Past Events

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers studying Arctic and Antarctic climate change from observational and modeling perspectives (ranging from paleoclimate to climate change projections) to cross-pollinate and forge new collaborations that accelerate our understanding of polar amplification.

This workshop will be hybrid, with in-person and virtual participation available.

The objectives of the proposed workshop are to:

• Identify knowledge gaps and deficiencies in model diagnostics that limit our understanding of climate change in both polar regions
• Prioritize these knowledge gaps as areas for future research
• Identify strategies, tactics, and data needs (e.g., process studies, collaborative modeling activities, satellite missions) to address the identified knowledge gaps
• Identify candidate observational emergent constraints on key polar amplification processes
• Identify steps for enhancing community collaboration

A unique aspect of this workshop is the focus on the seasonally resolved processes that also relate to the asymmetries between Arctic and Antarctic amplification. As indicated by the results of previous Arctic and polar amplification workshops, expanding our focus beyond the atmospheric response to the oceanic response and sea ice loss is required to understand polar amplification more fully and reduce the inter-model spread in projections.

The Arctic Report Card annually updates the state of the Arctic climate and the ways the changing Arctic is impacting people. This year’s Report Card also includes essays on the divergent response of western Alaska salmon during this time of warming climate and of the value of Indigenous environmental observations in Alaska. This ACCAP webinar will review these highlights of the 2023 Report Card with reports from several essay authors. The Arctic Report Card is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with international author teams and released at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Register here for the online event - https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctd-CsqTwiHtzqpbRrCvcu_n56hWZ…

Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) and the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) are pleased to welcome you to an online workshop series to help researchers and collaborators communicate with policy makers.

WHO: Arctic researchers and collaborators who want to learn about writing and using short policy briefs to share their research and insights with non-scientists.

WHAT: SEARCH & NNA-CO will walk through how to frame and prepare your Arctic research to be submitted as an “Arctic Answer” for publication in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (AAAR), a peer-reviewed journal. Arctic Answers are two-page briefs designed specifically to share science with policymakers. Participants have the opportunity to work on developing a brief with experienced guidance. Two online sessions—one in January and one in February 2024—and a session at the NNA Annual Community Meeting will provide opportunities for learning and work. Participants can join all sessions for maximum benefit and progress on their brief or join fewer sessions to learn the basics.

WHERE: Zoom, etc.

WHEN: 18 Jan 2024, 11am - 12:30pm Mountain Time (session 1); 15 Feb 2024, 2:00 - 3:30pm Mountain Time (session 2)

WHY: The accelerating pace of environmental change in the Arctic challenges decision makers at all levels of government and commerce. Scientific and Indigenous researchers can positively influence decisions by sharing our understanding in concise and clear language.

Learn more and register: https://www.nna-co.org/communicating-science-policy-writing-policy-brie…

How do researchers explore past atmospheres to answer questions about our changing climate? Using ice cores! Drilled across polar regions, ice cores provide opportunities for researchers to understand the makeup of past atmospheres by studying the air bubbles trapped in the ice.

Join us from the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility (NSF-ICF), which stores, curates, and studies meteoric ice cores recovered from the glaciated regions of the world. NSF-ICF allows scientists to conduct examinations and measurements on ice cores, and it preserves the integrity of these ice cores in a long-term repository for future investigations.

On January 18 at 2pm EST, join staff from the NSF-ICF for a presentation and virtual tour as they discuss the work done at the facility, share how the ice cores are stored, inventoried, and cut, and talk about the logistics of recovering the ice cores from the field and transporting them to the ICF. Staff will also cover some of the science using the ice cores and what the research can tell us about the past, present, and future of our climate.

The congress takes place from 29 May to 3 June 2024 in Bodø, Norway, hosted by Nordland Research Institute and Nord University. Bringing three conferences together in Bodø – European Capital of Culture 2024 - will be an extraordinary showcase of Arctic cooperation.

The congress includes high-level plenary sessions, several parallel sessions, network activities, and social and cultural events. It is an excellent opportunity for researchers, policymakers, businesses, and students to exchange knowledge and meet and connect across the Arctic. IASSA and UArctic will also hold their assemblies.

We are not able to list individual sessions here, but please visit the Arctic Congress webpage for full details.

This in-person meeting will be held at the University Center, which also offers accommodation during and around the meeting. The meeting will start on Monday January 22 (around 9:00) and finish around noon on Wednesday January 24. The recommended arrival date is Sunday January 21. Rooms in the University Centre are available from January 21-25. There is no registration fee for the meeting.

Organizers welcome contributions on all aspects concerning the mass balance and dynamics of Arctic glaciers, including the Greenland Ice Sheet, and that utilize a broad range of methods, including field observations, remote sensing and modelling. In addition to this, the meeting will include a special cross-cutting activity on “Societal impacts of glacier and snow cover changes in a warming Arctic”, which aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum that brings together atmospheric scientists, snow experts, glaciologists and social scientists.

Please register for the meeting and submit your abstract by the deadline of 24 November 2023.

This 5-day in-person workshop will provide researchers with an overview of reproducible and ethical research practices, steps and methods for more easily documenting and preserving their data at the Arctic Data Center, and an introduction to programming in R. Special attention will be paid to qualitative data management, including practices working with sensitive data.

Example datasets will draw from natural and social sciences, and methods for conducting reproducible research will be discussed in the context of both qualitative and quantitative data. Responsible and reproducible data management practices will be discussed as they apply to all aspects of the data life cycle. This includes ethical data collection and data sharing, data sovereignty, and the CARE principles. The CARE principles are guidelines that help ensure open data practices (like the FAIR principles) appropriately engage with Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests.

For applications to receive full consideration, they must be received by 5 pm Pacific Time on Friday, 29 September 2023.

The North American Arctic (NAA) - the region spanning Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Greenland - is increasingly recognized for its distinct landscapes, strong historic and cultural connections between communities and peoples, and rising opportunities for knowledge sharing.

This NAA Speaker Series, jointly hosted by the Institute of Arctic Studies in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth and the Arctic Office of the US Department of State, hopes to serve as a platform for advancing NAA knowledge sharing, networking, and collaborations.

Our second NAA Speaker Series event will be centered around Arctic youth and film, specifically about successes and challenges of engaging Arctic youth to advance Arctic and global knowledge sharing through film, storytelling, and documentaries that respect Indigenous knowledge and the centering of Arctic histories, cultures, and voices of the region’s next generation leaders.

Speakers:

Aaluk Edwardson, born and raised on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, is a multidisciplinary artist, purposeful educator and the founder and director of Creative Decolonization, LLC. Aaluk's work is focused on supporting wellness, cultural exploration and creative engagement in service to communities and families around the world. She has written poetry for adolescents healing from sexual abuse, culturally diverse plays for children and adults, and for TV. She is working on a novel and two children's storybooks at present. She's taught elementary, middle and high school students and has taught creative writing and Inuit history for the Iñupiaq Studies department at Iḷisaġvik College. Aaluk founded Creative Decolonization, LLC as a collaborative space to build community-driven creative projects that support cultural and individual wellness. The ATTA Project, the PUIGUITKAAT Project, the Evolving through Disaster Series, and the Sovereignty Stories Project are a few of the projects she's helped to develop in service to culture and community. Aaluk hopes this work encourages people to treat one another with respect and kindness with the eventual goal of a world full of such things. Learn more about Aaluk and her work at www.creativedecolonization.org and on the Creative Decolonization Podcast.

Inuuteq Kriegel was born in Aasiaat in northern Greenland and raised in Nuuk. Receiving his first camera at age 17, Inuuteq studied journalism at the University of Greenland, taking a semester to focus on international photojournalism. Since then, Inuuteq has exhibited his photography in six different countries and taken part in book releases. In 2013 he created a black and white portrait series of people from Greenland titled Thirteen (13) with Filip Gielda. In 2014 he was one of six Greenlandic photographers published in the book ”ISIT TAKUNNITTUT / ØJNENE DER SER” (ed. Iben Mondrup). He then worked with Bobbi Lo Produktion in 2019 and 2020 as a photographer and a videographer for “Noget lidt anderledes”. Inuuteq continues to take on creative photojournalism projects in Greenland and beyond.

Nyla Innuksuk is a filmmaker, producer and comic book writer based out of Toronto, Canada. Nyla co-created the teenage superhero Snowguard, a member of Marvel’s Champions League with her friend Jim Zub. Innuksuk’s first feature slash/back is a sci-fi adventure about a group of 14-year old girls from a remote Arctic community who take on an alien invasion. The film premiered at SXSW in March, 2022. Trapped, a short horror film shot specifically for a 24K resolution, 7 foot high, 270 degree screen, premiered at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Innuksuk is currently developing a second feature with her writing partner Ryan Cavan, set to film in 2024.

Originally from Igloolik, NU, Innuksuk studied film at Ryerson University before working as a producer at the Aboriginally owned and operated Big Soul Productions. She then went on to co-found Pinnguaq VR before establishing her own company Mixtape. In addition to her film and digital work, Nyla sits on the board of directors of Ontario Creates (formerly the OMDC) and the Glenn Gould Foundation. She is an ambassador for the Northern Indigenous Film Fund in Norway and was the 2018 imagineNATIVE artist in residence.

The Alaska Marine Policy Forum is sponsored by Alaska Sea Grant and Alaska Ocean Observing System. Every other month they host a one-hour meeting with participants across the state interested in marine policy in Alaska. Hear the latest about state and federal marine funding, legislation and policy issues.

Next call: Wednesday, January 24, 1 pm AK time (5 pm Eastern, 2 pm Pacific)

Are you interested in learning about possible flood risks on the road from the Village of Tetlin, Alaska, where a feasibility study for the Manh Choh gold mine is underway? During this month's webinar Jessica Cherry, NOAA’s Regional Climate Service Director for Alaska, will review the recent and ancient history of flooding of the Upper Tanana River, particularly in the area around the road to the Village of Tetlin, Alaska. This information could be relevant for infrastructure design, maintenance, and mitigation of risk from flooding and other hazards in the region.

Register here for the online event - https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkdO2tpz0qG9HkO3b9k58pVm09iRA…

We will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, discuss forecasting tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for February 2024 and the early spring season. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Register here for the online event - https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctde2grDgoG9XNtr7ANO4hol5Ymc0…

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) invites abstracts for the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium. The theme of this year’s symposium will be Living in a Changing Environment.

The symposium will be organized in four oral and one poster sessions. Papers are solicited on all aspects of polar meteorology and oceanography, broadly including, but not limited to, the following sessions topics:

• Climate variability, change, and predictability/prediction in the polar region;
• Atmospheric, ocean, land ice, and/or sea ice physical processes;
• High-latitude atmospheric and/or oceanic dynamics; and
• Polar to mid- and low-latitude connections

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: 24 August 2023
• Early registration deadline: 4 December 2023

The first edition of the Geographic Perspectives on Climate Change Mitigation in Urban and Rural Environments conference aims to discuss and elaborate on topics pertaining to climatic mitigation in urban and rural environments in nations and cities, specifically in a geographic context. These geographic contexts include Hydrology, Climatology, Digital Geography, and more. The conference will aggregate research that innovates and disseminates upon topics pertaining to climatic mitigation in urban and rural environments, weather forecasting, atmospheric pollution, governmental policies affecting climate change, geographic cultural shifts due to climate change, sustainable transit systems, and more.

Important Dates

• Abstract Submissions Deadline: 27 Jul 2023
• Last Notification for Abstract Acceptance: 26 Aug 2023
• Full Paper Submission Deadline: 25 Oct 2023
• Last Notification for Full-Paper Acceptance: 24 Nov 2023
• Early Payment Deadline: 25 Oct 2023
• Regular Payment Deadline: 24 Nov 2023

The Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Alaska’s premier marine research conference, has been bringing together scientists, educators, resource managers, students, and interested public for over thirty years to discuss the latest marine research being conducted in Alaskan waters. More than 700 people attend this 4-day long conference held annually.

The 2024 Alaska Marine Science Symposium will be an in-person event with live keynote, plenary, and poster sessions. Registration will begin in October 2023.

The abstract submission deadline is 6 October 2023 (11:59PM AKST).

The Arctic Frontiers annual conference aims to connect different expertise and perspectives from areas such as policy, science and business. It is an arena for networking and knowledge exchange.

Big Picture sessions are the conference's largest sessions, and an arena for discussing the most pressing issues in the Arctic region. Recurring topics are geopolitics, climate change mitigation and adaptation, energy transition and business and policy related to the ocean.

The science program showcases the most recent research on the Arctic, to enhance collaboration and provide knowledge-based solutions.

Side events provide a deep dive into selected topics. A side event can have different formats, such as a panel discussion, workshop or meeting.

The conference's Open events invite the city of Tromsø to engage in discussions on the future of the Arctic. Open events take place in venues across the city and are in both Norwegian and English languages.

Abstract submission deadline: 25 September 2023.

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.

Inspiring Girls Expeditions Alaska is inviting applications for a unique suite of tuition-free backcountry science and art education programs in summer 2024.

The expeditions are open to 16- to 18-year-old high school youths. Alaskans are highly encouraged to apply, and expeditions especially welcome marginalized youths who may have experienced barriers accessing science and outdoor-focused programs. Participants are selected through an application process that focuses on passion for science, art and the outdoors, rather than academic grades or past achievements.

The program is run through the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center, with additional funding from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program. Alaska’s 2024 expeditions will include mountaineering on an Alaska Range glacier and sea kayaking in Kachemak Bay. Teams of nine participants spend 12 days exploring glacier terrain or intertidal zones while gaining a greater understanding of ecosystem connections in each of these environments.

Inspiring Girls Expeditions Alaska offers a unique opportunity to explore and understand the landscape through several different lenses. Participants explore these inspiring landscapes under the leadership of an instructor team composed of professional scientists, backcountry guides and artists. Inspiring Girls Expeditions also provides participants with opportunities for post-expedition mentoring and to continue learning through their alumni network.

The last day to submit an application is Jan. 31, 2024. For more information, please visit www.inspiringgirls.org.

CONTACT: Stephanie Wright, slwright7 [at] alaska.edu

In celebration of Antarctica Day on December 1st, PEI & IACS introduce a Photo Contest—an initiative dedicated to fostering virtual collaboration and elevating the visibility and appreciation of polar regions.

As a pivotal component of this initiative, they are set to unveil the Frozen Frontier through the Lens: A Polar Research Exhibition, where the stories behind these captivating polar research photographs will take center stage to improve awareness, inspire, and engage our community in the enthralling realm of polar science.

They extend a warm invitation for you to be an integral part of this journey by contributing your creative vision to our contest and participating in the upcoming exhibition.

Your involvement will not only enrich our celebration of polar regions but also contribute to a collective effort to highlight the invaluable importance of polar research!

USPA Technical Training Webinar Series

The U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA) is pleased to announce the USPA Technical Training Webinar Series. The webinars are offered on Zoom. Each webinar is 1 hour long, including a 50-min lecture and 10-min Q&A. Certificate of Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to participants who request it after each webinar. The webinars are free for USPA members, all students, and employees of USPA corporate members. For non-USPA members who are not students, the registration fee is $20 for each webinar. The webinars will be moderated, recorded, and uploaded on the USPA website. Future participants can register and watch the webinar individually and receive PDH. Registration fees for non-USPA members to watch the recorded webinar are the same as in the live webinars.

The USPA webinar series is sponsored by Arctic Foundations, Inc., Shannon & Wilson, PND Engineers, Inc., Geo-Watersheds Scientific, beadedstream, and Katherine Schexneider.

Content of Webinar: Introduction to the use of piles in permafrost to support a variety of foundations. Geotechnical explorations and critical field data to support design will be discussed. Several examples will be presented to show the process of designing piles in warm and cold permafrost, including axial, creep, and lateral considerations. Construction best practices will also be presented along with additional resources.

Brief Introduction of Instructors:

Dr. John Thornley, PE is a geotechnical engineer with WSP USA and has been practicing for nearly 20 years. He has provided design and construction oversight for pile foundation projects across Alaksa. He is a past president of the US Permafrost Association and is the chair of the Structures and Foundations committee of ASCE’s Cold Region Engineering Division.

Andrew Daggett, PE is a geotechnical engineer with WSP USA and has more than ten years of experience. He has extensive design and construction experience with pile foundations across Alaska in frozen and unfrozen conditions.

Free to USPA members, students, and employees of corporate members.

Registration link: https://uspa.memberclicks.net/technicalwebinar3#!/

Alaska's premier environmental conference is back again in 2024 featuring a hybrid event Feb. 5-9, 2024 at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage, Alaska and online in AFE's Virtual Attendee Hub. For the second year in a row, AFE will offer both in-person and virtual attendance options for both attendees and exhibitors! Watch sessions live in-person, catch up on recorded sessions that you missed in the Virtual Attendee Hub later on, visit exhibitors in-person and virtually and stay connected with AFE all year long.

The Alaska Forum on the Environment (AFE) is Alaska's largest statewide gathering of environmental professionals providing an opportunity for government agencies, non-profit and for-profit businesses, community leaders, Alaska’s youth, conservationists, biologists and community elders to come together and discuss the latest projects, processes, and issues that affect the environment in Alaska.