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The United States is an Arctic nation, one of only eight such nations worldwide that are responsible for the stewardship of a region undergoing dramatic environmental, social, and economic changes. The implications of these changes demand a fresh look at how the Federal Government and its partners address management challenges in the region. In consultation with the National Ocean Council, the National Security Staff, and the Arctic Research Commission, the Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska (Alaska Interagency Working Group) initiated this report to describe these challenges as they relate to the management of natural resources in the U.S. Arctic. Join us for a presentation and discussion of the report, which presents recommendations for advancing a common management approach that provides coordinated, forward-thinking solutions.

Please visit the ACCAP site (http://ine.uaf.edu/accap/teleconference.htm) to register for this webinar.

Welcome to the Meeting of the Americas, a Joint Assembly that covers topics in all areas of the geophysical sciences. Join your colleagues, including Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other leaders at the Cancun Center in Cancun, Mexico, 14–17 May 2013 as they connect to present groundbreaking research. Sandy beaches and turquoise waters together with Mexican hospitality make this a unique site for another successful Joint Assembly!

The thirteenth International Scientific Student Conference "Problems of the Arctic Region" is devoted to scientific, environmental, technical, economic, and social aspects of the development of the Arctic. The conference will be divided into sections:

• Biology and Medicine;
• Chemistry and Technologies;
• Ecology of the North;
• Economical problems of Arctic development;
• Geology and Geophysics of the Arctic Region;
• Information Technologies
• Marine biology;
• Physical studies
• Humanitarian and Social problems.

Suggestions on new topics are welcome. The conference will be introduced by a plenary report on one of burning issues of modern science. At each section, conveners will present reports to the participants devoted to important issues of the section topic. Students interested in participating in the Conference are welcome to e-mail their registration forms and papers to the Steering Committee until 30 April 2013. The registration form must contain the title of the report, names of the authors, scientific adviser, full name of the organization, address, e-mail of the contact person, dates of arrival and departure. The volume of the paper should not exceed one page. Participants should also indicate if they need assistance with the hotel booking.

The ice2sea programme is an EC FP7 project to estimate the future contribution of continental ice to sea-level rise. You will have hopefully come across the project over the last four years. We are holding a series of events next month to mark the end of the project, which the cryolist community might be interested in attending.

Date: 15th-16th May 2013
Location: Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. http://www.rigb.org/

These events are described on our website at http://www.ice2sea.eu/programme/final-symposium-overview/ but I’d like to draw your attention to the science part. Although talks and posters at this event are reserved for ice2sea scientists, we welcome anyone interested to come and hear about our results and discuss results with ice2sea scientists.

If you are interested, please register at http://ice2seafinalsymposium.eventbrite.co.uk

NB there is a small registration fee to cover the costs of the teas and lunches that will be provided. You will have to arrange your own travel and accommodation. The deadline for registering, the 8th May, is the week before the event, but it would be advisable to book accommodation earlier than this.

Attendees will also receive a copy of our final synthesis report (52 page glossy brochure) “From Ice to High Seas: Sea-level rise and European coastlines.”

The Nordic Centre of Excellence, SVALI (Stability and Variations of Arctic Land Ice) will hold its second summer school on the topic of Glaciology and Earth System Models. The school is a joint effort by the SVALI consortium and CSC.

The school takes place at Nuuksio National Park in Espoo, Finland. It is conveniently located in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The near vicinity of the capital city is not visible, however - the venue is in a nature preservation area that resembles Finland's nature in its best.

The course is rather application/computation oriented, thus some theoretical background in one of those disciplines would be beneficial. Some basic skills to operate a computer will be assumed. Upon request, the school will contain a short introduction in UNIX type of environments.

Organizers of the international conference entitled "Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal (PAST) Gateways" announce registration and call for abstracts. The conference will convene 13-17 May 2013 in St.Petersburg, Russia.

PAST Gateways is a network research program endorsed by the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). The scientific goal of PAST Gateways is to understand arctic environmental change during the period preceding instrumental records and across decadal to millennial timescales. The focus of the six-year program is on the nature and significance of spatial and temporal arctic gateways, with an emphasis on the transitions between major Late Cenozoic climate events and recent Holocene fluctuations. There are three major themes to the program:

1. Growth and decay of arctic ice sheets;
2. Arctic sea-ice and ocean changes, and
3. Non-glaciated arctic environments.

Abstract deadline: Friday, 15 March 2013.

Registration deadline: Friday, 15 March 2013.

For complete information and guidelines on abstract submission, registration, and visa requirements; including templates and fees; please see the conference circular: http://www.geol.lu.se/pastgateways/docs/first_circular_updated.pdf or contact Grisha Fedorov at fedorov [at] aari.ru.

Oceanic primary production is a key component of the marine carbon, oxygen, and nutrient cycles as well as the base of the marine food web. Over the past two decades substantial efforts were deployed to evaluate oceanic primary production. These efforts include in situ measurements of uptake rates using isotopic trace techniques, satellite remote sensing, autonomous instrumentation for bio-optics, carbon or oxygen measurements, and the development of semi-empirical to complex biogeochemical models.

The 2013 Liege Colloquium will investigate new insights related to the evaluation of primary production and the study of the dynamics between physical forcing and ocean productivity responses at various physical and temporal scales. Particular attention will be focused on the variability at the synoptic to seasonal scales and how it complicates our ability to sample primary production and derive large-scale, climate-driven primary production budgets.

Abstract submission deadline has been extended to 1 February 2013.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks announces that applications are now being accepted for an 11-day spring field course entitled "Field techniques in interdisciplinary sea-ice research". The course is open to open to graduate students in earth, environmental, marine and biological sciences and engineering and will be taught at UIC-NARL in Barrow, Alaska 8-18 May 2013.

This is a course for graduate-level students that offers a practical introduction to the principal field techniques employed in sea-ice studies of an interdisciplinary (geophysical-biogeochemical) nature. The course focuses on sea ice as an instructive example of the close intertwining between ocean, ice and biosphere processes in the polar regions and the transdisciplinary importance of the ice cover in the climate system.

The course is organized in such a way as to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to the problems posed, addressing in particular the themes of temporal and spatial variability of geophysical and biogeochemical variables at different scales. An effort will be made to entrain students from Ilisagvik College in the course activities and include a Native Alaskan ice-knowledge component.

Prior to registration at the UAF summer sessions website (www.uaf.edu/summer/), students are asked to send their CV and a 1-page statement indicating how this field course will fit into their research and career plans to hajo.eicken [at] gi.alaska.edu. The instructors will evaluate these documents to decide about participation if the course is oversubscribed. Deadline for submission of these documents is Friday, March 15, 2013. Students will then be notified by April 1 at the latest about their inclusion in the course.

Scientists, climate scientists, social scientists, policy- and decision-makers concerned with fisheries and management of marine ecosystems, representatives of stakeholders groups including northern residents and indigenous peoples, and fisheries organizations are invited to attend the International Conference entitled "Arctic Ocean Acidification". The conference will be held In Bergen, Norway on 6–8 May 2013.

Topics to be addressed at the conference include:

• Response of Arctic Ocean to increasing CO2 and related changes in the global carbon cycle;
• Social and policy challenges;
• Arctic Ocean acidification and ecological and biogeochemical coupling;
• Implications of changing Arctic Ocean acidification for northern (commercial and subsistence) fisheries; and
• Future developments.

Participants are invited to submit abstracts on relevant subjects, including reports from observational, experimental, and modeling studies of past, present, and future ocean acidification; responses of marine organisms and ecosystem structure, functioning, and biodiversity; perturbations to biogeochemical cycling and feedbacks to the climate system; and the economic, social, and policy challenges of ocean acidification. Abstracts for proposed oral and poster presentation (750 words, maximum) should be emailed to the conference organizers (amap [at] amap.no) by 1 January 2013.

Those interested in participating in the conference should send an email to the AMAP Secretariat (amap [at] amap.no) for a preliminary, nonbinding registration to be placed on the mailing list for future announcements. Some financial support will be available to assist participation of young scientists in the conference.

Abstract submission deadline: 1 January 2013.

The ReX & GG2013 Conference will build on the foundations of the previous four Conferences through a Program which will explore the latest information and current research in our field. Our speakers will foster meaningful discussion and debate amongst delegates which will, in turn, further the objectives of those involved in the fields of recrystallization and grain growth.

The organising committee for the 5th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth 2013 would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the conference. The conference will be held at the Novotel Manly Pacific from 5 to 10 May 2013.

In response to the high volume of requests from those who wish to participate in the ReX&GG2013 program but missed the original call for abstracts the committee has opened a 2nd Call for Abstracts.

The abstract submission form is now open on the ReX & GG 2013 website www.rex-gg2013.org. Abstracts will be considered for both oral and poster presentations.

The closing date for the submission of abstracts is midnight 11 December 2012 Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST).

Before submitting your abstract for the conference, please ensure that you have carefully read the abstract preparation guidelines contained on the website.

For further information on this conference, please visit the link below.