Past Events

The Nansen Legacy project breaks new ground in national-scale Arctic research collaborations. In Norway, a sustainability report is required for any economic activity in its sea territory, but no single institution could achieve this demanding goal alone for its hitherto ice-covered waters. Thus, a national team formed representing nearly Norway’s entire marine Arctic expertise including 130 scientists, 50 new recruiting positions, and Norway’s new research icebreaker. This $97 million project for the exploration and understanding of Norway’s ice-covered water and adjacent polar ocean commenced in 2018 and will run for six years. The ten partners collaborate to distribute work, but also are also able to concentrate upon specific fields of their choice. To form this unique collaboration, new evaluation and financing strategies had to be developed, challenging research institutions and government. This presentation will cover the process of developing the project including teaming up, reaching consensus, dividing the responsibilities, and developing a coherent and trustworthy team. The Nansen Legacy presents a step towards the future cooperation between the five Arctic coastal states in order to comprehend the entirety of the Arctic Ocean.

For more information and instructions on how to join the webinar via Zoom Video Conferencing, please follow the link above.

Scope:

Extreme weather events are commonly encompassed phenomena such as heat waves, droughts, floods and storms. In cold regions, these are augmented with snow and sea-ice related extreme events, usually triggered by anomalous atmospheric or oceanic conditions.

Although extreme events are a core climate research focus, cryospheric extremes have not received much attention yet. The overarching aim of the workshop is to review our understanding of cryospheric extreme events in the past, present and future, and to identify research needs.

Topics of interest include:

• Observing cryospheric extremes (CE) and their precursors
• Modelling requirements for CE
• Producing and verifying forecasts of CE
• CE and climate change
• Relevance of CE for society/users

Registration:

The workshop is free of charge for all participants. Registration deadline for presentations is Wednesday 28 February 2018. To register, please use the link above.

Travel support:

Limited amount of travel support will be available for early career scientists.

Workshop Organizers:

• Jari Haapala, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
• Carolina Gabarró Prats, Institut de Ciències del Mar - CSIC, Spain
• Hugues Goosse, Earth and Life Institute-Université de Louvain, Belgium
• Elizabeth Hunke, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Veijo Pohjola, University of Uppsala, Sweden
• Steffen Olsen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark
• Steffen Tietsche, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK

Organizers invite registration for the International Tundra Experiment's (ITEX) 19th Open Science Meeting.

The main scientific themes of the meeting will include:

• Rates of change and whole‐ecosystem processes,
• Plant functional traits/"functional diversity change",
• Tundra data synthesis (e.g. including up‐scaling),
• Microbial ecology (including plant‐soil interactions);
• ITEX protocol development, and
• Other (to reflect submitted abstracts).

Poster submissions are welcome until the registration deadline.

Registration is open until 23 March, but is limited to 80 participants (due to the size of venues available) and is on a first-come-first-served basis.

For more information, including the conference program and registration, please follow the link above.

For questions, contact:
Philip Wookey
Email: philip.wookey1 [at] stir.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1786 466967

Robert D. Hollister
Email: hollistr [at] gvsu.edu
Phone: 616-331-8582

This talk will provide a brief overview of current hydrologic conditions and notable events over the past winter, including late freeze up on the Kuskokwim, heavy snow in parts of the Interior, and drought in Southeast Alaska. I will provide an outlook for breakup on the larger rivers this spring and possible flood risks, as well as information about our daily forecast products through breakup and during open water season.

Available in-person in IARC/Akasofu 407 on the UAF Campus or online

Registration and more information available at: https://accap.uaf.edu/VAWS_April2018

This event, organized by the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S., the University of Alaska Anchorage, the Anchorage Museum, and the Institute of the North; will bring together members of the Anchorage-area Arctic research community to share information among the diverse research and creative community activities being conducted by a broad array of organizations, and to foster new connections and collaborations.

For a full program, and to register, please follow the link above.

The conference consists of 4 main sections:

Human in the Arctic
1.1. Social and economic development
1.2 Human health
1.3 History and Culture

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2.1 Mineral resources
2.2 Forest and land resources
2.3 Water resources and animal resources

Arctic ecosystems and environmental protection
3.1 Environmental safety and environmental management
3.2 Organisms and their habitats

Technological development of the Arctic
4.1 Industry and infrastructure
4.2 Construction and power engineering
4.3 Information technology

Working languages are Russian and English.

The work of the conference will take place in the form of plenary sessions, sectional sessions and poster sessions. The age of the speaker should not exceed 35 years, but senior colleagues and scientific supervisors of young scientists may take part as co-authors of the publication. For people who do not have a PhD degree it is necessary to provide a scanned review from the scientific supervisor.

The conference proceedings will be published by the beginning of the conference.

Participation in the conference is free of charge.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask by e-mail arctic.science.conf [at] gmail.com

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 (see link above).

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.

The 2018 Arctic Science Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will be held October 9th in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The meeting is being held in tandem with the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF)’s annual meeting, which runs from October 10-12. The conference theme is Health and Shared Prosperity in the North.

The theme of the meeting reflects the idea that health, of both people and ecosystems, and prosperity, of both human and more-than-human arctic residents, are inexorably intertwined. This reality is at the core of Indigenous world views and lifeways, and increasingly, is being acknowledged by research and policy. At this conference, we seek to further advance the discussion of health and prosperity as a focal point for sustainable communities and development policies.

Conference topics include traditional scientific disciplines, science education, arctic social sciences, biomedical research, and artistic interpretation of health in the North. Information about CRRF and the full, joint program will be released soon at the website linked above.

Abstracts for contributed talks will be open on February 15, with an initial deadline of April 30.

INQUA-PAGES Conference for Early-Career Researchers. 26-29 August 2018, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

This conference aims to facilitate scientific exchange between early-career researchers (ECRs) from a broad range of disciplines working with sea-level change. The conference will include two days of oral and poster presentations by ECRs, invited keynote lectures, a one day field excursion to the Rhine delta and Holland coastal plain with conference dinner, and a public ‘Science and Society’ evening session. The conference is open to ECRs who have obtained or expect to obtain their Ph.D. in 2010 or later.

The deadline for abstract submission is now extended to 1 May 2018.

Please see the link above for more information.

Breakup transforms an ice-covered river into an open river. Two ideal forms of breakup bracket the types of breakup that commonly occur. At one extreme is thermal breakup. During an ideal thermal breakup, the river ice cover deteriorates and melts in place, with no increase in flow and little or no ice movement. At the other extreme is the more complex and less understood mechanical breakup, which is the focus of this presentation. The main driver of mechanical breakup is the flow discharge hydrograph. The increase in flow induces stresses in the cover, and the stresses in turn cause cracks and the ultimate fragmentation of the ice cover into pieces that are carried by the channel flow. Ice jams take place at locations where the ice fragments stop; severe and sudden hydraulic transients can result when these ice jams form or when they release. This presentation will focus on mechanical breakup and the historical evolution of our understanding of this topic. The presentation will include discussions of ice cover formation and the typical resulting ice structure, wave-ice interaction, the physics of the cracking, and the current status of our understanding of breakup.

Available in-person in IARC/Akasofu 407 on the UAF Campus or online (see link above).

The International Conference on Geology & Earth Science creates a platform for experts interaction, simultaneously with networking opportunities and also provides an opportunity to explore the innovative ideas of the other communities, companies and associations.

Geoscience-2018 conference includes Plenary lectures, Keynote lectures and short courses by eminent personalities from around the world in addition to contributed papers both oral and poster presentations.

It aims to discover advances, practical experiences and innovative ideas on issues related to geology and earth science as well as a breadth of other topics. Don t miss this opportunity to connect with your peers at this scientific event. Your participation in the conference will enhance your knowledge and professional skills.
This International Conference on Geology & Earth Science is a gathering of experts, professionals, academicians and researchers from all over the world. Meet experts, strengthen and update your ideas at Geoscience-2018.

Scientific Sessions:

• Mineral Exploration
• Palaeontology and Palaeo-anthropology
• Soil Science
• Remote Sensing and GIS
• Issues in Global Warming and Climate Change
• Groundwater and Hydrogeology
• Forensic Geology
• Geochemistry and Economic Potential of Rocks
• Experimental Studies on the Genesis, Evolution and Ore Potential of Magmas
• Environmental Geology

Important dates:

Abstract Submission Opens: February 02, 2017 – March 31, 2018
Early-bird Registration: June 30, 2017 – January 23, 2018
Standard Registration: January 24, 2018 – May 02, 2018

Please see the link above for more information.

GEWEX, the Global Energy and Water Exchanges project, is holding its 8th GEWEX Science Conference from 6-11 May 2018 in Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

The 2018 GEWEX Science Conference is structured around the topic of challenges confronting our ability to understand and predict changes in climate extremes and the availability of freshwater under the complex factors of natural variability, forced climate change due to human activities, and human management practices such as dams, reservoirs, land cover changes, and agricultural management. The Conference will reflect research activities that advance the main themes of the GEWEX project and of the two WCRP Grand Challenges on “Weather and Climate Extremes” and “Water for the Food Baskets of the World.” The full call for papers can be found here.

The 2018 GEWEX Conference welcomes abstracts that are related to the themes mentioned, particularly on the following topics:

• Nexus of water, energy, and food
• Climate extremes
• Extreme weather
• Atmospheric modeling: atmospheric model parameterizations, physics-dynamics coupling, coupling of physical processes
• Land modeling: land parameterizations, model representation of land-climate interactions in present and future, coupling of physical processes
• Mountain and high latitude hydrology
• Global energy and water cycles

Abstracts for both themes of weather and climate extremes and water availability, as well as the themes of the GEWEX Panels described above, are welcome. Poster submissions are encouraged.

Important Dates:

• October 15, 2017: Registration and abstract submission opens
• December 18, 2017: Abstract and travel support requests due; deadline to apply for ECR Workshop
• January 15, 2018: Abstract acceptance notification
• January 22, 2018: Travel support notification
• February 1, 2018: Early bird registration closes
• April 3, 2018: Room reservation deadline at Coast Canmore Hotel

We are pleased to invite you to the 5th Polar Prediction Workshop. The workshop will take place at the Agora Hydro-Quebec (https://goo.gl/QNBksJ).

As in previous editions, the workshop will focus on:

• Polar predictability from subseasonnal to interannual timescales
• Sea ice prediction
• Operational and research efforts
• End user needs and the capacity of the scientific community to address them

In addition, reviews for the Sea Ice Outlook project and other initiatives related to polar predictions will be discussed. We also propose a new activity for 2018. An important outcome of the Workshop will be a consensus forecast statement synthesizing predictions of (i) September mean Arctic sea ice extent, and (ii) sea ice conditions during the Arctic shipping season for key regions plus the Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route shipping corridors.

Participants are invited to contribute to any or all of these forecasts and are encouraged to highlight these predictions in their presentations. More information on how to submit a forecast will be provided to interested participants.

Operational forecasters and forecast users are warmly invited to participate.

The registration and abstract submission deadline has been extended to April 13, 2018.

The 2nd SCAR Summer School on Polar Geodesy will be held at the Ladoga Base of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), in Ladozhskoe Ozero, about 70 km east of St. Petersburg, Russia. The summer school provides a concise course on geodetic ground‐based and satellite methods focussed on polar applications in combination with lectures on geophysics and glaciology. The school addresses master and PhD students as well as young scientists (age limit: 30 years) to draw their interest to polar research and to the cooperation of different geoscientific disciplines to carry out investigations both in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Deadline for application is 30 January 2018.

The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series brings 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.

This seminar titled “The Face of Climate Change in the Arctic: The National Media's Role in Public Disengagement” will focus on Arnold’s own experience and current research of media coverage on the human impacts of climate change in the Arctic.

Elizabeth Arnold is a former National Public Radio (NPR) Political Correspondent, an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Alaska, and the producer of arcticprofiles.com. For twenty years she was a familiar voice on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and a regular presence on PBS Washington Week, covering Congress, the White House, and the American West. Arnold has received numerous awards, including a duPont Columbia Silver Baton and the Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. Over the last decade, she has reported on the ecological and human impacts of global warming from some of the most remote areas of the Arctic. She is currently a Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy where she is researching the role of the press in effectively communicating climate change.

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.

Registration is required for this event.

This small symposium (40 participants) is intended to provide a unique opportunity to bring together molecular microbial ecologists specialized in different organism groups, share our latest results, and discuss methodological problems as well as the future prospects in the field, including practical international collaboration. The environmental focus will be on sea ice environments, but excellent research in other cryospheric environments is also invited. The methods to be discussed will focus on 'omics' techniques, ranging from single cells to metagenomes, but exciting research using additional methods will be considered as well.

Organizers: Dr. Eeva Eronen-Rasimus (Finnish Environment Institute) and Dr. Eric Collins (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Schedule:
Sun May 13 – arrive in Helsinki
Mon May 14 – morning: charter bus travel to Tvärminne; afternoon: sessions
Tue May 15 – sessions
Wed May 16 – sessions
Thu May 17 – sessions; afternoon: charter bus return to Helsinki

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Assoc. Prof. John Bowman, University of Tasmania, Australia
Academy Research Fellow Jenni Hultman, University of Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Thomas Mock, School of Environmental Sciences, UK
Prof. David Thomas, Bangor University, UK
Senior researcher Letizia Tedesco, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Senior researcher Hermanni Kaartokallio, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Registration fee: 150€
Transportation from Helsinki to Tvärminne, Shared Lodging at Tvärminne Zoological station (few single rooms available), Meals, and Sauna are included (Monday -- Thursday) in the registration fee.

Apply By: Wednesday, February 28
Decisions By: Wednesday, March 7
Registration Deadline: Friday, March 30

Organizers invite registration for the 2018 Arctic Summer Institute titled Arctic Law, Science, and Policy. This pass/fail, two credit or Certificate of Completion course will take place 18-22 June 2018 in Portland, Maine.

The goal of the course is to provide students with an interdisciplinary knowledge base and the tools to practically and responsibly participate in Arctic affairs.

Climate models predict that within ten years the Arctic will be virtually ice-free for at least several weeks during the year and the pace appears to be accelerating. Abrupt climate change is producing Arctic warming and generating new shipping routes, business opportunities, and access to resources in ways that affect states, Indigenous peoples, the Arctic environment, and more. Effective participation in this new Arctic requires a unique combination of knowledge and skills.

Course topics will include:

• Arctic science
• Law of the Sea
• Maritime shipping
• Geographic information systems
• Maritime history
• Indigenous peoples
• North Atlantic trade
• Governance and environmental Regulation
• Geopolitics and maritime security
• Arctic Public Engagement

Registration deadline: 15 May 2018.

The course provides a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. Topics include: continuum mechanics, sliding and hydraulics, numerical modelling, polar meteorology, ice-ocean interaction, ice cores, interaction of ice sheets with the solid earth, etc. The course is meant for Ph.D. students that work on a glaciology-related climate project. Some places are available for junior scientists.

The next Karthaus course will be held from 11 to 22 September 2018 in Karthaus (northern Italy).

Deadline for applications is 15 May 2018.

The King Sejong Station was established and inaugurated on King George Island in February 1988, after the Republic of Korea acceded to the Antarctic Treaty in November 1986. Since then KOPRI has continued to expand its research as well as to strengthen logistic capacities to support world class science, for example a research icebreaker, Araon and the second Antarctic Station, Jang Bogo in Terra Nova Bay as a platform for conducting continental Antarctic research. KOPRI has devoted its passion and commitment to explore the uncharted field of Antarctic research for over three decades. In commemoration of the scientific dedication over the years and celebrating the 30 year anniversary of King Sejong Station, the theme of the 24th International Symposium on Polar Science will be “30 years of footsteps in Antarctica: Looking back and looking forward”.

We would like to cordially invite you to share your knowledge and understanding as well as your perspective of future outlook on Antarctic research.

Following a successful launch, the second new-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-S, became GOES-17 and is currently in the test position of 89.5 degrees West longitude. This fall, the satellite will begin drifting to its new position at 137 degrees West longitude, where it will begin imaging as the operational GOES-West satellite this November. GOES-West will dramatically improve weather satellite imaging of Alaska, with four times more detail compared to previous generation geostationary weather satellites, even on the North Slope. This will enhance scientific studies and operational weather monitoring of Alaska for nearly a decade to come. This presentation will discuss the value of GOES-17, particularly the unique aspects and challenges for high latitudes.

Available in-person in IARC/Akasofu 407 on the UAF Campus or online (see link above).