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The Nordic IGS meeting will take place in Stockholm on 25-27 October 2012. The meeting provides an informal venue for Nordic-based glaciologists and students in glaciology to present their latest results. The meeting is hosted by Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, and The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.

The 18th Inuit Studies Conference will be hosted by the Smithsonian Institution and will be held in Washington, DC. The conference will consider heritage museums and the North; globalization: an Arctic story; power, governance and politics in the North; the 'new' Arctic: social, cultural and climate change; and Inuit education, health, language, and literature.

The 2012 conference will be held in various Smithsonian museums. Several special Inuit-themed exhibitions will be displayed across the Institution. Opportunities for visiting collections, archives, and laboratories are available.

The conference will cover a broad spectrum of topics, including climate change and indigenous people; international cooperation in the Arctic; roles of museums and museum collections in preserving Inuit languages, heritage, and culture; governmental programs in the northern regions and their interactions with local communities; and Inuit cultural/political
institutions.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/ISC18/index.html

APECS Sweden is organizing a workshop for early career researchers, focusing on field based research methods and project design, the day before the International Glaciological Society’s Nordic Branch meeting. All students, PhD students, Post Docs and other early career scientists with interests in this topic are encouraged to participate.

During the day we will have presentations and discussions on the following topics:

• Logistics, equipment and field safety
• From idea to publication
• Designing a successful field work
• Instrumentation
• Processing field data

We are very happy to have following guest speakers confirmed: Richard Gyllencreutz (Stockholm University), Gustaf Hugelius (Stockholm University), Malin Johansson (Stockholm University), Steve Lyon (Stockholm University), and Henrik Törnberg (Swedish Polar Research Secretariat)

The day is generously sponsored by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and participation is free of charge and includes lunch. Registration is open until the 15th of October.

The ART workshop will address the challenge of integrating modelling and observations in order to identify linkages and feedbacks between atmosphere-ice-ocean forcings and biological-geochemical processes that are key to ecosystem function, land-ocean interactions and to the productive capacity of the past, present and future Arctic Ocean.

The workshop is jointly organized with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and will propose training sessions on theoretical and practical aspects of marine sciences, as well as plenary talks and breakout sessions to discuss and initiate the writing of collaborative papers lead by both early career and senior scientists.

The ART-APECS Workshop is open to any scientists who share a common interest in improving our current understanding and projective capacity of the causes and implications of changing physical conditions on Arctic marine ecosystems on multiple time-scales. Limited funding is available for participants that will express interest in contributing to the ART scientific framework through the registration form.

This course will address modeling strategies in cold and permafrost regions. Participants will use data from small research sites and watersheds to develop physically based models, estimate model parameters, and transfer those to larger scales. Participants will also learn how to simulate the runoff process in different geographical regions (e.g., permafrost, taiga, semi-arid environment, temperate climate, and tropics), and how to apply the hydrograph model.

The course is scheduled for one full week during which the work of each participant will be evaluated. A group of students will be given the opportunity to stay a second week, during which they will develop a collaborative project proposal to be submitted to the German funding agency.

The course is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research; participation is free of charge. Travel and accommodation costs for German and Russian participants will be sponsored. Students from other countries are invited to attend the course, but will need to cover travel and accommodation expenses themselves. The course will be conducted in English.

Masters and PhD students interested in hydrology are invited to submit applications. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and a 1-2 page essay on any hydrological modeling topic. Essays may be written in Russian, German, or English. Applications should be sent to Olga Semenova (omakarieva [at] gmail.com) or Johannes Cullmann (Cullmann [at] bafg.de).

Application deadline: 30 April 2012.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 May 2012.

For questions, please contact:
Olga Semenovo
Email: omakarieva [at] gmail.com

Two days of relatively informal and un-orchestrated exchange of ideas and reports by glaciologists in the Northwest and/or interested in the Northwest.

For nearly 40 years, the world's second-best informal annual meeting of glaciologists.

The Parallel Ice Sheet Model (www.pism-docs.org) project provides an open source, fully-parallel, high-resolution ice sheet model. The PISM developer team at the University of Fairbanks Alaska is organizing a one day informal, interactive and hands-on workshop covering the following topics:

• Introduction to PISM & theoretical basis
• Installation
• Tools for pre- and postprocessing
• Tutorials including SeaRISE examples

To attend this workshop, there is no prior PISM knowledge or C/C++ knowledge required. Registration is required but there are no registration costs (a small fee might be collected to cover course material and coffee breaks).

For questions and registration, send email to aaschwanden [at] alaska.edu.

An Interdisciplinary Seminar on Arctic Research for Young Scientists

The Franco-German seminar “Gateway to the Arctic” is an approach to bring together young scientists from different disciplines of natural and social sciences. The seminar will cover aspects of intensive exchange through a series of lectures and workshops addressing the latest research advances in various fields of Arctic research. The casual and interactive meeting format will privilege the participants, and partner institutions for networking and developing new collaborations. Looking at the two focus regions in the Arctic - Siberia and Alaska - organizers would like to work on how we can improve and promote interdisciplinary research activities.

A limited number of travel stipends is available. Applications can be submitted until 30 July 2012, using the application form posted on the website.

This workshop is intended to familiarize participants with a method of texture analysis and orientation imaging (the CIP method) and to discuss texture interpretation with a special emphasis on ice. The workshop is open to all PhD level and postgraduate students and researchers.
The aim of the workshop is twofold:
(1) to introduce participants to a light-optical method for texture analysis (CIP), orientation and misorientation imaging, and
(2) to bring together specialists for a general discussion on current techniques of texture analysis (including SEM/EBSD), with special emphasis on ice.

Please contact Renee Heilbronner (renee.heilbronner [at] unibas.ch) for further details.

The Pechora Sea region in the European North-East is an area where the oil-and-gas industry is actively developed both offshore and onshore. At the same time, it is also a territory of unique tundra ecosystems, valuable coastal and marine regions, Indigenous cultures, and protected natural areas. The conference aims to evaluate the present-day environmental status of the Nenets Autonomous District territory and adjacent Pechora Sea, and search for ways of decreasing environmental risks.

Conference tasks are as follows:
* To provide an arena for sharing experience, knowledge, research results, and future plans for carrying out environmental activities and studies in the region.
* To get competent opinions and expert assessments of environmental status in the Pechora Sea region and possible challenges of industrial exploitation of nature resources.
* To propose the mechanisms for solving environmental protection problems.
* To attract the attention of state institutes and public to the Nenets Autonomous District as a pilot region for exploration of the offshore Arctic.

Conference topics include:
* Environmental risks related to the industrial activities in the region;
* Monitoring the environmental status of the region and the challenges of its conduct;
* Development of the state environmental protection management system;
* Protection, reproduction, and rational use of nature resources;
* Traditional nature use and prospects of its development; and
* Safety of oil-and-gas marine transportation.

Representatives of federal, regional and municipal level authorities, Russian and foreign scientific institutes, nature protection organizations, indigenous peoples, and oil-and-gas companies working in the region.