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The next once-a-month virtual seminar series on Sea Level, GIA and Ice Sheets will be on the theme of "Perspectives from the modern sea level and ice sheet modeling communities".

Aimée Slangen, a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and a lead author of the IPCC AR6 report, will discuss advances in modern sea level research and coastal risk and Fiamma Straneo from SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography (UCSD) will discuss the ISMIP6 effort and offer her perspective on how to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Seminar attendance is open to all. Please follow the link above to register.

Please join us to learn more about the recently released book, Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region. This book, co-authored by 65 experts in Alaska and northwest Canada, addresses what is driving change in our lands, waters, and wildlife, and includes impacts, future projections, information gaps, and implications for management and ways of life for Indigenous and rural communities. Topics include climate change, wildfire, permafrost thaw, land cover change, invasive species, resource extraction, socioeconomic drivers, and practices of co-production of knowledge. Six of the book’s contributors will provide highlights from the book and how this valuable tool can inform your work in land management, resource stewardship, and research.

Speakers

• Amanda Sesser, 21Sustainability
• Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience
• Scott Slocombe, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Nancy Fresco, International Arctic Research Center
• Annette Watson, College of Charleston
• Douglas Clark, University of Saskatchewan

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.

The two-hour-long program of the webinar will be opened with an introductory speech by H. E. Hynek Kmoníček, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States of America, explaining the Czech Republic´s application for Observer Status in the Arctic Council.

The historical and scientific part of the webinar will start with Amb. Jaroslav Olša, Jr., historian and writer and Consul General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles, and Amb. Zdeněk Lyčka, polar explorer, writer and translator from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, introducing their forthcoming exhibition and a book “Czechs and Alaska. From the Heart of Europe to the Northern Edge of America”. Prepared on the occasion of the 230th anniversary since the botanist Thaddäus Haenke became the first person from the historical Czech Lands who set foot on Alaskan soil in Yakutat Bay. Both panelists will present the activities of Czechs in the US state of Alaska and its Aleutian Islands, as well as the connections and observations of the inhabitants of the country in the heart of Europe with respect to this farthest part of the United States.

The working language of the webinar is English.

Registration is required. To receive the link to join, please register by following the link above.

Idowu (Jola) Ajibade, Assistant Professor of Geography, Affiliated Faculty, Black Studies, Portland State University

Dr. Idowu (Jola) Ajibade’s research focuses on how individuals, communities, and cities respond to global climate change and their different capacities for adaptation and transformation. She explores adaptation in the context of resilience planning, eco-industrialization, eco-gentrification, uneven development and managed retreat. Ajibade’s research draws on urban political ecology and environmental justice lenses to interrogate both conventional as well as alternative approaches to adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and sustainability.

AlexAnna Salmon, Igiugig Village Tribal Council President

President AlexAnna Salmon was raised in the village of Igiugig, Alaska, and graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual major in Native American Studies and Anthropology. As the Igiugig Tribal Council president, Salmon works closely with her community, academic interests, and partners throughout the state as she leads local initiatives for renewable energy and sustainability and advocates for revitalization of Yup’ik language and culture. In 2015, Salmon was invited to President Obama’s roundtable discussion with Alaska Native leaders during his state visit.

Mary and Peter R. Dallman 1951 Great Issues Lecture, sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding (Dartmouth). Made possible by a gift from Mary and Peter R. Dallman ’51.

Events are free and open to the public.

How are geopolitics and environmental change experienced on the ground? How can you find out, let alone represent those experiences? Ruth Maclennan will discuss her films and other artworks made in and about the Russian Arctic and how they emerge from her research and a kind of fieldwork involving open questions, formal experimentation, and improvisation. She will show excerpts from her films Cloudberries, Call of North, and Hero City, and also discuss new possibilities and plans for collaborative practice and fieldwork in light of the pandemic and the ecological emergency.

Maclennan filmed Cloudberries (2019) while travelling with an anthropologist, each conducting their own research and exchanging ideas about fieldwork and practice. Cloudberries was filmed on the Kola Peninsula in a small fishing village along the Northern Sea Route during the hottest summer on record. The village has taken on geopolitical significance because it is situated at the nearest point on land from the Shtokman gas field. But lives go on below the radar. The narrator – the filmmaker – is “just visiting” with her camera. She sits chatting in kitchens, meeting villagers and visitors, listening to the sounds of wildlife and the sea, a music festival, and an abandoned schoolhouse full of life.

Cloudberries, Call of North, and Hero City will be available free to view online before the event via a temporary password-protected link to registered participants.

Note: The 3rd Arctic Science Ministerial was originally scheduled for 21-22 November 2020, but was rescheduled to 08-09 May 2021.

In order to engage with Arctic scientists and knowledge holders on multiple levels, the ASM3 organizers plan to engage researchers at the several science meetings throughout 2020. These meetings will give the research community an opportunity to shape and develop the science-to-policy process resulting in the Arctic Science Ministerial Joint Statement to be signed in Tokyo.

Since the last Arctic Science Ministerial in 2018, changes in the Arctic ecosystem and the resulting impacts locally and globally have been severely felt. While the reasons for these changes in climate largely stem from activities outside of the Arctic, the Arctic is warming at a rate of nearly double the global average.

The ASM3 organizers would like to hear directly from the research community about what matters most in international Arctic science collaboration.

This webinar is the second of two webinars exploring topics related to community-driven research carried out under the University of Ottawa-led Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices research project.

This virtual, interactive session focuses on the ‘lessons learned’ from the project from the perspectives of the academic research community, community partners, and youth community researchers, with potential lessons for industry and government representatives who are interested in collaborating with Northern communities.

The Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices research project involved 14 communities across Arctic Canada, including 59 Inuit and Northern youth as community researchers, and resulted in a series of locally-informed community-specific maps to inform Arctic waters users about the significant socio-cultural, archaeological and ecological areas, and local travel routes, for integration into the Low Impact Shipping Corridors.

Dr. Natalie Carter of the University of Ottawa, the project Community Research Lead, will present on the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned. Shirley Tagalik, of the Arviat Aqqiumavvik Society will discuss the unexpected outcomes from the research project for her community relevant to safety issues with shipping and travel, ice monitoring and mapping, and infrastructure location. Natasha Simonee, a community researcher and partner in Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet, Nunavut) will share insights from her involvement with the project including suggestions for communicating and working with community partners. Dr. Amber Silver, Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity of the University at Albany, New York and Coast and Ocean Risk Communication Community of Practice Co-Lead, will moderate the session.

A new series of Arctic Academic eTalks begins with presentations from Troy Bouffard and Dr.Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek and a discussion on the topic of the Russian Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. Mr. Bouffard is the Director of the Center for Arctic Security and Resilience at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a NAADSN Coordinator. Dr. Smieszek is a Planning Coordinator at the University of Tromso. This event will help grow the dialogue and understanding of the importance of the chairmanship for Russia.

This will be a 90 minute event with 30 minutes of presentations and an hour of open, moderated discussion.

Academic Arctic eTalks is an academically-focused bimonthly forum for open discussion (non-attribution) on key issues affecting the Circumpolar Arctic for scholars and practitioners from Canada, Finland, Iceland, Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands), Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

Arctic Academic eTalks is hosted by “The Watch” Command Magazine, United States Northern Command, United States European Command, United States Indo-Pacific Command, and The North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN), with support from the following event partners:

• Center for Arctic Security and Resilience (CASR) - University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory United Kingdom (Dstl)
• George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Marshall Center)
• Joint Task Force (North) Canadian Armed Forces (JTFN)
• Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom (UK MOD)
• NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (StratCom)
• Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)
• Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
• Royal Danish Defence College (fak.dk)
• United States Coast Guard (Arctic)
• William J. Perry Center, National Defense University (NDU)

Subsequent events will include alternating academic presentations and open discussions, like this event on May 7th, as well as invite-only activities in which academic experts will be asked to tackle specific challenge questions related to the Arctic information environment.

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

Organized in cooperation with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation.

The Arctic Circle Japan Forum will be organized in association with the Third Arctic Science Ministerial Meeting (ASM3), which will be co-hosted by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

ASM3 follows the Second Arctic Science Ministerial Meeting, which was hosted by the Governments of Finland and Germany, and the European Union in 2018, and the White House Arctic Science Ministerial, hosted in Washington, D.C. in 2016.

The Arctic Circle is collaborating with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation.

Governments, universities, companies, research institutions, organizations, associations and other partners are invited to submit proposals for Sessions to the Arctic Circle Secretariat.