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The event is hosted by the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER). The roundtable will provide an opportunity for regional stakeholders to learn more about the role of our Federal Governments in the Arctic and the potential impacts on Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. A remarkable group of participants and speakers will join the roundtable including, Alaska's U.S. Congressional Delegation and several legislators from PNWER jurisdictions. They will be joined by Ambassador Gary Doer, Government of Canada and representatives from the U.S. State Department; and the U.S. Arctic Research Commission will attend as well. As PNWER's Arctic Caucus continues to look for solutions to the shared challenges of its three jurisdictions, this meeting will present an opportunity for caucus members and federal representatives to have a dialogue about key priorities for Arctic policy and economic development. The Roundtable will be moderated by Matt Morrison, PNWER Executive Director.

Presented by: Alexey Pavlov (Director, APECS), Renuka Bahde (Executive Officer, SCAR Secretariat), Gerlis Fugmann (Post Doc, International Centre for Northern Governance and Development & University of Saskatchewan), and Maria (Masha) Tsukernik (Research Scientist & Adjunct Lecturer, Brown University)

APECS has grown rapidly since its inception in 2006, and the number of ways to get involved in this organization are numerous! This webinar will feature a panel, led by APECS Director, Alexey Pavlov and several APECS Mentors who have seen people succeed within the organization. This webinar will explore the ways you can get involved in APECS activities. It will also explore the ways that you can build your career and market your experience with APECS when you look for your next job.

Register for webinar or join as it begins: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/930363264

APECS works with mentors and partners to develop webinars to assist APECS members and other early career scientists with their career development goals. The webinars give early career scientists a venue to learn valuable career skills that are usually not covered in their academic training. The webinar audience consists of graduate students, post-docs, and early career faculty across several disciplines. Since its inception in 2010, hundreds of people from around the world have participated in the webinars.

A recording and archive of each webinar is available on the APECS Vimeo site so that anyone can watch the videos anytime.

If you have any questions, potential topics, or potential presenters to suggest, please contact the APECS Webinar Coordinator, Kristin Timm at webinars [at] apecs.is.

Each year, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership hosts a day-long public meeting that facilitates ocean policy discussions with representatives from Congress, the federal agencies, industry and the academic research community.

This day-long meeting is attended by Presidents, Deans and Directors from ocean research and education institutions from around the country, other external stakeholders, and Members of Congress and their staff. It provides an opportunity for collaboration and discussions on issues of national importance to the ocean advocacy community.

On Wednesday, March 6, Ocean Leadership will hold its annual Public Policy Forum at the Reserve Officers Association Building on Capitol Hill. This year’s theme is the economies of a changing ocean and will feature 3 panels with various speakers from around the country and remarks by Members of Congress, including Senators Begich and Murkowski. The topics to be discussed will include the economic impacts and science requirements for mitigating coastal inundation, the transforming Arctic and ocean acidification. Breakfast and lunch will be provided during the day and a reception will follow the forum 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

Please RSVP by emailing policyforum [at] oceanleadership.org.

The purpose of this meeting is:

• To present and discuss new results on observations and modelling of the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers including the Greenland ice sheet,
• To plan and coordinate field work on Arctic glaciers with the aim of using the available infrastructure and logistics in the most efficient way, and
• To develop ideas for future projects and collaboration.

Participation is open to everyone interested in the Arctic glaciology. For planning purposes registration is recommended. Registration deadline is extended to January 20, 2013. There is a registration fee of € 65 to be paid in cash.

Contributions are welcomed in the form of oral presentations and or posters. Presentations time will be 15-20 minutes including discussion. For those who bring a poster, there will be time reserved in the program to give a short 2-3 minute introduction to the poster. Three full days of talks and poster presentations are planned.

Abstracts: Those intending to attend the meeting should submit abstracts (maximum length 300 words) by email to Carleen Reijmer (c.h.tijm-reijmer [at] uu.nl) no later than January 20, 2013. Abstracts should indicate whether an oral or poster presentation is preferred.

The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA) will be held 24-27 February 2013 at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara, California.

The WRSA meeting includes a series of Remote Regions Northern Development sessions to accommodate social scientists who have a special interest in research on economic, social, political, and cultural issues in remote, sparsely settled regions in the circumpolar north and elsewhere. Organizers have issued a general call for papers from social scientists doing research in northern and other remote regions.

Examples of specific topics include: the consequences of new technology; the effects of government expenditures; the conditions for success or failure of development projects; relations between the subsistence and market economies; regional benefits and costs of development; economic integration and cultural preservation; community development; changing social patterns; Native sovereignty and federalism; migration; and institutional change and resource governance in remote regions. Papers on any topic consistent with the general theme are welcomed.

Organizers also welcome special sessions and are particularly interested in sessions that address a particular theme from the perspective of a number of countries or regions. Please contact Greg Protasel (GP [at] uaa.alaska.edu) if you are interested in organizing such a session.

Information about association membership, registration, hotel reservations, and related matters will be distributed to those responding to the call for papers.

To submit a paper, please send a copy to Greg Protasel via email (GP [at] uaa.alaska.edu) or mail to:

Department of Public Administration
College of Business and Public Policy
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska, USA 99508

Submission deadline: Thursday, 1 November 2012.

The purpose of the meeting is:

• to present and discuss new results on observations and modelling of the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers, including the Greenland ice sheet,
• to plan and coordinate field work on Arctic glaciers with the aim of using the available infrastructure and logistics in the most efficient way,
• to develop ideas for future projects and collaboration.

Participation is open to everyone interested in the Arctic glaciology. For planning purposes registration is recommended. Registration deadline is December 12, 2012. Note that we have applied for financial support of our meeting, but in case it is not granted we ask a registration fee of maximum of € 65. The exact registration fee will be published and communicated in November 2012.

Contributions are welcomed in the form of oral presentations and or posters. Presentations time will be 15-20 minutes including discussion. For those who bring a poster, there will be time reserved in the program to give a short 2-3 minute introduction to the poster. Three full days of talks and poster presentations are planned.

Those intending to attend the meeting should submit abstracts (maximum length 300 words) by email to Carleen Reijmer (c.h.tijm-reijmer [at] uu.nl) no later than December 12, 2012. Abstracts should indicate whether an oral or poster presentation is preferred.

Extended abstracts of the contributions will be distributed after the meeting. Deadline for the extended abstracts is March 30, 2013. This abstract should be a word file of 1 to 3 pages, may contain a table and one or two (color) graphs/pictures. The book of abstracts will be published in digital form.

ArcticNet announces the availability of a field program entitled 'Schools on Tundra.' It will be held 23 February - 6 March 2013 at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC), located outside of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

Students and teachers participating in the Schools on Tundra program will have the opportunity to conduct authentic field research in the sub-arctic, engage with scientists working out of the CNSC, and participate in lectures and workshops. The course will further understanding of the Churchill area and the changes it is experiencing due to climate change. Participants will also experience Churchill's diverse geology, biodiversity, and wilderness, and will learn about and explore the culture of a northern community.

Tentative research areas include:

• Disturbance ecology and environmental changes affecting permafrost landforms;
• Polar biology and habitat;
• Marine mammals;
• Freshwater systems in the sub-arctic; and
• Aurora borealis.

The program registration fee of $1,750.00 does not include travel to and from Winnipeg, Manitoba, but travel from Winnipeg to CNSC and back is incorporated into the cost. In order to receive a spot in the program, a school application needs to be submitted by Friday, 16 November 2012. A selection committee will review all applicants and select schools based on their outreach and financial plan, after which the teacher and student application process will begin (deadline will be announced).

School application deadline: Friday, 16 November 2012.

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (EVOS) Trustee Council will meet on Thursday, 21 February 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. AKST at Glenn Olds Hall, 4210 University Drive in Anchorage, Alaska.

Meeting materials will be available online, closer to the meeting time, at: http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/Events/index.cfm. The meeting is open to the public. You may participate in person or by phone at 1-800-315-6338, conference code 8205.

MUW13 is an interdisciplinary conference that aims at bringing together scientists and experts working in the diverse fields of climate change studies in mountain areas around the world. The specific goal of the conference is to share experiences, methods and strategies for long term observations and monitoring of the effects of climate change on different alpine environments, ranging from the cryosphere to the biosphere.

The conference will run over two days:
20 February 2013: keynote speakers will give lectures aiming to give a broad overview on different topics related to climate change observations in the mountains such as snow and hydrology, glacier and permafrost, alpine plant ecology, long-term ecological monitoring. Keynote speakers will be Martin Beniston (University of Geneva), Wilfried Haeberli (University of Zurich), Georg Wohlfahrt (University of Innsbruck) and Mark W. Williams (University of Colorado).

21 February 2013: cryosphere and biosphere sessions with oral and poster presentations.

Submit your abstract indicating the preferred session (biosphere or cryosphere) and the preferred presentation type (oral/poster). Note that every author can only submit one abstract with "oral preference". Additional abstracts for poster presentations are welcome. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is 10 January 2013 with notification of abstract acceptance sent by 20 January 2013.

Organizers announce that the 2nd International Workshop on Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration will take place 18-19 February 2013. It will be convened at the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), the WCRP Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project Office, and the Danish Meteorological Institute.

Sea ice concentration from satellite microwave radiometry is the primary source of information on the annual sea ice extent minimum as well as a large variety of other properties of the large-scale sea ice cover of the Earth. For this workshop, organizers invite scientists developing and/or applying algorithms to derive sea ice concentration to participate in discussions of mutual interest. The theme of the workshop will be passive microwave sea ice concentration algorithm inter-comparison and validation, and participants will deal with topics such as algorithm inter-comparison, ice concentration validation in different regions and seasons, establishment of a common open validation database, and new algorithm developments including fusion of microwave radiometer data with other data sources.

Organizers encourage participants to register their participation by emailing Leif Toudal Pedersen (ltp [at] dmi.dk) as soon as possible, and no later than Sunday, 20 January 2013. The email should include a tentative presentation title for work related to the above topics.