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The Migration in Harmony Research Coordination Network (MiH-RCN) announces a Whale Acoustics Webinar from the Gulf of Alaska. Presented by students from the Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka, Alaska, this webinar will highlight their important contributions to marine mammal research through the internship and technology training program SeaTech. Researchers from NOAA Fisheries and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as well as staff and alumni of Mt. Edgecumbe, will also be presenting. This webinar will focus on the Arctic, marine mammals, acoustics, and exploring collaborative approaches to science-based education and outreach.

There is no fee for this event, however, registration is required.

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter's local time): August 18, 2020.

The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects about a broad range of topics may be appropriate for support if they enhance fundamental geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated geographical research. National Science Foundation's mandate is to support basic scientific research. Support is provided for projects that are most effective in grounding research in relevant theoretical frameworks relevant to HEGS, that focus on questions that emanate from the theoretical discussions, and that use scientific methods to answer those questions. HEGS supported projects are expected to yield results that will enhance, expand, and transform fundamental geographical theory and methods, and that will have positive broader impacts that benefit society.

The HEGS Program recognizes that geography is a broad discipline that includes the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. However, HEGS does not fund research that is solely humanistic, non-science. A proposal to the HEGS Program must explain how the research will contribute to geographic and spatial scientific theory and/or methods development, and how the results are generalizable beyond the case study. It should be noted that HEGS is situated in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at NSF. Therefore, it is critical that research projects submitted to the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program illustrate how the proposed research is relevant and important to people and societies. A proposal that fails to be responsive to these program expectations will be returned without review.

Please follow the link above for complete details.

Scientific research into complex coastal systems and the interplay with coastal hazards is vital for predicting, responding to and mitigating threats in these regions. Understanding the risks associated with coastal hazards requires a holistic Earth Systems approach that integrates improved understanding of and, where possible, predictions about natural, social, and technological processes with efforts to increase the resilience of coastal systems. The Coastlines and People program supports diverse, innovative, multi-institution awards that are focused on critically important coastlines and people research that is integrated with broadening participation goals. The objective of this solicitation is to support Coastal Research Hubs, structured using a convergent science approach, at the nexus between coastal sustainability, human dimensions, and coastal processes to transform understanding of interactions among natural, human-built, and social systems in coastal, populated environments.

Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. submitter's local time): August 10, 2020.

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter's local time): September 09, 2020.

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You are invited to take place in the virtual mini-symposium on "Advances in Permafrost Modeling", originally scheduled to take place at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE20). You can join the talks via Zoom.

The synopsis:

Over the past decade, the Arctic has warmed at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe. As a result, the Arctic has shifted to a new normal. This new normal includes rapid thawing of permafrost. Permafrost ecosystems contain billions of tons of organic carbon trapped in frozen soil. Thawing permafrost is potentially releasing globally-relevant quantities of greenhouse gases in a process termed the permafrost climate feedback. Recent model estimates of net permafrost greenhouse gas release do not agree in magnitude or even sign, demonstrating that current modeling frameworks still cannot account for internal and external complexities in this system. Fundamentally, permafrost thaw is a phase transition phenomenon, such as a solid turning into a liquid, albeit on large regional scales and over a period of time which depends on environmental forcing and complex interactions among surface collapse, hydrology, and vegetation. It may, therefore, be fruitful to investigate permafrost degradation in ways that are mathematically analogous to related phenomena in phase transition theory. In this mini-symposium, we present the speakers from mathematics as well from geoscience to discuss how mathematics helps to advance permafrost and permafrost ecosystem models and how permafrost modeling may be urging newly discovers in phase transition theory.

The full information about this event, zoom link, and materials can be found on the web-page.

The Arctic Policy Study Group meets weekly on Wednesdays at 8 a.m. (AKDT) throughout the summer and early fall. Please join to explore the issues critical to the region and to the state of Alaska.

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

Talks by the 2020 Graham Cogley Award winners. Carlo Licciulli "Full Stokes Ice-Flow Modeling of the High-Alpine Glacier Saddle Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps" and Paul Weber "Producing an ~1899 Glacier Inventory for Nordland, Northern Norway, From Historical Maps."

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 International Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) announces a National Science Foundation Arctic Program Manager Chat presenting an August update of their COVID-19 response. This webinar will take place on 5 August 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (10:00 a.m. AKDT).

Join the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a program manager chat about COVID-19 impacts to NSF operations. The Arctic Sciences (ARC) Sections in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) will be offering a virtual office hour to share information with the polar research community regarding NSF’s current operations. These office hours will also allow the community to ask questions, share concerns, and/or offer suggestions on how ARC can do more to address the impact of COVID-19 on researchers.

All are welcome to attend this webinar.

The United Nations declared 2019 to be the International Year of Indigenous Languages, focusing the attention on the risks confronting languages, especially those significant for development, reconciliation, good governance and peace building. It aims to improve quality of life, wider international cooperation and visibility and strengthen intercultural dialogue to reaffirm the continuity of indigenous languages and cultures.

Sharing experiences and knowledge about Indigenous Languages is fundamental in Indigenous society. A primary way to share knowledge is through storytelling and sharing the knowledge learnt from others and in the world around us.

In this two-part series our panelists will be speaking in-depth about the programs and resources used to help preserve and nurture the Indigenous Languages within their communities. The panelists are going to share with the audience the tools and practices they learned through activities that work for them in their journey to preserving languages and creating speakers.

Hosting a webinar in this sector and of this nature is important to spread the information that has been learnt from others to connect our audience with other regions to share valuable lessons and learn from their experiences of reclaiming or sustaining their languages, culture and traditions. We are creating a space to gather information that has worked for these panelists and are here taking the time to share with our viewers.

This Webinar is open to Northerners and members of EGA, CEGN, IFIP and BFG, however, there are limited seats available, so please make sure to register in advance.

SCAR’s Open Science Conferences have been a focal point for the Antarctic research community for over fifteen years. Through SCAR 2020 Online we are excited to present many of the highlights of the science we had originally planned to bring to you at the Hobart OSC, which was sadly cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

All the activities of SCAR 2020 Online will take place via the OnAIR event portal. To join you will need to register (follow the link above). Once you have registered you will receive a confirmation email. Your login details for the OnAIR portal will be sent to you on July 20. If you register after July 20, login details will be sent to you immediately upon registering.

Access to the portal is via your browser and there is no extra software to download.

Registration is free and open to everybody.

SCAR 2020 Online is more than a live event – it is a collection of opportunities for researchers to engage with each other, and for those outside of research to find out more about this exciting field.

• invited speakers will be delivering a range of plenary sessions, workshops and symposia
• authors of accepted abstracts for the cancelled Hobart OSC will be sharing material for view and comment before and after the meeting
• a number of text-based chat sessions and virtual poster sessions are planned

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) invites comments on the next Arctic Research Plan.

IARPC is initiating development of the next Arctic Research Plan, as called for in the Arctic Research Policy Act (ARPA) of 1984 (15 U.S.C. 4108). The Plan aims to strengthen interagency communication, coordination, and collaboration of the 14 Federal agencies, departments and offices that make up IARPC. The Plan will address critical needs in Arctic research and identify those areas where research in the Arctic can be improved through interagency collaboration.

IARPC will begin developing the next 5-year Arctic Research Plan and wants to know what should be included. Your thoughts and ideas are valued and welcome.

A scoping Federal Register Notice (FRN) for the next Arctic Research Plan was published on 3 April 2020 and will be open for comments until 2 July 2020. The full FRN is available online (see link above).

Comments can be made via the Federal Register or email to IARPCPlan [at] nsf.gov

Input deadline extended to: 2 August 2020.

For more information on Plan development, go here.