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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.

PolarWatch is part of NOAA’s CoastWatch program with a primary mission to distribute satellite and other geospatial data products for polar regions and to make the data products easily accessible to data users. They provide access to near real time and historical satellite and non-satellite data of Arctic and Antarctic waters. Join this webinar to learn about the NOAA CoastWatch program and the services that PolarWatch offers to oceanographic satellite data users.

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In Alaska, paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is caused by toxins (PSTs) produced by the microscopic marine dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella. PSP is usually associated with consumption of toxin-containing bivalves, but PSTs can also be present in other biota during Alexandrium blooms, including species that do not feed on shellfish. The Knik Tribe PSP project began in 2006 with sampling all along coastal Alaska from Ketchikan, to the end of the Aleutian Islands and in the Bering Sea north to Norton Sound using local samplers in an extensive community-based monitoring program. In this talk, Bruce Wright will report results from a project investigating occurrence of PSTs in marine species across southern Alaska where Alexandrium blooms and shellfish toxicity occur, and will review some of the recent findings and present the PSP monitoring program plans for the next four years.

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The Mathematics on Ice Forum meet once a month to discuss mathematical aspects of ice dynamics and bring together the community in an informal online atmosphere.

In each meeting there are two presentations and time for discussions and ice-breaking in small sub-groups. The format is intended to stem from your contributions – give a talk, join the discussions, and invite further participants. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to contribute. The organizers would like to encourage in particular PhD students to present their research.

Theme: Fracture and calving

Maryam Zarrinderakht (UBC)
Talk title: "A leading-order viscoelastic model for crevasse propagation and calving in ice shelves”

Cheng Gong (Dartmouth College)
Talk title: "Helheim Glacier’s terminus position controls its seasonal and inter-annual ice flow variability"

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.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office is excited to announce that the 2023 Polar Postdoctoral Leadership Workshop (PPLW) will be taking place in Colorado. The workshop will bring 20 US-based postdoctoral researchers studying Antarctic and Arctic topics together from across the country to activate leadership skills that they can bring into their future careers. Participation in the workshop is free and travel support will be provided. Participants will be selected by the PSECCO PPLW Selection Committee, with a goal of establishing a discipline-, geographic-, and holistically diverse cohort.

The Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop will be a multi-day workshop where the future leaders of the polar sciences come together to engage with current and future polar science topics and access skills and training that give them the confidence to step into leadership roles in our field. An outcome of the workshop will be a recommendation to the community about how to participate in leading the polar science community towards a new academia that works for all.

Day one of the workshop will be hosted in Boulder, Colorado; Days 2-5 will be hosted at CU Boulder's Mountain Research Station, just north of Nederland, Colorado (elevation 9500 ft).

Current postdoctoral researchers studying Arctic- or Antarctic-related science can apply. The organizers aim to be very interdisciplinary, and field-, model-, remote-sensing- and social- scientists are all encouraged to apply.

All applicants need to be based in the US but are not required to be US citizens, as long as your immigration status allows you to receive travel funds from the University of Colorado. The deadline by which to apply is 15 February 2023 at 11:59 pm MST.

The Nansen Legacy project invites the Arctic research community to the international symposium. This conference will convene 7-9 November 2023 in Tromsø, Norway.

The organizers welcome contributions and discussions across Earth system science to shed light on and reveal both regional characteristics, connections and pan-Arctic responses. Join with contributions and discussions on how the Arctic Ocean is changing and what it will look like in the near future.

Six sessions with oral and poster presentations will provide disciplinary focus across regions, and regional focus across disciplines. While the Nansen Legacy project has focused on the rapidly changing northern Barents Sea shelf and adjacent Arctic Basin, the organizers strive for participation representing the Pan-Arctic heterogeneity to exchange knowledge and to connect science, regions, and humans.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2023.

The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) invites registration for their upcoming webinar on citizen science in Svalbard. This webinar will take place 12 May 2023 at 10:00 am Norwegian Time (CET). Note that this is 12:00 am (midnight) in Alaska, and 4:00 am in EDT.

Speakers and Agenda (times listed in Norwegian time):

• 10:00-10:05: Shridhar Jawak (SIOS Knowledge Centre (KC)) - Introduction to webinar and updates from SIOS KC
• 10:05-10:20: Nuria Castell (NILU, Norway) - Can Citizen Science go Beyond Awareness Raising and Contribute to Environmental Monitoring?
• 10:20-10:35: Peter Fretwell (British Antarctic Survey, U.K) - Walruses from Space
• 10:35-10:50: René van der Wal (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden) - TBC
• 10:50-11:00: Questions and discussion

Join the Commonwealth North Board of Directors for a special briefing from Ambassador David Balton on developing an implementation plan for the National Strategy for the Arctic Region. The briefing will be held via Zoom.

This session is free to members and $10 for nonmembers.

Ambassador Balton is the Executive Director of the Arctic Executive Steering Committee (AESC) which is charted with advancing U.S. interests in the Arctic and coordinating federal actions in the Arctic. Under Balton's direction, the AESC will develop an implementation plan for the national Arctic strategy. Prior to his current assignment, Ambassador Balton has spent decades managing U.S. foreign policy in the Arctic.

Advance registration is required.

The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College announce their upcoming panel discussion webinar, titled 'What Does Community-led Arctic Research and Scholarship Really Look Like? Examples and stories from Nunavut Territory, Canada'.

The panel will feature speakers and scholars from Nunavut territory, Canada. The presentations will focus on explaining and sharing Inuit research processes, share a story from an Inuit center for early career health researchers, and provide examples of programs that are derived from Inuit pathways to wellbeing.

Panelists include Gwen Healey Akearok, Ceporah Mearns, Moriah Sallaffie, and Nancy Mike.

This webinar is sponsored by Fulbright Canada and the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding.