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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.

Organizers invite registration for the 2018 Arctic Summer Institute titled Arctic Law, Science, and Policy. This pass/fail, two credit or Certificate of Completion course will take place 18-22 June 2018 in Portland, Maine.

The goal of the course is to provide students with an interdisciplinary knowledge base and the tools to practically and responsibly participate in Arctic affairs.

Climate models predict that within ten years the Arctic will be virtually ice-free for at least several weeks during the year and the pace appears to be accelerating. Abrupt climate change is producing Arctic warming and generating new shipping routes, business opportunities, and access to resources in ways that affect states, Indigenous peoples, the Arctic environment, and more. Effective participation in this new Arctic requires a unique combination of knowledge and skills.

Course topics will include:

• Arctic science
• Law of the Sea
• Maritime shipping
• Geographic information systems
• Maritime history
• Indigenous peoples
• North Atlantic trade
• Governance and environmental Regulation
• Geopolitics and maritime security
• Arctic Public Engagement

Registration deadline: 15 May 2018.

The course provides a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. Topics include: continuum mechanics, sliding and hydraulics, numerical modelling, polar meteorology, ice-ocean interaction, ice cores, interaction of ice sheets with the solid earth, etc. The course is meant for Ph.D. students that work on a glaciology-related climate project. Some places are available for junior scientists.

The next Karthaus course will be held from 11 to 22 September 2018 in Karthaus (northern Italy).

Deadline for applications is 15 May 2018.

This small symposium (40 participants) is intended to provide a unique opportunity to bring together molecular microbial ecologists specialized in different organism groups, share our latest results, and discuss methodological problems as well as the future prospects in the field, including practical international collaboration. The environmental focus will be on sea ice environments, but excellent research in other cryospheric environments is also invited. The methods to be discussed will focus on 'omics' techniques, ranging from single cells to metagenomes, but exciting research using additional methods will be considered as well.

Organizers: Dr. Eeva Eronen-Rasimus (Finnish Environment Institute) and Dr. Eric Collins (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Schedule:
Sun May 13 – arrive in Helsinki
Mon May 14 – morning: charter bus travel to Tvärminne; afternoon: sessions
Tue May 15 – sessions
Wed May 16 – sessions
Thu May 17 – sessions; afternoon: charter bus return to Helsinki

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Assoc. Prof. John Bowman, University of Tasmania, Australia
Academy Research Fellow Jenni Hultman, University of Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Thomas Mock, School of Environmental Sciences, UK
Prof. David Thomas, Bangor University, UK
Senior researcher Letizia Tedesco, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Senior researcher Hermanni Kaartokallio, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Registration fee: 150€
Transportation from Helsinki to Tvärminne, Shared Lodging at Tvärminne Zoological station (few single rooms available), Meals, and Sauna are included (Monday -- Thursday) in the registration fee.

Apply By: Wednesday, February 28
Decisions By: Wednesday, March 7
Registration Deadline: Friday, March 30

The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series brings leading Arctic researchers to Washington, D.C. to share the latest findings and what they mean for decision-making. These seminars will be of interest to federal agency officials, congressional staff, non-governmental organizations, associations, and the public.

This seminar titled “The Face of Climate Change in the Arctic: The National Media's Role in Public Disengagement” will focus on Arnold’s own experience and current research of media coverage on the human impacts of climate change in the Arctic.

Elizabeth Arnold is a former National Public Radio (NPR) Political Correspondent, an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Alaska, and the producer of arcticprofiles.com. For twenty years she was a familiar voice on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and a regular presence on PBS Washington Week, covering Congress, the White House, and the American West. Arnold has received numerous awards, including a duPont Columbia Silver Baton and the Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. Over the last decade, she has reported on the ecological and human impacts of global warming from some of the most remote areas of the Arctic. She is currently a Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy where she is researching the role of the press in effectively communicating climate change.

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

Registration is required for this event.

The 2nd SCAR Summer School on Polar Geodesy will be held at the Ladoga Base of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), in Ladozhskoe Ozero, about 70 km east of St. Petersburg, Russia. The summer school provides a concise course on geodetic ground‐based and satellite methods focussed on polar applications in combination with lectures on geophysics and glaciology. The school addresses master and PhD students as well as young scientists (age limit: 30 years) to draw their interest to polar research and to the cooperation of different geoscientific disciplines to carry out investigations both in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Deadline for application is 30 January 2018.

We are pleased to invite you to the 5th Polar Prediction Workshop. The workshop will take place at the Agora Hydro-Quebec (https://goo.gl/QNBksJ).

As in previous editions, the workshop will focus on:

• Polar predictability from subseasonnal to interannual timescales
• Sea ice prediction
• Operational and research efforts
• End user needs and the capacity of the scientific community to address them

In addition, reviews for the Sea Ice Outlook project and other initiatives related to polar predictions will be discussed. We also propose a new activity for 2018. An important outcome of the Workshop will be a consensus forecast statement synthesizing predictions of (i) September mean Arctic sea ice extent, and (ii) sea ice conditions during the Arctic shipping season for key regions plus the Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route shipping corridors.

Participants are invited to contribute to any or all of these forecasts and are encouraged to highlight these predictions in their presentations. More information on how to submit a forecast will be provided to interested participants.

Operational forecasters and forecast users are warmly invited to participate.

The registration and abstract submission deadline has been extended to April 13, 2018.

GEWEX, the Global Energy and Water Exchanges project, is holding its 8th GEWEX Science Conference from 6-11 May 2018 in Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

The 2018 GEWEX Science Conference is structured around the topic of challenges confronting our ability to understand and predict changes in climate extremes and the availability of freshwater under the complex factors of natural variability, forced climate change due to human activities, and human management practices such as dams, reservoirs, land cover changes, and agricultural management. The Conference will reflect research activities that advance the main themes of the GEWEX project and of the two WCRP Grand Challenges on “Weather and Climate Extremes” and “Water for the Food Baskets of the World.” The full call for papers can be found here.

The 2018 GEWEX Conference welcomes abstracts that are related to the themes mentioned, particularly on the following topics:

• Nexus of water, energy, and food
• Climate extremes
• Extreme weather
• Atmospheric modeling: atmospheric model parameterizations, physics-dynamics coupling, coupling of physical processes
• Land modeling: land parameterizations, model representation of land-climate interactions in present and future, coupling of physical processes
• Mountain and high latitude hydrology
• Global energy and water cycles

Abstracts for both themes of weather and climate extremes and water availability, as well as the themes of the GEWEX Panels described above, are welcome. Poster submissions are encouraged.

Important Dates:

• October 15, 2017: Registration and abstract submission opens
• December 18, 2017: Abstract and travel support requests due; deadline to apply for ECR Workshop
• January 15, 2018: Abstract acceptance notification
• January 22, 2018: Travel support notification
• February 1, 2018: Early bird registration closes
• April 3, 2018: Room reservation deadline at Coast Canmore Hotel

The International Conference on Geology & Earth Science creates a platform for experts interaction, simultaneously with networking opportunities and also provides an opportunity to explore the innovative ideas of the other communities, companies and associations.

Geoscience-2018 conference includes Plenary lectures, Keynote lectures and short courses by eminent personalities from around the world in addition to contributed papers both oral and poster presentations.

It aims to discover advances, practical experiences and innovative ideas on issues related to geology and earth science as well as a breadth of other topics. Don t miss this opportunity to connect with your peers at this scientific event. Your participation in the conference will enhance your knowledge and professional skills.
This International Conference on Geology & Earth Science is a gathering of experts, professionals, academicians and researchers from all over the world. Meet experts, strengthen and update your ideas at Geoscience-2018.

Scientific Sessions:

• Mineral Exploration
• Palaeontology and Palaeo-anthropology
• Soil Science
• Remote Sensing and GIS
• Issues in Global Warming and Climate Change
• Groundwater and Hydrogeology
• Forensic Geology
• Geochemistry and Economic Potential of Rocks
• Experimental Studies on the Genesis, Evolution and Ore Potential of Magmas
• Environmental Geology

Important dates:

Abstract Submission Opens: February 02, 2017 – March 31, 2018
Early-bird Registration: June 30, 2017 – January 23, 2018
Standard Registration: January 24, 2018 – May 02, 2018

Please see the link above for more information.

Breakup transforms an ice-covered river into an open river. Two ideal forms of breakup bracket the types of breakup that commonly occur. At one extreme is thermal breakup. During an ideal thermal breakup, the river ice cover deteriorates and melts in place, with no increase in flow and little or no ice movement. At the other extreme is the more complex and less understood mechanical breakup, which is the focus of this presentation. The main driver of mechanical breakup is the flow discharge hydrograph. The increase in flow induces stresses in the cover, and the stresses in turn cause cracks and the ultimate fragmentation of the ice cover into pieces that are carried by the channel flow. Ice jams take place at locations where the ice fragments stop; severe and sudden hydraulic transients can result when these ice jams form or when they release. This presentation will focus on mechanical breakup and the historical evolution of our understanding of this topic. The presentation will include discussions of ice cover formation and the typical resulting ice structure, wave-ice interaction, the physics of the cracking, and the current status of our understanding of breakup.

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