Past Events

Please note the change of date:

NEW DAY:
Thursday, 17 December 2015
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Location:
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
2nd floor in Foothill Room E.

This workshop will focus on how SIPN and others who provide data observations can best serve the needs of the forecasting community. The goal of the workshop is to help identify data needs for model initialization and verification, which available data products are useful—and why, what improvements to existing data products would make for better utilizations (e.g., change in formatting), what additional observations are needed, and how limited spatial scale data from ship observations etc. are being used.

Lunch will be provided for meeting participants who RSVP Monday, 7 December 2015. Please RSVP to Betsy Turner-Bogren, ARCUS (betsy [at] arcus.org).

Polar ICE Science Communication Workshop Series for Polar Scientists
AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting
New Orleans, LA
Sunday, February 21 2016
8am – 4:30pm

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:
Application deadline is Monday, December 21, 2015

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Scientists studying the Polar Regions who want to:
* Learn strategies to communicate more effectively to diverse audiences
* Develop and engage in strong scientist-educator partnerships and professional networks
* Learn and practice communication skills

PURPOSE — WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?
Scientists are increasingly being asked to communicate the “broader impacts” of their work. Polar Interdisciplinary Coordinated Education (ICE) is an interdisciplinary group of educators and scientists working together to share scientific research from the Arctic and Antarctic with educators and students. Our objective is to help scientists communicate their research from the poles beyond their academic peers to the broader community. Please join us for a hands on workshop featuring demonstrations and discussions to address skills that include:
* Connecting with diverse audiences
* Deconstructing/decoding science for non-expert audiences
* The art of telling science stories
* Networking with the education and outreach community

INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING?
Fill out our application form to apply for this free program TODAY.

Application deadline is Monday, December 21, 2015

Stipends are available

Contact:
Dr. Carrie Ferraro: ferraro [at] marine.rutgers.edu, 848.932.3282
Janice McDonnell: mcdonnel [at] marine.rutgers.edu, 848.932.3285

This workshop series is sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Polar Integrated Coordinated Education (ICE) and Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS).

Water Policy Consulting, LLC; Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP); and tribal environmental and climate change professionals throughout the country are offering the Winter 2015-2016 Policy and Climate Adaptation Mitigation and Planning for Alaska Natives webinars series. The series will demonstrate how Native Villages and other communities in Alaska can apply state, federal and tribal policies to address climate change impacts on water and subsistence resources through water resource management and protection, land and water rights, sovereignty and other resiliency and mitigation strategies.

The first presentation of the series, scheduled for Tuesday, 5 January 2015 at 10:00 a.m. AKST, is entitled "Strategies for Strengthening Alaska Native Village Roles in Natural Resource Management." The presenter is Barrett Ristroph, Pacific Policy Director at Pacific Environment and PhD student at the University of Hawaii.

Unlike tribes in other U.S. jurisdictions, Alaska's tribes do not have sovereignty (or direct ownership in many cases) over their traditional lands and the natural resources on which they depend for their nutritional and cultural survival. In place of treaties ensuring hunting and fishing rights, they are subject to complex hunting laws that limit their ability to adapt hunting practices to changes in species distribution. Many Alaska Native Villages are grappling with the combined impacts of climate and social change. This webinar will identify and evaluates a range of tools that could help Alaska Native Villages increase their influence over wildlife and land management decisions, including following international bodies.

To register for the webinar, please go to:
http://accap.adobeconnect.com/nrm/event/event_info.html

For questions, please contact
Tina Buxbaum
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program(SERDP) is seeking to fund environmental research and development in the Resource Conservation and Climate Change program area. SERDP invests across the broad spectrum of basic and applied research, as well as advanced technology development. The development and application of innovative environmental technologies will reduce the costs, environmental risks, and time required to resolve environmental problems while, at the same time, enhancing and sustaining military readiness.

The Resource Conservation and Climate Change program area supports the development of the science, technologies, and methods needed to manage DoD’s installation infrastructure in a sustainable way. SERDP is requesting proposals that respond to the following focused Statements of Need (SONs) in Resource Conservation and Climate Change:

• Phenological Response to a Changing Climate on Department of Defense Lands and Waters: Implications for Management
• Long-Term Ecological Studies: Testing Previous Hypotheses and Conclusions

Proposals responding to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 SON will be selected through a competitive process. All pre-proposals are due to SERDP by Thursday, January 7, 2016 by 2:00 p.m. ET. The SON and detailed instructions are available on the SERDP website.

SERDP also will be funding environmental research and development through the SERDP Exploratory Development (SEED) Solicitation. The SEED program provides a limited amount of funding (not to exceed $200,000) for projects up to approximately one year in duration to investigate innovative approaches that entail high technical risk or require supporting data to provide proof of concept. For FY 2017, Resource Conservation and Climate Change SEED proposals are requested in response to the following SON:

• Providing Useful Climate Information at Moderate Time Scales: Proof of Concept

All SEED proposals are due by March 8, 2016 by 2:00 p.m. ET. Detailed instructions for both Federal and non-Federal proposers are available on the SERDP website.

Participate in the webinar “SERDP Funding Opportunities” conducted by SERDP Acting Executive Director Dr. Anne Andrews and Deputy Director Dr. Andrea Leeson on November 10, 2015, from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. ET. This briefing will offer valuable information for those who are interested in new funding opportunities with SERDP. During the online seminar, participants may ask questions about the funding process, the current SERDP solicitation, and the proposal submission process. Pre-registration https://cc.readytalk.com/r/dtojtrab9jyv&eom for this webinar is required. If you have difficulty registering, please contact the SERDP Support Office at partners [at] hgl.com or 703-736-4547.

Alaska Climate Webinar
Bering Strait Shipping: Sea Ice, Economics, and Governance
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)

Speaker: Henry Huntington, Pew Charitable Trusts

Commercial vessel traffic through the Bering Strait is expected to increase in the coming years. Huntington will explore the role of reduced sea ice, the economics of shipping, and the potential for effective governance of maritime activity in the area. While uncertainties abound, there are several steps that can be taken--some already underway--to promote safe operations and cultural and environmental protection for the Bering Strait and its peoples.

Huntington is a scientist with Pew's Arctic conservation efforts. Huntington's research activities include reviewing the regulation of subsistence hunting in northern Alaska, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of beluga and bowhead whales, examining Inupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and marine mammals. He lives with his wife and two sons in Eagle River, Alaska.

For questions, please contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Phone: 907-474-7812
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu

The program provides U.S-based institutions of higher education, not-for-profit museums, science centers and scientific/engineering research organizations with opportunities to acquire major instrumentation that supports the research and research training goals of the organization and that may be used by other researchers regionally or nationally.

The meeting will take place on the Kumpula Campus of the University of Helsinki, from 13th to 15th of January, 2016.

The meeting is organised by University of Helsinki, in cooperation with Geological Society of Finland (SGS).

Check the website for more information as it is updated.

Abstracts are currently being accepted for sessions during the 2016 European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly, which will convene 17-22 April 2016 in Vienna, Austria.

Abstract submission deadline for all sessions: Wednesday, 13 January 2016.

Conveners of the following six sessions invite abstract submissions:

1. Arctic Ocean and Cryosphere in Rapid Transition

2. Changes in the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice System: Observations, Models,
   and Perspectives

3. Reconstructing Past Hydroclimate Change in the Arctic

4. Boundary Layers in High Latitudes: Physical and Chemical Exchange
   Processes Over Ocean-Ice-Snow-Land Surfaces

5. Regionally Integrated Perspectives on Arctic Processes From the
   International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA)

6. Polar Continental Margins and Fjords-Climate, Oceanography,
   Tectonics and Geohazards

For more information please visit: http://egu2016.eu/home.html

The PRB’s "Arctic Matters" initiative aims to increase public understanding of changes affecting the Arctic region and the many potential impacts of such changes on people and places around the world. We are striving to reach people—across a wide array of governmental, non-profit, private sector, media, and educational institutions—who do not normally think about Arctic science or policy as truly relevant to their work or their lives.

One major element of the initiative has been the creation of a suite of educational resources—a booklet, website, and classroom poster—which are available free online [http://nas-sites.org/arctic] and have widely distributed. These Arctic Matters materials have been used as the basis for several briefing events, including for congressional staff, and for foreign ministers meeting at the recent Global Leadership in the Arctic (GLACIER) conference in Anchorage Alaska.

The other major element of this initiative is a day-long event to be held at the NAS building at 2101 Constitution Avenue NW in Washington DC on January 14, 2016. Arctic Matters Day, which is free and open to the public, will feature engaging presentations and discussions with leading scientists and decision makers, and an array of interactive exhibits and displays. It will be a unique opportunity to learn about cutting-edge scientific findings and policy perspectives, in a format that's accessible to all. Please visit our website to register for the event, and please also encourage your colleagues, friends, and neighbors to join us.

North Pacific Research Board announces the release of the Arctic Program Request for Pre-proposals

North Pacific Research Board is launching an Arctic Integrated Ecosystem Research Program in partnership with several collaborating organizations and agencies. NPRB and funding partners seek to develop a coordinated, collaborative program to fund science that will improve our understanding of Arctic marine ecosystems. The program aims to inform a mechanistic understanding of the processes that structure the marine ecosystem and influence the distribution, life history, and interactions of biological communities in the Chukchi Sea, Bering Strait, and northern Bering Sea. NPRB intends to fund several projects that will integrate to achieve this goal.

This program is a collaborative partnership. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the North Slope Borough/Shell Baseline Studies Program have each contributed funds to support new research associated with this program. Several other institutions and agencies have identified ongoing research that will coordinate with and contribute to this program. We welcome additional participation. The Request for Pre-Proposals and a list of resources that proposers may find useful may be found on the program's website: http://www.nprb.org/arctic-program/request-for-proposals/.

There will be a two-stage process for proposal submission and review. Pre-proposals must be submitted on or before July 31, 2015. NPRB will review pre-proposals this fall and intends to invite full proposals in early October 2015. The anticipated deadline for full proposals is January 15, 2016. An informational teleconference will be held Thursday, May 28 at 10AM Alaska time. Those interested in developing proposals are encouraged to participate. Please dial 1-855-257-8693 and enter the PIN 8277783 when prompted. If you are calling from outside of the U.S. or Canada, please dial (262) 912-0552 and use the same PIN.

If you have questions about the program and/or are interested in discussing partnership opportunities, please contact:
Matthew Baker, Science Director
Email: Matthew.Baker [at] nprb.org
or
Danielle Dickson, Senior Program Manager
Email: Danielle.Dickson [at] nprb.org

Hosted by the University of Washington School of Law, the Arctic Encounter will convene its third annual national symposia in Seattle, Washington. Building upon prior Arctic Encounter Seattle (AES) events, this two-day conference will confront the shared interests and concerns of the United States and the global community as we look north to the last emerging frontier – the Arctic.

Policymakers, industry leaders, regional stakeholders and leading experts from the science, technology, maritime and energy sectors, will come together at AES to address challenges to right action in the Arctic region and debate solutions.

As the largest annual Arctic policy event in the U.S., AES participants will engage in expert plenary sessions, two keynote luncheons, breakout sessions, a cocktail hour and seated dinner at the Museum of History & Industry on Lake Union and a closing reception.

Register here:
https://secure3.convio.net/uw/site/Ticketing/972763276;jsessionid=7DD41…

Speaker: Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette
Geosciences Professor at the University of Massachusetts
Chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) announces that the first in a series of open seminars will be held Friday, 15 January 2016. The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series brings some of the leading Arctic researchers to Washington, D.C. to share the latest findings and what they mean for decision-making. These seminars will be of interest to Federal agency officials, Congressional staff, NGOs, associations, and the public.

The inaugural seminar (Friday, 15 January at 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST) is entitled 'Sea Level and Polar Warming: How Past Climate Change Informs Us about Ongoing Sea Level Rise.' It will be presented by Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette, Geosciences Professor at the University of Massachusetts and Chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board.

Seminar Absract: Scientists now have a better understanding of how vulnerable ice sheets and glaciers are to small amounts of polar warming. Ongoing sea level rise due to the loss of ice mass into the sea is and will impact coastlines profoundly but to different degrees -- i.e., the oceans are not a simple bathtub subject to uniform sea level rise. Adaptation may require a range of actions.

This event is a brown-bag lunch that will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office (1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. Fourth Floor). Cookies and beverages will be provided. A live webinar is also available to those unable to attend in person. Instructions for accessing the webinar will be sent to 'Webinar Only' registrants prior to the event.

For questions about this event or the ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series, please contact:
Dr. Robert Rich, ARCUS Executive Director
Email: bob [at] arcus.org

The Science Coordination Office (SCO) for Summit Station and the Greenland Inland Traverse (GrIT) will be sponsoring a workshop on Tues., Jan. 19, 2016, that will focus on Future Research and Station Development Directions on the ice sheet including traverse science and ongoing research at Summit. The current long range plan being pursued in developing Summit Station and the Isi Observatory will be discussed. Presenters should focus on current hypotheses that guide planned future work and new research ideas are strongly encouraged. Please provide a brief abstract of your activities and confirm your participation (and whether you request travel support – prioritized to young investigators) by email to: Matt Okraszewski (matthew at polarfield.com).

This meeting is being held in conjunction with the 2016 PARCA meeting held at NASA-Goddard January 20.

Deadlines for intent to attend the meeting in person are:

• US Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders): Monday, January 11
• Foreign nationals: Thursday, December 24

A dial-in teleconference line will be available for anyone wanting to participate remotely.

Scientific discoveries achieved from, within, and beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, ice caps and valley glaciers are critical to society today, but large group endeavors are not achieved without significant advance planning. What is your vision for future subglacial science? The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is sponsoring an interdisciplinary science community planning workshop to identify the science drivers, targets, and timelines of subglacial access drilling for the coming decade. The goal of this workshop is to form consensus within the U.S. science community on scientific goals, potential drilling targets, and proposed dates and timelines for major science projects that will require subglacial access drilling over the coming decade, possibly in joint endeavors with international partners. This information will be used in the 2016-2026 update of the IDPO Long Range Science Plan, which is the foundation for identifying and developing appropriate drilling technologies for use in larger projects defined by the U.S. science community. This workshop will be held on January 21-23, 2016, at the Washington Dulles Marriott Suites Hotel in Herndon, VA. All interested scientists who will be seeking science funding from a U.S. agency are encouraged to participate, including, but not limited to, those from the fields of glaciology, paleoclimatology, glacial geology, biology, and earth science. Scientists should come to the meeting prepared to summarize scientific research questions to be addressed by subglacial drilling in the coming decade, and to identify likely target areas, technologies needed, and timelines for completion of projects that they are likely to propose in the near-term or long-term future.

Sponsor and IDPO Lead:
Mary Albert, IDPO, Dartmouth

IDPO Subglacial Access Working Group Conveners:
Jill Mikucki, Middlebury College
Ross Powell, Northern Illinois University
John Goodge, University of Minnesota-Duluth

10-minute presentation slots are available in the agenda for participants interested in "making the case" for specific future subglacial drilling projects. Please indicate your interest in making a brief presentation in the registration form. We will send registered participants updates on the agenda and details of the meeting.

Background Information:
The current IDPO Long Range Science Plan for the ice coring and drilling community is available for download on www.Icedrill.org; we update the plan every year in June. This plan drives the NSF budget for U.S. ice drilling activities. We encourage scientists to work with IDPO to forecast your science plans over the next decade -- this enables us to ensure that the ice drilling technology will be ready when needed by your science.

Outcomes from this workshop will be directly incorporated into the IDPO Long Range Science Plan. Specifically, discussions from this meeting will be reflected in the science descriptions, timeline and planning matrices in the Long Range Science Plan, and will be used to identify drills, platforms and logistical support needed to achieve the science. We hope that you and your colleagues will join us in this planning.

Thu, Jan 21: 7:30pm - 9:00pm informal discussions
Fri, Jan 22: 8:30am - 6:00pm meeting
Sat, Jan 23: 8:30am - 12:30pm meeting

The 10th Arctic Frontiers conference will be held in Tromsø, Norway from Sunday 24 January to Friday 29 January 2016. The title for the 2016 conference is Industry and Environment.

The Arctic is a global crossroad between commercial and environmental interests. The region holds substantial natural resources and many actors are investigating ways to utilize these for economic gain. Others view the Arctic as a particularly pristine and vulnerable environment and highlight the need to limit industrial development.

Arctic Frontiers 2016 will discuss the balance between resource utilization and preservation, and between industrial and environmental interests in the Arctic. Envisioning a well-planned, well-governed, and sustainable development in the Arctic, how can improved Arctic stewardship help balance environmental concerns with industrial expansion? How can the environmental footprints from future business activities be minimized? And last but not least what role will existing and emerging technologies play in making industrial development profitable and environmentally friendly, securing a sustainable growth scenario for Arctic communities?

The Arctic Frontiers conference is a central arena for discussions of Arctic issues. The conference brings together representatives from science, politics, and NGOs to share perspectives on how upcoming challenges in the Arctic may be addressed to ensure sustainable development. Arctic Frontiers is composed of three sections:

• Arctic Frontiers Policy;
• Arctic Frontiers Science and;
• Arctic Frontiers Business.

Arctic Frontiers Science 2016 will address three main themes:

• Environmental footprints
• Arctic stewardship
• Technology needs

This call for papers addresses only the science section that takes place from 27-29 January 2016.

On behalf of the scientific program committees, we have great pleasure in inviting you to submit one or more abstracts, for oral or poster presentation, to any of the three parts. We ask you to do so in accordance with the instructions provided on the Call for Papers page at www.arcticfrontiers.com.

All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the three scientific committees for rating of abstract quality and presentation content.

Call for Papers closes on 21 September 2015

Mark the dates in your calendars!

The next Workshop on the Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers & the IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology Annual Meeting will be held from 25 - 27 January 2016 in Benasque, Spain.

Information, application, program etc will become available on the website of the Network on Arctic Glaciology: http://nag.iasc.info/ and will be sent out over Cryolist when it is available.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology program, through the National Science Foundation, addresses a problem faced by many investigators, which is that typical funding awards do not have time frames long enough to address long-term, data-driven research proposals. These awards are designed to provide funding to maintain an ongoing, long-term research project for a period of a decade or even longer. The solicitation includes a list of potential thematic areas for research proposals that includes, but is not limited to, research relating to external forcing functions such as climatic cycles that operate over long-return intervals. Awards are not to exceed $90,000 total per year and $450,000 over a five-year effort. The foundation anticipates making six awards annually, pending availability of funds. The solicitation outlines renewal procedures following the initial award.

ARCUS Poster

At the Alaska Marine Science Symposium 2016, ARCUS will have a poster on "Collaboration and Understanding in Arctic Marine Ecosystems: Networking Science, Local Communities, Educators, and Stakeholders to Exchange Sea Ice Knowledge".

Monday, 25 January in "Wave 2", 7:15-8:30pm Alaska Time in Row 10, #106.

The 2016 Alaska Marine Science Symposium begins on Monday, January 25. The morning session will feature the Communicating Ocean Sciences workshop. The daily agenda is available online. The official opening plenary takes place Monday afternoon and includes invited keynote addresses. Poster sessions will take place on Monday and Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 8:30pm. Many partner organizations host workshops in the evenings and on Friday, January 29.

The symposium is organized by region: Arctic Ocean (Tuesday, January 26th), Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (Wednesday, January 27th), and Gulf of Alaska (Thursday, January 28th). Within each geographical region, talks are presented on on a variety of reserach themes including: climate and oceanography, lower trophic levels, fishes and fish habitats, seabirds, mammals, humans, ecosystem perspectives.

See the AMSS website for much more information!

ARCUS Open House/Drop-In Event

Voyager Room, Hotel Captain Cook
Wednesday, 27 January at 12:00 p.m. Alaska Time

All attendees of the Alaska Marine Science Symposium are invited to join the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) at a drop-in event, which will be held in connection with the Alaska Marine Science Symposium. You are invited to meet with members of the ARCUS Board and staff to discuss your ideas to better connect and support Arctic research, and hear about the new ARCUS membership categories and benefits. Learn how ARCUS can help your research to advance through communication, coordination, and collaboration that ARCUS supports. A light lunch will be provided for attendees.