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International Glaciological Society Global Seminar:

Speaking: Mike Wood, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "Melt From Below - Ocean Warming and the Demise of Greenland's Glaciers"

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.

We invite you to attend a 3-day online conference with the theme: “Disturbance and recovery of terrestrial arctic and boreal ecosystems” hosted by Scott Polar Research Institute, British Antarctic Survey, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Space Research and Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.

The conference will be from Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th February, 09:00-15:00 GMT / 12:00-18:00 MSK and will be held via Zoom with accompanied simultaneous translation in Russian and English (details to be circulated to registered participants in due course).

Registration Deadline: 1 February 2021.

Please follow the link above for more information.

The UAF Geophysical Institute presents the virtual 2021 Science for Alaska Lecture Series. Tune in at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays to learn about exciting science from measuring the aurora, monitoring whale populations with unmanned aircraft, and participating in the largest Arctic expedition in history. RSVP to watch on Zoom or watch live from the UAF or GI Facebook pages.

What can geophysics tell us about the aurora borealis, and how do scientists measure its activity? In this talk, we’ll show how an advanced array of geophysical equipment installed across the state of Alaska is shedding new light on one of the Arctic’s oldest wonders. Scientists are redefining how we see the aurora, using everything from Alaska’s six all-sky cameras to devices that measure space weather. Join us as we take you on a tour of these changing views, from the 1716 discovery that the aurora is magnetic, to the new discovery that magnetic sensors in some 200 seismometers installed across Alaska — normally used to measure earthquakes — can be tuned to measure the aurora’s fluctuations.

Talks are free and for the public. All ages are encouraged to attend. This is the second in a series of six free, public lectures for the virtual 2021 Science for Alaska Lecture Series.

With the uncertainties surrounding COVID-19 and priority to ensure the health and safety of all our attendees, the Alaska Forum on the Environment 2021 will be offered as a virtual event through Alaska Connect, a new online training and events platform in partnership with Knik Tribe. Thanks to this partnership, technical sessions and environmental trainings will now be offered through Alaska Connect all year long. To keep the tradition of AFE, enhanced content, trainings and world-renown keynotes will still take place February 8-11, 2021.

Sign up for an individual or business subscription to Alaska Connect and attend all the trainings you want throughout the year or sign up for a week-long event pass and attend the sessions during the week of AFE.

Topics presented:

• Climate change
• Energy
• Science
• Contaminated sites, cleanup, and remediation
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Federal facilities
• Fish, wildlife, habitat, forests, and invasive species
• Marine debris
• Oil spill prevention and response
• Pollution prevention
• Resource revelopment
• Engineering and technology
• Solid waste and recycling
• Sustainability
• Tribal / rural issues
• Youth

In light of common interests and prospects for cooperation in the Arctic, this international virtual symposium will convene representatives, scholars, and experts from Japan, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of South Korea, and the United States to share their countries’ unique Arctic interests and policies. Hosted by the Asia Program and the Polar Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, with support from the Government of Japan and the Embassy of Japan in the United States, the symposium will take place at 6:00 to 9:00 PM EST on February 8th and 9th, 2021 (early morning of February 9th and 10th in Japan, China and South Korea).

Speakers will be announced in the coming days; please check the event webpage for the most up-to-date agenda.

Join IARPC Collaborations, the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), and UCIrvine for a virtual Arctic research speed networking event. Over the course of 1.5 hours, researchers will be split into a series of small groups to rapidly get to know one another and brainstorm future collaborations. Groups will be organized across disciplines, with a particular emphasis on grouping social scientists and natural scientists together.

The Arctic Research Virtual Speed Networking event is the first activity in a series designed to provide participants with the opportunity to:

• Network with potential project partners
• Workshop interdisciplinary research ideas
• Meet with Arctic research funders

International Glaciological Society Global Seminar:

Speaking:

• Lavanya Ashokkumar, University of Arizona, "Global Sea-Level Estimates from Glaciers"
• Jakob Steiner, Utrecht University / ICIMOD(Nepal), "Vertical Ice - Ice Cliffs in Greenland, the Alps and the Himalaya"
• Nate Stevens, University of Wisconsin, "Tuning Into the Stick-Slip Channel: Observations of Tight Linkage Between Melt-Season Hydrology and Seismogenic Sliding at Saskatchewan Glacier"

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.

Using Sewage Monitoring to Investigate Infectious Disease, Sponsored by US Arctic Research Commission (USARC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC).

Please join us for a free, virtual workshop featuring guest speakers and panelists from around the world. The two day workshop will cover: An overview of the current state of the science of Wastewater Epidemiology, how this technology is being used during the COVID-19 pandemic, testing goals and potential sampling approaches for Alaska’s unique and varied remote communities and ethical/privacy considerations when conducting these activities in small communities.

The workshop is open to the public, though aimed at health and water/sanitation professionals.

The UAF Geophysical Institute presents the virtual 2021 Science for Alaska Lecture Series. Tune in at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays to learn about exciting science from measuring the aurora, monitoring whale populations with unmanned aircraft, and participating in the largest Arctic expedition in history. RSVP to watch on Zoom or watch live from the UAF or GI Facebook pages.

October 2020 marked the successful completion of MOSAiC, the largest and most extensive Arctic expedition ever undertaken. Researchers from more than 30 nations set off to gain a better understanding of how the Arctic system works: how the interactions between the ocean, sea ice, atmosphere and ecosystem change over the course of an entire year. This spring, the expedition’s success was threatened by the pandemic but it ultimately continued by using preventative measures to safely rotate scientists and crew.

Consequently, what was originally a 2.5 month field deployment for GI scientist Melinda Webster stretched to nearly 5.5 months. The extension of field time was a tremendously positive experience, enriched with opportunities to watch the seasonal evolution of the sea ice cover in the high central Arctic. In this talk, she shares photos and stories to give a behind-the-scenes look at what life was like during the expedition, the science conducted, and the incredible team of people who helped make the mission such a success.

Talks are free and for the public. All ages are encouraged to attend. This is the first in a series of six free, public lectures for the virtual 2021 Science for Alaska Lecture Series.

The long awaited multidisciplinary SIOS workshop on snow research in Svalbard will be held online 1-3 & 5 February. Registration is free and now open! Join us for 4 exciting mornings with focus on snow observations and research, technology development and many other topics.

Snow covers all of Svalbard for up to nine months and affects all spheres of the Earth System. However, we still lack a holistic picture of snow processes and need to develop tools to monitor these processes, and assess risks associated with snow.

This workshop aims to bring together people from different disciplines and backgrounds during 4 half-day sessions in order to develop specific targeted initiatives related to snow science in Svalbard. The focus will be on activities that provide answers to snow related science questions, with focus on activities that:

• help integrate cross-disciplinary studies
• help to develop technologies that can be used to address the above
• develop data management and metadata creation processes that ensure proper archiving, dissemination, and communication

The workshop will comprise two sections, (1) drafting of a research agenda for snow research in Svalbard, and (2) discussions on technology development in the area of snow physics, and will include panel discussions, selected short scientific talks, discussions in break-out groups, and writing sessions on the research agenda draft. Extra time will be allocated for discussions on other relevant topics (community-based observations, data management solutions, etc.).

Who is invited?

• Scientists from all disciplines affected by snow and local stakeholders in Svalbard.
• Engineers and enterprises interested in the development of scientific sensors and technology suitable for measuring physical snow properties under Arctic conditions.