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This symposium examines the impacts of the environment, especially climate change and variability, on the dynamics of arctic and subarctic species of commercial, subsistence, and ecological importance. We will focus on the effects of warming, loss of sea ice, ocean acidification, and oceanographic variability on the distribution, phenology, life history, population dynamics, and interactions of these species and how a better understanding of these effects can inform the assessment and management of fish and invertebrate populations in a changing ocean for the benefit of affected communities.

Abstracts for oral presentations and posters are invited from fishery, marine, and social scientists as well as managers, industry, and representatives of affected communities.

Abstract submission deadline: Sunday, 15 January 2017.

This inaugural webinar for the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee's (IARPC) new Permafrost Collaboration Team (PCT) will feature
a presentation by Torre Jorgenson from Alaska Ecoscience titled "Progress toward understanding the response of permafrost to climate
change in Alaska."

To join this webinar attendees must request an account on the IARPC collaborations website above.

The PCT is a new team created as part of Arctic Research Plan 2017-2021. The team's scope of activities will include implementation of research objectives and performance elements including, improving understanding of how climate, physiography, terrain conditions, vegetation, and patterns of disturbance interact to control permafrost dynamics; improving and expanding understanding of how warming and thawing of permafrost influence the vulnerability of soil carbon, including the potential release of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere; continuing to improve integration of empirically measured permafrost processes into models that predict how climate change, hydrology, ecosystem shifts, and disturbances interact within terrestrial and freshwater aquatic systems to impact permafrost evolution, degradation, and feedbacks from local landscapes to the circum-Arctic; and determining how warming and thawing permafrost impacts infrastructure and human health.

For more information about the PCT, go to:
http://www.iarpccollaborations.org/teams/Permafrost

For more information about IARPC Collaboration Teams, go to:
http://www.iarpccollaborations.org/index.html

For questions, contact:
Andrew Balser
Email: andrew.w.balser [at] usace.army.mil

The Arctic Broadband Forum will bring together educators, researchers and industry from across the World to discuss the challenges, success and potential of telecommunications and broadband deployment in the Arctic.

Specific emphasis will be placed on the role of broadband and digital technologies on the cultural preservation and self-determination of indigenous populations throughout the Arctic.

For more information and to register, please follow the link above.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) is initiating implementation of the Arctic Research Plan 2017-2021. SEARCH's Permafrost Action Team lead Christina Schädel (NAU), Andrew Balser (DOD), Benjamin Jones (USGS), will be leading the Permafrost Collaboration Team (PCT), and they are inviting all interested researchers and stakeholders to participate in their first meeting on 9 May at 10 AM Alaska Time (2 pm EST).

At this meeting, Torre Jorgenson from Alaska Ecoscience will talk about 'Progress toward understanding the response of permafrost to climate change in Alaska'.

Why participate in IARPC Collaborations?
While the IARPC Arctic Research Plan is a U.S. Federal government product and responsibility, IARPC recognizes that implementation cannot be accomplished without the research community. Therefore, collaboration teams and the IARPC collaboration website are open to participation by all stakeholders including U.S. Federal government program managers and scientists from State, international, academic, NGO, and industry organizations. The IARPC collaboration teams and website have created a new level of transparency in the research endeavor where information is flowing between the community and Federal agencies. Think of it as a regular science workshop, but on an ongoing and monthly basis.

Communicate regularly with Federal program managers and the research community. The conversations enabled through IARPC Collaborations have created an unprecedented level of information exchange. The research community benefits from the ongoing, monthly meetings where they can present their research to peers and program managers and learn about new research efforts within their field. Program officers, always eager to learn about research activities and priorities from the community, are able to do so on a regular basis. Program managers learn about one another’s programs, and identify synergies between programs and programmatic gaps.

See your research results in reports to Congress and Federal agencies. Reporting on implementation of the Arctic Research Plan goes to the IARPC principals, chaired by the Director of the National Science Foundation and made up of representatives of 14 Federal agencies, and to Congress. Anyone may submit their contributions to our Arctic Research Plan and see their research in these reports.

How do I participate?
If you don’t already have one, request an account on IARPC Collaborations, where information is shared among the 1000+ members of our research community. Once you have an account, join our collaboration team and you will automatically be notified of upcoming collaboration team meetings via email. You may also RSVP and view the connection information for our next meeting here.

We hope you will consider participating in PCT meetings, posting information on the website and getting involved in a meaningful way that benefits you and the work you are doing. If you should have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Christina Schädel - Network Coordinator and Research Scientist, Northern Arizona University, USA. christina.schaedel [at] nau.edu

© Permafrost Carbon Network

Coordinated Activity by the Permafrost Action Team of SEARCH
Study of Environmental Arctic Change

The Alaska Arctic Council Host Committee — in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anchorage Museum, and other community groups — is pleased to present the Week of the Arctic, with presentations, workshops, receptions and cultural celebrations highlighting key themes and accomplishments of the Arctic Council and broader Arctic efforts.

Other activities in Fairbanks and Anchorage will provide outreach and education opportunities for participants and interested Arctic stakeholders.

The U.S. chairmanship of the Arctic Council concludes with a ministerial meeting in Fairbanks May 11, 2017, where accomplishments under the U.S. chairmanship and the transition to Finland’s chairmanship will be celebrated with the Week of the Arctic.

See the link above for more information and to see the full program of activities during the week.

The Open Science Meeting (OSM) and the associated Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) are the premier scientific events of Past Global Changes (PAGES), a core project of Future Earth and a scientific partner of the World Climate Research Programme.

PAGES and the local organizing committee, Quaternary Terrestrial Environments group (Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC), welcome you to Spain.

Dates:

• The 3rd PAGES YSM will be held in Morillo de Tou (approximately 100km north of Zaragoza) from 7-9 May 2017.
• The 5th PAGES OSM will be held in Zaragoza from 9-13 May 2017.

Theme:

The theme of the OSM and YSM is "Global Challenges for our Common Future: a paleoscience perspective."

These meetings will fully reflect the PAGES structure and themes of climate, environment and humans, the strengthening of the connections between PAGES working groups and the increasing importance of an interdisciplinary approach.

Register now to join a free webinar to recap the themes discussed at the Polar Research Board workshop Antarctic Sea Ice Variability in the Southern Ocean-Climate System, and explore new findings that have emerged since the workshop took place.

The workshop, which took place in January 2016, focused on the potential mechanisms driving increases in the extent and concentration of the sea ice surrounding Antarctic from the late 1970s until 2015?increases that were not reproduced by climate models, and that came despite the overall warming of the global climate and the region. Leading scientists discussed the possible drivers of changes in Antarctic sea ice and ways to better understand the complex relationship between Antarctic sea ice and the broader ocean-climate system (summarized in the Workshop Proceedings).

The webinar will feature presentations from the chair of the workshop planning committee, Julienne Stroeve of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and from committee members Marika Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, and Marilyn Raphael of the University of California, Los Angeles. Please tune in!

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) is pleased to announce the next Arctic Research Seminar Series event featuring Robert
Corell, Principal of the Global Environmental Technology Foundation. The event will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office at 1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. at 12:00-1:00 p.m. EDT.

This seminar will also be available as a webinar live-stream for those unable to attend in person.

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.

This seminar titled "Why the Arctic Matters at All?" will be presented by Robert Corell and will discuss the sweeping changes occurring in the earth's climate system that will impact communities in the Arctic and all over the world.

For more information about Robert W. Corell, 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

Organizers of the 15th Annual Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop (CPASW) announce a call for abstracts. The theme of this workshop is "Understanding Extreme Events and Decision-Maker Needs in the Context of Climate Variability and Change".

The 2017 CPASW will be hosted by the NOAA National Weather Service Climate Services Branch, the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP), and other climate services partners. It will bring together climate researchers, service producers, decision-makers, and other users to accelerate developments in the research and applications of climate information for societal decision-making.

Focus areas for this workshop include:

• Climate information applications at local, regional, and global scales related to preparedness and management for weather and climate extremes
• Climate services for coastal and indigenous communities in high-latitude areas, including the Arctic
• Best practices of observing, documenting, and communicating climate information relevant for national, tribal and international collaborations
• Service delivery coordination and decision support for planning, resource allocation, sustainable development, and environmental management needed for building resilient communities.

Short-term climate variability and long-term climate change as well as attribution science are cross-cutting concerns for all of these focus areas, especially in preparedness activities for extreme events and supporting critical decision-making for several socio-economic sectors.

Organizers invite abstracts that address the use of climate data and products including monitoring, predictions, and projections in all of the focus areas listed above, particularly for extreme events. Papers highlighting best practices in the areas of communication and outreach, decision support tools, and preparedness methods for advancing societal adaptation are also invited. The target audience for this workshop includes planners, managers, practitioners, researchers, service providers, and tribal environmental coordinators and leaders dealing with climate-related challenges.

Abstract submission deadline: 13 January 2017

For more information or to submit an abstract, go to the link above.

For more information, contact:
Jenna Meyers
Email: Jenna.Meyers [at] noaa.gov
Phone: 301-427-9113

Tina Buxbaum
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu
Phone: 907-474-7812

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 in Informal Environments

Presenters: John Anderson (NNOCCI, New England Aquarium), Raluca Ellis (CUSP, The Franklin Institute), Deborah Wasserman (MADE CLEAR, COSI)

About 240 million people learn about climate change issues through informal settings, such as television, the internet, the workplace, museums, zoos, and aquariums. Surveys of visitors to U.S. zoos, aquariums, and national parks indicate that there is far more interest and concern about climate change among visitors to informal science institutions than the average U.S. adult. This presents a significant opportunity for learning about climate change in informal environments. Join us for this webinar to hear from three CCEP Alliance projects about effective and tested practices in engaging informal audiences. Raluca Ellis, program director of Climate & Urban Systems Partnership (CUSP), will discuss how multiple organizations, “tabling” under a common message at festivals was successful at breaking down barriers to having positive conversations about climate change. John Anderson, Project Director for the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI) will illustrate how social sciences have helped to shape productive conversations at hundreds of informal science education organizations across the U.S., and Deborah Wasserman, Senior Research Associate for the Lifelong Learning Group at COSI’s Center for Evaluation and Research will share how the MADE CLEAR Informal Climate Change Education (ICCE) community of practice has evolved to meet informal educators’ needs for peer relationships and professional development that would strengthen their confidence and strategies for integrating climate change education into their practice.