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The 15th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Committee, will be held at the Williams Village Dining Center and Community Commons on the University of Colorado-Boulder Campus. The conference will kick-off with an evening icebreaker on Sunday 19th May and will be followed by four days of scientific sessions.

Papers are solicited on all aspects of polar meteorology and oceanography, including but not limited to the following:

• Climate variability and change in the polar regions
• Rapid environmental change in the polar regions
• Interactions among polar atmosphere-ocean-land-ice components
• High latitude atmospheric and oceanic dynamics
• Boundary layer processes, polar clouds, precipitation, and aerosols
• Weather and climate modelling in the polar regions
• Connections of the polar regions with the tropics and midlatitudes
• Sea ice variability, modeling, and change
• The state of the cryosphere
• Reducing sea ice projection uncertainty through increased process-understanding
• The evolution, formation, and impacts of Arctic cyclones
• Polar amplification effects on large scale midlatitude weather systems

Abstract Deadline: 18 January, 2019.

The Consortium for "Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean" (ECCO) will host a summer school for graduate students and early career scientists on global ocean state estimation in support of climate research. The school introduces the tools and mathematics of ocean state and parameter estimation and their application to ocean science through a mix of foundational lectures, hands-on tutorials, and projects. In doing so, the school aims to help nurture the next generation of oceanographers and climate scientists in the subject matter so that they may utilize the ECCO products and underlying modeling/estimation tools most effectively to further advance the state-of-the-art in ocean state estimation and ocean science.

Topics covered:

Data assimilation (global & regional); state & parameter estimation; adjoint method; sensitivity analysis; algorithmic differentiation; ocean modeling; ocean dynamics and variability; ocean’s role in climate; global ocean observing system (satellite and in-situ); physics of sea level; ocean mixing; sea ice physics; ice sheet-ocean interactions; ice shelf dynamics; ocean tides; cyberinfrastructure & data analytics.

Target audience:

Graduate students and early-career scientists.

Application Deadline: December 17, 2018.

The United States Arctic's extreme operating environment poses unique challenges to land and coastal-based infrastructure development, with receding sea ice, coastal erosion, and thawing permafrost, among other effects of climate change, complicating efforts. This panel will discuss these challenges and how they affect projections of future maritime traffic, existing development activities, and the emerging vision of the Alaska of tomorrow.

Please join the Polar Institute and the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) for a conversation on "Infrastructure in the Arctic: Building for Tomorrow" in support on National Infrastructure Week 2019.

Where:
Wilson Center, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania, Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20004

Speakers:

The Honorable Richard Beneville
Mayor, Nome, Alaska

Sherri Goodman
Senior Fellow, Polar Institute, Wilson Center; and, former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security)

Sarah Harrison
Arctic Marine Transportation Specialist, U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System

Jeff San Juan
Senior Infrastructure Development Finance Officer, Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority

Welcome:

Ambassador David Balton
Senior Fellow, Polar Institute, Wilson Center

Moderator:

Helen Brohl
Executive Director, U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System

Seminar 12 in the Series: From Science to Solutions: The State of the Carbon Cycle, the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2). We plan to host this series series on Tuesdays, 2/26-6/4.

Abstract:

The winter of 2018 had record breaking low sea ice extent. Sea ice arrived late due to warm southerly winds in November. More typical northerly winds in December and January advanced the ice, but strong, warm southerlies in February and March forced the ice to retreat once again. The cold pool (shelf region with bottom water < 2°C) was the smallest on record. Ice extent in winter of 2019 was very similar to that of 2018. Thus, there have been two consecutive, record-breaking low ice years in the Bering Sea. The lack of ice impacted the ecosystem from the timing of the spring phytoplankton/ice-algal blooms to fish and marine mammal distributions.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Phyllis Stabeno is a physical oceanographer at the NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Washington. Together with Dr. Janet Duffy-Anderson, she is co-leader of NOAA's Ecosystems and Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations. EcoFOCI is one of NOAA's only cross-line office programs and the second oldest fisheries-oceanography program in the agency. For the past 30 years, Dr. Stabeno has worked on physical oceanographic, climate and ecosystem projects focused on Alaska's marine ecosystem including the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and most recently, the Chukchi Sea. She is the lead investigator in maintaining a biophysical mooring array in the Bering Sea, including the M2 mooring, "Peggy" now deployed for the 25 year. She recently completed as a Principle Investigator for the North Pacific Research Board sponsored Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Plan (BSIERP) project and NSF Bering Ecosystem Study (BEST), which won a 2015 NOAA Gold Medal Award. And as of this week, she is a 2019 NOAA Distinguished Career Award recipient, nominated by OAR for key scientific achievements and superior leadership in conducting and communicating the EcoFOCI research, supporting US marine resources in Alaska.

Webinar Access:

Remote access: If you are located outside of Silver Spring, please register for the webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4141784834249009666 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Participants can use their telephone OR computer mic & speakers (VoIP).

Organizers invite registration for the Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) International Planning and Coordination Workshop.

The goals of the workshop include planning coordinated field sampling; international data sharing; education, including graduate student participation, post field-season data synthesis, public outreach, and involvement of Indigenous communities; and identifying additional measurements (e.g., atmospheric measurements) or approaches (e.g., modeling) that would contribute to accomplishing the goals of the SAS. The SAS is a ground-up effort and wide participation, including all professional levels of scientists, graduate students, and science managers across multiple disciplines, and Indigenous community members, in the planning is welcome.

The participation of early career scientists is particularly encouraged. Limited support is available for early career scientists, both from within the U.S. and abroad. For this workshop, early career scientists are defined as post-doctoral investigators and untenured, tenure-track equivalent individuals within five years of their initial appointment. To apply for support, individuals should send a curriculum vitae and a statement of how their research interests align with the SAS scientific questions to cashjian [at] whoi.edu by 15 April 2019.

To register, all interested participants should send the following information via email to sasworkshop2019 [at] gmail.com:

• Name
• Affiliation
• Address
• Country
• Email address
• Phone number
• Position
• Whether or not the attendee is an early career scientist, even if not applying for support

Additional logistic details will be disseminated to registered participants.

Registration deadline: 30 April 2019.

Early career travel support deadline (extended): 30 April 2019.

For questions, contact:
Carin Ashjian
Email: cashjian [at] whoi.edu

Vegetation change has been observed across Arctic and boreal regions. Studies have often documented large-scale greening trends (i.e. increased plant productivity or measured “greenness”) but they have also identified areas of browning (decreased productivity) or shifts between greening and browning over varying spatial extents and time periods. At the same time, there are large portions of these ecosystems that have not exhibited measurable trends in greening or browning. These findings have fueled many questions about observed trends and identified drivers, implications of vegetation change, and methods and tools for evaluating changes and their uncertainties.

The Polar Research Board, in collaboration with the Board on Life Sciences of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, convened a workshop in December 2018 to address these questions and discuss opportunities to advance understanding of greening and browning at northern latitudes. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

A public webinar summarizing the workshop proceedings will be held on May 14 at 3:00 pm EDT. Please register to participate below.

The workshop goal is to bring together a diverse group of researchers and graduate students that are using or would like to use ice core data available from the Arctic Data Center to produce the future generation of paleoclimate data sets. The goal is to learn about common research workflows that the community is using and to test the applicability of selected Arctic data sets and software tools to build the next generation of digital paleoclimate data products and reconstructions.

Background Information:

In the past decade, the volume and complexity of data available in ice core science has grown rapidly. This increase has several major drivers: First, an increase in sampling frequency and quality has resulted in rapid generation of data. Second, advances in the Web and computer system integration of related technologies have simplified data exchange. Finally, the scientific community and funding agencies are supporting major efforts to increase research transparency by requiring researchers to publicly share project data collected during research in long term data repositories. All of these converging elements hold the potential to significantly boost scientific discovery due to the benefits of sharing data with other disciplines, but new computing approaches are needed.

The 2019 Arctic Data Workshop will focus on evaluation and testing tools that simplify the use of publicly available Arctic data in a meaningful way. The goal is to increase the ease and transparency of working back from scientific results, for example a table within a publication, to the original datasets from which the summarized data were derived.

By actively soliciting community wide input and experience, the workshop will incorporate and share back with the community related best practices from code development, digital curation, and software engineering.

Seminar 12 in the Series: From Science to Solutions: The State of the Carbon Cycle, the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2). We plan to host this series series on Tuesdays, 2/26-6/4.

Abstract:

Scientific community engagement can help funding program managers and researchers alike in managing resources, facilitating collaboration, and fostering innovation and insight. NASA's Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office at Goddard Space Flight Center has been serving this role for NASA programs such as Terrestrial Ecology and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, as well as supporting the broader community through the North American Carbon Program (NACP). This work has enabled much of the research that contributed to the success of the Second State of the Carbon Cycle (SOCCR2).

About the Speaker:

Dr. Libby Larson started working for NASA as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in 2012. After her fellowship ended, she was hired by the NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office to continue her work in coordinating the North American Carbon Program, supporting the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) field campaign, and representing NASA in the US Global Change Research Program. In addition to serving on the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group, she also co-chairs the Social Sciences Steering Committee. Dr. Larson is an urban ecologist by training and was a contributing author to the Built Environment, Urban Systems, and Cities chapter of the 2018 National Climate Assessment.

Webinar Access:

We will use Adobe Connect. To join the session, go to https://noaabroadcast.adobeconnect.com/nosscienceseminars, enter as "Guest", and please enter your first and last name. 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 Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) invites participation in the virtual discussion, Intersection of Arctic Science and Policy. This web presentation will be held via Zoom Video Conferencing.

Dr. Brendan Kelly, SEARCH Executive Director, will present a short history of Arctic research policy—from the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 to the Department of Defense Arctic Strategy of 2017—followed by observations on the future science needed to support policy. Input from others on the call is encouraged.

This webinar is open to anyone interested in Arctic research and policies. The discussion is part of the lead up to the Arctic Futures 2050 conference that will take place 4-6 September 2019 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Registration for the conference is now open.

Attracting thousands of scientists and data users, ESA’s Living Planet Symposia are amongst the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world. For decades now Earth observation has played a fundamental role in advancing our understanding of how our planet works and how it is being affected by climate change. While the need to continue to advance our knowledge and monitor global change remains paramount, Earth observation has entered a new era where it is playing a key role in a myriad of everyday applications to improve daily lives and is also becoming increasingly relevant for the competitive business sector.

The next symposium is being held at the MiCo Milano Congressi, in Milan, Italy. The Living Planet Symposium 2019 promises to be bigger and wider ranging than ever before. The event will not only see scientists present their latest findings on Earth’s environment and climate derived from satellite data, but will also focus on Earth observation’s role in building a sustainable future and a resilient society. Participants will also be able to explore how emerging technologies are revolutionising the use of Earth observation and how business and the economy can benefit from this new epoch.

This symposium focuses on how Earth Observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth Observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions.

Themes:

• Earth Science
• Earth Observation Missions
• Space 4.0
• Resilient Society
• Partnership

Dates and deadlines:

• Abstract deadline: 11 November 2018
• Registration opens: Beginning of February 2019
• Registration closes: 30 April 2019