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The Women and Water Lecture Series will showcase research, support young professionals and provide a space for dialogue and networking. Additionally, the series will explore water-related challenges, roles of women in water, gendered water-related impacts, women researchers in water, and challenges and opportunities facing female water researchers.

Biographies

Stephanie Pow
Stephanie is a graduate of the Water Resource Engineering Technology program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic Palliser Campus. She has worked at Environment Canada and Climate Change with Water Survey of Canada for 15 years. She graduated from the departments’ apprenticeship program as Hydrometric Technologist. She has held several supervisory roles within the department. She was promoted to Head of Operations of Saskatchewan in March 2020.

Lorelei Ford
Lorelei Ford, M.E.S., is a Water Quality Ecologist with the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency. She has worked in the fields of fisheries, limnology, and unregulated drinking water over her 17 years in government. Her primary responsibility is to ensure the monitoring and reporting of water quality for streams, rivers, and lakes in Saskatchewan.

Lindsey Langs
Lindsey is a Research Officer and Technician working at the Centre for Hydrology’s Coldwater Lab in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, based in Canmore, AB. She completed her M.Sc degree in forest hydrology at the University of Waterloo, and continues to apply her field and research experience within the Mountain Water Futures project, pulling from 5 years of field-based experience.

This webinar series is designed to increase transparency of the Arctic Science Ministerial science process and to provide additional opportunities for scientists, Indigenous Peoples and Arctic research stakeholders to further engage with the science and proposed actions leading up to the Third Arctic Science Ministerial in Tokyo, Japan in May 2021. The webinar series is a joint cooperation between the ASM3 Organizers in Iceland and Japan and the European Polar Board.

Each webinar will be shared afterwards on the European Polar Board YouTube page and a written summary will be made available on the ASM3 website.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs (OPP) and the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate request input from interested parties on the goals, values and approaches for managing the Antarctic Artist and Writers (AAW) Program and possibly expanding that program to include the Arctic.

In addition, OPP and EHR request input into whether the NSF program which selects and sends educators to the Arctic and Antarctic regions should be under a common management structure.

This RFI will help inform NSF as it considers potential avenues for managing and enhancing education and outreach efforts related to polar science.

Organizations representing artists, writers, scientists, educators (both formal and informal) and Arctic residents as well as individuals are encouraged to respond by the deadline, April 7, 2021.

We invite you to attend a joint webinar, "Arctic Marine Operations and Shipping: Green Initiatives and Challenges," organized by the Academia Europaea Bergen Knowledge Hub (AE-Bergen), Pacific Environment, University of Bergen, and Arctic Frontiers. The webinar will be held on the Arctic Frontiers digital platform.

Major economies aim to be carbon neutral by 2050. Such an ambition implies an almost full transition away from using fossil fuels to power the transport sector, including maritime transport. How will the maritime Arctic be influenced by global responses to climate change? The webinar addresses maritime transport in the Arctic and will provide insights into a complex set of issues: the Arctic's policy framework for marine safety and environmental protection; indigenous and conservation perspectives; green ship technology; marine infrastructure; and what measures are needed to make Arctic marine operations and shipping more sustainable.

Chair:

• Jim Gamble, Arctic Programme Director, Pacific Environment

Moderator:

• Eystein Jansen, Professor, University of Bergen, the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Academic Director, Academia Europaea Bergen Knowledge Hub

Keynotes:

• Lawson Brigham, Wilson Fellow, Polar Institute of the Wilson Center
• Morten Mejlænder-Larsen, Director of Arctic Operations and Technology, DNV

Panelists:

• Hege Økland, CEO, Maritime CleanTech
• Arild Moe, Senior Research Fellow, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute
• Mellisa Johnson, Executive Director, Bering Sea Elders Group
• Sian Prior, Lead Advisor, Clean Arctic Alliance

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

IARPC has released a draft of the next five-year Arctic Research Plan, which will span from 2022-2026. We are now asking the public to comment on the draft plan by June 11, 2021. To provide additional information about the draft plan contents and development, we are hosting a series of information sessions.

Each information session will provide an overview of IARPC, the timeline for developing the Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026, the contents of the draft plan, and how to submit comments on the draft. In addition to webinar information sessions, we are providing a teleconference session for individuals with low internet bandwidth.

Please follow the link above for more information.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research will partner with the U.S. Department of State to host the international conference One Health, One Future virtually from Fairbanks, Alaska.

This is expected to be the largest circumpolar One Health conference held in the United States in 2021, with participation anticipated from across the Arctic region.

The event is part of the United States contribution to One Arctic, One Health¸ an Arctic Council project now in its sixth year of operation. The project aims to develop a circumpolar network of One Health experts that can share knowledge, conduct exercises, and spur collaborative investigations of One Health phenomena.

One Health invites registration for their upcoming seminar, The Winding Path of a Career in Arctic Research. This seminar will be presented by Dr. Henry Huntington, Arctic Science Director of Ocean Conservancy.

Henry P. Huntington lives in Eagle River, Alaska. His research includes documenting Indigenous knowledge of marine mammals, examining Iñupiat and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities. Huntington has been involved in several international research programs and was co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences committee on emerging research questions in the Arctic. He also works for Ocean Conservancy as the Arctic Science Director to promote evidence-based conservation of the Arctic marine environment. Huntington has made long trips in the Arctic by dog team, small boat, and snow machine.

The new Biden Administration faces many challenges as it develops an approach to international environmental issues. Join us for a discussion with leaders and experts focusing on key environmental challenges in Antarctica, on land and in the Southern Ocean. As the Antarctic Treaty System marks the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the landmark Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty, the panel will focus on how the United States can contribute to environmental protection in Antarctica in the near term, in particular related to marine protection, such as new marine protected areas.

This event provides an opportunity to informally share current and future Arctic-related research and education initiatives. It will be organized into sets of presentations (1-2 slides, 3-min maximum) followed by short discussions to answer questions and identify interdisciplinary collaborations.

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

IARPC has released a draft of the next five-year Arctic Research Plan, which will span from 2022-2026. IARPC is now asking the public to comment on the draft plan by June 11, 2021. To provide additional information about the draft plan contents and development, IARPC is hosting a series of one-hour information sessions.

Each information session will provide an overview of IARPC, the timeline for developing the Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026, the contents of the draft plan, and how to submit comments on the draft. In addition to this information, each webinar will provide a deeper dive into one of the plan priority areas or the foundational activities. This webinar will focus on priority areas 1 (Community Resilience & Health) and 3 (Sustainable Economies & Livelihoods).

The webinar will take place via Zoom. You do not need to preregister.