Past Events

WHAT:
This is a three part meeting: 1) to advance efforts by the International Snow Working Group-Remote Sensing (iSWGR) in promoting snow remote sensing efforts through research initiatives and education, 2) to continue planning for a large NASA (and possibly international) snow remote sensing field effort (SnowX), and 3) to educate the community about the potential of the ASO airborne snow observatory operated by JPL.

WHEN:
Tuesday, March 29, 8-noon: International Snow Working Group Remote Sensing (iSWGR) and Decadal Survey Updates
Tuesday, March 29, noon-5: SnowEx Planning
Wednesday, March 30, 8-5: SnowEx Planning
Thursday, March 31, 8-1: Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) Info and Workshop

All interested in snow remote sensing are welcome to attend. Please sign up here:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jdlund/292655?solstice_selected_but…

If you plan to attend, please fill out the short form by following the link above.

The meeting will be held in the Waterfront Activities Center on the
University of Washington Campus:

http://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/wac

This is very close to the new light rail station, which will be the best way to get there if you're not within walking distance.

http://www.soundtransit.org/ulink

You’re invited to attend the public release of Next Generation Earth System Prediction: Strategies for Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecasts, a new consensus report that identifies opportunities to improve forecasting of weather, ocean, and other environmental conditions weeks to months ahead. The report presents a 10-year research agenda to accelerate progress in the nation’s subseasonal to seasonal forecasting capabilities to help support decision making.

The report release briefing will feature:

• A presentation by the Chair of the report’s authoring committee, Raymond Ban of Ban Associates, LLC
• A Q&A session with Mr. Ban and committee members Robert Hallberg of NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory and Scott Sandgathe of the University of Washington.

The International Glaciological Society will hold a second International Symposium on ‘Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean’ in 2016. The symposium will be held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and is a follow-on to the successful 2011 IGS symposium on the same theme, which brought together 194 delegates from nearly 20 countries and resulted in the publication of 36 peer-reviewed research articles cited over 650 times since 2012. The Symposium will also serve as the first of two annual Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP) meetings to be held in 2016. FRISP (http://folk.uib.no/ngfso/FRISP/index.html) originated as a subcommittee of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Working Group of Glaciology.

THEME:
The mass balance of the Earth’s land ice (ice sheets, glaciers and ice caps) and the circulation of the adjacent oceans are strongly coupled through physical processes occurring at the ice–ocean interfaces at the fronts and bases of ice shelves and glacier tongues, and the termini of tidewater glaciers. Improved understanding of these processes is essential to realistically represent the evolution of ice sheets and glaciers in a changing climate and to improve predictions of global ocean circulation and sea-level change. The goals of this symposium are to: (1) assess the state of our knowledge of ice–ocean interactions; and (2) discuss what is needed for development of reliable, quantitative models of ice-sheet evolution.

We expect that this symposium will attract experts in ice-sheet, ice-shelf, glacier, ocean and climate studies whose research addresses interactions of the ocean (including sea ice) and land ice in the global climate system using in situ observations, remote sensing and/or modeling. While we expect most contributions to be related to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, we encourage contributions on all aspects of interactions between ice sheets, glaciers and the ocean, towards achieving the symposium goals.

For more information please follow the link above.

Abstract submission is now open. Deadline for submission is EXTENDED until 29 March. Please note that the abstract submission system is separate from the IGS portal. You will have to register your details if you have not submitted an abstract with us before.

Interested in attending? Please register your interest. This will ensure you will receive all relevant notifications related to the symposium.

Co-sponsored by:

• Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP)
• Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean network (GRISO)
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• National Science Foundation
• NASA

The third speaker for the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) D.C. Seminar Series will be Dr. Jeremy Mathis of the NOAA Climate Program Office.

Where: ARCUS DC Office - 1201 New York Avenue, NW. Fourth Floor. Washington, DC 20005 and live webinar online.

Registration: (required for both D.C. seminar attendees and for webinar) is now available online. Please see above link.

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 in clear and understandable terms. The seminars are open, and will be of interest to Federal agency officials, Congressional staff, NGOs, associations, and the public. Please help us by spreading the word to your colleagues and others who might be interested.

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.

Space is limited for this free seminar, so please sign up today. This event is a brown-bag lunch. Cookies and beverages will be provided.

To read the abstract and Dr. Jeremy Mathis' bio, please follow the link above.

The Juneau Workshop, organized in collaboration with University of Alaska Southeast Department of Social Science, aims to explore the contributions and potentials of Arctic social sciences in the emerging synergies that involve humanities, natural sciences, and engineering. The connections we attempt to foster reach mainly into two directions within the recent history of Arctic research. One direction builds on the legacy of the IPY 2007-2008, which helped highlight numerous transformative contributions made by social scientists. The second direction considers (1) transdisciplinary methodological and analytical frameworks that connect social sciences and humanities and (2) the collaborative undertakings that broadly engage social sciences and humanities while also involving the instrumentation of engineering and natural science. The workshop attempts to extend the legacy of social and biological science collaborations (cultivated over multiple endeavors and especially during the IPY 2007-2008) to inform engineering and infrastructure in the circumpolar regions; it explores the aesthetic perspectives employed in the development and use of built environments; it asks how the humanities and social science synergies fostered elsewhere can benefit and be enhanced through current and future research in Arctic social sciences.

Welcome to ECSA’s next major symposium, ECSA 56 – Coastal systems in transition from a ‘natural’ to an ‘anthropogenically modified’ state, which will take place in Bremen, Germany.

Humans are drivers of and affected by global change. Human-induced global climate and regional environmental change dramatically modify the structures and functions of coastal systems driving them into a new system state. The altered resource potentials and ecosystem services then, in turn, significantly affect the livelihoods of the population.

Distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic control factors and quantifying their impacts is a major challenge in the investigation of hydrodynamic, sedimentological, biogeochemical, ecological and socioeconomic processes in the coastal zone.

Inter- and transdisciplinary efforts are required to gain a profound understanding of these "novel" systems, which provides the basis for a sustainable management.

ECSA 55 brings together a global multi-disciplinary community of researchers and professionals to discuss and address issues of outstanding scientific importance in the science and management of estuaries and coastal seas in this rapidly changing world.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 April 2016

Follow the link above to learn more about the topics for oral and poster abstracts.

Welcome! Bienvenue! Tunngasugit!

The 2016 Students on Ice Arctic expedition will be a profound hands-on experience for youth to expand their knowledge of the changing circumpolar world, foster a new understanding and respect for the planet, and gain the inspiration and motivation needed to help lead us to a healthy and sustainable future.

Our ship-based expedition will bring together more than 100 youth from around the world with inspiring scientists, elders, educators, artists, musicians, CEO’s, dignitaries, journalists, authors and innovators. Immersed in nature and engaged in cross-disciplinary activity, students will be inspired, motivated, educated and challenged.

Each day will be filled with exploration, discovery, presentations, workshops, hands-on research, hikes, and lots of adventure! Activities will include wildlife encounters, visits to Arctic communities, as well as the opportunity to acquire first-hand knowledge and insight into the dynamics of climate change, traditional knowledge, scientific research, policy and other important Arctic and global topics.

Please explore this website for information about the 2016 Students on Ice Arctic Expedition and how you can apply as a student or staff and check back in the winter for updates and scholarship opportunities!

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2016 AT 5PM EST!

*Due to a new scholarship and internship opportunity for Arctic 2016 participants, the application deadline has been extended to April 1, 2016 at 5pm EST.

Hosted by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado.

DEADLINES:

01 March, 2016 for Hotel Special Rate

18 March 2016 for Registration and Abstracts

TOPICS

The Arctic Workshop is open to all interested in high latitude environments, including those of the past, present, and future. Talks and posters on all aspects of Arctic science, social science, and engineering are invited, including Arctic and Antarctic climate, anthropology, atmospheric chemistry, engineering and infrastructure, environmental geochemistry, paleoenvironment, sociology, archeology, geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology, soils, ecology, oceanography, Quaternary history and more. If you are studying the Arctic, this is the conference for you.

THEME

The Arctic’s New Normal: Shifting environmental baselines over decades to millennia and comparisons with Antarctica. Please consider contributing to the optional workshop theme by tying your talk or poster to changing conditions in the Arctic. Also encouraged are documenting changes in the land around Antarctica and comparing responses between the two Polar Regions. The program will be organized in sessions developed from the submitted abstracts.

SCHEDULE

Reception and registration: Friday evening, April 1 from 5-8pm.

Main Program: Saturday and Sunday April 2-3, meeting will end by 4pm (the exact time will be posted after abstract deadline)

REGISTRATION

$25 Students presenting talk or poster
$50 Arctic Indigenous Resident
$100 Students not presenting
$150 Professionals
$200 Late Registrant

All registrations include lunch Saturday and Sunday as well as snacks and drinks during the breaks.

LODGING

Organizers have arranged a block of rooms at the Best Western Plus Boulder Inn

Deadline for hotel special rate is 01 March, 2016 http://instaar.colorado.edu/meetings/AW2016/travel_info/lodging.html

EMAIL CONTACT

ArcticWS [at] colorado.edu

The goals of the Science of Learning (SL) Program are to: advance fundamental knowledge about learning through integrative research; connect the research to specific scientific, technological, educational, and workforce challenges; and enable research communities to capitalize on new opportunities and discoveries. The program supports projects that emphasize consilience of knowledge, adopting diverse disciplinary approaches to shared research questions. The program seeks to develop robust and integrated accounts of contexts, mechanisms, and effective strategies of learning.

This solicitation invites proposals for the creation of new research networks to address important integrative questions in the science of learning. Each network must identify an integrative research goal involving convergence of evidence from the diverse disciplinary approaches represented by participants in the network. The proposed research must substantially advance understanding of learning in more than a single discipline. Networks may focus on advancing basic research through experiments and theory, as well as translating findings from basic research on learning to applications in order to benefit society and further inform fundamental theories of learning. This solicitation is for proposals that do not fit into existing NSF programs, by virtue of the emphasis on interdisciplinarity in service of knowledge consilience and integration.

Each network is expected to engage in both of the following activities:

• Partnership-building activities among the network participants to optimize scientific exchange for the co-design and execution of network goals; and
• Collaborative, integrative research to be conducted by the network participants. Integrative research must address questions of genuine significance across multiple disciplines, or multiples levels of analysis.

Nominations should be sent to:
Brit Myers, ARCUS
Email: brit [at] arcus.org

For questions about directions in the SEARCH program, please contact:
Brendan Kelly, SEARCH Executive Director
Email: bpkelly [at] alaska.edu

Or any other member of the SSC:
https://www.arcus.org/search-program/structure/ssc-committee

The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH; https://www.arcus.org/search-program) calls for nominations for Science Steering Committee (SSC) members. SEARCH is a U.S. interagency program with a vision of scientific understanding of Arctic environmental change to help society understand and respond to a rapidly changing Arctic.

The SSC is comprised of 12-14 members. Four new members will be selected to join the SEARCH SSC based on this nomination process. Members serve a three-year term, with a maximum of two consecutive terms. No more than two members may be based from non-U.S. institutions.

We seek nominations of candidates that are broad and cross-disciplinary thinkers, are good communicators and consensus-builders, and have a strong commitment to the SEARCH vision (included at the end of this solicitation). SSC members are expected to:

• Define and update the SEARCH vision and mission
• Guide overall directions of SEARCH implementation
• Promote and communicate SEARCH activities and plans
• Provide a supervisory role for the SEARCH Executive Director
• Work with the SEARCH Executive Director to establish strong linkages and partnerships with other relevant programs, agencies, and organizations
• Approve annual SEARCH work plans and reports
• Attend and be active participants in regular SSC meetings and working groups. The SSC has four regular meetings each year. In-person meetings are typically held twice a year (travel support provided).

While we welcome nominations from all disciplines and research backgrounds to complement existing strengths, we are particularly interested in additional members with expertise in Arctic freshwater ecosystems, coastal erosion, land-ice-ocean interactions, and partnering with Arctic stakeholders outside the academic and US federal scientific communities.

Nominations should include the person's name, affiliation, contact information, area of expertise, curriculum vitae or resume, and a brief statement on why the person would be an asset to the SEARCH program. To submit a nomination, you should first obtain the consent of the nominee. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominations should be sent to Brit Myers, ARCUS (SEARCH Science Management Office) at brit [at] arcus.org.

Nomination submission deadline: Monday, 4 April 2016.

For questions about the nomination process, please contact:
Brit Myers
Email: brit [at] arcus.org

For questions about directions in the SEARCH program, please contact:
Brendan Kelly, SEARCH Executive Director
Email: bpkelly [at] alaska.edu

Or any other member of the SSC:
https://www.arcus.org/search-program/structure/ssc-committee

The SEARCH Vision:
Scientific understanding of Arctic environmental change to help society understand and respond to a rapidly changing Arctic.

The SEARCH Mission:
To provide a foundation of Arctic change science through collaboration with the research community, funding agencies, and other stakeholders.

Towards this mission, SEARCH:

• Generates and synthesizes research findings and promotes Arctic science and scientific discovery across disciplines and among agencies.
• Identifies emerging issues in Arctic environmental change.
• Provides scientific information to Arctic stakeholders, policy-makers, and the public to help them understand and respond to Arctic environmental change.
• Facilitates research activities across local-to-global scales, with an emphasis on addressing needs of decision-makers.
• Collaborates with national and international science programs integral to SEARCH goals.

The University of Vienna, in cooperation with the European University in St. Petersburg is pleased to announce a call for applications for a PhD summer school (VASS) that will take place in late summer 2016. The course will take place in Vienna, Austria with a field trip to the Austrian Alps.

The basic idea of VASS is to bring Arctic social science PhD students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to Vienna in order to confront them with international state-of-the-art social science approaches and methods applied outside the Arctic. At the same time, VASS will confront Arctic students with lessons learned from Alpine experience. VASS will provide its participants with in-depth treatments of three areas: human-environmental interactions in the Anthropocene, regimes of mobility and immobility, and the study of the interrelationship of human and non-human actants in technological and infrastructural settings.

VASS is designed for PhD students and younger researchers in the Arctic social sciences. Organizers are inviting applications from students in Arctic and non-Arctic countries. The total number of participants is limited to 18.

Interested students should email the following application materials to Ilja Steffelbauer (ilja.steffelbauer [at] univie.ac.at):

• a short letter of the student’s motivation to attend the summer school;
• a short Curriculum Vitae;
• a 1 page description of the applicant’s current research topic(s); and,
• non-native speakers of English should indicate their level of English-language proficiency.

Application Deadline: 4 April 2016.

Organizers would like to call attention to the Polar Prediction School that will be held at the Abisko Field Station in Arctic Sweden from 5-15 April 2016 (next year). Sponsored by the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and the Bolin Center for Climate Research, the school is part of the WWRP Polar Prediction Project and the WCRP Polar Climate Predictability Initiative.

This course on Polar Prediction will provide training for 30 PhD and early career postdoctoral polar scientists, focusing on topics such as: polar mesoscale atmospheric processes; sea ice prediction; near term ensemble prediction; and seasonal-to-decadal climate variability and prediction in the polar regions. The program will combine lectures on key areas relevant for polar prediction and a number of field observation and modeling exercises to foster an interactive learning environment.

Organizers are asking for people interested in this school to fill out the Expression of Interest form by 15 May 2015. The form is available at: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/wcrp/pcpi/meetings/abisko-pp-2016. Limited travel support may be available, particularly for participants from developing countries.

Interest form submission deadline: 15 May 2015.

For more information on the school, visit: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/wcrp/pcpi/meetings/abisko-pp-2016.

For any questions, contact: Jonny Day
Email: j.j.day [at] reading.ac.uk

Organizers of the "Remote Controlled and Autonomous Measurement Platforms Flagship (ReCAMP) Workshop" announce a call for abstracts.

The objectives of ReCAMP are to:

• Present the ReCAMP Flagship objectives, and present and future activities
• Provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for scientists, researchers, operators, and students to exchange experience and knowledge on Remote Controlled and Autonomous Measurement Platforms (RAMPs) technology
• Discuss the main challenges when operating RAMPs in the Arctic, including communication, platform navigation, platform robustness, cross platform opportunities, sensor inter-comparison, platform independency, and remote power solutions.

The Programme Committee particularly invites contributions that include good application, promising results, and discussion on challenges and issues that currently limit the use or benefit of the technology. In this way, the sessions will be a balance of experiences, challenges, and new solutions. Abstracts are invited to the following seven sessions:

• Communication
• Platform navigation
• Platform robustness
• Cross platform opportunities
• Sensor inter comparison
• Platform independency
• Remote power solutions

Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2016

Location:

Reichardt Hall, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Summary:

The Ecosystem Approach to Management (EA) is a widely adopted management principle requiring management of human activities to be integrated across sectors of enterprise. The ultimate purpose of EA is to achieve sustainable use of natural resources, while maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem. The EA approach has been acknowledged, defined and adopted by the Arctic states working under the Arctic Council. Working groups of the Arctic Council have been engaged for more than a decade in developing aspects of the scientific, policy and indigenous foundations of the knowledge that enable the implementation of the ecosystem approach.

The conference will bring together experts and practitioners to examine the scientific, policy and indigenous understandings and experience of the ecosystem approach to management in the eighteen Large Marine Ecosystems of the Arctic and corresponding terrestrial areas. Topics to be addressed include scientific elements such as Integrated Ecosystem Assessment, as well as national policies such as Integrated Arctic Management and the Inuvialuit Settlement Agreement that are designed to carry out integrated management in an adaptive fashion. Proceedings from the conference will be presented to the ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in spring 2017.

Objectives:

• Benchmark the status of implementation of EA in the Arctic
• Present innovative examples of best practices in EA implementation
• Identify priorities for future collaboration on EA implementation in the Arctic Themes

Themes:

• Knowledge base – integration of knowledge (including traditional) and Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
• Governance – integration across sectors, institutional arrangements
• Scale integration – integration across small to large scale in ecosystems, and integration across management levels.

Outcomes and Products:

The conference will review progress in implementing the ecosystem approach to management in the various LMEs in the circumpolar Arctic. Presentations and papers will identify best practices for implementation and methods for dealing with impediments to implementation, such as limited information. Approaches to dealing with changes caused by changes in demand across development sectors, and by climate change will be identified. The conference will also examine arrangements for international cooperation in the management of shared LMEs that include waters under national jurisdiction of two or more countries.

Call for abstracts:
We invite contributions for oral or poster presentations. Please send abstracts of presentations (up to 500 words) to eaconference [at] pame.is by April 5.

For registration and other information, please visit the link above.

Why Does the Arctic Matter? Join us for a discussion on the most effective ways to talk about the changes in the Arctic and how they are affecting the rest of the U.S. and the world.

The Arctic has seen profound changes in recent years, and those changes have global impacts. From rising seas to thawing permafrost releasing carbon and methane, what happens in the Arctic matters for the rest of the United States and the world.

You are invited to a webinar to learn tips and tools for communicating about changes in the Arctic, whether you are talking to the press, your elected officials, or your community.

The annual Arctic Business Forum by Lapland Chamber of Commerce introduces the latest global and local developments affecting the business possibilities in the Arctic. Specific attention is paid to European High North regions.

Arctic Business Forum is an international event attracting companies and business related stakeholders from Finland and abroad. Last year 23 countries were represented. Special attention is paid to strengthen business to business cooperation by organizing b-to-b meeting points and business pitch sessions.

Welcome to get insight, discuss and do business towards resilient business, for Arctic prosperity. For more information please visit the website or contact abf [at] chamber.fi

USAPECS is organizing a webinar series for Spring 2016 (April - June) focused on how to best share your science.

Data Visualization webinar:
Creating scientific graphics can be difficult, so come learn some simple tips and tricks from a dataviz expert on composition, color, and design to transform your figures into effective, informative, and beautiful scientific visualizations with your own data! Rob will also focus on the importance of using and choosing the right colors in your figures.

Register here for the webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8680669963200949763

Thanks to APECS for the use of the GoToMeeting platform for hosting the webinars.

The climate change community is invited to attend the public sessions of the upcoming meeting of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and climate.

On Thursday, April 7 from 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm we'll be discussion findings of an upcoming report, Advancing Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecasting. On Friday April 8 from 9:00 am – 12:15 pm join us to discuss implications of the COP-21 Paris Agreement for emissions verification. We'll be revisiting findings of the BASC report Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Please register using the above link and join us.

Location:
Copenhagen, Denmark

Purpose:

• Present and discuss results on observations and modelling of meltwater retention processes on ice sheets and glaciers, with some emphasis on low temperature 'polar snow'.
• To plan and coordinate meltwater retention model development.
• To develop future projects and collaboration.

Registration deadline is Friday 8 April, 2016.

Contributions are welcomed in the form of oral presentations and/or posters. Presentation duration will be 15-20 minutes, including discussion. A keynote presentation by W.T. Pfeffer is planned. Between 2.5 and 3 days are planned.

Abstracts and registration:
Those intending to attend the workshop should submit abstracts (maximum length 200 words) by email to Robert Fausto rsf [at] geus.dk no later than the registration deadline. Abstracts should indicate whether an oral or poster presentation is preferred.

We have some financial support, but may ask a modest registration fee. We plan for the workshop to include lunch, morning and afternoon coffee breaks. We are working to raise some financial support for early career scientists to participate in the workshop.

We plan a special issue on the workshop topic in either Annals of glaciology, The Cryosphere, Frontiers in Earth Sciences.

A range of hotels and hostels exist near the workshop location. Public transit is very efficient, including bike rental. Booking these early is recommended due to extra demand from the high tourist season.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Alaska are pleased to invite you to participate in our upcoming NSF Day to be held on the UAA's Anchorage campus.

NSF Days provide basic insight and instruction on how to compete for NSF funding for science, engineering and education research. This day-long workshop will provide background on the Foundation, its mission, priorities, and budget. During the day, we will give an overview on proposal writing, NSF's merit review process, and programs that fall within our seven scientific and engineering directorates, as well as funding opportunities that cross disciplinary boundaries. NSF representatives will be on hand to answer questions and to host discipline specific breakout sessions to personally engage in discussions with attendees.