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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 AES to challenge the status quo dialogue, critically address challenges, and collaborate on solutions.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs (OPP) announces a solicitation, and related webinar, on Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining).

The program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering (S&E) research and education and contribute to the nation's overall economic competitiveness and security.

This solicitation calls for innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum/instructional materials, along with deeper incorporation of CI professionals into the research enterprise—targeting one or more of the solicitation goals—to address emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in S&E research workforce development, from the postsecondary level to active researchers to CI professionals. The funded activities, spanning targeted, multidisciplinary communities, should lead to transformative changes in the state of research workforce preparedness for advanced CI-enabled research in the short- and long-term.

The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI; (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven methods for advancing fundamental research, into the nation’s undergraduate and graduate educational curriculum/instructional materials; and (iii) build communities of research CI professional staff to deploy, manage, and collaboratively support the effective use of research CI, as well as establish career paths for those staff within and across institutions and science and engineering (S&E) disciplines.

Prospective principal investigators (PIs) are strongly encouraged to contact the Cognizant Program Officers in CISE/OAC and in the participating directorate/division relevant to the proposal to ascertain whether the focus and budget of their proposed activities are appropriate for this solicitation.

A related CyberTraining webinar will take place 7 April 2022. The webinar will review the CyberTraining solicitation (NSF-22-574), including all three project classes, and the priorities of the participating divisions. There will also be time for questions.

Solicitation deadline: 16 May 2022.

The U.S. Arctic Research Commission will hold its 114th meeting virtually on April 6, 2022. The business sessions, open to the public for viewing, will convene at 8:30 am EDT with a public comment session scheduled from 12:00–12:30 pm EDT.

High North Dialogue is an annual conference bringing together major stakeholders concerned with Arctic development. The purpose of the event is to encourage and facilitate dialogue between stakeholders to promote sustainable development in the Arctic, as well as information sharing and discussion of best practices.

This year’s topic is The Great Shifts. The organizers will discuss Policy Shift, Demographic Shift, Green Shift, Governance Shift and Shift in Ocean Technology. These great shifts are all taking place in the Arctic and are influencing the Arctic. What do they all mean for the future of the High North, especially for young people?

The conference takes place both online and in the Stormen Library in Bodø, Norway. Registration is free.

Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Collaborations is hosting a listening session to share draft objectives under the Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026 for the STEM foundational activity, and to hear from the Arctic STEM Working Group.

The draft objectives of the listening session are to:

• Provide community access to information about available STEM internships, skills, and career pathways
• Gather feedback from communities
• Create a community of practice to promote STEM careers and skills for rural and Indigenous students
• ONE STEM hub

Panel discussions at the next ArcticX webinar will feature U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) leadership and national laboratory representatives detailing the challenges and opportunities of advancing business initiatives in the region. Speakers will discuss:

• How Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding can help meet rural Alaska’s unique needs.
• How DOE’s loan, advanced research, and small business programs are advancing clean energy.
• What factors to consider when moving clean energy technologies from the lab into the market.

This is the third and final webinar of the InnovationXLab series of events that will culminate with an in-person meeting in Alaska on May 23, 2022, co-hosted by the Office of Technology Transitions and the Arctic Energy Office.

North x North is an annual program of the Anchorage Museum that celebrates connection, creativity, imagination and innovation across Alaska and the Northern regions and convenes people worldwide for a discussion about possible futures and the potential of place, people, and planet.

The Museum’s North x North Festival will occur in collaboration with The Arctic Encounter and other community partners. The Festival will include art installations and creative workshops, and conversations, as well as film screenings in collaboration with the Tromsø International Film Festival. Just prior to the Festival the organizers will work with Stuart Hyatt on an album release for Stations. Stations is a sculptural installation by Hyatt that combines the scientific method with the creative process, engaging visitors with a new type of subterranean map––part of the Museum's Counter Cartographies project and series of exhibitions in 2021-2022.

The North x North Summit will be held in fall 2022, with conversations about future landscapes. The organizers will also connect throughout the year to creative practice and ideas.

North x North will also connect to the My Climate Object project in collaboration with the Climate Museum in NYC, the Australian Museum, the Natural History Museum (London), the Australian Museum, the Museum of Tomorrow in Brazil, the Nigerian National Museum, the Museum of the United Nations.

NASA’s long-running annual PARCA meeting is merging with the NSF GEOSummit meeting to become the Future of Greenland ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) Workshop. The first workshop, this spring, will be online only at no cost to participants. Subsequent workshops are anticipated at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023, at the University of Idaho in 2024, and at Dartmouth College in 2025.

FOGSS represents a refocus on the collaborative, community-driven spirit of early NASA PARCA and NSF GEOSummit workshops. The workshop’s mission is to identify and advise on medium-to-long-term priorities for U.S. research on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The organizers envision an open and interactive annual forum that advances this mission through assessment of the current state of knowledge regarding the Greenland Ice Sheet, especially on the unknown and poorly constrained processes impacting its mass balance, geophysical characteristics, and future behavior. Additionally, the organizers anticipate collaborative field research planning and the sharing of field best practices/COVID-19 responses.

The focus for this workshop is to discuss the future of Greenland Ice Sheet science. As such the organizers expect all participants, from students to senior scientists to participate in discussions about these future directions, and contribute during the workshop in preparing a guidance document for future ice sheet research. The organizers anticipate that, in advance of the workshop, participants will be asked to submit a very brief slide or slides giving their perspective on the big unknowns regarding the processes and mass change of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The organizers will not be soliciting traditional research talks regarding past or in-process research activities at this year’s workshop.

The workshop this year will take place over 3 days, for 3 hours each day. The workshop is scheduled April 6-8, from 1-4 pm EDT.

Please complete the Expression of Interest form by Monday, March 7, 2022.

Join the 'Icy Humanities: A Collaborative Symposium', a virtual symposium of roundtable discussions with Arctic humanists and glaciologists. This event represents a collaboration of Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute, the International Glaciological Society’s Symposium on Ice in a Sustainable Society (ISS), and the University of Bristol’s School of Geographical Sciences. Please register to attend.

Session I: Icy Humanities 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
SPEAKERS: Prof. Mia Bennett (University of Washington); Prof. Mark Carey (University of Oregon); Siobhan Mcdonald (Artist); Zachary Provant (University of Oregon).

Session II: Glaciology and Society 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET
SPEAKERS: Rebecca Dell (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge); Prof. Sérgio H. Faria (Basque Centre for Climate Change); Prof. Mark Jackson (University of Bristol); Sarah Tingey (University of Bristol).

The Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES) Conference will take place virtually 1-3 September, 2022.

Climate change is any change in the temperature or water levels that affects Earth for a long period of time. Humans today are experiencing rapid and unexpected changes in temperature where we witness hotter weather and sudden severe storms. However, the impacts of climate change do not stop at hotter temperatures. The rising temperatures that result from the burning of fossil fuels cause the melting of ice glaciers and the increase of water levels. On the other hand, drought in other regions causes changes in the subterranean layers of Earth due to the absorption of water from these layers. According to an article by NASA, these changes in the water levels are one possible reason behind sudden earthquakes due to the changes in the tectonic movements of Earth layers.

Rising oceans threaten the flooding of coastal cities like Alexandria, Miami, and Tokyo, which will result in the sudden and unplanned displacement of people. This affects the physical and mental health of human beings, causes the loss of crops and shortage of food supply, and disturbs the ecological system due to the loss of certain animal or plant species.

The first edition of the International Conference on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES) in 2021 discussed the effects of greenhouse gases on Earth’s temperature and global warming. This year, the conference’s second edition will take these previously-discussed pressing issues forward as well as tackle the new threats that arise every day.

The conference is a chance for scientists and researchers from around the globe to excavate solutions for the new threats as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which develop due to climate changes and try to figure out the reasons behind them. IEREK welcomes participants with various scientific backgrounds to gather and find solutions to save our planet Earth.

Abstract submissions deadline (extended): 05 April 2022.
Full paper submission deadline: 03 July 2022.