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The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) invites abstract submissions for their 2nd online conference. This conference will take place 8-10 June 2021.

The conference will focus on applications of Earth observation (EO), remote sensing (RS), and geoinformation (GI) in Svalbard. Researchers at all career stages, especially Early Career Researchers (ECRs), are invited to present their work to an international audience of researchers working in Svalbard and the Arctic.

The aim of this online conference is to:

• Review the state-of-the-art EO/RS/GI applications in Svalbard
• Promote the PhD students, postdocs, researchers, senior scientists, and academics to contribute actively in the SIOS's special issue on EO/RS/GI
• Provide social experience to the Svalbard scientific community during the pandemic time

The conference will be online via Zoom and there will be opportunities to engage with new science through talks, networking, and social events.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2021

UArctic Congress 2021 takes place May 15-18, 2021 primarily online with limited local participation in Reykjavik, Iceland for the opening and closing plenaries. The event is hosted by all UArctic higher education members in Iceland.

The Congress is part of Iceland’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council and organized in conjunction with the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting. The themes of the Congress follow from the Icelandic chairmanship's priorities:

• Arctic Marine Environment - Climate and Green Energy Solutions
• People and Communities in the Arctic
• UArctic a platform of joint education and research

The UArctic Congress 2021 brings together institutional leaders, indigenous representatives, academics, scientists and students from around the Circumpolar North and beyond. It is an excellent platform for all UArctic members to engage with each other and promote cooperation in circumpolar science and higher education. Together with partners, policy makers and other actors, the UArctic Congress strives to take the Arctic agenda forward by creating and strengthening collaborations that produce new findings and solutions for the future of the Arctic.

In its eleventh year running, the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE) is an annual award hosted by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Policy Partnership for Science, Technology, and Innovation (PPSTI) that recognizes young scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in scientific research and cross-border collaboration.

For 2021, the ASPIRE prize will promote innovative research that advances society through “Diverse Knowledge for a Sustainable Future.”

This theme focuses on researcher insights from indigenous and ethnic minority cultures and communities to help inform new frontiers in science, technology, and innovation. This may include research that explores interactions between traditional and contemporary approaches to knowledge and science, as well as applications such as better management of natural resources, healthcare, and agricultural systems. Nominees should demonstrate a commitment to excellence in scientific research and cooperation with scientists from other APEC member economies in subjects such as: biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics, mathematics and other relevant fields.

Each APEC economy may nominate one individual under 40 years of age in its region for the ASPIRE Prize. The nominees will be judged on their excellence in research and cross-border collaboration with peers from other APEC economies. Nominees should demonstrate a commitment to excellence in scientific research and cooperation with scientists from other APEC member economies in subjects such as: biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics, mathematics and other relevant fields.

The deadline for U.S. nominees is May 14, 2021. Young scientists from the United States who are engaged in research and/or product commercialization in line with the theme noted above are strongly encouraged to put forward applications or nominate their peers.

Please follow the link above for more information.

As an area of emphasis for Iceland, gender equality was included as one of the priority issues of its Arctic Council Chairmanship program in 2019-2021. Gender Equality in the Arctic (GEA), dating back to 2013, is an international collaborative project intended to raise visibility and understanding of diverse gender topics in the region. A major component of Gender Equality in the Arctic Phase III (GEAIII), launched in 2019, has been the development of a pan-Arctic report to identify priorities and concrete strategies to increase diversity and gender balance in policy- and decision-making processes.

Please join us for the virtual launch event on the Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality in the Arctic, hosted by the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Iceland, the Icelandic Arctic Council Chairmanship, the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network, the Stefansson Arctic Institute, the Directorate of Equality in Iceland, and the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth. The report provides an overview of gender-related issues in the Arctic, including Law & Governance; Security; Gender and Environment; Migration and Mobility; Indigeneity, Gender, Violence, and Reconciliation; and Empowerment and Fate Control.

Introductory Remarks & Moderator

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

Embla Eir Oddsdóttir
Director, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network (IACN)

Speakers

Marya Rozanova-Smith
Associate Professor, Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy and Head of the Center for Civil, Social, Scientific, and Cultural Initiatives

Andrey Petrov
ARCTICenter Director and Associate Professor of Geography, University of Northern Iowa

Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek
Project coordinator, UiT Arctic University of Norway; Researcher, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland in Finland

Tahnee Lisa Prior
Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

Jennifer Spence
Executive Secretary, Sustainable Development Working Group, Arctic Council

Panelists

Hjalti Ómar Ágústsson
Project Manager, Gender Equality in the Arctic Project, Phase III; Special Advisor, Directorate for Equality in Iceland

Juno Berthelsen
Board Member, Youth Advisory Board, Gender Equality in The Arctic

Gunhild Hoogensen Gjörv
Research Professor, The Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway

Tonje Margrete Winsnes Johansen
Adviser, Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council

Friðrik Jónsson
Iceland‘s Senior Arctic Official to the Arctic Council

Bridget Larocque
Policy Advisor and Researcher, Arctic Athabaskan Council

Laurel Katchatag
Administrative Advisor, Norton Sound Health Clinic, Alaska; Arctic Youth Ambassador

The 2021 meeting of the Assembly has been rescheduled to May 14th, 2021, just prior to the start of the 2021 UArctic Congress, in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Co-host UArctic members, the University of Iceland, Agricultural University of Iceland, Bifröst University, Hólar University, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik University, University Centre of the Westfjords, and the University of Akureyri are happy to invite all member representatives to participate in the 2nd annual meeting of the Assembly of UArctic.

The 2021 Assembly meeting will be held online and will begin in the afternoon (Iceland time). The meeting will be recorded and posted afterwards on this page.

There is no registration necessary to attend the meeting, however the voting process for all agenda action items will be limited to one representative vote per member institution.

Please follow the link above for more information.

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.

The 13th annual Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference (WAISC) aims to bring together local and indigenous knowledge of subsistence–based communities and other scientific research relevant to Western Alaska; including economic, ecological, social, and health issues important to rural communities. This year’s conference focuses on the future threats and opportunities in the face of a changing climate.

Topics:

• Social and ecological effects of climate change
• Water and soil sciences
• Sustainable energy
• Topics in rural education
• Sustaining community: local arts, culture, and economy

Thanks to a generous sponsorship from Alaska EPSCoR, we are pleased to announce complimentary registration for the first 100 attendees to sign up for this year’s conference.

Those who have already registered and paid before April 8 will also receive complimentary registration, and will automatically receive a refund of fees paid before the end of April.

The registration fee after the first 100 registrants is $15. Residents of the Bristol Bay region can enter code bristolbay during checkout to have the registration fee waived.

Please mark your calendars for the 7th ABoVE Science Team Meeting (ASTM7), to be held virtually May 11th & 13th, 2021. Our notion is for the sessions on Tuesday and Thursday to focus on plans for the field season and airborne remote sensing, presentations from partner organizations, updates from the Working Group leads, and reports from the ongoing Synthesis Activities. There will be parallel sessions on each day to feature research highlights from individual projects. Each day will end with social hours for casual conversations.

Registration and abstract submission will open on 5 April. We especially encourage abstracts from early career researchers.

Abstracts should be submitted no later than 19 April.

Who this conference is for: We invite polar and alpine researchers from around the world and from various academic levels to present stories related to the polar and alpine regions that happened in 2020. We hope to hear both success stories and stories of learning from failure. The ultimate goal of the project is to unite the ECR community in a collegial and learning experience organized under the 7th annual APECS Online Conference.

This conference has been organised with the support of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).

Summary:

The theme is designed to encourage contributions from those whose research has been impacted by Covid-19 and had to develop new directions with their research. It also acknowledges that some were able to carry out fieldwork, and so also gives a space for them to showcase their research. The conference will be an opportunity for new research to be presented and connections to be made across polar research. After what has been a difficult year for everyone around the world, we would like to celebrate and learn from your stories related to the polar and alpine regions that happened in 2020. We hope to hear both success stories and stories of learning from failure. The ultimate goal of the project is to unite the ECR community in a collegial and learning experience organized under the 7th annual APECS Online Conference.

Submissions:

The form for submitting an abstract for a talk or a poster is available via the APECS website on the link below. Abstracts must be < 300 words and the submission deadline has been extended to Wednesday, 14th April 2021.

Attendance:

We welcome anyone, of any academic or professional background, interested in Polar science to attend the conference.

Conference registration form to follow up soon!

International Glaciological Society Global Seminar:

Speaking: Martin Schneebeli, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, "Seeing Snow on Sea Ice During the MOSAiC Expedition"

Please register in advance for the seminars. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the seminar.

The seminar will also be available afterwards on the Friends of the International Glaciological Society Facebook page so that you can watch it there if technology fails or you can't make it.