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The 2017 Alaska Marine Science Symposium (AMSS), Alaska’s premier marine research conference, will take place on January 23-27, 2017 at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska.

AMSS brings together scientists, educators, resource managers, students, and interested public to discuss the latest and greatest marine research being conducted in Alaskan waters. Research will be presented by geographic theme, including the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea & Aleutian Islands, and the Arctic. Topic areas will include ocean physics, fishes and invertebrates, seabirds, marine mammals, local traditional knowledge and more. Keynote presentations will be held Monday, January 23rd; Gulf of Alaska presentations will be on Tuesday, Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands on Wednesday, followed by the Arctic on Thursday.

Registration ends January 18, 2017

Presenter: Amy Merten, Ph.D., Chair of the Arctic Council's Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Working Group, NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration

Sponsor: NOAA's National Ocean Service Science Seminar; seminar host is tracy.gill [at] noaa.gov

Remote Access: Mymeeting webinar uses phone for and internet. Audio is only available over the phone: dial toll-free from US or CAN: 1-877-708-1667. Enter code 7028688#

For the webcast, go to www.mymeetings.com
Under "Participant Join", click "Join an Event", then add conf no: 744925156. No is code needed for the web. Be sure to install the correct plug‐in for WebEx before the seminar starts (temporary plugin works fine).

Join us for a PolarConnect event with teacher Eric Thuma and Dr. Jim Madsen from the Antarctic Neutron Monitoring Program from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Read more about the research and what Eric and the team are learning here:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/antarctic-neutron-monitors-for-so…

This event is not hosted by PolarTREC. To register please go to the PolarConnect link above.

The International Arctic Social Science Association (IASSA) announces a call for poster and paper abstract submissions to the 9th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences Conference (ICASS IX) entitled "People and Places." The conference will convene 8-12 June 2017 in Umeå, Sweden.

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.

The deadline for submitting papers and posters is January 16.

Organizers announce a call for registration for the Circum-Arctic Flux Workshop. This workshop is hosted by the Pan-Eurasion Experiment (PEEX) of the University of Helsinki and will be held 6-9 February 2017 in Hyytaila, Finland.

The workshop is open to all scientists interested in detailed observations of energetic, hydrological and chemical fluxes at the surface-atmosphere interface and how these may be used to understand and model the Arctic climate system. The Workshop is bringing professional and scientific experts together under research themes related to biogeochemistry, surface energy balance, atmospheric sciences, permafrost, hydrology, modeling, and remote sensing to help coordinate and synthesize polar flux data and models as an integrated systems of energy, moisture and chemical exchange.

The official language of the Workshop will be English.

Registration deadline: 15 January 2016.

The meeting will convene Wednesday, 11 January 2017 at 10:00 a.m. AST. This meeting will be available via teleconference or in-person in the Dr. Glenn A. Olds Hall Conference room on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Alaska Pacific University (APU) campus, 4210 University Avenue, in Anchorage, Alaska.

Topics on the agenda for this meeting include the fiscal year (FY) 2017 Draft Work Plan, a period of public comment, an Executive Director
report, and project information reports.

Participants who need special accommodations to attend must make their request no later than 72 hours prior to the meeting.

To participate via teleconference, call 800-315-6338 and enter code 72241.

For meeting details and to view the draft agenda, go to:
http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/index.cfm?FA=events.home

For information about the Council, go to: http://www.evostc.state.ak.us

For more information about the meeting or to request special
accommodations, contact:
Cherri Womac
Email: cherri.womac [at] alaska.gov
Phone: 907-278-8012 or 800-478-7745

Join us for a PolarConnect event with teacher Eric Thuma and Dr. Jim Madsen from the Antarctic Neutron Monitoring Program from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Read more about the research and what Eric and the team are learning here:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/antarctic-neutron-monitors-for-so…

This event is not hosted by PolarTREC. To register please go to the PolarConnect link above.

The Science Symposium will be on 4-7 April 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic, and will address the three sub-themes: (a) Changes in the Arctic, (b) Global Implications of Arctic Changes and (c) Impacts of Global Change on the Arctic.

To facilitate the participation of early career scientists and indigenous peoples, the organizers recommend that each session proposal includes one early career scientist co-convener and/or one indigenous co-convener, if applicable. Session proposals should also consider the overall geographic and gender balance of the proposed co-conveners.

Conference dates & deadlines:
Business Sessions: March 31 to April 2 2017
Excursions, Day Off: April 3 2017
Scientific Sections: April 4 to April 7 2017
Early bird registration closes 17 December
Abstract submission deadline 10 January 2017
Abstract acceptance notification 3 February 2017

Any questions should be directed to info [at] assw2017.eu

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) announces the Arctic Research Seminar Series event featuring Craig Fleener, State of Alaska Arctic Policy Advisor. The event will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office and online as a live-stream event to 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, NGOs, associations, and the public.

This seminar will be presented by Craig Fleener, State of Alaska's Arctic Policy Advisor. To learn more about Craig and to register, please follow the link above.

The 4th Winter Field Course for Snow Measurement is a course for serious students of snow, whether engaged in modeling, measuring, or teaching about snow. The course will introduce students to standard and specialized quantitative and qualitative measurements of snowpack characteristics, as well as how to conduct safe and efficient snow field campaigns. Over three full days we will provide fundamental training to students in performing and analyzing snow measurements, including depth, density, snow water equivalence, grain size and shape, stratigraphy, temperature and hardness. Students completing this course will be able to perform high-quality fieldwork as well as design studies requiring snowpack measurements, including those required during snow remote sensing calibration and validation campaigns. Class credit will be offered through the University of Saskatchewan.

It will take place at Barrier Lake Field Station, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada (about 45 minutes west of Calgary) with field work at Fortress Mountain in the Canadian Rockies. See:

http://bgs.ucalgary.ca/facilities

The course is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, professionals and senior scientists, modelers and those who do snow remote sensing that will either need to make snow measurements as part of their research, or use snowpack data in their research. There are no prerequisites, but students will be selected from the pool of applicants based on applicability to their studies. Successful applicants will be notified by December 15, 2016. Students from any nation may apply.

Applications are due by December 1, 2016.

Instructors:

• Dr. Kelly Elder: US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Dr. Matthew Sturm: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
• Dr. John Pomeroy, Director, Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan
• Dr. Jessica Lundquist, Mountain Hydrology Research, University of Washington
• Dr. Alexandre Langlois, Centre d’applications et de recherches en télédétection, Université de Sherbrooke
• Dr. Nicholas Kinar, Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan