Search Events

Communities and governments need reliable information to adapt to rapid changes in the Arctic environment. Scientists need to continually advance the body of knowledge and—at the same time—answer immediately practical questions. The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and institutions to accelerate cross-discipline syntheses and to make scientific understanding more readily accessible to policy makers and other stakeholders. Knowledge pyramids utilized in the creation of Arctic Answers foster syntheses and broad understanding across sectors and stakeholder groups, including at the policy level. Brendan Kelly, Executive Director of SEARCH, will discuss SEARCH and the Arctic Answers initiative.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) is pleased to announce the next Arctic Research Seminar Series event featuring Sandra Starkweather (NOAA/U.S. AON). The event will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office at 1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. or online for the webinar live-stream.

Registration is required for this event.

The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series brings some of the leading Arctic researchers to Washington, D.C. to share the latest findings and what they mean for decision-making. These seminars will be of interest to federal agency officials, congressional staff, non-governmental organizations, associations, and the public.

For more information about Sandra Starkweather and her presentation, please follow the link above.

This event is a brown-bag lunch that will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office (1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. Fourth Floor). Cookies and beverages will be provided. A live webinar is also available to those unable to attend in person. Instructions for accessing the event online will be sent to webinar registrants prior to the event.

For those of you on Twitter, we also invite you to join us in live-tweeting the event using the hashtag #arcuswebinar.

For questions, contact:
Brit Myers
Email: brit [at] arcus.org

Many places have a local saying that reads, “if you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes.” This idiom is not as applicable to Alaska, where strong seasonality is an ever present fact of life. In December, January, and February, all of Mainland Alaska has snow on the ground and experiences sub-freezing temperatures. In June, July, and August, long days mean warm temperatures, clouds, rain, and mosquitoes. Within those seasons, large variation exists from one year to the next. Winter 2016-17 is much colder and snowier than either of the previous two winters. Those differences are meaningful in the cold season for activities that involve travel on frozen rivers and shorefast ice, following game tracks in snow, meat and fish storage, and more. In summer, year-to-year differences in climate affect fish runs, berry production, river runoff, and fire activity. An IARC project with John Walsh and Rick Thoman, Brettschnieder uses an analog technique to forecast seasonal conditions based on previous months’ conditions. If conditions over a 1, 2, 3, or more month time period are similar to some other year, then highlighting that match year is useful for determining what the current year’s conditions will resemble 1, 2, 3, or more months in the future. For example, a forecast for June temperatures based on the three years with the best global 500 mb geopotential height match to October-December 2016 in the northern hemisphere indicate near normal temperatures for most of the state with slightly below normal temperatures for the eastern interior. This type of pattern-match analog forecasting provides long lead-time indications for seasonal conditions.

Available in-person in IARC/Akasofu 407 on the UAF Campus or online.

This symposium will bring together nationally and internationally-recognized experts on arctic marine operations, environments, science, policy, law, and governance including notable speakers from the Alaska Congressional Delegation, NOAA, Navy, USCG, USARC, and other representatives from the US Arctic nations and international community.

The event offers a special opportunity to meet, interact, and share your insights about the impact of an ice-diminishing Arctic Ocean on marine transportation, resource development, oceanographic research, federal, state, local and international operations, and policy implications, and many other issues in the rapidly evolving Arctic region.

Registration is COMPLIMENTARY and REQUIRED. Historically, the Heritage Center’s 250 seat auditorium has been filled to capacity so early registration is encouraged.

To register for the symposium, please follow the link above.

Abstract deadline: 14 July 2017.

Registration deadline: 18 July 2017.

Submissions on Arctic-related topics such as marine transportation, infrastructure, security, commerce, policy, law, technology, and science are welcome. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged.

At a minimum, posters should include author names, affiliations, contact information, and an abstract. Posters typically contain an introduction, materials and methods, results, conclusions, references, and acknowledgments.

Posters will be displayed for the duration of the symposium, and authors are encouraged to participate in a dedicated poster session on 18 July.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) will host a webinar on the outcomes of the Arctic Horizons project. This webinar will be hosted via Zoom Video Conferencing and open to the public.

The Arctic Horizons project brought together members of the Arctic social science research and Indigenous communities through a series of workshops to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arctic Social Sciences Program within the context of a rapidly changing circumpolar north. The Arctic Horizon's Program Manager and Principal Investigators will describe the outcomes of the workshop series, including the soon to be released final synthesis report which will describe the community's vision for the future of Arctic social science research.

Webinar speakers will include:

• Andrey Petrov, University of Northern Iowa
• Colleen Strawhacker, National Snow and Ice Data Center and University of Colorado
• Shelby Anderson, Portland State University
• Anna Kerttula de Echave, National Science Foundation

Further information and instructions on connecting to this webinar are available on the webinar homepage.

For questions, contact:
Jessica Rohde
Email: jrohde [at] arcus.org

The main goal of the Joint Summer School 2017 is to provide participants with innovative practical and methodological skills to characterise complex terrain and objects using close-, near range and remote sensing techniques. The Summer School will be the second edition after a successful first version in 2015.

Theoretical lectures will be complemented by fieldwork assignments and hands-on data processing sessions using different novel software. The assignments will be divided into two different tracks. One track will focus on mountain research, the other on sensor and data processing techniques.

A variety of sensor systems will be available for data acquisition in the high mountain surroundings of the summer school venue, including terrestrial laser scanners, unmanned aerial vehicles and spectral cameras.

Thematic focus will be on mountain research, and will include vegetation mapping, monitoring and deformation analysis for glaciology, geomorphology and natural hazard research.

Technical focus will be on sensor and data aspects, such as sensor modeling, calibration, data acquisition, 2D and 3D data fusion, geometric methods for information extraction from point clouds and (multispectral) images and data quality assessment.

Theoretical focus will address critical steps within a processing chain, such as impact of a registration method, choice of stand points during data acquisition and derivation of deformation vectors, issues related to multispectral image analysis etc.

Practical exercises using predominantly open source software, deepen the conveyed knowledge and help all participants establish a workflow for their research.

The Summer School will take place in and around Obergurgl, at almost 2000 m the highest village in Austria. The main venue is the Obergurgl University Center. Here lectures will take place and accommodation and food is provided to all participants. Directions will be available via the website.

This summer school is designed for any well-motivated PhD student, post-docs and young researchers from any field, provided they have interest in these type of techniques.

Go to the website above for more information, and to register.

Registration deadline: 30 December 2016

This symposium will bring together nationally and internationally-recognized experts on arctic marine operations, environments, science, policy, law, and governance including notable speakers from the Alaska Congressional Delegation, NOAA, Navy, USCG, USARC, and other representatives from the US Arctic nations and international community. It will take place at the Navy Memorial’s Heritage Center in Washington, DC.

The event offers a special opportunity to meet, interact, and share your insights about the impact of an ice-diminishing Arctic Ocean on marine transportation, resource development, oceanographic research, federal, state, local and international operations, and policy implications, and many other issues in the rapidly evolving Arctic region.

Registration is COMPLIMENTARY and REQUIRED. Historically, the Heritage Center’s 250 seat auditorium has been filled to capacity so early registration is encouraged.

To register for the symposium, please follow the link above.

Abstract deadline: 14 July 2017.

Registration deadline: 18 July 2017.

Submissions on Arctic-related topics such as marine transportation, infrastructure, security, commerce, policy, law, technology, and science are welcome. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged.

At a minimum, posters should include author names, affiliations, contact information, and an abstract. Posters typically contain an introduction, materials and methods, results, conclusions, references, and acknowledgments.

Posters will be displayed for the duration of the symposium, and authors are encouraged to participate in a dedicated poster session on 18 July.

The Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) announces the call for contributions for the 2017 Sea Ice Outlook July report (based on May and June data).

The Sea Ice Outlook provides an open process for those interested in Arctic sea ice to share ideas. The monthly reports contain a variety of perspectives—from advanced numerical models to qualitative perspectives from citizen scientists. A post-season report will provide an in-depth
analysis of factors driving sea ice this summer as well as explore the scientific methods for predicting seasonal conditions.

Pan-Arctic and Alaska Regional Sea Ice Extent Outlooks and any additional figures and gridded fields will be accepted for the 2017 July
Outlook. We particularly encourage submissions for the Alaska region (i.e., Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas). Submissions that include spatial forecast maps are encouraged. We are also accepting pan-Antarctic sea ice extent of the September monthly mean.

We encourage all past contributors to submit Outlooks this year and we also hope to see new participants!

The International Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research (SCAR) Biology symposia were initiated in 1973 with the purpose of bringing fundamental and applied scientists together with an interest in Antarctic terrestrial and marine life sciences, including man. Symposium themes under consideration include: Distribution and trends; Adaptation and processes; New insights through multi-disciplinary research; Threats and impacts: from the poles to the globe to the poles; Societal impact of Antarctic biological science; Human biology at the poles.

For more information, registration and other information, please follow the link above.

Abstract submission deadline: 15th of February 2017.

The school will be the second in the series of summer schools to be organised from 2016 to 2018 under the Jean-Monnet project “Systems for monitoring and responses to early warnings — EU experience for Russia”.

The School faculty includes the resident faculty of Siberian Federal University and guests from Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden (the list of faculty will be published in the late February).

The Summer School on water governance is organised by Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia). It is designed as a research training exercise, with the Krasnoyarsk Water Reservoir (also known as the Sea of Krasnoyarsk, the Eurasia-largest water reservoir) on the river of Yenisei and the lake of Baikal (the world largest freshwater body) set as case studies.

Deadline for applications is April 28, 2017.

For more information and to apply, please see the website above.