic and elsewhere. The 2023 conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society invites panels that explore the topic of “relations and beyond” in diverse ethnographic and theoretical settings. Panels are also welcome to focus on relations between anthropology and other disciplines – a topic that has become particularly relevant in the current funding landscape with its emphasis on multidisciplinary projects. We encourage submissions on relations between anthropologists and their research partners in the field, be they international and Finnish colleagues or practitioners, and how the process of co-creating knowledge bases on such relations.

Deadlines

• Proposal for panels should be submitted by 30 September 2022 to: finnanthro [at] ulapland.fi
• Acceptance of panel submissions and opening of paper submissions: 15 October 2022
• Paper submission deadline: 30 November 2022

Full title: Ecosystem based management at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, from how ecosystem data is being collected, to how it is being used

Presenters: David Kimmel, Ph.D., NOAA AFSC; Robert Suryan, Ph.D., NOAA AFSC

Sponsors: This seminar is part of NOAA's EcoFOCI bi-annual seminar series focused on the ecosystems of the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and U.S. Arctic to improve understanding of ecosystem dynamics and applications of that understanding to the management of living marine resources. Since Oct 21, 1986, the seminar has provided an opportunity for research scientists and practitioners to meet, present, develop their ideas and provoke conversations on subjects pertaining to fisheries-oceanography or regional issues in Alaska's marine ecosystems, including the US Arctic. Visit the EcoFOCI webpage for more information.

Abstract

Two presentations will cover ecosystem based management at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, from how ecosystem data is being collected, to how it is being used. Hear about how artificial intelligence and machine learning is being incorporated into rapid in the field analysis in order to get real-time snapshots of the Bering Sea ecosystem. Next, learn about how this data, among a variety of others, are being used directly and indirectly in fisheries management. This overview will help investigators contributing to recruitment and ecosystem studies understand how their data are being used. Additionally, the presenters hope this presentation provides the needed background and sparks additional ideas and interest for investigators to contribute to these efforts.

Bios

David G. Kimmel is a lead research oceanographer at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. His area of expertise is Biological oceanography, zooplankton ecology, coastal ecology, climate impacts on ecosystems, and quantitative ecology.

Robert Suryan is the program manager for the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and specializes in integrated ecosystem studies to understand population and community dynamics in response to changing food availability and ocean climate.

The Polar Institute, Canadian Armed Forces, and the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies present the “Technological Innovation and Arctic Climate Security” webinar.

This webinar will discuss the intersection between technology and the cryosphere (i.e., the frozen parts of the earth). Ms. Marisol Maddox will frame the Arctic climate security problem set to illuminate the critical issues. Dr. Kimberley Miner with discuss risks and impacts from cryosphere degradation. Ms. Leslie Canavera will describe examples of how we can use a blend of indigenous knowledge and western data with specialized artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to forecast climate change and translate knowledge into action.

Please register to receive the virtual teleconference information.