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Please join us for an in-depth conversation with Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support on the Senate Armed Services Committee, to discuss the recent release of the June 2019 Department of Defense Arctic Strategy. Is the United States appropriately resourced and positioned for Russia’s increased military presence in the Arctic as well as a growing Chinese economic and scientific presence? Or has the United States accepted that it will be limited in its future options to access the Arctic, in an era when U.S. forces and readiness are stretched and future defense budgets are uncertain? Current U.S. strategies suggest that the Arctic region does not make the geopolitical cut for the U.S., despite compelling arguments to the contrary. If correct, what are the long-term implications for U.S. national security? What hard budget and capability choices must be made for the U.S. to remain a relevant security actor in the Arctic?

This workshop is organized annually by members of the WAMC Planning Committee across the globe. The WAMC brings together those with research and operational/logistical interests in Antarctic meteorology and forecasting and related disciplines. As in the past, the annual activities and status of the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC), Automatic Weather Station (AWS), and Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) efforts will be addressed, and feedback and results from their user communities will be solicited. More broadly, this workshop also is a forum for current results and ideas in Antarctic meteorology, numerical weather prediction, and weather forecasting, from contributors around the world. There will be discussions on the relationships among international efforts and Antarctic forecasting, logistical support, and science. We welcome papers on these topics.

The SCAR Operational Meteorology in the Antarctic (Op Met) Expert Group will be holding a meeting during the WAMC, with the time to be determined. If you are not in the OpMet Expert Group and are interested in learning more about this, please inquire at the workshop.

For the fourth YOPP-SH meeting in Charleston, project investigators and representatives of national agencies active in Antarctica are invited to provide updates on their activities during the YOPP Special Observing Period (SOP) in the Southern Hemisphere, November 16, 2018-February 15, 2019. To make most effective use in data denial experiments of all the additional radiosonde observations collected during the SOP, we want to assemble complete radiosonde data sets from all operators. We will likely want to assemble all surface observations as well. A key question to be decided by the meeting is whether to hold a winter SOP in the April-June time period in either 2020 or 2021.

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Seminar No. 2 in the NCA4/NOAA 11-part Seminar Series: The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States.

Presenter(s):

Dr. Upmanu Lall is the Director of the Columbia Water Center and the Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, and the Chair of the Dept. of Earth & Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. He has broad interests in hydrology, climate dynamics, water resource systems analysis, risk management and sustainability. He is motivated by challenging questions at the intersection of these fields, especially where they have relevance to societal outcomes or to the advancement of science towards innovative application. Dr. Lall has been engaged in high level public and scientific discussion through the media, the World Economic Forum, and with governments, foundations, development banks, and corporations interested in sustainability. He has served on several national and international panels. He was one of the originators of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, and is a past President of the Natural Hazards Focus Group of the American Geophysical Union.

Craig Zamuda is a senior policy advisor with the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Policy. He provides policy and technical advice on DOE programs related to energy sector vulnerabilities and resilience. He has provided leadership to public-private partnerships with electric utilities focusing on characterizing critical infrastructure vulnerabilities; identifying and deploying cost-effective resilience activities and best practices, and addressing key research and policy opportunities. Craig has served as a lead author on numerous reports related to the energy sector and resilience, including the Energy Chapter of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, as well as, Climate Change and the Electricity Sector: Guide for Climate Change Resilience Planning; Climate Change and the U.S. Energy Sector; Regional Vulnerabilities and Resilience Solutions; and, U.S. Energy Sector Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Extreme Weather. These reports examine current and potential impacts of extreme weather and climate change on the energy sector, and cost-effective resilience solutions to enhance preparedness and resilience.

Webinar Access:

Please register at: https://noaabroadcast.adobeconnect.com/nca4_2/event/registration.html

Users should use either IE or Edge on Windows or Safari if using a Mac. Audio will be available thru the computer only; no phone. Questions will be addressed in the chat window. This Webcast will be recorded, archived and made accessible in the near future.

Join PolarTREC for the first live event of the 2019-2020 field season! Ale Martinez and the Phenology and Vegetation in the Warming Arctic 2019 Team will be broadcasting live from Toolik Field Station in Alaska. Ale's team is studying environmental variability and increased temperature on tundra plant phenology, growth, species composition and ecosystem function. Read more about their research and what Ale is learning here.

Team scientists will be on hand to answer your questions. The events will be 1 hour long with Q&A at the end for teachers, students, friends and family.

The event is free. Please join us!

The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) steering committee invites abstracts for the next ITEX meeting. This meeting will have the theme of Documenting and Understanding Tundra Ecosystem Changes, and will focus on ecological research in Arctic and alpine environments.

Organizers invite abstracts on the following themes:

• Using nearly 30 years of ITEX observations to understand tundra ecosystem dynamics
• Plant traits and ecosystem dynamics in tundra ecosystems
• Biotic interactions in a warmer tundra: plants, herbivores, pollinators, mycorrhiza, and pests
• Planning the next wave of ITEX syntheses

Organizers do not wish these themes to be exclusive and welcome abstract submission for oral and poster presentations regarding the spectrum of activities relevant to ITEX.

One task of this meeting will be the presentation and finalization of papers to be included in the special issue on Arctic Science.

Abstracts should be submitted via email to alessandro.petraglia [at] unipr.it and michele.carbognani [at] unipr.it

Abstract submission deadline: 23 June 2019

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 July 2019 and the fall 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.

The Belmont Forum invites proposals for a second Collaborative Research Action (CRA) focused on the Arctic region. The theme of this CRA is Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Arctic.

This joint Belmont Forum CRA calls for co-developed and co-implemented proposals from integrated teams of natural and social scientists, and stakeholders to address key areas of Arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a transdisciplinary approach that will advance will understanding of the fundamentals of Arctic resilience and spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience.

Project teams must be international in their composition and must draw off of support from at least three organizations supporting this CRA from at least three different countries. Possible funding organizations can be found online.

Proposing consortia are required to identify and address at least two of the following interconnected elements of resilience:

• Arctic natural systems
• Social elements of resilience
• Cultural elements of resilience
• Human elements of resilience
• Financial capital
• Infrastructure
• Knowledge assets

Call Opens: 20 February 2019
Proposals Open: 03 March 2019
Proposals Close: 20 June 2019 23:59 UTC

Seminar No. 1 in the NCA4/NOAA 11-part Seminar Series: The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States.

US Global Change Research Program and NOAA's National Ocean Service Science Seminar; coordinators are Katie Reeves & Tracy Gill.

Webinar Access:

Please register at: https://noaabroadcast.adobeconnect.com/nca4_1/event/registration.html

Users should use either IE or Edge on Windows or Safari if using a Mac. Audio will be available thru the computer only; no phone. Questions will be addressed in the chat window. This Webcast will be recorded, archived and made accessible in the near future.

The Helmholtz Climate Initiative 'Regionale Climate Change' (REKLIM) takes the pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd International Conference "Our Climate - Our Future: Regional Perspectives on a Global Challenge“ which will be held from 23-25 September 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

REKLIM warmly welcomes researchers over the globe to take part in the conference which incorporates keynote speeches, oral talks, poster presentations, networking opportunities, and many more. We are looking forward to receive your abstracts for oral and/or poster presentations in due time.

Deadlines:
Deadline for travel grant applications: 31 May 2019
Deadline for submitting abstracts (extended): 17 June 2019
Letter of acceptance: 17 June 2019
Deadline for Early Bird registration (online): 30 June 2019
Deadline for online registration: 8 September 2019

More information about the host REKLIM are available at www.reklim.de. Keep up on information on the conference: info [at] reklim.de

Climate Change 2019 warmly welcomes each one of the individuals and supporters from worldwide to attend 4th World Summit on Climate Change and Global Warming.

This Climate Change Conference overwhelmingly emphasis on Change Scenarios: Slow, Rapid, Abrupt, or Episodic. Meetings International is a diagram to bring collectively all leading academic scientists, researchers and studies pupils to trade and percentage their studies and research results on all aspects of Meteorology technology and Climatology. It additionally gives a gold standard interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to give and discuss the most recent innovations, tendencies, and worries in addition to sensible challenges encountered and answers followed in the fields of Earth technological know-how and Climate Change.

Climate Change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns that last for an extended period of time. The Earth's atmosphere has been changing all through the history. Just over the most recent 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of cold progress and withdraw, with the unexpected end of the last ice age around 7,000 years back denoting the start of the cutting edge atmosphere period and of human development. The vast majority of these atmosphere changes are credited to little varieties in Earth's circle that change the measure of sun-powered vitality our planet gets. At the exhibit, the present situation of the environmental change is at disturbing levels. The present warming pattern is of specific hugeness on the grounds that the majority of it is likely human-prompted and continuing at a rate that is remarkable in the previous 1,300 years. Earth-orbiting satellites and other innovative advances have empowered researchers to see the master plan, gathering a wide range of kinds of data about our planet and its atmosphere on a worldwide scale. This group of information gathered over numerous years, uncovers the signals of a changing climate.

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