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Atmospheric smoke and dust are hazards that impact human health and welfare. Level 2 (derived) aerosol observations from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the JPSS Program’s SNPP, NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 polar-orbiting satellites aid in detecting and tracking smoke and blowing dust. VIIRS products include aerosol optical depth (AOD), a quantitative measure of atmospheric aerosols, and aerosol detection product (ADP), a qualitative indicator of the relative intensity of smoke and dust aerosols. VIIRS AOD and ADP have daily global coverage over cloud-free regions with 750m spatial resolution. A brief overview of the AOD and ADP algorithms will be presented, along with validation results, to highlight the strengths and limitations of the products. Examples of VIIRS AOD and ADP for recent smoke and blowing dust events, with a focus on Alaska, will demonstrate the utility of the products for research and operational applications, and show how the products can complement VIIRS true color and dust RGB imagery.

Register at the following link: https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdOiprTopE9cxUZcFWxII_hw-xSj…

Extreme weather and climate events can have dramatic impacts on Alaskans lives and livelihoods but it can be difficult to find information about past events. Alaska Fellow Caroline Erickson has worked with ACCAP over the past nine months and pulled together a variety of information on more than a dozen high impact events around Alaska to create easy to follow fact sheets using the best practices of science communications. This presentation will showcase the process of finding and synthesizing information about past events and crafting that into easy to understand two and four pagers.

Register at the following link for the online event: https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwufuGvrj0iGd1uldqCCBK83k6ILO3…

The U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA) announces their next USPA Technical Training webinar, titled Impact of Water on Permafrost and Design of Drainage Systems for Transportation Infrastructure in Permafrost Regions. This webinar will take place 10 June 2024, 9:00-10:00 a.m. AKDT.

This webinar will present new strategies and engineering drainage design tools aimed at limiting erosion and mitigating permafrost degradation caused by water flow along and underneath transportation infrastructure. The drainage strategies and tools developed were validated using observations and data from previous studies conducted at the Beaver Creek Road test site in the Yukon, Canada, and applied to conditions at three other test sites in the Arctic: in Ilulissat in Greenland, along the Alaska Highway near the Alaska-Yukon Border, and the Salluit airport access road in Nunavik, Canada.

A Certificate of Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to participants who request it after the webinar. The webinar is free for USPA members and all students. For non-USPA members who are not students, the registration fee is $20 (USD).

The seminar will be recorded and uploaded on the USPA website.

For more information and to register, go to: https://uspa.memberclicks.net/webinar6#!/

SIXTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT (NCA6)
Call for Public Comment on Draft Prospectus
Call for Authors and Technical Inputs
Notice of Planned Public Engagement
Deadline is June 7

You can find more information about what and how to submit in the NCA6 Notice on the USGCRP website, as well as the Federal Register Notice issued by NOAA.

You can submit your comments, nominations and inputs through the USGCRP Public Contribution System.

Learn more about NCA6 public engagement here.

The deadline to comment and submit author nominations for NCA6 is June 7. The call for technical inputs is ongoing.

The University of Alaska (UAF) has organized bi-annual summer schools in glaciology since 2010 open to graduate students in glaciology around the world. The course scheduled for 2020 and then postponed to 2021 had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The course is held at the Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska.

The course is intended to provide glaciology graduate students with a comprehensive overview of the physics of glaciers and current research frontiers in glaciology. Key topics include, but are not limited to:

(Note that not all topics may be covered depending on instructor availability)

• Remote sensing in glaciology
• Glacier mass balance and glacier meteorology
• Glacier dynamics, thermodynamics, surging and tidewater glaciers
• Ice-sheet modeling, Inverse modeling
• Glacier hydrology
• Glacier geomorphology
• Current research frontiers in glaciology

A focus will be on modeling, quantitative glaciology and remote sensing.

The summer school is open to 28 graduate students worldwide targeting primarily (but not exclusively) early stage PhD students.

Application deadline: 10 January 2024.

Lecturers

Andy Aschwanden, Ed Bueler, Mark Fahnestock, Regine Hock, Martin Truffer (UAF)
Karen Alley (University of Manitoba), Gwenn Flowers (Simon Frazier University), David Rounce (Carnegie Mellon)
Guest lecturers: Mike Loso (National Park Service)

Join NSF program directors from the Division of Research, Innovation, Synergies and Education (RISE) in the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) regarding the new Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST) program.

The Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet Program (CHIRRP) invites projects focusing on innovative and transformative research that advances Earth system hazard knowledge and risk mitigation in partnership with affected communities. Hazards compounded by changing climates, rising populations, expanding demands for resources, aging infrastructure, and increasing reliance on technology are putting our economy, well-being, and national security at risk. Researchers, academics, and community leaders will work together to develop community-driven research questions and actionable, science-based solutions that increase community resilience now and in the future. CHIRRP projects are expected to advance understanding, forecasting and/or prediction of future Earth system hazards and risks, engage communities in development of research questions and approaches, and produce actionable, science-based solution pathways for adaptation methodologies, products, and services. CHIRRP projects may evaluate a single or system of cascading hazards, impacts, and risks at a local, regional, or global scale through the lens of transformative earth system science research. Competitive projects will engage community partners at all stages of a project from development to implementation.

CHIRRP currently supports planning, conference, RCNs, EAGER, and RAISE proposals that support development of community partnerships, provide training for effective community engagement, catalyze ideas, and/or support the initial conceptualization, planning and collaboration activities aimed at formulating new and sound plans for future large-scale projects.

This event is intended to create an overview of where early career researchers (ECR) are located in Finland and to connect them with each other. If your research is related in some sense or another to polar science, you are very welcome to join. We hope to have attendees from different universities and research groups and a variety of topics.

The event is organized by a group of ECRs interested in forming a National Committee of APECS (https://apecs.is/).

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council is holding a two-day Climate Scenarios Workshop in Kodiak, AK on Wednesday, June 5th and Thursday, June 6th in conjunction with the Council’s June meeting in Kodiak, AK. For planning purposes we ask participants to please register by Friday, May 17th. We will do our best to accommodate participants who register after this date. For more information please visit the workshop page at https://www.npfmc.org/climate-scenarios-workshop/.

The Nordic countries have teamed up with Canada and the USA to launch a NordForsk call on the sustainable development of the Arctic. The call is two-stage, and the deadline for pre-proposals is 4 June 2024.