Past Events

We would like to invite you to the ISMIP6 workshop "Developing process-based projections of the ice sheets’ contribution to future sea level" to evaluate the output of the CMIP6 climate models and obtain forcing for standalone ice sheet model experiments. This workshop will be key for establishing the experimental protocols for the ice sheet model simulations that target the IPCC AR6 report.

Scientific program:

The program will start Tuesday morning at 9:00 and end Thursday noon at 12:30. Most participants (from outside the Netherlands) will arrive Monday evening.

Registration is now closed.

The Sea Ice Prediction Network–Phase 2 (SIPN2) will convene an open webinar titled An Overview of MOSAiC: The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate. This webinar will provide an overview of the interdisciplinary international MOSAiC program and ongoing work on the causes and consequences of an evolving and diminished Arctic sea ice cover.

Webinar Program:

MOSAiC is a large interdisciplinary international program addressing an overarching question of "What are the causes and consequences of an evolving and diminished Arctic sea ice cover?" The centerpiece of MOSAiC is a year-long drift experiment from September 2019 to September 2020. In MOSAiC, models are being used to inform observations and observations will be used to enhance models. MOSAiC is taking an interdisciplinary approach with elements investigating the atmosphere, ice, ocean, ecosystem, and biogeochemistry. Observations will be conducted on three primary scales; the central observatory (5 km), the distributed network (50 km), and the large scale (1000s km). This presentation will give an overview of MOSAiC, with special attention on the sea ice program.

Webinar Speaker:

Don Perovich is a Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. His research is focused on the geophysics of sea ice, with particular emphasis on electromagnetic, thermodynamic, and morphological properties. A central element of his work is observing and understanding the role of the sea ice albedo feedback in the Arctic climate system.

More details, including registration instructions, will be announced closer to the event. The webinar will be archived and available online after the event.

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

WTC Anchorage launched the Arctic Ambitions Conference in 2011 in response to growing interest by Alaskan companies, and companies from around the world, in opportunities now, and in the future, for commercial development in the Arctic. At Arctic Ambitions VII, WTC Anchorage will outline its concept for positioning Alaska as an Arctic center for international business. This year's event will feature two special panels: Asia in the Arctic and Alaskan Native Corporations in the Arctic.

The 25th annual West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop will be held this September at Stony Point Center in Stony Point, NY, followed seamlessly by the Thwaites Glacier Program meeting. The WAIS Workshop begins Sunday late afternoon, September 16 and ends with a 1-1/2 day section on Thwaites and Pine Island Glacier and the planned Thwaites Glacier
Program. On Wednesday afternoon, the discussion will turn to the Thwaites Program preliminary research and coordination, concluding Thursday with discussion on logistics for the future proposed field seasons. (The Thwaites awards have not yet been announced.) Please consider the relevance of these later sections to your own work when planning your stay.

Registration fees have not yet been determined, and we welcome people to attend both meetings or the one of most interest. More information will be shared in the coming months through this list.

The 2018 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference will be joined in the organisation and hosting of the event by the Estonian Environment Agency, the national provider for weather and climate services in Estonia.

The conference date is very fitting as it coincides with the celebration of the Centenary of the Republic of Estonia.

EUMETSAT has organised a meteorological satellite conference every year for over thirty years. During that time, the conference has become a key annual event for the meteorological and scientific communities where participants from around the world can meet to share their experience and knowledge during plenary, poster and workshop sessions.

The 2018 conference will discuss such topics as preparing for MTG and EPS-SG, atmospheric chemistry monitoring and applications, and climate and ocean monitoring. The conference location also lends itself to discussions on the topics of observations for the Baltic Basin, as well as Arctic monitoring and applications.

Further conference topics will incorporate developments in current and future meteorological satellite programmes, data access and nowcasting and high-resolution NWP.

Abstract submission: 1 December 2017 – 31 January 2018.

The week will feature the "Second International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction (S2S)", the "Second International Conference on Seasonal to Decadal Prediction (S2D)" as well as a joint segment addressing coming issues.

Aims and objectives:

i) to bring together the scientists, producers, and users who are at the forefront of S2S and S2D prediction and related research, development, and application areas to foster the exchange of information and knowledge between the communities towards more seamless subseasonal to decadal predictions;
ii) to highlight the current level of progress and accomplishments in S2S and S2D predictions;
iii) to identify the challenges for transitioning S2S and S2D prediction research efforts into operations;
iv) to review current abilities to make skillful predictions on timescales of interest;
v) to identify new initiatives, collaborations, and emerging science questions

Weather and climate variations on subseasonal to decadal timescales can have enormous social, economic, and environmental impacts, making skillful predictions on these timescales a valuable tool for policymakers. As such, there is a growing interest in the scientific, operational, and applications communities in developing forecasts to improve our foreknowledge of events. On S2S timescales, these include high-impact meteorological events such as tropical cyclones, floods, droughts, and heat and cold waves. On S2D timescales, while the focus broadly remains on similar events, e.g., precipitation, surface temperatures, and upper ocean heat content and their effects on the probability of these types of meteorological events, deciphering the roles of internal and externally-forced variability in forecasts also becomes important. The S2S and S2D communities share very similar, if not identical, scientific and technical challenges. These common challenges include forecast initialization and ensemble generation; initialization shock and drift; understanding the onset of model systematic errors; bias correction, calibration, and skill assessment; model resolution; atmosphere-ocean coupling; and linking research, operations, and users.

This meeting is open to all scientists, producers, and users involved in subseasonal to decadal climate predictions and related topics, including graduate students and early career scientists.

The 2018 Polar CORDEX Meeting is organized with the financial support from the funds of the Leading National Research Centre (KNOW) received by the Centre for Polar Studies for the period 2014–18, the World Climate Research Programme, and the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project.

Overall workshop objectives:

The primary goal of the meeting is to review the status of on-going Polar CORDEX activities and to plan and coordinate future activities. First results of the pre-MOSAiC intercomparison based on ACSE2014 observations and next steps will be discussed. This will be a joint Arctic- and Antarctic-Polar CORDEX meeting, enabling participants from both communities to benefit by interacting closely. There will be plenty of time for discussions. All research groups that have started or are planning to contribute to Polar CORDEX activities, either by performing simulations or analysing Polar CORDEX data, are welcome to give presentations on their activities.

Preliminary Agenda:
Some initial ideas for sessions are for the following topics:

• Model evaluation
• Coupled modelling
• Process based studies
• Projections
• Impact studies
• Future activities/plans
• Stakeholder/user engagement

Registration:

Please register for the 2018 Polar CORDEX meeting by filling out the registration form at: http://bit.ly/2EuEk8Z

If you are giving a presentation, then please send a title and short abstract to Marzena Osuch, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences at: marz[@]igf.edu.pl

The deadline for registration is 15 September 2018.

The conference will bring together around 200 Arctic stakeholders including representatives from local, regional and national authorities from the European Arctic and beyond, Arctic indigenous peoples and the EU institutions. Discussions will be organised around the following themes: Arctic connectivity, leveraging investment in the Arctic, financial support for Arctic regional cooperation and science.

The emphasis will be on EU funding and international cooperation but we are sure that the Conference would be relevant for scientists from an Arctic-network and community-building perspective.

The Arctic is changing rapidly and is increasingly high on the international agenda. It is our joint responsibility to protect the fragile Arctic environment for future generations whilst promoting the sustainable development of the region.

In response to these developments, the European Union has developed an integrated policy on the Arctic. Engagement with Arctic stakeholders is one of the cornerstones of the EU's Arctic policy, adopted in April 2016 by the European Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

It is for this reason that the European Commission will be organising the 1st Arctic Stakeholder Conference “Knowing, developing and connecting the Arctic” in Brussels on 17 September 2018.

The conference will be opened by Commissioner Karmenu Vella, responsible for the EU's Arctic policy, and will bring together around 200 Arctic stakeholders including representatives from local, regional and national authorities from the European Arctic and beyond, Arctic indigenous peoples and the EU institutions.

The purpose of the conference is to follow-up on the recommendations formulated in the final report of the Arctic Stakeholder Forum which identified investment needs and priorities for the sustainable development of the Arctic region. Discussions will therefore be organised around the following themes: Arctic connectivity, leveraging investment in the Arctic, and financial support for cross-border cooperation and Arctic science.

Moreover, the 2018 edition of the annual Arctic indigenous peoples Dialogue will also take place on the occasion of the conference. In order to enhance synergies and generate discussion, the Dialogue will be organised as a conference session open to all.

The Arctic-FROST research coordination network is pleased to announce the availability of travel awards for Early Career Researchers to attend The Fifth Arctic-FROST network meeting and Early Career Scholars Workshop.

Arctic-FROST: Arctic FRontiers Of SusTainability: Resources, Societies, Environments and Development in the Changing North is a new NSF-funded international interdisciplinary collaborative network that teams together environmental and social scientists, local educators and community members from all circumpolar countries to enable and mobilize research on sustainable Arctic development, specifically aimed at improving health, human development and well-being of Arctic communities while conserving ecosystem structures, functions and resources under changing climate conditions.

The theme of the Annual Meeting and Early Career Scholars Workshop is on Community Sustainability in the Arctic. Papers could deal with (1) Indigenous and local communities and organizations approaches to sustainable development, (2) sustainable development within policy frameworks at regional and local levels, (3) models of collaboration between regional, local and Indigenous governing entities for sustainable development.
The main focus question of the conference is “What models of collaboration among researchers and regional and local governments and Indigenous organizations can lead to sustainable development in the Arctic?”

All participants:
(1) Will present their work at the Annual Meeting (all papers/presentations will be published online and considered for inclusion in the Arctic-FROST edited volume and/or in Polar Geography)
(2) Will participate in discussions and round tables with leading sustainability science researchers
(3) Will participate in the Workshop activities immediately following the Annual Meeting

Eligibility: an applicant shall be:
(1) early career scholar (5 years since PhD) or current graduate student;
(2) Arctic-FROST network member by registering at www.uni.edu/arctic/frost
(3) prepared make an oral presentation on the subject related to sustainability and/or sustainable development in the Arctic or Sub-Arctic regions at the meeting and
(4) available to participate in all conference and workshop activities.

We accept applications from eligible applicants from all countries, disciplines and institution types. Applications from Indigenous scholars and Arctic residents are especially encouraged.

Funding: Arctic-FROST will cover full cost of attendance including travel and accommodations normally up to $3,000. Typically funds will be paid after the travel is completed; based on the reimbursement claim. The participants will be expected to comply with NSF travel requirements.

Application Deadline: April 20th, 2018.

Application: submit extended abstract of your paper (500-750 words), short biosketch (1 page), statement of interest in workshop participation (1 page), register as Arctic-FROST member at www.uni.edu/arctic/frost

Send your applications and inquiries to ann.crawford [at] uni.edu and andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu (copy to both emails).

Arctic Domain Awareness Center at the University of Alaska and Trent University, Peterborough Ontario, jointly welcome participants to the North American Arctic Maritime and Environmental Security Workshop, University of Alaska Anchorage, Gorsuch Commons Center. The purpose of the event is to gather Arctic minded experts from government, operators, academics and industry principally from Canada and the U.S. to collaboratively assess security and provide solutions focused on the North American Arctic maritime region, including environmental and human security. The workshop will include plenary panels and breakout discussions to facilitate assessment and identify actions to mitigate risk and improve North American Arctic Maritime and Environmental Security. The "so what" of this workshop, is to build on prior discussions and assessments (much of which is contained in a preparatory Literature Review), and create a framework of actions that policy and decision makers can leverage.

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. We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center's forecast for October and the early winter season.

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

Available online or in-person at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, 407 IARC/Akasofu building, 12:00pm AKDT, 4:00pm EDT.

Summary:
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.

Abstract:
In recent years the northern Bering Sea and southern Chukchi Sea have undergone a reduction of sea ice and warming seawater temperatures. Time-series environmental and biological studies indicate faster seasonal sea ice retreat over the last five years in comparison to the previous 25 years, with 2018 having the highest bottom water temperatures in the record, and also setting a new threshold for sea ice minima. At the same time, dominant bottom dwelling animals (clams, amphipods and polychaetes) that are food for diving sea ducks, gray whales, and walruses are declining in biomass and where there is still high biomass, these prey patches are contracting northward. These time series studies are being accomplished as part of the Distributed Biological Observatory, which is an internationally coordinated effort that is generating seasonal and interannual data to better understand this changing ecosystem.

Speaker Bio:
Jacqueline Grebmeier is a Research Professor at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in Solomons, Maryland. She studies the connections among sea ice coverage, water column processes and seafloor organisms. Jackie has been undertaking process oriented ecological studies in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas for more than 30 years.

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.

Following on from the "15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry" Symposium in 2006, and the "20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry" Symposium in 2012, both deemed a very successful landmark by the participants and the readership of the Proceedings, we have now reached the 25-year anniversary of the first supply of ERS-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon data products to the Altimetric Community.

To mark this occasion the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the French Space Agency, CNES, is organising an exceptional Symposium on "25 years of Progress in Radar Altimetry". This event will be sponsored by other partner agencies and organisations supporting the development of altimetry. Along with this symposium, related events will take place in the same week which includes the annual meeting of the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST) and the International DORIS Service (IDS) Workshop.

You are kindly invited to submit your abstract(s) not later than 1 March, 2018.

Please follow the link above for more information.

The PhD course is aimed at PhD students and junior postdocs who conduct ice core analysis or are users of ice core data (glaciological, oceanographic, climate modelers, earth scientists). ICAT aims to educate a new generation of ice core researchers and foster a collaborative environment for future glaciological projects.

This course will educate young scientists regarding new methods developed for the analysis of ice cores with regard to climate research, with dedicated theoretical and laboratory exercise sessions.

LECTURES INCLUDE:
Margit Schwikowski, Carlo Barbante, Johannes Freitag, Thomas Blunier, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Christine Hvidberg, Paul Vallelonga, Mai Winstrup, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Bo Vinther, Helle Astrid Kjær, and more…

APPLICATION:
Submit your application by June 1st 2018. You will be notified of the decision of the Selection Committee by July 1st, 2018.

Follow the link above for more information.

The Symposium will cover a wide range of cryospheric topics. It is expected that presentations will describe results of recent investigations devoted to the main key issues of present-day glaciology. Each oral presentation will be allowed 20 minutes, including discussion. Working languages are Russian and English (no simultaneous translation will be provided). Abstracts of presentations should be addressed to Muraviev Anton Yaroslavovich (muraviev [at] igras.ru) not later than, June 01, 2018.

All potential participants (including non-presenters) are invited to register on-line before June 1, 2018.

Please follow the link above for more information.

Application Submission Deadline: All applications to the 2019-2020 PolarTREC program need to be submitted, online, by Monday, 24 September 2018.

PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) is currently accepting applications from both educators and researchers for the PolarTREC program.

Applications for a field-based research experience in the polar regions for 2019-2020 will be accepted from both U.S. informal science educators as well as formal U.S. classroom teachers (teaching in grades 6-12). Informal educators should have the primary focus on outreach to middle and high school students and/or professional development for their teachers. Applications will be to participate in field research learning experiences during the 2019 (usually Arctic) or 2019-20 (usually Antarctic) field seasons. The application deadline is Monday, 24 September 2018.

Important: Final selection for this round of applications is pending funding from the National Science Foundation. We will keep all applicants informed of our funding status.

We need researchers! Researchers that work in the polar regions are encouraged to submit an application to host an educator during the 2019-2020 field seasons.

More information about candidate criteria, application forms, researcher application questions, and program requirements for both teachers and researchers are available at: http://www.polartrec.com

This workshop will include discussion of hypotheses that can be tested by scientific drilling in the region, the technology necessary to achieve those goals, ideal sites for drilling based on existing data, and where additional site survey data is needed. The goal of the workshop organizers is that multiple proposals will be initiated at the workshop, both for full cruise legs and for shorter, targeted expeditions around the following themes: ocean gateways, geohazards, volatile cycling, ice histories at transition zones, biosphere and climate.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites applications for the Coastlines and People (CoPe) Scoping Sessions, three regional workshops and one virtual workshop, held concurrently. These sessions will convene from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on 26-27 September 2018, and 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on 28 September 2018.

Workshop sites include San Diego, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia, with a fourth virtual workshop held on mountain time. Due to the highly interactive nature of these workshops, attendees must be present for the full duration of the sessions.

The goals of these scoping sessions will be to better understand the research priorities related to advancing understanding of the impacts of coastal environmental variability and natural hazards on populated coastal regions, and to identify priorities for research initiatives focused on coastal regions.

NSF encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, institution types, and career levels. Individuals with expertise on coastal research focused on the Great Lakes are also encouraged to apply.