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Originally planned: 18-22 October 2021, postponed to 25-29 April 2022.

The successful MOSAiC expedition collected terabytes of data and thousands of samples during the year of the expedition. Now, more than one year after the end of the expedition, a large meeting is being organized to present and discuss the scientific results. The “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” will be held from 25 to 29 April 2022 on the Telegrafenberg campus in Potsdam, Germany. The organizers hope to host an in-person meeting but they are planning a fully hybrid setting with strong online participation options, allowing everyone to adapt to any situation.

The “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” addresses the whole MOSAiC community and offers the chance to present preliminary experimental and modelling results and to enhance the interaction and interlinkages between the different disciplines of the coupled Arctic climate system. Supporting this, the meeting offers platforms to develop future analyses and publication strategies, support and foster connections to other groups and disciplines and to identify and develop joint projects. The meeting will advertise the unique data sets and attract the big modelling centers. In such a way the “International MOSAiC Science Conference/Workshop” will function as a big step towards the improvement of the sea ice and weather forecast and regional and global climate models.

The organizers envision a meeting concept that combines aspects of a conference and a workshop with sessions for oral and poster presentations and a great number of breakout sessions for detailed discussions. Therefore, the meeting offers plenary sessions in the beginning to inform generally about the scientific status of MOSAiC and breakout sessions for the individual MOSAiC Teams. In addition, there will be parallel sessions following the character of a conference with scientific oral and poster presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday. For those sessions, abstracts can be submitted. Furthermore, towards the end of the week, it is planned to have breakout sessions that allow detailed discussions. Many topics are already defined, but there will be capacity to spontaneously develop breakout sessions to respond to topics that will come up during the meeting.

Registration and Abstracts

The organizers would like to encourage new colleagues within MOSAiC related projects to attend the conference who started after the registration in 2021. The registration website will reopen by 1st of March 2022 and new registrations are possible until 31 March 2022.

Abstracts for talks can be submitted and will be used to fill free slots if any become available. New abstracts for posters are welcome as well. Abstracts to the proposed sessions can be submitted until March 31 2022.

USNORTHCOM “The Watch” Command Magazine and the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) would like to invite you to attend the March2021 Arctic Academic eTalks on "Greenland-Denmark-U.S. Defence Relationship Panel" featuring panel of distinguished speakers:

• Sara Olsvig, Greenlandic Indigenous Leader and Former MP, Parliament of Denmark
• Henrik Gram Pedersen, Head of Center for Arctic Security Studies, Royal Danish Defence College
• Dan Torweihe, Arctic Desk Officer, NORAD and USNORTHCOM/J5

The organizers would like to recognize their Global Partners including United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) United States European Command (USEUCOM), and United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), for supporting the Arctic Academic eTalks speaker series.

The Arctic Academic eTalks is a bi-monthly forum for open discussion in key issues affecting the Circumpolar Arctic for academics, defense and security professional, and military leaders from Canada, Finland, Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and Germany.

The panellists are scheduled to provide 10 minute presentations each which will be followed by a moderated 60-minute Q&A session (non-attribution).

Please register to attend at the registration link.

The Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is a biennial summit that aims to provide guidance based on the best available knowledge for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long-term (decades) operation of an international network of Arctic observing systems.

The AOS provides a platform to foster international communication and the widespread coordination of long-term observations aimed at improving understanding and responding to system-scale Arctic change. The AOS is an international forum for optimizing resource allocation through coordination and exchange among all involved or interested in long-term observing activities, while minimizing duplication and gaps.

The Executive Organizing Committee for AOS 2022 is seeking community input, in the form of short statements, that will help guide discussions during the Thematic Working Group sessions.

Community input can highlight important data, management, or logistical needs or gaps, explore emerging opportunities, address a current challenge, present new initiatives or technology that can contribute to Arctic observing (including global programs), or review on-going observing activities or issues that are relevant for the development, application, operation, or support of a sustained Arctic observing network.

Important Dates

• Short statements – deadline extended to January 31, 2022.
• Poster abstracts – January 31, 2022.

Themes

A changing Arctic disrupts the environment from the local to the global scale. Rapid change threatens Indigenous livelihoods, communities, ecosystems, and the global climate system. AOS 2022 focuses on how sustained observations can contribute to well-being and better understanding of rapid Arctic change to build resilience and inform responses from the local to the global scale.

Conference sub-themes to support the overarching theme, Arctic observing at the intersection of health, understanding, and resilience:

• Sub-Theme 1: Food Security
• Sub-Theme 2: Regional to Global Observing
• Sub-Theme 3: Data Sharing
• Sub-Theme 4: System Integration (SAON ROADS)
• Sub-Theme 5: Utility and Benefit
• Sub-Theme 6: Capacity Building

Please join the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility as they gather feedback from the science community on ARM's radar strategy during a series of four radar listening sessions in March and April 2022. Hosted by ARM Instrument Operations Manager Adam Theisen, each session will feature a different topic related to ARM’s radar instrument suite. The sessions also will provide an opportunity for the ARM community to give feedback on ARM’s radar operations.

Radar Listening Session Topics:

• March 2: State of the Radars
• March 16: Southern Great Plains
• March 30: North Slope of Alaska
• April 13: Eastern North Atlantic

The second workshop of the QuIESCENT Arctic (Quantifying the Indirect Effect: from Sources to Climate Effects of Natural and Transported aerosol in the Arctic) programme will take place in Tromsø, Norway as part of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW). It is supported by the IASCAtmosphere Working Group and the PACES initiative.

Please note that the ASSW 2022 will be a hybrid event, with both in-person and online participation planned. The second QuIESCENT Arctic workshop will therefore also operate in this manner, and additional registration for the ASSW 2022 business meetings will be required.

This second workshop aims to build on cross-disciplinary bridge between aerosol and clouds, physicists and chemists, and observations and models, and scientists from all perspectives of this research question are encouraged to attend and contribute. The workshop will continue to focus on the role of transported air pollution in Arctic aerosol-cloud interactions, as the climatic effects of increasing industrialisation within the Arctic circle and transport from the polluted mid-latitudes are not well understood; however, these processes must be considered against an understanding of the evolving natural baseline of the Arctic aerosol budget.

Registration deadline: 18 March 2022.

The Conference on Innovations in Climate Resilience, presented by Battelle in collaboration with DOE National Laboratories, offers a curated technical program with invited keynote presentations, platform and lightning talks and a poster reception.

The organizers are expecting an audience of government leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators to explore breakthroughs in technology, science, policy and infrastructure that will help mitigate the threats to our environment, health, communities, national security and economic well-being from a changing climate.

Conference themes include:

• International Climate Risk Analysis and National Security
• Resilient Infrastructure: Energy, Water, Communications, Transportation, and Building
• Nexus of Resilience and Ecosystem Restoration: Carbon Capture, Circular Economy, Water, and Land
• Health Resilience, Risks, and Interventions
• Innovations in Climate Resilient Food and Agriculture

Organizers also continue to accept abstracts. Abstract submission information can be found on the conference webpage. There is limited capacity, so it is important that prospective participants submit abstracts as soon as possible so they can be included in the initial review. The abstract submission portal will remain open until program capacity is reached.

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: 11 February 2022.

Update: PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE COVID-19 WAVE, THE SUMMIT IS BEING POSTPONED. Please check the Arctic Rivers Summit website for updates as the organizers work on rescheduling the summit.

The Arctic Rivers Summit will be an in-person workshop to discuss the current and potential future states of Alaskan and Yukon rivers and fish and how we can adapt. The Summit will bring together up to 150 Tribal and First Nation leaders, community members, managers, and knowledge holders, western scientists, federal, state, and provincial agency representatives, academic partners, non-governmental organizations, and others. The Summit is being held as part of a five-year Arctic Rivers Project funded by the National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic Program.

The Arctic Rivers Project is co-led by the University of Colorado-Boulder and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and both the project and Summit are guided by an Indigenous Advisory Council. Additional project partners include the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Waterloo, and the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals. The project began on January 1, 2020, and runs through December 31, 2024. The ​project seeks to weave together Indigenous Knowledge, climate, river, and fish modeling, and monitoring data to develop Narratives of Change across the Arctic landscape to support resource and community adaptation.

The three-day Summit will take place at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage. A variety of COVID-19 precautionary policies will be in effect including a vaccine requirement to attend. The organizers will continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic situation and will adjust plans for the Summit to prioritize the safety of our Elders and Summit participants.

The Summit has three main goals:

• Exchange knowledge about current and potential future conditions for Alaskan and Yukon rivers, fish, and people and ways we can adapt.
• Inform the Arctic Rivers Project modeling of climate, river flows, river ice, and fish to make data generated as useful as possible for communities.
• Develop an action plan centered around the: (1) Status of Salmon, (2) Status of Rivers, (3) Partnering Indigenous Knowledge with Western Science to Inform Management, (4) Youth and Elders: Building a Bridge of Traditional Knowledge.

Are you interested in learning more about how you might benefit from and contribute to activities related to the Ocean Decade Arctic Action Plan? Would you like to play a role in shaping how activities related to the Plan are structured in the future? Can you help make sure that relevant voices are heard in this process? Join the Advancing Arctic Observation and Data Actions within the U.N. Ocean Decade Plan to continue the conversation, virtually or in-person at ASSW.

This event will serve as a forum for discussing how to implement the Ocean Decade - Arctic Action Plan, specifically focusing on how to advance observing and data actions within the Arctic/UNDOS plan.

The UN has declared a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (‘Ocean Decade’, UNDOS) for 2021-2030. In June 2021, the Ocean Decade - Arctic Action Plan was published. As the document reads, the “…target group for the Plan is broad, including the general global public and Arctic Indigenous and local Peoples but it is also relevant for strategic work that supports ocean science…” and “…the rights holders and other stakeholders are key actors in the global Ocean Decade given their role as decision makers at diverse jurisdictional levels, and are thus expected to take the initiative forward…” (10).

The plan identifies three types of challenges: research challenges, organizational challenges, and uptake challenges. One of the solutions suggested is to “observe the state of Arctic environments and development trends in near-real time supported by information services that are tailored to the needs of Indigenous peoples, science, environmental management and industry. This includes co-designed sustained observation programmes…” and, among other things, the “establishment of a distributed pan-Arctic observation programme.”

This event will serve as an opportunity to further discuss:

• how implementation of these solutions can be undertaken, specifically in reference to Arctic observation and data;
• mechanisms for evaluating and addressing the progress of the Arctic Action Plan, such as that currently undertaken by IASC in the form of the development of a task force
• possible input that may be provided to such a task force, once developed
• aspects that need broader community buy-in in order to prioritize initial concrete, actionable activities
• how to address the challenge of predicting future change in a way that meets stakeholder needs

Please see the background documents related to the workshop for more information.

Registration

Registration is encouraged but not required at the registration page.

If you are unable to attend the workshop, but would like to offer input or be included in future events related to this topic, please fill out the registration form and select “I am not able to attend, but would like to be included in future communications about the Ocean Decade Arctic process”.

Participants may join in person in Tromsø, or remotely. The organizers recognize the challenges for many participants given the time zone differences, so the plenary sessions of the workshop will be recorded for any who are unable to attend. This will also be the first of multiple sessions oriented around prioritizing actions and activities related to the Ocean Decade Arctic Action Plan.

The first hour of the session will be a designated "watch party" of pre-recorded presentations giving background on the Ocean Decade, the Arctic Action Plan and key Arctic research initiatives. You may also opt to watch these recordings on your own time prior to the workshop; links to recordings will be provided closer to the workshop date. The remaining three hours of each session will consist of a mixture of breakout rooms and plenary discussion.

Update: While the COVID-19 situation in Europe is worsening, the organizers are still hoping to be able to welcome most of you to Tromsø in March 2022. The local organizing committee will make a final decision regarding the format of the ASSW latest February 15, 2022. The organizers will offer online participation irrespective of the COVID-19 developments.

UiT the Arctic University of Norway, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and the Research Council of Norway, are pleased to invite you to the Arctic Science Summit Week and the Arctic Observing Summit 2022, taking place in Tromsø, Norway.

During Arctic Science Summit Week 2022 (ASSW2022) there will be three days dedicated to IASC & Arctic business and science community meetings (26-28 March); ASSW 2022 will also feature the 6th Arctic Observing Summit.

The application deadline for business and science community meetings at ASSW2022 is 30 September 2021. The entire Arctic community is encouraged to use ASSW as a venue for bringing together their organizations, collaborations, and teams. ASSW organizers provide the logistical support and your meeting attendees only have to register for ASSW2022 and show up. As ASSW 2022 will be organized as a hybrid conference, both opportunities for in-person and online meetings will be offered during the conference.

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) was initiated by IASC in 1999 to provide opportunities for coordination, cooperation and collaboration between the various scientific organizations involved in Arctic research and to economize on travel and time. ASSW is now an annual venue for meetings of Arctic organizations, scientific collaborations, and more.

Please fill out this form to request an in-person and / or online space and we will do our best to accommodate your request. The application deadline is 30 September 2021, and a draft program is expected to be ready in mid-November.

Important Dates

• 15 January 2022: Call for short statements for the AOS 2022
• 30 January 2022: Call for abstracts for poster session AOS
• 30 January 2022: Call for abstracts for Science Day poster session
• 1 February 2022: Registration opens

In this informational webinar and Q&A session, speakers will provide an overview of ACCAP’s (Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy) new Small Grants Program, which aims to build resilience and climate adaptation capacity in regional and statewide nonprofit organizations serving Alaska Native peoples. This new program will provide funding support for activities that enhance the capacity of nonprofit organizations to meet the needs of Alaska Native peoples in the areas of response, resilience, and adaptation to climate change. This webinar will include a Q&A session for prospective applicants.