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REMINDER: Registration Deadline
Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting
17-19 November 2015
Seattle, Washington

Registration Deadline: Monday, 19 October 2015

To register online, go to:
http://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2015/aoosm/register

For questions, please contact:
Judy Fahnestock, ARCUS
Email: judy [at] arcus.org

Reminder: Registration for the 2015 Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting closes on Monday, 19 October. The meeting will be held 17-19 November 2015 in Seattle, Washington.

The Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting will bring together individuals and teams involved in the collection, processing, analysis, and use of observations in the Arctic from academia, agencies, industry, and other organizations.

The goals of the Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting are to:

• Present and discuss scientific findings and advances resulting from Arctic observing projects;
• Discuss operational and technological achievements of observing programs funded through local, state, and federal agencies and private and non-profit organizations;
• Explore how well new observational achievements meet major science goals;
• Identify opportunities for collaboration to develop high-impact data synthesis products and papers; and
• Strengthen the goals, identity, and activities of an integrated Arctic Observing System.

The sessions have been structured to share information about current scientific findings and advances resulting from Arctic observing projects from all disciplines, and to further define collaborations amongst researchers.

Further information, including the meeting agenda, is available on the meeting website: http://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2015/aoosm.

There is no fee for abstract submission or registration.

For questions, contact:
Judy Fahnestock, ARCUS
Email: judy [at] arcus.org

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) will be hosting a drop-in event in connection with the Arctic Circle Assembly, the world's largest gathering on the circumpolar Arctic. The 2015 Arctic Circle Assembly (http://arcticcircle.org) takes place 16-18 October 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

You are invited to meet with ARCUS Executive Director Dr. Robert Rich and members of the ARCUS Board, discuss your ideas to better connect and support Arctic research, and hear about the new ARCUS membership categories and benefits (https://www.arcus.org/arcus/member-information).

All those who drop by the event will be entered in a drawing to win a deluxe ARCUS Arctic umbrella, featuring a chart of the Arctic Ocean. An image of the umbrella is available at: https://www.arcus.org/orders.

When: Saturday, 17 October 2015 13:00-14:00 local time, Reykjavik, Iceland
Where: Nome Room, Harpa Centre

For questions or further information, please contact:
Dr. Robert Rich, ARCUS Executive Director
Email: bob [at] arcus.org

ARCUS: Connecting people across boundaries to support communication, coordination, and collaboration in Arctic research for 25 years.

The Arctic Circle is the largest global gathering on the Arctic. It is attended by heads of state and governments, ministers, members of parliament, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, indigenous representatives, environmentalists, students, activists, and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the future of the Arctic. The Arctic Circle highlights issues and concerns, programs, policies and projects; it provides platforms for dynamic dialogue and constructive cooperation. While the plenary sessions are the responsibility of the Arctic Circle, the breakout sessions are organized by various participating partners in their own name and with full authority over the agenda and the choice of speakers.

Save the date for the NorthWest Glaciologists Meeting.

October 16-17, 2015
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon.

Details will be posted as they become available.

The National Science Foundation’s Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change program utilizes key geological, chemical, and biological records of climate system variability to provide insight rates of change that characterized Earth’s historical climate variability, the responses of key Earth system components, and the sensitivity of Earth’s climate system to forcing changes. The scientific objectives of this program are to 1) provide comprehensive paleoclimate data sets that can serve as model test data sets analogous to instrumental observations; and 2) enable transformative syntheses of paleoclimate data and modeling outcomes to understand the response of the long-term variability of Earth’s climate system. The foundation expects to award 35 grants, with a typical award duration of three years. Approximately $11 million is expected to be available each year, pending funding availability.

The Department of Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark invites to a conference on "Arctic Marine Resource Governance" 14th-16th of October 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference is part of the project: Marine Resource Governance in the Arctic, financially supported by Nordic Council of Ministers' Arctic Co-operation Programme, the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Carlsberg Foundation.

Conference Themes: The ecosystem changes underway in the Arctic region are expected to have significant impacts on living resources in both the short and long run, and current actions and policies adopted over such resource governance will have serious and ultimately irreversible consequences in the near and long terms. The themes of the conference will be:

• Global management and institutions for Arctic marine resources
• Resource stewards and users: local and indigenous co-management
• Governance gaps in Arctic marine resource management
• Multi-scale, ecosystem-based, Arctic marine resource management

There is no conference fee. Acceptance is limited and will occur on a rolling basis, with a final deadline for abstract submission for presentation considerations of May 31, 2015. For consideration as a presenter, please submit a short abstract and title pertinent to the theme. For consideration as an attendee, please send a short note identifying your experience and interest in the topic. Presenters and attendees should expect to contribute to conference outputs, some of which may include publications and receive stipends (details to follow). Deadline for enrollment is September 15, 2015.

Please send your application and sign up by e-mail to arctic [at] sdu.dk.

News and questions
Updated information about the conference can be found at the Arctic website www.sdu.dk/arctic under Workshops and Conferences.
Questions? Do not hesitate to contact Irene Nygaard at arctic [at] sdu.dk

Contact:
Department of Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark Niels Bohrs Vej 9 – DK-6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
Tel. +45 6550 1000 – E-mail arctic [at] sdu.dk - Website: www.sdu.dk/arctic

REMINDER: Call for Abstracts, Early Career Travel Support Applications and Registration
Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting
17-19 November 2015
Seattle, Washington

Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 9 October 2015

Early Career Travel Support Application Deadline: Friday, 9 October 2015

Registration Deadline: Monday, 19 October 2015

To submit an abstract, go to:
http://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2015/aoosm/submit

To apply for early career travel support, go to:
http://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2015/aoosm/travel-support

To register online, go to:
http://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2015/aoosm/register

For questions, please contact:
Judy Fahnestock, ARCUS
Email: judy [at] arcus.org

Reminder: abstract submission, registration, and an early career travel award application are available for the 2015 Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting. The meeting will be held 17-19 November 2015 in Seattle, Washington.

The Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting will bring together individuals and teams involved in the collection, processing, analysis, and use of observations in the Arctic from academia, agencies, industry, and other organizations.

The goals of the Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting are to:

• Present and discuss scientific findings and advances resulting from Arctic observing projects;
• Discuss operational and technological achievements of observing programs funded through local, state, and federal agencies and private and non-profit organizations;
• Explore how well new observational achievements meet major science goals;
• Identify opportunities for collaboration to develop high-impact data synthesis products and papers; and
• Strengthen the goals, identity, and activities of an integrated Arctic Observing System.

The Organizing Committee invites abstracts for oral parallel sessions and poster sessions. The sessions have been structured to share information about current scientific findings and advances resulting from Arctic observing projects from all disciplines, and to further define collaborations amongst researchers.

Further information, including the meeting agenda, is available on the meeting website: http://www.arcus.org/search-program/meetings/2015/aoosm.

There is no fee for abstract submission or registration.

For questions, contact:
Judy Fahnestock, ARCUS
Email: judy [at] arcus.org

NOAA’s operational climate monitoring products and predictions are a core part of NOAA’s mission to support economic vitality and protect American lives and resources. These products and predictions are produced by the National Weather Service/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and are aimed toward providing the public with critical information about environmental conditions for better preparedness and improved resiliency. Products include outlooks from a few weeks to several seasons ahead for quantities such as precipitation, temperature, tropical hazards, drought, and other societally-relevant climate system impacts.

As part of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program includes support for transition of research into improved NOAA operational capabilities. In particular, the MAPP Program partners with NCEP to support the NOAA Climate Test Bed1 (CTB) to demonstrate the potential for scientific advances from the community external to NCEP to accelerate the improvement of operational climate models, monitoring, and predictions. The MAPP Program provides support for testing and demonstration research activities while NCEP provides support for the operational implementation activities. In FY 2016 the MAPP Program is soliciting research proposals to advance NOAA’s operational capabilities for climate monitoring and predictions a few weeks to several seasons ahead as part of NOAA CTB.

The Colorado Springs Science Festival is a great opportunity to get involved in outreach and public education. If you're in Colorado and want to get involved, contact USAPECS at USAPECS [at] gmail.com. For further information about USAPECS involvement, please contact Tristy at tristyv [at] gmail.com (please CC USAPECS).

This is a great program for getting people into schools to do E&O presentations, as well as hosting a "Cool Science Carnival" the first weekend (booths and science activities usually at University of CO, Colorado Springs) and a "Maker Faire" during the last weekend. There are also often public lectures and films in the evenings. It is a perfect opportunity for APECS people in the area!

If this sounds like something that you might be interested in (putting together a booth as a group, visiting classrooms, etc.), we can get in touch with the organizers and make it happen. If there is enough interest to move forward with an organized USAPECS contribution, logistics will be decided during the planning.

The National Science Foundation’s Coastal SEES program focuses on the sustainability of coastal systems, which include barrier islands, mudflats, beaches, estuaries, cities, towns, recreational areas, maritime facilities, continental seas and shelves, and the overlying atmosphere. The Coastal SEES program, in short, seeks to 1) advance understanding of fundamental, interconnected processes in coastal systems, 2) improve capabilities for predicting future coastal system states and impacts, and 3) identify pathways for research to be translated to policy and management domains, enhancing coastal resilience. The program seeks proposals from interdisciplinary research teams to conduct integrated coastal systems research (which can include theoretical, field, laboratory, or modeling activities). Proposal budgets should be in the range of $800,000 to $2 million (maximum) total, over a period of three to five years. The foundation anticipates a funding amount of $13 million, thus awarding up to 10 proposals depending on availability of funds.