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In November 2019, the US icebreaker RV Sikuliaq headed to the north side of Alaska for a combined oceanographic and biological expedition. The biological work was performed within the ARICE-funded project GO-WEST. GO-WEST aimed to investigate the association of young polar cod (or Arctic cod, Boreogadus saida) with the newly forming sea ice, its prey field and carbon sources. Polar cod is a keystone species of the Arctic food web. The young (0-2 year-old) fish use the under-ice habitat as a foraging ground and shelter from predators. It has been hypothesized that juveniles get entrained with the new sea ice in autumn and use it as a transportation vector over large distances. The changing icescape of the Arctic Ocean will affect this close relationship between fish and sea ice. GO-WEST aimed to sample for the first time young polar cod at the underside of new sea ice between autumn and winter, and to investigate their survival conditions. To this end, we used a Surface and Under-Ice Trawl capable to skim the underside of sea ice. The first results of this expedition show that young polar cod were present in the under-ice habitat throughout the investigation area, along with their main prey species. During this webinar we will briefly explain how the expedition was planned and which logistical obstacles needed to be overcome. We will focus on how the field work was conducted in collaboration with the chief scientist and the crew of RV Sikuliaq, and how first raw data were generated. Finally we will give an outlook on sample elaboration, data processing and publications.

Twenty Years of Svalbard Fieldwork: A Couple of 100 Gigatons of Ice, Lots of Surges, Two Polar Bears and One Pandemic Later

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 NSF Arctic Data Center (https://arcticdata.io) plays a critical support role in archiving and curating the data and software generated by Arctic researchers from diverse disciplines. The Arctic community, comprising natural science and social science researchers, submits data from NSF-funded projects. Through data curation services and domain agnostic tools and infrastructure, the Arctic Data Center works to ensure data are accessible in the most transparent and usable way possible. This interoperability across diverse disciplines within the Arctic community facilitates collaborative research, and is complemented by interoperability between the Arctic Data Center infrastructure and other large scale cyberinfrastructure initiatives.

With the global pandemic, many researchers are having their summer field research seasons cancelled. That doesn't mean that science has to stop! Now is an excellent time to re-use submitted data for synthetic projects. In this webinar, Erin McLean, Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator with the Arctic Data Center, will discuss an overview of the Arctic Data Center; the history, infrastructure, and tools that support long-term preservation of the data and metadata. We will highlight the many features and services offered by the Arctic Data Center before stepping through some best practices for working with data and guidance on how to archive data with the Arctic Data Center. Finally, we will discuss how to search for and reuse data for synthesis studies.

Erin McLean is the Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator with the Arctic Data Center, headquartered at NCEAS in Santa Barbara. She holds a bachelor of arts from Boston University in marine science and English literature and a master of science from the University of Rhode Island in biological and environmental sciences. A scientist, educator, and writer, she has built her career on making science more accessible to all.

Please register for the webinar by May 26th, 2020 by following the link above.

The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Climate Change Program announces a webinar that will include an introduction to the Alaskan and Yukon Rivers Project and the Native Advisory Council application process.

During the webinar, participants can learn about a National Science Foundation Navigating the New Arctic Program-funded project looking at how climate change will affect river ice transportation corridors and fish habitat in Alaskan and Yukon rivers and about how to apply to be on the project’s Native Advisory Council.

The Council will help researchers evaluate input from the broader community and make decisions about research design, output, and more. The Council will also lead the design of an Arctic Rivers Summit Meeting currently scheduled to take place in Anchorage, Alaska during winter 2021/22. The Council’s structure, application process, and consultation fees will be discussed as well as other ways to participate in the project.

For more information and to register, please follow the link above.

Update: Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the XVII Glaciological Symposium scheduled for 26-29 May 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia. The new dates will be 17-20 November 2020.

The XVII Glaciological Symposium will cover a wide range of cryospheric topics. It is expected that for the most part, presentations will describe results of recent investigations devoted to the main key issues of present-day glaciology. Each oral presentation will be allowed 20 minutes, including discussion. Poster sessions and discussion will also be scheduled. Working languages are Russian and English (no simultaneous translation will be provided). Please follow the link above for abstracts requirements.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 2020.

All potential participants (including non-presenters) are invited to register online before February 15, 2020.

Update: Considering the situation with the COVID-19 outbreak, the Scientific Committee has decided to postpone the Colloquium to 17-21 May 2021.

The coastal ocean is under increasing multiple (climate and not-climate) pressures that affect its functioning and health, and compromise the provision of services to the society. The set-up of a scientifically underpinned ecosystem-based management scheme for the coastal ocean requires a thorough understanding of human impacts on the physics, biogeochemistry and biodiversity at large scale. Such a management scheme should be firmly embedded in the science-management-policy interface, taking account of selecting useful and communicable indicators for the ecosystem health, targeting ecosystem services and making use of novel analytical tolls acknowledging the complexity of Drivers-Pressures-Stressors-Impacts-Responses (DPSIR) interactions.

The 52nd international colloquium will gather an interdisciplinary community of scientists to overview the progress in our capabilities to understand, monitor and forecast the impact of human activities on coastal marine environments to guarantee a productive and healthy system as requested by the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the UN Sustainable Development Goal 14.

Update: The 54th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), scheduled for May 24-28, 2020 in Ottawa, has been cancelled. This decision was based on the recommendations of local, provincial, and federal governments and public health agencies regarding actions needed to slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect our communities. It was made in collaboration with the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC), the Scientific Program Committee (SPC), the CMOS Executive and Council, and the Delta Hotel. All abstract submission fees and registration fees will be fully refunded through your original method of payment. This will be done automatically and no action is needed on your part. We will process refunds as quickly as possible, but please be patient as this may take several weeks to complete. We have confirmed with the Delta Hotel that all Congress-related hotel reservations have been cancelled. All payments made by exhibitors and sponsors will also be refunded. We will communicate with you later about the scheduling of the 2020 CMOS Annual General Meeting and other business meetings that normally take place during the Congress. These will be held as virtual meetings with remote attendance enabled.

The CMOS Congress in 2020 in Ottawa has the unique opportunity to highlight to policy makers the national observations, research and services that contribute substantively to reduction of society’s risk to extreme weather, climate and environmental events and to outline the challenges facing us in managing our Future Earth environment and societal resilience.

In addition, the Congress can foster cross-disciplinary dialogue amongst research and managerial professionals in meteorology, oceanography, hydrology, earth sciences, environment and social science on challenges facing us nationally and globally.

What measures can be taken to ensure that we have the necessary national and global infrastructure and expertise in place to maintain societal resilience?

Special sessions will be held not only on the use of weather, climate and environmental prediction for risk reduction but also on: (i) protecting Canada’s vast Arctic and sub-Arctic as weather, climate and environment changes and (ii) strengthening cooperation to reduce risks to agriculture and other sectors posed by changing weather and climate.

The Themes under which scientific and technical sessions will be organized are, in no order of priority:

• Risks and Impacts of Climate Change on the Resilience of Major Sectors
• Tornadoes and Other Extreme Weather Events Impacting Canadians
• Oceans and Ice in a Changing Climate
• Floods and Water Crises in Canada and Globally
• Impacts of A Changing Climate in the Arctic
• Climate-Weather-Water and Food
• Pollution of the Air, Water and Ecosystems
• The Cryosphere – Impacts Locally to Globally

Please submit abstracts online via the CMOS web site before 21 February 2020 (extended from February 14).

SIOS invites abstracts from the Svalbard science community working on applications based on Earth Observation, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation. The conference will take place online 4-5 June 2020.

Svalbard is probably the region in the Arctic with the most in situ measurements; still, there are massive gaps. Such data gaps can be filled using frequent satellite-based acquisitions, new product generation using remote sensing, and integration of in situ data with satellite-based information.

This conference will provide a broad platform to various regional and Svalbard-wide studies that are being conducted using EO/RS/GI.

The aim of the conference is to:

• Promote the PhD students, postdocs, researchers, senior scientists and academicians to contribute actively in the SIOS’s special issue on EO/RS/GI.
• Review the state-of-the-art EO/RS/GI applications in Svalbard.
• Provide social experience to the Svalbard scientific community during the difficult time.

The conference is being organised and coordinated by the SIOS-KC, the Remote Sensing Working Group (RSWG), and the guest editors of SIOS’s special issue on EO/RS/GI.

The top five papers presented by Early Career Researchers will be invited to contribute as full papers to the SIOS’s special issue in the Remote Sensing Journal free of charge.

Deadline to submit abstracts: 24 May 2020.

The NASA Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) will convene their 6th Science Team meeting virtually. This is a great opportunity to connect with this major research effort, which has been working in Alaska and western Canada for 6 years and includes a focus on wildland fire disturbance. Relevant presentations will include:

• Understanding the Interactions between Wildfire Disturbance, Landscape Hydrology and Post-Fire Recovery in Boreal-Taiga Ecosystems (Laura Bourgeau-Chavez)
• Assessing impact of climate-driven increase in wildfire emissions on air quality and health of urban and indigenous populations in Alaska (Tatiana Loboda)
• NASA-USFS Partnership to Advance Operational Forest Carbon Monitoring in Interior Alaska (Bruce Cook)

Virtual Poster Session: May 23-31
Virtual Presentations and Breakouts: June 1-4

The Antarctic Sciences (ANT) and Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics (AIL) Sections in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) will be hosting virtual office hours this week to share information with the academic 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 ANT/AIL can do more to address the impact of COVID-19 on researchers.

Current awardees, pending proposers, and future proposers are welcome to attend.

To participate, you must register for a session (follow the link above). Sessions dates and times are as follows. If additional sessions are requested by the community, we will schedule them in the near future.

Wed., May 20, 2020, 3:00PM – 4:00PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Fri., May 22, 2020, 1:00PM – 2:00PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.