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The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) announces their upcoming three-part leadership workshop series for polar early-career scientists. The tools introduced in this series will be applicable to polar research environments in both the lab and the field. The three workshops include:

Getting Back to the Basics: 21 February 2024, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. MT

The Leadership Toolbox: Team-building and Navigating Conflict: 13 March 2024, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. MT

Leadership from Above and Below: Building Safe and Constructive Work Atmospheres: 3 April 2024, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. MT

For more information, go to: https://psecco.org/events

Mark your calendars for this polar community opportunity, especially in the northeast US and Canada to highlight your science and share with others your interests in Arctic science. The Arctic is warming 3-4 times faster than the rest of the planet. Let's collect our research at this workshop to move the message forward.

Organizers especially encourage early career scientists and graduate students to join this community of Arctic scientists.

Proposals for special sessions can be sent to jbg92 [at] umass.edu. Organizers are open to sessions on Antarctic science and archeology of human migration, as well.

Abstracts are being accepted for poster presentations and talks. Abstracts can be uploaded during the registration process.

Abstract deadline is 25 February 2024.

Toolik Field Station invites all to join us on Friday, March 8 at 10:00 a.m. Alaska time for a virtual town hall. We will give an informative overview regarding summer 2024 operations, including updates to the COVID-19 mitigation plan and our summer truck schedule. Following the overview, we will allow time for questions and comments.

Please send questions about 2024 operations in advance to the Toolik management team at uaf-iab-toolik [at] alaska.edu. Alternatively, you may also submit questions during the town hall.

The meeting will be held by Zoom. Register in advance at bit.ly/toolik-town-hall-2024. A recording will be made available for those who are unable to attend. If you have difficulty registering for or signing onto the Zoom meeting, please contact our Communication and DEI manager, Haley Dunleavy at hdunleavy [at] alaska.edu.

CliC and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have a spring semester webinar series and we are excited to announce our next featured speaker is Nicholas Holschuh, Assistant Professor of Geology at Amherst College.

Topic: The Competition Between Interior Thinning and Marginal Retreat at Thwaites Glacier.
Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 9:00 EST

The webinars will be archived online on the CliC website later this semester. Please email the webinar series organizer, Meghan Taylor (info [at] climate-cryosphere.org), with any questions.

The 2024 NNA Community Meeting will be jointly hosted by the NNA-CO and George Washington University (GWU) and held at the University Student Center on GWU’s Foggy Bottom campus.

This meeting will provide an opportunity for NNA researchers, NNA project partners, Arctic Indigenous community members, Indigenous organizations, policymakers, and federal agency partners to come together to consider the state of research and research relations within and beyond the NNA Initiative.

The theme, goals, and structure of the meeting will be further defined during spring, summer, and fall 2023 in consultation with the NNA Community.

The NNA-CO will provide regular updates in the lead up to the meeting through our monthly NNA-CO newsletter and on the NNA-CO website.

The Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) is a researcher-driven initiative that aims to enhance ongoing ocean monitoring with ship-based measurements, to establish the present states of the Arctic Ocean ecosystem, carbon cycle and associated hydrography. SAS has coordinated a multi-ship survey using an international fleet of icebreakers and research vessels, where more than 25 cruises from 11 different nations collected a set of parameters across the Arctic Ocean in 2020-2022. This comprehensive dataset will allow for unprecedented assessments and provide a unique baseline to track future climate change and its impacts.

This webinar showcases some of the results from SAS cruises. It will be moderated by Øyvind Paasche, the chair of the SAS scientific steering committee, who will also give a brief introduction to the SAS initiative.

The zoom link will be sent after registration at https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=16517518

There will be three solicited talks with room for questions and discussions:

Ashley Arroyo - PhD Candidate at Yale University
Variability and long-term declines in dissolved oxygen in the upper Canada Basin water column

Mariko Hatta - Researcher at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Trace metal measurements in the Arctic Ocean

Mads Reinholdt Jensen - Researcher at Arctic University of Norway (UiT)
Biological monitoring of vertebrates in remote Arctic regions using environmental DNA

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the SAS coordinator at Maria.Bezem [at] uib.no

THE NORTH PACIFIC RESEARCH BOARD (NPRB) is seeking nominations to fill a total of five open seats on its Science and Advisory Panels; three on the Science Panel and two on the Advisory Panel.

SCIENCE PANEL QUALIFICATIONS
Desired qualifications for the open seats on the Science Panel include expertise in one or more of the following categories: (1) marine fish and/or marine invertebrate ecology; (2) stock assessment and fisheries management; (3) quantitative ecology; (4) marine mammal ecology and; (5) veterinary science and marine wildlife health.

ADVISORY PANEL QUALIFICATIONS
Both open seats on the Advisory Panel will represent the North Pacific at-large. These seats are intended to provide balanced representation with insights relevant to the regions of the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Arctic.

The deadline for receipt of application materials is Friday, March 1, 2024.

Building on the scholarship of three cohorts of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative, Fulbright Arctic IV will bring together a network of professionals, practitioners and researchers from the United States, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden for monthly webinars, thematic group collaboration, three in-person meetings and an individual exchange experience to advance Arctic knowledge systems and policies through an interdisciplinary framework.

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 in three main thematic areas:
• Climate Change and Arctic Resources
• Arctic Security and Governance
• Mental Health and Well-Being

Selected scholars will participate in an individual Fulbright exchange of a minimum of six weeks up to three months, as well as in-person seminars, monthly webinars and ongoing virtual communication, all supporting the scholars’ collaborative group projects. Awards will begin in September 2024 and run for 18 months, through spring 2026.

Faculty, researchers and practitioners from the eight Arctic Council member states may now apply for this collaborative research program. The application will close on March 1, 2024.

Call for abstracts

“Western Alaska in Transition”
Nome, Alaska • April 2–4, 2024

Since 2008, the Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference (WAISC) has brought together rural and urban scientists, educators, students, leaders, and community members to discuss science, research, and issues relevant to Western Alaska.

The 2024 conference will highlight needs to maintain strength, health, and subsistence lifestyles while moving forward during rapid transitions within the environment, ecology, and industries of Western Alaska. A conference priority is the continued sharing of knowledge across cultural boundaries.

We welcome submissions drawn from all disciplines that address questions and issues of concern to Western Alaska communities. Abstracts will be reviewed by the WAISC abstract review committee for relevant content and available space. If you need support submitting an abstract, please contact Claudia Ihl or Gay Sheffield.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

Climate and weather
Oceans, lakes and rivers
Ecology and wildlife
Resource development
Reindeer herding
Human and community health
Sharing knowledge and communications

Abstracts for oral and poster presentation are invited and should be submitted by February 15, 2024, using the online abstract submission form. Note: Deadline extended to 29 February 2024

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words for oral or poster presentations and include the following information:

Author name, title, email, and institutional affiliation
Presentation title
Research question, methods, data and results

Notification of proposal acceptance will be by March 1.

Learn about the latest precipitation models for southeast Alaska in a visually captivating format. These models anticipate an increasingly wet climate interspersed with extreme drought episodes. Join us to explore how future climates might unfold, illustrated through intricate 3D visualizations from the StoryMap: “Precipitation Extremes in Southeast Alaska: Drought in the Rainforest? Visualizing Precipitation Models in a Rapidly Changing Climate.”