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The 2023 Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference will take place at the Dena"ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The conference will focus on Alaska's role leading the energy transition from established renewable sources to innovative and emerging technologies.

World-renowned speakers and experts will highlight the agenda, along with breakout tracks, panel discussions, and multiple networking opportunities.

Université Laval has invited UArctic to have its 4th annual UArctic Assembly in Quebec City, Canada. The program of the UArctic Assembly 2023 is varied and exciting. In addition to the business sessions, it will include, for example:

• A presentation by Institut nordique du Québec
• A panel discussion on sustainable development and climate changes in the northern and Arctic regions
• Launching of the UArctic Youth Entrepreneurship Fund

Deadline for registrations is 7 May 2023.

Since 2019, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and the Alaska Pacific University (APU) have hosted the Alaska Indigenous Research Program (AKIRP): Promoting Resilience, Health and Wellness. The 5th Annual Alaska Indigenous Research Program will be held May 8-26, 2023. A limited number of scholarships to cover travel and registration fees are available.

The goal of AKIRP is to increase the health research capacity of Alaska Native and American Indian people and communities by providing Indigenous-centered, cross-cultural research education and training offered through weekly programming for audiences of varying experience and background.

Week 1 - May 8-12, 2023

Advanced Research is designed for experienced researchers and health professionals. Presentations and speakers will cover Indigenous and Western knowledge and ways of knowing, decolonizing research practices, Indigenous research methodologies, bringing together multiple perspectives in research, community-based participatory and culturally responsive research, and historical trauma and research.

Week 2 - May 15-19, 2023

Research Ethics This is designed for all levels of research experience. Presentations and speakers will cover the history of research in Alaska, historical trauma, decolonizing research practices, Tribally-driven health research and research review, human subject research principles, Institutional Review Board (IRB) review, culturally responsive dissemination practices and principles of community-based participatory research.

Week 3 - May 22-26, 2023

Introductory Research is for those who are interested in health research with little to no experience. Presentations and speakers will cover an introduction to Indigenous and Western research methods, exploration of different types of health research, introduction to community-based participatory research and the history and ethics of health research in Alaska.

Rick Thoman will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for June 2022 and the summer season. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Please register to attend.

The InterArctic Knowledges Conference will be a combination of interactive roundtable discussions and active participation, with the aim of sharing and creating interdisciplinary knowledges from and about the Arctic region.

The organizers are aiming for an interdisciplinary group with backgrounds from the Social Sciences, Art and Humanities, and Natural Sciences with main interest the Arctic Region.

The conference will take place 10:00 am - 5:00 pm BST, and be held hybrid and at Durham University Confluence building.

The organizers are not requesting submissions for posters and abstracts. Instead, they ask that participants submit an item or a component from your research that speaks to the Arctic uncertainties and knowledges that you encounter, navigate and produce through your work.

Organizers are inviting responses in a range of media – poems, photographs, images, scientific equipment, graphs, data products, a word cloud, or your favorite quote.

These can be physical items brought along to the workshop or submitted as a digital image in advance. You will not be asked to directly present on these (as you would for a poster or research talk, for example). Instead, these items and submissions will be used to guide the discussions during the morning session and will be printed to be used as part of the creative afternoon workshop session during the conference.

This conference is PGR organized and supported and funded by the Geography Department Politics-State-Space research cluster and the Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD).

The 2nd Antarctic Atmospheric River Workshop will take place 27-29 June 2023 in Boulder, Colorado and online.

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are an important component of the hydrological cycle and have been increasingly recognized as critical to Antarctic meteorology and climatology. Since just 2014, atmospheric rivers have been identified as a sub-tropical link to the Antarctic continent and create extreme atmospheric conditions that are largely consequential to surface melt, snowfall, and ice-shelf stability.

The goals of this workshop include reviewing the current state of knowledge, identifying research gaps and emerging science, as well as actively beginning a review paper. Specific science categories include tools, dynamics, impacts, energy and moisture budgets, climate change and variability, and cross polar themes.

This will be a hybrid workshop with both in-person and online participation. The workshop will be a mix of oral presentations, thematic discussion periods, workshopping projects, and an excursion in and around the Rocky Mountains for in-person participants.

Please register to attend. Abstracts are due Friday, 19 May 2023.

Learn about science happening at the University of Alaska Fairbanks that reaches "around the world in Arctic ways!" Visit with over a dozen research groups and colleges along the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Troth Yeddha’ campus at this year's Arctic Research Open House. Park for free in lots along Koyukuk Drive.

Some participating groups:

• Alaska Center for Energy & Power
• Alaska EPSCoR
• Alaska Satellite Facility
• Alaska Sea Grant
• College of Engineering and Mines / Institute of Northern Engineering
• College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
• College of Liberal Arts
• Geophysical Institute
• Honors College
• Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension
• Institute of Arctic Biology
• International Arctic Research Center
• Large Animal Research Station
• National Weather Service
• One Health
• Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning
• Toolik Field Station
• UA Museum of the North
• UA Press

Full title: Assessing the Stability of Antarctic Ice Shelves: A Study on Ice Shelf Composition and their Susceptibility to Climate Changes

The seminar will be live on Zoom and open to anyone interested (limit of 500 participants). Register in advance for this meeting.

Abstract

Ice shelves surrounding Antarctica play a crucial role in buttressing the flow of ice from the continent towards the ocean, and their stability and evolution are governed by surface accumulation, basal melting, and ice dynamics. Due to climate change, the disintegration of these ice shelves can lead to a significant increase in ice discharge towards the ocean and a subsequent rise in global sea level, emphasising the importance of understanding their future stability.

In this study researchers present how combining radio stratigraphy data with ice flow modeling helps uncover the structure and composition of ice shelves. Using an ice-dynamic forward model that is both simple and observationally driven, validated on the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, researchers model the stratigraphy of all ice shelves around Antarctica and map spatial variations in the proportion of locally accumulated ice on the ice shelf (local meteoric ice - LMI) in comparison to the ice inflowing from the continental ice sheet (continental meteoric ice - CMI). Examining the differences between LMI and CMI dominated ice shelves, enables researchers to investigate the ice shelves susceptibility to projected atmospheric and oceanic changes in climate and discuss their stability.

Furthermore, by expanding the analysis to the continental scale, the researchers identify areas where climate change could have a significant impact on ice shelf geometry and composition.

Research collaborators and sisters Corina Qaaġraq Kramer (Iñupiaq, Aqqaluk Trust) and Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq (Iñupiaq, Virginia Tech) will share how their approach to community partnership and co-production of knowledge is innovating equity, outcomes, and Indigenous leadership in Arctic research. This presentation is a must-see for anyone who is interested in Arctic research in and with Indigenous communities.

This webinar will be recorded and posted on this page and on the IARPC YouTube Channel.

In this webinar, participants will learn about the $50 million in grant funding available from the U.S. Department of Energy for rural communities to deploy clean energy. Learn more about this new streamlined funding opportunity that aims to help communities, like those in Alaska, secure the financing and resources to improve their local energy systems. Please register to join.