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We are pleased to announce this call for abstracts for the APECS Polar Career Workshop. We invite individuals early in their careers to submit their application to present a video/thesis/presentation - there is no restriction on topics.

Individuals from underrepresented and non-academic backgrounds are encouraged to submit a proposal. The event will consist of a day of workshops on a range of topics, a series of presentations, and keynote speakers. Details of topics and items to be confirmed.

Application deadline: 2 October 2020
Event Date: 14 October 2020

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

We invite you to join us virtually to share results, discuss new ideas, and to build collaborations with fellow glaciologists from the northwest and around the world.

As always, the meeting will be informal with an emphasis on highlighting the work of students and early career scientists. We strongly encourage presentations about the new, the controversial, and the possibly-hairbrained.

The website (linked above) will be updated regularly with new information. As is tradition, there is no formal registration. However, to roughly gauge the expected number of attendees, to figure out session themes, and to provide participants with the Zoom password, we would appreciate if you would fill out the registration form.

Please direct any questions to northwestglaciologists2020 [at] gmail.com

YOUMARES 11 and Covid-19:

This year, YOUMARES embraces technology with a hybrid conference. A small physical event will be complimented by an online interactive streaming of the sessions. We ensure all our participants that the physical conference will take place with compliance to health and safety regulations.

In a world facing numerous environmental emergencies, the challenges for scientists and engineers to define problems and find solutions are becoming increasingly urgent. We believe in the power of shared knowledge and want to JOIN FORCES from the marine realm at this year’s YOUMARES 11 conference. No matter if you are a marine scientist, marine engineer, innovator in the marine field, belonging to an NGO, a social scientist or an expert in marine governance and policy WE INVITE YOU to create an interdisciplinary hotspot with us.

YOUMARES, decoded as – YOUng MARine RESearchers – is an international marine conference for early career researchers initiated by the working group on “Studies and Education” of the German Society for Marine Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Meeresforschung – DGM) in 2009.

This year’s YOUMARES will be co-hosted by the GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, taking place at the GEOMAR Campus “Seefischmarkt” in Kiel.

In 2020 YOUMARES wants to create a platform for intra- and transdisciplinary exchange as we believe in the power of shared skills and knowledge under the headline – JOINING FORCES – Science, Tech and People.

We are calling for advanced students, early career scientists, and young innovators to host a session at YOUMARES 11. As a group or as a single person you have the unique opportunity to give your science or expertise a platform. You define your session, invite your speakers, design your program, and finally chair your session.

See the link above for more information.

Due to COVID-19, it has been decided to postpone #ArcticCircle2020. The 2021 Assembly is scheduled for October 14-17.

The annual Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from 60 countries. It is attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, indigenous representatives, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the future of the Arctic.

Please follow the link above for the most up-to-date information.

The Byrd Center's 2020 Climate Symposium was developed with input from last year’s participants, the intent of this year’s symposium is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration on climate change research at OSU.

Discussion and planning are facilitated through the use of Breakout Groups in two sessions. Each session will start with short preview talks on each of the proposed discussion topics, followed by 1 hour of group discussions, run concurrently, with a designated leader and rapporteur. Each session will end with a plenary discussion of next steps.

Registration is required.

For detailed information about the Byrd Center Symposium on Climate Change, please visit the link above.

Throughout October, IARPC Collaborations will be holding a "MOSAiC Month" focused on the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, MOSAiC is the first year-round expedition into the central Arctic exploring the Arctic climate system. The backbone of MOSAiC is the year-round operation of R/V Polarstern, which has been drifting with the sea ice across the central Arctic with researchers setting up a distributed regional network of observational sites.

This webinar serves as an introduction and overview of the MOSAiC expedition. All are welcome to attend. Please follow the link above to register.

The Byrd Center's 2020 Climate Symposium will kick off with a keynote lecture by speaker Richard Alley, Falling dominoes? Ice, climate, sea level and our future, virtually via Zoom.

Sea level is rising because of human-caused warming, impacting coastal communities. Shrinkage of the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland is contributing, and could accelerate in the future. History and physics show that warming melts ice, and that too much warming triggers rapid iceberg calving. Visitors to Glacier Bay in Alaska now sail more than 60 miles into a fjord that held ice up to a mile thick when George Vancouver visited in 1794, and many other fjords have rapidly “unzipped” into their mountains or ice sheet. If a similar retreat is triggered in any of the major Antarctic basins holding far more ice, more than 10 feet of additional sea-level rise could occur in the following century or less. Exciting scientific advances will be needed to reduce the remaining large uncertainties.

For detailed information about the Byrd Center Symposium on Climate Change, visit https://byrd.osu.edu/symposium/2020/climate-change-research-at-osu

The second Arctic Resilience Forum will be held online as a series of ten weekly webinars launching on October 7, 2020. Each session touches on a specific aspect of Arctic resilience, ranging from food security and Indigenous youth leadership, to gender, energy and connectivity. The forum seeks to actively engage participants in conversations about how to build resilience of Arctic communities and ecosystems. It offers the opportunity to discuss concrete best practices and experiences from the Council and the broader community of circumpolar experts and knowledge holders. The Arctic Resilience Forum aims to continue to strengthen cooperation on resilience work.

The Arctic Resilience Forum will be convened every Wednesday from 11:30am – 1:00pm (EST) over a series of ten weeks, beginning October 7, 2020. The online series seeks to engage a broad audience in conversations about how to build the resilience of Arctic communities and ecosystems across a variety of focus areas, including:

• October 7: Indigenous Youth Leadership
• October 14: Food Security
• October 21: Renewable Energy
• October 28: Human Health and Pandemics
• November 11: Broadband Connectivity
• November 18: Gender
• November 25: Socio-Ecological Resilience
• December 9: Infrastructure
• December 16: Respecting Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Follow the link above to learn more, register, and to get updates for the whole Arctic Resilience Forum series. Individual session pages will open up with registration for specific events approximately one week in advance. Russian language translation will be available for all session.

Unfortunately, due to the recent developments in the COVID pandemic in Latin America and especially in Chile, the 2020 local committee in consultation with the National committee has decided to postpone the 3rd Annual Chilean Cryosphere Society Meeting (SOCHICRI) to March 2021. The specific dates will be communicated soon. Considering the uncertainty regarding the spread of the virus, a new date in March of the following year will allow us to develop a hybrid meeting, with in-person and interactive online attendance. The in-person version of the meeting will still be held in the Vicerrectoría de Investigación, Universidad de Concepción. We are now contacting the authors who have already submitted abstracts and paid the fees in order to allow them to withdraw and arrange refunds, if they require to. Nevertheless, the submission platform will be activated this week, remaining open for more submissions until November 30th, 2020 in order to allow interested researchers who would like to participate in the next year event.

So, the SOCHICRI team would like to reiterate the previous invitation to all researchers, professionals and students from Chile and abroad to participate in the annual meeting, organized by the Geography and Geophysics Departments of Concepcion University in Chile.

We invite you to send your abstract through the following online form. Your contribution can focus on any part of the cryosphere subjects, and can include field- or theory-based studies, remote sensing, simulations, legal frameworks, impact and/or risk analyses, water resource assessments and others. Please follow the instructions on the online form to register for the conference and to mention your preferred presentation format (oral or poster).

The closing date for abstracts is November 30, 2020.

The Chilean Cryosphere Society (SOCHICRI) is a non-profit scientific association that brings together national and international scientists and professionals who work on issues related to the cryosphere, the glacial and periglacial environment.

SOCHICRI brings together specialists from different disciplines from both the academic and private worlds who work in the study of the national, South American and Antarctic cryosphere.

SOCHICRI's objective is to maintain communication bridges between professionals and academics in the study of cryospheres; promote new studies; increase the dissemination of new knowledge and support civil society in understanding the national cryosphere.

International Glaciological Society Global Seminar #23:

Fiamma Straneo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego: "Ahoy Captain Is That a Glacier up Ahead? Lessons Learned From Working at Greenland's Marine Margins".

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.