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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).

Teachers and informal educators are required to be working with middle and high school students and/or their teachers. Applications will be to participate in field research learning experiences during the 2020 (usually Arctic) or 2020-2021 (usually Antarctic) field seasons.

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.

Please register for the 2019 Polar CORDEX meeting by September 1st, 2019, here.

To be considered for travel support, please register by August 1st, 2019.

Travel Information:

The meeting will be hosted at DMI, on the outskirts of Copenhagen but easily accessible by bus or s-train to neighbouring Ryparken station. Or do as the Copenhageners do and borrow a bicycle! Travel around the city by public transport is easy to organize using the website and app Rejseplanen.dk

Copenhagen is served by a major airport with fast metro and rail connection to the city centre and also has rail links to Germany and Sweden. To accommodate those trying to reduce their travel CO2 footprint, the meeting will start late on Monday and finish early on Wednesday to enable those on the sleeper train to Hamburg to make their connections.

The Arctic Data Center invites registration for their Arctic data science training workshop.

The Arctic Data Center provides training in data science and data management, as these are critical skills for the stewardship of the data, software, and other research products that are preserved in the Arctic Data Center. A goal of the Arctic Data Center is to advance data archiving and promote reproducible science and data reuse.

This five-day workshop will provide researchers with an overview of best data management practices, data science tools, and concrete steps and methods for more easily documenting and uploading their data to the Arctic Data Center.

Workshop topics will include:

• Arctic Data Center and National Science Foundation standards and policies
• Data management plans
• Effective data management for data preservation
• Publishing data at the Arctic Data Center
• Data and metadata quality
• Provenance for data and software

Registration deadline: 15 August 2019.

We invite you to join us to share your recent results, discuss current ideas, and build future collaborations within the broader world of glaciological research. The College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science at Oregon State University comprises a breadth of scientists working in polar and high mountain environments and this meeting will offer an opportunity to see how glaciers interact interact with other landscape processes.

We will have a packed schedule of world-wide research being led by glaciologists from across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska as well as studies on Pacific Northwest and Alaska glaciers and their environments.

This conference has a tradition of being a warm and inviting conference to ask questions, learn about the process of science, and find mentors. We highly encourage student presentations. Undergraduates, graduate students, and other early career scientists will receive priority in the presentation schedule.

There will be a social gathering on Friday night within walking distance of campus, details will be provided at the meeting.

The Inuit Studies Conference (ISC) is a multidisciplinary and international conference that brings together university researchers and students, as well as professionals, directors, teachers, decision-makers, etc. from Inuit organizations, institutions, and governments. It is the largest academic conference in the world about Inuit peoples and territories. The conference also includes cultural and artistic activities of interest to the general public.

We invite Elders, knowledge-bearers, community advocates, teachers, researchers, artists, policy-makers, students and others to submit proposals for individual or group presentations. In addition, we invite proposals for thematic sessions, roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, and seminars on specific topics of interest, as well as for cultural activities, exhibits, and performances. The Inuit Studies Conference is an international and multidisciplinary conference showcasing both Inuit traditional knowledge and expertise as well as academic research from a wide variety of disciplines on topics relating to Inuit peoples and the Inuit homeland. This year’s conference theme is Tukisiqattautiniq “Understanding Each Other”. The organizing committee particularly welcomes proposals that encourage understanding and dialogue between peoples and generations. This year’s conference logo extends the theme of understanding to the natural world. Anyone interested in submitting an abstract for a presentation or in organizing a thematic session, roundtable, panel discussion, workshop, seminar, exhibit, or performance, should send their proposal to the organizers of the Conference no later than March 1, 2019. The programme committee will select the papers to be presented at the conference. The selections will be made public by April 1st.

For additional details on proposal submission visit:
https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/inuitstudies2019/en/isc2019/about…

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019.

The European Commission, the European External Action Service, and the Government of Sweden will jointly organize a high-level EU Arctic Forum in Umeå, Sweden.

High Representative/Vice President Federica Mogherini, Commissioner Karmenu Vella, and the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström will host the event.

The EU Arctic Forum will bring together key Arctic players and stakeholders to assess recent developments in the region and to discuss the new challenges ahead.

The EU Arctic Forum will include several keynote addresses and two high-level panel sessions on the morning of 3 October. Foreign ministers from EU member states as well as the Arctic Council will be invited to participate.

Arctic Stakeholder panel sessions will take place in the afternoon of 3 October. The Annual Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Dialogue with interactive panel discussions will be held on 4 October.

We cordially invite you to save these dates. Invitations will follow later. Please disseminate this announcement as widely as possible.

Dr. Perovich's research interest is understanding the Arctic system and its role in global climate change. The central focus of his research is simple to state: where does all the sunlight go? More precisely, how does the incident solar radiation interact with sea ice and snow? This simple statement belies the rich complexity and importance of the topic. The interaction of solar radiation with snow and sea ice is intimately interrelated with the physical and morphological properties of snow and ice and forcing from the atmosphere and ocean. Through the positive ice-albedo feedback, solar partitioning affects not only the Arctic system, but global climate as well.

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

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the leading global body on climate science. On September 25, it will release its first-ever Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. More than 100 scientists from 80 countries assessed the latest scientific knowledge about how climate change is impacting the ocean, coastal, polar, and mountain ecosystems, and the communities that depend on them.

Join us to hear Ko Barrett, Vice Chair of the IPCC, present the key findings of the report. Following her remarks, speakers will explore the future of ice loss, sea-level rise and its cascading impacts, coral bleaching, and how the international policy community can meaningfully respond to the Special Report.

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

The 9th Workshop on Remote Sensing of Land Ice and Snow of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) will be held at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland, from 03 - 05 February 2020.

The cryosphere of the Earth is undergoing dramatic changes. Glaciers are retreating at accelerated rate and snow cover distribution and duration is changing with many significant side-effects (run-off, permafrost, albedo, etc.). Remote Sensing can provide the required data to study these changes of the cryosphere.

This workshop will focus on the latest developments in remote sensing of land ice and snow. Presentations are encouraged on all fields of research and applications with the focus on snow and ice as proxy for a changing cryosphere, methods for retrieving cryospheric parameters from various types of remote sensing data, theoretical basis of inversion methods and their application, state of the art of retrieval algorithms, data assimilation of remote sensing data and in situ observations in process models, and current and planned sensors for snow and ice. Half of a day will be dedicated to the activities from ESA (CCI+) and EUMETSAT.

Papers will be presented orally and as posters. Contributions must comply with one of the workshop topics specified below. Please indicate under which session topic your contribution shall be presented.

Preliminary session topics:

• Glaciers and Ice Caps
• Snow cover (regional to global scale)
• Snow hydrology
• Snow on sea ice and glaciers
• Albedo of the cryosphere
• Cryosphere and climate
• Cryospheric modelling and data assimilation
• New technologies (sensors/methods)
• ESA CCI+ snow
• EUMETSAT operational services

Important Dates:

• Due date for abstracts submission: 1 October 2019
• Authors notification and instructions: 15 November 2019
• Preliminary workshop programme: 15 December 2019
• Registration (presenting authors): before 15 December 2019

Ice drills are crucial to access ice for climate research and other studies of the water and basal conditions under glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets. The ice related research especially related to understand the past and present climate will improve our ability to predict the impacts under future climate changes. New techniques are rapidly evolving within ice drills and include rapid access drills, replicate drilling and thermal and hot water drilling. This symposium presents a timely opportunity to show recent advances in our knowledge and technological capabilities in ice drilling technology. In addition, the symposium will include the ice drill related themes like ice core handling, borehole logging and ice camp logistics.

Suggested Topics:

• Ice drilling: Development within shallow, intermediate, deep drills
• Hot water drilling: Development within shallow, intermediate, deep systems
• Thermal ice drilling: Hot points techniques and coring abilities
• Rapid access ice drilling: Development of technologies for rapid access drilling
• Sampling and clean technologies: Methods for exploration of subglacial environment
• Probes: Use of ice drills in extraterrestrial investigations
• Complicated conditions: Conditions like high altitude drilling, warm ice, firn aquifer layers, brittle ice, ice streams complicate ice drilling
• Special aspects: Ice drilling technology include drilling fluids, control systems, surface and auxiliary equipment and drill cables and hoses
• Directional drilling: There is a need for replicate sampling in many ice drill projects
• Ice core handling: Logging and handling ice cores
• Borehole logging: For drill support and science
• Logistics: Drill camp operations and future projects
• New challenges: Future development of ice drilling technology

Other relevant topic suggestions are welcome. If you have such a suggestion please contact icedrillsymposium [at] nbi.ku.dk

Deadlines:

• 16 June 2019: Abstract submission closed
• 1 September 2019: Registration closed
• 1 November 2019: Submission of manuscripts will open (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/AOG)
• 1 May 2020: Deadline for submitting a manuscript for publication in Annals of Glaciology
• 1 September 2020: Deadline for submitting a final version of final accepted paper