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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 November 2019 and the winter season. 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. The audio portion of the call is through a toll-free phone line and the slide presentation is streamed via computer. Follow the link above to register.

Join us for a symposium that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first all-women research team in Antarctica.

Led by Dr. Lois Jones, this team of four women from The Ohio State University made polar history when they went to Antarctica in 1969. The symposium will look at women’s past, present, and future in science, research, discovery, and leadership.

Early Byrd Registration - $50.00
May 1 - June 30, 2019
Regular Registration - $65.00
July 1 - October 4, 2019
Banquet Fee - $50.00
May 1 - October 4, 2019

There are 2 registration options:
Option #1: Two Day Symposium (Total $50.00)
Option #2: Two Day Symposium and Banquet (Total $100.00)
until June 30, 2019

What are the governance challenges facing Canada’s northern and Arctic natural resource systems? How might more collaborative and networked governance of these transboundary systems enhance public policy, science and community outcomes? Which factors are likely to affect learning and collaboration across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries? Focusing on these questions, and drawing on recent and current research, this seminar will reflect on the management opportunities and challenges posed by collaborative governance in northern and Arctic environments. Interactive discussion will be encouraged.

Gordon Hickey is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University specializing in sustainable natural resource management, policy and governance. Prior to joining McGill, he worked in senior policy and management roles in government leading specialist teams to deliver a range of resource sustainability initiatives.

Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.

For more information, contact:
Sharon Tribou-St. Martin
sharon.m.tribou-st.martin [at] dartmouth.edu

This year's WAIS workshop will be held in Southern California at the newly remodeled Camp Cedar Glen. Sponsored by NSF and NASA, the workshop will focus on marine ice-sheet and adjacent earth systems, with particular emphasis on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The workshop will follow the Antarctic Earth Sciences meeting also held at Camp Julian, October 13-15.

The meeting will follow a similar format as past meetings with a single session style and panel discussions following each scientific program session. This year we will be adding new features to the WAIS Workshop to increase accessibility for the wider community and to continue and push forward our community’s ongoing discussions surrounding diversity, inclusion, and retention.

We want to encourage the participation of graduate students and early career scientists, as well as scientists in fields relevant to West Antarctic Ice Sheet system, such as biologists, atmospheric scientists, computer scientists, and engineers.

Deadlines:
The deadline for Abstract Submission has been extended to August 12, 5pm PDT. Abstract submission is separate from the registration process. Early-career travel support request deadline is also August 7. Registration deadline is September 10, but our workshop has reached capacity before this deadline in the past, so register early!

Follow the link above for more information.

The next IGS Nordic Branch meeting will be held 30 October – 1 November 2019 at Fosshótel Reykholt, which is located in the vicinity of Langjökull ice cap (2nd largest in Iceland).

The Icelandic Meteorological Office and The Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, will host this meeting which will provide great opportunities for scientists and students in glaciology and related topics to present their latest results in relaxed, informal atmosphere. Participants will also have the opportunity to go on an exciting field excursion into the 500 m long man-made ice tunnel in Langjökull (https://intotheglacier.is) on November 1st.

Registration will open 1 August 2019.

The online abstract submission can be found here.

Abstract submission deadline is 11:59pm, 15th October 2019 GMT but the sooner you get your abstract in the easier it will be for us to get ready for the meeting.

STEM at the Poles! PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) is currently accepting applications from both educators and researchers for educator research experiences. For 2020-2021, the program will be accepting applications from both U.S. informal science educators as well as formal U.S. classroom teachers (teaching in grades 6-12).

Researchers that work in the polar regions are encouraged to submit an application to host an educator during the 2020-2021 field seasons. Researchers interested in hosting a teacher should contact program staff as soon as possible at info [at] polartrec.com.

About PolarTREC:

STEM at the Poles! Research Experiences for Formal and Informal Educators in the Polar Regions is the newest iteration of PolarTREC. The educators (formal and informal) come from the United States and spend three to six weeks participating in hands-on field research experiences in the Arctic or Antarctica, working side by side with scientists. STEM at the Poles is professional development for educators across all Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, connecting them to the polar regions and the research community; developing Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) resources; and changing how they teach STEM in both informal and formal learning environments. PolarTREC is funded through awards from the National Science Foundation and administered by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS).

Additional Information:

Further information about PolarTREC, including program goals, requirements, and frequently asked questions, is available at on the PolarTREC website or contact PolarTREC at info [at] polartrec.com.

The 2019 U.S. Interdisciplinary Antarctic Earth Sciences meeting is intended to provide a forum to present and discuss results of exciting new Antarctic research across the spectrum of the Earth Sciences and to encourage conversations about future interdisciplinary collaborations.

As with the previous meetings, we will follow a single session format that will include invited and contributed presentations, poster sessions, and informal discussion time to explore new collaborative research opportunities. The program will be guided by an interdisciplinary organizing committee that will identify unifying session themes based on community interest along with the critical questions identified by the U.S. Polar Research Board and the International Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. More details about session themes, registration cost, travel support, etc., will follow in the coming weeks. Both food and lodging will be available for all as part of the registration cost at Camp Cedar Glen. We anticipate the abstract deadline will be in early August. The meeting will immediately precede the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) meeting, which will be held Oct. 16-18.

A U.S. Deep Field Camp Planning workshop will begin at noon on Oct. 15 and continue through October 16th. The goal of the workshop is to identify top science priorities across NSF Antarctic programs that require logistics support from a deep field camp and we encourage participation by all who have an interest. The outcome will be a short list of potential deep field sites along with documentation of the high-priority, multidisciplinary science questions best addressed at that site. We will be sending out a pre-workshop questionnaire to the research community to gather as much input as possible, so please look for that in your inbox in the coming months.

Registration is now open until August 23, 2019.

Organized by Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU); Northern Forum; Arctic-COAST Project, International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA).

The purpose of the panel is to bring together top policy makers (Governors of the Russian Arctic regions) and representatives of science and expert community to discuss current and future socioeconomic complexity and transformation in the rapidly changing Russian Arctic.

In response to the ongoing environmental change in the Arctic, the Governors will share their visions on future developments in their regions, discuss existing and forthcoming plans and strategies.

In addition to their presentations, the session will include an expert report on the long-term scenarios “Russia’s Arctic Futures–2050”. The report will present four overarching and twelve thematic scenarios of economic development, international cooperation, trans-Arctic shipping, human and social capital, and indigenous livelihoods in the context of expected changes in the Russian Arctic.

MODERATORS:

• Valery L. Mikheev, Rector, Russian State Hydrometeorological University
• Andrey N. Petrov, President, International Arctic Social Sciences Association; Director, ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa

SPEAKERS:

• Dmitriy A. Artyukhov, Governor, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• Roman V. Kopin, Governor, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
• Aleksandr V. Tsybulsky, Governor, Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Overview of The Russia's Arctic Future Scenarios–2050 Report:

• Andrey N. Petrov, President, International Arctic Social Sciences Association; Director, ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa
• Marya S. Rozanova, Advisor, Russian State Hydrometeorological University; Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University

DISCUSSANTS:

• Lassi Heininen, PhD, Research Director, University of Helsinki
• Mikhail A. Pogodaev, Deputy Minister for the Arctic Development and Indigenous Peoples Affairs, Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

The annual Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from 60 countries. It is attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, indigenous representatives, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the future of the Arctic.

Please follow the link above for the most up-to-date information.

Arctic Frontiers Science 2020 takes place 26-30 January 2020 in Tromsø, Norway.

Arctic Frontiers Science 2020 will address the following themes:

• Arctic Food Security
• Knowledge-based development in the Arctic
• Disruptive technologies
• Local or Global Arctic? Multi-scaled considerations of connections and remoteness in climate-impacted communities

On behalf of the Arctic Frontiers Science Committees, we have great pleasure in inviting you to submit one or more abstracts to any of the four themes.

The abstract submission system will be available shortly. All abstracts are reviewed by scientific experts for rating of abstract quality and presentation content.

Deadline for conference abstract submission has been extended to Tuesday 8 October 2019.

In addition, presenters and attendees of Arctic Frontiers 2020 conference are encouraged to contribute to the Springer book volume “BUILDING COMMON INTERESTS IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN WITH GLOBAL INCLUSION” edited by Paul Arthur Berkman, Oran R. Young, Alexander Vylegzhanin, Ole Øvretveit and David A. Balton. The book volume is developed as a part of the collaboration between the Arctic Frontiers and the Science Diplomacy Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Further details can be found below. We expect that book contributors will give an oral presentation at Arctic Frontiers 2020. Please note that abstract submission deadline for book contributions is on 9 August 2019.