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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.

This webinar mini series has been initiated by the SIOS remote sensing service as a response to the new challenges posed by COVID-19 and will take place approximately every month.

Several speakers will present recent observations and opportunities in relation to remote sensing platforms, leaving room for discussion and creating a social experience within the research community.

The aim of this webinar series is to keep you updated, provide a social experience, help to engage the Svalbard research community, and offer you an anchor point to a drifting world!

The next webinar in the SIOS webinar series is going to be about terrestrial research in Svalbard. Join us to learn about current research on terrestrial biology in Svalbard as well as knowledge gaps.

Tentative Programme: (All times in CEST)

• 10:00 - 10:05 Shridhar Jawak (SIOS): Welcome and updates from SIOS-KC
• 10:05 - 10:20 Maren Hansen (UNIS/University of Bergen/SIOS): Spatial ecology of the Svalbard reindeer
• 10:20 - 10:35 Stephen Coulson (UNIS): The invertebrates of Svalbard
• 10:35 - 10:50 Karina Wieczorek (University of Silesia): Feed, breed & die - the amazing life cycle of Svalbard aphids
• 10:50 - 11:05 Maarten Loonen (University of Groningen): Why do barnacle geese migrate to the Arctic to breed?
• 11:05 - 11:20 Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey): Integrated approaches to understanding Svalbard's terrestrial ecosystems
• 11:20 - 11:30: Open for questions

The purpose of the discussion is to gain a diversity of views from current and retired military officers who have unique insights on the emerging defense and security environment across the Trans-Atlantic Arctic region.

How serious and in what ways is the rising Great Power Competition affecting the stability of Trans-Atlantic Arctic Security? Importantly, amongst the priorities affecting each NATO/NATO Partner's respective national security interests in the Arctic region, how does Arctic defense and security stack against other competing factors, such as commercial developments and associated rising maritime traffic in the high latitudes or the safety of trans-Atlantic shipping as a result of warming/increased melting of the Greenland Ice sheet?

Join the Wilson Center's Polar Institute and the Arctic Domain Awareness Center for a discussion about these questions and trans-Atlantic security in the Arctic.

Speakers

Maj General (ret) Mats Engman
Distinguished Military Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy

Rear Admiral (ret.) Lars Saunes
Professor and Distinguished International Fellow, International Programs, U.S. Naval War College

Captain(n) J.F. French, MSM, CD
Deputy Commander Joint Task Force North

Col. Petteri Seppälä
Defense Attaché, Embassy of Finland, Washington D.C

Col. David G. Hanson
Commander of the 821st Air Base Group, Thule Air Base

Moderators

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

Randy Kee
Global Fellow; Major General, USAF (Retired); Executive Director, Arctic Domain Awareness Center, University of Alaska Anchorage

The Antarctic Sciences (ANT) and Arctic Sciences (ARC) sections of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) invite you to two upcoming webinars on the OPP Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (OPP-PRF, NSF 21-575: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21575/nsf21575.htm).

• Thursday, April 22, 2021 from 4:00pm – 5:00pm EDT and
• Thursday, May 6, 2021 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT.

Please join Arctic Social Sciences Program Director, Erica Hill, and Antarctic Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Program Director, Dave Sutherland, at these informal webinars to learn about the basics of the OPP-PRF and have any questions you bring addressed.

Registration is required to attend.

International Glaciological Society Global Seminar:

Speaking:

• (Emma) Mickey MacKie, Stanford Radio Glaciology, "Simulating Subglacial Greenland with Geostatistics"
• Emma Pearce, University of Leeds, "Full Waveform Inversion for Glaciological Seismic Data; Improving the Seismic Characterisation of Glacier Firn"
• Nico Stoll, Alfred Wegener institute Bremerhaven, "Impurities and Deformation in the EGRIP Ice Core"

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.

The public rollout of a new set of 30-year normals for the United States will take place on May 2021. This presentation will provide background on methodologies used to generate the normals and updates to the largely similar methods used in the 2010 normals processing. Changes in the 1991-2020 normals from 1981-2010 will be discussed. Normals products will be described. Finally, questions will be answered.

Please follow the link above to register.

Contact: polarecc at polarnetwork.org

Abstract deadline: Friday 19th March 2021.

We invite Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present their Polar research in a friendly environment. We also invite anyone, of any academic or professional background, who is curious or passionate about Polar research to attend.

This conference has been organised with the support of the UK Polar Network. This two-day online conference will highlight the work of ECRs within Polar Science from a range of disciplines and institutions. This is the first UK Polar ECR conference and is tailored towards this community. The conference will focus on the high-quality science produced by ECRs and the contemporary issues Polar ECRs are facing. The scientific talks will be divided in to five streams which will run parallel throughout the conference:

• Ecosystems
• Oceanography
• Geology and Glaciology
• Atmosphere and Climate
• Social Sciences

In addition to scientific talks and posters, there will be a strong emphasis on careers & employability, as well as discussing the future of UK Polar science. This will include:

• Employability workshops for careers both in and out of academia.
• A session dedicated to improving collaboration with Indigenous communities.
• A panel discussing the future of UK polar science with specific emphasis on the impacts of Brexit, COVID-19 and the UN Decade of Ocean Science.

Submissions:

The form for submitting an abstract for a talk or a poster is available on the link below, this will simultaneously register you for the conference. We ask that those submitting an abstract fall within the category of ECR (Post-graduate students, PhD students and Post-doctoral researchers). Abstracts must be < 200 words and the submission deadline is Friday 19th March 2021.

Abstract submission & registration form: https://forms.gle/mZd2bZupmWQ1PLen6

Attendance:

This conference is an opportunity for ECRs to hone their skills in a friendly environment however we also welcome anyone, of any academic or professional background, interested in Polar science to attend the conference.

Conference registration form (for attendees only): https://forms.gle/9Tvt4yVAJEC1BZjr5

This conference will discuss Iceland's chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2019-2021, the Greenland and Iceland in the New Arctic Report published in January 2021 by the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, investment opportunities between and within Iceland and Greenland as it relates to Canada and the United States. The conference will as well address Doing Business in the Arctic, status and outlook organized by the Arctic Economic Council.

This conference will also provide the opportunity for attendees to network virtually and meet new connections doing business in the Arctic.

The conference is organized by the Icelandic American Chamber of Commerce in New York in partnership with the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, Greenland Representation in Washington DC, Embassy of Iceland in Washington DC, Embassy of Iceland in Ottawa, Consulate of Iceland in New York, Consulate of Iceland in Nuuk, and the Arctic Economic Council.

In partnership with HQ USCG Director of Maritime Transportation Systems and Senior Arctic Policy Advisor, are creating a tabletop exercise organized to address policy, plans and initiatives to support HQ USCG and the Coast Guard Enterprise in addressing the 2019 USCG Arctic Strategic Outlook (ArcSO) task to “Advance and Modernize the Arctic Marine Transportation System.”

Due to COVID19, ADAC has been forced to reschedule this exercise 5 times, seeking to make this an in-person event. Since COVID immunizations are now underway, ADAC and USCG are hopeful this fifth scheduling will finally result in being able to proceed with the event.

Arctic Maritime Horizons Exercise will provide an orienting and deliberative plenary forum to prepare participants followed by a 3-move exercise to challenge assumptions, gain insights and organize follow-on items of consideration to guide USCG Arctic and Maritime Commerce Strategic Outlook implementation tasks.

This virtual gathering will focus on the the state of NNA research field-season planning and community-based activities to discuss common concerns, coordination, and approaches for organizing, sharing and disseminating NNA field-season plans with Arctic communities, Indigenous and Tribal organizations, and other interested organizations and partners.