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Inspiring Girls Expeditions is inviting applications for its summer 2022, tuition-free, backcountry science and art education programs.

The expeditions are open to 16-18-year-old high school girls. Alaskans are encouraged to apply, and expeditions target youths who may have experienced barriers accessing science and outdoor-focused programs. Cis and trans girls, as well as gender-nonconforming and nonbinary youth, are welcome.

Participants are selected through a competitive application process that focuses on passion for science, art and the outdoors rather than academic grades or past achievements.

The program is run through the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center, with additional funding from the Alaska Established Program for Stimulating Competitive Research.

The 2022 expeditions will include mountaineering on the Gulkana Glacier, sea kayaking in Kachemak Bay and packrafting on the Chena River. Teams of nine girls spend 12 days exploring glacier terrain, intertidal zones or boreal forests while gaining a greater understanding of ecosystem connections in each of these environments.

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You must register and start your application by January 24, 2022. Applications are due no later than 9 a.m. Alaska time on January 31, 2022. The application due date is one week later than the registration date so that there is enough time to provide support to applicants who are finishing up their applications in the final week before January 31.

The Arctic Centre will host a Winter School, aimed at (inter-) national civil servants and policy makers, politicians, managers, financial experts, (young) academics and PhD students who are looking for a nuanced and wide-ranging understanding of the Arctic. The theme of the Winter School is Our connection with a fast-changing Arctic. From 24-29 January 2022, lectures, discussions and group work will take place in which topics related to the theme will be addressed from an integrated perspective on a sustainable society. Participation can be a crucial asset to many public- and private-sector employers with operations in the Arctic.

Theme

Global warming is most prominent in the Arctic with visible changes in ice and snow and enormous challenges for ecosystems and people to adapt to the new situation. Loss of the Arctic as we know it, coincides with new development in this area on conservation, cooperation, economic development, governance and security. Sustainable solutions require multidimensional knowledge and a prudent approach when coming from outside the Arctic, as new business opportunities should take account of the sensitivities of the natural environment and local and indigenous people.

Participants will be introduced in the conditions experienced and adaptations exhibited by Arctic inhabitants, as the effects of global warming are more severe and noticeable in the North. Changing weather patterns, sea level rise and sustainable socio-economic developments, are also relevant for the rest of the world. With a variety of experts, we will discuss the present predictions and future consequences of climate change. In this respect, the Arctic can be seen as a living laboratory for a broad range of societal challenges.

Lectures

During the week, there will be lectures in the morning and discussions and assignments in the afternoon. There will be general lectures, but also tailormade assignments, based on the needs and expertise in the group and active discussions with experts. We expect that the participants will do some homework before each session. All sessions will be from 9:00 till 17:00 hrs. With a social gathering afterwards on Monday and Friday.

General topics addressed in the lectures:

• Climate Change (climate forcing gasses, arctic amplification, ice caps and sea level rise, polar vortex, mitigation and adaptation)
• Arctic ecosystems (sea ice as platform for life, permafrost, carbon pools, trophic mismatch, species extinction, grazing)
• The indigenous peoples of the Arctic (Overview of the different indigenous peoples in the Arctic, colonial history and decolonial actions, Indigenous peoples as rights holders)
• Governance and science cooperation (UNCLOS, treaties, wilderness concept, pollution)
• Sustainable development and business (Arctic Economic Forum, tourism, shipping, natural resource exploitation, economic development)

Application

Interested parties can applicate by filling in the form below, no later than 27 September 2021. Each application will be assessed carefully. In total 20 applicants will be selected to take part in the Winter School. You will be informed no later than 4 October 2021 whether you have been selected. The final program will also be announced that day.

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

The Alaska Marine Science Symposium (AMSS), Alaska’s premier marine research conference, has been bringing together scientists, educators, resource managers, students, and interested public for over twenty years to discuss the latest marine research being conducted in Alaskan waters. Over 700 people attend this 4-day long conference held annually during the month of January.

Each day of the conference highlights important Alaskan marine ecosystems: Gulf of Alaska (Tuesday), Bering Sea & Aleutian Islands (Wednesday), and the Arctic (Thursday). Research topics discussed range from ocean physics, fishes and invertebrates, seabirds, marine mammals, to local traditional knowledge. Since its inception, NPRB has been a proud sponsor and one of the leading organizers of AMSS.

Since the Alaska Marine Science Symposium is virtual this year, we would like to invite proposal submissions for virtual panel discussions.

Our theme this year will be on Planning, Adaptation and Response to Climate Change. In the past several years, Alaska has experienced unprecedented marine heatwaves in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea, increasing coastal erosion, receding glacier extent, permafrost loss and other changes, all of which have had profound effects on Alaska marine ecosystems and coastal communities. Under Climate Change, we expect increased climate variability, marine heatwaves are expected to increase in frequency, intensity and duration. We encourage panel topic submissions that not only explore changes that have occurred in recent years but examples of proactive efforts that are underway to tackle the challenges we are now facing and how people are planning for the future.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 October 2021.

Online registration deadline: 20 January 2022.

Update: The AMS 102nd Annual Meeting (sessions, town hall meetings, short courses, posters, exhibits, and side meetings) will be held virtually. The Student Conference remains hybrid!

The theme for this 102nd Annual Meeting: “Environmental Security: Weather, water, and climate for a more secure world” has come together thanks to the hard work of the Overall Planning Committee, John Lanicci and Gina Eosco (co-chairs), Andrea Bleistein, Roger Pulwarty, and Eileen Shea.

The Overall Planning Committee and Program Chairs seek input from our community when setting the scientific and technical program. Please provide your input by submitting a Session Topic Proposal by 1 April. Submitters will be notified a few weeks later regarding the acceptance status of Topic Proposals. Your User Portal provides a list of entries/submissions (such as topics or abstracts you have submitted) OR on which you are the presenting author. Please refer to the guidelines before submitting a Topic Proposal.

We are closely monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on our in-person attendance and are reviewing options for virtual components of the meeting. We encourage you to visit the 102nd AMS Annual Meeting FAQ and website often to stay up to date on the latest news.

Abstract deadline extended to 8 September, 2021.

Rick Thoman will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for February 2022 and the early spring season. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

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To register for this Zoom Webinar please visit the link above.

NAADSN will be hosting a Book Roundtable on Debating Arctic Security: Selected Writings by Rob Huebert and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, 2010-2021. The book can be found here and on the landing page.

This event will feature discussion with the authors, Dr. Rob Huebert (Associate Professor, University of Calgary and NAADSN Coordinator) and Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer (Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North at Trent University and NAADSN Lead) moderated by Dr. Kari Roberts (Associate Professor of Political Science at Mount Royal University in Calgary and NAADSN Member). Joining us as discussants is Dr. Heather Exner-Pirot (Senior Policy Analyst, Macdonald Laurier Institute and NAADSN Coordinator), Dr. Suzanne Lalonde (Professor of International Law, Université de Montréal and NAADSN Coordinator), Dr. Will Greaves (Assistant Professor, International Relations at the University of Victoria and NAADSN Coordinator), and Ryan Dean (PhD. Candidate at the Department of Political Science, University of Calgary and NAADSN Fellow).

The Glaciers & Sea Level CT kicks off 2022 with overviews of two recently concluded NASA polar airborne missions. Josh Willis (NASA JPL) will share lessons learned from the groundbreaking Oceans Melting Greenland airborne and seagoing mission. Joe MacGregor (NASA GSFC) will share lessons learned and highlights from NASA’s decade-plus-long Operation IceBridge mission, which bridged the gap between ICESat and ICESat-2 that launched in 2018.

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The Consular Office of Japan in Anchorage will host the Arctic Online Symposium, “Hokkaido-Alaska Cooperation Surrounding the Arctic.”

The Arctic Online Symposium will focus on cooperation between Hokkaido and Alaska in various fields surrounding the Arctic Circle, and features presentations from leading scientists and Arctic leaders from the United States and Japan.

The Symposium will be held on Zoom in English, and is open to scholars, scientists, officials, university students, businesspersons and all those interested in Japan-Alaska cooperation.

Presentation topics include:

• Geological accessibility and dinosaur research
• Research and development activities
• Northeast and Northwest Passages
• Utilization of marine resources
• Indigenous people’s perspectives

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 in the series focuses on permafrost.

• Introduction and objectives of the webinar – Victor Brovkin and Claire Treat (5min)
• Permafrost and climate change – what are we observing ? – Hanne Hvidtfeld Christiansen (20min)
• The Permafrost Carbon Feedback and potential tipping points - Gustaf Hugelius (20min)
• Questions and moderated discussion (20min)

The final 25min have been reserved for informal discussions on the research agenda and the development of a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip).

For more information, please follow the link above.

After two pandemic-related cancelations, the Sixth International Summer School in Glaciology organized by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) / Oslo University, will (hopefully) be held in McCarthy, central Alaska, from 7 to 17 June 2022 (just before the IGS Symposium on Maritime Glaciers, to be held in Juneau, Alaska, 19 - 24 June; https://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2022/juneau2022).

The summer school will provide a comprehensive overview of the physics of glaciers and current research frontiers in glaciology with focus on quantitative glaciology and remote sensing. The course is open to 28 graduate students from around the world targeting primarily early stage PhD students who perform glacier-related research. It will be taught by faculty of UAF’s glaciology group and several invited guest instructors from outside Alaska.

Application deadline: 15 January 2022.