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On April 16, 2015, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, there will be a summary briefing on the recently completed National Petroleum Council (NPC) report "Arctic Potential: Realizing the Promise of US Arctic Oil and Gas Resources" by Carol Lloyd, Chair of the study's Coordinating Subcommittee, and other study leaders. The briefing will be held at the NPC office, 1625 K Street, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20006-1656. Capacity is limited, and thus RSVP is required.

Please RSVP by calling Laura Alvarez at 202-393-6100 or by emailing lalvarez [at] npc.org. The NPC is a federally chartered and privately funded advisory committee that advises the US Secretary of Energy.

Glaciologists of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution would like to invite you to the first annual New England Glaciology Meeting: NEGM 2015! The meeting will be held on April 16th and 17th at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Building on the long and successful tradition of NWGM and MGM, NEGM is an informal, small meeting (~30-50 people), where everyone in attendance is encouraged to give an oral presentation on recent results or work in progress. NEGM is a great conference for students!

If interested, please check out the conference website (http://www.whoi.edu/website/negm2015/) and register for the meeting by March 31st, 2015 through the online registration form (http://www.whoi.edu/website/negm2015/registration). No abstract required! Just your name, affiliation, and a brief presentation topic or title to aid in coordinating talks. Detailed meeting specifics (schedule, locations, etc.) will be sent out in early April to registered participants.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Laura Stevens (stevensl [at] mit.edu).

The 4th annual Warming Arctic International Inquiry at the Fletcher School comes at a time when the United States assumes the chairmanship of the Arctic Council. With this honor comes the responsibility to protect the Arctic and its environment as it continues to warm at a much faster rate than the rest of the globe, opening up land, waters and treasures to exploitation.

The Fletcher School will convene high-level decision makers from both diplomacy and security, cutting-edge energy and science researchers, and social, environmental and business stakeholders, to investigate solutions to the Arctic Paradox and promote a sustainable future for Arctic inhabitants within a “High North, Low Tension” policy framework.

There will be a special appearance by the North American debut of the Arctic Circle Assembly's panel "Rising Stars: Young Arctic Energy Researchers".

The General Assembly 2015 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, from 12 – 17 April 2015. The assembly is open to the scientists of all nations.

The EGU General Assembly 2015 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna!

Please visit the conference website for more information.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has released a Notice of Funding Availability announcement for proposals to provide for Tribal Climate Adaptation Planning & Ocean/Coastal Management Planning. There is a total of $8M available nation-wide and proposals for up to $250,000.00 are due April 24th.

Thanks to our neighbors at the ABSI LCC for notifying us about the Wildlife Conservation Society's Climate Adaptation Fund announcement for the next round of grant making through the Climate Adaptation Fund, a program made possible through the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Grants are awarded to projects that serve as innovative examples of on-the-ground efforts helping species and the ecosystems on which they depend adapt to changing climatic conditions across the United States. Pre-proposals should be submitted by Friday, April 10, 2015 by 5:00 PM MDT. Find out more and download a pre-proposal application from the link above.

Understanding ice changes is critical for supporting community sustainability, habitat conservation and resource development in Alaska and the Arctic as a whole. Please join the Office of Policy Analysis on April 9 to learn how the USGS Alaska Climate Science Center (CSC) uses a whole-systems approach linking glacier retreat and permafrost loss to impacts on ecosystems and the goods, services and the amenities they provide. The Alaska CSC is developing vulnerability assessments, decision-support tools, landscape scenarios, and other products that have a wide variety of immediate, real-world applications in the face of changes in the Arctic.

To Livestream this event, please join 5-10 minutes early to avoid technical difficulties: http://www.doi.gov/ppa/seminar_series/index.cfm Login is required to ask questions. Please click "join" or "login to chat" and follow instructions. Closed captioning will be available. The recorded event will be posted to the Office of Policy Analysis website: (http://www.doi.gov/ppa/seminar_series/video)

Live presentations occur at 12:15-1:15 pm (Eastern Time) in the Rachel Carson Room, located in the Basement Cafeteria of the Main Interior Building (1849 C St. NW, Washington, DC).

Live webcasts are available at doi.gov/events. Closed captioning is available.

In this webinar, Julie Raymond-Yakoubian of Kawerak, Inc. will present a recently completed project on indigenous knowledge and use of ocean currents. She will share perspectives on the importance of traditional understandings of ocean currents as a critical aspect of the body of knowledge held by communities in the region, how this knowledge was collected, and the modern-day practical applications of this knowledge for marine policy, planning, and safety considerations. Examples of where this knowledge is currently being used will also be presented.

Webinar co-sponsored by the NOAA National Marine Protected Areas Center, the EBM Tools Network, OpenChannels.org, and MPA News. Please visit the link above to register for the webinar.

This workshop will bring together anyone interested in the predictability of polar sea-ice on seasonal to inter-annual timescales. Contributions will include presentations on understanding causes of inter-annual polar climate variability, as well as idealized predictability studies, and operational forecasts. This workshop is a follow-up to the Sea Ice Prediction Workshop held in Boulder in April 2014. A call for abstracts will appear in January. Please contact Ed Hawkins (e.hawkins [at] reading.ac.uk) for more information.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

Polar Educators International is pleased to announce the upcoming workshop "Education Meets Science" in Hannover, Germany 1-4 April 2015. Educators, Scientists and Interested People from around the world are invited to continue the collaboration of previous conferences (Oslo 2010, Montreal 2012, and Coimbra 2013).

A Registration Fee of 50 Euros will be paid at the conference.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Arctic Section is supporting a 'Planning Workshop on joint Arctic Research using the Swedish Class 1A Icebreaker Oden.' This workshop is held in collaboration with the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) and the Swedish Research Council (Formas and VR). The US delegation will be led by Drs. Patricia Matrai (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences) and Peter Minnett (RSMAS, U. Miami), as workshop co-organizers with Dr. Caroline Leck (Stockholm U.).

The event will be held 30 March (half day) and 1 April (half day) 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden near the airport. Travel and per diem will be covered.

This workshop will bring together those with research and operational/logistical interests in the Arctic and will discuss a baseline for establishing a new, longer-term collaborative relationship among U.S. and Swedish scientists for Oden-based research in the Arctic Ocean. In addition, a pilot program in 2017 will be discussed which is already part of the SPRS agenda with an interdisciplinary ocean-atmosphere focus. Science themes will be developed for conducting research that takes advantage of the Oden's ice-breaking and unique ice-maneuvering capabilities as well as her ability to transit areas that are sparsely sampled. The Oden has a proven track-record of supporting extended research expeditions in the Arctic that have involved a wide range of multi-disciplinary investigations (SWEDARCTIC) (e.g., http://polar.se/en/forskning/aktuella-expeditioner/).

The workshop organizers invite interested scientists representing a broad range of expertise in the ocean, atmospheric, and climate sciences in the Arctic to participate. An expression of interest (< 1 page) is requested by U.S. participants for selection to 13 available openings by 26 January 2015. Expressions of interest may include: name, affiliation, research focus description, and responses to two questions: 1) suggested research focus areas for 2017 and 2) areas of interest for research on future Oden cruises.

The workshop organizers, in consultation with NSF Arctic, will select the final U.S. participant list. Sweden is inviting 10-15 Swedish Arctic scientists. Both groups will include some of the scientists who deployed during recent Oden Antarctic and Arctic field seasons. Participants will serve as liaisons to their respective scientific communities, and represent community-wide interests in the development of science themes for Oden-based research. The workshop will produce a report, similar to the 'Forum for Developing U.S.-Swedish Research Cooperation on Oden in Antarctica' (https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/antarct/science/workshop_rpt/oden_workshop_…).

Expression of Interest requested by: Monday, 26 January 2015

For questions, please contact:
Patricia Matrai
Email: pmatrai [at] bigelow.org

Peter Minnett
Email: pminnett [at] rsmas.miami.edu