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We are pleased to announce that Korea Polar Research Institute will hold the 24th International Symposium on Polar Sciences.

The King Sejong Station was established and inaugurated on King George Island in February 1988, after the Republic of Korea acceded to the Antarctic Treaty in November 1986. Since then KOPRI has continued to expand its research as well as to strengthen logistic capacities to support world class science, for example a research icebreaker, Araon and the second Antarctic Station, Jang Bogo in Terra Nova Bay as a platform for conducting continental Antarctic research. KOPRI has devoted its passion and commitment to explore the uncharted field of Antarctic research for over three decades. In commemoration of the scientific dedication over the years and celebrating the 30 year anniversary of King Sejong Station, the theme of the 24th International Symposium on Polar Science will be “30 years of Footsteps in Antarctica: Looking Back and Looking Forward”.

We would like to cordially invite you to share your knowledge and understanding as well as your perspective of future outlook on Antarctic research.

Please follow the link above for more information.

The aim of the workshop is to continue strengthening the links between MOSAiC science objectives and the specific plans for observing, modeling, and synthesis activities. The MOSAiC team invites participation from MOSAiC participants, partners, and stakeholders. The registration contains a short request about your involvement in MOSAiC to ensure that all participants are strongly linked with, and contributing to, core MOSAiC goals.

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The OGGM workshop is an annual, informal meeting for developers, users, and future users of the Open Global Glacier Model (www.oggm.org). For this third edition, we decided to open the event to the wider community.

Agenda:

This workshop has three main objectives:

1) State of OGGM: the first day will be spent with presentations from the participants about recent developments and results.

2) Future developments and visions for OGGM: the second day will be dedicated to general discussions and brainstorming about the future and goals of the OGGM project.

3) Tutorial: the third day is for current and future OGGM users to get to know the model internals, and learn how to set-up and customize a model run. This day will be rather technical and might be skipped if you do not plan to use the model yourself.

Who can participate?

Anyone interested in the model, or in glaciological modeling in general! In particular, we would like to encourage potential users and developers to join us to get to know each other and to gather first-hand information about the model internals. Note that in case of high interest we might have to limit the number of participants.

We encourage you to register if you are interested in using the model!

In recent years with rapid changes of climate and environment in the Arctic region and China’s economic growth, the interaction between China and the Arctic has been increasingly deepened, which calls for a coherent and sustainable development of the Arctic and China.

China-Nordic Arctic research cooperation has been intensified over the past few years and during that period Chinese institutes such as the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) and Shanghai Institute of International Studies (SIIS) have strengthened their ties with international counterparts.

The 6th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium will take place in Tromsø, Norway, under the theme "Integrated Ocean Management in the Arctic” covering the overarching issues of knowledge building, governance challenges and science-governance interplay.

Thematic sessions include: 1) Fisheries Management in Arctic Waters, 2) Marine Pollution, 3) Climate Change, Maritime Governance and Sustainability in the Arctic. The symposium agenda is now available. Please see the link above for more information.

Arctic Indigenous Scholars Seminar
Date/Time: Wednesday, 23 May from 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET
Speakers: Rosemary Ahtuangaruak & Theresa Arevgaq John
Seminar Title: "Empowering Arctic Indigenous Scholars and Making Connections: Perspectives from Rosemary Ahtuangaruak of Nuiqsut, Alaska and Theresa Arevgaq John of Nelson Island, Alaska"

To register for the event, go to: https://www.arcus.org/research-seminar-series

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) and Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska will host a joint seminar by Rosemary Ahtuangaruak and Theresa Arevgaq John as part of the 2018 Arctic Indigenous Scholars program. The event will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office at 1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 from 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET. This seminar will also be available as a webinar live-stream for those unable to attend in person.

Registration is required for this event. To register, please visit: https://www.arcus.org/research-seminar-series

The Empowering Arctic Indigenous Scholars and Making Connections program creates a space for Indigenous scholars to educate and inform policy- and decision-makers engaged in Arctic Issues while visiting Washington, D.C. and provides a platform for traditional knowledge holders to share their expertise with the wider Arctic research community.

This joint Arctic research seminar & webinar will feature presentations by each of the 2018 Arctic Indigenous Scholars:

Rosemary Ahtuangaruak is an Inupiaq activist. She is a graduate of the University of Washington Medex Northwest Physician Assistant Program. She has fought tirelessly for the health and protection of her people and of the Arctic’s unparalleled wilderness that has sustained her culture for thousands of years. Rosemary is a former mayor of Nuiqsut and currently serves on the board of the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, the regional tribal government for the North Slope, and is an executive council member of the Alaska Inter–Tribal Council. She received the 2009 Voice of the Wild Award from the Alaska Wilderness League. She is a founding board member of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands).

Theresa Arevgaq John is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-cultural Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has authored numerous academic articles and a co-author of a book Yupiit Yuraryarait: Yup’ik Ways of Dancing and has presented her work at dozens of local, national, and international professional conferences. Dr. John currently serves on the National Advisory Council on Indian Education and the International Indigenous Women’s Forum. She is a former member of the Alaskan State Council Arts and the former Chair of the Traditional Native Arts Panel. She is also the recipient of the Governor's Distinguished Humanities Educator Award and Alaska State Library Award. Dr. John received her B.S., M.Ed., and Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

This 1.5 hour event is a brown-bag lunch that will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office (1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. Fourth Floor). Cookies and beverages will be provided.

A live webinar is also available to those unable to attend in person. Instructions for accessing the event online will be sent to “Webinar Only” registrants.

For those of you on Twitter, we also invite you to join us in live-tweeting the event using the hashtag #ARCUSwebinar.

To register for the event, go to:
https://www.arcus.org/research-seminar-series.

For more information about the Arctic Indigenous Scholars program, go to:
https://www.arcus.org/indigenous-scholars

For questions about the Arctic Indigenous Scholars Program, contact:
Lisa Sheffield Guy: lisa [at] arcus.org

For questions about the Arctic Research Seminar Series, contact:
Brit Myers: brit [at] arcus.org

Background:
A number of recent conferences, workshops and meetings have confirmed that there are many national, regional and local projects and programs that are active in polar data management and stewardship and that also have a mandate or desire to contribute to regional or international coordination of efforts and activities. Many of those initiatives have resources available and are making progress towards an envisioned connected, interoperable polar data system. The international polar data community is eager to improve cooperation and coordination of their efforts.

In the May of 2018, representatives from a wide range of different active programs and projects will come together to focus on work planning and coordination of effort. This meeting will complement past workshops and fora (e.g. IPY, Polar Data Forums etc.) that have been effective in defining important community challenges and technical issues. The focus of the Summit will be to generate detailed plans on how best to mobilise existing and soon-to-be initiated funded activities to develop a particular international data sharing case study or scenario. At the annual meetings of the Arctic Data Committee and the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management held in Montreal in September 2017, a focus on the sharing of meteorological observations and linking to existing terrestrial data networks was discussed as one possibility. Discussions on the precise nature of the case study will continue, a decision will be taken during the winter of 2018.

For much more information, please follow the link above.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Collaborations invites attendance for a webinar titled Science Communication Lightning Talks for Effective Interdisciplinary Arctic Research. This webinar will be held via Zoom Video Conferencing.

Webinar Summary:

To most effectively solve challenging science questions in Arctic research, scientists must team up across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The IARPC Collaborations platform enables these interdisciplinary connections through its open meetings and website. However, communication across disciplines is challenging due to discipline-specific standards and vocabularies. To build the communication capacity and collaborative research potential of the next generation, IARPC Collaborations offers an online training program for early career scientists. During this webinar, early career scientists will present lightning talks on various topics in Arctic research designed to connect and network with scientists from other disciplines and lay the groundwork for forming new interdisciplinary collaborations. Join this webinar to see examples of effective science communication, network outside of your discipline, and learn more about future science communication training and networking opportunities through IARPC Collaborations’ new science communication forum.

For questions, contact:
Jessica Rohde
Email: jrohde [at] arcus.org
Phone: 206-931-0090

This summer school is aimed at postgraduate students and early career scientists who would like to obtain a solid grounding in polar climate system science, with a particular focus on the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice and their interactions. It will consist of a series of lectures by world-leading experts in polar science, who will deal with the maintenance of the polar climates, their role in the global system, links to lower latitudes, modelling, change over recent decades and how the system my change over the next century. There will also be practical sessions involving analysis of observations and model output.

The organising committee consists of Prof Zhaomin Wang (Hohai University), Prof John Turner (British Antarctic Survey), Prof Kent Moore (University of Toronto), Prof Xiangdong Zhang (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Prof Annette Rinke (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany).

Funding is available to support the attendance of a number of students.

The advent of new, high quality small satellites, and the availability of high-resolution commercial imagery is opening a new era of Arctic science. Every remote corner of the planet now has one foot resolution optical and high quality radar imagery, allowing surface cover and properties relevant to biology, geology, geomorphology, ecology, and cryospheric studies to be seen in ways, rates, and resolutions as never before possible.

To bracket this opportunity, the National Science Foundation has funded a workshop to bring scientists, industry and other experts together to address the following questions with a multi-decadal time horizon:

What new Arctic science would be enabled with commercial imagery and SmallSats over the next 5, 10, and 20 years?
Where and when should collection be concentrated?
What sensors are available, being developed, or need to be developed?
Strategies for best employing a coordinated, public/private, multi-resolution, multi-sensor constellation for Arctic science?
What are the foreseeable road blocks unique to commercial imagery and SmallSats that must be overcome before these resources can be fully utilized? This includes but is not limited to licensing, data quality, data volume, analysis techniques, and cyberinfrastructure.

To apply, please submit a 1-2 page document with your contact information describing the new Arctic science enabled by commercial and SmallSat imagery. In addition, a shapefile or KMZ describing the geographic extent of the requirement and the optimal times for collection can be included.

Send these files as attachments to: arcticimageryworkshop [at] umn.edu

Travel support is available for approximately 20 participants. Graduate students and early-career investigators are encouraged to apply.

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY MARCH 30, 2018.

Following a successful launch, the second new-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-S, became GOES-17 and is currently in the test position of 89.5 degrees West longitude. This fall, the satellite will begin drifting to its new position at 137 degrees West longitude, where it will begin imaging as the operational GOES-West satellite this November. GOES-West will dramatically improve weather satellite imaging of Alaska, with four times more detail compared to previous generation geostationary weather satellites, even on the North Slope. This will enhance scientific studies and operational weather monitoring of Alaska for nearly a decade to come. This presentation will discuss the value of GOES-17, particularly the unique aspects and challenges for high latitudes.

Available in-person in IARC/Akasofu 407 on the UAF Campus or online (see link above).