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Human-induced climate changes already affect every inhabited region across the globe, with potentially dire consequences for many ecosystems and human communities. Under current emissions trajectories, global surface temperatures will continue to rise. With further warming of the Earth system, every region is projected to experience increasingly concurrent climate extremes, associated with clear impact drivers. Limiting warming to levels that avoid extreme risk requires immediate and substantial reductions of greenhouse emissions, as well as the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. While emissions-reduction approaches are the primary component for addressing this challenge, negative emissions strategies will be essential for keeping global temperatures at or below target levels. Many of these techniques are promising in theory, and have garnered significant attention from venture capital, private companies, and large NGOs interested in offsetting their carbon footprints. This in turn has led to the development of new legislation targeted at developing a US strategy for carbon removal. Despite this emerging interest, all carbon dioxide removal of these techniques are currently in their infancy and require additional research to evaluate their effectiveness and scalability and explore potential co-benefits and environmental risk, as outlined by a recent consensus study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics. In this talk, Jessica Cross will profile marine carbon dioxide removal techniques that are relevant for Alaska and provide an opportunity for discussion.

Please register to attend.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs (OPP), Arctic Sciences Section, has recently updated the solicitation for Arctic Research Opportunities. NSF invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the OPP within the Geosciences Directorate, to conduct research about the Arctic region.

The goal of this solicitation is to attract research proposals that advance a fundamental, process, and/or systems-level understanding of the Arctic's rapidly changing natural environment, and social and cultural systems, and, where appropriate, to improve our capacity to project future change.

The Arctic Sciences Section supports research focused on the Arctic region and its connectivity with lower latitudes. The scientific scope is aligned with, but not limited to, research priorities outlined in the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) five-year plan.

The Arctic Sciences Section coordinates with programs across NSF and with other federal and international partners to co-review and co-fund Arctic-related proposals as appropriate. The Arctic Sciences Section also maintains Arctic logistical infrastructure and field support capabilities that are available to enable research.

17 July 2023 - Target date. 15 July, Annually Thereafter.

The International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). It is aimed at providing a platform for sharing knowledge and experience on recent developments and advancements in geoscience and remote sensing technologies, particularly in the context of earth observation, disaster monitoring and risk assessment.

The IEEE GRSS and the IGARSS 2023 Organizing Committee invite you to the 43rd annual IGARSS symposium to be held in person at the Pasadena Convention Center.

Key Dates

• Community Contributed Session Proposal Deadline: 18 October 2022
• Abstract Submission System On-Line: 18 November 2022
• Tutorial Proposal Deadline: 14 November 2022
• Abstract Submission Extended Deadline: 20 January 2023

What is NSF’s Office of Polar Programs (also known as OPP)? How do you make your polar science proposal as NSF-savvy as possible? How do you best describe your broader impacts? What is cutting edge in data management? How do you identify the best program for application? How do you access available education and outreach funds? Where do you even start finding funding opportunities?

Learn answers to these questions when you meet in small groups with Program Officers. Learn what they are looking for, how to ask the right questions, give the right answers, and get funded! This workshop will include a presentation about NSF and the Office of Polar Programs (45 min) and breakout rooms for small group discussions with different OPP program officers (45 min). The workshop is aimed at early-career to mid-career participants, especially graduate students, post-docs, researchers, and tenure-track faculty thinking about applying for NSF/OPP funding for the first time.

In this FREE teacher workshop, you’ll hear from MOSAiC scientists and the curriculum developers as they lead you through "A Changing Arctic Ecosystem", a MS/HS curriculum tied to NGSS Life Science standards in which students trace the flow of carbon through the Arctic food web to predict how declining sea ice might impact the Arctic food web. Engage with 360° virtual expeditions, authentic Arctic datasets, ArcGIS Storymaps, and more in this 2-day online teacher workshop.

This workshop is for Middle and High School Science Teachers.

This interactive workshop will be conducted virtually via Zoom. Please register to attend.

The next International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly will take place at the Messe Berlin – City Cube in Berlin, Germany. The assembly will include IACS symposia and joint symposia with other IUGG Associations. IACS will have an open plenary meeting for its members and correspondents.

This is a special opportunity for participants from around the world to come together and share their science and culture. Join the IUGG) General Assembly for a host of scientific activities, including special public lectures, keynote Union lectures, and a wide variety of themed sessions.

Important Dates

• Abstracts must be submitted via the online submission system by the extended deadline of 21 February 2023.
• Abstract/grant acceptance sent to participants 7 March 2023.
• Early-bird registration closes 28 April 2023.

The third Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT) training workshop will be an opportunity to develop your modelling skills in microwave scattering of snow and for this workshop, particularly snow on sea ice. The workshop will be a mixture of lectures and tutorials and is suitable for all career levels and a range of experience with SMRT / python / microwave modelling from novice to expert! The workshop will cover the following topics, plus others:

• Snow microstructure
• Electromagnetic Theory
• Solution of the Radiative Transfer Equation (passive, active and altimetry)
• Sea ice (and lake ice)
• One-slide lightning talks from participants

The workshop is free to attend and there are 27 places available.

Important dates

• 14 April 2023: Application deadline
• 28 April 2023: Participants informed of application outcome

The Ross Sea has been the site of extensive investigations since the earliest days of polar exploration. Three Ross Sea conferences were held in Italy in the 1990s and early 2000, providing an overview of the regional state of the art. While many features of its oceanography, ecology, physics, glaciology, geology, and biogeochemistry are known, recent advances provide new insights into its structure and function, as well as its importance on global scales.

This international symposium aims to resume the traditional meeting of the scientific community studying the Ross Sea and to provide a venue for recent advances from models, observations, experiments, remote sensing and other means. It also is intended to assess information regarding climate variability and change, as well as the key mechanisms and interactions that regulate processes on a variety of spatio-temporal scales.

The organizers welcome any contribution that enriches the scientific knowledge of the Ross Sea and the understanding of the occurring multidisciplinary processes.

The meeting will be held at University of Naples "Parthenope".

Deadlines

• The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 15 February 2023.
• Early registration begins 28 May 2023.
• Online Registration deadline is 25 June 2023.

The International Glaciological Society will hold an International Symposium on the Edges of Glaciology at the University of Limerick in the west of Ireland. This will be an in-person conference.

The edges of glaciology are most obviously those parts of the study of ice and ice masses which involve boundaries: grain boundaries, ice cores, the glacier bed, the glacier surface, shear margins, crevasses, calving. But these and other subjects also sometimes involve philosophical edges, where different presumptions and practices can lead to controversy: for example, theories of drumlin formation or till deformation. And, yet again, there are territorial edges, where glaciology lies at the interface with other disciplines, as for example in ice-shelf–ocean interactions, rheology of granular materials, firn sintering and compaction. The aim of the symposium is to explore and encourage discussion of all such edges. In keeping with this aim, we hope to include some open problem-solving sessions, and will also recover the longlost final open discussion.

Sessions and Topics

Oral and poster presentations will be held on three and a half days. There will be ample opportunity for poster displays. There will be at least one ‘open problem’ session and a final open discussion. The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Subglacial processes
2. Supraglacial processes
3. Snow, firn and ice at the grain scale
4. Calving and crevassing

Participants wishing to present a paper (oral or poster) at the Symposium will be required to submit an abstract by 1 March 2023.

The first Arctic Shorebird Festival is happening this summer in Utqiagvik, Alaska, and everyone is invited!

As part of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s Directorate Fellows Program initiative, they are collaborating with various organizations, including Audubon, Alaska, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to bring you an educational and fun (and free!) shorebird-centered experience.

The festival is tentatively scheduled for June 29th and 30th at the Utqiagvik Inupiat Heritage Center. Organizers have a Facebook page for updates. There will be a range of activities, including educational games and activities for kids of all ages, bird tours for birders of all levels, an artist workshop, and speakers from all over sharing their knowledge on shorebird and avian science and cultural importance.

Organizers are working with Alaska Airlines to provide discounted airfare for festival-goers. Please help spread the word about this opportunity, as the more people we reach, the more successful and memorable this experience will be for the community.