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The Alaska SeaLife Center is pleased to announce nominations are now open for the 2022 Alaska Ocean Leadership Awards.

These awards are given annually to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to the awareness and sustainability of the state's marine resources.

Nominations for these awards are open now through December 10, 2021.

QRA 2022 will be an in person event, held in Sheffield, United Kingdom 5-7 January 2022, with the option to join an online audience.

Abstract submission deadline extended to 9 December, 2021.

We invite abstracts on the following session themes:

• Glacial-interglacial climate and environment reconstruction
• Modelling ice masses
• The depositional and erosional imprint of ice on the landscape
• Glacial to interglacial sea level change
• Dating glacials
• The response of flora, fauna and humans to changing ice masses
• Using the Quaternary record to decipher glacial processes

Please follow the link above for more information.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites you to a Navigating he New Arctic (NNA) proposal writing workshop. For this two-hour workshop, the first hour will consist of an overview of the NSF review process and Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts criteria, as well as share most common mistakes made by investigators when submitting a proposal. The second hour will be structured around breakout rooms with NSF program officers.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) marked a new and unique Congressional approach to Federal Indian policy. In an effort to resolve land claims, ANCSA mandated the creation of regional corporate entities that Congress termed “Alaska Native corporations.” While corporations by name, these entities had a purpose beyond profit: promoting the social, cultural, and economic advancement of their Alaska Native shareholders and communities in perpetuity. This summer, an U.S. Supreme Court case on CARES Act funding reaffirmed that the difference between Alaska Native corporations and Tribes was one of nomenclature rather than rights.

Over the last 50 years, Alaska Native women have played an integral role in ANCSA’s implementation and evolution, guiding their communities and organizations through times of challenge, change, and triumph. Today, Alaska Native women work in all levels of Alaska Native corporation leadership, including nearly half of the 12 regional corporations’ president and CEO roles.

Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, along with ANCSA Regional Association and Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, to hear from Alaska Native women leaders how they guided ANCs through their early years and how the organizations evolved to serve the needs of their Alaska Native communities.

Introduction

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski
U.S. Senator for Alaska

Moderators

Michael Sfraga
Chair & Distinguished Fellow, Polar Institute // Chair, US Arctic Research Commission

Kim Reitmeier
Executive Director, ANCSA Regional Association

Panelists

Gail Schubert
President & CEO, Bering Straits Native Corporation

Liz Qaulluq Cravalho
Vice President of Lands, NANA Regional Corporation; Commissioner, U.S. Arctic Research Commission

Rosita Worl, Ph.D.
President, Sealaska Heritage Institute

Join IARPC and the National Science Foundation for a program manager chat focused on the Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) program. NNA program officers will provide an overview of the recently released solicitation, highlight major changes, review goals of the NNA program, and answer questions.

NSF staff present will include Jesus Alvelo Maurosa, Greg Anderson, Bradley Barker, Eve Boyle, Roberto Delgado, Mamadou Diallo, Irina Dolinskaya, Sylvia Edgerton, Siobhan Mattison, Xoco Shinbrot, Colleen Strawhacker, and Jonathan Wynn.

Preregistration is not required. Please follow the link above for more information and to register.

The Roscongress Foundation, the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation would like to invite you to join the online conference “Russian-Canadian Cooperation in the Field of Sustainable Development of the Arctic Region”.

The conference is scheduled to be the second event in the series of ten conferences on bilateral Russian cooperation with Arctic and Non-arctic states in the area of sustainable development within the framework of ThinkArctic Project, organized by the Roscongress Foundation, the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, and the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation. ThinkArctic Project will be conducted within the Programme of the Russian Chairmanship in the Arctic Council 2021–2023.

Please follow the link above for more information.

The Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR) at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń announces their upcoming webinar, titled A Fleet of Silver, Come to Torment Us: Sea-ice Variations Off the Coasts of Iceland from the Settlement to the Present, featuring Dr. Astrid Ogilvie, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the CCCR.

Webinar Abstract

Using primarily documentary historical evidence, this presentation will consider variations in sea-ice incidence off the coasts of Iceland from when the country was first settled (ca. AD 871) to the present day. There will be a particular emphasis on periods of little ice (e.g., ca. 1640 to 1680 and the present day) and periods of much ice (including the early 1600s, the late 1600s, the 1750s, and the 1880s). The mainly negative societal impacts caused by the presence of the ice will also be considered. This presentation will consider sea ice as "the country's ancient enemy," as evoked in the poem Hafísinn or "Sea Ice" which describes the ice as beautiful, but deadly, as suggested in the line from the poem quoted in the presentation title.

The International Polar Foundation and its many Arctic stakeholder partners would like to cordially invite you to take part in the 12th edition of the Arctic Futures Symposium on December 6th and 7th both in-person in Brussels, Belgium, and online.

For those interested in attending in-person, the venue will be the Martin's Brussels EU Hotel, located at Boulevard Charlemagne / Karel de Grootstraat 80, 1000 Brussels.

It will also be possible to join the event online. The link to join online will be sent to all registered participants.

This year’s symposium will focus on:

• Arctic governance issues
• Youth, demographics and labour force
• Soft security issues related to climate change impacts
• Sustainable entrepreneurship and business development

The Arctic Futures Symposium promises to deliver lively discussions on Arctic issues.

You may register for the symposium on the Arctic Futures Symposium website at the link above.

The Forum of Young Leaders ICE is a single platform for the development of international youth cooperation among the countries of the Arctic region.ABOUT FORUMWithin the Forum young leaders of the Arctic will create their projects, the best of which will be included in the Roadmap of international youth events until 2023.

Participating countries include Russia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the U.S.

Registration is open until October 22nd.

The ArcticNet ASM is the largest Arctic Science Conference in the world. This is your opportunity to join the global network of research leaders, contribute to the Arctic research conversation at the ArcticNet ASM2021 and help shape the future of innovative and excellence Arctic research.

We are pleased to be hosting a wide range of Topical Sessions covering a breadth of Arctic research, including in the natural, social, and health sciences. This year’s conference abstracts will be published by Arctic Science Journal in the ASM2021 Book of Abstracts.

This is an opportunity for researchers to present their work with the Arctic research community, including colleagues, collaborators, and decision-makers, with an expected 1500 attendees.

We are accepting abstract submissions until August 29, 2021.

View the list of topical sessions, find the guidelines, stay up-to-date about the conference and submit presentations or e-poster abstracts on the ASM2021 conference website at the link above.