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The U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Interior, and the White House invite registration for the upcoming webinar on ArcticX, an InnovationXLab series of events that explore the Arctic's crucial yet largely untapped potential as a living laboratory of clean energy innovation. This kickoff marks the first in a series of four virtual events, culminating with an in-person InnovationXLab in Alaska in May.

ArcticX will showcase an interagency cross section of U.S. leadership in energy innovation and commercialization. It will highlight the resourcefulness that defines this traditionally underserved but strategically important region. Join diverse Arctic stakeholders, including Alaska Natives, industry entrepreneurs, university and laboratory researchers, and government leaders in crucial discussions.

Hear from Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, White House representatives, and U.S. Department of Energy leadership.

Speakers will convene to discuss:

• Build Back Better for Alaska
• Capacity building, workforce issues, and energy justice
• Leveraging federal agency expertise and resources for technology transfer and commercialization
• Transportation needs for remote access, including transportation electrification
• Energy Transition – pathways to sustainable energy systems that address requirements for power, heat, and mobility

Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit is Finland’s main regular international Arctic conference, organized biannually since 2013. The event is being planned as a hybrid-event, with both on-site and virtual attendees and speakers. 

A special feature of this year’s event is that the public launch of the Finnish chairmanship of the Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) will take place at our event. As we aim to be a dedicated event on Arctic issues we are delighted to host the festivities. In collaboration with the Finnish ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit aims to offer this year’s participants an opportunity to learn more about the work done by BEAC and discuss the perspectives of Arctic regional, people-to people level co-operation. We hope to welcome representatives from all regions active in the Barents Regional Council (BRC) to this year’s event. 

Under the theme “A common Arctic or contested spaces? Focus on European Arctic” this year’s conference will explore subjects such as regional co-operation, Arctic security, European Union in the Arctic and land use from several perspectives.

The discussions on Arctic security will be hosted by our collaborator FIIA, and the Arctic Society of Finland will host a session on EU Arctic policies and Finland’s new Arctic strategy. The University of the Arctic (UArctic) will also be collaborating with us on bringing in speakers on Arctic issues.

This year’s event will have a significant input from the Horizon2020-funded research projects ArcticHubs, CHARTER and JustNorth. These collaborators will facilitate discussion on contested spaces in the North, as we will be exploring land use from the perspectives of just transition and climate change. The session includes presentations from both researchers and stakeholders.

Special Guest: Senator Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senator of Alaska

Dr. Victoria Herrmann, White House Fellow and President of The Arctic Institute, is also joining the conversation along with SVP. Heather Conley from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This event is hosted by the World Affairs Council in Orange County, CA.

This will be a free Zoom event with a 40-minute moderated conversation followed by a 15-minute audience Q&A.

Please follow the link above for more information.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) in cooperation with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) are inviting applications for the IASC Fellowship Program 2022.

The IASC Fellowship Program is meant to engage early career scientists in the work of the Working Groups (WGs) of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC): Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Marine, Social & Human and Terrestrial. This year, we will offer 6 IASC Fellowships:

• one IASC Fellow will be chosen per IASC WG
• one IASC Indigenous Fellow: Based on recent recommendations from the IASC Action Group on Indigenous Engagement, IASC has expanded its Fellowship Program to include space specifically for Arctic early career Indigenous scholars. The IASC Indigenous Fellow can choose which IASC WG to get engaged in.

ASC Fellows are doctoral or postdoctoral researchers, who actively participate in selected activities of the IASC WGs. Fellows are expected to contribute scientifically and also to help organize specific activities and to help with reporting to the IASC Secretariat. Thus, the Fellowship Program provides the opportunity for ECSs to become involved in leading-edge scientific activities at a circum-Arctic and international level, to build an international network, and also to develop management skills. The level of involvement very much depends on the Fellow's interest - the more you invest, the more you get out of it!

The total duration of the IASC Fellowship Program is 1+2 years. Bookending their first year, the Fellows will receive travel support to attend two consecutive Arctic Science Summit Weeks (ASSWs) where the annual WG meetings are held. After this year, Fellows have the opportunity to stay involved for up to 2 more years without dedicated funding support from IASC. Note: The travel support during the first Fellowship year is the only financial remuneration for the Fellows. Salary is not included during the Fellowship.

Application deadline is Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 13:00 GMT. Late applications will not be considered.

Please follow the link above for more information.

This discussion series 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).

This discussion series is a joint activity of the Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) global research project of Future Earth, the Earth Commission Working Group 1 Earth and Human Systems Intercomparison Modelling Project (EHSMIP) under the Global Commons Alliance and the Safe Landing Climates Light House Activity of World Climate Research Program (WCRP).

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

The 5th International Conference on Earth Science & Climate Change with the theme “Sustainable Development in Earth Sciences and Abrupt Climate Change” will cover a wide range of critically important sessions. Earth Science Conference is diagram to bring collectively all leading earth scientists, geologists, climate change researchers and studies pupils to trade and percentage their studies and research results on all aspects of Earth technology and weather exchange. It additionally gives a gold standard interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to give and discuss the most recent innovations, tendencies, and worries in addition to sensible challenges encountered and answers followed in the fields of earth technological know-how and Climate Change.

Earth Science 2021 congress is the platform to learn and proportion the thoughts all over the world. The conference not only gives you the opportunity to fulfill your business idol, scientist, and different renowned personality but also your chances are greatly improved when you’re sharing the same area. Earth Science Event may also help to overcome natural calamities with lots of tactic on direction and flow of technology for the country and the arena in subsequent decade.

The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Final Summit will take place in Montreal (QC), Canada, on 1–4 May 2022. The YOPP Final Summit website has been launched now and the link for abstract submission is open.

The YOPP Final Summit is the apex of the decade-long Polar Prediction Project initiated by the World Meteorological Organization’s World Weather Research Programme in 2013. The conference aims to review progress, share key findings and success stories, and discuss and shape the legacy of the Polar Prediction Project. The summit will bring together polar science experts from operational prediction centres, academia and research institutes, government, and corporate representatives as well as northern communities and users of polar prediction services.

Contributors are invited to submit their abstracts on their research and achievements produced in the frame of PPP and YOPP, on the below topics:

• Advancements in polar prediction during YOPP (2017–2019) and their operationalization
• Building international cooperation amongst the polar prediction community
• Paving the way for the legacy of the Polar Prediction Project, to enable environmental safety in the Arctic and Antarctic in the future
• Representation of polar processes in numerical models, with a focus on coupling of the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice
• Ocean and sea ice modelling and services
• The MOSAiC expedition and other polar observation campaigns
• Supersite multi-variate observations and process studies (YOPPsiteMIP)
• Observing System Experiments (OSE) and reanalyses in polar regions
• Teleconnections linking polar weather to mid-latitudes predictability
• Science to services: tailoring polar forecasting products and services to meet user needs
• Societal and economic implications of accessible, relevant, and useable forecasts

Participation of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) is encouraged. A third Polar Prediction School will precede the YOPP Final Summit from 27–30 April 2022 in Rimouski, QC, Canada. Also, PPP Early Career Scientist fellowships will provide ECRs with the opportunity to showcase their research and networking with senior mentors at the YOPP Final Summit. For information how to apply to become a YOPP Final Summit Fellow (self-nominations are welcome) and to participate in the Polar Prediction School, please find more information on the YOPP final summit website (see link above).

Important dates

• Submit your abstract by 15 November 2021.
• Early Bird registration will be open until 15 February 2022.

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.

Join the Wilson Center and the Center for Climate and Security for a virtual event on the next steps in the Biden Administration’s “whole of government” approach to tackling climate security. The event will feature senior U.S. government officials discussing the findings of the suite of climate security documents released in late October, and where the administration plans to go from here.

Panelists

Kim Crusey
Climate and Arctic Chief, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense

Jennifer DeCesaro
Director, Climate Security and Resilience, National Security Council

Teresa McGhie
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization, U.S. Agency for International Development

Brigadier General Rebecca Sonkiss
Deputy Director for Counter Threats and International Cooperation, Joint Staff J5

Moderator

Lauren Risi
Program Director, Environmental Change and Security Program

The European Commission and the European External Action Service will organise a high-level EU Arctic Forum and the Annual Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Dialogue.

The High Representative/Vice President Josep Borrell and Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius will host the events.

The EU Arctic Forum will bring together key Arctic players and stakeholders to assess recent developments in the region and discuss challenges ahead. The event will provide a strategic outlook for the updated EU Arctic policy and delve into topics that are of particular significance for the Arctic’s inhabitants.

The EU Arctic Forum will include several keynote addresses and one high-level panel session on the morning of 10 November 2021. Ministers from EU/Arctic Council States will be invited to participate. Arctic stakeholder panel sessions will subsequently take place for the remainder of the day.

The Annual Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Dialogue with interactive panel discussions will be held in the morning of 11 November.

We cordially invite you to save these dates. Invitations will follow later. Registration for the event will open early September. Further information will shortly be available at the link above.