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The EU Arctic Forum and Indigenous Peoples’ Dialogue will bring together key Arctic players and stakeholders to assess recent developments in the Arctic and discuss challenges and opportunities ahead, in particular those affecting local and indigenous communities as well as Arctic youth. The aim of the event is to illustrate the EU's engagement in and for the Arctic, and assess progress made since the adoption in October 2021 of the updated EU Joint Communication on the Arctic.

The events will delve into matters that are of relevance for those living in the Arctic and will include keynote addresses as well as inclusive and balanced high-level and stakeholder panel sessions. Ministers from EU/Arctic Council states and high-level representatives from Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ organizations will be invited to participate.

The events will be held physically, and webstreaming will be available. Attendance to the events is free of charge, and registration for in-person attendance and participation is mandatory.

The 20th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering (ICCRE) is being organized by Cold Regions Engineering Division (CRED) and supported by Aerospace Engineering Division (ASD), Forensic Engineering Division (FED) and Committee on Technical Advancement (CTA), of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and will be hosted by the University of Alaska Anchorage.

The conference aims at connecting engineers, academics, and cold regions experts from various disciplines to share their knowledge and experience. The conference theme is Sustainable and resilient engineering solutions for changing cold regions.

Organizers invite you to prepare and submit abstracts on cold regions engineering topics.

Draft Full Paper Due: 30 September 2023.

Join ARCUS for an open Arctic research community call on Wednesday, 8 May 2024 from 9:00-11:00 a.m. AKDT, focused on Bering Strait Regional Research Coordination. Learn more and register at: https://www.arcus.org/arctic-info/archive/34908

The 2024 Arctic Circle Berlin Forum will explore the role of Science, Climate, Policies and Europe in the future of the Arctic.

More than a 100 speakers in over 20 Sessions will participate in the Arctic Circle Berlin Forum, taking place at the Radialsystem in the heart of Berlin on May 7-8.

The Berlin Forum will be hosted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and co-organized with the German Arctic Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.

The U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA) is pleased to announce the USPA Technical Training Webinar Series. The webinars are offered on Zoom. Each webinar is 1 hour long, including a 50-min lecture and 10-min Q&A. Certificate of Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to participants who request it after each webinar. The webinars are free for USPA members and all students. For non-USPA members who are not students, the registration fee is $20 for each webinar.

The USPA webinar series is sponsored by Arctic Foundations, Inc., Shannon & Wilson, PND Engineers, Inc., Geo-Watersheds Scientific, beadedstream, and Katherine Schexneider.

Registration and fees for each webinar
• USPA members: FREE
• Non-USPA students: FREE
• Employees of USPA corporate members: FREE
• Non-USPA members (non-student): $20
• Instructors to volunteer their time
• Recorded webinar freely available to all USPA members

Registration link: https://uspa.memberclicks.net/webinar5

Date and Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2024. 2:00 to 3:00pm ET (10:00 to 11:00am AKT)

Instructor: Dr. Marc Lebeau, Seequent Company

Content of Webinar: This webinar reviews the basics of conductive and convective heat transfer in soils with soil-water phase change, introduces the basic concepts of the finite element method, and provides insight into the use of the software using several benchmark problems. It also presents various use cases that illustrate the capabilities of the software.

Brief Introduction of Instructors: Dr. Marc Lebeau is a Research Scientist with the GeoStudio engineering team at Seequent. He received a M.Sc.A. in Geotechnical Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal and a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Laval University. His research combines physical chemistry, hydrogeology and geotechnical engineering to study coupled transport phenomenon and mechanical response of engineered structures. Marc’s current research interests include the effect of thin films on unsaturated and frozen soil properties, thermal dispersion, non-Darcy flow and buoyancy-driven flows in coarse-grained soils as well as inverse modeling.

Format: The webinar is offered on Zoom. The webinar will be moderated. The seminar will be recorded and uploaded on the USPA website.

Green-up, that time when leaves burst forth from Alaska’s deciduous trees, has important implications for the seasonal ecology, society and even meteorology in the state. The unique multi-decadal record of green-up dates in Fairbanks has been used to develop a technique for forecasting green-up and related events in the Interior and more broadly in the boreal forest regions in Alaska. This webinar will be the fifth annual review of the green-up forecasting tools and will provide a look-ahead for green-up for Spring 2024. One Tree will demonstrate citizen science-outreach tools for birch tappers and others.

Register here for the online event: https://uaf-accap.org/event/green-up-2024/

Organizers seek nominations for individuals interested in serving on the UNOLS Arctic Marine Research Capabilities Committee. The committee will consist of:
Up to 12 people
Chair – an academic researcher
8-9 members from the research vessel user community including international membership and disciplinary balance.
3-4 Technical / Operational Experts (naval architects, R/V operators, and R/V Technical Support personnel).

Self-nominations are strongly encouraged. If you are interested in representing community perspectives on current and emerging needs for polar research, we urge you to apply for membership on the AMRCC. Applicants or nominees should submit a brief statement of interest in serving on AMRCC along with a CV to the UNOLS Office by email office [at] unols.org. Please include information about your sea-going and/or polar experience. Statements of Interest and CVs are requested by 28 April 2024. Appointments will be made in a manner to achieve a balance of expertise in the different scientific disciplines and technical areas. Committee members will be formally appointed by the UNOLS Chair.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) invites you to join the webinar of our monthly series on Thursday, 25 April 2024 at 9:00 am AKT. This spring, our webinar series addresses using big geospatial data and remote sensing for community planning applications across permafrost regions.

Protecting Foundations of Critical Infrastructure in Permafrost Regions
The Permfrost Discovery Gateway is a NSF and Google.org funded intelligent data management platform created to support knowledge-generation in the Arctic permafrost region. The project is aimed to enable community-preparedness by creating big geospatial data products of permafrost thaw features from remote sensing imagery, developing AI tools to identify and track information within the big geospatial data, and building user-friendly online tools to enable scientific discovery, policy, and to empower Arctic communities facing permafrost thaw.

For additional PDG information explore our website: https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Stay-Connected

Join the UAF Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy for this year's Alaska Spring River Breakup webinar. There’s a deep snowpack across Alaska as spring melt approaches. Celine van Breukelen with the NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center (APRFC) will review break-up basics and provide an overview of current conditions. ACCAP Alaska Climate Specialist Rick Thoman will discuss the latest subseasonal outlooks that help inform the APRFC’s official break-up outlook.

Register here for the online event: https://uaf-accap.org/event/2024-river-breakup/

View the AGU Fall Meeting webpage to learn more about session proposal instructions at https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/ModuleMeetingInfo/sessionpr….