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Organizers announce that the NorthWest Glaciologists Meeting is planned for 20-21 October (Friday-Saturday) in Seattle at the
University of Washington.

To help with planning the organizers request that everyone planning to attend fill out this registration form.

The 2023 Arctic Circle Assembly will take place on 19-22 October 2023 in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center, in Reykjavík, Iceland. The Call for Session Proposals is now open, deadline for submitting Session Proposals is May 1st, 2023.

The official program of the Assembly runs from Thursday - Saturday. Pre-Events usually take place on the Tuesday and Wednesday before and the Sunday is dedicated to content excursions and departures.

The annual Assembly is attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, indigenous leadership and representatives, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the Arctic.

Join the NNA-CO education and outreach team in a hands-on session, practicing a technique that translates data from Arctic region projects and climate projection scenarios into stories of possible futures and actions youth and adults can take to create their best possible future. The workshop will provide lesson plans and hands-on practice with the technique.

Presenter

Dr. Katie Villano Spellman is a life-long Alaskan and Research Associate Professor at UAF’s International Arctic Research Center. She leads and collaborates on several different science education and public participation in scientific research projects including Arctic and Earth SIGNs, Winterberry Citizen Science, Fostering Science, and Fresh Eyes on Ice.

The 2023 AFN Convention will be held on 19-21 October 2023 in Anchorage, Alaska. The annual convention serves as the principal forum and voice for the Alaska Native community in addressing critical issues of public policy and government. The convention convenes thousands of official delegates and participants from membership organizations across the state.

Piita Irniq, an educator, artist, former politician, and advocate for Inuit and their way of life, is well known for Inuksuit he has built. They have been displayed throughout Canada, and in various countries including in France, Argentina, Mongolia, and the United States.

During the week of October 16, 2023 he will erect an Inuksuk near the Center for Arctic Studies on the campus of Bowdoin College.

An Inuksuk is a stone structure shaped in the likeness of a person (inuk). It might be a single upright boulder or stones stacked to resemble a person with outstretched arms. Ancestors of present-day Inuit erected Inuksuit on the land to serve as wayfinding structures.

Join us as Irniq discusses Inuit as a hunting society, their move from iglu to microwave in less than 60 years, and the impact of residential schools on contemporary communities. He will explain how Inuit are reclaiming, retrieving and reinvigorating their culture.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), in cooperation with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), is launching its IASC Fellowships Program 2024.

The application deadline is on 18 October 2023 at 13:00 GMT.

The IASC Fellowship Program is meant to engage early career researchers in the work of the IASC Working Groups.

In addition to the work in the IASC Working Groups, the Fellows will also be engaged in the work of the Research Priority Teams for the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning Process (ICARP IV).

The NOAA/NESDIS operational snowfall rate (SFR) product is derived from a constellation of polar-orbiting satellites. Recent advancements have substantially improved the SFR product through the integration of machine learning techniques. This observation-based product is generated locally at GINA, University of Alaska Fairbanks using direct broadcast satellite data received at GINA, resulting in low latency and making it well-suited for nowcasting applications.

AFN announces the 10th Annual AFN Tribal Conference, Protecting Our Ways of Life, will take place on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, in Anchorage, Alaska at the William A. Egan Civic and Convention Center, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The conference invites tribal leaders, tribal administrators, tribal court judges, tribal court administrators, and tribal members to participate, learn, and share their experiences on federal, state, and local issues important to Alaska Native tribes, including subsistence.

Biologists from NOAA Fisheries will present results of their recent research on bearded, ribbon, ringed, and spotted seals. They will share their fieldwork plans to study these seals in the Bering Strait region (and elsewhere) during Spring 2024. Hear how these important subsistence resources are responding to changes in their ecosystems. The Strait Science Series lectures are presented by Northwest Campus and Alaska Sea Grant to promote understanding between citizens of the Bering Strait region and the researchers who frequent the Seward Peninsula.

Save the date: Organizers are planning a workshop on subglacial and englacial hydrology and geology in Tarraleah, Tasmania, from 17-19 October 2023. It will be three full days of presentations, discussions, and short field trips to look at subglacial and periglacial landforms in a Gondwana setting.

Tarraleah is a small settlement in the secluded Tasmanian highlands, about one and a half hours from Hobart. It was established for construction of hydroelectric power infrastructure, and on-site are penstocks and canals that the organizers hope will inspire the envision of water channelling under and through the ice sheet and glaciers.

Full board accommodation and local transport will be provided; organizers are presently looking at the details in order to offer a comfortable stay while keeping participation affordable for everyone, including support for students. The organizers also welcome interstate and international participants wishing to stay a bit longer and visit the University of Tasmania in connection to the workshop—details about those arrangements to come.

More information and registration is to be posted soon.