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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 University of Alaska Anchorage invites registration for a presentation by Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq (Iñupiaq, Noorvik), titled An Inuk in the Institution: Centering Clanwork and Community as a Matter of Course. This presentation will take place at the University of Alaska/Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library in Anchorage, Alaska and online via Zoom.

Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance. Space is limited for in-person attendance and masks are required.

Dr. Itchuaqiyaq is an Iñupiaq scholar from the NANA region and an assistant professor of professional and technical writing at Virginia Tech. Her parents are Gladys Pungowiyi (Wells) from Noorvik and the late Caleb Pungowiyi from Savoonga. She attended Kotzebue Elementary and Kotzebue Middle High School, and received her bachelor's from Harvard, her master's degree from Idaho State, and her doctorate from Utah State. Dr. Itchuaqiyaq's research centers on equitable and respectful academic practices, especially with regards to engaging with Indigenous communities and knowledges. She is the recipient of multiple academic distinctions and awards but her biggest honor is helping her people with their self-determined needs and aspirations. Currently, she is partnering with Aqqaluk Trust in Kotzebue to create an accessible and community-focused online archive that helps Inuit to preserve and rematriate cultural knowledges.

During the presentation, Dr. Itchuaqiyaq will share her journey as an Alaska Native scholar, from undergrad and PhD to university faculty. Her talk will explain how she has used her Iñupiaq identity and cultural knowledge as a lens to best understand her coursework and research.

To register to attend online, go to the Online Attendance Registration Form.

To register to attend in-person, go to the In-Person Attendance Registration Form.

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.

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.

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.

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

Connect to a Live Science Event in the Arctic! Join the PolarConnect event with Sarah Johnson and the International Arctic Buoy Program Team. Sarah and the IABP team will be calling in from Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Tell your friends, colleagues and family. Anyone with an e-mail address can register, and registration and participation is FREE!

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Biogeosciences Section is hosting a series of webinars addressing Safe and Inclusive Fieldwork, open to everyone, including those who aren’t members of AGU.

If you do field work or mentor people who do, this series is for you (and them)! Fieldwork presents inherent safety hazards (physical, psychological and emotional); can be unfamiliar or inaccessible; and can result in situations where you or team members are vulnerable to assault, harassment, or hostile environments and encounters. How can you prepare yourself, team or class for these risks? This virtual series will offer you resources and guidance to prepare for safety, respond to issues and help others.

Each event will stand alone, so please attend whenever you can.

AGU Frontiers in Safe and Inclusive Fieldwork (Webinar #1)

A conversation with AGU President Susan Lozier and AGU Senior Vice President Billy Williams. Share your questions, concerns and requests with our panel, and use real-time polling to guide future series content.

Moderated by B-Section President Margaret Torn .