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This is the third PEI (Polar Educators International) Workshop gathering teachers, educators and scientists working on polar subjects. The aim is to bring world class researchers together with educators interested in polar science and to present current research and share innovative lessons to transfer the scientific information to classrooms and other audiences. A broad goal is to give educators and researchers the tools to raise public awareness on the importance of the polar regions.

The workshop is open to a maximum of 40 registered participants selected in the order in which fees are received. If the maximum number of participants is reached, a waiting list will be created. The registration fee to attend the PEI2017 workshop is 50 € + 2 € transfer expenses (how to pay will be sent in a letter after your registration is received).

Applications will be reviewed and applicants will be notified of their acceptance via email within a week of submission. Registrations and fees received early will have first choice of reasonably priced hostel rooms.

For more information or questions, please contact peiworkshops [at] gmail.com

The 13th annual Polar Technology Conference (PTC) will be hosted by Polar Field Services.

The PTC brings together polar scientists and technology developers to exchange information on research system operational needs and technology solutions for polar environments. This knowledge exchange helps scientists and engineers address issues of design, implementation, and deployment for systems that enable scientists and agencies to achieve their research goals in the polar regions. The PTC provides a space for those involved in polar technology challenges to “pop the hood” and discuss what works—and what does not.

Traditionally, participants hail from academia, state and federal agencies, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations. Presentations cover system requirements for proposed research along with descriptions of systems and approaches proven successful in polar deployments. Hardware and software topics include, for example, weather stations, robotics, power systems and storage, telemetry, and communications. Scale ranges from autonomous data collection towers to large scale research stations. Polar field sites include those under, on, and above the ice, tundra, or sea.
Discussions on intra- and international cooperation in site deployment and maintenance are encouraged. Informal breaks allow for networking and information exchange. A poster session is also included. Workshops have been held offering tutorial exchanges on specific technologies (e.g., power systems, Iridium). The PTC is pleased to have support from the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs as an endorsement of the concept of bringing together providers and consumers of these technologies in hopes of benefiting from that synergy.

With speakers Crane Johnson and Rick Thoman of the National Weather Service.

Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will present a brief overview of current conditions and provide our spring statewide flooding potential outlook for the 2017 spring break-up season. This will be followed by a comparison of historic breakup years and a spring/summer climate outlook.

Pre-registration for webinars is strongly encouraged. The audio portion of the call is through a toll-free phone line and the slide presentation is streamed via computer. For instructions on participating through your home office or at a satellite viewing location with others in your community, please follow the link above and find the webinar information page.

We would like to draw your attention to the third year of Students in Polar and Alpine Research Conference that will take place in Brno, Czech Republic at the Department of Geography at Masaryk University.

If you are interested and would like to learn more about a program and how to contribute or take part, please see the announcement at the link above.

Do not hesitate to contact us in case of any uncertainties or questions by email (geopolarbrno [at] gmail.com), or you can also directly contact the main conference coordinator -lenkaondrackova [at] mail.muni.cz

Deadline for registration and abstract submission is April 7, 2017

Registration for the 2017 AAG Annual Meeting is now open. The AAG accepts all submitted abstracts and organized sessions for presentation. Any topic relevant to geography is welcome at the AAG Annual Meeting.

As one of the largest geographic conferences in the world, the AAG Annual Meeting and Exhibition will host as many as 9,500 geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists from around the world.

The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC, www.mosaic-expedition.org) has been designed by an international consortium of leading polar research institutes under the umbrella of IASC.

Rapid changes in the Arctic lead to an urgent need for reliable information about the state and evolution of the Arctic climate system. This requires more observations and improved modelling over various spatial and temporal scales, and across a wide variety of disciplines. The focus of MOSAiC lies on in-situ observations of the climate processes that couple atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, bio-geochemistry and ecosystem.

The main scientific goals of MOSAiC are improving the data assimilation for numerical weather prediction models, sea ice forecasts and climate models, ground truth for satellite remote sensing, energy budget and fluxes through interfaces, sources, sinks and cycles of chemical species, boundary layer processes, habitat conditions and primary productivity, interaction with indigenous communities, and stakeholder services.

MOSAiC will be the first year-around observation of the coupled Arctic climate system and the planned observations cut across many disciplines. Hence, a 2-day MOSAiC workshop on April 4th and 5th 2017 will be held to discuss the coordination of the complex observations and the implementation of measurement concepts to ensure the quality and continuity of critical measurements and to maximize the impact of these observations for coupled system studies. This includes the coordination of the modelling activities to improve the sea ice forecast, numerical weather prediction and the climate models.

On day one (April 4th 2017) we will have invited overview talks with respect to observations and modelling for the respective components of the coupled system. On day two (April 5th 2017) we will have breakout sessions with foci on different space and time scale as well as logistics. Selected chair persons will lead the breakout discussions on day two. Additional, we invite all participants to propose poster presentations, which will be presented during the two days.

Please submit poster abstracts here: www.mosaic-expedition.org/abstract.html

Abstract Deadline: 15 January, 2017

Background and objectives:

With support from NASA Applied Sciences Program, the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is organizing an international workshop to advance remote sensing tools and data for operational and scientific applications by high northern latitude fire ecology and management communities. Participants will include interagency fire managers as well as scientists with an interest in remote sensing and a variety of disciplines.

Topics of interest include:

• Potential fire risk: Can remotely sensed data (e.g., daily snow extent, others) estimate spring soil moisture and surface and subsurface fuel moisture and fuel conditions, and thus provide critical inputs for fuel moisture indices used to predict fire danger and risk?
• Near real-time fire behavior: Which remotely sensed data are best and most timely for fire detection, plume tracking of fire emissions, fire behavior modeling, mapping of flaming fronts, fire intensity, active fire perimeters, and response for ongoing fires?
• Post-fire effects: Can we improve analytical methods for remotely sensed data to assess fire severity, consumption/CO2 balance, active-layer changes, and successional trajectories of high latitude vegetation communities?

The outcomes of this workshop will advance co-developed investigations into new management and scientific uses of remote sensing data, increasing the scientific foundation and operational efficiency of northern fire management; improving understanding of climate-induced changes in northern fire regimes and ecosystem components and potential feedbacks to the global climate system; and leading to expanded application and use of remotely sensed data for fire management and fire science in high latitudes.

AFSC will publish workshop proceedings, including presentation abstracts, results, and consensus recommendations. This project is a contribution to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee’s Wildfire Collaboration Team.

Abstracts of up to 500 words for both oral and poster presentations are welcome.

Deadline for abstract submissions and travel support applications: Tuesday, 15 November 2016.

Limited funding is available to offset selected presenters' travel expenses, with priority given to students and other young investigators.

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 Journal Territorial and Maritime Studies (JTMS) is soliciting submissions for its Summer/Fall 2017 issue. In the interest of increasing submissions for this recently launched publication, JTMS is offering authors of articles successfully passing peer review and selected for publication in the Summer/Fall 2017 issue an honorarium of $1000. JTMS is an interdisciplinary Journal of research on territorial and maritime issues sponsored by the Northeast Asia History Foundation with editorial offices hosted by Yonsei University in South Korea. The Journal provides an academic medium for the announcement and dissemination of research results the fields of history, international law, international relations, geography, peace studies, and any other relevant discipline. The journal covers all continental areas across the world, and it discusses any territorial and maritime subjects through the various research methods from different perspectives; moreover, practical studies as well as theoretical works, which contribute to a better understanding of territorial and maritime issues, are encouraged.

Manuscript should be submitted electronically to: jtms [at] yonsei.ac.kr

Submitted papers should include four major sections: the title page, structured abstract, main body, and references. The title page should contain the title of the paper, the authors name, the institutional affiliation and keywords. Manuscripts should follow the JTMS style guide available on our website. A length of maximum 9,000 words is preferred for an article, including endnotes, and approximately 2,000 words for a review. Submissions wishing to be considered for the Summer/Fall issue must submit their manuscripts by no later than April 1st, 2016. Inquiries may be sent via the email address provided above.

Our style guide and other journal information may be found on our recently launched website (see link above).

Dates: 14-15 September 2017
Venue: St. Anne's College - University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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 extended until 31 March 2017