Past Events

This webinar will synthesize four years of community-based climate services work in Southeast Alaska. A guidance framework will be presented for research co-production, regional networking, and capacity building through partnerships.

Register for this event at our website: https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdOuvrDktE9O7cIbPgNufP2bEh-g….

Event Description
The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) invites you to join our monthly webinar series on Thursday November 14, 2024 at 9:00 am AKT. This fall, our webinar series addresses using big geospatial data and remote sensing for community planning applications across permafrost regions.

14 November 2024
Geospatial Data to Support Hazard Mitigation and Response in Alaska
Speaker: Gary Greenberg, Alaska Map Company

Abstract: Communities of Alaska are prone to natural hazards but often lack access to current and accurate geospatial data to plan for, mitigate and respond to these hazards efficiently. Regional or federal organizations may have available hazard data but local infrastructure data is often absent, creating an incomplete picture of the risk. Completing the picture will require collaboration across the various stakeholders to elevate the capacity though standards and processes making accessible tools and data otherwise missing. In this presentation, I will be going over examples of Alaskan communities using geospatial tools and common datasets required, and often absent, to respond to natural hazards from mitigation to recovery to help inform the development of a critical piece of the permafrost framework.

The international initiatives CATCH, PACES, BEPSII, ASPeCt and QUIesCENT are co-organising a joint workshop bringing together scientists and stakeholders with an interest in atmosphere-ice-ocean research focussing on chemical, biogeochemical and physical processes in the Arctic and Antarctic and links to climate change. Cold regions which are seasonally or permanently covered by snow and ice, notably the Third Pole, are also of interest.

Workshop purposes are to i) present cutting-edge interdisciplinary science, and ii) jointly identify 'big picture' science questions, research priorities and implementation pathways for research activities in the field, laboratory and modelling before and during the 5th International Polar Year (IPY) 2032–2033.

Workshop outcomes will include a white paper to shape IPY32 funding calls, underpin grant applications, and influence the planning of polar research cruises, field campaigns and new long-term measurement capabilities.

The workshop will fully integrate hybrid participation from attendees both on-site and on-line. We will follow a split-day schedule, with early morning and evening sessions to accommodate participants from the global span of time zones. Workshop programme, registration and web site will be announced in early Spring 2024. Send any immediate questions to catch [at] igacproject.org.

Access to the workshop venue
Arrival for dinner on Sunday 17 Nov and departure after lunch on Friday 22 Nov.
Plane: Airports at Lyon, Turin, Geneva, Grenoble, Annecy.
Train: Modane train station (8 km from Aussois) in 4h30 from Paris, 2h from Lyon, 1h30 from Turin; workshop shuttle from station to Aussois.
Online participation: zoom/GatherTown.

Kawerak will be hosting the 2024 Tribal Justice Summit August 26th – 29th. Representatives from the 20 Alaskan tribes in our region are invited, and there are open invitations for those interested. The purpose of the summit is to bring our communities together to learn and discuss how to strengthen our tribal courts and traditional law.

Polar Pride Day celebrates the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar
science. It was launched in 2020 with participation from 49 countries,
over 4000 tweets, and a global reach of over 12.8 million people! In
2024, we want to build on this success and take the Polar Pride message
to an even bigger audience, and we need your help to do it.

A particular highlight of last year was the images of celebrations in
the field. If you plan to celebrate at either pole, at your institute,
or virtually, please make sure that you take some photos or videos to
share on the day. If you are using Twitter, please use the hashtags

Please share widely, stay in touch, and let us know what you'll be
doing!

The geopolitical landscape of the Arctic has shifted dramatically following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which paused over 25 years of traditional Arctic Council-informed and -guided cooperation with Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Arctic Nations, and Observer States. This break in Arctic diplomacy, particularly the cessation of scientific cooperation, raises crucial questions about the future of Arctic collaboration on challenges facing the Arctic and the planet. In light of this, our project seeks to present a series of informed scenarios that may help guide Arctic diplomacy and cooperation as we look toward 2032, a year that will also mark the 5th International Polar Year (IPY-5).

Panelists

• Ole Øvretveit, Manager & Researcher of Arctic Science Diplomacy Project, University of Bergen & Academia Europaea Bergen, Norway
• Volker Rachold, Head of the German Arctic Office, Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
• Heather Exner-Poirot, Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; Special Advisor to the Business Council of Canada; Research Advisor to the Indigenous Resource Network, Canada
• Matthias Kaiser, Professor Emeritus at the Center for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities (SVT) at the University of Bergen; International Science Council Fellow, Norway
• Jenny Baeseman, Arctic and polar consultant; former Executive Director of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR); former Director of the Climate and the Cryosphere Project (CliC), USA

Moderated by Melody Brown Burkins, Director, Institute of Arctic Studies, Dickey Center, Dartmouth

This webinar showcases recent updates on carbon exchange between the different pools in the carbon cycle of the Arctic Ocean. Marine carbon originates from river run-off (terrestrial) or air-sea fluxes (atmospheric) and is exported to the deep through large-scale currents where it feeds benthic organisms, if there is sufficient light and other nutrients.

There will be three solicited talks with room for questions and discussions:

• Caroline Gjelstrup - Postdoc. at DTU Aqua, Denmark:
  Tracing the origins and fate of freshwater and organic carbon in the lower limb of the AMOC
• Sayaka Yasunaka - Professor at Tohoku University, Japan:
  Arctic Ocean CO2 uptake
• Karl Attard - Associate professor at University of Southern Denmark, Denmark:
  Seafloor primary production in a changing Arctic Ocean

The inaugural Anchorage Security and Defense Conference (ASDC) will convene defense and security practitioners to discuss challenges and opportunities in the circumpolar Arctic and neighboring regions that have international security implications. By providing a forum for dialogue, the ASDC will develop potential solutions and actionable recommendations for practitioners. This year’s theme is drawn from the US National Security Strategy which identifies the 2020s as a “decisive decade.” The inaugural ASDC is an opportunity to examine the geopolitical shifts of the 2020s and their nexus in the Arctic, the North Atlantic, and the North Pacific.

The Arctic is warming up to four times faster than the rest of the Earth. News of the alarming loss of ice now reaches around the world, but we don’t hear enough about what is happening to Arctic land that is no longer covered by ice and snow — it is becoming green. “Arctic greening” describes this alarming increase of vegetation around the Northern world, which accelerates global warming and permafrost thaw. But greening in the Arctic also inspires economic, political, and imaginative innovation among local and Indigenous Arctic peoples, who are “experts of change,” as Mininnguaq Kleist (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greenland) affirmed at the Arctic Circle Assembly of 2023.

“Greening” thus means different things to different people. For social scientists, it is a deliberate introduction of plants into built environments. Ecologists and geographers each observe plants transforming Arctic lands through different lenses, with different results. For Arctic farmers, the increasing ability of plants to grow brings both new opportunities and unpredictability. How do we make sense of these different visions of greening? This panel discussion will examine the dramatic expansion of plant life across the Arctic from a variety of viewpoints, considering the sciences and arts, and farms, forests, and tundra together.

Join Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute for the next Zoom webinar in the Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series, titled “Greening the Arctic,” on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from 10:00-11:30 am EST (3:00-4:30 pm GMT).

Register at https://www.bu.edu/pardee/the-arctic-environmental-humanities-workshop-…

Save the date. Information and link to registration are forthcoming.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) announces their next IARPC Public Webinar Series event focusing on the launch of the Arctic Research Implementation Plan 2025-2026. This webinar will take place 21 November 2024, 9:00-10:00 a.m. AKST.

Join IARPC for a webinar premiering the updated implementation plan for the Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026. This implementation plan provides specific actions that IARPC and its member agencies will take through 2026 to promote research aimed at improving community resilience and well-being, advancing scientific understanding of climate change and ongoing changes in the Arctic system, creating more sustainable economies and livelihoods, and improving risk management and hazard mitigation. This webinar will provide an overview of what has changed from the previous implementation plan, what is continuing on, and how to get involved.

For more information, go to: https://www.iarpccollaborations.org/events/25887

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

Join this informational webinar on Friday, November 22, at 1:00 PM EST to learn more about the Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem (GEO OSE) program. This webinar will review the new GEO OSE solicitation (NSF 25-506) and provide time for Q&A. The GEO OSE program seeks to support sustainable and networked open science activities to foster an ecosystem of inclusive access to data, physical collections, software, advanced computing, and other resources toward advancing research and education in the geosciences. The purpose of this support is to broadly enable geoscientists to leverage expanding information resources and computing capabilities to address interdisciplinary grand challenge research questions at the forefront of the geosciences.

The International Polar Foundation and its many Arctic stakeholder partners would like to cordially invite you to take part in the 15th edition of the Arctic Futures Symposium in Brussels, Belgium.

The main symposium will take place on December 2nd and 3rd at the Residence Palace, located at Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 155, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

Side events to the symposium will take place until Wednesday, December 4th.

This year's Symposium will focus on:
The Arctic Council: A Practical Vision Moving Forward
Transatlantic Cooperation in the Arctic in 2025 and Beyond
Keeping the Arctic an Area of Low Tension
Building and Maintaining an Arctic Workforce and Resilient Arctic Communities
Innovation and Regional Collaboration to Meet Arctic Challenges Sustainably
Critical Raw Materials and Resource Supply Chains: Tensions and Trade-offs
The Arctic Futures Symposium promises to deliver lively discussions on Arctic issues.

You may register for the symposium on the Arctic Futures Symposium website.

You may also find at the confirmed speakers and draft outline of the programme on the website.

Join the discussion on how social science research can shape the future of Arctic infrastructure. Panelists Saas Ksenofontov (Sakha, Postdoc at the University of Northern Iowa), Olga Povoroznyuk (Postdoc at the University of Vienna), and Peter Schweitzer (Professor at the University of Vienna) will share opening thoughts, followed by group discussion.

Questions for discussion include the following:

• How from your perspective and experience can social science contribute most effectively to Arctic infrastructure research?
• What does good community-engaged social science look like?
• What are barriers to integration of qualitative data with other data?

Webinar will be streamed on Facebook Live: https://fb.me/e/4eZfsphAX

Hosted by Hannah Bradley (University of Virginia) and the CRAFT Research Coordination Network (Co-creating Research for Just Arctic Future Infrastructure Transformations, Resilience, and Adaptation).

Join the CRAFT Network Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/zr4GiBaFD9SGwE2E/

More information about CRAFT and the NNA-CO Infrastructure Futures Convergence Working Group can also be found on their webpage:
https://sites.google.com/colorado.edu/nna-cwg/meet-the-cwgs/infrastruct…

The National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Tokyo, Japan, is pleased to announce the 15th Symposium on Polar Science, taking place
from December 3rd to 5th, 2024. This annual event, organized by the NIPR, offers a platform to showcase and foster a broad spectrum of polar
scientific research and interdisciplinary studies. We warmly invite you to actively participate and look forward to your valuable contributions.

For details, please visit the site below.

https://www.nipr.ac.jp/symposium2024/

Symposium schedule
3 - 5 December 2024

In early August, online registration and abstract submission for the symposium will begin.

Presentation Style and Language Guidelines
The symposium will include both oral and poster sessions. Oral sessions will be conducted in a hybrid format, allowing in-person and online
participation. Poster sessions will be held exclusively on-site at the symposium venue. The official language of the symposium is English.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) invites you to join our monthly series on Thursday December 5, 2024 at 9:00 am AKT. This fall, our webinar series addresses using big geospatial data and remote sensing for community planning applications across permafrost regions.

December 5, 2024
Alaska Tribal Landfills: Permafrost Data Needs
Speaker: Sela Tahiry, Environmental Protection Agency

Zoom link and more information: https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Stay-Connected

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Jessica Mejia (Syracuse University). The presentation, titled Cracks in the Ice: Using observations and models of crevasse growth to understand the transport of water to the base of glaciers and ice sheets, will be held via Zoom on Thursday, 5 December 2024, 9:00-10:00 a.m. AKST.

Seminar Abstract:

The Greenland Ice Sheet is a major contributor to global sea level rise, driven by both increased melting and dynamic ice discharge into the ocean. While often treated separately, these processes are interconnected because when surface meltwater flows into crevasses—cracks on the ice sheet surface—they can hydrofracture through the entire ice sheet and reach the bed. Once surface meltwater reaches the ice-bedrock interface it can modulate subglacial water pressures, the structure of the subglacial drainage system, and influence ice dynamics.

In this talk, Jessica will focus on recent work understanding these hydraulic connections. First, she will discuss how far inland these hydraulic connections can extend into the ice sheet’s interior using coupled observational, remote sensing, and modeling applied to the firn aquifer on Helheim Glacier in southeast Greenland. Next, Jessica will discuss in situ observations of crevasse opening and what it means for firn aquifer drainage. Finally, she will discuss some modeling work applied to rapid hydraulically driven fracture propagation from the fast drainage of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Registration is required for this event. Instructions for accessing the webinar will be sent to registrants prior to the event.

Save the date: 2024 All Scientist Meeting

The Permafrost Carbon Network is excited to announce the return of the in-person all scientist meeting, for the first time since 2019. Mark your calendars for Sunday, December 8th, 9:00 am–5:00 pm, in Washington, DC, before the start of AGU 2024. Stay tuned for the agenda and meeting location.

Webpage will be added when available.

Save-the-date:

The 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will take place 9-13 December 2024 in Washington, D.C.

For more than 100 years the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has been opening science - opening pathways to discovery, opening greater awareness to address climate change, opening greater collaborations to lead to solutions and opening the fields and professions of science to a whole new age of justice equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.