Past Events

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

The abstract submission deadline is 10 January 2023, 13:00 CET.

More than ever the changes of the Arctic region in terms of climate change, geopolitical issues, societal resilience and adaptation have enhanced the need for mapping, monitoring, precision navigation and new technologies in all its aspects inspiring new ways of collaborations between the world of science, authorities, business and community.

Arctic International Technology Conference (AITC) 2023 will gather academia, experts, users of mapping and monitoring of the cryosphere in three overall thematic tracks: sea, cryosphere, and land, ranging from ocean, sea-ice, and land ice including permafrost and ice-free land.

The geopolitical situation and increased interests in a sustainable development of the Arctic, underlined by among others UNs Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), have resulted in new Arctic funding strategies from agencies such as ESA, the American NSF and the EU work programmes. The gathering of various stakeholders at the AITC conference will provide opportunities to interact across scientific, civil and commercial domains, to develop new ideas and projects, and to create new collaboration aiming for a sustainable development of the Arctic regions and especially Greenland.

The programme includes internationally recognised key-note speakers, panel debate and thematic parallel meetings hosted by participants. facilities for project-development, one-to-one meetings, as well as time to experience the Greenlandic culture and nature in and around Nuuk.

Researchers, professionals, policy-makers and business people are encouraged to join the conference. In order to secure the next generation of highly skilled experts, a limited number of PhD students are offered a reduced conference fee.

NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) will host the 51st Global Monitoring Annual Conference (GMAC), fostering collaboration and partnerships in the global atmospheric monitoring community. The conference will be held in person 23-24 May 2023 in Boulder, Colorado.

For those unable to attend in person, the organizers will have a virtual option available for attending and presenting.

This year’s GMAC will be held on the University of Colorado campus in the University Memorial Center’s Glenn Miller Ballrooms. The new venue will provide a comfortable large meeting space, a dedicated poster display location, and break-out rooms for enhanced collaboration.

Abstract submission is now open. The conference agenda is driven by the abstracts received, so GML looks forward to and welcomes your submission. Abstract guidelines are on the submission page. Presentations can be either in person or virtual.

Abstracts are due by Saturday, 24 April 2023.

Green-up, that time when leaves burst forth from Alaska’s deciduous trees, has important implications for the seasonal ecology, society and even meteorology in the state. The unique multi-decadal record of green-up dates in Fairbanks has been used to develop a technique for forecasting green-up and related events in the Interior and more broadly in the boreal forest regions in Alaska. This webinar will be the fourth annual review of the green-up forecasting tools and will provide a look-ahead for green-up for Spring 2023. One Tree will demonstrate citizen science-outreach tools for birch tappers and others.

Please register to attend.

The US and its international partners have long recognized the urgency of improving Arctic observing and data systems in order to better track and respond to widespread, rapid change in the region. Unique challenges confront such efforts, including technology limitations in harsh polar environments and a complex array of independently funded efforts, often inadequately integrated, within the US and across other Arctic and non-Arctic nations. The US Arctic Observing Network was established to address these challenges, particularly those related to identifying priority improvements and facilitating partnership development, both nationally and internationally. This talk will provide a status on these efforts with a focus on planning tools and processes being developed and utilized by US AON and its partners.

Bio

Sandy Starkweather serves as the Executive Director of the US Arctic Observing Network and chair of the international Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks. She has a background in engineering, climate science and science and technology policy. She is a research scientist at the University of Colorado and a NOAA-Affiliate through the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative, an international multi-disciplinary collaboration on Arctic research, will conclude with a series of events in in Washington, D.C., from 24 – 28 April 2023. Scholars from the Arctic Council’s eight member states will present their research and policy recommendations, capping twenty-four months of research and collaboration.

Launched in 2015, the Fulbright Arctic Initiative reinforces U.S. priorities by supporting international scientific cooperation on Arctic issues and increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. As Arctic nations continue to take concrete steps to work together and address public-policy research questions relevant to shared challenges and opportunities, the Fulbright Arctic Initiative offers a collaborative model for scholarly exchange. The current group of nineteen scholars represent the eight countries that make up the Arctic Council: Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States.

Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholars conducted research in the areas of Arctic security and cooperation, Arctic infrastructure in a changing environment, and the community dimensions of health. They covered a wide range of topics, including engaging local and Indigenous knowledge towards human, environmental and food security; exposure toxic chemicals in the Faroe Islands; community-based solutions to Indigenous health and elder care in Alaska; climate change resilience; sustainable development; and the role of the arts in Arctic communities.

On Tuesday 25 April, the scholars will share their research in a poster exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (from 2:00 – 4:00 pm, open to the public).

On Thursday 27 April the scholars will present their work to policymakers at a symposium at the Wilson Center. This event will be live-streamed online for public viewing.

The ACORN series is a monthly online seminar series by PerCS-Net members on topics related to Arctic coastal research. Talks are scheduled for the 4th Wednesday of the month at 1 pm Eastern Time.

On 26 April 2023, Julia Guimond, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will give a talk on The Impact of Wind on Groundwater Dynamics along a Microtidal Arctic Lagoon.

Rutgers Global Asias invites you to a book talk with speaker Juliana Hu Pegues, discussants Evelyn Saavedra Autry and Rashmi Kumari, and moderator Mich Ling.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Global Asias Initiative, the Institute for Research on Women, Department of American Studies, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of History, and the Indigenous Studies Working Group at the Center for Latin American Studies.

Integrating your research with digital media technology through storytelling to support collaboration and convergence - this 90-minute webinar will help you explore and evaluate how the facilitation, creation and sharing of stories as digital stories can lead to a more powerful, deeper and more expansive sense of knowing.

Using a combination of presentation, inquiry and group discussion the 90-minute webinar, facilitated by StoryCenter’s Robert Kershaw and Allison Myers, will create space for participants to explore how storytelling can be aligned to tell authentic and meaningful narratives for NNA-CO researchers and community partners’ work. Participants will acquire a deeper knowledge of the power of storytelling while considering how perceptions and biases can leave significant gaps in the stories told and subsequent efforts to push community-focused initiatives forward. It will also explore critical ethical principles and questions: supporting storyteller wellbeing; the meaning of consent; ensuring and upholding local practices and protocols; sovereignty of the narrative; acknowledging ethical and cultural humility; the distribution (or not) of individual and community stories.

As Arctic nations continue to take concrete steps to work together and address public policy research questions relevant to addressing shared challenges and opportunities, the Fulbright Arctic Initiative offers a collaborative model for scholarly exchange to help translate theory into practice and policy. Nineteen scholars have conducted individual Fulbright research with host institutions in one another’s countries and joined together to collaborate on producing policy recommendations in three key areas:

• Arctic Security and Cooperation
• Arctic Infrastructure in a Changing Environment
• Community Dimensions of Health

Please join the Wilson Center and the Fulbright Program for a Symposium on Science Diplomacy in the Arctic, as Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholars from the United States and the seven other Arctic nations – Canada, Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden – present policy recommendations based on key findings from their Fulbright research and collaborative group work over the past two years, and discuss the Indigenous foundations of Arctic knowledge.

Introductory Remarks

Dr. Greg Poelzer
Co-Lead, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS), University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Elizabeth Lynne Rink
Co-Lead, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Professor of Community Health, Department of Health and Human Development, Montana State University

Dr. Rebecca Pincus
Director, Polar Institute

Speakers

Dr. Jessica Graybill
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Russian & Eurasian Studies Program, Colgate University

Dr. Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Professor of International Affairs, Faculty of Political Science, University of Iceland

Dr. Anna Krook-Riekkola
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Associate Professor in Energy Engineering, Luleå University of Technology (LTU)

Dr. Larry Hinzman
Assistant Director of Polar Sciences, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Executive Director, Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC)

Dr. Bonita Beatty
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Department Head of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan

Rauna Kuokkanen
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Research Professor, Arctic Indigenous Studies, University of Lapland (Finland); Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto

Chris Clarke McQueen
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Chief Architect, Department of Health and Social Service, Government of the Northwest Territories

Lena Popova
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Researcher, International UNESCO Chair, Social and Human Adaptation of the Arctic Regions to Climate Change and Globalization

Moderators

Susan Crate
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Professor of Anthropology, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University

Ketil Lenert Hansen
Scholar, Fulbright Arctic Initiative; Public Health Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Professor II, Indigenous Pedagogy, Institute of Sámi Teaching Education and Indigenous Journalism Study, Sámi University of Applied Sciences

Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative and the Arctic Mayors’ Forum announce their upcoming virtual seminar, titled Building Climate Resilience in the Urban Arctic.

The seminar will explore how Arctic cities are addressing the current and future impacts of climate change, as well as the lessons that Arctic cities and other cities elsewhere in the world can learn from each other’s experiences.

The panel will feature Ida Maria Pinnerød, Mayor of Bodø, Norway; Avaraaq Olsen, Mayor of Sermersooq, Greenland; Annika Myrén, Development Strategist of the City of Umeå, Sweden; and Bryce Ward, Mayor of Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska. Arctic Initiative Postdoctoral Research Fellow Nadezhda Filimonova will moderate.

This event is open to the public and hosted on Zoom. For those who cannot attend live, the seminar will be recorded and available to watch (typically within two weeks). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

The VII Convection Permitting Climate Modelling Workshop will take place 29 August 2023 to 31 August 2023 in Bergen, Norway, and aims to:

1. Communicate advances in CPCM and our understanding of fine scale processes; how these influence/are influenced by larger scale features and elucidate how climate change and its impacts are experienced at local scales.
2. Address, and propose solutions to, barriers to continued advancement – such as lack of key earth system or human components.
3. Through concrete examples discuss how we can tailor CPCM research in such a way so as to support adaptation efforts, vulnerability & impacts assessments and downstream climate services.

This will be a hybrid event, i.e., with on-site and remote participation. Oral sessions and panel discussions in plenary will be live streamed and recordings made available for remote delegates. There will be no parallel sessions.

Topics

1. Mountainous & high-latitude regions
2. Extremes & impacts
3. Model development
4. CPCM for society, adaptation planning and mitigating risk
5. Data access, accessibility and equitability in CPCM research
6. What have we learned from CPCM modelling and what is next

Important Dates

• 1 March: Abstract submission and financial support application open
• 30 April: Abstract submission and financial support application close
• 30 May: Notification of abstracts and financial support
• 1 June: Registration opens

UArctic and the Arctic Circle are pleased to open the call for nominations for the 2023 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award.

The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2023.

The Arctic Academic Action Award provides high-level recognition for innovative ideas that aspire to transform knowledge into action to help address the causes and impacts of climate change in the Arctic. Through this award it is hoped to bring together potential concepts preventing, mitigating, adapting, and reversing Arctic climate change. The cohort of award recipients will form a powerful group of leaders whose ideas will be fostered to develop and implement meaningful solutions and projects to address Arctic climate change.

The recipient(s) will be announced at the Arctic Circle Assembly in October in Reykjavík, Iceland followed by a special reception. 100,000 Euro of unrestricted funds are provided to the awardee to help facilitate the development of ideas and increase impact through outreach, engagement and communication.

The National Science Foundation has released a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) and solicitation for supporting open polar research software.

Federal agencies are celebrating 2023 as a Year of Open Science. Open software tools, libraries, frameworks, and data are playing increasingly prominent and impactful roles in activities supported by the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) in the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), as they are across federally funded research.

Complementing the disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and cyberinfrastructure goals articulated in the current Antarctic and Arctic solicitations, this Dear Colleague Letter (NSF DCL 23-053) is designed to encourage the sustainable development and use of open-source software, tools, libraries, and frameworks that are critical for OPP scientific objectives. OPP encourages the submission of new proposals and supplemental funding requests which support the opening, documenting, and sharing of open polar research software/code.

Principal Investigators are encouraged to contact Allen Pope, Program Officer for Polar Cyberinfrastructure at apope [at] nsf.gov, with any questions pertaining to this DCL and to discuss the scope and size of potential proposals.

Proposal deadline for full consideration in Fiscal Year 2023: 1 May 2023. Supplemental funding requests may be submitted at any time.

The 18th Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate (WAMC) 2023 meeting will be held in Madison, Wisconsin at the Pyle Center, from 31 May to 2 June 2023. This will be a hybrid meeting welcoming online as well as in-person attendees. The WAMC brings together those with common interests in Antarctic meteorology, climate, forecasting and related disciplines. The three-day event will focus on observational networks, numerical modeling, weather forecasting, operational/logistical interests, and Antarctic meteorological and climate research from contributors around the world. Additional sessions will focus on the Year of Polar Prediction - Southern Hemisphere.

Organizers are now accepting abstract submissions.

• Short abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2023
• Extended abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2023

The European Space Agency, together with the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is organizing the SeaSAR2023 workshop in Svalbard.

The following topics will be addressed:

• Wave Retrievals
• Near Surface Wind Retrievals
• Doppler Shift Retrievals
• Detection of Extremes
• Sea Ice Retrievals
• Sensor Synergy
• Methodology and Techniques
• Future Missions
• Applications (Oil Spill, Ship Detection, etc)

The workshop is open to ESA Principal Investigators, co-investigators, Sentinel-1 users, scientists, students, representatives from national, European, and international space agencies and value adding industries. No participation fees will be charged. Participants are expected to finance their own travel and accommodation expenses.

Due to the capacity of the venue, the number of attendees will be limited to around 120.

Deadline for abstract submission: 25 January 2023.

Registration deadline: 25 February 2023.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) has put together a second discussion panel about job opportunities beyond academia for polar scientists. This will focus on non-tenure track faculty jobs and what opportunities exist for polar scientists beyond academia. The information from this panel will also be transferrable to jobs outside of polar science.

Panelists for this event include Kirsten Arnell, Allen Pope, Anthony Powell, and Karli Tyance-Hassell.

This event will not be recorded.

The IGS Global Seminar Series are live on Zoom most Wednesdays. Please register in advance for the seminars.

The seminars are also be live-streamed to the IGS Facebook page so that you can watch them afterwards if you can’t make the live seminar.

This week's talk

This week the IGS Global Seminar Series will have two talks on sea ice. Dr. Arttu Jutilla from AWI will present Multi-sensor airborne observations of Arctic Sea Ice: Recent Results from the AWI IceBird Winter 2023 Campaign, while Dr. Mark England from UC Santa Cruz will present Spurious Climate Impacts in Coupled Sea Ice Loss Simulations.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway hosts a monthly webinar series on a Thursday at 09:00 Alaska time. 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

In the Arctic, climate warming has led plants to colonize previously barren ground and existing plant communities to become more productive and often shrubbier. There has also been an overall increase in plant biomass that can impact northern human communities, wildlife, and biogeochemical cycles. Despite its importance, the current amount, distribution, and composition of plant biomass remains highly uncertain across the Arctic, let alone changes that occurred during recent decades. Our project focuses on mapping total plant biomass and shrub biomass across the Arctic using field measurements, Landsat satellite observations, and ancillary environmental datasets. We are synthesizing existing field measurements from across the Arctic and linking these measurements with wall-to-wall Landsat data processed using Google Earth Engine. Over the next two years, we will develop next-generation plant biomass maps for the Arctic that can be used to better understand and help manage a broad suite of climate change impacts.

The Arctic Challenge for Sustainability II (ArCS II) invites applications for their International Early Career Researchers Program.

This program invites a wide range of early career researchers from the Arctic and non-Arctic countries who are engaged in Arctic research, and supports their research by employing or accepting them at universities and research institutions in Japan. This project aims to revitalize mutual exchange between Arctic researchers in Japan and early career researchers overseas, and to strengthen the cooperative system for international joint research.

In this second call for applications, the minimum length of appointment was changed to six months.

The application must be filed by the Host Researcher. The International Early Career Researcher is required to prepare an application form in cooperation with the Host Researcher. A Host Researcher must be a full-time researcher at the Host Institution. Host Institutions must be universities and research institutes that are national, public, or independent administrative institutions in Japan.

ArCS II is a national flagship project in Japan for Arctic research and a successor to the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) project that operated from 2015 to 2019. The project will take place over approximately four and a half years, from June 2020 to March 2025, primarily through the collaboration of three institutions: the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), and Hokkaido University. Aiming to foster the realization of a sustainable society, the ArCS II project will promote advanced research to understand the current status and process of environmental changes in the Arctic and to improve meteorological and climate prediction in order to assess the impact of rapid environmental changes in the Arctic on human society, including Japan, as well as to implement the results of this research into society.

Application deadline: 7 May 2023 7:00 pm AKDT, 11:00 pm EDT, 8 May 12:00 pm Japan Standard Time.