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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.

The University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Permafrost offers an International Permafrost Summer Field School in Fairbanks Alaska, July 31-­ August 12 2017. We welcome senior bachelor and graduate students, who are interested in obtaining an overall knowledge about permafrost.

The course will offer insights into:

• Permafrost history and its distribution globally.
• Permafrost related natural hazards and hydrological problems.
• Permafrost temperatures in various parts of the World – climatic and other controls.
• Methods of permafrost observations, focusing on drilling, coring and instrumentation.
• Permafrost databases and their use in permafrost analyses.
• How does permafrost affect local community infrastructure and cultural life?
• Interaction between carbon and water in permafrost landscapes.
• How sensitive are permafrost landforms towards climate change?

Application deadline is April 30 2017.
Send CV and short motivation letter (less than 1 page) to uarcticpermafrost [at] gmail.com.
There is no tuition fee for this course.
Course credits (may obtain 3 US credits) is not mandatory and require additional cost for the course.

Accommodation for students during the course will be in reindeer camp and some field site, and it will cost for meals.

For further questions: Kenji Yoshikawa (kyoshikawa [at] alaska.edu) or uarcticpermafrost [at] gmail.com

The organizing committee from Swiss Polar Institute calls for poster proposals by PhD and Early Career Researchers to "High Altitudes meet High Latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues" Conference, September 11-12, 2017 Switzerland, Crans-Montana.

We invite contributions expending upon the main topics addressed at the conference. We are encouraging proposals that highlight the relations between High Altitudes and High Latitudes and are looking for a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including physical sciences, earth and bio sciences, as well as social sciences and humanities. In addition to a conventional poster presentation, all selected posters presentations will take part in flash-talk sessions (120' for each session).

In order to mobilize PhD and Early career researchers from European and non-European research communities, we will provide partial travel and accommodation support (up to 1200 CHF). Participants will be selected on the basis of an extended abstract (up to 600 words).

Application and deadline:

Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2017
Deadline for a Flash-talk presentation: September 5, 2017

Please, send abstracts to spi.cransmontana [at] epfl.ch

Siberian Federal University invites to the International Summer School “Monitoring and Early Warnings in Water Governance” in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on July 10–23, 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.

The 3rd Blue Planet Symposium will convene 31 May-2 June 2017 at the conference center of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Maryland.

Blue Planet is an initiative of the Group of Earth Observations (GEO). GEO aims to address global challenges and improve decision making by coordinating and developing Earth observation efforts among participating governments and organizations. The overall goal of Blue Planet Initiative is to ensure the sustained development and use of ocean and coastal observations for the benefit of society. Blue Planet is a network of networks made up of participants from a variety of existing international organizations, regional organizations, national institutes, universities, government agencies, project groups, and other interested parties.

The symposium will serve as a forum for discussion of societal information needs resulting from the important role the oceans play in Earth's life-support system and the challenge of minimizing the impacts of human activities on the oceans while utilizing the resources of the oceans to meet our needs. The symposium will also be a platform for the participating communities to exchange information on their activities and identify related potential pilot and prototype projects to focus on in the coming years.

The symposium will address four sub-themes:

• The changing oceans
• Threats from pollution, warming, and acidification
• Processes and life at the interfaces with the oceans
• Sustainable use of ocean resources

The symposium is open to scientists, researchers, and students from academia, industry, government, users of ocean observation data and information, and other stakeholders engaged in monitoring, understanding, and managing the oceans.

Registration deadline: 28 April 2017.

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

X-STEM - presented by the U.S. Department of Defense - is an Extreme STEM Symposium for middle through high school students featuring interactive presentations by leading STEM innovators who aim to empower and inspire kids about careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

As we celebrate Black History Month, we'd like to introduce you to key African American STEM innovators who as Nifty Fifty speakers will be engaging students about their work and careers in STEM during school visits throughout the Washington, D.C. metro area, and on April 28th will serve as presenters at the X-STEM Symposium, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, at the D.C. Convention Center.

Who Should Attend:
Students with a strong interest in STEM, educators and parents. X-STEM presentations will be geared toward a middle and high school level audience (grades 6 to 12). STEM professionals are welcome to attend the student talks by registering. Student attendees will have the opportunity to sit in on multiple engaging presentations from over 25 STEM mentors and industry leaders.

Application deadline to host a Nifty Fifty speakers is Friday, February 17th.

Follow the link above to learn about the speakers and to register.

Please join us for a real-time event with teacher Jennifer Baldacci broadcasting live from Toolik Field Station in Alaska. Dr. Cory Williams will join Jenn to discuss the 2017 field season working on Arctic Ground Squirrel Studies.

The Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference (WAISC) will highlight regional scientific efforts that provide a more interdisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry, resource management, and fishery resource development and marketing. Organizers welcome submissions from all individuals and organizations collecting and disseminating information in the industries of western Alaska.

Western Alaska is experiencing a period of rapid change. WAISC seeks to bring scientists, resource managers, industry experts, fishery business enthusiasts, seafood product development/safety specialists and resource users together to share the state-of-the-science, the latest innovations in technology, and local observations, and to discuss the needs and concerns of each stakeholder group.

The Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference and Forum seeks oral and poster presentations focused on the following topics:

• Seafood processing and development/food security
• Renewable energy and energy efficiency
• Fishing business and operations
• Climate change adaptation
• Bycatch, pollock allocation, rationalization
• Vessel traffic, oil spill response, and marine accidents
• Building effective local environmental observer networks
• Rural education
• Waste management
• Marine policy/coastal management

Abstracts may be submitted online through February 24.

Online registration is now open. The registration fee is $100.

Planning is underway, so check the website for updates and for more information.

To promote the analysis and synthesis of Arctic data, as well as to inform ongoing development of the data repository, the Arctic Data Center is soliciting requests for proposals for a Synthesis Working Group, with research to begin by August 2017.

Funding is available for one Working Group, consisting of hosting two meetings at the Arctic Data Center in Santa Barbara, California, of approximately 15 participants each, over an anticipated 1-1.5 year period.

Proposals must focus on Arctic-related research issues, and primarily (but not necessarily exclusively) involve the analysis and synthesis of data contained within the Arctic Data Center Repository. Proposals will be reviewed by the Arctic Data Center’s Science Advisory Board for intellectual merit and broader impacts, but consideration will also be made as to the availability and sources of data needed by the project, as well as how the project will serve to evaluate and inform future directions for the Arctic Data Center’s services. Principal Investigators are strongly encouraged to contact the Arctic Data Center to briefly discuss ideas before submitting proposals.

Call for proposals closes April 26, 2017.

For more information, please follow the link above.

Please join us for a real-time event with teacher Jennifer Baldacci broadcasting live from Toolik Field Station in Alaska. Dr. Cory Williams will join Jenn to discuss the 2017 field season working on Arctic Ground Squirrel Studies This event's time is set to broadcast specifically for Jenn's students in Switzerland and other European classrooms. Jennifer will also host a PolarConnect event with U.S. school-friendly times on 27 April.