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Save the date: 2024 All Scientist Meeting

The Permafrost Carbon Network is excited to announce the return of the in-person all scientist meeting, for the first time since 2019. Mark your calendars for Sunday, December 8th, 9:00 am–5:00 pm, in Washington, DC, before the start of AGU 2024. Stay tuned for the agenda and meeting location.

Webpage will be added when available.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) invites you to join our monthly series on Thursday December 5, 2024 at 9:00 am AKT. This fall, our webinar series addresses using big geospatial data and remote sensing for community planning applications across permafrost regions.

December 5, 2024
Alaska Tribal Landfills: Permafrost Data Needs
Speaker: Sela Tahiry, Environmental Protection Agency

Zoom link and more information: https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Stay-Connected

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Jessica Mejia (Syracuse University). The presentation, titled Cracks in the Ice: Using observations and models of crevasse growth to understand the transport of water to the base of glaciers and ice sheets, will be held via Zoom on Thursday, 5 December 2024, 9:00-10:00 a.m. AKST.

Seminar Abstract:

The Greenland Ice Sheet is a major contributor to global sea level rise, driven by both increased melting and dynamic ice discharge into the ocean. While often treated separately, these processes are interconnected because when surface meltwater flows into crevasses—cracks on the ice sheet surface—they can hydrofracture through the entire ice sheet and reach the bed. Once surface meltwater reaches the ice-bedrock interface it can modulate subglacial water pressures, the structure of the subglacial drainage system, and influence ice dynamics.

In this talk, Jessica will focus on recent work understanding these hydraulic connections. First, she will discuss how far inland these hydraulic connections can extend into the ice sheet’s interior using coupled observational, remote sensing, and modeling applied to the firn aquifer on Helheim Glacier in southeast Greenland. Next, Jessica will discuss in situ observations of crevasse opening and what it means for firn aquifer drainage. Finally, she will discuss some modeling work applied to rapid hydraulically driven fracture propagation from the fast drainage of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Registration is required for this event. Instructions for accessing the webinar will be sent to registrants prior to the event.

The National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Tokyo, Japan, is pleased to announce the 15th Symposium on Polar Science, taking place
from December 3rd to 5th, 2024. This annual event, organized by the NIPR, offers a platform to showcase and foster a broad spectrum of polar
scientific research and interdisciplinary studies. We warmly invite you to actively participate and look forward to your valuable contributions.

For details, please visit the site below.

https://www.nipr.ac.jp/symposium2024/

Symposium schedule
3 - 5 December 2024

In early August, online registration and abstract submission for the symposium will begin.

Presentation Style and Language Guidelines
The symposium will include both oral and poster sessions. Oral sessions will be conducted in a hybrid format, allowing in-person and online
participation. Poster sessions will be held exclusively on-site at the symposium venue. The official language of the symposium is English.

Join the discussion on how social science research can shape the future of Arctic infrastructure. Panelists Saas Ksenofontov (Sakha, Postdoc at the University of Northern Iowa), Olga Povoroznyuk (Postdoc at the University of Vienna), and Peter Schweitzer (Professor at the University of Vienna) will share opening thoughts, followed by group discussion.

Questions for discussion include the following:

• How from your perspective and experience can social science contribute most effectively to Arctic infrastructure research?
• What does good community-engaged social science look like?
• What are barriers to integration of qualitative data with other data?

Webinar will be streamed on Facebook Live: https://fb.me/e/4eZfsphAX

Hosted by Hannah Bradley (University of Virginia) and the CRAFT Research Coordination Network (Co-creating Research for Just Arctic Future Infrastructure Transformations, Resilience, and Adaptation).

Join the CRAFT Network Facebook Group here: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/zr4GiBaFD9SGwE2E/

More information about CRAFT and the NNA-CO Infrastructure Futures Convergence Working Group can also be found on their webpage:
https://sites.google.com/colorado.edu/nna-cwg/meet-the-cwgs/infrastruct…

The International Polar Foundation and its many Arctic stakeholder partners would like to cordially invite you to take part in the 15th edition of the Arctic Futures Symposium in Brussels, Belgium.

The main symposium will take place on December 2nd and 3rd at the Residence Palace, located at Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 155, 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

Side events to the symposium will take place until Wednesday, December 4th.

This year's Symposium will focus on:
The Arctic Council: A Practical Vision Moving Forward
Transatlantic Cooperation in the Arctic in 2025 and Beyond
Keeping the Arctic an Area of Low Tension
Building and Maintaining an Arctic Workforce and Resilient Arctic Communities
Innovation and Regional Collaboration to Meet Arctic Challenges Sustainably
Critical Raw Materials and Resource Supply Chains: Tensions and Trade-offs
The Arctic Futures Symposium promises to deliver lively discussions on Arctic issues.

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

You may also find at the confirmed speakers and draft outline of the programme on the website.

Rick Thoman will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, discuss forecasting tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for December 2024 and the winter season. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Join this informational webinar on Friday, November 22, at 1:00 PM EST to learn more about the Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem (GEO OSE) program. This webinar will review the new GEO OSE solicitation (NSF 25-506) and provide time for Q&A. The GEO OSE program seeks to support sustainable and networked open science activities to foster an ecosystem of inclusive access to data, physical collections, software, advanced computing, and other resources toward advancing research and education in the geosciences. The purpose of this support is to broadly enable geoscientists to leverage expanding information resources and computing capabilities to address interdisciplinary grand challenge research questions at the forefront of the geosciences.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) announces their next IARPC Public Webinar Series event focusing on the launch of the Arctic Research Implementation Plan 2025-2026. This webinar will take place 21 November 2024, 9:00-10:00 a.m. AKST.

Join IARPC for a webinar premiering the updated implementation plan for the Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026. This implementation plan provides specific actions that IARPC and its member agencies will take through 2026 to promote research aimed at improving community resilience and well-being, advancing scientific understanding of climate change and ongoing changes in the Arctic system, creating more sustainable economies and livelihoods, and improving risk management and hazard mitigation. This webinar will provide an overview of what has changed from the previous implementation plan, what is continuing on, and how to get involved.

For more information, go to: https://www.iarpccollaborations.org/events/25887

Save the date. Information and link to registration are forthcoming.