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Join the UAF Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy for this month's NWS Climate Outlook Briefing. Rick Thoman will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, discuss forecasting tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for April 2024 and the early spring season. Learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Register here for the online event: https://uaf-accap.org/event/mar2024-nws-climate-outlook/

IASC is excited to announce that Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2024, including the Arctic Observing Summit, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The United Kingdom has been an IASC member country since 1991, and this will be the second time that the UK will host the ASSW, with the first one being in 2000, in Cambridge.

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) was initiated by IASC in 1999 to provide opportunities for coordination, cooperation and collaboration between various scientific organizations involved in Arctic research and to economize on travel and time. Over the years, the summit evolved into the most important annual gathering of the Arctic research organizations. The summit is organized by an International Coordination Group and any organization engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research may participate.

Important Dates

• 1 September 2023: Deadline to submit Statements and Session Proposals
• 30 September 2023: Deadline for Call for Business and Community Meetings
• Autumn 2023 - Registration opens

The College of Rural and Community Development and the International Arctic Research Center are co-hosting a virtual seminar series called A Place for Knowledge Exchange. These monthly conversations will cover collaborative approaches to research, education, and real-life community-based practices in rural Alaska.The series will take place on the third Thursday of each month, starting in January 2024, at Noon via Zoom.

The series will take place on the third Thursday of each month, starting in January 2024, at Noon via Zoom.

March 21, 2024 topic: Uplifting Indigenous Knowledge through the Tamamta Program

Speakers:

Sonia Natalie Ibarra
Tamamta co-Program Coordinator
Postdoctoral Fellow

Craig Chythlook
Tamamta Research Fellow
IARC Indigenous Liaison

IARPC is updating the implementation plan for the 2022-2026 Arctic Research Plan and is asking the community to help us celebrate our successes and accomplishments, highlight where we need to shift our attention, and suggest where new research deliverables may be needed. IARPC will host this event for an informational webinar about the accomplishments of the current implementation plan and how to share your thoughts about what should be included in the next one.

In Autumn 2023, an APECS & Arctic PASSION Sharing Circle gathered a group of early career professionals and Arctic youth in the homelands of the Sami, in Northern Finland. What have we learned from this event? Did we achieve our goal to foster dialogue and open new perspectives on Arctic intercultural collaborations and co-management? How can this experience be used for future educational efforts? Join us and our 4 panelists to discuss learnings from the Sharing Circle!

Learning from the Sharing Circle: Reflections on an Arctic PASSION Event - 18 March 2024, 4:00 p.m. GMT
Register here: https://arcticpassion.eu/blog/LearningFromSharingCircle

Panelists and participants of the Sharing Circle:
Elise Brown-Dussault (Canada)
Jessica Hall (Norway)
Pavel Tkach (Finland)
Harmony Wayner (USA)

Moderation: Lisa Grosfeld and Josefine Lenz (APECS, AWI)

To better understand zooplankton in a changing world, ICES and PICES are holding the 7th International Zooplankton Production Symposium as a forum to discuss the latest zooplankton research. The ICES/PICES Zooplankton Production Symposium will bring together the top zooplankton researchers globally, showcasing recent advances. Understanding the current and evolving role of zooplankton will require new insights provided by:

• Assessing the impact on zooplankton of climate change, fishing, and pollution such as microplastics
• State-of-the-art sampling techniques such as DNA, imaging, and bioacoustics
• Biochemical methods applied to unravelling complex trophic ecology
• The application of cutting-edge approaches in zooplankton modelling, including size and trait-based biogeochemical and ecosystem models
• Revealing the role of microzooplankton in biogeochemical cycling and food webs
• Exploring the structure and functioning of macrozooplankton communities and their impact on carbon sequestration and trophic ecology
• Examining zooplankton in fisheries science, including dynamics of fish larvae, the impact of zooplankton on fish larval mortality and growth, and the commercial harvest of zooplankton
• Elucidating the vital role of zooplankton in polar environments
• Understanding the role of gelatinous filter feeders and jellyfish in carbon sequestration and trophic ecology
• The use of zooplankton as ecosystem indicators in a changing ocean

The symposium will be held over five days in the historic waterfront district of Hobart, Australia. This event will be held in-person and provide the first opportunity since 2016 for zooplankton researchers to meet, build networks, and hear the latest science. Organizers are monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely and will adapt plans as needed.

Scientific workshops and sessions will include invited and contributed papers. Contributed papers will be selected for oral or poster presentations.

The abstract submission deadline is 30 September 2023.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) Conference Travel Grant Program is now open for applications. Travel awards to attend and present polar-related work at a conference are open to polar early career scientists and educators. In this Spring 2024 funding cycle, PSECCO will be distributing $5,000 of awards. Applicants may request a reasonable amount of funding to support their travel to/from a conference, up to a value of $900 per person, with awards aimed at those with demonstrated financial need. An additional $100 is available for awardees who organize a PSECCO social event at the conference.

The application deadline is 15 March 2024 at 11:59pm MT. PSECCO will open another round of conference travel funding in the fall of 2024.

Join NSF's Arctic Sciences Section, in the Office of Polar Programs, for a community office hour on 15 March 2024 from 1:00–2:00 p.m. EST. In this office hour staff will provide updates on expectations for the upcoming Arctic field season, new opportunities, new policies and requirements, and other updates. There will be time set aside to ask questions.

Registration is required: https://nsf.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItduGprDIiGiIU0PKeuOhJOiX9qC…

The Community and Citizen Science in the Far North 2024 Conference is set for 17-18 April 2024.

The 2024 conference builds on the efforts from the first conference in 2021 and a subsequent webinar. The focus will be continuing to share, network, and discuss the various aspects of conducting community and citizen science research in the Arctic.

The organizers are currently accepting presentation abstracts for the conference. The abstract submission deadline is Friday, 8 March 2024, 5:00 p.m. Alaska Standard Time.

APPLICATION DUE DATE EXTENDED - Friday, 15 March 2024

The United States Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) is excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar, “Water in a Frozen Arctic: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives.” It will be held in conjunction with APECS International’s Polar Week events on Thursday, March 14, 2024, from 17:00-18:00 UTC (9am-10am Alaska/1pm-2pm Eastern USA).

Observations have shown that heavy precipitation and other thawing events are increasing around the Arctic, including more frequent rain-on-snow occurrences, and global climate models project that these extremes will only continue to increase in likelihood over the next few decades. This virtual event will feature different perspectives on the changing water cycle around the Arctic with a focus on its causes, impacts, and implications for the region and the globe.

The event will include short presentations from four leading early career polar researchers that are actively working to expand our understanding of the many far-reaching societal and physical impacts of an increasingly wetter and warmer Arctic.

Meet our presenters:

Dr. Sophie Elixhauser, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna and Austrian Polar Research Institute, Austria

Jorrit van der Schot, University of Graz and Austrian Polar Research Institute, Austria

Dr. Michelle McCrystall, Research Fellow University of Auckland, New Zealand

Dr. Kristin Poinar, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology and RENEW Institute, NY USA

Here is the registration link and event information (Zoom):
https://iarpc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvf-uqrjkvGtErcpoUJQYkBQktkkFA…