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PolarConnect Event with Karen Temple-Beamish and the team studying Carbon Balance in a Warming and Drying Tundra.

This is a real-time event with New Mexico teacher Karen Temple-Beamish and the researchers looking at the changes in carbon and how they effect the tundra. They will be sharing experiences and observations of their work in the Healy area near Denali National Park, Alaska. Read more about the research and what Karen is learning here: https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/carbon-balance-in-warming-and-dry…

This event is hosted through the PolarTREC PolarConnect program, and participants will have a chance the learn from the scientists, ask questions, and chat with others during the presentation.

Registration: To register for this FREE event and to receive instructions on how to join.

1 hour event with Q&A at the end for teachers, students, friends, and family.

Questions? Contact us at info [at] polartrec.com or 907-474-1600

The International Glacier and Mountain Ecosystems Forum is an event that seeks to exchange experiences and knowledge about glaciers and mountain ecosystems, promoting opportunities for cooperation between public institutions, civil society organizations, business and academia, for the implementation of research on sustainable development of mountain populations.

The forum will be held from the 10th to 13th August, 2016, in the city of Huaraz, Ancash region, Peru.

See the website for more information.

The conference will address the "dynamic Arctic," including identifying emerging issues influencing Arctic policy discourse and framing them for consideration by policymakers. A common thread running through previous conferences has been the importance of sustaining the Arctic as a zone of peace and prosperity in a rapidly changing and often turbulent and unpredictable world.

Open to invited participants only.

The conference is co-sponsored by the East-West Center and the Korea Maritime Institute.

Primary Contact Info:
Name: June Kuramoto
Email: kuramotj [at] eastwestcenter.org

With:
Natalie Monacci (UAF Ocean Acidification Research Center)
&
Bob Foy (NOAA Kodiak Fishery Research Center)

To register for the webinar, please fill out the form at the link above.

Jointly sponsored by the Alaska Ocean Acidification Network:
http://www.aoos.org/alaska-ocean-acidification-network

Scientists estimate that the ocean is 30% more acidic today than it was 300 years ago, traceable to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil-fuel combustion and land-use change. Lowering the pH of seawater affects the ability of shell-building organisms to build and maintain their shells, which puts stress on the entire marine food chain. Alaska is expected to experience the effects of ocean acidification sooner and more seriously than lower latitudes due to its temperature and circulation patterns.

This presentation will cover what we know about OA in Alaska, statewide monitoring efforts to track changes in seawater, and results of lab work to test the impacts of higher-acidity waters on commercially important species. It will also highlight resources available through the new Alaska Ocean Acidification Network, which was recently launched to help connect scientists and stakeholder communities, identify knowledge gaps, share data, and determine best practices for monitoring in Alaska.

Organizers announces a call for applications for a field course entitled, "Advanced Climate Dynamics Course on the Role of High Latitudes in Centennial to Millennial Scale Climate Variability."

The goal of the course is to provide students with empirical, proxy, and dynamical training within climate science and an understanding the basic principles and dynamics behind centennial to millennial scale climate variability and their link to past, present and future changes to high latitude climate.

The course is taught by several invited guest lecturers coordinated by the Bjerknes Centre in Bergen, Norway; University of Washington; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Application deadline: 10 March 2016.

Join PolarTREC for a PolarConnect event with teacher Sanda Thornton and the Chukchi Sea Borderland Research Team:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/chukchi-sea-borderland

This event will be broadcast live from the US Coast Guard Cutter/Icebreaker Healy. This is a real-time event with Virginia teacher Sandra Thornton and the researchers exploring marine communities from microbes to mammals and from sea ice to seafloor in this complex Arctic region. They will be sharing experiences and observations of their work aboard the Healy.

This event is hosted through the PolarTREC PolarConnect program, and participants will have a chance the learn from the scientists, ask questions, and chat with others during the presentation.

All abstract submissions for American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting must be received by 3 August 2016 at 23:59ET/3:59+1 GMT (11:59 P.M. EST). Abstracts will not be accepted for review after this date.

Please consider submitting an abstract to session #GC061 of the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Dec. 12-16, San Francisco). Abstracts are due August 3, 2016.

Session ID#: 13059:
GC061: Scenario Approaches to Understand Arctic Futures

Session Description:
Consideration of alternative scenarios for the medium-long term future of the Arctic region can be a powerful approach to synthesis of disparate trends in support of enhanced understanding of the possibilities. Scenario approaches use a variety of scales of analysis to understand the social-ecological systems of a region (or sub-regions), bringing together geoscience, biological science, and interactions of these natural systems with regional and global populations. This session will feature presentations from pioneering research groups involved in Arctic scenario analysis. The audience will learn how these different approaches were developed and structured, and what insights they have produced about possible and likely Arctic futures. Arctic scenarios development is often informed by inputs from global and regional models of climate, atmosphere, marine, and terrestrial change. As a focus, session participants will also be asked to consider how such physical models might be improved to better inform and support more robust scenarios.

Conveners: Robert H. Rich (ARCUS), Helen V. Wiggins (ARCUS), Brit Myers (ARCUS), Caspar M. Ammann (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)

Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 3 August 2016.

Follow the link above to submit your abstract.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) will host an Informational Webinar on the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee's Draft Arctic Research Plan 2017-2021.

IARPC requests public comment on the draft Arctic Research Plan 2017-2021 (Five-Year Plan). The Five Year Plan describes research priorities that are expected to benefit from interagency collaboration. It will be published by the Office of Science and Technology Policy in late 2016.

The Five-Year Plan and additional information is available at:

https://review.globalchange.gov

Comments may be submitted between July 26 and August 21.

Chapter authors will be available to answer questions during the webinar.

For questions, contact:
Sandy Starkweather
Email: sandy [at] usgcrp.gov

The University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Permafrost and Natural Hazard announce a call for applications for an International Permafrost/Natural Hazard Summer Field School in Yakutia, Russia on 1-20 August 2016. Senior bachelor and graduate students who are interested in obtaining and overall knowledge about permafrost are encouraged to apply.

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?

Interested students should send a Curriculum Vitae and short motivation letter (less than 1 page) to the field school organizers (uarcticpermafrost [at] gmail.com).

Application Deadline: 25 April 2016.

For questions, please contact:
Kenji Yoshikawa
kyoshikawa [at] alaska.edu