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NEWS April 6th, 2020:
The organizing team is following closely the global development of COVID-19. At the moment, the meeting is NOT CANCELLED. We will keep the PALSEA community informed through the mailing list. At the moment, we invite potential attendees NOT TO MAKE ANY TRAVEL PLANS until we confirm the meeting dates.

The PalSea Meeting will take place 14-16 September, 2020 at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York.

This meeting will focus on developing a better understanding of the physical processes that drive ice sheet collapse and solid earth deformation. These processes are highly uncertain due to a lack of observational constraints, yet they are the dominant drivers for local sea level change. Overcoming this uncertainty requires drawing from observations and expertise from a variety of fields complementary to PALSEA and SERCE including rheology, hydrology, glaciology, and geodesy. In this meeting, we aim to bring empiricists and modelers from the sea level and ice sheet communities together in order to unify solid Earth deformation and ice sheet evolution across time and spatial scales. Pairing our improved understanding of physical processes with enhanced paleo datasets will allow us to narrow in on ice sheet contributions to past sea level rise.

The first day of the meeting will be dedicated to better understanding past sea level, solid Earth deformation, and the glacial isostatic adjustment process. The second day will be dedicated to presentations addressing cutting-edge constraints on paleo ice sheets including ice sheet modeling and ice margin constraints. During the third day of the meeting we will address data stewardship in the sea level modeling community in breakout groups. In particular we will (1) try to establish best practices for the documentation, distribution, and citation of numerical code, (2) review what benchmarking across different 1D and 3D GIA codes exist and / or should be done, and (3) understand how ice and sea level model output should be made available to the community (what format, what platform).

Abstract submission is now online. Please submit your abstract through this form. Abstract submission will close July 1st 2020. Registration will open later and will close August 10th 2020.

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.

During the Third Polar Data Forum (PDF) held in Helsinki in November of 2019, members of the Polar Data Community gathered to share information and knowledge and to make practical progress towards greater data sharing and interoperability. PDF III followed on a series of meetings that have resulted in continuing advancements in the areas of federated search, identification and development of shared vocabularies and formal semantics, data policy, community building and other topics. Since PDF III, the dialogue has continued. In March and early April, the Arctic data community met during the online Arctic Observing Summit. The Standing Committee on Arctic Data Management (SCADM) and members of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Program have met meeting regularly. There is broad agreement between these groups and the IASC-SAON Arctic Data Committee (ADC) that meeting more frequently will help us to continue making practical progress on our shared goals.

During these challenging times, meeting in person is not feasible. However, recent online events have demonstrated that we can successfully collaborate using virtual tools.

We would like to invite you to join us online on June 30th to continue our efforts to enhance polar data sharing and interoperability. This will be the first of a planned bi-monthly series of online workshops convened by the ADC, SCADM, SOOS, the Arctic Observing Summit Working Group 4, the Global Cryosphere Watch, and the World Data System on behalf of the polar data community.

A detailed agenda, objectives and a registration link will be shared in the coming days/weeks. The general draft agenda is as follows:

1. Meeting kickoff (plenary) (30 minutes): Overview of recent developments and objectives for the meeting.
2. Breakout Working Group 1: Federated Search. Hosted by POLDER
   • Share developments in the area of metadata aggregation with particular focus on schema.org
   • Discussion of linking schema.org to other metadata standards and services (e.g. ISO 19115/ OGC CSW)
   • Identify key shared metadata vocabularies in use
3. Breakout Working Group 2: Vocabularies and Semantics. Hosted by the ADC-IARPC-SCADM Vocabularies and Semantics Working Group
   • Determine how to work on the Best Practices part of science on schema.org
   • Work on Time, space, and other sections of science On Schema.org not addressed at PDF III
   • Understanding the process for contributing to community ontologies (e.g. ENVO)
4. Breakout Working Group 3: Policy. Hosted by SCADM, SOOS and the Arctic Data Committee (Stein Tronstad lead): At the third Polar Data Forum a process was initiated to update and align the data policies of IASC, SCAR, SOOS and potentially other polar science groups. We aim to move this process forward by forming a bipolar group to work on objectives and core principles of an updated, «bipolar» data policy document. During this initial webinar we will also be looking at the rationales and key principles of some important international data policies.

This discussion will also engage representatives from the global data community to ensure broad interoperability.

Registration for the Polar to Global Online Interoperability and Data Sharing Workshop/Hackathon is now open. Due to the constraints of our virtual platform, participation is limited. Registration is required. Connection information for the virtual meeting will be provided to registered participants closer to the event time.

To register, please complete the form linked above.

Given the low chance that we will be able to hold the physical conference safely and that you will be able to register and travel in June, we want to use the current situation to test a new online format for FRISP 2020.

We plan four sessions (each session will last about 3 hours) on the following dates:

• 16.06 (Tuesday), 2pm CET
• 17.06 (Wednesday), 8am CET
• 24.06 (Wednesday), 5pm CET
• 25.06 (Thursday), 10am CET

The plan is to host these meetings at alternating times during the week so that we can accommodate as many people as possible, given different time zones etc.

For details on the agenda and to register (without fee) please follow the link above.

Registration and abstract submission closes on 31 May 2020. We will send out a detailed schedule and information on the online format soon thereafter.

For those of you who have already registered and booked accommodation at the Döllnsee, your registration fee has been refunded – if any issues arise, please contact us as frisp2020 at pik-potsdam.de. We also kindly ask you to register again for the virtual meeting so we can make sure to include everyone in the workshop.

Please direct any questions about FRISP to frisp2020 at pik-potsdam.de

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.

Great stories can change the world, and you have one to tell! Join the Migration in Harmony NSF-Research Coordination Network and our collaborator, award-winning filmmaker Mike Snyder, in this virtual workshop to learn how you should think about your research topics and expereinces in the context of a story, how to develop photographer and videographer partnerships, and how to pitch your work to different outlets.

Michael O. Snyder is a photographer, filmmaker, and environmental scientist who uses his combined knowledge of visual storytelling and conservation to create narratives that connect people to the other-than-human-world and drive social change. As founder of Interdependent Pictures, he has directed films in the Arctic and his Arctic science storytelling has been featured in National Geographic.

Migration In Harmony is an international, cross-disciplinary network of Arctic migration researchers funded by the National Science Foundation.

COVID-19 Update: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, Arctic Shipping Forum has been postponed to 23-25 September 2020. All participants and sponsors currently registered for the event have automatically been registered for the September edition of the event. No further action is necessary to confirm your participation.

Developing technological capabilities. Improving emergency response. Securing a sustainable future for shipping in the Arctic.

Follow the link above for more information.

Due to the current situation with COVID-19, the IPA Executive Committee decided that the 12th International (ICOP2020) in Lanzhou, China is postponed to 20-24 June 2022. The Local Organizing Committee will take efforts for a successful conference two years later. The Local Organizing Committee wishes that all the abstracts will be reserved to ICOP 2022, and the registration fee will be refunded to you soon.

Thanks for the understanding on the situation. We hope that the epidemic will soon be over and we will talk about the development of permafrost science and research in the 12th ICOP.

The 12th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP2020) will be held in Lanzhou, China. The general theme of the congress is “Permafrost Environment Under Persistent Warming: Challenges for Scientific Assessment & Engineering Practice”.

Sessions will include:

1. Engineering – construction and design
2. Frost heave and thaw subsidence
3. Carbon biogeochemistry
4. Coastlines
5. Geohazards
6. Remote Sensing
7. Education

The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for July and the summer season. Join the gathering online to learn more about Alaska climate and weather.

Please follow the link above to register.

Ground-surface disturbances, including wildfires, deforestation, and climate change, alter the thermal status of permafrost leading landscape changes in Polar Regions. Given the increasing number of reports about rapid permafrost thaw and predicted occurrence of wildfires in the Arctic, it is of great social concern to know where and to what extent permafrost degradation is currently ongoing and may occur in the near future. This is true, especially in ice-rich permafrost zones, as consequential subsidence by ice-rich permafrost thaw (thermokarst) will cause significant changes in surface ecology, landscape evolution, and hydrological processes.

This presentation introduces several case studies on thermokarst subsidence observed in the field and by remote sensing in various time ranges. Field surveys and microwave remote sensing analyses were conducted to quantify thermokarst after surface disturbances in boreal forests of NE Siberia and tundra fire scars in Alaska.

Please follow the link above to register.