Past Events

This 5-day in-person workshop will provide researchers with an introduction to advanced topics in computationally reproducible research in python, including software and techniques for working with very large datasets. This includes working in cloud computing environments, docker containers, and parallel processing using tools like parsl and dask. The workshop will also cover concrete methods for documenting and uploading data to the Arctic Data Center, advanced approaches to tracking data provenance, responsible research and data management practices including data sovereignty and the CARE principles, and ethical concerns with data-intensive modeling and analysis. We welcome individuals participating in Arctic research with a wide variety of backgrounds, experience, and career stages to apply. However, this course is intended for Arctic researchers with a solid foundation in programming (R, python, or similar), who have a need to take their skills to the next level to maximize efficiency working with big datasets or running computing-intensive processes.

Topics include:
Scalable computing
Cloud computing concepts
Docker environments
Remote computing
Parallel processing and concurrency
Large data transfer, data staging
Data extraction
I/O efficiency

Apply by November 15, 2024! The workshop will be held in Santa Barbara, CA. at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ (NCEAS) from April 7-11, 2025. Limited support for travel is available. For more information, visit the course application: https://forms.gle/uBgk5DauVXG16cBz6. If you have any questions about the application or the course, please do not hesitate to reach out! We urge you to circle our workshops to colleagues you believe might benefit most from our learning materials.

Reminder: We opened applications for our virtual "Reproducible Approaches to Arctic Research Using R? workshop, which will close on September 27, 2024. If you would like to know more about this workshop, visit the application: https://forms.gle/Gvvv6hZYYi43YTQf7. For more details about our upcoming training opportunities, please visit our website: https://arcticdata.io/training/.

The Consortium for the Advancement of Marine Arctic Science (CAMAS), established in 2023, aims to facilitate international collaboration and advance our understanding of key marine Arctic processes driving rapid environmental changes.

The second CAMAS Workshop and Early-Career School will take place15–18 April 2025, at the Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle, Washington.

CAMAS focuses on these critical themes:

• Drivers and impacts of ocean heat and freshwater transport into and out of the Arctic
• Ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions in a warming Arctic
• Biophysical impacts of Arctic marine biogeochemistry

The Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference will take place from May 5–7, 2025, and we are now accepting proposals for sessions to be included in the diverse program.
This year’s conference theme is “Elements of Arctic Security,” which explores security in the Arctic from multiple perspectives. Security in the Arctic encompasses issues related to human, environmental, and climate security, as well as traditional state security. Recent geopolitical shifts only emphasize the need for a holistic understanding of these interconnected dimensions in the Arctic region.

The first day of the conference at the Korundi House of Culture will feature keynote speeches and panel discussions. On the second day, at the Arktikum House, there will be a range of scientific and thematic sessions. Session proposals may include oral presentations and lectures, panel discussions, or round table discussions, and they may address various aspects of Arctic security. Sessions are expected to be 90 minutes long, with time allocated for questions and audience engagement. The primary language of the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit Conference is English.

Session proposals are welcome until January 24, 2025.

Please see the full call for sessions and detailed guidelines in this document.

Conference website: rovaniemiarcticspirit.fi

Contact Information:

Mari Riikonen, Conference Coordinator
mari.riikonen (at) ulapland.fi
+358 40 484 6687

Markku Heikkilä, Head of Science Communications
markku.heikkila (at) ulapland.fi
+358 40 484 4300

📅 Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM EST
📍 Location: Haldeman 041, the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth
🔗 Virtual Access: Join via Zoom
ℹ️ More Info: dartgo.org/NAA-Speaker-Series-3-ArcticEnergy

The Dartmouth Institute of Arctic Studies invites you to the third event in the North American Arctic Speaker Series:
a timely and solutions-focused conversation exploring energy innovation across the North American Arctic—spanning Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Greenland.

This one-hour webinar will highlight community-driven renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure efforts in the region. Panelists will share insights on:

• Hybrid energy systems in Alaska
• Inuit-led clean energy in Nunavut
• Greenlandic business innovations

The discussion will explore the technological, cultural, and policy levers needed to power a just Arctic energy transition.

🎤 Featured Speakers:

• Dr. Jeremy Kasper
  Director, Alaska Center for Energy and Power

• Heather Shilton
  Director, Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation

• Thomas Ravnshøj Davidsen
  Senior Business Developer, NunaGreen

🗣️ Moderator:
Dr. Melody Brown Burkins
Director, Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth

📞 Organizer Contact:

Sanaa Siddiqi
Dartmouth – Institute of Arctic Studies
📧 sanaa.k.siddiqi [at] dartmouth.edu
📞 603-646-8251

The science team of the NASA Arctic Radiation-Cloud-aerosol-Surface-Interaction experiment (ARCSIX) invites you to the first data workshop, a year after the beginning of the Spring campaign in Northern Greenland. The meeting will introduce the project to the larger community. An agenda can be found here. Beyond the introduction of the mission, the data, and the science, there will be dedicated time to exchange ideas during breakout and poster session, and we have a social event planned for the evening. The meeting will take place at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP, University of Colorado), as well as via telecon. Please RSVP by May 9. There is no registration fee, and you have the option to participate in person (limited availability, first-come-first-served basis) or online. Logistics information and schedule updates will be provided to registered participants via email.

We welcome the opportunity to share our early results and engage with you all,
The ARCSIX science team

Meeting Location: 3665 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO, 80303
Online participation: Telecon link to be distributed to registered attendees via email
Cost: Free

Seismological Society of America Environmental Seismology Topical Conference
14-18 October 2025 · Denver, Colorado

Make plans to join us at Environmental Seismology: Earth’s Surface and Subsurface Hazards, Dynamics and Resources in Denver, Colorado 14-18 October 2025.

This conference will explore marked advances in extracting information from seismic data to investigate phenomena that include cryosphere, ocean, and groundwater dynamics, fluvial processes, cyclones, landslides, erosion, and more. Seismology provides time-continuous data, access to remote regions and tools to monitor earthquakes and explosions. These tools to image the subsurface have been repurposed by scientists from marine mammal biologists to hydrologists. In addition, seismological methods have been central to energy exploration and development. A full list of topics and featured speakers can be found at the meeting website.

Abstract submission for the meeting will open 1 April 2025 and close 20 May 2025.
SSA will award three travel grants to student and early-career members attending the conference.

Applications for travel grants will be open from 1-30 April 2025. We look forward to seeing your abstracts in April. Please email abstracts [at] seismosoc.org with any questions.

Exploring Key Research Topics for the Fifth International Polar Year

Planning is beginning for the Fifth International Polar Year (IPY5) that will be held in 2032-2033. International Polar Years are intended to make large advancements in scientific understanding by galvanizing the research community and fostering large-scale international coordination and national investments in polar science.

The National Academies will be holding a workshop focused on IPY5 on May 20 and 21, 2025. Participants will discuss pressing research and monitoring questions that could be investigated by the U.S. and international partners during IPY5.

In person attendance is space limited. To inquire about in person participation, email Morgan Disbrow-Monz, MMonz [at] nas.edu

Full event details

When:

Day 1: Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Day 2: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 10 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Where:

Attend virtually:

You will receive the relevant link(s) to attend virtually via email.

The Future of Earth’s Polar Regions
Coordinators: Qinghua Ding, Helene Seroussi, Gunilla Svensson, Patrick Taylor, and Andrew Thompson

The Conference will be devoted to discussions about how the polar climate system will evolve in a warming world. It will focus on understanding key physical processes and interactions between different components of the polar climate with a view towards improving projections of future polar climate. We will recruit a diverse group of participants across research fields, career stage, gender, geographical origin, under-represented groups, from around the world. Sessions will cover topics such as: 1) physical processes, their representation in observations and models, and their importance in a warmer world, 2) feedbacks and interactions between components of the polar climate system, 3) how to learn from the past to improve future predictions, 4) the role of polar regions in an evolving global climate system, and 5) how to leverage technological advances to enable a sustained polar observing system.

This conference is allowing submissions of the following types:

Posters
Contributed talks
The priority submission deadline is May 25th, 2025. Visit your conference registration site.

Join us in Fairbanks, AK May 27th-30th, 2025 for our One Health, One Future 2025 International Conference!

Poster and Abstract Applications are open November 5th and close at 11:59pm AKT on December 15th, 2024. Submit your applications now!

For questions please contact uaf-onehealth-team [at] alaska.edu

Polar Early Career World Summit – Community Input Invitation

From 22–24 March 2025, 120 polar early career researchers (ECRs) gathered for the Polar Early Career World Summit (PECWS) and developed:

• 12 vision statements
• 75 priorities
• 186 reasonings and actions

This material will guide international priority setting and coordination processes in polar research, including the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning and the International Polar Year 2032–2033.

Help Shape the Future of Polar Research

To best represent the polar early career community, we need input from as many community members as possible. To achieve this, we are hosting virtual events taking place 27–29 May (depending on your time zone). These interactive sessions are specifically for ECRs who weren’t physically at PECWS.

The virtual events will provide:

• An overview of PECWS and the polar early career community priority synthesis process
• An opportunity to assess materials produced at the summit, specifically by providing live feedback on priority statements and their relevance to you and your work
• An understanding of the synthesis products you are contributing to

Contribute via Written Feedback

In tandem with the virtual events, we are releasing a form to provide written feedback on polar early career priorities. In this form, you can:

• Comment on existing visions and priorities
• Identify missing ideas

We strongly encourage those interested to both attend a virtual event and fill out the form. However, we welcome form submissions from all polar early career community members.

Help us make sure the global polar ECR community is fully represented.
Join us virtually and fill out the priority input form!

🗓️ Register for a Virtual Event

Click on the meeting times below to register for one of the 90-minute virtual events:

• 27 May, 04:00 UTC
  TUESDAY 27 May 9pm PT (San Francisco) | 10pm MT (Boulder) | 12am/midnight ET (New York)
  06:00 CEST (Tromsø) | 09:30 IST (Delhi) | 13:00 KST (Seoul)

• 28 May, 09:00 UTC
  2am PT (San Francisco) | 3am MT (Boulder) | 5am ET (New York)
  11:00 CEST (Tromsø) | 14:30 IST (Delhi) | 18:00 KST (Seoul)

• 29 May, 17:00 UTC
  10am PT (San Francisco) | 11am MT (Boulder) | 1pm/noon ET (New York)
  19:00 CEST (Tromsø) | 22:30 IST (Delhi) | THURSDAY 29 May 02:00 KST (Seoul)

📅 Deadline for Input

Fill out the priority input form by 23:59 GMT on 11 June.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) invites you to join our monthly webinar series on
Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM AKT.
This series focuses on using big geospatial data and remote sensing for community planning applications across permafrost regions.

📅 May 29, 2025

Title: Map the Gap: Detecting and Characterizing Pan-Arctic Infrastructure with Satellite Imagery and AI
Speakers: Elias Manos & Chandi Witharana, University of Connecticut

📝 Abstract

Permafrost thaw threatens to disrupt the lives of millions of people living in the Arctic by damaging homes, roads, and various other critical buildings and structures needed to sustain over 1,000 Arctic communities. Impacts are already unfolding across the region. However, there is a lack of unified, high-resolution infrastructure data that is comprehensive in both geographic coverage and attribute information across the pan-Arctic.

This data is crucial to accurately estimate economic losses due to permafrost thaw damages—needed at international levels for disaster risk reduction tracking, and at local to regional scales for hazard mitigation planning and resource acquisition.

Using artificial intelligence models trained on geospatial data, this research bridges the data gap by:

1. Detecting infrastructure such as buildings and roads from Maxar satellite imagery
2. Predicting attributes of buildings, such as use type (e.g., residential vs. non-residential)

Findings demonstrate how this work has improved geographic gaps in the best available pan-Arctic building dataset (OpenStreetMap) and has the potential to fill in its largely missing building attribute information.

📆 Add PDG Webinar Series to Your Calendar

Click here to add to calendar

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Apply for the APECS Executive Committee to help shape our organization and influence the future of polar research!

The elections for the 2025–2026 APECS Executive Committee will be held during May and June 2025 for the term from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026.

Application deadline: 1 June 2025 at 23:59 GMT

The APECS Executive Committee consists of five members, who are elected by the APECS Council to manage the day-to-day decisions of the organization. You can find information about the APECS Executive Committee on the APECS website, including general information, the list of current ExCom members, and summaries of their meetings.

2025 Elections timeline:

• 1 June at 23:59 GMT: Application deadline
• 2 June – 19 June: Review period within the APECS Council including Q&A with ExCom applicants
• 20 June – 3 July at 23:59 GMT: Voting period within the APECS Council
• 7 July: Announcement of the 2024–2025 APECS Executive Committee
• 1 August – 30 September: Transition process

The Executive Committee is a rewarding, high-paced, and work-intensive committee. Its members must be willing and able to contribute actively throughout the term on an almost daily basis via emails (except during e.g. field work, exam periods, holidays) and attend the online ExCom meetings (~2 hours) every two weeks. To apply, you must be an APECS member with prior experience in the APECS leadership—such as the Executive Committee, Council, or National Committee leaderships—or an equivalent organization.

Go to the Executive Committee Elections page to see the full election announcement, including eligibility criteria, how to apply, and a detailed explanation of the election process.

Is this the first time you want to get active in APECS?
To be an effective member of the APECS Executive Committee, a good background knowledge of APECS activities, projects, and internal processes is required. One of your roles will be to mentor and advise APECS Council members, Project Groups, and representatives. If you have not been actively involved in APECS before, we strongly recommend gaining experience through our Council, National Committees, or Project Groups before applying.

If you have any questions, please contact the ExCom Elections Coordinators 2025 at excom-elections [at] apecs.is.

PSECCO Conference Travel Grant Program – Now Open!

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) Conference Travel Grant Program is now accepting applications. Travel awards to attend and present polar-related work at a conference are open to polar early career scientists and educators.

In this Summer 2025 funding cycle, PSECCO will distribute up to $5,000 in total awards. Applicants may request a reasonable amount of funding up to $900 per person to support travel to/from a conference, with priority given to those with demonstrated financial need. An additional $100 is available for awardees who organize a PSECCO social event at the conference.

🗓 Application Deadline: June 2, 2025, at 11:59 PM MT

You can learn more about the opportunity, eligibility criteria, funding requirements, and how to apply on the PSECCO website here.

Travel grants can be used to support:

• Transportation
• Accommodation
• Per diem
• Meeting registration
• Abstract submission
• Dependent care costs (if applicable)

Other costs may be considered depending on need and explanation.

If you have questions, please email: psecco [at] colorado.edu

We look forward to seeing your applications!