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Scientific program and workshops cover all topics in aquatic sciences. In an effort to promote dialogs across disciplinary boundaries, we encourage the inclusion of both research and non-research, such as policy and education, presentations within sessions. Plenary lectures by esteemed speakers and award recipients will highlight the latest challenges and opportunities in aquatic sciences. The new “Tick-Talks” sessions will bring additional excitement to the conference.

Please check the conference web site for up-to-date information. The final program with the titles of accepted abstracts will be posted on the web site approximately four to six weeks prior to the meeting.

This meeting serves as informal exchange platform for researchers working on snow, glaciers or permafrost. There is no registration fee for participation in this workshop.

Oral and poster presentations are welcome, and young scientists are especially encouraged to present their work in progress.

The meeting will be held at IRSTEA (Campus Saint Martin d’Hères, Grenoble, France).

The deadline for registration is 1st February 2013.

The SCICEX Science Advisory Committee (SAC) identifies scientific priorities and makes recommendations for baseline data collection, and periodically reviews these and updates the SCICEX Phase II Science Plan as appropriate. The event is not open to the public.

Organizers announce that a symposium entitled "Barents Regional Cooperation - The First Twenty Years" will convene 12 February 2013 in Rovaniemi, Finland.

In recognition of the twentieth anniversary of the Barents cooperation, the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and the Norwegian embassy in Finland have jointly organized the symposium to discuss the past, present, and future of the cooperation.

The symposium offers an open meeting place to discuss multilateral cooperation on the regional level. The program will include presentations by former and current regional representatives in the Barents regional committee, regional experts, and active participants from various projects in the region.

Registration deadline: Monday, 4 February 2013.

A Community Earth System Model (CESM) Polar Climate Working Group (PCWG) Meeting will be held Monday-Wednesday, 11-13 February 2013 in Boulder, Colorado at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesa Laboratory.

Monday and Tuesday, the PCWG will meet on its own. The co-chairs encourage discussion of issues including the sea ice model component (CICE) development, community projects such as the CESM large ensemble and high resolution runs, and anything else the community would like to discuss. On Wednesday, the PCWG will meet jointly with the atmosphere, chemistry, and whole atmosphere working groups.

Workshops and meetings of the PCWG are open to all who are interested in polar processes. Anyone interested in attending the meetings should contact:

David Bailey, community liaison
Email: dbailey [at] ucar.edu

Dr. Elizabeth Hunke, co-chair
Email: eclare [at] lanl.gov

Jennifer Kay, co-chair
Email: jenkay [at] ucar.edu

Hosted by The Alaska Forum, Inc. the 2013 Alaska Forum on the Environment will follow up on previous forums by offering training and information, includes plenary sessions, on: climate change, emergency response, environmental regulations, fish and wildlife populations, rural issues, energy, military issues, business issues, solid waste, contaminants, contaminated site cleanup, mining and others. For 2013, the forum will expand forum content to provide information to help better understand issues surrounding coastal communities. This will include tsunami impacts, marine debris, and coastal erosion.

The Alaska Forum on the Environment (AFE) is a statewide gathering of environmental professionals from government agencies, non-profit and for-profit businesses, community leaders, Alaskan youth, conservationists, biologists and community elders. The diversity of attendees sets this conference apart from any other. The 2013 event will be our 15th year providing a strong educational foundation for all Alaskan's and a unique opportunity to interact with others on environmental issues and challenges.

Over 1,800 people attend AFE to learn more about the environment and meet other Alaskans that work in the environmental field. The Planning Committee includes representatives from the: US Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, US Air Force, US Navy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, US Forest Service, CH2M Hill, ConocoPhillips, Ecology & Environment and many others. Please see our Leadership Page page for more information.

The Forum provides an opportunity for State, local, Federal, military, private, and Native leaders and professionals to come together and discuss the latest projects, processes, and issues that affect us here in Alaska.

The main Forum sessions will be Monday through Thursday. Keynote Events will be offered on Monday through Thursday . Friday of the Forum will support more focused sessions on topics that may take a full comprehensive day.

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland announce that a public hearing on European Union (EU) Arctic Policy will be held Thursday, 31 January 2013 in Rovaniemi, Finland at the Arktikum House (Pohjoisranta 4).

The hearing will include speakers from EESC, EU Parliament and Commission, and the Arctic Council, as well as local stakeholders and arctic researchers. Speakers will address globally emerging interests in the arctic region, focusing on the view of civil society. Participation is open to the public. Please be aware that registration is obligatory, and must be completed by 3:00 p.m. Brussels time on Friday, 25 January 2013.

Registration is required via submission of the form available by clicking on the 'Public hearing on EU Arctic Policy' link under 'News and Events' at: http://www.arcticcentre.org. Please note that the registration form indicates a deadline of 18 January; due to late arrangements, the deadline has been extended.

Registration deadline: 3:00 p.m. Brussels time, Friday, 25 January 2013.

This workshop is sponsored by the Environmental Studies Research Fund (ESRF), a research program which sponsors environmental and social studies pertaining petroleum exploration, development, and production activities on frontier lands. The ESRF is directed by a joint government, industry and public management board and is administered by the secretariat, which resides in the Office of Energy Research and Development, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The workshop is held in an effort to produce a 5-year strategic plan for oil spill research in Canadian Arctic marine waters.

The mission of the Alaska Marine Science Symposium is to bring together scientists, policymakers, students, educators, media and the public to share research findings focused on Alaska’s marine fisheries and ecosystems.

We are pleased to present our annual Plenary Program and workshops at the Captain Cook Hotel with the Poster Sessions and Exhibitors at the Egan Center in downtown Anchorage, Alaska.

Since 2002, scientists from Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond have come to the Symposium to communicate research activities in the marine regions off Alaska. Researchers and students in marine science re-connect with old colleagues and meet new ones.

Plenary and poster sessions feature a broad spectrum of ocean science. Hear the latest in the fields of climate, oceanography, lower trophic levels, the benthos, fishes and invertebrates, seabirds, marine mammals, local and traditional knowledge, and socioeconomic research. The Symposium also features compelling keynote speakers, workshops and special sessions.

The Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis (PacMARS) and the Synthesis of Arctic Research (SOAR) announce that an open community workshop will be held 20 January 2013, just prior to the 2013 Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska.

PacMARS is a project underwritten by the North Pacific Marine Research Institute to assemble, by mid-year 2013, up-to-date written documentation that contributes to understanding the Pacific-influenced continental shelf ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean. The objective is to compile the best available knowledge from local communities, peer-reviewed social and natural sciences, and less readily available knowledge sources. The overall goal is to provide guidance for scientific research needs in the region. SOAR is a 5-year project supported by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). SOAR is chartered to synthesize scientific information and local observations to improve understanding of the relationships among oceanographic conditions, benthic organisms, lower trophic prey species (forage fish and zooplankton), seabirds, and marine mammal distribution and behavior for the Pacific arctic region. The SOAR effort builds on existing interdisciplinary work to develop detailed syntheses to inform management decision-makers and to guide future research studies.

The workshop will provide an update of activities for both the PacMARS and SOAR projects, and solicit input on themes for future research initiatives in the region. The agenda for the PacMARS-SOAR workshop will include highlight presentations of activities from both synthesis projects, followed by break-out sessions with the workshop participants to identify additional data synthesis activities being undertaken, and to develop a composite of scientific themes for future interdisciplinary and interagency efforts in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

To attend the workshop, please complete the registration form available at: http://tinyurl.com/PacMARS-SOAR.