Past Events

The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. Rick Thoman (Climate Science and Services Manager, Environmental and Scientific Services Division, National Weather Service Alaska Region) will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review forecast tools and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center's forecast for the upcoming season.

Rick will also present a "Feature-of-the-Month" special addition in which each month he will highlight a topic relevant to the particular month.

Available in-person in IARC/Akasofu 407 on the UAF Campus or online at:
http://accap.adobeconnect.com/july2017/event/registration.html

Feel free to bring your lunch and join the gathering in-person or join online to learn more about Alaska climate and weather.

This will be a monthly series generally taking place the third Friday of each month.

Applications are now open for the 5th Annual Summer School on Sustainable Climate Risk Management.

As a central part of its educational and research mission, The Network on Sustainable Climate Risk Management (SCRiM) hosts an annual summer school to foster opportunities for collaboration and to provide a solid foundation in the broad, multidisciplinary knowledge, tools, and methods of the diverse fields participating in the network. A key focus of the workshop is developing a common vocabulary to help foster enhanced cross-disciplinary communication, enabling the possibility for future research and decision support collaborations. Participants will also gain hands-on experience with key methods and tools including robust decision-making, use of simple models, and analysis of relevant datasets.

The Summer School is open to postdocs, advanced graduate students, and early-career professionals in the decision-making and policy communities who are working on issues related to climate risk. In most cases, lodging, meals, registration, and travel costs will be fully covered for participants. International applicants are welcomed.

Proposed Sessions:

• Earth System Modeling
• Uncertainty Quantification
• Risk Analysis
• Policy Analysis and Robust Decisionmaking
• Climate-Ecosystem Interactions
• Geoengineering
• Integrated Assessment
• Coupled Epistemic-Ethical Analysis
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Tribal Perspectives on Climate Change

Tentative Instructors:

• Chris Forest
• Lara Fowler
• Murali Haran
• Klaus Keller
• Robert Lempert
• Robert Nicholas
• Alan Robock
• Nancy Tuana
• Erica Smithwick

Apply by Tuesday 30 May 2017.

The University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Permafrost offers an International Permafrost Summer Field School in Fairbanks Alaska. We welcome senior bachelor and graduate students, who are interested in obtaining an overall knowledge about permafrost.

The course will offer insights into:

• Permafrost history and its distribution globally.
• Permafrost related natural hazards and hydrological problems.
• Permafrost temperatures in various parts of the World – climatic and other controls.
• Methods of permafrost observations, focusing on drilling, coring and instrumentation.
• Permafrost databases and their use in permafrost analyses.
• How does permafrost affect local community infrastructure and cultural life?
• Interaction between carbon and water in permafrost landscapes.
• How sensitive are permafrost landforms towards climate change?

Application deadline is April 30 2017.
Send CV and short motivation letter (less than 1 page) to uarcticpermafrost [at] gmail.com.
There is no tuition fee for this course.
Course credits (may obtain 3 US credits) is not mandatory and require additional cost for the course.

Accommodation for students during the course will be in reindeer camp and some field site, and it will cost for meals.

For further questions: Kenji Yoshikawa (kyoshikawa [at] alaska.edu) or uarcticpermafrost [at] gmail.com

The UK Arctic Science Conference brings together natural and social scientists with a common interest in the Arctic environment. We welcome the submission of abstracts from across the themes of the International Arctic Science Committee Working Groups: Cryosphere, Marine, Terrestrial, Atmosphere and Social and Human.

The conference will be held from lunchtime on Tuesday 19th September 2017 to lunchtime on Thursday 21st September 2017.

The Scottish Association for Marine Science will be hosting the UK Arctic Science Conference 2017, with financial and administrative support from the NERC Arctic Office. This three day conference brings together UK Arctic scientists of all natural and social science disciplines to present and discuss recent findings. The conference will be held in Corran Halls, Oban.

The deadline for abstract submissions is 31st July 2017.

For further information, please visit the link above.

The Arctic Data Center announces a call for applications for the Data Science Training for Arctic Researchers workshop. This workshop will provide researchers with an overview of best data management practices, data science tools, and concrete steps and methods for more easily documenting and uploading data to the Arctic Data Center.

Application deadline: 5:00 p.m. PDT, 19 June 2017.

Workshop topics will include:

• Arctic Data Center and National Science Foundation standards and policies
• Data management plans,
• Effective data management for data preservation,
• Publishing data at the Arctic Data Center,
• Data and metadata quality, and
• Provenance of data and software.

Space for this workshop is limited. Early- and established-career researchers from the Arctic community are encouraged to apply.
Participants will be selected based on the applicant's current research or work activities; previous experience with open science practices, data management techniques, and analysis methods; and current or former opportunities to access training in these areas.

Participants will receive support to attend the meeting.

Applications should be completed online and the application form requests information about research background and data science training and skills.

Applicants should submit a two-page curriculum vitae in PDF format via email with Arctic Data Training in the email subject line to Amber Budden at aebudden [at] nceas.ucsb.edu.

The cryosphere is the part of the Earth system consisting of all snow, ice and frozen ground, both on and beneath the surface of the Earth, and the oceans. As an integral part of the climate system, the cryosphere responds the quickest to, and is the most representative of, global climate change. It also impacts both bio and anthropogenic systems on different spatial and temporal scales. The theme of this workshop “Cryospheric Change and Sustainable Development” is to improve our understanding of changes in all components of the cryosphere and their interdependence and causes. The workshop will focus on our current capabilities to model and assess these changes, mitigation and adaptability strategies in a rapidly changing cryosphere, eco-social sustainability, and the role of the cryosphere in the earth’s future.

Topics:

• Cryospheric processes and dynamics
• Attribution and impacts of cryospheric changes
• Mitigation and adaptive countermeasures on cryospheric changes
• Cryosphere services and their function for sustainable development

Authors are invited to submit a 250-300 word abstract which should be 21*29.7cm (A4) with a margin of 3 cm on the top and bottom and 2.5 cm on the right and left, using "Times New Roman" font throughout, single-spaced paragraphs and 12 pt. type for the body text. An abstract should contain the title, author(s) full name (the speaker’s name should be underlined), address and E-mail. The authors are also required to complete and return the application form.

Please submit your abstract (in Microsoft Word format) and application form by email to wangfeiteng at lzb.ac.cn by June 1, 2017.

The workshop will provide limited financial support to cover participation expenses, such as international air ticket, local accommodation and China domestic travel expenses. Please complete the financial application section in the Participation Form (Annex I) and send to wangfeiteng at lzb.ac.cn.ac.cn by* June 1, 2017*. The support will be awarded on basis of needs subject to fund availability and total the number of applications.

The conference will be held at building of State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, located at the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment
and Resources. State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science is conveniently located in the city centre, adjacent to the railway station, airport expressway, shopping areas and restaurants, and within a 10-15 minute walk of nearly all major hotels.

A number of hotels located within 1.0 km of the conference venue (a 10-minute walk) have provided group rates for our conference. Standard Room with towel provided as well as free internet and including breakfast cost US $40-80 per night. You must contact conference secretariat at least one month prior to arrival. Please complete the Accommodation and Post-Conference Field Trip Request Form (Annex II) and send to
wangfeiteng at lzb.ac.cn.ac.cn by June 1st, 2017.

The Polar Research Coordination Network (RCN) announces the 2nd High Performance Computing (HPC) Polar Workshop and Hackathon. This four-day polar science-centric training and hackathon will focus on utilizing high performance and distributed computing.

This workshop and hackathon is open to polar scientists who would like to increase their computing knowledge and abilities related to a specific problem during the hackathon or through general training during the workshop.

Training topics during the morning workshops include, but are not limited to, the basics of UNIX, version control, introduction to
high-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC), selecting a HPDC approach and platform, and publishing and sharing code.

Organizers are accepting proposals that address science questions, pose computational challenges that HPDC can address, and for which major progress is possible within the limited time frame.

The RCN will provide travel, housing, and food for attendees with accepted proposals.

There is no limit to the number of entries per individual or research group. Submit only one proposal if multiple team members will be working on the same project.

Space is limited and preference will be given to teams of two to four people.

Proposal deadline: 15 June 2017.

The Geological Society of America (GSA) 2017 meeting will convene 22-25 October 2017 in Seattle, Washington.

The Pacific Northwest provides great opportunities to experience the richness, diversity, and deep scientific understanding of the geosciences in their full splendor first-hand through 24 field trips, participating in our 25 short courses, and particularly submitting and placing your abstract(s) into one or more of our near-record 257 Topical Sessions nested within 31 geoscience disciplines.

There will be something for everyone, from hypothesis-driven basic and applied research to geoscience education, information, and communication to the public policy implications of our science. Especially important this year is how geoscience research and communication must respond to, adjust, and perhaps pursue new opportunities in a world and nation demanding a greater scientific understanding of what we do, why we do it, and the long-term impacts and implications of our work.

We intend to fill our 257 Topical Sessions, plus maintain the flexibility of creating Discipline Sessions, as well as offer numerous poster sessions, with many directly affiliated with oral sessions. We will also be offering six Pardee Keynote Sessions —diversity and the changing face of the geosciences, landscapes in the Anthropocene, the Chicxulub Impact Crater, Mesozoic-Cenozoic terranes along North America’s Pacific margin, Earth anatomy revealed through geologic mapping, and a Pardee poster session on “speed dating” (featuring 10–12 geochronologists to personally interact with meeting attendees).

For more information, please follow the link above.

Abstract deadline is 1 August 2017.

Registration deadline is 18 September 2017.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2017 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 11-15
December 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The early abstract deadline is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 26 July 2017.

The final abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, 2 August 2017.

Specific criteria and instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at:

http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/abstract-submissions

With more than 23,000 Earth and space scientists in 2016, AGU’s Fall Meeting is the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. The meeting continues to be the premiere place to present your research; hear about the latest discoveries, trends, and challenges in the field; and network with colleagues that can enhance your career.

Fall Meeting sessions will take place throughout the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, which is located at 900 Convention Center Blvd., New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 in close proximity to nationally renowned restaurants. The world famous attractions of the French Quarter lay just steps away while the historic St. Charles streetcar line runs past the elegant homes of the Garden District. Learn how to make the most of your time in the Crescent City in addition to joining us for another dynamic scientific program.

Fall Meeting brings together the entire Earth and space science community from across the globe for discussions of emerging trends and the latest research. The technical program includes presentations on new and cutting-edge science, much of which has not yet been published, meaning you’ll return to work with knowledge you can’t get anywhere else.

With more than 1,700 sessions in 2016, Fall Meeting’s scientific program spans the Earth and space sciences, offering something for everyone no matter their scientific discipline. The meeting offers a unique mix of more than 20,000 oral and poster presentations, a broad range of keynote lectures, various types of formal and informal networking and career advancement opportunities, and an exhibit hall packed with hundreds of exhibitors showcasing new and relevant research tools and services that meet the professional needs of our attendees year after year.

Join us for a PolarConnect Event with PolarTREC teacher Lee Teevan and the Research Team studying 'Jellyfish in the Bering Sea'.

This is a real-time event with Virginia teacher Lee Teevan aboard the research vessel Oceanus. She is with the 'Jellyfish in the Bering Sea Research Team’. Their research objective is to estimate the age structure and age-specific abundances of the predominant jellyfish in the Bering Sea, Chrysaora melanaster, in order to understand how their population size changes with time. You can read more about Lee's expedition, as well as read her journals and see her photos on the expedition webpage:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/jellyfish-in-the-bering-sea

Organizers announce a call for abstracts for the 21st Northern Research Basins (NRB) Symposium and Workshop entitled, "Cold-region hydrology in non-stationary world."

Climate and landscape changes are causing the transformation of hydrological cycle in Arctic regions, with major impacts on society. The
21st NRB workshop will address the issues of hydrological research in cold regions, both in fundamental scientific and applied aspects,
including the studies of snow, glaciers, permafrost, frozen ground, groundwater, seasonally frozen rivers, and lakes.

The workshop program will include scientific sessions, a field trip to research sites, local excursions, and a Lena River cruise.

Abstracts from the following research topics are encouraged:

• Observational evidences of change in coupled permafrost-hydrology system
• Present state and future projections of local, regional, and pan-Arctic hydrology
• Modelling studies representing landscape evolution, dynamics of water storages, and permafrost degradation
• Impacts of permafrost hydrology changes on local communities
• Abstracts regarding hydrology, water resources, and water engineering in snow-dominated and permafrost regions

Partial financial support may be granted to students and young scientists on the competitive basis.

To apply for travel support, send a motivation letter and explanation of travel expenses along with the abstract when registering.

Abstract submission deadline extended to: 15 March 2017.

Travel support application deadline: 28 February 2017.

For abstract submission template, important dates, and to register, follow the link above.

The Nordic Political Science Association (NoPSA) and the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark are pleased to invite you to NoPSA’s XVIII Political Science Congress.

The XVIII Nordic Political Science Congress will be held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.

In line with previous NoPSA congresses, we expect to host 33-35 workshops, allowing scholars working in a broad range of themes to engage in substantive discussions around their current research and possibly establish collaborations.

To keep you posted on NoPSA 2017, please check the website above, which will be updated regularly with all academic and practical information regarding the congress and your stay in Odense.

You are invited to a NASA workshop which is part of a series dedicated to NASA’s five-year SnowEx mission. The overarching objective of SnowEx is to advance our ability to measure snow-water equivalent globally leading toward defining a new space mission concept for global snow cover. The field campaign for SnowEx Year 1 was held during a three-week period in February 2017 in the Colorado Rockies on Grand Mesa and in the Senator Beck basin.

NASA SnowEx participants and their designees, and others who are interested in snow remote sensing, are invited to participate in this workshop to exchange information on experiences and results from the SnowEx Year 1 campaign. NASA particularly encourages participation from students who were involved in the ground campaign (and others who are interested, and anticipate possibly participating in future SnowEx campaigns).

This workshop will present an opportunity to share ideas, preliminary results and stories about the February 2017 SnowEx campaign as well as memories of our late colleague, Drew Slater. The workshop is dedicated to the memory of Drew. ​

If you would like to attend please RSVP to Dorothy Hall if you have not already done so:

dorothy.k.hall at nasa.gov

Connect to the Arctic! Join us for an upcoming event with teacher Ruth Rodriguez live from Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska.

Researcher Vanessa Lougheed will join Ruth to discuss the projects being run by University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) students as part of the Research Opportunities in the Arctic for Minorities (ROAM2) program. You can read more about Ruth’s adventures in the Arctic on their expedition webpage:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/research-opportunities-in-the-arc…

Please join us!

This event is free and hosted through the PolarTREC PolarConnect program. Participants will have a chance the learn from the scientists, ask questions, and chat with others during the presentation.

Increasing focus on the Arctic region due to climate change and natural resources such as oil and minerals has made Greenland a hot topic recently and it is of course an excellent place to meet and discuss polar and alpine microbiology.

The theme of PAM 2017 will be: Coming in from the Cold: Microbial Roles in the Warming Cryosphere

This theme should reflect that PAM 2017 will place emphasis on novel research showcasing the roles of microbes in the rapidly changing polar and alpine environments. Greenland-related research will of course be prominent throughout the conference.

We hope you will join us for an interesting conference and look forward to welcoming you to Greenland in 2017.

Kind regards from Organising Committee:

Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann (Technical University of Denmark)
Carsten Suhr Jacobsen (Chairman) (Aarhus University)
Marek Stibal, (Charles University in Prague)
Peter Stougaard (University of Copenhagen)
Anders Prieme (University of Copenhagen)
Kai Finster (Aarhus University)
Maja Olsen (Institute of Natural Resources Greenland)
Ivik Jensen (Air Greenland)

Immediately before the International Glaciological Society (IGS) Symposium on "Polar Ice, Polar Climate, Polar Change", the GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) community will conduct a workshop to foster involvement from the community in glacier mapping and to improve our responsiveness to the community.

The IGS symposium's focus is on high latitudes, where there are many glaciers and ice caps treated by the GLIMS community and which are of high scientific interest (e.g. the surging Vavilov ice cap). We hope to have the participation of many of the attendees of this IGS symposium.

The venue will be the National Snow and Ice Data Center, East Campus of the University of Colorado.

Please notify us of interest in attending this workshop by sending a note to braup @ nsidc.org

We would like to announce an opportunity for polar scientists of all career stages to obtain formal training in science communication strategies during an NSF- and NASA-funded workshop.

The workshop will take place immediately prior to the International Glaciological Society (IGS) International Symposium on Polar
Ice, Polar Climate, Polar Change at the University of Colorado Boulder. The workshop will include two days of oral communication training by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and one day of written communication training by Dr. Max Boykoff and his team from the University of Colorado Boulder.

The workshop is open to 32 polar scientists from all career stages and spanning all science disciplines, including the social sciences. Workshop participants do not need to attend the IGS symposium in order to participate in the science communication workshop. Funding for domestic travel and lodging are available for ~19 early-career scientists.

Workshop applications can be found at the website above.

Applications are due June 5th.

Notification of acceptance, and early-career funding if applicable, will be made by July.

The International Glaciological Society will hold an International Symposium on ‘Polar Ice, Polar Climate, Polar Change’.

The changes of the past 15 years in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice and the ice sheets appear to be a prelude to new levels of impact of the polar regions on global climate and sea level. The single-year ice system is expanding in the Arctic, with processes comparable to those of Antarctic sea ice. Antarctic sea ice extent is highly variable, and is responding to shifts in ocean circulation and wind patterns. Both polar sea ice systems interact in important ways with climate and with the adjacent ice sheets.

Much of this growing awareness and understanding has come from the tremendous success of satellite and airborne remote sensing, supporting both process studies and modeling of the geophysical basis for observed changes. The proposed symposium would both summarize new, high-profile results from the international research communities and provide a synthesis of current understanding as climate change impacts continue.

The goals of this symposium are:

• To provide a forum for presenting the current best observational data of all aspects of sea ice and polar ice sheets in both hemispheres, and their ongoing changes.
• To present and discuss results from models of ongoing polar climate and cryosphere processes, and interactions between sea ice and the climate system.
• To examine the likely future course of the sea ice, ice sheet and polar climate systems as revealed by coupled models.
• To entrain the global polar science community, at all stages of career development, in discussing the state and direction of the Earth’s polar regions.

A mixture of oral and poster sessions, interlaced with ample free time, forms the general framework of the symposium, which is intended to facilitate exchange of scientific information between participants in an informal manner. Additional activities include an opening icebreaker, a symposium banquet and a selection of activities during a Thursday (16 August) afternoon mid-symposium break. There is a pre-symposium geology and landscape excursion planned, and a post-symposium excursion to the path of a solar eclipse on Monday 21 August.

Participants wishing to present a paper (either oral or poster) at the symposium will be required to submit an abstract by 1 May 2017.

UArctic and the local host University of Greenland / Ilisimatusarfik are pleased to invite member representatives to this year’s Council meeting.

With pre-Council side-meetings scheduled for Monday the 14th, the Council meeting will begin on the 15th with introductions and updates on UArctic’s activities, and will continue with Council meeting and networking sessions until mid-morning on the 17th. During cultural and public events, the host will put particular focus on the issue of language in terms of internationalization and nation building processes. After the Council meeting, on Thursday the 17th, the host offers a guided tour with insight into the capital’s local history, and views of the spectacular natural surroundings of Nuuk.

Prior to the start of the Council meeting, an optional excursion to the town of Sisimiut is arranged from August 12 to 14. Hosted by the Arctic Technology Centre (ARTEK) -Technical University of Denmark, the excursion will include the choice of optional thematic workshops on science or cultural excursion and hike, as well as local / historical visits, and social activity for all. Afterwards, participants can travel to Nuuk either by plane, or by passenger ship.

The Deadline for Registrations is May 15th, 2017

For more information, please follow the link above.