Past Events

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

Building Bridges & Designing Activities with Teachers
For over seven years, Mia Bennett has written a blog on all things Arctic. Drawing on her experience blogging for the Foreign Policy Association and now the independently-run Cryopolitics, she'll talk about the art and science of blogging and how you can use it to improve your communication, research, and impact.

Register here for the webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5254651105278066180

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

Enormous mineral and energy resources hide under the arctic ice. Because of the climate change new sea routes open and new opportunities for raw material extraction emerge. That is also the reason why politics and economy are focusing increasingly on this region. Professors from TU Bergakademie Freiberg will discuss with scientists, politicians, diplomats and business representatives from the Arctic coastal states as well as from Germany about geo-strategic, legal, technical, and economic developments in the Arctic region.

The TU Bergakademie Freiberg is the oldest mining university in the world. It has been founded 250 years ago. It combines as one of few universities in the world all scientific fields along the resource value chain at one location. The Arctic Conference in 2016 is the starting point of a series of conferences and workshops on specific arctic topics. It is organized by TU Bergakademie Freiberg to promote and enhance the scientific exchange on arctic-related topics.

We will reassemble the members of the National Steering Committee and a small but diverse selection of representatives from the five regional workshops, to total about 15 people. Our aim will be to identify and synthesize the core threads of the previous workshops and public contributions proffered between workshops. Our target output for the workshop will be a final report draft and outline of steps leading to the final report release in June 2016. The Jefferson Institute will manage production of the publication.

The conference will discuss the role played by non- Arctic European Member States in designing a regional Arctic policy. It will be developed on the basis of selected papers focused on five key issues and a set of round table discussions will be coordinated, on the basis of the call for papers. The call is open to all early careers, researchers and senior scientists whose contributions can enrich the reflection on the topic.

We invite proposals related to the following areas:

The European Union in the Arctic Council

Several European non- Arctic Member States are Permanent Observers to the Arctic Council, while the European Union as a regional orgsnization has remained excluded from acquiring this status. Considering that all its Member States are required to accomplish with the European directives and regulations under European Law, and that the geographical boundaries of the organization overlap with the polar ones; the role of the European Union should be reconsidered in order to avoid conflicting or impasse situations. The call would ask for proposals of practical solution to reconcile the International role played by the European Union as a regional actor, maintaining both strategic interests in the North Pole and a commitment to the sustainable management of its environment and populations.

European decision- making power and influence in a changing Arctic

In 2011 and 2014 the Arctic States have exclusively adopted under the auspices of the Arctic Council two relevant agreements related with search and resque activities and with marine oil pollution response in the Arctic, envisaging the possible evolution of the same ino a proper International Organization. Considering this possibility, the exclusion of all European non- Arctic Countries from the bargaining processes and the fact that the Arctic Council may encompass security and defence issues; the call would ask for the definition of future possible scenarios with regard to global security subjects such as navigation, piracy, terrorism, smuggling etc. directly affecting the European territory.

A sustainable development of the Arctic: the European commitment

The European Union has compromised internationally in the fight to climate change, and is currently widely investing in Arctic scientific research. Moreover, all European States have traditionally been funders of scientific programmes and promoters of the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Taking all this in mind, the call would ask how this European commitment can be balanced with Arctic States sovereign rights and aspirations, considering for example the existing International Law framework and the lack of enforcement of several international agreements for some relevant Arctic States (UNFCCC, Paris Agreement, UNCLOS).

The European economic situation: is there an Arctic solution?

In the light of the present energy scarsity and increasing International interests for Arctic resources use and extraction, it is doubtful whether International stakeholders - beyond Arctic States and within the limits of the Law of the Sea- are claiming valid rights of use of the Arctic territory and natural environment. The call ask for proposals on the development, renew of concrete implementation of a European policy for the Arctic, that takes in due account the needs of European non- Arctic States (e.g. access to new sea routes, fishing quotas, access to recources and hydrocarbons) as a possible factor of mitigation of the present economic crisis, considering particularly the relation with some Arctic economic giants, for example Russia.

The European Union and the protection of Arctic Indigenous Peoples

Although not derived from the treaties, the evolving case law of the European Court of Justice has integrated some human rights into the acquis of the European Union. One of the goals of the EU in its Startegy towards the Arctic region is to provide for high standards of protection for Indigenous Peoples, support their sustainable development, resilience and adaptation to climate ghange.The Arctic Member States of the EU are the natural territory of some Arctic Indigenous Peoples whose rights as citizens might be considered by the European Court of Justice. What is more, besides the fact of being a member of the Council of Europe, the EU itself committed to implement the human rights' protection of Arctic Indigenous Peoples within European borders, being this domestic or implemented through regional organizations. In addition to this, one of the most indigenous populated Arctic islands- Greenlad- mantains a relation of Oversea Territory with the European Union and is still dependant on Denmark in the International representation, defence and foreign policy. Considering the possibility for Greenland to become the first Indigenous self-governed country, the call would ask for outlining which could be the consequences of such a a self- government arrangement within the European boundaries and strategic considerations.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 22 April, 2016.

Acceptance of abstracts: 16 May, 2016.

Please submitt the abstracts (250-350 words) to:

Ms. Elena Conde Pérez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: conde [at] der.ucm.es

Ms. Marzia Scopelliti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid: marziasc [at] ucm.es or marzia.scopelliti [at] gmail.com

The best paper will be selected for the publication into the Spanish Yearbook of International Law.

The Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) and the University of Minnesota announce registration for the 2016 Polar Geospatial Center Boot Camp. This
workshop will take place on 13-16 June on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The workshop will focus on applications of commercial satellite imagery for polar science. Instructor-led courses include Discovering Geospatial Data at the Poles, DEM Extraction from Stereoscopic Imagery, Georeferencing Maps and Aerial Imagery, and more. The PGC Boot Camp also hosts visiting speakers and offers dedicated project work time for one-on-one support from PGC staff.

Registration Deadline: 16 May 2016

For questions, please contact:
Lucas Winzenburg
Email: winz0017 [at] umn.edu

or

Jonathan Pundsack
Email: pundsack [at] umn.edu

The Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) announces the call for contributions for the 2016 Sea Ice Outlook June report (based on May data). The firm submission deadline is 6:00 p.m. (AKDT) on Monday, 13 June 2016.

Follow the URL above for more information and guidelines for contributors.

All submissions should be sent to: sio2016 [at] arcus.org

For questions, contact Betsy Turner-Bogren, ARCUS
Email: betsy [at] arcus.org

The Eastern Snow Conference (ESC) is a joint Canadian/U.S. organization founded in the 1940s originally with members from eastern North America. Today, Our members come from the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany, as well as North America. Our current membership includes scientists, engineers, snow surveyors, technicians, professors, students and professionals involved in operations and maintenance. The western counterpart to this organization is the Western Snow Conference (WSC), also a joint Canadian/US organization. Every fifth year or so, the ESC and WSC hold joint meetings.

At its annual meeting, the Eastern Snow Conference brings the research and operations communities to discuss recent work on scientific, engineering and operational issues related to snow and ice. The location of the conference alternates yearly between the United States and Canada, and attendees present their work by giving talks or presenting posters. Authors can choose to have their papers reviewed if they desire feedback on ways to improve the manuscript prior to publication in our yearly Proceedings of the Eastern Snow Conference Papers may also be submitted for a special annual ESC edition of the journal Physical Geography. These manuscripts are subject to a standard academic journal peer review process.

Volumes of the Proceedings can be found in libraries throughout North America and Europe; papers can also be found through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) in the United States and CISTI in Canada. The conference's proceedings are indexed in the Cold Regions Bibliography Project.

In recent years, the ESC meetings have included presentations on snow physics, management and hydrology, snow and ice loads on structures, river ice, winter survival of animals, remote sensing of snow and ice, glacier processes, snow science as a teaching tool and socio-political impacts of winter. The ESC encourages students to submit their work to Student Paper Competition which will also be considered for the general session.

The ESC and its annual meeting is kindly supported by a number of Corporate Members.

We have just started a $30 sustaining membership for those members who are unable to attend the Annual ESC Meeting, but would like a copy of the proceedings. For information please visit our organizational information page.

The Next Generation Ecosystems Experiments (NGEE-Arctic) is a 10-year Department of Energy (DOE)-supported project whose mission is to improve mathematical models that predict climate through advanced understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological behavior of terrestrial ecosystems in Alaska. With a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from a range of institutions, NGEE-Arctic integrates field and laboratory investigations to inform climate models, ultimately scalable to the region and to the Arctic. This webinar will first feature an NGEE-Arctic evaluation of methane emissions across gradients of permafrost thaw. The project’s program manager will then discuss the role of this research within the broader DOE priorities, as well as techniques for individual researchers to connect their ideas to policy driven funding priorities in order to produce effective interdisciplinary research coordinated within and among Federal agencies.

Dr. Stover is a Program Manager for Terrestrial Ecosystem Science programs in the Climate & Environmental Sciences Division of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the DOE Office of Science. He manages a portfolio of university and national laboratory research projects aimed at improving the representation of terrestrial ecosystems and their processes in predictive Earth system models, including NGEE-Arctic.

Lydia Smith Vaughn is a Ph.D. candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Her research explores the intersections of terrestrial carbon cycling, plant-soil-microbe interactions, and climate. She is currently a graduate student researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she studies high latitude carbon cycling through the NGEE-Arctic project.

The 14th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium (ICRSS) will be held in Homer, Alaska.

The theme of the 14th ICRSS symposium is Remote Sensing applications for addressing emerging research questions and management needs in polar regions. This symposium is unique in that it deals specifically with remote sensing applications in Arctic and Antarctic environments and how the broad suite of remotely sensed information and remote sensing techniques can provide much needed information for rapidly changing polar regions.

Unique to the 14th ICRSS will be a day long special session on remote sensing of permafrost regions. Abstracts are being requested that directly address this topic in the polar regions as well as techniques applied to boreal permafrost regions that are applicable to the Arctic and Antarctic.

Both oral presentation and poster presentation abstracts are being accepted at this time.

For a full list of topics that will be considered and detailed information on abstract submission, go to:
http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/geography/CRSS2016/dates.php.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2016.

Early registration deadline: 1 June 2016.

Regular registration deadline: 20 July 2016.

For questions, please visit the website or contact:
Ben Jones
Email: bjones [at] usgs.gov

or

JJ Frost
Email: jfrost [at] abrinc.com

The FRISP meeting will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, and it is for scientists working with various aspects of ice shelf processes meet in an informal setting and exchange ideas, results and field plans. This year there will be a special focus on under ice observations, including information and feedback with the SOOS under ice working group presently being formed. The meeting includes an APECS mentor panel discussion, prizes for best student presentations, and a guided excursion to the historical station Bornö situated in the Gullmar fjord, famous for its geology and marine life. Students are eligible for travel support.

The meeting will take place in one of the University of Gothenburg marine field stations, Kristineberg.

The deadline for registration is on June 15th, 2016.

For more information please follow the link above.

Organizers announce that registration is available for the NASA Scoping Study Arctic-COLORS (Arctic-COastal Land Ocean inteRactions) Open Community Workshop, which will be held from 28-29 July 2016 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Arctic-COLORS is a Field Campaign Scoping Study supported by NASA's Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB) Program that aims to quantify present and future impacts of changing land and ice on marine net ecosystem productivity in the fastest warming environment on the planet: the Arctic. A Science Plan is under development that describes and justifies the design of an integrative, interdisciplinary oceanographic field campaign and modeling program that addresses high priority science questions related to land-sea-ice interactions in the nearshore Arctic, and assesses the impacts of natural and anthropogenic changes on coastal ocean ecology and biogeochemistry.

The panel convened by NASA OBB to review a preliminary version of the Arctic-COLORS Science Plan wasvery supportive of Arctic-COLORS and recommended revisions and re-submission of the report for further consideration by NASA.

To view the science plan, go to:
http://arctic-colors.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ArcticCOLORS_Final.pdf

The one and a half day open community workshop at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute will engage interested scientists in a dialog about the proposed field campaign and obtain broad community input on these revisions. During this workshop participants will focus the top level science questions, discuss potential de-scoping scenarios, and narrow the study domain.

Registration Deadline: 15 June 2016.

To register please visit the link above.

For questions, please contact:
Antonio Mannino
Email: antonio.mannino-1 [at] nasa.gov

Organizers announce that the Girls on Ice 2016 Expeditions are now accepting applications. The 2016 program includes two expeditions. The original North Cascades expedition in Washington State will be held 10-21 July 2016, and an Alaska-based expedition will take place 17-28 June 2016.

Girls on Ice is a unique, free, wilderness science education program for high school girls. Each year a team of nine teenage girls and three instructors spend 12 days exploring and learning about mountain glaciers and alpine landscapes through scientific field studies with professional glaciologists and mountaineers.

Applicants must be at least 16 years old by the Alaska program start-date (17 June) and no older than 18 on the North Cascades program end-date (21 July). International students are welcome to apply to the North Cascades expedition. The Alaskan expedition is primarily intended for girls from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Application deadline: 29 January 2016.

The deadline for registration for the 2016 UK Antarctic Science Conference in University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, is fast approaching: deadline of Friday 17th June.

The main conference will be preceded by a meeting of the UK branch of APECS - the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - (4th-5th July), and followed by a Workshop on Southern Ocean biases in Climate Models (afternoon of 7th July).

Online booking is available at:
http://store.uea.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=28…

Accommodation on the UEA Campus may be booked on the website for the low cost of £40 per night B&B, or there are a range of other accommodations available on and off campus in the fine medieval city of Norwich.

The conference includes talks on the New UK Polar Research Vessel, the Sir David Attenborough, and the iSTAR Pine Island Glacier traverses.There will be invited talks by David Wilson (great nephew of Edward Wilson who died with Scott) on the Centenary of the Shackleton Expedition to Antarctica, and by Amanda Lynnes of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators. There is an exciting programme of talks and posters on all aspects of Antarctic Science.

The programme for the main meeting can be found at the link above.

Partial registration fee rebates are available for UK-based PhD students thanks to funding by the Natural Environment Research Council.

If you have any enquiries or issues, please contact:
online.registration [at] uea.ac.uk

A "Young Researchers Workshop" will take place at the XI. International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2016) on 18 - 19 June 2016. This workshop is organized as a joint effort of PYRN (Permafrost Young Researchers Network), APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists), the young researcher representatives of the USPA (United States Permafrost Association), and ADAPT (Arctic Development and Adaptation to Permafrost in Transition).

The workshop aims at providing opportunities to young researchers to learn and build interdisciplinary knowledge:
* How to get published in scientific journals (professional trainer)
* Practical methods
* Essential soft skills

For detailed information on the Young Researchers Workshop program, please download the program on the conference and workshop website.

The soft skills portion, presenting and sharing knowledge about the Arctic and Antarctic permafrost regions, will be a focus. To achieve this, the participants will enter into dialogue and exchange in thematic break-out sessions.

The application deadline for abstract submission as well as the application for the workshop: December 1, 2015.

The maximum number of participants is 150. If more applications are submitted, an evaluation of the applications will be done. To apply for the workshop, please use the suitable category in the conference registration system and please be prepared to provide the following there:
* A letter of motivation stating why you are interested in participating in the ICOP and the workshop (500 words)
* If you are part of a network (PYRN, IPA, APECS, USPA...), how are you involved? If you are not part of a network, are you interested to increase your activity e.g. for the future PYRN or APECS executive committee, council and/or national representation? (300 words)

This 1-day meeting will be held just prior to the start of ICOP (http://icop2016.org/). The program and exact location on the Telegrafenberg campus (building and room) will be announced soon.

Researchers are invited to participate in a one-day side meeting on Arctic Coastal Permafrost in Transition (CPiT). We seek to energize and connect the coastal scientific community, to continue the legacy of the IPA-sponsored Arctic Coastal Dynamics group (ACD, an IASC network and LOICZ-affiliated project). The meeting seeks to coordinate research efforts on coastal dynamics along circum-arctic permafrost coasts, with a focus on physical processes.

The specific objectives of the this one-day meeting are to:

• Unite researchers from diverse geographic backgrounds and career stages
• Explore future research and data needs
• Discuss best practices for a range of methods
• Solicit suggestions from participants regarding next steps for ACD
• Identify funding sources for future networking opportunities

Invited speakers will open the meeting providing an overview of the history of coordinated arctic coastal dynamics research, the state of ACD, and knowledge gaps in the field. *Following a joint lunch break, discussions focussing on current research, and future coordination will follow. We seek participants willing to give brief presentations on insights into cutting edge methodologies for data collection and analysis in Arctic coastal settings.

We strongly encourage participants in the following sessions to join the Coastal Permafrost in Transition (CPiT) discussion:

• Session 22. Integrating hydrology and biogeochemistry along the land-to-ocean continuum
• Session 23. Advances in our understanding of submarine permafrost, Arctic gas hydrate deposits, and greenhouse gases in Arctic coastal waters
• Session 24. Polar coastlines in transition
• Session 28. Hazards and risks related to changing mountain, low-land and coastal permafrost

We hope to see you there. Please register by March 1, 2016.

RATIC is a new initiative organized through the Terrestrial, Cryosphere, and Social & Human working groups of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). It is a forum that addresses the cumulative effects of infrastructure and climate change. A full description of RATIC and goals can be found in the RATIC white paper presented at the Arctic Science Summit Week in Fairbanks, Alaska (ASSW 2016):

http://www.arcticobservingsummit.org/sites/arcticobservingsummit.org/fi…

Permafrost thawing and its associated impacts on natural and built environments are identified in the RATIC white paper as priority issues for circumpolar study because permafrost is universally present in the Arctic and plays major roles in the stability of Arctic infrastructure and social-ecological systems. The specific issues related to permafrost are different in each region of the Arctic and require detailed ground-level knowledge for anticipating change through social-ecological-system and permafrost scenario modeling, planning and engineering.

The organizers of RATIC decided to meet informally prior to the 11th International Conference on Permafrost (EICOP) because the meeting place in Potsdam is rather easily accessible to European members of RATIC and to take advantage of this gathering of the world’s permafrost experts to inform them of RATIC and invite them to participate in this new initiative.

The intent of this informal meeting is to communicate progress on RATIC since the Third International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III) at ASSW 2015 in Yohama, Japan, and to begin organization of a larger meeting and session during Arctic Science Summit Week 2017 in Prague.

Although permafrost is a major unifying theme within RATIC, most of the members of RATIC are not permafrost scientists and will not be at EICOP. Consequently, we arranged a rather small meeting room. However, if you are interested in the topics discussed for RATIC, you are welcome and invited to the meeting at Telegrafenberg, Room A43-KR, Sunday, 13 June, 13:00-15:00. Please plan to help us develop the permafrost themes of RATIC and the next meeting in Prague.

The conference organizing committee invites you to the 11th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2016) to be held in Potsdam, Germany, 20-24 June, 2016.

The Alfred Wegener Institute has teamed up with UP Transfer GmbH and the University of Potsdam to organize a great conference for you, permafrost researchers. The conference aims at covering all relevant aspects of permafrost research, engineering and outreach on a global and regional level. The conference website, containing all relevant information, is now online: www.icop2016.org and will be updated on a regular basis.

If you wish to get all conference updates, please subscribe to our newsletter on the website. The newsletter will replace circulars.

We hereby open the call for session proposals that should be submitted online until 1 April 2015:
http://icop2016.org/index.php/program/call-for-session

If you intend to submit a session proposal, the following items will be requested in the online form:
1.) Title of session;
2.) Conveners (name, affiliation, and e-mail), including the indication of PYRN convener(s);
3.) Session description (max. 300 words).

Each session will be organized by up to three conveners (i.e. those that submit the session proposal). We encourage a high degree of internationality for the convener boards. At least one convener should be a member of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN). PYRN conveners are students or young researchers within six years after completion of their doctoral thesis, however, they must not be students or formally under the supervision of the senior conveners of the according session. PYRN will find a suitable candidate, if a session was proposed without involvement of PYRN conveners. The conveners will be responsible for the selection of abstracts and for the organization of oral or poster presentations.

The following themes denote the diversity of research to be presented at the conference, but are by no means restrictive:

1. Lowland permafrost
2. Mountain permafrost
3. Planetary permafrost
4. Subsea permafrost and gas hydrates
5. Periglacial geomorphology
6. Periglacial paleoenvironments
7. Permafrost and climate change
8. Permafrost in the water cycle
9. Ecology, microbiology, biogeochemistry, and gas fluxes
10. Natural hazards: assessment, adaptation, and mitigation
11. Foundation engineering and architecture
12. Infrastructure on permafrost
13. In-situ and remote observation techniques and programs
14. Modeling
15. Socioeconomic and cultural dynamics
16. History of permafrost engineering and research
17. Education and outreach

If key fields are not represented in the submitted list of session proposals, the ICOP Local Organizing Committee (LOC) and the International Scientific Committee (ISC) will suggest special sessions to cover all relevant topics.

By 30 May 2015, a decision will be presented on the acceptance of submitted sessions. The decision will be based on the inherent scientific interest and quality of the session proposal, the potential to attract participants, the thematic overlap and number of available slots at the conference.

The call for abstracts for the accepted sessions will open 1 August 2015 until 15 December 2015. After that date, depending on number of abstracts being submitted to each session, the LOC and the ISC may propose session joining or cancelling.

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of California at Irvine will host the 2016 Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) Workshop. It will be sponsored by Pr Helen Fricker who graciously offered to host the workshop.

Interactive sessions will be offered for beginners/advanced users and developers interested in learning how to use ISSM. Updates to ISSM since the 2014 workshop, including user-requested features will be presented. Specific focus will be on tutorials that allow users to make use of altimetry data, and simulate the evolution of surface topography on ice shelves or over grounded ice. Data assimilation will also be at the core of several tutorials, relying on the use of inverse methods in particular. Participants will be invited to showcase their work during an open poster session, and science talks will be organized around relevant topics.

Please see the link above for more information and for registration.

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

Writing for Media and the General Public
With Jeff Richardson, public information officer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Jeff Richardson has experience working in local media and as the public information officer for the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His webinar will give some tips about finding the story in your research, and other strategies to consider when writing for the media and general audiences.

Register here for the webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3408656845374928387

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

The WIHAH conference is bringing together Alaskan, U.S., and international engineers, health experts, researchers, community members, policymakers, and innovators to discuss health benefits, challenges and innovations associated with making running water and sewer in remote northern communities safe, affordable and sustainable. A conference proceedings publication and a summary report of the meeting will be produced. This conference will consist of expert speaker and poster presentation sessions, along with selected innovative technical demonstrations. It will take place at the Hilton Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska.

This circumpolar conference is identified as an official event in conjunction with the U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council, as an endorsed project of the Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is partnering with a number of U.S. agencies to sponsor this informative conference. Federal sponsors include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Arctic Research Commission; U.S. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the U.S. Department of State; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development Program.

Conference themes:

Human health benefits from household water and sanitation in Arctic rural communities
Climate change impacts on water and sanitation infrastructure in the Arctic
Innovative engineering approaches to increase access to water of adequate quality and quantity, including water reuse
Methods of ownership, operations and maintenance to maximize useful life of water and sewer systems in the Arctic
Regulations and policies affecting access to and the cost of providing adequate quantities of water in the home
Conference registration:

There is no registration fee. However, due to space and cost limitations and to ensure broad participation from different countries and areas of expertise, attendance is by invitation only. If you would like to attend the WIHAH conference and/or give a presentation, please provide information about how your expertise or experiences would add value to the conference by filling out the “Expression of Interest” web form due on the corresponding date indicated below.

Important dates:

Participants who want to present at the conference must submit the Expression of Interest web form by June 24, 2016. The form includes a field for abstract submission (300 words max). Types of presentation include 20 to 40 minute talks, posters, and exhibition or demonstration of an innovation.

Participants who want to attend the conference without giving a presentation must submit the Expression of Interest web form by July 1, 2016.