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Overall workshop objectives:

The primary goal of the meeting is to review the status of on-going Polar CORDEX activities and to plan and coordinate future activities. This will be the first time that a joint Arctic- and Antarctic-Polar CORDEX meeting will be held, enabling participants from both communities to benefit by interacting closely. There will be plenty of time for discussions. All research groups that have started or are planning to contribute to Polar CORDEX activities, either by performing simulations or analysing Polar CORDEX data, are welcome to give presentations on their activities.

Preliminary Agenda:

• Some initial ideas for sessions are for the following topics:
• Model evaluation
• Coupled modelling
• Process based studies
• Projections
• Impact studies
• Future activities/plans
• Stakeholder/user engagement

Registration:

Please register for the 2017 Polar CORDEX meeting by filling out the registration form at:
http://bit.ly/2qcBONE

If you are giving a presentation, then please send a title and short abstract to Andrew Orr, British Antarctic Survey at: anmcr[@]bas.ac.uk

The deadline for registration is 15 September 2017.

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is accepting applications for the second Fulbright Arctic Initiative. Faculty and researchers from the eight Arctic Council member states (the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden) can now apply for this 18-month collaborative research program, which will begin in spring 2018 and run through the fall of 2019.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build relations between the people of the United States and the people of other countries that are needed to solve global challenges. Using a collaborative multidisciplinary model to emphasize communication across disciplines and knowledge co-production, the Initiative will translate theory into practice to address public-policy research questions relevant to Arctic Council member states' shared challenges and opportunities.

Approximately 12 scholars will be selected through an open, merit-based competition to participate in an individual Fulbright exchange and convene with the other scholars for three in-person group seminars and on-going virtual communication to carry out team-based research.

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative will provide a platform for scholars from across the Arctic region to engage in collaborative thinking, analysis, problem-solving, and multi-disciplinary research across two core thematic areas:

• Resilient Communities: The Arctic is facing profound social, economic, and environmental change and communities are increasingly confronted with critical policy challenges related to issues of health and wellness, energy resource management, environmental protection, sustainability of the Arctic Ocean, infrastructure, Indigenous rights, education, and regional governance. Further research is needed on ways to build social resilience in communities to adapt to changes across the Arctic. This research should focus on, and ideally involve, Arctic communities themselves and consider the application of Indigenous knowledge to help inform policy at local to regional scales, as well as multi-disciplinary research to bring differing or complementary viewpoints.

• Sustainable Economies: The rapid changes in the Arctic Ocean system resulting from sea ice decline, changes in water conditions, and increasing shipping and energy production have significance for Arctic nations, global markets, and coastal communities. The economic impacts of environmental changes and globalization in the Arctic, together with the region's expanding connections to the global economy, require research to address how commercial opportunities can be supported and balanced with the need for sustained subsistence livelihoods in Arctic communities.

Deadline for international applicants: 16 October 2017
Deadline for U.S. applicants: 30 October 2017

Please visit the website for more information (the website is continuously updated as the meeting approaches).

Although we strive for minimal organization and control, we do want to give everybody time to present their research by developing a
preliminary draft of the program. We also want to provide adequate refreshments. So please let us know:
- that you plan to attend, and on which days (Friday and/or Saturday
- whether you wish to present a talk or poster, and if so, which?
- what is your presentation title?
- will you attend the Friday evening social event?
- how can we contact you?

Please send your information to nwglaciologists2017 at gmail.com

Additional information will be sent only to those who have contacted us and provided their email addresses.

The International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT) project announces a call for applications access to 43 research stations across the Arctic and northern alpine and forest areas. Transnational access will be available between March 2018 and April 2019, with the exception of Station Samoylov in Russia, where access will be available from April 2019 through October 2019.

The maximum amount of access granted to one user group during the INTERACT project period (2016-2020) is three months. Access can only be granted to user groups to conduct research and not for arranging or attending courses, conferences, seminars, or workshops.

Assistance and support for obtaining visas and other required permits for user groups who will be granted transnational access are available to successful applicants.

Application deadline: 13 October 2017

Transnational access dates: March 2018 through April 2019

The annual Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from 50 countries. It is attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, indigenous representatives, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the future of the Arctic.

The Arctic Circle Secretariat is now accepting proposals for Breakout Sessions at the Arctic Circle Assembly.

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, May 12, 2017.

Please follow the link above for more about the breakout session proposals and other information.

Based on the success of past U.S. Antarctic Earth Sciences meetings and the interest in promoting interdisciplinary research in Antarctica you are invited to participate in the upcoming NSF-sponsored Interdisciplinary Antarctic Earth Science Meeting (ANT-Sci). The meeting is intended to provide a forum for recent Antarctic research, to facilitate the exchange of information, and to encourage interdisciplinary research in the Earth Sciences. (This is not just for 'CTAM' researchers anymore.)

Meeting overview:

ANT-Sci will be a 3-day long, single-session meeting, that will include invited and contributed presentations, poster sessions, and dedicated discussion time to promote exchange of ideas. The meeting will follow the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) meeting. The meeting will kick off on Wednesday and continue through Friday afternoon. Registration costs will cover all food (not alcoholic beverages) and three nights of lodging expenses while you are at Camp Casey. The not-so-fancy facilities (with a beautiful location), allows us to keep your costs low.

The meeting themes will include:

• Connecting the spheres 1 - surficial processes, geology, and the deep earth
• Connecting the spheres 2 - landscape, ice sheet, ocean and atmospheric interactions
• Exploring the submerged continent
• Evolution and ecology of ancient and modern organisms, ecosystems and environments

Registration deadline is August 25th

The United States is hosting the 5th Northern Oil and Gas Research Forum in Anchorage, Alaska. This meeting will feature current research and highlight information needs for management of petroleum activities in the US and Canadian Arctic. Abstracts for poster presentations on research and how research is used in management actions are presently being solicited. Please visit the Forum's website for additional details.

Deadline for abstract submission is September 10.

There is no registration fee for the Forum. Please use the website link above for information on registration, agenda, lodging and transportation.

The two Norwegian-funded projects ESCYMO and SNOWHOW organize a joint workshop at Finse, Norway. The workshop will focus on the climatic and topographic drivers of the spatial snow distribution, physically based snow modeling at the catchment scale and innovative, state-of-the-art use of remotely sensed data.

Adam Winstral (SLF, CH), Glen Liston (CIRA, USA) og David Finger (Reykjavik Univ, Island) have confirmed to give keynote lectures each on the three main topics Observations, Snow modelling and Applications.

Besides scientific presentations and discussion rounds, there will be opportunities to visit the research site and instrumentation at Finse:

https://www.facebook.com/EscymoProject

Since space at the Finse research station is limited, please be quick to sign up here before 1 August:

https://goo.gl/forms/j8BMoUAIQwhR45J42

The #GreatAntarcticClimateHack will be held at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography Forum, La Jolla, California. Our first-ever Climate Hack will focus on bringing Antarctic and Southern Ocean observations to bear on evaluating the latest generation of climate and earth system models (with an emphasis on CMIP), producing new climate model metrics for the 21st century.

#GreatAntarcticClimateHack is a workshop to train non-modeling experts to interrogate CMIP model results and evaluate against observational datasets, thereby creating new model metrics and validation tools. The aim of the workshop is to facilitate preparation for the next IPCC report for a much broader science community, increase non-traditional climate modeling publications, and learn to apply/utilize data sets that help develop model validation skills.

This first workshop will accommodate 50 participants on site, and 50 participants to join remotely online. To learn more or apply to attend, please visit the website above.

Submission Deadline is 30 May 2017.

Organizers announce a call for registration for the Workshop on Improved Satellite Retrievals of Sea-ice Concentration and Sea-ice Thickness for Climate Applications. Experts on remote sensing and/or large-scale modeling are invited to discuss and outline the most promising opportunities and best practices in the use of existing and future satellite sensors for the remote sensing of sea-ice concentration and thickness, and the use of such data in large-scale modeling applications.

Financial support may be available for the travel and accommodation costs of some workshop participants. Contact workshop organizers for further details.

For more information about the workshop, including the tentative agenda, and to register, please go to the link above.

For questions, contact:

Stefan Kern
Email: stefan.kern [at] uni-hamburg.de

Dirk Notz
Email: dirk.notz [at] mpimet.mpg.de