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The next Workshop on the Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers & the IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology Annual Meeting will be held from 25 - 27 January 2016 in Benasque, Spain.

Information, application, program etc will become available on the website of the Network on Arctic Glaciology: http://nag.iasc.info/ and will be sent out over Cryolist when it is available.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology program, through the National Science Foundation, addresses a problem faced by many investigators, which is that typical funding awards do not have time frames long enough to address long-term, data-driven research proposals. These awards are designed to provide funding to maintain an ongoing, long-term research project for a period of a decade or even longer. The solicitation includes a list of potential thematic areas for research proposals that includes, but is not limited to, research relating to external forcing functions such as climatic cycles that operate over long-return intervals. Awards are not to exceed $90,000 total per year and $450,000 over a five-year effort. The foundation anticipates making six awards annually, pending availability of funds. The solicitation outlines renewal procedures following the initial award.

ARCUS Poster

At the Alaska Marine Science Symposium 2016, ARCUS will have a poster on "Collaboration and Understanding in Arctic Marine Ecosystems: Networking Science, Local Communities, Educators, and Stakeholders to Exchange Sea Ice Knowledge".

Monday, 25 January in "Wave 2", 7:15-8:30pm Alaska Time in Row 10, #106.

The 2016 Alaska Marine Science Symposium begins on Monday, January 25. The morning session will feature the Communicating Ocean Sciences workshop. The daily agenda is available online. The official opening plenary takes place Monday afternoon and includes invited keynote addresses. Poster sessions will take place on Monday and Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm to 8:30pm. Many partner organizations host workshops in the evenings and on Friday, January 29.

The symposium is organized by region: Arctic Ocean (Tuesday, January 26th), Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (Wednesday, January 27th), and Gulf of Alaska (Thursday, January 28th). Within each geographical region, talks are presented on on a variety of reserach themes including: climate and oceanography, lower trophic levels, fishes and fish habitats, seabirds, mammals, humans, ecosystem perspectives.

See the AMSS website for much more information!

The 10th Arctic Frontiers conference will be held in Tromsø, Norway from Sunday 24 January to Friday 29 January 2016. The title for the 2016 conference is Industry and Environment.

The Arctic is a global crossroad between commercial and environmental interests. The region holds substantial natural resources and many actors are investigating ways to utilize these for economic gain. Others view the Arctic as a particularly pristine and vulnerable environment and highlight the need to limit industrial development.

Arctic Frontiers 2016 will discuss the balance between resource utilization and preservation, and between industrial and environmental interests in the Arctic. Envisioning a well-planned, well-governed, and sustainable development in the Arctic, how can improved Arctic stewardship help balance environmental concerns with industrial expansion? How can the environmental footprints from future business activities be minimized? And last but not least what role will existing and emerging technologies play in making industrial development profitable and environmentally friendly, securing a sustainable growth scenario for Arctic communities?

The Arctic Frontiers conference is a central arena for discussions of Arctic issues. The conference brings together representatives from science, politics, and NGOs to share perspectives on how upcoming challenges in the Arctic may be addressed to ensure sustainable development. Arctic Frontiers is composed of three sections:

• Arctic Frontiers Policy;
• Arctic Frontiers Science and;
• Arctic Frontiers Business.

Arctic Frontiers Science 2016 will address three main themes:

• Environmental footprints
• Arctic stewardship
• Technology needs

This call for papers addresses only the science section that takes place from 27-29 January 2016.

On behalf of the scientific program committees, we have great pleasure in inviting you to submit one or more abstracts, for oral or poster presentation, to any of the three parts. We ask you to do so in accordance with the instructions provided on the Call for Papers page at www.arcticfrontiers.com.

All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the three scientific committees for rating of abstract quality and presentation content.

Call for Papers closes on 21 September 2015

Scientific discoveries achieved from, within, and beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, ice caps and valley glaciers are critical to society today, but large group endeavors are not achieved without significant advance planning. What is your vision for future subglacial science? The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is sponsoring an interdisciplinary science community planning workshop to identify the science drivers, targets, and timelines of subglacial access drilling for the coming decade. The goal of this workshop is to form consensus within the U.S. science community on scientific goals, potential drilling targets, and proposed dates and timelines for major science projects that will require subglacial access drilling over the coming decade, possibly in joint endeavors with international partners. This information will be used in the 2016-2026 update of the IDPO Long Range Science Plan, which is the foundation for identifying and developing appropriate drilling technologies for use in larger projects defined by the U.S. science community. This workshop will be held on January 21-23, 2016, at the Washington Dulles Marriott Suites Hotel in Herndon, VA. All interested scientists who will be seeking science funding from a U.S. agency are encouraged to participate, including, but not limited to, those from the fields of glaciology, paleoclimatology, glacial geology, biology, and earth science. Scientists should come to the meeting prepared to summarize scientific research questions to be addressed by subglacial drilling in the coming decade, and to identify likely target areas, technologies needed, and timelines for completion of projects that they are likely to propose in the near-term or long-term future.

Sponsor and IDPO Lead:
Mary Albert, IDPO, Dartmouth

IDPO Subglacial Access Working Group Conveners:
Jill Mikucki, Middlebury College
Ross Powell, Northern Illinois University
John Goodge, University of Minnesota-Duluth

10-minute presentation slots are available in the agenda for participants interested in "making the case" for specific future subglacial drilling projects. Please indicate your interest in making a brief presentation in the registration form. We will send registered participants updates on the agenda and details of the meeting.

Background Information:
The current IDPO Long Range Science Plan for the ice coring and drilling community is available for download on www.Icedrill.org; we update the plan every year in June. This plan drives the NSF budget for U.S. ice drilling activities. We encourage scientists to work with IDPO to forecast your science plans over the next decade -- this enables us to ensure that the ice drilling technology will be ready when needed by your science.

Outcomes from this workshop will be directly incorporated into the IDPO Long Range Science Plan. Specifically, discussions from this meeting will be reflected in the science descriptions, timeline and planning matrices in the Long Range Science Plan, and will be used to identify drills, platforms and logistical support needed to achieve the science. We hope that you and your colleagues will join us in this planning.

Thu, Jan 21: 7:30pm - 9:00pm informal discussions
Fri, Jan 22: 8:30am - 6:00pm meeting
Sat, Jan 23: 8:30am - 12:30pm meeting

The Science Coordination Office (SCO) for Summit Station and the Greenland Inland Traverse (GrIT) will be sponsoring a workshop on Tues., Jan. 19, 2016, that will focus on Future Research and Station Development Directions on the ice sheet including traverse science and ongoing research at Summit. The current long range plan being pursued in developing Summit Station and the Isi Observatory will be discussed. Presenters should focus on current hypotheses that guide planned future work and new research ideas are strongly encouraged. Please provide a brief abstract of your activities and confirm your participation (and whether you request travel support – prioritized to young investigators) by email to: Matt Okraszewski (matthew at polarfield.com).

This meeting is being held in conjunction with the 2016 PARCA meeting held at NASA-Goddard January 20.

Deadlines for intent to attend the meeting in person are:

• US Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders): Monday, January 11
• Foreign nationals: Thursday, December 24

A dial-in teleconference line will be available for anyone wanting to participate remotely.

North Pacific Research Board announces the release of the Arctic Program Request for Pre-proposals

North Pacific Research Board is launching an Arctic Integrated Ecosystem Research Program in partnership with several collaborating organizations and agencies. NPRB and funding partners seek to develop a coordinated, collaborative program to fund science that will improve our understanding of Arctic marine ecosystems. The program aims to inform a mechanistic understanding of the processes that structure the marine ecosystem and influence the distribution, life history, and interactions of biological communities in the Chukchi Sea, Bering Strait, and northern Bering Sea. NPRB intends to fund several projects that will integrate to achieve this goal.

This program is a collaborative partnership. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the North Slope Borough/Shell Baseline Studies Program have each contributed funds to support new research associated with this program. Several other institutions and agencies have identified ongoing research that will coordinate with and contribute to this program. We welcome additional participation. The Request for Pre-Proposals and a list of resources that proposers may find useful may be found on the program's website: http://www.nprb.org/arctic-program/request-for-proposals/.

There will be a two-stage process for proposal submission and review. Pre-proposals must be submitted on or before July 31, 2015. NPRB will review pre-proposals this fall and intends to invite full proposals in early October 2015. The anticipated deadline for full proposals is January 15, 2016. An informational teleconference will be held Thursday, May 28 at 10AM Alaska time. Those interested in developing proposals are encouraged to participate. Please dial 1-855-257-8693 and enter the PIN 8277783 when prompted. If you are calling from outside of the U.S. or Canada, please dial (262) 912-0552 and use the same PIN.

If you have questions about the program and/or are interested in discussing partnership opportunities, please contact:
Matthew Baker, Science Director
Email: Matthew.Baker [at] nprb.org
or
Danielle Dickson, Senior Program Manager
Email: Danielle.Dickson [at] nprb.org

Speaker: Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette
Geosciences Professor at the University of Massachusetts
Chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) announces that the first in a series of open seminars will be held Friday, 15 January 2016. 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.

The inaugural seminar (Friday, 15 January at 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST) is entitled 'Sea Level and Polar Warming: How Past Climate Change Informs Us about Ongoing Sea Level Rise.' It will be presented by Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette, Geosciences Professor at the University of Massachusetts and Chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board.

Seminar Absract: Scientists now have a better understanding of how vulnerable ice sheets and glaciers are to small amounts of polar warming. Ongoing sea level rise due to the loss of ice mass into the sea is and will impact coastlines profoundly but to different degrees -- i.e., the oceans are not a simple bathtub subject to uniform sea level rise. Adaptation may require a range of actions.

This event is a brown-bag lunch that will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office (1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. Fourth Floor). Cookies and beverages will be provided. A live webinar is also available to those unable to attend in person. Instructions for accessing the webinar will be sent to 'Webinar Only' registrants prior to the event.

For questions about this event or the ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series, please contact:
Dr. Robert Rich, ARCUS Executive Director
Email: bob [at] arcus.org

Hosted by the University of Washington School of Law, the Arctic Encounter will convene its third annual national symposia in Seattle, Washington. Building upon prior Arctic Encounter Seattle (AES) events, this two-day conference will confront the shared interests and concerns of the United States and the global community as we look north to the last emerging frontier – the Arctic.

Policymakers, industry leaders, regional stakeholders and leading experts from the science, technology, maritime and energy sectors, will come together at AES to address challenges to right action in the Arctic region and debate solutions.

As the largest annual Arctic policy event in the U.S., AES participants will engage in expert plenary sessions, two keynote luncheons, breakout sessions, a cocktail hour and seated dinner at the Museum of History & Industry on Lake Union and a closing reception.

Register here:
https://secure3.convio.net/uw/site/Ticketing/972763276;jsessionid=7DD41…