Search Events

This is a closed internal SEARCH meeting of the Science Steering Committee and Action Team leads.

With approximately 24,000 attendees in 2015, AGU’s Fall Meeting is the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. 2016 will mark Fall Meeting’s 49th year as the premiere place to present your research; hear about the latest discoveries, trends, and challenges in the field; and network with colleagues that can enhance your career.

Fall Meeting brings together the entire Earth and space science community from across the globe for discussions of emerging trends and the latest research. The technical program includes presentations on new and cutting-edge science, much of which has not yet been published, meaning you’ll return to work with knowledge you can’t get anywhere else.

With more than 1,700 sessions in 2015, Fall Meeting’s scientific program spans the Earth and space sciences, offering something for everyone no matter their scientific discipline. The meeting offers a unique mix of more than 20,000 oral and poster presentations, a broad range of general sessions, various types of formal and informal networking and career advancement opportunities, and an exhibit hall packed with hundreds of exhibitors showcasing new and relevant research tools and services that meet the professional needs of our attendees year after year. Join us in 2016 for another dynamic experience.

The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) will hold an open Town Hall in conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco, California. An online webinar stream will be available for those not attending the AGU meeting.

To join as an online participant, please register at the link above.

For more information on all SEARCH events at AGU, please see:
https://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2016/agu

For more information, contact:
Brit Myers, ARCUS
Email: brit [at] arcus.org

The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) will hold a Town Hall meeting on Monday, 12 December, from 12:30 p.m until 1:30 p.m. PT during the AGU Fall Meeting in the Foothill E room of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis hotel. The event will also be live-streamed for online participation.

At this open Town Hall, SEARCH leadership will discuss how researchers, agencies, and stakeholders can contribute to and participate in SEARCH’s “Permafrost”, “Sea Ice”, and “Land Ice” activities; help steer the work of new cross-disciplinary working groups on coastal resilience and Arctic scenarios; and introduce SEARCH’s new “Knowledge Pyramids.” SEARCH is constructing Knowledge Pyramids to make scientific knowledge available on-line to decision makers, journalists, students, and scientists in diverse fields. Each knowledge pyramid answers a specific question about environmental change in the Arctic through tiers of increasing detail. The top of the pyramid provides—in accessible language—a succinct synopsis of what we know about the question in the form of a 1–2 page brief suitable for policymakers. Published reports back up the brief in lower tiers. The second tier down contains summaries more detailed than the brief; below that are published conceptual and technical syntheses; and, finally, the base of the pyramid is made of detailed technical reports focused on specific details—the scientific building blocks.

Broad participation enhances SEARCH’s success and we invite everyone interested in the Arctic to learn more about becoming part of our community at this event. Light refreshments will be provided. Students and early career investigators are encouraged to participate.

In addition to the in-person event, an online webinar stream will be available for those not attending AGU. To join via an online participant, please register at:
https://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2016/agu/townhall

In addition to the annual October Assemblies in Iceland, the Arctic Circle convenes smaller and more specialized forums in other countries. Together with the Government of Québec, the Arctic Circle will convene its next forum in Québec City.

The Forum will be opened by Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, and Philippe Couillard, Premier of Québec. Discussions will focus on the sustainable development of northern regions, including Alaska, Greenland as well as northern areas of Norway and Sweden. Québec will present its own approach as implemented in the Plan Nord, and will ask other key players to share their experience and expertise in this area.

The event will apply a comparative and interactive approach, and will give speakers and participants an opportunity to help disseminate knowledge and good practices while promoting the sustainable development of the Arctic and northern regions in general.

Session topics will include regional planning and governance, investment and socio-economic development.

Also, a special session dealing with the impacts of climate change in the Nordic and Arctic regions will be held.

Among the speakers and participants will be ministers and lawmakers, indigenous leaders, and representatives from economic development organizations, investment funds and scientific institutes.

The 6th Annual Meeting of the Permafrost Carbon Network will take place before the AGU Fall Meeting, in San Francisco, California.

In the morning of December 11th, we will provide updates on previous, ongoing, and new synthesis activities. The afternoon is dedicated to break out discussions on ongoing and new synthesis activities. Lunch will be provided for registered participants and a preliminary agenda is attached to this email and can also be found online at the link above.

If you would like to participate in the meeting or parts of the meeting, please register online using this link:
https://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2016/agu/pcn

For questions, please email Christina Schädel
christina.schaedel at nau.edu

or

Ted Schuur
ted.schuur at nau.edu

Registration deadline is November 14, 2016.

This meeting will take place in Bethel, Maine.

The purpose of the meeting is:

• To present and discuss new results on observations and modeling of the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers, including the Greenland ice sheet
• To plan and coordinate field work on Arctic glaciers with the aim of using the available infrastructure and logistics in the most efficient way
• To develop ideas for future projects and collaboration

The meeting is open to everyone interested in Arctic glaciology. We particularly welcome contributions to our special sessions. Special session on atmosphere-glacier interactions include:

• Regional patterns of atmospheric warming and links to changes in atmospheric circulation over the Arctic
• Firn processes and implications on glacier-mass balance / mass-balance assessments

Special session on glacier–ocean interactions include:

• Process studies on glacier calving/frontal ablation
• Frontal-ablation results for selected glaciers or regions
• The importance of subaqueous melt for frontal ablation and link to ocean temperatures
• Glacial freshwater runoff and effects on fjord/ocean circulation and the marine ecosystem

The latter special session will feature a workshop session led by Luke Copland, University of Ottawa,on the importance of calving (frontal ablation) for the mass budget of Arctic glaciers. This session follows up activities initiated at the IASC workshop in Poland, Sopot, 15-17 October 2016, with the aim to derive a consistent pan-Arctic frontal-ablation estimate for the period 2000-2015.

Registration deadline is December 05, 2016.

For more information about the workshop please visit our website.

ArcticNet will host its 12th Annual Scientific Meeting from 5 to 9 December 2016 at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The ASM2016 will welcome researchers, students, Northerners, policy makers and stakeholders to address the numerous environmental, social, economical and political challenges and opportunities that are emerging from climate change and modernization in the Arctic.

As the largest annual Arctic research gathering held in Canada, ArcticNet’s ASM is the ideal venue to showcase results from all fields of Arctic research and stimulate discussion and foster collaborations among people with a vested interest in the Arctic and its peoples.

ArcticNet is proud to host the 2016 Arctic Inspiration Prize Awards Ceremony in conjunction with its annual meeting. The ceremony will be held on the evening of Thursday 8 December and will feature a performance by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Nunavut Sivuniksavut.

We look forward to welcoming you to Winnipeg for another successful ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting.

ESA will hold the first Cryosat North American Science Meeting next spring in Banff, Alberta, Canada on 20-24 March 2017.

Co-sponsored by a number of international institutions, the meeting is open to all worldwide interested CryoSat stakeholders and data users. There will be no conference fee but the participants are required to finance their own travel and accommodation.

The meeting will provide a unique and timely forum for scientists and end-users of CryoSat data to share the state-of-the-art in research and applications, review mission achievements and prepare for the continued use of the CryoSat mission in the future.

The Cryosat North American Science meeting is organised approximately seven years after launch of CryoSat and will highlight areas where the mission has made significant contribution including cryosphere, oceanography, geodesy, hydrology, topography, meteorology and climate change.

Presentations on the use of CryoSat data for operational applications and demonstrations of novel scientific applications are also encouraged. The meeting will be also instrumental to outline the international collaboration in the exploitation of data, to propose new scientific requirements, to identify new scientific challenges in view of the extension beyond 2019 and, in general, for its possible successor.

Abstract deadline is 4 December 2016

More details can be found at the website above.

The 2016 ARCUS Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. Scheduled at 6:00-7:00 p.m. PST, the meeting will be convened in Foothill E, inside the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.

The meeting will serve to gather members, the Board of Directors, and the staff of ARCUS together with other members of the Arctic research community and key agency personnel and policy makers. An option to join remotely is also available.

Reception:
You are invited to join ARCUS and the other Arctic researchers at AGU in conversation, networking, and socializing. This reception will be at 7:00-8:30 p.m. PST, immediately following the annual meeting. No ticket or reservations are required. A cash bar and light appetizers will be provided. The event will be held in the Arctic Community Meeting Room sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The reception is also sponsored by ARCUS members.

For questions about the meeting, reception, and remote attendance,
contact:
Jennifer Zolkos
Email: jennifer [at] arcus.org