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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 the coming months. Feel free to bring your lunch and join the gathering in person or online to learn more about Alaska climate and weather.

Available online or in-person at: Room 407 in the Akasofu Building on the UAF Campus in Fairbanks.

We strongly encourage pre-registration for webinars. It helps speakers tailor their presentations to the audience. Follow the link above to register.

The radar remote sensing discipline is going through a series of exciting changes right now. Increasingly free-and-open access to SAR data, improved sensor technologies, and a wealth of brand-new automatic processing services have been transforming the science and applications portfolio that can be serviced by radar sensors. This presentation will introduce you to some of these recent developments, specifically focusing on current and upcoming sensors as well as on new data products and services offered by the Alaska Satellite Facility, NASA’s prime data center for SAR data.

Please register in advance for the seminars - it appears that you can't register during the seminar itself, but you have already registered you should be able to use the same link as last week. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the seminar. Once you have registered please check the link.

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 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.

The Polar Research Board will be holding a short open session at the (virtual) Spring Board meeting. The session will include updates from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), and presentations from agency representatives. A more detailed agenda and meeting connection information will be available closer to the event.

RSVP by Friday, May 15.

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is proud to announce the much awaited 6th annual APECS International Online Conference to go live on 19 May 2020. This year’s theme, "Opening Doors: Collaboration Across Knowledge Systems" aims to encourage collaboration between early career researchers, science communicators, educators, and local community members in polar and alpine regions.

The 6th edition of the APECS International Online Conference will focus on knowledge exchange among multidisciplinary scientists, local communities, educators and science communicators. In a fast changing world, we believe it is important to pair traditional knowledge, education, and outreach with science efforts to better understand present and future challenges to the polar regions. This sort of comprehensive approach is best achieved by incorporating knowledge from a diverse array of disciplines and perspectives and is especially important for guiding policy-making. Through this conference, we hope to gain a better understanding of the many ways that Indigenous knowledge, science communication, and art can benefit our research. With this, APECS calls for early career researchers, science communicators and educators to come forward with a short presentation outlining their approach for promoting collaboration in polar science. This year’s conference will also introduce online breakout chat rooms through the Zoom platform, to foster interactions between presenters and attendees and to enable future collaboration. Within our team, we have science communication experts that will assist as facilitators in these chats.

Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: 14 April 2020.

A virtual conference organized and hosted by the US Naval War College, the Wilson Center's Polar Institute, and the US Arctic Research Commission about the impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic. Please register to receive Zoom connection information, and updates to the program.

COVID-19 threatens the Arctic region with new challenges to human life, economic prosperity, and the fabric of communities. Ongoing climate and environmental change further compound the challenges facing Arctic communities.

In light of these unprecedented, intersecting challenges, the US Naval War College, the Wilson Center's Polar Institute, and the US Arctic Research Commission will co-host a virtual conference on the impacts of COVID-19 in the Arctic. Over two days, the conference will feature a series of panels focusing on Arctic community health, economic activities, US Coast Guard Operations, scientific research, international impacts, and more. Speakers will include leading voices from Arctic communities, federal and state agencies, academia, international entities, and the private sector.

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

Learn about our most current and exciting research through fast and informal virtual talks presented by Byrd Center PIs, Postdocs, and Grad students.

Everyone is welcome to attend via Zoom! Please follow the link above to register.

• Monday, May 18, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm (EDT)
• Monday, June 1, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm (EDT)
• Monday, June 15, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:30pm (EDT)

Monday, May 18:

Michalea King, Spaceborne perspectives of rapidly changing Greenland outlet glaciers.
Michael Durand, Measuring the Water Cycle.
Audrey Sawyer, Modeling groundwater flow and heat transport near water track features in Arctic hill slopes.
Emilio Mateo, Current research by the Glacier Environmental Change Group.
Kira Harris, Virtual Reality
Melisa Diaz, Soil geochemistry of the Shackleton Glacier region, Antarctica.

Monday, June 1:

Emilie Beaudon, Paleo-synoptic Changes as Recorded in the Mineral Dust in the Guliya Ice Cap, Northwestern Tibetan Plateau.
Allison Chartrand, Mass balance of ice shelf basal channels.
Devin Smith, Geochemistry and hydrology of Irish rivers.
Chris Gardner, Iron behavior and bioavailability in sub-aerial runoff into the Ross Sea.
Joey Durkin, Re-evaluating the elastic response of the Antarctic continent to present-day ice mass change.
Saurabh Vijay, The influence of Greenland's supraglacial lakes during melt season.

Monday, June 15:

Aaron Wilson, A collection of Ohio-related weather and climate projects.
Kyungmin (Kay) Sung, Analyzing long term and seasonal drought trends.
Paolo Gabrielli, Climatic Processes Revealed by the Geochemistry of Atmospheric Particles Entrapped in Glaciers.
Deon Knights, Terrestrially derived nutrients transported to the Arctic Ocean have important implications for Arctic Ocean chemistry.
Santiago de la Pena Rodriguez, Seasonal surface ponding over the Greenland Ice sheet.
Zhiping Zhong, Viruses and microbes in glacier ice and Arctic brine.

SEARCH invites you to read the Arctic Futures 2050 conference report and to discuss future directions for Arctic research. You can access the online version of the full, 48-page conference report here or the 4-page executive summary here. You also can request a printed copy of the report or summary from Andrea Fisher at afisher13 [at] alaska.edu.

Two webinars—open by registration—will allow you to discuss Arctic research needs in the context of the conference report and/or your own observations and research. Those discussions will help SEARCH develop both its future programs as well as offer input to the 5-year Arctic research plan being developed by the Interagency Arctic Policy Research Committee (IARPC). More information about the IARPC research plan is here.

We hope you will join us for one of these SEARCH-hosted webinars (90 minutes):

Webinar 1: Thursday, May 14 at 9:00 am AKDT, 10:00 am PDT, 11:00 am MDT, 12:00 pm CDT, 1:00 pm EDT

Register here: https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlcuGppzMiGdSgFiBda7K9vkwbao4…

Webinar 2: Monday, May 18 at 12:00 pm AKDT, 1:00 pm PDT, 2:00 pm MDT, 3:00 pm CDT, 4:00 pm EDT

Register here:
https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldOCgqTsqHdGdcurEnKEJFeGIO4h…

The webinars are open to all (whether or not you attended the conference) and reading the conference report beforehand is optional. While you are welcome to join both webinars, the format and opportunity to offer your input will be the same for both sessions. Please contact Andrea Fisher (afisher13 [at] alaska.edu) with questions about the report or the webinars.

We look forward to hearing from you on May 14 or May 18.

The Ocean Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF/OCE) encourages proposals to conduct workshops, conferences or other training events that will support members of the ocean sciences community, including undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty at two-year and four-year institutions of higher education, to develop and disseminate training material and/or use data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) (http://oceanobservatories.org) for research purposes or for educational purposes. Such activities are typically identified as conferences in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide.

Proposals may be submitted at any time, but they should be submitted at least six months prior to the planned event. To be considered for FY2020 funding, proposals should be submitted before May 15th.

Please follow the link above for complete details.