Past Events

NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) is proud to announce the 52nd Global Monitoring Annual Conference (GMAC) will be held in person 21-22 May 2024 in Boulder, Colorado, fostering collaboration and partnerships in the global atmospheric monitoring community.

For those unable to attend in person, we will have a virtual option available for attending and presenting. If you plan to attend remotely, please tick the appropriate box on the registration form.

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

The conference schedule will be available in April 2024.

Guided by the theme “Transforming Energy Now for the Next 50 Years,” the 2024 Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference will focus on real world examples in Alaska and around the globe demonstrating progress in the energy transition including established renewable sources, advancements in energy storage, and emerging technologies such as green fuels and advanced nuclear power. World-renowned speakers and experts will highlight the agenda, along with breakout tracks, panel discussions, and multiple networking opportunities.

Please join the Navigating the New Arctic Community Office for a virtual NNA student research showcase, featuring the 2024 NNA-CO undergraduate research students and other graduate and undergraduate students affiliated with NNA projects. In this showcase, students will briefly present their research, followed by Q&A with the audience. This is a great opportunity for students to present and receive valuable feedback from the research community.

Maps can distill a story out of complex information and spark conversation. A well-designed map also has the ability to bring people together, greasing the wheels of communication and collaboration. In this presentation, two cartographers with specialties in science communication will share their thoughts on how to create maps with purpose by balancing the principles of visual design with the needs of subject matter experts.

Join the Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 for a unique event that combines the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS) XI, UArctic Congress 2024, and High North Dialogue 2024.

The congress takes in Bodø, Norway, hosted by Nordland Research Institute and NORD University. Bringing three conferences together in Bodø – one of the 2024 European Cultural Capitals - 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 General Assemblies.

Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 takes place on Sami land. The congress’ logo honours the local cultures and we welcome you to Bodø in Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Norwegian and English.

Themes and Sessions

The themes of Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 will follow those of Norway’s Arctic Council chairship priorities in partnership with the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Norway’s chairship of the Arctic Council focus on several core issues , including the impacts of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to enhance the well-being of people living in the region. Looking to the future, Arctic Youth and Arctic Indigenous peoples, cross-cutting priorities of the Norwegian chairship, will also be overarching themes at Arctic Congress Bodø 2024.

The main themes are (taken from the Norway’s Arctic Council chairship priorities):

1. Oceans
2. Climate and the environment
3. Sustainable economic developments
4. People of the North
5. Other

Organizers welcome proposals for sessions. Sessions must be submitted under either the main themes or sub themes. In addition, topics which are not covered by the proposed themes should be submitted in the theme “Other”. All sessions are encouraged to include youth, local and Indigenous people as speakers or discussants, and sessions should be transdisciplinary when possible. The language of the proposed sessions and the Congress is English.

The deadline for session proposals is extended to 31 July 2023.

Join the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy and the Geographic Information Network of Alaska for this month's VAWS webinar. John Forsythe, from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, will discuss the Blended Total Precipitable Water (BTPW) and Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) satellite products used to track pipelines of moisture which support heavy precipitation. He will also review how ALPW can be used to forecast extreme events as satellite records begin to cover more decades.

Visit the website to learn more and register for the online event - https://uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-satellite-vapor-products/

The Nordland Research Institute invites workshop registration for the Indigenous People with Disabilities in the Arctic: Workshop for Initiating Research Collaboration. This one-day, hybrid workshop will take place 31 May 2024 in Valnesfjord, Norway and online.

The workshop will bring together an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers and stakeholders interested in the lived experiences and inclusion of Indigenous people with disabilities in the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Sápmi. The aim is to map existing knowledge and identify knowledge gaps and develop a shared research agenda, as a basis for a research proposal. Virtual participation is possible.

The workshop is organized by the Nordland Research Institute in collaboration with the Centre for Saami and Indigenous Studies at Nord University and hosted by the Valnesfjord Health Sports Centre. The workshop is supported by the Research Council of Norway (grant no. 352065).

Registration deadline: 15 May 2024

To register, go to: https://response.questback.com/isa/qbv.dll/bylink?p=oOW356zpjxXyPf7pZcg…

For questions, contact:
Birgit Pauksztat, Nordland Research Institute
Email: bpa [at] nforsk.no

The ICESat-2 Applications Team invites registration for the 2024 ICESat-2 Applications workshop. The hybrid workshop will be held 3-4 June 2024 at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and online.

Organizers aim to bring together all end-users including ICESat-2 applications developers, satellite operators, and decision makers to discuss the current state and future needs of the community. Through this gathering, organizers hope to foster synergies and collaborations between current and new applied users as well as data users.

Workshop objectives:

Provide an overview of the status of the mission and current data products and support services from the NSIDC;
Build partnerships between current and new applied users as well as data producers and end users;
Foster synergies with between all participants, including science team members, decision makers, applied users, data users, and satellite operators;
Identify new potential applications or products from ATLAS data not currently under investigation;
Review available tools for extracting ATLAS data for a diverse community;
Understand the challenges faced by applied users (e.g., data accessibility, formatting), data users, end users, and identify solutions; and
Highlight ICESat-2 science and applications through five-minute lightning talks (abstract may be submitted at registration).
Registration deadline: 15 May 2024

The Nordic countries have teamed up with Canada and the USA to launch a NordForsk call on the sustainable development of the Arctic. The call is two-stage, and the deadline for pre-proposals is 4 June 2024.

Join the Polar Research Board for their Spring 2024 Meeting, 4 June 2024, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT and 5 June, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. EDT to discuss this topic, including how we begin to prepare for US leadership and involvement in the Fifth International Polar Year (IPY5) that will be held in 2032-33.

The meeting will include an overview of the vision from IPY5, a look back at lessons and legacies of the Fourth International Polar Year, Indigenous leadership and engagement in IPY5, federal agency perspectives on international scientific coordination, and briefings from US delegates and representatives to the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

This event is intended to create an overview of where early career researchers (ECR) are located in Finland and to connect them with each other. If your research is related in some sense or another to polar science, you are very welcome to join. We hope to have attendees from different universities and research groups and a variety of topics.

The event is organized by a group of ECRs interested in forming a National Committee of APECS (https://apecs.is/).

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is holding a two-day Climate Scenarios Workshop in Kodiak, AK on Wednesday, June 5th and Thursday, June 6th in conjunction with the Council’s June meeting in Kodiak, AK. For planning purposes we ask participants to please register by Friday, May 17th. We will do our best to accommodate participants who register after this date. For more information please visit the workshop page at https://www.npfmc.org/climate-scenarios-workshop/.

The Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet Program (CHIRRP) invites projects focusing on innovative and transformative research that advances Earth system hazard knowledge and risk mitigation in partnership with affected communities. Hazards compounded by changing climates, rising populations, expanding demands for resources, aging infrastructure, and increasing reliance on technology are putting our economy, well-being, and national security at risk. Researchers, academics, and community leaders will work together to develop community-driven research questions and actionable, science-based solutions that increase community resilience now and in the future. CHIRRP projects are expected to advance understanding, forecasting and/or prediction of future Earth system hazards and risks, engage communities in development of research questions and approaches, and produce actionable, science-based solution pathways for adaptation methodologies, products, and services. CHIRRP projects may evaluate a single or system of cascading hazards, impacts, and risks at a local, regional, or global scale through the lens of transformative earth system science research. Competitive projects will engage community partners at all stages of a project from development to implementation.

CHIRRP currently supports planning, conference, RCNs, EAGER, and RAISE proposals that support development of community partnerships, provide training for effective community engagement, catalyze ideas, and/or support the initial conceptualization, planning and collaboration activities aimed at formulating new and sound plans for future large-scale projects.

Join NSF program directors from the Division of Research, Innovation, Synergies and Education (RISE) in the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) regarding the new Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST) program.

The University of Alaska (UAF) has organized bi-annual summer schools in glaciology since 2010 open to graduate students in glaciology around the world. The course scheduled for 2020 and then postponed to 2021 had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The course is held at the Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska.

The course is intended to provide glaciology graduate students with a comprehensive overview of the physics of glaciers and current research frontiers in glaciology. Key topics include, but are not limited to:

(Note that not all topics may be covered depending on instructor availability)

• Remote sensing in glaciology
• Glacier mass balance and glacier meteorology
• Glacier dynamics, thermodynamics, surging and tidewater glaciers
• Ice-sheet modeling, Inverse modeling
• Glacier hydrology
• Glacier geomorphology
• Current research frontiers in glaciology

A focus will be on modeling, quantitative glaciology and remote sensing.

The summer school is open to 28 graduate students worldwide targeting primarily (but not exclusively) early stage PhD students.

Application deadline: 10 January 2024.

Lecturers

Andy Aschwanden, Ed Bueler, Mark Fahnestock, Regine Hock, Martin Truffer (UAF)
Karen Alley (University of Manitoba), Gwenn Flowers (Simon Frazier University), David Rounce (Carnegie Mellon)
Guest lecturers: Mike Loso (National Park Service)

SIXTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT (NCA6)
Call for Public Comment on Draft Prospectus
Call for Authors and Technical Inputs
Notice of Planned Public Engagement
Deadline is June 7

You can find more information about what and how to submit in the NCA6 Notice on the USGCRP website, as well as the Federal Register Notice issued by NOAA.

You can submit your comments, nominations and inputs through the USGCRP Public Contribution System.

Learn more about NCA6 public engagement here.

The deadline to comment and submit author nominations for NCA6 is June 7. The call for technical inputs is ongoing.

The U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA) announces their next USPA Technical Training webinar, titled Impact of Water on Permafrost and Design of Drainage Systems for Transportation Infrastructure in Permafrost Regions. This webinar will take place 10 June 2024, 9:00-10:00 a.m. AKDT.

This webinar will present new strategies and engineering drainage design tools aimed at limiting erosion and mitigating permafrost degradation caused by water flow along and underneath transportation infrastructure. The drainage strategies and tools developed were validated using observations and data from previous studies conducted at the Beaver Creek Road test site in the Yukon, Canada, and applied to conditions at three other test sites in the Arctic: in Ilulissat in Greenland, along the Alaska Highway near the Alaska-Yukon Border, and the Salluit airport access road in Nunavik, Canada.

A Certificate of Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to participants who request it after the webinar. The webinar is free for USPA members and all students. For non-USPA members who are not students, the registration fee is $20 (USD).

The seminar will be recorded and uploaded on the USPA website.

For more information and to register, go to: https://uspa.memberclicks.net/webinar6#!/

Extreme weather and climate events can have dramatic impacts on Alaskans lives and livelihoods but it can be difficult to find information about past events. Alaska Fellow Caroline Erickson has worked with ACCAP over the past nine months and pulled together a variety of information on more than a dozen high impact events around Alaska to create easy to follow fact sheets using the best practices of science communications. This presentation will showcase the process of finding and synthesizing information about past events and crafting that into easy to understand two and four pagers.

Register at the following link for the online event: https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwufuGvrj0iGd1uldqCCBK83k6ILO3…

Atmospheric smoke and dust are hazards that impact human health and welfare. Level 2 (derived) aerosol observations from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the JPSS Program’s SNPP, NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 polar-orbiting satellites aid in detecting and tracking smoke and blowing dust. VIIRS products include aerosol optical depth (AOD), a quantitative measure of atmospheric aerosols, and aerosol detection product (ADP), a qualitative indicator of the relative intensity of smoke and dust aerosols. VIIRS AOD and ADP have daily global coverage over cloud-free regions with 750m spatial resolution. A brief overview of the AOD and ADP algorithms will be presented, along with validation results, to highlight the strengths and limitations of the products. Examples of VIIRS AOD and ADP for recent smoke and blowing dust events, with a focus on Alaska, will demonstrate the utility of the products for research and operational applications, and show how the products can complement VIIRS true color and dust RGB imagery.

Register at the following link: https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdOiprTopE9cxUZcFWxII_hw-xSj…

The 12th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2024) will be held in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada at Yukon University. The conference theme will be Permafrost Thaw, Change and Adaptation: Integrating Perspectives.

The call for conference proceeding paper abstracts is now open. The paper abstract submission will close on 15 May 2023, and decisions to pursue full paper submissions will be made by 31 May 2023. There is a limit of one conference paper submitted as first author per person.

Important Dates

• Extended Deadline for Conference Paper Abstract Submission: 31 May 2023
• Deadline for Draft Paper Submission: 31 August 2023
• Deadline for Final Paper Submission: 31 January 2024
• Extended Abstract Submission: 31 January 2024