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Team Arctic Encounter Symposium is working to bring the strongest, most diverse Arctic Encounter yet to Seattle in April 2018. Registration will soon be opened and announced. Speakers, sponsors, musical performances, exhibitors, new international partnerships, and other exciting announcements will also be released on a rolling basis via e-mail and social media.

The Arctic Encounter, the largest annual Arctic policy conference in the U.S., will convene policymakers, industry leaders, scientists, Arctic artists and musical performers, and other stakeholders to debate and discuss emerging Arctic challenges and opportunities including policy, innovation, security, and development. The mission of AES is to raise awareness, engage challenges, and develop solutions for the future of the Arctic region and the people who live there. The 5th annual AES will take place in downtown Seattle at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center on Pier 66.

Is your organization or company interested in joining AES 2018 as a sponsor? Are you or your colleagues interested in hosting a break out session? Click the links below to get involved. We look forward to working with you to bring about positive change and increased awareness for the Arctic region.

For more information and for the most current updates, please see the website above.

The annual High North Dialogue conference gathers experts and stakeholders from a wide range of sectors and has a strong focus on business development and economic growth in the High North. The fact that the conference provides a platform to interact with young academics and professionals with an interest in the Arctic is one aspect that past participants have highlighted as especially useful. The conference coincides with week-long Master and PhD courses that gather more than 120 graduate students from Norway, Russia, China, and many other countries.

The theme of the conference in 2018 is Growth in the Arctic. We will explore topics such as High North scenarios, maritime waste and the regional dimension of development. Business leaders and entrepreneurs will share their thoughts and know-how on how the enormous business potential in the Arctic can be utilized. For the third consecutive year, we present the High North Hero Award to a person or an organization that has contributed to highlighting the importance of the High North. We invite everyone to nominate candidates.

We would also like to invite you to take part in our research workshop on Tuesday April 17, connecting scholars across academic fields to discuss various aspects of growth in the Arctic.

For more information about the conference, please refer to our website at the link above.

The EU Horizon 2020-funded APPLICATE project, in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organisation’s Polar Prediction Project (PPP) in occasion of the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP), the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and other partners will be organizing the Polar Prediction School 2018 on weather and climate prediction in the polar regions at Abisko Scientific Research Station in Sweden.

The course will include a combination of polar weather and climate theory lectures with exercises on modeling and field meteorology techniques as well as soft skill training. Each of these components forms a crucial pillar of the prediction problem, and the motivation for combining these is to provide participants with a complete overview of the components required to understand and predict polar weather.

The Polar Prediction School 2018 will be open for 30 early career researchers (focus on advanced graduate students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) from around the world. An international set up instructors will be teaching the sessions. The course will be run at Abisko Scientific Research Station in Sweden where the instructional facilities are conveniently located in an environment well suited to Arctic observations. Here participants can begin to develop a sense for the environment they are studying.

••Application deadline: 15 September 2017.**

For any questions about the Polar Prediction School 2018, please contact info [at] apecs.is.

The Department of Geography at Durham University is delighted to be hosting the 6th and final conference of the 'Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal Gateways' (PAST Gateways) network. As with previous conferences, it will include oral and poster presentations over 2.5 days and a mid-conference field trip. We welcome contributions on the overall theme of Arctic palaeo-environmental change beyond instrumental records, and particularly on: Growth and decay of Arctic Ice Sheets, Arctic sea-ice and ocean changes, Non-glaciated Arctic environments including permafrost, and Holocene Arctic palaeo-environmental change. At this stage confirmed invited speakers are Professor Julian Dowdeswell and Dr. Anne Jennings.

The conference icebreaker will take place in the magnificent Great Hall of Durham Castle on the evening of Monday 16th April. The conference dinner will take place in Hatfield College on the evening of April 19th.

The deadline for registration and abstract submission is 15th February, 2018.

For more information and registration/abstract submission, please see the website linked at the top.

We are pleased to invite you to the 5th Polar Prediction Workshop. The workshop will take place at the Agora Hydro-Quebec from 7-9 May 2018.

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.

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Directorate, in collaboration with the Biological Sciences, Computer and Information Science and Engineering, and Geosciences directorates, has issued a "Dear Colleague" Letter (DCL), Signals in the Soil (SitS), to encourage submission of Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals for early-stage, high-risk, high-reward research on technologies, models, and methods to better understand dynamic soil processes, including interactions of the macro- and microbiomes with soil nutrients, the rhizosphere, and various abiotic and biotic processes within the soil.

This DCL also encourages proposals that include topics relevant to both the DCL and the NSF "Rules of Life" Big Idea and submissions of Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE).

Researchers interested in submitting a SitS EAGER or RAISE proposal must first submit a SitS Research Concept Outline, as described in the DCL. Selected submitters of these Outlines will be invited to submit full EAGER or RAISE proposals for funding consideration.

Research Concept Outlines are encouraged for research that addresses any of the themes to monitor soil properties over time and space for various managed or unmanaged applications, which may include monitoring soil properties for environmental, agricultural, or construction purposes.

Themes include:

• Sensors: Novel sensors and other materials for sensing soil biological/metagenomics, chemical, or physical characteristics to monitor soil health and changes in properties under different uses, and to address needs for inexpensive sensors buried for long time periods in highly variable soil conditions;
• Wireless Systems: Advances in wireless communications to collect and transmit data from sensors buried in soils over extended periods of time;
• Advanced Cyber Systems and Data Analytics: New methods for data fusion and analytics of sensor measurement outputs (data visualization and reporting tools, etc.); and
• Modeling Soil Ecosystems: Next-generation models of soil biological, chemical, and/or physical components, making use of new sensing and data communications capabilities that can describe interactions among soil biological, chemical, and physical processes at different temporal and spatial scales.
  Other topics that meet the goals of this DCL, but are not included in these four themes, are also strongly encouraged.

Research Concept Outlines should be no longer than two pages and contain the following information:

• Title of the SitS research;
• The suggested directorate(s) that may be interested in the topic. For a RAISE topic, more than one program must be listed, and there should be a clear link to each of those programs. Please note that these program listings are just suggestions. Multiple programs will view these Research Concept Outlines to determine programmatic fits;
• Description of and justification for the proposed research;
• Names and affiliations of researchers; and
• Contact information of the researchers (emails and phone numbers).

Research Concept Outlines deadline: 13 April 2018.

For more information, please follow the link above.

For questions, contact:
Email: SitSquestions [at] nsf.gov

The Arctic is changing at an accelerated rate due to climate change and increased anthropogenic activity. Given the rate of change, never has it been more important to work toward a holistic understanding of the Arctic’s interconnecting systems. A co-production of knowledge framework will provide the holistic view and comprehension needed to inform effective and adaptive policies and practices. We underscore the role and value of different knowledge systems with different methodologies and the need for collaborative approaches in identifying research questions. We will present the most important components that form a co-production of knowledge framework.

To register for the webinar, please follow the registration link above.

The workshop will address the natural and anthropogenic drivers of Arctic change. This will include a system-wide perspective on the changing Arctic system, the influence of local and remote controls, and the importance of coupled interactions. A primary goal of the workshop is to provide new insights on how to better integrate observing and modeling approaches to enhance understanding of Arctic system change. The meeting will include participants from the atmospheric, terrestrial, and marine science communities.

Please follow the link above for more information.

Members of the SEARCH-affiliated Permafrost Carbon Network have convened a conference session exploring the permafrost carbon (CO2, CH4) and non-carbon (N2O) feedbacks of climate change as part of the 2018 EGU General Assembly. The session is seeking contributions that address N2O dynamics from Arctic ecosystems that aim to understand the dynamics and estimate the potential importance in climate feedbacks compared to CO2 and CH4. The EGU General Assembly will take place in Vienna, Austria from 08–13 April 2018. Abstract deadline is January 10, 2018.

The EGU General Assembly 2018 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna.

For the second year in a row, the EGU is offering a mentoring programme for novice conference attendees, students, and early career scientists at its annual General Assembly. The programme aims to facilitate new connections that may lead to long-term professional relationships within the Earth, planetary, and space science communities. It promises to be a rewarding experience for both mentees and mentors, so do consider signing up (deadline: 31 January 2018).

Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 10 Jan 2018, 13:00 CET.
Sponsorship application deadline: 10 Jan 2018.
Early registration deadline: 01 Mar 2018.