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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range Science and Technology (S&T) Projects which offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare ONR’s broad role in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines.

The purpose of this notice is to request applications for special projects and programs associated with NOAA's strategic plan and mission goals, as well as to provide the general public with information and guidelines on how NOAA will select proposals and administer discretionary Federal assistance under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). This BAA is a mechanism to encourage research, education and outreach, innovative projects, or sponsorships that are not addressed through our competitive discretionary programs. It is not a mechanism for awarding congressionally directed funds or existing funded awards. Funding for potential projects in this notice is contingent upon the availability of Fiscal Year 2014 and Fiscal Year 2015 appropriations. Applicants are hereby given notice that funds have not yet been appropriated for any potential activities in this notice. Publication of this announcement does not oblige NOAA to review an application, or to award any specific project, or to obligate any available funds.

Actualization of agenda and elaboration of practical measures for effective collaboration between public authorities, business, science and communities within economic projects and implementation of innovative macro-regional development models are stated as goals for the international scientific conference: Natural Resources and Integrated Coastal Areas Development in the Arctic Zone, which is to be held on 29 September – 01 October, 2015 in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

Conference organizers are:

*Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations,
* Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS),
* Government of Arkhangelsk region,
* Ural branch of the RAS (UB RAS),
* Arkhangelsk Scientific Center (ArkhSC) of the UB RAS,
* International Arctic Science Committee and
* European Polar Board (European Scientific Foundation).

In elaboration of outcomes of the forum "Competitive Potential of Northern and Arctic Regions" held by ArkhSC in 2014, the Conference's scientific agenda in 2015 will cover the following Problematic Issues:

• Natural resources and development of economic potential of marine spaces and coastal areas in the Arctic;
• Technologies and methods of natural complexes research,
• Preservation and development in the Arctic oceanic and coastal zones;
• Ethno-social and socio-cultural processes, indigenous population’ living conditions in the coastal areas of the Arctic;
• integrated management and governance in the coastal areas as an instrument for balanced socio-economic development in the Arctic regions.

Being intended toward productive and comprehensive discussion, contributed by representatives from public authorities, industrial companies, research and educational institutions, experts and stakeholders, the Organizing Committee hereby invites you to take part in the Conference.

The Conference will be followed by traditional Scientific school for young researchers "Circumpolar Studies" for Russian and foreign students, post-graduates and young researchers (up to 35 years old), including lectures by specialists in the Arctic and Northern research, knowledge exchange and discussions on science & technologies development, training of professional orientations.

The Institute of the North works on an array of critical issues in the Arctic, focused on the region's economic prosperity and resilient communities. Our legacy work has addressed Arctic infrastructure development – including energy, aviation, telecommunications, and marine shipping. Much of that work is based on establishing and sustaining cross-border relationships. The Arctic Energy Summit is a great example of our efforts in this arena, having occurred twice under the auspices of the Arctic Council's Sustainable Development Working Group and generating robust discourse resulting in tangible outcomes. This intersection of business, community and government provides meaningful exchanges that inform decision-making. Beyond those who attend, the sessions are filmed and video, presentations and the written proceedings are distributed to a network of thousands of interested stakeholders.

The 2015 Summit will address:

• Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
• Remote and Rural Heat & Power
• Business of Clean Energy
• Transportation and Transmission

The three day Summit will feature:

• Plenary keynote speeches and panel discussions related to overarching themes
• Breakout sessions in panel, technical presentation and workshop format
• Remote energy “hackathons” – collaborative problem-solving for northern communities
• Closing work sessions to develop recommendations

The Institute of Physicoсhemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Scientific Council on Earth Cryology and Institute of Earth Cryosphere of Russian Academy of Sciences would like to invite you to take part in the International conference "Permafrost in XXI century: basic and applied researches". The conference will be held from September 27 to October 01, 2015, in Pushchino, Russia. Registration fee is 50 euro, the banquet ticket is about 30 euros. Students and Ph.D. students are welcome to participate without registration fee. Accommodation in Pushchino hotels (25-100 euros per day). Working languages are Russian and English. Foreign participants will be provided with a simultaneous English translation.

The abstracts in English should be no more than 4000 characters including spaces (one page of A4 format). Deadline for registration and abstracts is June,1, 2015. Main topics will be:

• General, regional and historical geocryology
• Permafrost response to climat change
• Physico-chemical approach in permafrost studies
• Permafrost engineering and hazards
• Permafrost soils
• Microbiology, biotechnology and astrobiology aspects of permafrost research
• Geophysical and remote sensing data in permafrost investigations
• Education of the new generation of permafrost researchers

Several roundtables will be organized: TSP, CALM, Antarctic permafrost and soils (ANPAS). The special PYRN event will celebrate 10th Anniversary of this young permafrost researchers network. Additional ones can be organized on request. We invite researchers of wide range of studies of the cryosphere in the Arctic, Antarctic and mountain areas of the Earth.

The Eighth Polar Law Symposium is sponsored by University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Alaska Anchorage, UAA Justice Center, UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research, and University of Washington School of Law in cooperation with the Arctic Law Section of the Alaska Bar Association.

The symposium will be held:

September 23–24 (Wednesday–Thursday) at University of Alaska Fairbanks
September 25–26 (Friday—Saturday) at the University of Alaska Anchorage

This conference, "The Science, Scholarship, and Practice of Polar Law: Strengthening Arctic Peoples and Places", seeks to address the following questions:

• How can lawyers and other legal scholars interact with scientists and academics from other disciplines to the benefit of the Arctic?
• What can lawyers and academics from all disciplines contribute to each other’s understanding of issues of common concern?
• Can models of cooperation among scientists, scholars, and lawyers from other geographic areas be adapted for the Arctic?

Other major themes to be addressed include:

• Antarctic Science and Resources
• The Changing Arctic Council
• Human and Indigenous Rights — Education, Self-Determination, Food Security
• Monitoring and Observing Networks: Natural and Social Science Fieldwork
• Ocean and Polar Governance
• Trade and Economy

For more information and to register, please visit the link above.

In FY 2016, the Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) program solicits projects that will refine the current scientific understanding of the AMOC state, variability, and change. Specifically, projects are sought that use newly deployed and existing observations in combination with modeling experiments to refine our understanding of the present and historical circulation (and related transports of heat and freshwater) in the North and/or South Atlantic. An emerging priority is to provide a more detailed characterization of AMOC flow pathways and their impact on variability. Successful principal investigators will become members of the U.S. AMOC Science Team and are expected to participate in the Science Team meetings and report

Kacy Krieger, coordinator of Alaska Hydrography will present a webinar entitled "Mapping Alaska's Waters".

The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) depicts how surface waters occur on maps. Maps of our streams and lakes in Alaska are sometimes incorrect because relatively few updates have been made to our NHD layer since it was developed off of 1950's topographic maps. A collaborative effort with several of the LCCs in Alaska and many additional partners is working to address this need so that updates made by an individual entity can be shared with others and moved into the National NHD layer. Learn about the progress that has been made across the state during today's webinar.

Connect to the Webinar:
Audio: Teleconference: 1-866-755-3168 Passcode: 40211914

WebEx:

• Go to https://www.mymeetings.com/nc/
• Type in the Meeting Number 499 875 146 & Passcode 40211914
• Choose “Conference” and click proceed

First time users, click on “New Users” to check your system and download the software. Then go back to Join Net Conference page.

• Enter your name
• Agree to the terms and conditions and click proceed

In FY 2016, the MAPP program solicits research proposals to improve the understanding of predictability and the potential to advance the prediction of phenomena occurring on S2S time scales. Such phenomena include, but are not limited to, the MJO and associated midlatitude teleconnections, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), stratospheric flow regimes, and atmospheric blocking episodes. Projects will use global numerical model experiments for sensitivity studies and/or reforecast datasets such as the S2S Prediction Project database, the North American Multi-Model Ensemble hindcast dataset, the WMO Lead Centre for Long Range Forecast Multi-Model Ensemble database, and the Intraseasonal Variability Hindcast Experiment (ISVHE) dataset, and observational datasets for diagnostic studies to explore how prediction of S2S phenomena is influenced by various aspects of the prediction system set-up, including: (i) model resolution of various prediction system components; (ii) initialization of, and coupling between, Earth system components; (iii) model physics; (iv) generation, number, and resolution of ensemble members; (v) reforecast length and calibration methods; or (vi) multi-model combination. New model system experiments (if any) are encouraged to follow elements of the protocol for experimentation on subseasonal prediction as appropriate. Researchers are encouraged to develop and apply novel verification metrics tailored for subseasonal prediction (e.g., the probability of a large-scale flow regime transition) in addition to applying verification traditionally used for seasonal prediction.

Based on the success of the past TAMScience meeting and the interest in promoting interdisciplinary research in Antarctica you are invited to participate in the upcoming NSF-sponsored Interdisciplinary Antarctic Earth Science Meeting (ANT-Sci). The meeting is intended to provide a forum for recent Antarctic research, to facilitate the exchange of information, and to encourage interdisciplinary research in the Earth Sciences.

ANT-Sci will be a 3-day long, single-session meeting, that will include invited and contributed presentations, daily poster sessions, and dedicated discussion time to promote exchange of ideas. The program will be guided by an interdisciplinary organizing committee that will identify unifying session themes based on community interest along with the critical questions identified by the U.S. Polar Research Board and the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. The meeting will immediately follow the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) meeting at the same venue.

In advance of the proposed Shackleton Camp logistics hub, the ANT-Sci meeting will include a dedicated session to communicate key information about the camp planning process with participation by NSF and Antarctic Support Contract staff.

Details on session topics, registration and lodging will follow, but please save the dates.

Please share this announcement with others, particularly graduate students, postdocs and early career scientists who may be interested.

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