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The K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS) is arranging a summer course for PhD students in Tromsø, Norway.

The course covers methodological aspects of both legal and multi-/interdisciplinary research of relevance to doctoral research in the law of the sea.
The course will train the students on the sources of international law, their interpretation, and the relationship between formal sources of international law, such as the Law of the Sea Convention, and other normative instruments, such as the often non-legally binding decisions adopted by international organizations, like the IMO and OSPAR. Also covered are the relationship between the law of the sea and other branches of international law such as international environmental law and trade law, and the role of other disciplines in research related to the law of the sea.
The course covers topics that are of direct relevance to individual students’ doctoral projects and the students should be able to refine their research questions as well as develop the analytical framework for their research projects.

This is a two-day course with obligatory attendance which requires literature studies and the writing of a draft essay in advance. The draft essay must be presented during the course. Active participation is required, meaning that all students must try to link the various subjects discussed to their own projects, and give an account of this. During the course there are lectures, essay presentations and discussions.

The essay draft will be discussed during the course and must be finalized after the course
and handed in on a date set by the Faculty. The essay must focus on issues that are of relevance to the themes of the course.

The course is designed for students who have been admitted to the doctoral programme for legal science. There is a maximum of 20 seats.

The closing date for applications is Monday 3 April.

The Understanding Peace in the Arctic conference is a timely international event that will bring together international researchers that contribute to the understanding of the Arctic, ranging from natural sciences, to social sciences and art. The link between science/research and policy(making) is a central feature of Arctic affairs, not least as the region is undergoing rapid changes and science is demonstrating that there is an urgent need to act.

The purpose of the conference is to show the ways in which research across the disciplines play a crucial role in contributing to peace in the Arctic, and the continued relevance of our Arctic research to developing policy.

The keynote speakers, who have worked together under the “Fulbright Arctic Initiative” will help shape the dialogues taking place at the conference, and represent varied backgrounds, including medicine and health, marine biology, anthropology, environmental studies, sustainable urban and regional development, international law, art, economics, environmental conservation and protection, sociology and political science, among others. This wide range of scholars are not necessarily peace researchers themselves, but their work contributes to the understanding of peace and conflict in the Arctic, as well as to measures necessary to continued assurance of a peaceful Arctic.

We invite therefore participants from all backgrounds to present their own research and findings, and/or experiences as Arctic residents, to contribute and add to these dialogues.

The Understanding Peace in the Arctic conference will showcase the ways in which this diverse research is pivotal to peace in the region, as well as identify current and future challenges that need further developments in research and policy. The conference will also serve as the first official event and springboard for the Fulbright Arctic Initiative Legacy project.

Topic suggestions:

• How does Arctic research translate into policy, and how do these policies further cooperation/peace in the Arctic?What roles can and do local Arctic communities play in the creation, maintenance, and sustainability of peace in the Arctic?
• How can communication, interaction, and cooperation between research communities and local communities be improved, not least to strengthen research and policy recommendations?
• How can individual researchers contribute to cooperation across disciplines?
• How can (Arctic) scientists contribute to spreading knowledge to and engage central regional / state decision makers?“Science diplomacy” – Science as a means to inform foreign policy objectives, facilitate international cooperation and to improve (international) relations between states?
• How can Arctic conferences be arenas for actors from different sector belonging (government/ research institutions/ universities/ companies) to meet and develop initiatives that can inform policy and action?
• What are outcomes of (the vast number) of Arctic events and conferences? How to follow up various initiatives?
• Can and/or when does science contribute to potential conflict discourses and policies in the Arctic?
• Should we characterize the Arctic region as “peaceful”? What assumptions are embedded in this characterization and how peaceful is it?
• Is the Arctic, despite or because of its diversity in climate and politics, unique as a “region”?

Abstracts to be no longer than 400 words.

Send to:
Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, UiT: gunhild.hoogensen.gjorv [at] uit.no

The annual conference for the SciTS community will be hosted by the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. Registration will be open in early 2017 with abstracts due spring 2017.

The Science of Team Science (SciTS) is a rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field of study that aims to build an evidence-base and to develop translational applications to help maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of team-based research.

The 2017 conference will review the current state of knowledge in the SciTS field, highlight applications for enhancing team science, and discuss future directions for advancing SciTS to improve the global scientific enterprise. Thought leaders in the SciTS field, scientists engaged in team-based research, institutional leaders who promote collaborative research, policymakers, and federal agency representatives will be in attendance.

This year's event will highlight the interface of the SciTS field with current hot topics and emerging trends and feature an exciting line-up of invited speakers in addition to submitted panels, papers, and posters.

FEATURED SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENTS
The 2017 Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce our initial list of featured speakers for this year's conference. We have brought together an eclectic group of experts who study and/or manage complex scientific collaborations. Our goal with this set of speakers is to help our attendees both learn about new developments in the study of teams as well as gain insights from those who have successfully addressed the challenges that arise when leading and coordinating a variety of stakeholders collaborating in science.

Keynote Speaker - Dr. James Olds
Our keynote for this year's conference will be Dr. James Olds, Assistant Director of the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) with the National Science Foundation. In this position, Dr. Olds is responsible for helping to conceptualize and fund a variety of complex team science initiatives. Olds is also director and chief academic unit officer at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, a position he has held for 15 years. He is also the Shelley Krasnow University Professor of Molecular Neuroscience. The international Decade of the Mind project was begun under his leadership at Krasnow, which helped shape former President Obama's BRAIN Initiative.

Featured Speaker - Heidi K. Gardner, Ph.D.
Dr. Heidi K. Gardner, is a Distinguished Fellow in the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. She also serves as a Lecturer on Law and the Faculty Chair of the school's Accelerated Leadership Program executive course. Dr. Gardner's research focuses on leadership and collaboration and her book, "Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos" was just published by Harvard Business Press in January 2017 (http://amzn.to/2n8zEvS). Her research has also been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Harvard Business Review and her work was awarded the Academy of Management's prize for Outstanding Practical Paper with Implications for Management. She has degrees in organizational behavior from the London Business School, and she has been a Fulbright Scholar and an International Research Fellow at Oxford University.

Featured Speaker - Jakob Zinsstag-Klopfenstein, Ph.D.
Dr. Jakob Zinsstag-Klopfenstein is a veterinarian in tropical animal health. He is past-president of the International Association for Ecology and Health and president of the scientific board of the Transdisciplinary Network of the Swiss Academies. Since 1998 he heads a research group on human and animal health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Since 2011 his is deputy head of department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH. He focuses on the control of zoonoses in developing countries and the provision of health care to mobile pastoralists. He has helped to develop the "One Health" approach to research and practice and is co-editor of the book "One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches" (http://amzn.to/2ly0lOe). One Health is complex collaborative research effort requiring coordination amongst scientists, medical practitioners, stakeholders and citizens, in order to improve human and animal health.

Featured Speaker - Dr. Suzanne Bell
Dr. Bell is faculty with the Industrial & Organizational Psychology program at DePaul University. Dr. Bell is an internationally renowned expert in team composition and building team human capital via the selection, placement, training, and development of team members. She has published on a variety of topics including conducting actionable research on "extreme teams", composing cohesive teams, as well as the relationship between personality and cognition and coordination in teams.

Featured Speaker - William "Brandon" Vessey, Ph.D.
Dr. William "Brandon" Vessey is currently the Deputy Element Scientist for Flight Analogs with NASA's ISS Medical Project at the Johnson Space Center, providing scientific oversight for ground-based spaceflight analog studies. His primary research interests fall into the broad categories of teams, leadership, and creativity, with specific focus on teamwork over long duration space missions, team leadership, and collective leadership. He is co-editor of a recent scholarly volume, "Team Cohesion: Advances in Psychological Theory, Methods and Practice", that discusses cutting edge developments in research on the attitudinal factors in teams driving successful performance (http://bit.ly/2mvnTCu).

CONFIRMED WORKSHOPS
The conference committee has put together an impressive set of workshops for our community. These are devised as a service for our varied stakeholders in order to enhance the professional development and evolution of the science of team science. As with last year's conference, workshops are offered as part of your conference registration and will be held on the first day of the conference.

Title: Enhancing Team Science Effectiveness through Team Training
Lead Facilitator: Maritza Salazar, University of California, Irvine
Co-facilitators: Wendy Bedwell, University of South Florida; Deborah DiazGranados, Virginia Commonwealth University; Theresa Lant, Pace University; Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano, George Washington University; Kevin Wooten, University of Houston
Description: Although interdisciplinary scientific collaboration has many success stories, evidence suggests that, in many cases, teams do not always achieve the goal of successfully integrating knowledge. To improve the ability of interdisciplinary teams to generate novel solutions to complex problems, effective teamwork and team training has been identified as a critical means to enhance performance. Drawing on decades of research on team training, this workshop will present participants with evidence-based approaches to the design, development, and implementation of successful team training programs.

Title: Collaborative Technologies: Facilitating How we Conduct Research Together
Lead Facilitator: Ryan Watkins, George Washington University
Co-facilitators: Anne Marino, National Academy of Sciences; Megan Potterbusch, National Digital Stewardship Resident (Open Science Framework)
Description: This workshop is devised to discuss the wide variety of technologies used to facilitate collaborative team science. Whether you are working in the same building, or collaborating with researchers around the world, today's research teams can benefit from numerous technologies. In this workshop we review how to effectively use the varied features of these technologies that support team science.

Title: Improvisation for Leadership and Critical Communication with sideCoach
Lead Facilitator: Boyd Branch, Arizona State University
Description: This workshop is devised to help train future leaders to utilize performance and improvisation tools to develop personal, dynamic, data driven techniques to build consensus, encourage excellence in teammates, and make outcome independent requests of stakeholders.

Title: Self-Identifying the Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositional Attributes that Define the Intereach Community
Lead Facilitator: Christine Ogilvie Hendren, Duke University
Co-Facilitators: Gabriele Bammer, Australian National University; Holly Falk-Krzesinski, Elsevier
Description: This workshop addresses a new but growing SciTS-generated community of practice and research: Intereach (Interdisciplinary Integration Research Careers Hub). The Intereach community has evolved around a broadly shared need for new types of roles to be defined, recognized, institutionally supported and trained in order to optimize the success of interdisciplinary scientific endeavors. We will cover the new forms of expertise needed to address complex problems and effectively engage diverse knowledge bases and work at the interfaces between disciplines to help facilitate, optimize, and translate, research outcomes.

This workshop will address sea ice processes across a wide range of lengths and time scales, with an emphasis on understanding emergent and scale-invariant phenomena. Mathematical methods that account for the smaller scale processes and enable computation and analysis of these processes' effect on larger scales relevant for coarse-grained climate models will be a focus of the workshop and linkage of scales is a central theme of this workshop. It will take place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Registration deadline: Sunday, 11 June 2017.

Workshop Theme:

Realistic models of Earth's climate system are essential to making projections about what we may experience as our climate changes. Polar sea ice forms a critical system component which must be accurately accounted for in global climate models. It forms the thin boundary layer coupling the polar oceans and atmosphere and has seen rather dramatic changes over the past two or three decades. An important feature of sea ice is that it displays rich structure and behavior on scales ranging over 10 orders of magnitude, length scales from microns to hundreds of kilometers, and time scales from milliseconds to decades. This broad range of scales for sea ice structure and properties is relevant to biological, chemical, industrial, weather, and climate-related processes. It also leads to sea ice structure at certain scales being similar to other materials such as porous human bone and polycrystalline metals, which can be used to bring new techniques to studying sea ice.

The complex behavior of sea ice over such a large range of scales presents a fundamental challenge to modeling these systems. For example, many key processes, whose relevant length scales may be centimeters or meters to kilometers, impact climate and must be incorporated into large-scale numerical climate models with grid sizes often on the order of tens of kilometers. Moreover, some sea ice properties exhibit scale invariance or predictable scale dependence while others appear to be wholly emergent, a consequence of interacting processes within and applied to the ice cover.

Potential workshop topics include:

• Large-scale numerical models of the evolution of polar sea ice
• Sea ice simulations including variability, predictability, and climate projections
• Sea ice microphysics, fluid transport, convection, and the porous brine microstructure
• Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice
• Ice thickness distribution, melting, freezing, mechanical redistribution, ridging, and rafting
• Waves in the marginal ice zone
• Scaling in sea ice fracture and dynamics, sea ice rheology
• Momentum balance including form drag, interactions with currents, tides and winds
• Sea ice thermodynamics and exchange processes
• Low order models of polar climate
• Tipping point phenomena
• Stochastic processes in sea ice modeling

The Arctic is home to approximately four million people, counting numerous ethnicities among its inhabitants. More than ten percent of the total population living in the Arctic is Indigenous peoples. In modern times, rapid and extensive changes has brought opportunities but also challenges to peoples and places in the north, including climate change, industrial extraction, pollution, globalization, migration, food and water insecurity, and widening socio-economic gaps.

Social sciences and humanities have a great responsibility to address these challenges. Through focusing on people and place we highlight the many variances across the Arctic region in terms of sustainabilities, political systems, demography, infrastructures, histories, languages, legal systems, land and water resources, public health, and so on.

Arcum (Arctic Research Centre), Sámi dutkan (Language studies) and Vaartoe (Centre for Sami Research) at Umeå University are pleased to host “People & Place” - the ninth International Congress of Arctic Social Science (ICASSS IX) organized by the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA). We encourage Indigenous peoples, northern residents, decision-makers, politicians as well as academics to participate.

Registration will open in late January. Early bird registration fee is set to 350 Euro (late registration 400 Euros).

This cruise and pre-cruise information workshop will instruct early career marine scientists, including PhD students, post docs, and first or second year faculty members, on how to effectively plan for, acquire, and utilize time at sea for multi-disciplinary research and education.

The program will begin in Duluth, Minnesota and end in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

This course will include a four-day cruise on the University of Minnesota's research vessel Blue Heron on Lakes Superior and Michigan,
as well as a pre-cruise workshop.

Small stipends are provided for participant travel costs, research supplies, and shipping.

Space is limited and applicants must be an employee or student (U.S. Citizen or permanent resident) at a U.S. institution or a U.S. citizen
working abroad.

To apply, go to: https://goo.gl/forms/6yLk9JSubJSnjjvH3

Application deadline: 21 April 2017

For questions, contact:
Doug Ricketts
Email: ricketts [at] d.umn.edu

The Climate Change Education Partnership Alliance (CCEP) invites you to participate in its 2017 webinar series. This series will compliment the newly released Climate Change Education: Effective Practices for Working with Educators, Scientists, Decision Makers, and the Public guide.

Produced by the CCEP Alliance, this guide provides recommendations for effective education and communication practices when working with different types of audiences. While effective education has been traditionally defined as the acquisition of knowledge, Alliance programs maintain a broader definition of “effective” to include the acquisition and use of climate change knowledge to inform decision-making.

Please use the link above to register for one or more of the webinars in this series. Once registered, information on how to connect will be sent within a week of scheduled webinar. If you have any questions, please email agingras [at] uri.edu.

Working with Formal K-12 Educators

Presenters: Corrin Barros (PCEP, PREL), Patricia Harcourt (MADE CLEAR, UMCES), Emerson Odango (PCEP, PREL), Melissa Rogers (MADE CLEAR, UMCES)

In this webinar, stories and experiences from our work to bring the urgent but unfamiliar and complex topic of climate change to classrooms through teacher professional development and strong partnerships will be shared. We will describe how our approach to climate change education has changed to become more interactive and aligned with three-dimensional learning and place-based educational approaches.

The presenters will discuss different strategies used to bring climate change education into a variety of formal education contexts. Schools in high population urban neighborhoods, rural schools with largely agricultural populations, Pacific island schools with specific climate change concerns, and schools with a special emphasis on technology or vocational training will provide examples for this discussion.

Since climate change is an important topic with a history of political controversy, the presenters will provide some examples of the challenges that teachers face when introducing climate change in the classroom and discuss some helpful approaches for engaging students in productive and positive discussions and learning.

The webinar will wrap up by sharing a few of the presenters’ favorite sources of information and classroom lessons on climate change.

The 74th Eastern Snow Conference (ESC) will be held at University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. The scientific program is open to sessions on theoretical, experimental, and operational studies of snow, ice, and winter hydrology. This year's general theme is "Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere".

The ESC has only plenary (paper and poster viewing) sessions, allowing time to view and discuss the research of each participant. You are invited to submit an abstract for an oral or a poster presentation. An abstract of 200-250 words should be submitted by email, by March 10, 2017 to the program chair Alexandre Roy:

Alexandre.Roy.1 at UMontreal.ca

Registration information will soon be available on the ESC web site

The conference aims to bring together scientists from many disciplines, all interested in quantifying Earth (surface) processes by innovative techniques: seismologists, geophysicists, glaciologists, hydrologists, climatologists and geomorphologists.

If you are interested please visit the website above, where you can browse the topics and general theme and submit a short motivation and abstract.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact enviroseis at gfz-potsdam.de

We would like to announce an opportunity for polar scientists of all career stages to obtain formal training in science communication strategies during an NSF- and NASA-funded workshop held in Boulder, Colorado, USA from August 12-14, 2017.

The workshop will take place immediately prior to the International Glaciological Society (IGS) International Symposium on Polar
Ice, Polar Climate, Polar Change at the University of Colorado Boulder. The workshop will include two days of oral communication training by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and one day of written communication training by Dr. Max Boykoff and his team from the University of Colorado Boulder.

The workshop is open to 32 polar scientists from all career stages and spanning all science disciplines, including the social sciences. Workshop participants do not need to attend the IGS symposium in order to participate in the science communication workshop. Funding for domestic travel and lodging are available for ~19 early-career scientists.

Workshop applications can be found at the website above.

Applications are due June 5th.

Notification of acceptance, and early-career funding if applicable, will be made by July.