Search Events

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Alaska are pleased to invite you to participate in our upcoming NSF Day to be held on the UAA's Anchorage campus.

NSF Days provide basic insight and instruction on how to compete for NSF funding for science, engineering and education research. This day-long workshop will provide background on the Foundation, its mission, priorities, and budget. During the day, we will give an overview on proposal writing, NSF's merit review process, and programs that fall within our seven scientific and engineering directorates, as well as funding opportunities that cross disciplinary boundaries. NSF representatives will be on hand to answer questions and to host discipline specific breakout sessions to personally engage in discussions with attendees.

The climate change community is invited to attend the public sessions of the upcoming meeting of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and climate.

On Thursday, April 7 from 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm we'll be discussion findings of an upcoming report, Advancing Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecasting. On Friday April 8 from 9:00 am – 12:15 pm join us to discuss implications of the COP-21 Paris Agreement for emissions verification. We'll be revisiting findings of the BASC report Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Please register using the above link and join us.

USAPECS is organizing a webinar series for Spring 2016 (April - June) focused on how to best share your science.

Data Visualization webinar:
Creating scientific graphics can be difficult, so come learn some simple tips and tricks from a dataviz expert on composition, color, and design to transform your figures into effective, informative, and beautiful scientific visualizations with your own data! Rob will also focus on the importance of using and choosing the right colors in your figures.

Register here for the webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8680669963200949763

Thanks to APECS for the use of the GoToMeeting platform for hosting the webinars.

The annual Arctic Business Forum by Lapland Chamber of Commerce introduces the latest global and local developments affecting the business possibilities in the Arctic. Specific attention is paid to European High North regions.

Arctic Business Forum is an international event attracting companies and business related stakeholders from Finland and abroad. Last year 23 countries were represented. Special attention is paid to strengthen business to business cooperation by organizing b-to-b meeting points and business pitch sessions.

Welcome to get insight, discuss and do business towards resilient business, for Arctic prosperity. For more information please visit the website or contact abf [at] chamber.fi

Location:

Reichardt Hall, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Summary:

The Ecosystem Approach to Management (EA) is a widely adopted management principle requiring management of human activities to be integrated across sectors of enterprise. The ultimate purpose of EA is to achieve sustainable use of natural resources, while maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem. The EA approach has been acknowledged, defined and adopted by the Arctic states working under the Arctic Council. Working groups of the Arctic Council have been engaged for more than a decade in developing aspects of the scientific, policy and indigenous foundations of the knowledge that enable the implementation of the ecosystem approach.

The conference will bring together experts and practitioners to examine the scientific, policy and indigenous understandings and experience of the ecosystem approach to management in the eighteen Large Marine Ecosystems of the Arctic and corresponding terrestrial areas. Topics to be addressed include scientific elements such as Integrated Ecosystem Assessment, as well as national policies such as Integrated Arctic Management and the Inuvialuit Settlement Agreement that are designed to carry out integrated management in an adaptive fashion. Proceedings from the conference will be presented to the ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in spring 2017.

Objectives:

• Benchmark the status of implementation of EA in the Arctic
• Present innovative examples of best practices in EA implementation
• Identify priorities for future collaboration on EA implementation in the Arctic Themes

Themes:

• Knowledge base – integration of knowledge (including traditional) and Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
• Governance – integration across sectors, institutional arrangements
• Scale integration – integration across small to large scale in ecosystems, and integration across management levels.

Outcomes and Products:

The conference will review progress in implementing the ecosystem approach to management in the various LMEs in the circumpolar Arctic. Presentations and papers will identify best practices for implementation and methods for dealing with impediments to implementation, such as limited information. Approaches to dealing with changes caused by changes in demand across development sectors, and by climate change will be identified. The conference will also examine arrangements for international cooperation in the management of shared LMEs that include waters under national jurisdiction of two or more countries.

Call for abstracts:
We invite contributions for oral or poster presentations. Please send abstracts of presentations (up to 500 words) to eaconference [at] pame.is by April 5.

For registration and other information, please visit the link above.

Organizers would like to call attention to the Polar Prediction School that will be held at the Abisko Field Station in Arctic Sweden from 5-15 April 2016 (next year). Sponsored by the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and the Bolin Center for Climate Research, the school is part of the WWRP Polar Prediction Project and the WCRP Polar Climate Predictability Initiative.

This course on Polar Prediction will provide training for 30 PhD and early career postdoctoral polar scientists, focusing on topics such as: polar mesoscale atmospheric processes; sea ice prediction; near term ensemble prediction; and seasonal-to-decadal climate variability and prediction in the polar regions. The program will combine lectures on key areas relevant for polar prediction and a number of field observation and modeling exercises to foster an interactive learning environment.

Organizers are asking for people interested in this school to fill out the Expression of Interest form by 15 May 2015. The form is available at: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/wcrp/pcpi/meetings/abisko-pp-2016. Limited travel support may be available, particularly for participants from developing countries.

Interest form submission deadline: 15 May 2015.

For more information on the school, visit: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/wcrp/pcpi/meetings/abisko-pp-2016.

For any questions, contact: Jonny Day
Email: j.j.day [at] reading.ac.uk

Organizers of the "Remote Controlled and Autonomous Measurement Platforms Flagship (ReCAMP) Workshop" announce a call for abstracts.

The objectives of ReCAMP are to:

• Present the ReCAMP Flagship objectives, and present and future activities
• Provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for scientists, researchers, operators, and students to exchange experience and knowledge on Remote Controlled and Autonomous Measurement Platforms (RAMPs) technology
• Discuss the main challenges when operating RAMPs in the Arctic, including communication, platform navigation, platform robustness, cross platform opportunities, sensor inter-comparison, platform independency, and remote power solutions.

The Programme Committee particularly invites contributions that include good application, promising results, and discussion on challenges and issues that currently limit the use or benefit of the technology. In this way, the sessions will be a balance of experiences, challenges, and new solutions. Abstracts are invited to the following seven sessions:

• Communication
• Platform navigation
• Platform robustness
• Cross platform opportunities
• Sensor inter comparison
• Platform independency
• Remote power solutions

Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2016

Why Does the Arctic Matter? Join us for a discussion on the most effective ways to talk about the changes in the Arctic and how they are affecting the rest of the U.S. and the world.

The Arctic has seen profound changes in recent years, and those changes have global impacts. From rising seas to thawing permafrost releasing carbon and methane, what happens in the Arctic matters for the rest of the United States and the world.

You are invited to a webinar to learn tips and tools for communicating about changes in the Arctic, whether you are talking to the press, your elected officials, or your community.

The University of Vienna, in cooperation with the European University in St. Petersburg is pleased to announce a call for applications for a PhD summer school (VASS) that will take place in late summer 2016. The course will take place in Vienna, Austria with a field trip to the Austrian Alps.

The basic idea of VASS is to bring Arctic social science PhD students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to Vienna in order to confront them with international state-of-the-art social science approaches and methods applied outside the Arctic. At the same time, VASS will confront Arctic students with lessons learned from Alpine experience. VASS will provide its participants with in-depth treatments of three areas: human-environmental interactions in the Anthropocene, regimes of mobility and immobility, and the study of the interrelationship of human and non-human actants in technological and infrastructural settings.

VASS is designed for PhD students and younger researchers in the Arctic social sciences. Organizers are inviting applications from students in Arctic and non-Arctic countries. The total number of participants is limited to 18.

Interested students should email the following application materials to Ilja Steffelbauer (ilja.steffelbauer [at] univie.ac.at):

• a short letter of the student’s motivation to attend the summer school;
• a short Curriculum Vitae;
• a 1 page description of the applicant’s current research topic(s); and,
• non-native speakers of English should indicate their level of English-language proficiency.

Application Deadline: 4 April 2016.

Nominations should be sent to:
Brit Myers, ARCUS
Email: brit [at] arcus.org

For questions about directions in the SEARCH program, please contact:
Brendan Kelly, SEARCH Executive Director
Email: bpkelly [at] alaska.edu

Or any other member of the SSC:
https://www.arcus.org/search-program/structure/ssc-committee

The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH; https://www.arcus.org/search-program) calls for nominations for Science Steering Committee (SSC) members. SEARCH is a U.S. interagency program with a vision of scientific understanding of Arctic environmental change to help society understand and respond to a rapidly changing Arctic.

The SSC is comprised of 12-14 members. Four new members will be selected to join the SEARCH SSC based on this nomination process. Members serve a three-year term, with a maximum of two consecutive terms. No more than two members may be based from non-U.S. institutions.

We seek nominations of candidates that are broad and cross-disciplinary thinkers, are good communicators and consensus-builders, and have a strong commitment to the SEARCH vision (included at the end of this solicitation). SSC members are expected to:

• Define and update the SEARCH vision and mission
• Guide overall directions of SEARCH implementation
• Promote and communicate SEARCH activities and plans
• Provide a supervisory role for the SEARCH Executive Director
• Work with the SEARCH Executive Director to establish strong linkages and partnerships with other relevant programs, agencies, and organizations
• Approve annual SEARCH work plans and reports
• Attend and be active participants in regular SSC meetings and working groups. The SSC has four regular meetings each year. In-person meetings are typically held twice a year (travel support provided).

While we welcome nominations from all disciplines and research backgrounds to complement existing strengths, we are particularly interested in additional members with expertise in Arctic freshwater ecosystems, coastal erosion, land-ice-ocean interactions, and partnering with Arctic stakeholders outside the academic and US federal scientific communities.

Nominations should include the person's name, affiliation, contact information, area of expertise, curriculum vitae or resume, and a brief statement on why the person would be an asset to the SEARCH program. To submit a nomination, you should first obtain the consent of the nominee. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominations should be sent to Brit Myers, ARCUS (SEARCH Science Management Office) at brit [at] arcus.org.

Nomination submission deadline: Monday, 4 April 2016.

For questions about the nomination process, please contact:
Brit Myers
Email: brit [at] arcus.org

For questions about directions in the SEARCH program, please contact:
Brendan Kelly, SEARCH Executive Director
Email: bpkelly [at] alaska.edu

Or any other member of the SSC:
https://www.arcus.org/search-program/structure/ssc-committee

The SEARCH Vision:
Scientific understanding of Arctic environmental change to help society understand and respond to a rapidly changing Arctic.

The SEARCH Mission:
To provide a foundation of Arctic change science through collaboration with the research community, funding agencies, and other stakeholders.

Towards this mission, SEARCH:

• Generates and synthesizes research findings and promotes Arctic science and scientific discovery across disciplines and among agencies.
• Identifies emerging issues in Arctic environmental change.
• Provides scientific information to Arctic stakeholders, policy-makers, and the public to help them understand and respond to Arctic environmental change.
• Facilitates research activities across local-to-global scales, with an emphasis on addressing needs of decision-makers.
• Collaborates with national and international science programs integral to SEARCH goals.