Past Events

CryoSkills is a fully funded, week-long practical field course in Haugastøl (Norway), geared towards PhD candidates and early-career scientists. Participants will learn to design, build, and deploy sensors and instrumentation for cold regions. Participants can expect both relevant theory and the honing of practical skills for glaciological fieldwork, taught by experts in the field.

The course will take place from 2 April 2024 until 10 April 2024. Applications are open now and close on 29 October 2023.

A webinar will be hosted on Friday 6 October 2023 at 9:00am GMT to provide information on what you can expect from the course and answer any queries.

The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland invites researchers at any level to submit proposals for the first Critical Arctic Studies Symposium on the theme “Post-Human Dialogues: Rethinking Human-Nature Relations in and through the Arctic”.

We live in the age of polycrisis (or permacrisis), characterised by the combination of long-term, complex and intertwined risks related, inter alia, to health, energy, climate change and economic shocks. New imaginaries, practices and knowledge are necessary to cope with this situation. Although the Arctic is often viewed as a showcase of ongoing global change, research on Arctic politics and governance tends to be very state-centric, and it often overlooks how non-state actors and non-human agents shape those processes. To challenge traditional approaches, this symposium invites critical, interdisciplinary perspectives that seek to expand our understanding of human-nature relations in and through the Arctic. The Symposium aims to reflect on and explore novel notions and approaches to the human-nature relationship from various onto-epistemological, normative, and methodological perspectives. We welcome papers discussing post-human approaches to Arctic politics from the perspective of social sciences, humanities, law, geography, and related fields.

Important Dates

• Submission of abstracts: until 31 March 2023.
• Notification regarding abstract acceptance: 30 April 2023.
• Publication of the symposium program: 15 June 2023.
• Submission of full papers: until 1 October 2023.

El Niño is back and is making news. Beyond the headlines, what does that mean for Alaska and beyond? Scott Handel with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center will provide a broad overview: what is El Niño, how does it relate to La Niña, and how do the variations in equatorial Pacific ocean temperatures influence weather and seasonal climate across much of the globe. Rick Thoman with ACCAP will provide a look at how past El Niño events have played out for Alaska weather and climate and finish up with the official climate outlooks for the upcoming winter.

Please register for this event.

At just over 1 million square nautical miles in size and 66 percent unmapped as of January 2023, Alaska's ocean waters are the least mapped relative to any other U.S. state. The existing maps are sparse and predate modern mapping technologies, leaving much unknown about the Alaska seafloor and its impacts on navigation, fisheries, hazards, and more. Seascape Alaska is a collaborative project to fully map coastal and ocean waters throughout the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.

Please join IARPC Collaborations for a webinar on this exciting mapping campaign. Seascape Alaska includes efforts to not only gather bathymetric data, but also understand the habitat, seafloor, archaeological, biological, chemical, and other oceanic attributes. Recently endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Action, it is a collaboration among federal, Tribal, state, and non-governmental partners, and is in support of the 2020 National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. This national strategy, referred to as the National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization (or NOMEC) Strategy, is an ambitious multi-decadal plan to advance ocean science and technology in the United States through ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization.

Speakers Meredith Westington (NOAA Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping), Caroline Wilkinson (NOAA Office of Coast Survey), Sam Candio (NOAA Ocean Exploration), and Cheryl Morrison (USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center) will provide an overview of Seascape Alaska and introduce some recent accomplishments and upcoming plans. There will be time for discussion and questions.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is hosting the consultations and engagement sessions on advancing co-stewardship as outlined in the Joint Secretarial Order 3403.

On November 21, 2022, in coordination with the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture, JSO 3403 was amended to include the Department of Commerce. The purpose of JSO 3403 is to ensure Federal lands and waters are managed in a manner that protects the treaty, religious, subsistence, and cultural interests of federally recognized Indian tribes, including the Native Hawaiian Community, with an emphasis on co-stewardship. NOAA is implementing the directives of JSO 3403 and developing co-stewardship opportunities with federally recognized tribes and Native Hawaiian Community. NOAA is interested in working with tribal members and Native Hawaiians to build our collective understanding of stewardship and co-stewardship and identify ways to advance the goals of JSO 3403 at NOAA and within the Department of Commerce. As part of this process, NOAA would benefit from consultations and engagement on a number of issues related to JSO 3403.

NOAA will hold three formal consultations for tribal representatives on the following dates/times:

• 3 October 2023, 1:00-3:00 pm EDT
• 4 October 2023, 2:00-4:00 pm EDT
• 13 October 2023, 3:00-5:00 pm EDT

NOAA will hold an engagement for Native Hawaiian representatives on the following dates/times:

• 5 October 2023, 3:00-5:00 pm EDT (9:00-11:00 am Hawa'i)

The United States Permafrost Association (USPA) is excited to offer three travel funding opportunities for early-career researchers to attend the AGU Fall 2023 Meeting. Apply by 13 October 2023.

The 11th Annual World Congress of Ocean-2023 (WCO-2023) will be held from 15-17 November 2023 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. WCO series congress contribute to offering professionals in the field of ocean a multidisciplinary informative cooperative platform, and it has been the most definite and grand Ocean event in Asia. The conference offers the business leaders, academic researchers, and government agents around the world to meet and exchange ideas in research technologies and application experiences face to face, finding gaps in the technology development and build future collaboration. The 3-day conference is an effective series of activities including Plenary Forum, Parallel Sessions, Welcome Banquet, Exhibitions, Posters and Tours etc.

Programmed Chapters at a Glance:

• Opening Ceremony and Keynote Forum
• Track 1: Ocean Economy and Finance
• Track 2: Maritime Law
• Track 3: Coastal and Ocean Engineering
• Track 4: Ocean Energy Development and Utilization
• Track 5: Emerging Ocean Science and Technology
• Track 6: Marine Management and Environment Protection
• Track 7: Smart Port, Green Shipping & Shipbuilding
• Track 8: Marine Biotechnology
• Track 9: Aquaculture and Fisheries

Important Deadlines

• Deadline for online Early Bird Registration: 28 February 2023
• Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15 October 2023
• Deadline for Regular Registration: 10 November 2023

The 4th International Conference on Snow Hydrology will take place in Grenoble, France from 30 January to 2 February 2024.

Storage and release of water from seasonal snow covers constitute critical components of the hydrological cycle in many parts of the world, affecting water availability, vegetation patterns, ecosystems, and weather. Measuring, modeling, and understanding the processes that control deposition and ablation dynamics of snow provide ample
research challenges, especially in complex mountainous terrain.

The 4th International Conference on Snow Hydrology (SnowHydrology2024) will provide an exceptional opportunity to discuss recent advances in all aspects of snow hydrology in a dedicated conference setting, including snow cover processes, distribution dynamics, model development, operational snowmelt forecasting and data assimilation, remote sensing of snow, new experimental method, climate change effects on snow water resources, snow-vegetation interactions, and snow ecohydrology. SnowHydrology2024 is the event to meet your international peers and exchange latest ideas in a focused and informal setting. SnowHydrology2024 will be hosted in Grenoble, France, in the foothills of the Alps not far from the famous Mont-Blanc.

Submission of abstracts will be open from 15 September to 15 October 2023.

Organizers will solicit abstracts on all aspects of snow hydrology without predefining thematic sessions. A program will be organized into topical blocks based on the received abstracts. SnowHydrology2024 will also include poster sessions to encourage focused research discussions and networking.

The 2nd World Conference on Climate Change and Sustainability anticipates all the eminent personalities interested in participating from worldwide to this Global Conference on Climate Change, at Leonardo Boutique Hotel Rome Termini, Rome, Italy.

The conference will focus on a variety of advanced research topics including Climate Science & Climatology, CO2 Capture and Sequestration, Effective Adaptation, AI & Machine Learning in Climate Change, Oceans & Climate Change, Sustainability & Climate Change, Renewable Energy to Mitigate Climate Change, Solutions for Climate Change, Alternative Energy, Household Energy, Alternative Food, Smart Cities, Climate Policy, and Entrepreneurs Investment Meet. Join us for three intensive and interesting days of discussing contemporary challenges and new advancements in climate change.

The organizers invite you to contribute and help to shape the event through submissions of your research abstracts and e-posters. Also, high-quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Climate Change and Global Warming at this Conference.

Save the date: Organizers are planning a workshop on subglacial and englacial hydrology and geology in Tarraleah, Tasmania, from 17-19 October 2023. It will be three full days of presentations, discussions, and short field trips to look at subglacial and periglacial landforms in a Gondwana setting.

Tarraleah is a small settlement in the secluded Tasmanian highlands, about one and a half hours from Hobart. It was established for construction of hydroelectric power infrastructure, and on-site are penstocks and canals that the organizers hope will inspire the envision of water channelling under and through the ice sheet and glaciers.

Full board accommodation and local transport will be provided; organizers are presently looking at the details in order to offer a comfortable stay while keeping participation affordable for everyone, including support for students. The organizers also welcome interstate and international participants wishing to stay a bit longer and visit the University of Tasmania in connection to the workshop—details about those arrangements to come.

More information and registration is to be posted soon.

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 2024.

The application deadline is on 18 October 2023 at 13:00 GMT.

The IASC Fellowship Program is meant to engage early career researchers in the work of the IASC Working Groups.

In addition to the work in the IASC Working Groups, the Fellows will also be engaged in the work of the Research Priority Teams for the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning Process (ICARP IV).

The NOAA/NESDIS operational snowfall rate (SFR) product is derived from a constellation of polar-orbiting satellites. Recent advancements have substantially improved the SFR product through the integration of machine learning techniques. This observation-based product is generated locally at GINA, University of Alaska Fairbanks using direct broadcast satellite data received at GINA, resulting in low latency and making it well-suited for nowcasting applications.

AFN announces the 10th Annual AFN Tribal Conference, Protecting Our Ways of Life, will take place on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, in Anchorage, Alaska at the William A. Egan Civic and Convention Center, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The conference invites tribal leaders, tribal administrators, tribal court judges, tribal court administrators, and tribal members to participate, learn, and share their experiences on federal, state, and local issues important to Alaska Native tribes, including subsistence.

Biologists from NOAA Fisheries will present results of their recent research on bearded, ribbon, ringed, and spotted seals. They will share their fieldwork plans to study these seals in the Bering Strait region (and elsewhere) during Spring 2024. Hear how these important subsistence resources are responding to changes in their ecosystems. The Strait Science Series lectures are presented by Northwest Campus and Alaska Sea Grant to promote understanding between citizens of the Bering Strait region and the researchers who frequent the Seward Peninsula.

The 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly will take place on 19-22 October 2023 in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center, in Reykjavík, Iceland. The Call for Session Proposals is now open, deadline for submitting Session Proposals is May 1st, 2023.

The official program of the Assembly runs from Thursday - Saturday. Pre-Events usually take place on the Tuesday and Wednesday before and the Sunday is dedicated to content excursions and departures.

The annual Assembly is attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, indigenous leadership and representatives, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the Arctic.

Join the NNA-CO education and outreach team in a hands-on session, practicing a technique that translates data from Arctic region projects and climate projection scenarios into stories of possible futures and actions youth and adults can take to create their best possible future. The workshop will provide lesson plans and hands-on practice with the technique.

Presenter

Dr. Katie Villano Spellman is a life-long Alaskan and Research Associate Professor at UAF’s International Arctic Research Center. She leads and collaborates on several different science education and public participation in scientific research projects including Arctic and Earth SIGNs, Winterberry Citizen Science, Fostering Science, and Fresh Eyes on Ice.

The 2023 AFN Convention will be held on 19-21 October 2023 in Anchorage, Alaska. The annual convention serves as the principal forum and voice for the Alaska Native community in addressing critical issues of public policy and government. The convention convenes thousands of official delegates and participants from membership organizations across the state.

Piita Irniq, an educator, artist, former politician, and advocate for Inuit and their way of life, is well known for Inuksuit he has built. They have been displayed throughout Canada, and in various countries including in France, Argentina, Mongolia, and the United States.

During the week of October 16, 2023 he will erect an Inuksuk near the Center for Arctic Studies on the campus of Bowdoin College.

An Inuksuk is a stone structure shaped in the likeness of a person (inuk). It might be a single upright boulder or stones stacked to resemble a person with outstretched arms. Ancestors of present-day Inuit erected Inuksuit on the land to serve as wayfinding structures.

Join us as Irniq discusses Inuit as a hunting society, their move from iglu to microwave in less than 60 years, and the impact of residential schools on contemporary communities. He will explain how Inuit are reclaiming, retrieving and reinvigorating their culture.

Save-the-date:

Organizers announce that the NorthWest Glaciologists Meeting is planned for 20-21 October (Friday-Saturday) in Seattle at the
University of Washington.

To help with planning the organizers request that everyone planning to attend fill out this registration form.

Rick Thoman will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, discuss some forecasting tools and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for November 2023 and the winter season. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Please register to attend.