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This seminar will be live on Zoom and open to anyone interested (with a limit of 300 participants). Register in advance for this meeting.

Abstract

Climate warming is rapidly transforming Arctic ecosystems and melting the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). Terrestrial records of a GrIS smaller than today and the ecosystems that emerged in formerly ice-free areas are crucial for understanding ice sheet and ecosystem sensitivity to warming, but rare due to present ice cover. Basal materials from ice cores can be a critical archive of past ice-free periods. The Camp Century ice core, collected in 1966 from northwestern Greenland, was the first ice core drilled to the bed of an ice sheet and retrieved 3.5 m of subglacial sediment. However, the subglacial sediment was incompletely studied and then misplaced for decades – until it was rediscovered in 2017. Now, we can apply modern analytical techniques to the sediment that were unimaginable at the time of its collection nearly 60 years ago.

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Each year, scores of new students, staff members, and investigators join the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. They dive right in to working on their site-based research, but sometimes don’t discover — until much later — the array of resources, colleagues, and expertise that the Network offers.

This brief (90-minute) network orientation session serves to introduce new LTER participants to the breadth of ecosystems and types of research that the Network encompasses. We’ll also point out ways to stay informed about network activities; how to find LTER colleagues with similar interests; and where to look for network-level resources on data management, science communication, and maintaining a diverse and mutually supportive community.

We’ll talk briefly about how the Network is structured and the role of network-wide committees in supporting scientific research, information management, education, and outreach. We’ll also make time to meet a few of the hundreds of scientists and support personnel who make up this dynamic scientific enterprise.

As Alaska's remarkably brief fall turns quickly toward winter, the research team for the Arctic Facilities and Infrastructure Environmental Change Risk Index (ERI) project at ADAC invite you to join them for a workshop on addressing the concept of environmental risk as it pertains to critical energy infrastructure in Alaska.

The USCG D17 and Sector Anchorage have tasked the ERI research team with investigating the potential impacts of climate change as it pertains to bulk oil and other infrastructure under regulation 33 CFR 154. Many Alaskan communities have infrastructure that falls under this regulation, infrastructure that is their energy lifeline providing communities with heat and electricity. Our study draws experts from a range of disciplines to help construct an operationally relevant "risk index" to inform and provide decision making support to USCG inspectors and operators.

To this end, the research team is hosting a half-day, virtual (Zoom) event. This event will consist of informational plenary sessions, and the attendees will then participate in short, rapid-fire voting of relevant risks based on individual presentations. Your input and feedback on these risks would be greatly appreciated. Following these individual votes, there will be time for the group to reflect as a whole.

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

Organizers invite abstracts for the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022. This conference will convene 27 February - 4 March 2022 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

This year’s theme emphasizes the importance of working together. “Come Together and Connect,” focuses on strengthening the ocean sciences community through discussing both basic and applied research while making scientific and social connections.

Co-sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and The Oceanography Society (TOS), Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is the global leader in ocean sciences conferences. We are creating a meeting and networking environment that provides opportunities for ocean scientists, from those doing basic research to those working on solutions for the ocean we want, to present and share knowledge as well as network and address emerging topics in ocean sciences.

While many participants will physically gather in Honolulu, the Program Committee anticipates a large global gathering to virtually attend online programming and events. The tradition of outstanding presentations and knowledge-sharing, through plenary speakers, in oral sessions, and in serendipitous conversations, will continue during OSM 2022.

Balance is a key to OSM 2022 – enabling as many people to meet as possible across media, disseminating scientific knowledge, and creating personal connections all while considering the ocean and planet we want for the future.

Important Dates:

• August 2021: Call for Abstracts and Auxiliary Events Posted
• September 2021: Registration Opens
• 29 September 2021: Abstract, Town Hall and Auxiliary Event Submission Deadline.
• November 2021: Presenters Notified of Acceptance, Travel Grant Recipients Notified, Program Schedule Posted

The Wilson Center's Polar Institute will convene a panel of preeminent U.S. experts in different fields of Antarctic science who will speak to priority projects underway in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and the contributions polar scientists make to global policies related to climate change, predicting sea-level rise, marine protection and environmental policies generally.

Introduction

Michael Sfraga
Director, Polar Institute // Director, Global Risk and Resilience Program

Moderator

Evan T. Bloom
Senior Fellow, Polar Institute;
Former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries and Director for Ocean and Polar Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Panelists

Theodore Scambos, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Earth Science and Observation Center, University of Colorado

Heather Lynch, PhD
IACS Endowed Chair for Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University

Abigail Vieregg, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago

George Watters, PhD
Director, Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division (NOAA); U.S. Representative to the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

Please register by September 10th at https://forms.gle/BZKRXLpVfpJzSuL78

The Rising Voices program facilitates intercultural, relational-based approaches for understanding and adapting to extreme weather and climate events, climate variability and climate change. The program brings Indigenous and other scientific professionals, tribal and community leaders, environmental and communication experts, students, educators, and artists from across the United States, including Alaska, Hawai'i, the Pacific and Caribbean Islands, and around the world, to assess critical community needs and to pursue joint research aimed at developing optimal plans for community action towards sustainability. Rising Voices acknowledges the inherent value of Indigenous knowledge systems and Indigenous science, adaptive practices and processes, honoring them equally with Earth sciences.

At its core, Rising Voices aims to advance science through collaborations that bring Indigenous and Earth (atmospheric, social, biological, ecological) sciences into partnership, supports adaptive and resilient communities through sharing scientific capacity, and provides opportunities for Indigenous students and early career scientists through scientific and community mentoring. Further, it helps Western-trained scientists expand their observational skills, research paradigms, capacity to apply and translate findings, and ultimately their science.

The program - through an annual workshop series, knowledge exchanges, trainings, and an active listserv - has facilitated the creation of new and continued intercultural adaptation partnerships based on respect, justice, equality, and reciprocity that address our changing climate.

The Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences is offering three $5,000 awards to launch small-scale but impactful projects OR to support the time and effort to write a proposal for a large-scale project. Applications must demonstrate how the proposed work will bring together Indigenous and Earth sciences to address pressing community-driven research and action. Successful applications will support projects to begin around July 20, 2021 and conclude around November 20, 2021. For more information, please see the Request for Proposals announcement and the application form.

Please follow the link above for more information.

The Arctic Domain Awareness Center, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard District 17 and Sector Anchorage, is hosting a two-day workshop on the development of an environmental risk index. This index is focused on coastal facilities and infrastructure under the inspection purview of USCG. Aware that the Arctic region is exposed to the impacts of climate change, increasing coastal erosion, and more frequent precipitation, USCG seeks to develop a risk index as an operator decision support tool focused on bulk oil/fuel facilities. This two day workshop will bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines and utilize a collaborative group setting to identify data sources, evaluate inputs to a proposed decision support tool, and determine which models will advance the development of the risk index.

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

Remote Access

Please register for NOAA in Alaska and the Arctic seminar series September 28, 2021 at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4266490361750202126

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Abstract

Arctic observing and data systems have been identified as critical infrastructures to support scientific understanding and decision-making from local to regional and global scales, yet there remain significant challenges to developing, integrating and sustaining the needed systems. These challenges arise from the complexity of coordination across many organizational centers of action, sparse deployment and telecommunications infrastructure and physical conditions of polar regions that constrain technology options. Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) was initiated to address the challenges related to coordination across a heterogeneous collection of national and organizational actors engaged in Arctic observing. Within this complex partnership setting, SAON recognizes the value of polycentric' governance models, which work to generate alignment around shared goals across many centers of action in non-hierarchal arrangements. Polycentric thinking has inspired SAON's vision for a coordination and planning framework for developing observing and data system requirements and implementation strategies under its Roadmap for Arctic Observing and Data Systems (SAON-ROADS). ROADS' guidance, among other things, calls for equitable partnering with Indigenous Peoples, a focus on shared benefits from observing and data systems, complementarity to existing regional to global observing efforts, and incremental approaches that are flexible and inclusive. The success of the SAON-ROADS vision is highly dependent on the engagement of SAON partners in the planning process. This talk will illustrate how nationally coordinated actions within the US are serving as a model for supporting the ROADS process.

Bio

Sandy Starkweather is the Executive Director for the US Arctic Observing Network (US AON, NOAA-chaired), where she advances US agency participation in the international Arctic Observing System. With a joint background in engineering (energy conservation, renewables), earth science (Arctic climatology) and science policy, Sandy has worked in a consulting engineering capacity, university research, project management and planning. During this time, she spent twelve years traveling to/from Greenland to either participate in or support Arctic field research. She is currently serving as the Chair of Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) and leading SAON's efforts to develop its Roadmap for Arctic Observing and Data Systems (ROADS).

The Arctic Centre will host a Winter School, aimed at (inter-) national civil servants and policy makers, politicians, managers, financial experts, (young) academics and PhD students who are looking for a nuanced and wide-ranging understanding of the Arctic. The theme of the Winter School is Our connection with a fast-changing Arctic. From 24-29 January 2022 in Groningen, Netherlands, lectures, discussions and group work will take place in which topics related to the theme will be addressed from an integrated perspective on a sustainable society. Participation can be a crucial asset to many public- and private-sector employers with operations in the Arctic.

Theme

Global warming is most prominent in the Arctic with visible changes in ice and snow and enormous challenges for ecosystems and people to adapt to the new situation. Loss of the Arctic as we know it, coincides with new development in this area on conservation, cooperation, economic development, governance and security. Sustainable solutions require multidimensional knowledge and a prudent approach when coming from outside the Arctic, as new business opportunities should take account of the sensitivities of the natural environment and local and indigenous people.

Participants will be introduced in the conditions experienced and adaptations exhibited by Arctic inhabitants, as the effects of global warming are more severe and noticeable in the North. Changing weather patterns, sea level rise and sustainable socio-economic developments, are also relevant for the rest of the world. With a variety of experts, we will discuss the present predictions and future consequences of climate change. In this respect, the Arctic can be seen as a living laboratory for a broad range of societal challenges.

Lectures

During the week, there will be lectures in the morning and discussions and assignments in the afternoon. There will be general lectures, but also tailormade assignments, based on the needs and expertise in the group and active discussions with experts. We expect that the participants will do some homework before each session. All sessions will be from 9:00 till 17:00 hrs. With a social gathering afterwards on Monday and Friday.

General topics addressed in the lectures:

• Climate Change (climate forcing gasses, arctic amplification, ice caps and sea level rise, polar vortex, mitigation and adaptation)
• Arctic ecosystems (sea ice as platform for life, permafrost, carbon pools, trophic mismatch, species extinction, grazing)
• The indigenous peoples of the Arctic (Overview of the different indigenous peoples in the Arctic, colonial history and decolonial actions, Indigenous peoples as rights holders)
• Governance and science cooperation (UNCLOS, treaties, wilderness concept, pollution)
• Sustainable development and business (Arctic Economic Forum, tourism, shipping, natural resource exploitation, economic development)

Application

Interested parties can applicate by filling in the form below, no later than 27 September 2021. Each application will be assessed carefully. In total 20 applicants will be selected to take part in the Winter School. You will be informed no later than 4 October 2021 whether you have been selected. The final program will also be announced that day.

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

UPDATE: The secretariat has been assessing the possibility of holding ISPS2021 in person, but after careful consideration of the current circumstances, we made a difficult decision of holding the conference online. While the symposium will go virtual, the date of the symposium will remain the same, from September 27 to 29. For the oral and poster presenters, additional information about your on-line participation will be posted as it becomes available. A separate webpage for virtual symposium will open early September.

The symposium aims to bring together polar scientists and engineers with diverse background to share their research findings and explore further research opportunities at the international level. With “Responding to Climate Crisis” as its overarching theme, ISPS2021 invites researchers to discuss how polar science and technology can contribute to our understanding of climate change.

Theme:

Climate change is the greatest crisis of our times, as it brings devastating consequences to our planet. We have witnessed many communities suffering from heatwave, drought and wildfire, while others suffered heavy rainfall, typhoon and flood. We are facing extreme events at an unprecedented rate, and they require our immediate and collective attention.

It is the mission of science to continue the observation, and provide scientific understanding and prediction upon which we can implement mitigation efforts. Polar sciences are crucial in the sense that these regions are especially sensitive to climate change, which adds to the instability of the earth system. Warming and cooling patterns are amplified, and the melting of ice sheets causes catastrophic sea level rises.

During this symposium, we will discuss the findings in polar sciences that are closely linked to climate change, and the cutting-edge technologies that enable more efficient and sustainable monitoring under harsh environments, while shedding new light on the unseen.

Session Themes:

• Polar climate science in the context of global climate crisis
• Cryosphere evolution and sea-level change
• Sea ice and polar oceans in rapid transition
• A paleoclimate perspective on climatic and environmental extremes · Integrated study of subglacial Antarctic lake ecosystems
• Technological advances enabling new polar science

Side Meetings:

Side meetings can be accommodated during the course of the symposium. If you wish to take advantage of this opportunity and hold a meeting to exchange ideas on a subject relevant to the conference theme, please contact us at symposium [at] kopri.re.kr

Abstract Submission:

Please submit your abstract at the symposium website from April 12 to May 23, 2021 (extended deadline).

Registration:

Registration will be available at the symposium website from June 2021.

More information about the symposium will be updated on the website as the date approaches.