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The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) will host a webinar on the Outcomes of the U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. This webinar will be hosted via Zoom Video Conferencing and open to the public.

The United States chaired the Arctic Council from May 2015 to May 2017, culminating in the Fairbanks Ministerial on 11 May 2017 and producing results focused on science and furthering our understanding of the Arctic region. Additional initiatives focused on research needs and science based-actions, furthering our ability to conduct science and make science-based decisions. The U.S. Senior Arctic Official, Julie Gourley, will provide an overview of the highlights of the U.S. chairmanship. Project leads, Roberto Delgado, John Farrell, and Sarah Abdelrahim, will present the outcomes of select science-related chairmanship initiatives.

Following the success of last year's Polar Film Fest 2016, US APECS is organizing the second-ever Polar Film Fest, which will take place during International Polar Week. The theme for this falls celebration is #PolarWorld, so for each of the five days of the Film Fest, we're looking to showcase the best the planet has to offer in movies about the Arctic, Antarctic, and wider cryosphere – no matter what language they're in.

We're looking for film suggestions, whether they're just a few minutes long or future length, that fit any of the following themes:

1) #PolarWorld: Polar issues are global
2) Science in action: Working in extremes
3) People at the poles: The human dimension
4) Polar policy: Preparing for the future
5) Icing on the cake: Frozen fun

Films may be original or produced by someone else. To submit your own film, upload it to a video sharing site (i.e., Youtube or Vimeo) and submit the link along with a description of the film and a note indicating that you made the film, on the submission form. Films produced by others must be available publicly online. Films that can be watched for free are preferred; please do not submit links to illegal streaming websites.
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We invite you to please submit your suggestions through the Google Form we've set up:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSew4lBBvEX1p1wPpQkYV17LuERwAz7…

Once the films have been selected and curated, organizers from US APECS will put together a schedule with virtual and in-person watch parties. If you're interested in helping to curate the films or in organizing an event, be sure to get in touch!

Organizers announce a call for presentation abstracts for the 2017 Arctic Energy Summit.

The 4th biennial 2017 Arctic Energy Summit is a multidisciplinary event expected to draw several hundred industry officials, scientists, academics, policy makers, energy professionals, and community leaders together to collaborate and share best practices as they relate to a comprehensive array of Arctic energy issues. The 2017 Arctic Energy Summit builds on the Sustainable Development Working Group's legacy
efforts to address energy as a fundamental element of the sustainable development of the Arctic, and occurs during Finland's Chairmanship of the Arctic Council (2017-2019).

The three-day summit will focus on a diverse set of topics including:

• Oil and gas
• Geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, and tidal energy
• Utilities
• Microgrids
• Energy policy and regulation
• Community impacts
• Energy finance and investment
• Climate change
• Energy security

Hosted by Alaska's Institute of the North, in collaboration with the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy, the Arctic Energy Summit will highlight the Arctic as a leader in renewable energy development and integration and exporter of world-class knowledge and expertise.

Organizers invite subject matter experts to submit expressions of interest in speaking at the Arctic Energy Summit. The organizing
committee welcomes abstracts for technical presentations, workshops, or moderated panel discussions. Organizers are especially interested in presentations that discuss collaborations between academia, industry, and government; building on what is known and learning from experience; and evaluating differences and working toward common approaches.

Potential speaking topics include:

• Small community energy solutions
• Oil and gas
• Renewable energy
• Regulation and financing
• Community impact

Deadline for expressions of interest: 31 January 2017.

Early registration deadline: 15 June 2017.

The OCEANS North America conference will be hosted in Alaska for the first time ever. On behalf of the Marine Technology Society and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, the OCEANS ’17 Anchorage Local Organizing Committee (LOC) is honored to invite your participation in this prestigious event.

The theme, “Our Harsh and Fragile Ocean,” or “How to protect the Fragile from the Harsh with application of modern technology and traditional knowledge working together” will bring consideration of the issues of Climate Change, Diminishing Arctic Ice Pack, Ocean Acidification, Increase vessel traffic in Arctic waters, Energy extraction and much more.

Abstracts may be submitted in one of three categories:

• Regular Technical Program
• Student Poster Competition
• Special Sessions

Abstracts and student poster submissions are due March 6, 2017.

CUAHSI is pleased to partner with the University of Washington, U.S. Forest Service, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, and Universite de Sherbrooke to offer the Snow Measurement Field School, a 3-day field school on making and analyzing snow measurements from January 9 – 11, 2018 at the Fraser Experimental Forest in Fraser, Colorado.

This course will give fundamental training to students in making and analyzing snow measurements including depth, density, water equivalence, grain size and shape, stratigraphy, temperature and hardness. Students completing this course will be able to perform high-quality fieldwork and design studies making snowpack measurements.

The course is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, professionals and senior scientists, modelers and remote sensers that will make snow measurements as part of their research, or use snowpack data in their research. There are no required prerequisites, but students should be physically able to spend days outside being active in the snow.

Applications will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. EDT on September 15 2017 via the following Google Form:

http://cuahsi.memberclicks.net/message2/link/0d746cfd-b984-45ba-97ab-9d…

A very limited number of student travel grants are available to accepted applicants on a first-come, first-served basis to help defray the cost of travel to this course. Contact Elizabeth Tran at etran [at] cuahsi.org for more information.

Organizers invite nominations for the International Mohn Prize for Outstanding Research Related to the Arctic (The Mohn Prize). This award was established is to recognize excellence in research related to the Arctic. The prize aims to highlight issues that are of particular relevance to the future development of the Arctic and help put these issues on the national and international agenda.

The Mohn Prize has been established in collaboration by Academia Borealis - The Academy of Sciences and Letters of Northern Norway, Tromsø Research Foundation, and University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT).

Nominations can be submitted for individuals or research groups who hold a leading international position in their field, are widely recognized as leaders in their field, and have developed groundbreaking new knowledge about the Arctic.

The nomination process is open to anyone. Nominations are confidential and should not be made known to the nominee.

Self-nominations will not be accepted and the prize cannot be awarded post mortem.

For more information on how to nominate an individual, please follow the link above.

Nomination deadline: 15 September 2017.

Organizers of the 5th International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-5) announce a call for special session proposals. The symposium will convene 15-18 January 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

This symposium will be comprised of discussions on environmental changes in the Arctic and their regional and global implications and seeks additional international scientific collaboration in this area by gathering, synthesizing, and sharing information related to these changes occurring in the Arctic. Arctic change has impacts on the global climate, as well as ecosystems and human societies in higher-middle latitudes. A better understanding of these processes is needed so that improved information can be given to society and stakeholders, particularly decision makers.

Special emphasis will be placed on the fields of the social sciences and humanities, which have not been included in previous ISARs.

The symposium will consist of plenary, general, and special sessions, as well as poster sessions. Special sessions are inter-disciplinary and solicited from participants.

The general sessions include the fields of:

• Atmosphere
• Ocean and sea ice
• Rivers, lakes, permafrost, and snow cover
• Ice sheets, glaciers, and ice cores
• Terrestrial ecosystems
• Marine ecosystems
• Geospace
• Policies and economy
• Social and cultural dimensions

For further information about the call for special session proposals or to submit a proposal, follow the link above.

Special session proposal deadline: 15 April 2017.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2017.

Early registration deadline: 15 November 2017.

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 from 17 - 27 April 2018 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.

Connect to the Arctic! Join us for an upcoming PolarConnect event with teacher Lisa Seff and the research team studying Upwelling and Ecology in the Beaufort Sea:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/upwelling-and-ecology-in-the-beau…

This event will be broadcast live aboard the Research Vessel Sikuliaq somewhere in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska. Register today!

This workshop will bring together senior and early career scientists to gain insight into the rapidly changing pan-Arctic land surface and boundary layer. The workshop will review current representation of Arctic ecosystem, carbon, water and energy balance
processes in the land model component of Earth System Models, including land-atmosphere interactions, and the next steps to address knowledge gaps. The workshop will also focus on developing a pan-Arctic land model assessment that includes a broader range of models, and engage the data community to provide new validation products for the Arctic and sub-Arctic.

Core focus:

• Representation of Arctic terrestrial ecosystems in models
• Role of observations: calibration, validation, assimilation
• Water, nitrogen, carbon, and energy dynamics
• Land-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks across spatial and temporal scales
• Pan-Arctic land model assessment
• Arctic boundary layer processes
• Extreme/disturbance events
• Knowledge gaps

Deadline for abstract submission and registration: 31 March 2017