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Join the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs Arctic Science Section for a virtual office hour to share program updates with the Arctic research community. This webinar will introduce new staff, highlight upcoming funding opportunities, and provide updates about the program's approach to mitigating the impacts of COVID-19.

NSF staff who will be joining include Rainer Amon, Renee Crain, Sara Eckert, Colene Haffke, Erica Hill, Olivia Lee, Allen Pope, Jennifer Mercer, Frank Rack, Xoco Shinbrot, Randall Sisco, Marc Stieglitz, Colleen Strawhacker, and Beverly Walker.

For more information, please follow the link above.

The 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost will be a completely virtual meeting from October 24-29, 2021. We will use exciting virtual platforms and this type of venue will allow for international and underserved researchers and engineers to attend and present. A variety of events are planned from Young Researcher events to oral and poster presentations and unique networking opportunities.

Organizers of the 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost (RCOP) request abstract submissions by August 9, 2021.

For the first time the U.S. Permafrost Association hosted Regional Conference on Permafrost will be combined with the bi-annual International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering. RCOPs are convened by the International Permafrost Association (IPA) as part of their motto to "foster permafrost research to the ends of earth". The Conference will bring together international participants through an all virtual platform.

Session proposals address science and/or engineering topics with a focus on permafrost and cold regions. Organizers encourage equity, diversity, and inclusion in all conference aspects and seek presentations from varied teams representing as broad a perspective as possible.

Please visit the abstract submission page to learn more about sessions and the submission process.

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 November and early winter season. Join the gathering online to learn more about Alaska climate and weather.

Please follow the link above to register.

Update: PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO COVID-19 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED FROM 21-22 OCTOBER 2021 TO 23-24 JUNE 2022. PLEASE FOLLOW THE SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE FOR UPDATES.

Please join us in Davos in October 2021 for an exciting scientific symposium with high-level speakers, scientific poster sessions and ample networking time. The symposium aims to build a bridge between generations of cryosphere and climate scientists. Use this opportunity to present and discuss your latest research in a stimulating environment. We invite Early Career Scientists interested in participating to apply for a travel grant – don't miss this opportunity!

The Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL announces that the registration to the above mentioned symposium in the memory of our past Director, Koni Steffen, is now open.

Konrad Steffen – or Koni, as everyone knew him – was a passionate researcher and teacher, who dedicated his life to science through the study of the cryosphere and the climate of cold environments. Koni was driven by the mission of informing about the ongoing, rapid human-driven changes and the resulting impacts on human and natural systems these changes could impose. This scientific symposium will honour Koni’s scientific legacy, covering a wide range of topics, including the study of Arctic sea ice, the dynamics of polar ice sheets, the quantification of climate-driven ice losses in Antarctica and Greenland, the effects of melting ice on global sea level, as well as more generally the impacts of climate change on polar and high mountain environments. By bringing together long-term colleagues that accompanied Koni over the years and early-career researchers that have recently embarked in the related disciplines, the event will aim at building a bridge between generations of cryosphere and climate scientists – a task in which Koni excelled.

The program will consist of invited talks, posters sessions (based on submitted abstracts) and ample networking time. A conference dinner will be organised in the evening of the Day 1.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) announces their next IARPC Public Webinar Series event, An Introduction to Polar Cyberinfrastructure (CI) at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The term “Polar Cyberinfrastructure” can feel like esoteric jargon, can maybe be a bit of a mouthful, and can mean a lot of different things to the research community. In addition to the big facilities and fancy supercomputers, Polar CI aims to serve the full breadth of NSF-funded polar researchers. In this webinar, the NSF Polar Cyberinfrastructure Program Officer (Allen Pope) will explain what Polar CI means at NSF and introduce the core program as well as related opportunities within NSF at the intersection of polar science and computing. The webinar will also share highlights from some NSF-funded polar cyberinfrastructure projects and will finish with ample time for audience question and answer session.

Preregistration is not required. Please follow the link above for the webinar link.

Published in 2021, Welp: Climate Change and Arctic Identities explores the intersections of systemic racism, the Anthropocene, and environmental policy against the backdrop of Norway, Iceland, and the author’s Alaskan home.

“Climate change, first and foremost, is a cultural problem embedded in our connection to and use of land and water,” writes Michaela Stith, author of Welp: Climate Change and Arctic Identities. Through research, intimate interviews, and laugh-out-loud stories, her debut travel memoir pieces together a beautifully honest portrait of the Arctic focused on the ways international governance, conservation science, and cultural biases touch the lives of young Black and Indigenous people across the circumpolar North.

Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, with the Dartmouth Institute of Arctic Studies and Hart Leadership Program, for a book talk and panel connecting policy, cultural safety, and food, water and environmental security in the Arctic region.

Please follow the link above for more information.

NERACOOS and CIOOS Atlantic, with funding support from the U.S. Embassy in Canada, will host a three-part webinar series featuring discussions with local experts on scientific, economic, and policy issues facing coastal communities spanning the Arctic to the Northeastern seaboard of the United States. Each of the three seminars will coincide with part of the voyage of the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, which has partnered with Canada to undertake a research cruise the Northwest Passage and circumnavigation of North America. As the Healy passes through the Arctic, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia and the Gulf of Maine, experts in a variety of subjects will speak about the challenges they're encountering, and how we can come up with solutions that transcend borders.

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

ARCUS invites registration for the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring Dr. Kirsi Latola, UArctic’s Vice-President of Networks, titled "UArctic Thematic Networks: A Tool for Joint Research and Education" will be held via Zoom.

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

Abstract

The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is a network of 230 universities, colleges, research institutes, and other organizations concerned with education and research in and about the North. UArctic builds and strengthens collective resources and infrastructures that enable member institutions to better serve their constituents and their regions. The tools for joint research and research-based education are Thematic Networks. Thematic networks are theme-based international and diverse groups of individuals and organizations who create opportunities for students, conduct joint research, and share knowledge on topical Arctic issues.

In this presentation, Dr. Latola will talk about UArctic’s Thematic Networks, how they are endorsed, how they function, and the different pathways that individual researchers and institutions can take to participate in them. She will show examples of Thematic Network joint activities, and will also briefly share news on the next UArctic Congress 2022, which will be held in Moscow in October 2022.

Speaker Details

Over the past fifteen years PhD Kirsi Latola has worked in several Polar coordination actions and holds a positions of research coordinator at the Thule Institute at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has managed several national and international projects on Arctic research, coordination and knowledge sharing including organising several international events. Broad knowledge particularly on Arctic research and infrastructures led also to her appointment to the chair of European Polar Board in 2017, where she is now in her second term. In her position as a UArctic Vice President Networks she leads University of Arctic’s network activities and supports over 60 Thematic Networks. In addition to her work for UArctic and supporting the Arctic research conducted at the University of Oulu, she acts as a Transnational access Watch Dog in INTERACT - International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (H2020 2016-21, 2020-24) and leads a work package on stakeholder engagement in the EU-PolarNet 2 project on coordinating and co-designing the European Polar Research area (H2020, 2020-2024). Her expertise in the project is a stakeholder engagement which follows the work and white paper she completed during the first EU-Polarnet (2015-20).

Part of the NOAA in Alaska and the Arctic seminar series hosted by NOAA NCEI Regional Climate Services Director, Alaska Region and the NOS Science Seminar Series.

Full title: The Climate-Driven Decline of an Ice-Dependent Seabird in the Western Arctic: Insights and Alarms From a Half-Century of Observations

Remote Access

Register here:
https://noaabroadcast.adobeconnect.com/akandarctic-divoky/event/registr…

After registering, you will receive an email with a login link.

Abstract

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Bio

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Accessibility

Closed Captioning will be provided.

Register now for the virtual OCB pre-Arctic COLORS Data Synthesis Community Meeting.

As NASA prepares for the Arctic-COLORS large-scale field campaign in the near future, it is imperative to identify and characterize existing field data sets, modeling activities, and remote sensing capabilities within the coastal Arctic region that make up the Arctic-COLORS study domain. To work towards accomplishing these aims, an open virtual Community Meeting, as a pre-Arctic-COLORS data synthesis activity, sponsored by NASA and the OCB Project Office.

We invite stakeholders of the Arctic-COLORS study region to participate in this community meeting to discuss and share information on past, current, and planned field measurement, modeling, and remote sensing activities. This virtual Community Meeting will bring together a multidisciplinary network of scientists conducting research on biogeochemical fluxes and exchanges along the Arctic aquatic continuum, from rivers to the coastal Arctic Ocean, to lay the groundwork for what data are available, where data are hosted, and who to involve in retrieving them. This synthesis activity is an important stepping-stone toward the development of the Arctic-COLORS Implementation Plan and eventually the Arctic-COLORS field campaign itself. We are very excited about the workshop and are working hard to make it an interactive experience. A draft agenda is available below and on the meeting webpage.

Overview

• October 18 - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm AKDT, 1:00-4:00 pm EDT
  Day 1 will focus on overview of this Arctic-COLORS synthesis activity (goals and objectives, outcomes, etc.) and presentations on relevant field measurements, including large field programs.
• October 19 - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm AKDT, 1:00-4:00 pm EDT
  Day 2 will focus on modeling activities, with presentations highlighting major modeling activities.
• October 20 - 9:00 am - 12:00 pm AKDT, 1:00-4:00 pm EDT
  Day 3 will focus on remote sensing, focusing on challenges, progress, and needs on satellite and airborne remote sensing.