Past Events

The Arctic Encounter Symposium (AES) is the largest annual Arctic policy event in the United States. Founded in 2013, the AES aims to 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, come together at the AES to challenge the status quo dialogue, critically address challenges to realizing the Arctic's full potential and collaborate on solutions.

The 4th annual Arctic Encounter Symposium (AES) will take place downtown Seattle, WA, USA at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in April 2017, one month prior to the passing of the Arctic Council chairmanship from the US to Finland.

Join political, business and indigenous stakeholders at this premier gathering and debate which includes two seated keynote luncheons, cocktail receptions, and a seated three-course dinner with a keynote and guest performer.

Please follow the link above to learn more and to register.

Airborne research during Airborne Campaign for NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)'s 2017-2019 campaigns will link field-based, process-level studies with geospatial data products derived from satellite remote sensing, spanning the critical intermediate space and time scales that are essential for a comprehensive understanding of scaling issues across the ABoVE Study Domain and extrapolation to the pan-Arctic.

Dr. Charles Miller, Lead of the 2017 ABoVE Airborne Campaign, will give an overview.

To join the webinar, go to: http://www.iarpccollaborations.org/news/7886

For more information about NASA's ABoVE campaign, go to: https://above.nasa.gov

For questions, contact:
Jessica Rohde
Email: jrohde [at] arcus.org
Phone: 206-931-0090

ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series
Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS)

Date: Friday, 14 April 2017 at 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET

Speaker: Mia Bennett, UCLA PhD candidate and Cryopolitics blog founder and editor

Presentation Title: "Development on Ice: Social and Economic Impacts of Arctic Transportation Infrastructure"

To register for this event, go to:
https://www.arcus.org/research-seminar-series

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) is pleased to announce the next Arctic Research Seminar Series event featuring Mia Bennett, UCLA PhD candidate and the Cryopolitics blog founder and editor. The event will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office at 1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. on Friday, 14 April 2017 at 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET.

This seminar will also be available as a webinar live-stream for those unable to attend in person.

Registration is required for this event.

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, non-governmental organizations, associations, and the public.

Bennett’s seminar titled "Development on Ice: Social and Economic Impacts of Arctic Transportation Infrastructure” will discuss the mechanisms connecting northern communities to regional and global transportation networks.

Mia Bennett is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at UCLA and founder and editor of the Cryopolitics blog. Her research examines the drivers and impacts of contemporary Arctic industrial development by merging fieldwork, policy analysis, and remote sensing. Currently, she focuses on transportation infrastructure projects in Canada's Northwest Territories and the Russian Far East. Mia received an MPhil in Polar Studies from the University of Cambridge, where her research focused on the roles of China, Japan, and South Korea in the Arctic. She speaks French, Swedish, and Russian and has traveled extensively in the Arctic, from the Greenland Ice Sheet to northeast Russia. She shares photographs from her journeys on her blog and can be followed on Twitter @miageografia.

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 event online will be sent to webinar registrants prior to the event.

For those of you on Twitter, we also invite you to join us in live-tweeting the event using the hashtag #arcuswebinar.

For more information and to register for the event, go to:
https://www.arcus.org/research-seminar-series.

For questions, contact:
Brit Myers
Email: brit [at] arcus.org

Organizers of the 5th International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-5) announce a call for special session proposals. The symposium will convene 15-18 January 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

This symposium will be comprised of discussions on environmental changes in the Arctic and their regional and global implications and seeks additional international scientific collaboration in this area by gathering, synthesizing, and sharing information related to these changes occurring in the Arctic. Arctic change has impacts on the global climate, as well as ecosystems and human societies in higher-middle latitudes. A better understanding of these processes is needed so that improved information can be given to society and stakeholders, particularly decision makers.

Special emphasis will be placed on the fields of the social sciences and humanities, which have not been included in previous ISARs.

The symposium will consist of plenary, general, and special sessions, as well as poster sessions. Special sessions are inter-disciplinary and solicited from participants.

The general sessions include the fields of:

• Atmosphere
• Ocean and sea ice
• Rivers, lakes, permafrost, and snow cover
• Ice sheets, glaciers, and ice cores
• Terrestrial ecosystems
• Marine ecosystems
• Geospace
• Policies and economy
• Social and cultural dimensions

For further information about the call for special session proposals or to submit a proposal, follow the link above.

Special session proposal deadline: 15 April 2017.

Abstract submission deadline: 31 August 2017.

Early registration deadline: 15 November 2017.

This conference will be held at the University Centre Obergurgl in Tyrol, Austria from September 29 to October 3 2017.

Long-term research programs steadily gained in importance over the last decades, monitoring worldwide issues such as climate change, land use changes, deposition and accumulation of pollutants, acceleration of socio-economic evolution, and analyzing their influences on ecosystems. Ecological and socio-ecological questions in mountain areas can hardly be answered by short funding cycles such as 3-years-projects. Thus, long-term research involving different disciplines and scales is a promising way for gaining comprehensive knowledge to develop amendatory strategies. Long-term research means standardization of methods, long-term data storing and handling, and well-defined evaluation procedures.

With this workshop we want to provide:

• A platform for sharing information on long term activities in mountain areas
• A discussion forum for methods, data handling and evaluation
• Round tables for discussions of joint projects
• An opportunity to get together in a marvelous mountain resort

We are aiming to cover three main topics:

• Long-term monitoring: methods & data management
• Long-term monitoring & global warming
• Long-term monitoring & agricultural practices

We invite researchers working on long-term studies in mountain areas to share their results, their expertise in monitoring techniques and their experiences in stakeholder demands. We plan to invite (1-2) keynote speakers to stimulate the discussions. Talks and posters are welcome and we appreciate suggestions on discussion topics and round tables.

Deadline for final registration and abstract submission will be 15th of April 2017.

The conference called Earth's Cryosphere: Past, Present, and Future will be held from 4 to 8 of June 2017 in the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science in Pushchino, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

The sections will cover the topics in the field of permafrost research:

• Regional aspects in polar and mountain areas
• Paleoreconstructions
• Carbon in permafrost
• Cryosphere as ecosystem: microbiological, biotechnological and astrobiological aspects
• Permafrost soils
• Permafrost hydrology and hydrogeology
• Physico-chemical peculiarities of frozen ground
• Geophysical investigations in permafrost areas
• Antarctic permafrost and soils
• Philosophical ideas about past, present and future of cryosphere

The organisers note that it is still not late to suggest new session topics, round tables or became a partner of the conference.

The conference will be in Russian and English, simultaneous translation will be provided.

The registration is open until 15 April 2017.

The International Symposium on Polar Sciences has been held annually ever since the conception of Korea’s Antarctic research schemes. This Symposium not only serves as an international forum bringing polar scientists together to exchange views and ideas, but also provides an opportunity to discuss collaborative research with peers and colleagues. Marking the 23rd series of this symposium, this year’s theme is “Life at the Extremes: Resilience, Adaptation and Application Potential”. The symposium will be held at the Korea Polar Research Institute, in Incheon, Republic of Korea on May 17-18, 2017.

The following six sessions are proposed:

• Genomic and physiological studies of microorganisms living in extreme environments
• Adaptation of photosynthetic organisms to freezing environments
• Genomic and physiological adaptation in polar animals
• Evolution: From fossils to genomics
• Marine food web: Prey-predator
• Cold-adapted proteins and metabolites: from molecular cloning to biotechnology

Please submit your abstract at the symposium website no later than March 17, 2017.

Please register at the symposium website no later than April 17, 2017.

In succession to previous workshops held 2009 in Dresden (“Aerogravimetry: Technology and Application”) and 2012 in Potsdam (“Geodesy and Geophysics on Airborne Platforms, in particular HALO”) we would like to invite you to the International Workshop “Airborne Geodesy and Geophysics with Focus on Polar Applications”.

One focus will be on the new German research aircraft HALO that is planned to be operated in Antarctica. However, we solicit contributions on all kinds of airborne geodetic, geophysical and glaciological measurement techniques applied in polar regions, from airborne gravimetry and magnetometry to radio‐echo sounding of the ice sheets and glaciers, from GNSS reflectometry, scatterometry and occultation to radar and laser altimetry. We solicit contributions on the state‐of‐the‐art of airborne geoscientific observation techniques and their analyses to improve our understanding of processes that interlink the potential fields with the cryosphere, the geosphere and the oceans.

Presentations are very much welcome on innovative methods and engineering solutions to adopt airborne platforms of different size and endurance, from jet aircraft to turboprop aircraft, helicopters and UAV for measurements in the polar regions.

We are pleased to invite representatives of academia, business and government with professional interests to participate in the Conference in order to discuss future development in the High North as well as create a firmer foundation for decision-making and sustainable economic development in the Arctic.

The main topics of the Conference:

• Arctic exploration: international law and national interests
• Economic potential of the Arctic region and exploration strategies
• Transport and logistics infrastructure of the Arctic region
• The Arctic region: global climate and ecology
• Future of the Arctic region: flagship projects, successful precedents
• Northern Sea Route: development strategy
• Staff for the Arctic region: competences, mobility, training system

Conference languages: Russian, English

We would like to draw your attention to the third year of Students in Polar and Alpine Research Conference that will take place in Brno at the Department of Geography at Masaryk University.

If you are interested and would like to learn more about a program and how to contribute or take part, please see the announcement at the link above.

Do not hesitate to contact us in case of any uncertainties or questions by email (geopolarbrno [at] gmail.com), or you can also directly contact the main conference coordinator -lenkaondrackova [at] mail.muni.cz

Deadline for registration and abstract submission is April 7, 2017

Navigating the combined challenges of climate change, globalization, and a shifting geopolitical landscape requires leadership at all levels and in all sectors of society. The rapidly changing Arctic illustrates the complexity of the task, with issues ranging from safeguarding human security in the Arctic and globally to managing a transition to a post-petroleum future. Central to the challenge are the close links between Arctic change and global processes. Navigating them will require insights about these connections, along with leadership skills and networks for working together across national and cultural contexts.

The aim of this workshop is to increase the capacity of individuals who may become the next generation global leaders to understand and act on the new security and governance challenges that are developing in the context of global environmental change. It will bring together a small group of young professionals with leadership aspirations with the specific task of using Arctic change as a starting point for defining what global security and governance might entail in the next 20-30 years and to explore their own roles in addressing them.
The workshop will take place 30-31 August 2017, hosted by University of Lapland’s Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland. It is supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra), the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS), the University of Lapland’s Arctic Center, and the project Arctic Governance and the Question of Fit in a Globalized World funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas. Convener is Dr. Annika E. Nilsson, Mistra-Arctic Fellow at GMFUS and Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute.

We invite young professionals (age 20-35) with aspirations for leadership roles in relation to politics, community development, or research to apply to the workshop. The workshop is free of charge and local costs are covered by the organizers. Some funding is available for travel support, but we also encourage participants to look for other ways to cover travel costs. If you need support for travel costs, please provide motivation and a budget. We aim for a final selection of participants that will reflect a diversity of experiences and perspectives from within and outside the Arctic.

The application should include cover letter with:

• Short presentation of yourself
• Motivation: How you and others would benefit from your participation
• Some words about how you see global-local interactions in your area of interest
• Some words about where you see yourself as a leader in five to ten years from now
• Optional: Request for travel support with budget
• CV

Application deadline: 20 April 2017

For further information, please contact: annika.nilsson [at] sei-international.org

The EMS Annual Meeting: European Conference for Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2017 will be held from 4 to 8 September 2017 at the Helix Conference Centre Dublin, Ireland.

A key challenge for the meteorological and climatological communities is how best to harness the wealth of data now available – both observational and modelled – to generate and communicate effectively relevant, tailored, and timely information, ensuring the highest-quality support for users' decision-making.

This is relevant for the whole spectrum of users: from specific user groups such as the emergency management agencies, local planners and enterprises that are weather sensitive, to individual members of the general public. Realizing the value of meteorological and climate information to government, industry, and all sectors of society is the focus of this conference.

Some of the prevalent issues to be discussed include:

• Observation data
• Instrumentation
• User focus and support tools
• Big data
• Open data
• Communication
• Decision-making under uncertainty
• Weather and climate predictions and projections

Abstract submission deadline is 21 April, 2017.

For more information, please go to the website above.

This cruise and pre-cruise information workshop will instruct early career marine scientists, including PhD students, post docs, and first or second year faculty members, on how to effectively plan for, acquire, and utilize time at sea for multi-disciplinary research and education.

The program will begin in Duluth, Minnesota and end in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 6-12 June 2017.

This course will include a four-day cruise on the University of Minnesota's research vessel Blue Heron on Lakes Superior and Michigan,
as well as a pre-cruise workshop.

Small stipends are provided for participant travel costs, research supplies, and shipping.

Space is limited and applicants must be an employee or student (U.S. Citizen or permanent resident) at a U.S. institution or a U.S. citizen
working abroad.

To apply, go to: https://goo.gl/forms/6yLk9JSubJSnjjvH3

Application deadline: 21 April 2017

For questions, contact:
Doug Ricketts
Email: ricketts [at] d.umn.edu

The EGU General Assembly 2017 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna.

Note on hotel reservations:
Please note that the congress ECCIMD2017 (10,000 participants) will take place in Vienna at the same time as the EGU2017. In addition, the Vienna City Marathon (40,000 participants) will take place on Sunday, resulting in many hotels being fully booked the night before. Therefore, we strongly recommend booking accommodation as soon as possible.

Organizers announce a call for abstracts for a conference entitled "International Conference on Arctic Science: Bringing Knowledge to Action," organized by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP).

This conference builds on a previous conference from 2011 entitled "Arctic Messenger of Change Conference." The 2017 conference will provide updated scientific, decision-making, and policy-relevant information across a broad array of different Arctic issues and related scientific disciplines.

The topics that will be addressed are:

• The Arctic Cryosphere
• Pollution in the Arctic
• Human Health Aspects of Pollution and Climate Change
• Global and Arctic Systems Feedback Mechanisms
• Resilience within Arctic Ecosystems
• Science and Plicy Making
• Socio-Economic Drivers and Impacts of Arctic Change

Interested participants are invited to submit abstracts on research and findings relevant to the topics identified above including reports from observational, process-based research, and experimental and modeling studies or past, present, and future change in the Arctic.

To submit an abstract for either an oral or poster presentation (550 word maximum), send the abstract by email to:
2017Conference [at] amap.no

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2016.
Registration Deadline: 24 April 2017.

For more information click on the "first announcement" pdf, follow the link above.

During the AMAP Conference, SEARCH Sea Ice Action Team Staff Member Matthew Druckenmiller will be scheduling "informational interviews" with decision-maker audiences, such as within Executive agencies, Congressional offices, NGOs, and local and state level institutions, to gather feedback on the SIAT's communication approaches and to systematically outline the preferences, potential, and obstacles for "knowledge to action".

Other SEARCH Science Steering Committee members will also be attending and participating in this event.

Organizers announce a call for abstracts for a conference entitled "International Conference on Arctic Science: Bringing Knowledge to Action," organized by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP). It will take place in Reston, Virginia.

This conference builds on a previous conference from 2011 entitled "Arctic Messenger of Change Conference." The 2017 conference will provide updated scientific, decision-making, and policy-relevant information across a broad array of different Arctic issues and related scientific disciplines.

The topics that will be addressed are:

• The Arctic Cryosphere
• Pollution in the Arctic
• Human Health Aspects of Pollution and Climate Change
• Global and Arctic Systems Feedback Mechanisms
• Resilience within Arctic Ecosystems
• Science and Plicy Making
• Socio-Economic Drivers and Impacts of Arctic Change

Interested participants are invited to submit abstracts on research and findings relevant to the topics identified above including reports from observational, process-based research, and experimental and modeling studies or past, present, and future change in the Arctic.

To submit an abstract for either an oral or poster presentation (550 word maximum), send the abstract by email to:
2017Conference [at] amap.no

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2016.
Registration Deadline: 24 April 2017.

For more information click on the "first announcement" pdf, follow the link above.

Join us for a real-time event with teacher Adeena Teres broadcasting live from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland! John Woods, Project Manager for NASA Operation IceBridge will be joining Adeena from Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Adeena and John will discuss the ongoing field season for the 2017 Operation IceBridge campaign.

Create connections and take part in our programme of informal peer-to-peer sessions, which aims to give you bespoke solutions, engaged involvement and an interactive experience.

Follow the link above to learn about the agenda, speakers, and much more.

Please join us for a real-time event with teacher Jennifer Baldacci broadcasting live from Toolik Field Station in Alaska. Dr. Cory Williams will join Jenn to discuss the 2017 field season working on Arctic Ground Squirrel Studies This event's time is set to broadcast specifically for Jenn's students in Switzerland and other European classrooms. Jennifer will also host a PolarConnect event with U.S. school-friendly times on 27 April.