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The Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) Community Office invites you to a Filmmaking Workshop with Ryan Vachon.

Interested in knowledge translation and techniques for science communication? Join producer, script writer, videographer, and editor Ryan Vachon (Provare Media) for a 90-minute filmmaking workshop. Ryan will work with attendees to identify a project mission statement, provide methods for storyboarding and communication, discuss camera and audio gear, approaches to filming, and provide an overview of basics in editing. Limited capacity.

Questions? Contact Ryan at ryan.vachon [at] colorado.edu

High Arctic Polynyas in a Changing Climate will be a 2-day international hybrid workshop held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Polynyas provide biological oases in the polar regions and their formation is influenced by the complex interplay between atmospheric and oceanographic forcing, as well as geographical setting. Reconstructions and observations demonstrate these phenomena were and are vulnerable to the impacts of changing climate in the Arctic; the question remains as to their viability (and how to predict this) in the future.

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together researchers from the paleo-community (working with e.g., marine and lacustrine proxies) and the modelling community to consolidate existing knowledge through a combination of short talks and poster presentations. Open format panel discussions will aim to identify emerging perspectives and challenges in arctic polynya research as well as areas for synthesis, collaboration, and opportunities for data-model assimilation.

Please indicate your interest in attending via email to Rebecca Jackson rjac at geus.dk indicting 1) whether you will be attending in person/online, 2) preference of poster/short talk and 3) a brief abstract (350 words max.).

The extended deadline for abstracts is 9 November 2021, after which the workshop schedule and details will be announced.

Participation in the workshop is free of charge and there is limited financial support for travel for early career researchers from abroad wishing to attend in person.

The Wilson Center's Polar Institute is pleased to co-sponsor the 14th Polar Law Symposium, which will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Polar Cooperation Research Centre (Kobe University, Japan), Polar Law Institute (University of Akureyri, Iceland), Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law – Arctic Centre (University of Lapland, Finland), University of the Arctic and its Arctic Law Thematic Network (Finland).

Mr. Evan T. Bloom, Senior Fellow, Polar Institute, will join a panel entitled, "Polar ocean governance through the two marine ecosystem/fisheries agreements," in which he and Dr. Joji Morishita, Professor, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, will provide insights on the future directions of the 1980 Convention for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and 2018 Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean.

The Polar Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (PRB / NASEM) will hold its Fall Board Meeting as a series of online sessions as shown below. If you are interested to join any of these sessions, please register at the link provided.

November 15 (3-5pm ET). This session will include: (i) discussions with select federal agency polar program leaders about current priorities, opportunities and challenges; (ii) updates on developments in international polar science cooperation through IASC and SCAR; (iii) updates on recent/current PRB (and related NASEM) activities.

November 19 (2-5pm ET). This session will explore current developments, and possible opportunities for new PRB efforts related to: (i) assessment of health risks/concerns for Arctic-region populations; (ii) prospects for expanding science cooperation in the Russian Arctic.

November 30 (3-5pm ET). This is a joint session with the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) and Ocean Studies Board (OSB) on “Tipping Points in the Climate System”. We will consider scientific advances made since the last major NASEM study on this topic (in 2013) and explore what new Academies activities could help advance scientific understanding and public communication about this concept.

More information about the NASEM Polar Research Board can be found here.

The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for December and winter season. Join the gathering online to learn more about Alaska climate and weather.

Please follow the link above to register.

Update: The Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the Polar Research Center in cooperation with The Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Polar Consortium jointly organise the 38th International Polar Symposium "Environmental changes in polar regions: New problems - new solutions" to be held on 18-20 November 2021.

Note: The 38th International Polar Symposium was originally scheduled to take place October 15-17, 2020, and then May 13-15, 2021.

The Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the Polar Research Center in cooperation with The Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Polar Consortium jointly organise the 38th International Polar Symposium.

The IPS is a recurrent bi-annual scientific conference on widely understood polar topics. The conference has been very popular within the research communities in Poland and abroad for years. Now it gives again a great opportunity to exchange experiences, to discuss and to integrate experts from various fields who conduct their research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and elsewhere in the world.

The IPS in 2020 is exceptional, since accompanied with a plenary meeting under an umbrella of the European Polar Board. We expect researcher from numerous countries, who will be participating in special topic sessions.

Last but not least, the 45th anniversary of the NCU Polar Station on Spitsbergen will be celebrated during the IPS.

Update: ACCAP has rescheduled VAWS webinar, A Tale of Two Ice Floes . The webinar had to be pushed back one day due to a scheduling conflict with one of the speakers. It will now occur on November 18th at 11am AKST. Those who have already registered do not need to re-register and can use the original link. Those who are unable to attend the webinar on this new date can find the recording posted to the webinar webpage after the event.

During the winter of 2019-2020, two drifting ice floes, thousands of miles apart, formed the temporary homes for two different Arctic operations. In late 2019, the icebreaker Polarstern was frozen into sea ice in the Central Arctic as the centerpiece of the year-long MOSAiC expedition. And, in February 2020, an ice camp was established roughly 150 miles offshore in the Alaska Beaufort Sea as the base of on-ice activity for the U.S. Navy’s biennial ICEX exercise. In this webinar, we will discuss the weather and ice conditions at each location and how this impacted the science and logistics. In the process, we will introduce some of the science that was carried on these two ice floes and reflect on how the unexpected weather and ice conditions can create challenges, but also offer new insights.

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

On behalf of USNORTHCOM and the Command’s “The Watch” Magazine, United States European Command (USEUCOM), United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), and the Center for Arctic Security and Resilience (CASR) - University of Alaska Fairbanks, would like to invite you to the November 2021 Arctic eTalks distinguished speaker presentation on "United States Arctic Interests: Managing Security Through Diplomacy" by James P. DeHart, U.S. Coordinator for Arctic Region, U.S. State Department.

The Arctic eTalks is a monthly forum for open discussion (non-attribution, Chatham House Rule) 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.

This event is presented along with our valued Arctic eTalks supporters at the United States Department of State.

Mr. DeHart is scheduled to provide a 30-minute presentation with slides which will be followed by a 60-minute Q&A session (non-attribution) that will be moderated by Mr. Constantinos Nicolaidis, Senior Advisor, Office of the U.S. Coordinator for the Arctic Region (S/AR) and Ms. Gabriela Arias Villela, Public Diplomacy Officer - Nordic, Baltic, Arctic Office of Press and Public Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State.

A.4 Terrestrial Ecology ABoVE Phase 3 requests proposals for Phase 3 of the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE Phase 3) and is open to previous members of the ABoVE Science Team and to scientists wishing to become involved for the first time. NASA seeks proposals that make significant use of remote sensing data to improve understanding of the vulnerability and resilience of ecosystems and society to environmental change in the Arctic and boreal regions of western North America. The overall focus of ABoVE Phase 3 is on:

(a) Synthesis activities that combine multiple data sets to analyze the vulnerability and resilience of Arctic and boreal ecosystems in the ABoVE domain, across North America, and across the circumpolar region.
(b) Integration of research results and remote sensing data from ABoVE into a coherent modeling framework to diagnose and predict the impacts of environmental change on ecosystem dynamics and the consequent impacts on ecosystem services and society.
(c) Filling critical research gaps in our understanding of how environmental change impacts the dynamics of boreal and Arctic ecosystems within the ABoVE domain.

ROSES-2021 Amendment 32 releases final text and due dates for A.4 Terrestrial Ecology ABoVE Phase 3. Notices of Intent are requested by September 15 and the due date for proposals is November 17, 2021.

On or about August 16, 2021, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2021" (NNH21ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2021 and will appear on SARA's ROSES blog at: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-202…

Please join us as we gather Arctic researchers from across New England to pursue NEAN goals to:

1) Provide a forum for sharing the wealth of expertise in Arctic research and engagement across New England
2) Anticipate and respond to links between Arctic change and the eastern coast of North America.

The theme of this event will be "Engaging North Atlantic communities on issues of Arctic change." The morning will invite speakers to share context specific practices for community engaged research followed by a discussion of cultural changes within our teams and institutions needed to support co-production of knowledge. In the afternoon, the UNE-North team will guide participants through facilitated network-building exercises, encouraging participants to share their stories, motivations, and expertise in order to identify connections and strengths in how NEAN can best promote community-engaged research.