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World Wildlife Fund and the Alaska Ocean Observing System are pleased to host the next in a series of conversations between Russian and Alaskan colleagues studying and observing fisheries in the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, and Arctic Ocean.

As climate change continues to transform habitats and food webs in this region, the goal will be to stimulate broader discussions about the need for more collaboration and identify opportunities to strengthen research and exchange of observations across the border.

The organizers welcome you to join this webinar to learn, listen, ask questions, and share your observations. Simultaneous English-Russian interpretation will be provided.

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

The Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium (ARICE) and Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) invite for a webinar on “Tracing Permafrost Carbon across the Beaufort Shelf - Satellites, Water, Microbes and Mud”.

The PeCaBeau (Permafrost Carbon on the Beaufort Shelf) project aims to track the movement and transformation of material from permafrost thaw along the land-to-ocean continuum. This multi-disciplinary effort investigates the sediment column between subsea permafrost and the seafloor, the water column, the atmosphere and the interfaces between these three units in the Beaufort Sea. By studying the sources, quantities and the quality of organic matter in the water column and in sediments, we aim to improve assessments of the Beaufort shelf as a carbon source or sink, and place these outcomes in the context of the Holocene paleo-environment and transgressed permafrost. Sampling operations took place in September 2021 on the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen funded by the ARICE program.

To join the webinar, please register using the link above.

Organizers announce a virtual launch party for the film Ice Edge.

Ice Edge chronicles a collaborative research project in Kotzebue, Alaska aimed at understanding changes in coastal sea ice through Indigenous and Western ways of knowing.

The launch will celebrate the film, discuss the research, and explore lessons that can inform efforts around the world to bridge local and Western science expertise and perspectives when tackling urgent challenges where the impacts of climate change are greatest.

For more information, please follow the link above.

USNORTHCOM “The Watch” Command Magazine and the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) would like to invite you to attend the January 2021 Arctic Academic eTalks on "Russian Arctic Militarization" with Dr. Rob Huebert and Dr. Katarzyna Zysk.

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.

Dr. Huebert and Dr. Zysk are scheduled to provide 15-minute presentations each which will be followed by a 60-minute Q&A session (non-attribution) that will be moderated by Elana Wilson Rowe, a research professor at NUPI and an adjunct professor at Nord University and Troy Bouffard, Director of the Center of Arctic Security and Resilience and Faculty Instructor at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks.

Please follow the link above for more information and to find the registration link.

This series of online discussions convened by AIMES, Future Earth, Earth Commission and WCRP aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. It supports efforts to increase consistency in treatment of tipping elements in the scientific community, develop a research agenda, and design joint experiments and ideas for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip).

The 60-90 min events are held monthly and feature presentations from scientists working on the frontiers of earth systems research.

This event will focus on the ice sheets:

• Introduction and moderation – Heiko Goelzer and Hannah Liddy (10min)
• Projections from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets: insights from IPCC AR6 – Sophie Nowicki (20min)
• Beyond gradual change: Tipping points in Greenland and Antarctica – Ricarda Winkelmann (20min)
• Questions and discussion (20min)

The final 20min has been reserved for informal discussions on the research agenda and the development of a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip).

The event will be recorded.

For more information, please follow the link above.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Network on Arctic Glaciology (NAG) invites you to an online meeting on Tuesday 25 January 2022. The meeting will start with three invited 30-minute presentations within the theme glacier – atmosphere interactions:

1. Masashi Niwano (Japan Meteorological Agency) - Rainfall on the Greenland ice sheet: Present-day states estimated from a high-resolution non-hydrostatic polar regional climate model
2. Carleen Tijm-Reijmer (Utrecht University) - The impact from large to small scale atmospheric processes on the surface mass balance of snow and ice surfaces
3. Jason Box (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland) - The wetter Arctic

After the presentations and a break we will continue with an open forum (~1 hour), where ongoing developments within the Network on Arctic Glaciology are discussed. This short online meeting is held instead of the physical meeting Workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers, that was scheduled for 25-27 January 2022 in Szczyrk, Poland, but has been cancelled.

In case you would like to attend the online meeting, please register at the link above.

In light of the recently concluded annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, a panel of leaders from the Commission will consider current challenges for fisheries management and prospects for establishing new marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean.

Moderator

Evan T. Bloom
Senior Fellow, Polar Institute;
Former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries and Director for Ocean and Polar Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Panelists

Jakob Granit
Chair of CCAMLR; Director General, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

Joji Morishita
Japanese Commissioner to CCAMLR; Professor, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

Jane Rumble
UK Commissioner to CCAMLR; Head of Polar Regions Department, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Alaska’s central and eastern interior (CEI), including the greater Tanana Valley and Yukon Flats, has consistently been the most fire prone area of the state during the last two decades. Toward operational and research applications, several surface fire weather indicators have been developed, such as the Buildup Index (BUI), and linked to CEI fire ignition, size, and spread. Beyond few analyses involving extreme fire years, studies have seldom examined the role of regional atmospheric circulation in modulating the region’s fire weather conditions through time. Moreover, modern forecast models’ skill in predicting such fire weather conditions is relatively low beyond a lead time of 10-14 days. This shortcoming creates numerous challenges for the fire managers attempting to mobilize resources for potential impacts. More complete understanding of atmospheric patterns and processes and their statistical linkages with fire weather at long-range weather-to-climate scales could thus be broadly useful to the fire community.

In this webinar, we will discuss historical relationships between regional atmospheric circulation and peak CEI fire weather conditions (e.g., BUI maxima) through the different fire season phases (i.e., wind, duff, drought, and diurnal periods) during the 1979-2020 period. We will first provide an overview of past fire studies conducted through a synoptic circulation framework. We will then introduce the updated Alaska Blocking Index (ABI), a metric that quantifies the overlying middle tropospheric flow. Subsequently, we will discuss the ABI’s associations, at weekly-to-monthly lead times, to intraseasonal peaks in CEI fire weather conditions. Case studies detailing ABI conditions preceding extreme fire years will also be summarized. We will conclude with a discussion of paths forward and potential applications of the ABI and other regional ocean-atmosphere indices toward Alaska wildland fire prediction at lead times out to the seasonal scale.

Please follow the link above for more information and to register.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium.

Update Nov. 8, 2021: We regret to inform you that due to growing uncertainties we have decided to cancel the in person IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology meeting and Workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers, which was planned to be held on 25-27 January 2022 in Szczyrk, Poland. We are currently exploring alternatives and an update on this will follow in the coming weeks.

The next IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology meeting and Workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers will be held in Szczyrk, Poland. The two-and-a-half-day meeting will be in-person at Hotel Meta, and we anticipate to also show presentations online via livestreaming or recordings (to be decided). The meeting will start around 9:00 in the morning on January 25 and finish around noon on January 27.

We welcome contributions on all aspects concerning the mass balance and dynamics of Arctic glaciers, including the Greenland Ice Sheet, and that utilize a broad range of methods, including field observations, remote sensing and modelling. In addition to this, the workshop will include a special cross-cutting activity on “Glacier-atmosphere interactions in a rapidly warming Arctic environment”, which aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum by bringing together glaciologists and atmospheric scientists.

Contributions in the form of oral presentations and/or posters are welcome. Presentation will be 15-20 minutes, including discussion. For those who bring a poster, time will be reserved in the program to give a short 2-3 minute introduction to the poster.

Please register for the meeting and submit your abstract deadline by 15 November, 2021.

Please follow the link above for more information.

The changing climate is influencing Alaska’s berries in many ways and many climate adaptation plans and risk assessments identify changes in berries as a concern. However, the observations of changes are often not shared broadly, and the scientific information on how berries are changing is hard to find. This interactive session will include 1) a brief overview of some of the changes being observed in our berry species and 2) and an opportunity to discuss berry observations, concerns, and ideas important to your community.

This discussion is part of a series of listening sessions on berries hosted by the Alaska CASC Tribal Resilience Learning Network and Alaska’s Berry Future project aimed at identification of research gaps and priorities to support communities who are interested in berry resources.

This series of listening sessions are intended to help share our observations and concerns about berries so that we can have a better understanding of the changes that are occurring and help identify what information is needed to plan for berry harvests in the future. Discussion will not be recorded, but notes will be taken with the goal of summarizing the discussions across the series of listening sessions and producing a report of the major themes that emerged. We will only record your ideas if you provide your consent, and will attribute your ideas to you and provide an opportunity for each attendee to review the draft report.