Past Events

Discover how Climate Engine tools empower users of all skill levels to harness cloud computing for analyzing decades of Earth observation data. This powerful suite—including the app, API, and reports—brings together climate and remote sensing data to help users explore a wide range of environmental questions. In this webinar, Kristen O’Shea will share how these tools can be leveraged to gain valuable insights, streamline workflows, and enhance climate and environmental research.

Polar ice sheets are shrinking rapidly, fueled by rising global temperatures both in the atmosphere and ocean. The Greenland ice sheet has the potential to raise global sea levels by an astonishing 23 feet were it to melt away completely. Slowing the rate of ice loss is therefore of utmost concern not only for coastal communities, but to avoid almost unfathomable shocks to global economies, infrastructure, military bases, and the livelihoods of billions of people. Some experts now propose that sea level rise should be a policy metric in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

To learn more about Greenland’s ice sheets and the opportunities to slow down sea level rise, join a discussion featuring distinguished experts Sarah Das, Polar and Climate Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and Rafe Pomerance, Senior Policy Fellow at Woodwell Climate Research Center and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Development. Margaret Williams, Senior Fellow of the Belfer Center’s Arctic Initiative will moderate. Together, they will examine the implications of Greenland’s melting ice sheet for the U.S. and beyond, while proposing actionable solutions to address this urgent crisis.

The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the Belfer Center's YouTube channel. Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

For questions, contact:
Elizabeth Hanlon, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Email: ehanlon [at] hks.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-495-5964

Join the ARCUS Monthly Community Call Series!

ARCUS is launching a new monthly community call series in 2025 to connect, collaborate, and tackle key Arctic research challenges together!

📅 When: 2nd Friday of each month, starting Friday, 14 February, at 12 PM AK
📍 Where: Zoom

These interactive calls provide a space to discuss pressing issues, share insights, and explore solutions with peers across our network of institutions and individuals.

🔹 First Call Topic: Arctic research implications of recent executive orders
🔹 Special Feature: A warm welcome for our new Board Members, whose leadership will help shape the future of our consortium

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage, learn, and strengthen Arctic research connections. Mark your calendar and join the conversation!

Rick will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, discuss forecasting tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for February 2025 and the winter season. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Ocean acidification is a growing topic of interest and concern for Alaska communities. Alaska has been identified as a hotspot, and the effects of ocean acidification are likely to have serious implications for fisheries, food security and the economy. Researchers with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are monitoring ocean acidification in coastal waters around Alaska, and are also exploring ecological and socio-economic impacts. In recent years, Tribes, coastal communities and industry groups have joined the monitoring effort. The Alaska Ocean Acidification Network brings together these diverse entities and more to share and expand the understanding of ocean acidification processes and consequences, as well as explore potential adaptation and mitigation strategies. These conversations include “what is the data telling us and how can it help to inform local community decisions?” This presentation will include a refresher on ocean acidification, the primary information needs voiced by Alaskans, and what we’ve learned from recent research and monitoring about conditions and species response.

During this hour-long panel discussion, panelists will consider collaborations through multiple lenses and embrace the benefits that come from engaging with interdisciplinary research groups, policy and decision makers, and Indigenous and local community members.

Panelists will include:

• Dr. Heather Gordon | Sauyaq Solutions
• Dr. Lauren Miller | University of Virginia
• Hugo Guímaro | Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
• Dr. Clara Hoppe | Alfred Wegener Institute

Participants will hear how Arctic Tsunamigenic Slope Instabilities Partnership (Arctic T-SLIP) can complement and expand upon ongoing efforts by the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) and United States Geological Survey (USGS) on landslide and landslide-generated tsunami hazards in Alaska. Panelists include Martin Larsen, Gabriel Wolken, and Dennis Staley. Arctic T-SLIP aims to connect people interested in landslide and landslide-generated tsunami hazards to generate a shared understanding and facilitate collaboration.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://woodwellclimate-org.zoom.us/j/85115677151?pwd=fGxScwqerbNiulT5b…
Passcode: 204734

Speakers will give an informative overview regarding summer 2025 operations, including updates to the COVID-19 mitigation plan and station vehicle use. Following the overview, there will be time for questions and comments.

Send questions about 2025 operations ahead of time via the registration portal or to the Toolik management team at uaf-iab-toolik [at] alaska.edu. Alternatively, participants may also submit questions during the town hall.

A recording will be made available for those who are unable to attend. If you have difficulty registering for or signing onto the Zoom meeting, please contact Toolik communications manager Haley Dunleavy at hdunleavy [at] alaska.edu.

Join for discussion on how the Arts and Humanities can shape the future of Arctic infrastructure. This webinar is hosted by the CRAFT Research Coordination Network (Co-creating Research for Just Arctic Future Infrastructure Transformations, Resilience, and Adaptation).

Applications for this meeting must be submitted by 8 February 2025. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Note: Applications for oversubscribed meetings will only be considered by the conference chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.

GRS Speaker Abstract Deadline: Although applications will be accepted until the date noted above, any applicants who wish to be considered for an oral presentation should submit their application by December 1, 2024. Please refer to the application instructions in the Conference Description section below for more details (if available).

The Polar Marine Science GRS provides a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators will facilitate active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators.

Sea ice is one of the defining features of the polar oceans and plays an important role in the global climate system, with changes in its seasonal and perennial presence having direct and indirect impacts on physical, chemical, and biological processes. With current and projected changes to the extent, volume and duration of the ice cover arising due to climate change, it is vital that ongoing work aims to deepen our knowledge of the current systems as well as improve prediction capability.

The 2025 GRS on Polar Marine Science invites contributions by early career researchers (ECRs) from all fields of polar marine science (marine biology, chemistry, physics, geology, engineering, and related technologies, as well as social sciences) whose work centers around sea ice, its importance for polar ecosystem dynamics, the implications of observed changes for ecosystem functioning and services, and that highlight direct and indirect links between sea ice, ocean, atmosphere and society.

The GRS strives to create a non-intimidating forum for the presentation of new, unpublished data, cutting-edge ideas and multidisciplinary approaches. We hope to showcase diverse and innovative research that advances our understanding of present-day dynamics and processes, with an eye to future changes in polar marine systems and changes in scientific undertaking.

In conjunction with APECS International Polar Week, the US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) is hosting the ninth annual international Polar Film Festival in March 2025! Please note that USAPECS is permanently moving the Polar Film Festival to March starting in 2025.

For five days, the Polar Film Festival will showcase short videos on topics related to the polar regions to the public and broader Polar research community. Films will be shared on our website each day during APECS International March Polar Week and we will host an online panel discussion with filmmakers about their works.

Submissions of independently created films, typically 1-30 minutes in length, created by the submitter individually or as part of a group are welcomed. In the past, the film fest featured a range of works, such as academic documentaries, independently-produced videos, interviews, sneak peaks of upcoming full-length films, and news reports. We welcome a diversity of submission types and topics related to the Polar regions. September’s film festival can be viewed at: https://www.usapecs.org/polar-film-festival-2024.

Deadline for film submissions is 7 February 2025

If you would like to submit or suggest any short films or videos (typically 1-30 minutes long) for viewing, please submit them using this google form.

Organizers are also looking for people to host in-person screenings this fall, so if you’re interested in doing so, please indicate this on the film submission form.

The first-of-its-kind Arctic Emergency Management Conference will take place in Bodø, Norway from 18-20 March 2025.

Emergency management in the Arctic is a complex and fast-changing landscape. Unique Arctic circumstances such as extreme weather, scarce infrastructure and limited resources complicate emergency management. At the same time, changing environmental and social conditions are giving rise to emerging risks and increasing frequency of possible incidents and disasters. However, there are many developments in the field of emergency prevention, preparedness and response that warrant our collective attention.

From 18-20 March 2025, the Norwegian Chairship of the Arctic Council is hosting the Arctic Emergency Preparedness Conference in cooperation with the Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response Working Group (EPPR) and Nord University. The conference will provide a platform for discussions, information exchange and advancing work on emergency management in the Arctic.

In lead up to its 35th anniversary in 2025, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is coordinating a multi-year planning process for the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) that will engage Arctic researchers, policymakers, residents, and stakeholders from around the world to collegially discuss the state of Arctic science, the place the Arctic occupies in global affairs and systems, to consider the most urgent knowledge gaps and research priorities that lie before us and to explore avenues to address these research needs. This event is hosted by a consortium of US institutions, including the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Northern Iowa, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Alaska Pacific University. ICARP I, II, and III focused the attention of the world’s researchers toward the value of strategic international coordination in accelerating progress in addressing critical challenges. ICARP IV will build upon this concept by striving to achieve consensus and build collaborations among the leading scientific, academic, environmental, Indigenous and political organizations currently concerned with Arctic issues.

The US National Academies’ Polar Research Board and the Local Organizing Committee invite participation in Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2025 in Boulder, Colorado (USA) from 20–28 March 2025.

The theme of ASSW 2025 is “Arctic Research Planning for the Next Decade” as it will include the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) Summit, providing a unique opportunity for participants to contribute toward planning the next decade of Arctic research.

The ICARP IV Summit will engage Arctic researchers, Indigenous Peoples, policymakers, and other interested parties from around the world, serving as a crucial milestone for shaping the Fifth International Polar Year in 2032–33.

ASSW 2025 will be hosted as a hybrid event at the University of Colorado Boulder, located in the scenic foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

The ASSWs have been organized annually since 1999 by the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) to provide opportunities for coordination, cooperation and collaboration within Arctic research. It is our honor to host this next important annual convening in Boulder, Colorado to advance Arctic research, bring together science and Indigenous Knowledge, and discuss urgent matters concerning the Arctic and its place in the global system.

Hosts will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, discuss forecasting tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for April 2025. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO), and the Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOP) Programme are collaborating to organize a Polar Early Career World Summit. It will be held alongside the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) IV and the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in Boulder, Colorado, US in March 2025 with the aim to bring together early career researchers, professionals, Indigenous scholars and knowledge holders connected to the Arctic, Antarctica, and the wider cryosphere from across the world.

The 2025 NNA Annual Community Meeting will be held in-person in Boulder, Colorado on 23 March 2025 in conjunction with Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2025. This year's meeting hosts are the NNA Community Office and University of Colorado Boulder.

The meeting will bring together NNA researchers, research partners, Indigenous community and organization representatives, decision-makers, and others who have an interest in the NNA initiative. Organizers anticipate a diverse group of in-person participants, and encourage all attendees to also attend ASSW during 20-28 March 2025 in Boulder, which will include the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) Summit (25-28 March).

This year's meeting agenda is focused into one day, recognizing the many events happening during an already busy week at ASSW 2025. The agenda offers a plenary keynote and focuses on creating opportunities for exchange and interaction through community-led discussion groups. Additionally, the NNA Community Office is supporting the ASSW Indigenous Pavilion, film screenings, and other events throughout ASSW and the ICARP IV Summit.

Join over 1,000 participants worldwide, including key leaders across the circumpolar North, for a transformative gathering at Arctic Encounter's 2025 flagship convening. As a nonprofit NGO, Arctic Encounter is committed to creating platforms that challenge conventional dialogue, elevate diverse voices, inspire fresh ideas, and promote innovative solutions for a sustainable and thriving future in the Far North. Our mission is to catalyze international debate and initiate action amongst leaders, policymakers, researchers, governments, and innovators to
support a resilient, prosperous, and peaceful future in the North.

The meeting will be in-person only to facilitate interactions between scientists of all career stages. Organizers encourage everyone to present a poster or talk and there will be ample time for discussion. This is a relatively informal venue and a great opportunity for students to present their work and meet others in the community! Weather-permitting, organizers may offer a field trip to some of Ithaca’s excellent glacially modified terrain on the afternoon of 4 April.

Register your interest here: https://forms.gle/WGjNuQc2JB8wh5t8A.

The Sikumiut Field School will take place on the sea ice near Utqiagvik, Alaska, from 7–11 April 2025 and we are requesting applications from all sea ice knowledge holders

What is the Sikukuit Field School?
Sikumiut means "people of the ice" in Iñupiaq and the field school aims to bring together sea ice knowledge holders from Indigenous and scientific ways of knowing to create a learning environment that blurs the
line between students and instructors. Participants will learn about sea ice using methods based on Indigenous Knowledge, On-ice Observations, Remote Sensing, and Numerical Modeling.

Who should apply?
Sea ice knowledge holders of any discipline or career stage interested in learning about other ways of exploring and understanding sea ice are encouraged to apply! All attendees will be experts and learners during the field school. We expect there to be 14 total attendees chosen to participate. Applicants from U.S. institutions are eligible to participate.

How will we get there?
Attendees will have all travel, accommodation, and meal expenses covered

How do I apply?
Fill out this application form by September 15, 2024: A
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5Zp7Sk0jwglXgFEQdwhWzMSQqaJr…

For more information*, please contact any member of the organizing committee:
Melinda Webster - melindaw [at] uw.edu
Alice DuVivier - duvivier [at] ucar.edu
Andy Mahoney - armahoney [at] alaska.edu
Richard Glenn - savikglenn [at] gmail.com