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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.

International Glaciological Society Global Seminar:

Speaking: Adrian Luckman, Swansea University, "Larsen C and Brunt Ice Shelves - Ice Dynamics, Rifts and Stuff".

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 EGU General Assembly 2021, traditionally held each spring in Vienna, Austria, will instead take place entirely online due to the continuing risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions on international travel. While we deeply regret another missed opportunity to meet with colleagues and friends in person next year, we’re committed to graciously accepting circumstances that are beyond our control and continuing the Union’s efforts to minimize the impacts of COVID-19 on Earth, planetary, and space science research.

EGU is therefore excited to announce that we will instead host vEGU21: Gather Online (#vEGU21). This virtual event will be an entirely different experience from last year’s meeting, Sharing Geoscience Online, which we had just five weeks to plan. vEGU21 will provide a much more complete representation of the experience that EGU members enjoy at the annual meeting in Vienna.

vEGU21, which will be accessible from around the globe, will feature the 2020 and 2021 awards ceremonies and lectures, mentoring, networking events, and many more activities in addition to nearly 700 scientific sessions. The current plan is to extend the meeting dates to 19–30 April but to schedule all technical sessions during the last week of April.

With this announcement, EGU and its conference partner, Copernicus Meetings, are opening the meeting’s call for abstracts on 3 November 2020. The extended deadline for abstracts is Wednesday, 20 January at 13:00 CET. The Abstract Processing Charge (APC) will remain the same as in previous years.

Since EGU will be offering a more complete experience in 2021, we will be charging a registration fee, but the cost will be substantially lower than for an in-person annual meeting. In addition, the Roland Schlich travel support scheme will be replaced by a registration fee waiver for participants from lower- and lower-middle income countries. The final details regarding the registration fees will be released by 20 November.

Commonwealth North is pleased to host the honorable Ranj Pallai, Deputy Premier of the Yukon Territory, Canada. In addition to his role as deputy premier, Mr. Pallai serves as Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Minister of Economic Development, Minister responsible for the Yukon Development Corporation, and the Yukon Energy Corporation.

Deputy Premier Pallai will address efforts to manage the COVID pandemic, natural resources, including mining and the Skagway Ore Terminal, the Yukon economy, climate change, community development, reconciliation, and cooperation.

The program is free of charge but please register to receive login details.

The IceCube community is hosting a second Polar Science Workshop that will be held online. The main purposes of this workshop are to solicit a scan on research ideas regarding the planned upgrade of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at South Pole, and to continue to promote exchange between our two fields of glaciology and neutrino astronomy. In particular, we hope seek input and proposals from the glaciology community on experiments and instrumentation complementary to the planned array of drilled boreholes as part of the IceCube neutrino array.

We would like to focus our attention on the following topics, but please let us know if you have additional fields of interest:

• Rapid Access Drilling (RAID) at the South Pole and the possibility of a long term open hole
• SPICEcore physical properties (in particular grain size, elongation, orientation and fabric), expected hole lifetime and borehole logging
• Modeling of optical and radio propagation in birefringent polycrystals with crystal preferred orientation (CPO and COF)
• Glaciology instrumentation in the IceCube Upgrade and IceCube Gen2
• Data interests (both in terms of IceCube data (temperatures, images, ice analyses, ...) for glaciology, as well as glaciological data being interesting to the IceCube detector modelling)
• Drilling technology and logistics
• Bedrock morphology and characteristics
• Englacial heterogeneities and structures, layering architecture

Please follow the link above to register and for information about abstract submission.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IASSA Council has voted unanimously to postpone ICASS X from June 2020 to June 2021.

Read more here.

ICASS X Organizing Committee has committed to work on a conference format that will include both in-person and online options.
Given the uncertainties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, we are closely looking at having a hybrid format that includes both in-person and virtual options. The Organizing Committee and IASSA Council are committed to do everything possible to ensure that everyone who would like to participate in the Congress is able to do so, either in-person or online. Although we still plan to have a significant portion of the meeting in Arkhangelsk, we are currently exploring options and costs of providing participation alternatives. We are aware that having a hybrid conference may affect the costs of attendance and the ability to have a meaningful conference experience for all participants. We realize that we are constrained by the technology on the ground in Arkhangelsk and via the Internet. Given these considerations, we are working on a most practical solution.

At this time we have not made any final decisions on exact details of the format. The ICASS X Organizing Committee meets every few weeks and will be regularly updating you on our decision process as more information becomes available.

The theme of ICASS X is Arctic Generations: Looking Back and Looking Forward. Research on social sciences and humanities have a great responsibility to address the challenges for sustainable development in the Arctic, with a specific focus on past, present, and future generations of Arctic residents. The generational nature of changes and responses have lately become more recognized by many policymakers and researchers. A focus on generations highlights the long-term, fundamental nature, and scope of changes, impacts, and adaptation strategies. Another focus of ICASS X is Indigenous knowledge and inter- and transdisciplinary research in the Arctic.

Organizers welcome sessions and papers on all facets of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. ICASS will also welcome contributions on all other subjects of relevance to IASSA members.

ICASS X themes will include:

• Archaeology
• Arctic Futures, Scenarios, and Prospects
• Arctic Infrastructure
• Arctic People, Generations, and Places
• Arctic Youth and Generational Relations
• Art and Design
• Cultures
• Economy, Labor, and Development in the Arctic
• Environment and Climate Change
• Gender in the Arctic
• Governance
• Health and Well-Being
• History
• Indigenous Knowledge and Knowledge Co-production
• Indigenous Societies
• International Relations and Science Diplomacy in the Arctic
• Knowledge Systems and Education
• Languages
• Law and Legal Regimes in the Arctic
• Literature
• Migrations and Mobilities
• Museums and Heritage
• Religion and Spirituality
• Research Methodologies
• Resource and Extractive Industries
• Settlements in the Arctic
• Social Work in the Arctic
• Sustainability
• Technology and Innovation in the Arctic
• Tourism

Call for Abstracts has been sent and the submission is open. The deadline has been extended to January 15, 2021. We encourage you to submit abstracts and respond to a survey on the acceptable format of the conference embedded in the abstract submission form. This will help us to determine what to do.

For questions, contact:
Andrey Petrov
Email: andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu
Phone: 319-464-9966

This webinar will introduce the latest National Science Foundation Navigating the New Arctic Solicitation (NNA), NSF 21-524.

Program officers will highlight major changes from the previous solicitation, review goals of the NNA program, and be available for a Q&A session.

NSF staff who will be joining include Greg Anderson, Irina Dolinskaya, Katia Kontar, Siobhán Mattison, Madeline Midyette, Kate Ruck, Colleen Strawhacker, Jielun Sun, and Jonathan Wynn.

International Glaciological Society Global Seminar:

Full title: Hiatus of Mass Losses From Hurd and Johnsons Glaciers, Livingston Island, During the Regional Cooling Period 2002-2016 of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula

Speaking: Francisco Navarro, Madrid, Spain

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.

Commonwealth North is pleased to host the honorable Caroline Cochrane, Premier of the Northwest Territories, Canada. In addition to her role as premier, Ms. Cochrane serves as Minister of Executive & Indigenous Affairs, Minister Responsible for the COVID-19 Coordinating Secretariat, and Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.

Premier Cochrane will address natural resource development policies and meaningful engagement of indigenous peoples in economic self-determination and Arctic policy; opportunities for Alaska-NWT cooperation on energy, telecommunications, and transportation infrastructure; and fostering communication and cooperation between Alaska and the Northwest Territories on Arctic policy and international NGOs.

The program is free of charge but please register to receive login details.

Daniel S. Hamilton and Kristina Spohr present their new book The Arctic and World Order in conversation with Mike Sfraga, Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson of Iceland, currently the Chair of Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council, and fellow authors, including Wilson Fellow Lawson Brigham and Université de Montréal professor Suzanne Lalonde.

The Arctic, long described as the world’s last frontier, is quickly becoming our first frontier – the place where the contours of our rapidly evolving world may first be glimpsed. The Arctic has become the front line in a world of more diffuse power, sharper geopolitical competition, and deepening interdependencies between people and nature. A space of often bitter cold, the Arctic is the fastest-warming place on earth. It is humanity’s canary in the coal mine – an early warning sign of the world’s climate crisis.

In this new book, scholars and practitioners – from Anchorage to Moscow, from Nuuk to Hong Kong – explore the huge political, legal, social, economic, geostrategic and environmental challenges confronting the Arctic regime, and what this means for the future of world order.