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The Permafrost Discovery Gateway hosts a monthly webinar series on a Thursday at 09:00 Alaska time. The webinar aims to 1) connect the international science community interested in big data remote sensing of permafrost landscapes, and 2) provide the Permafrost Discovery Gateway development team with end-user stories (by the presenter and webinar participants), such as exploring tools the community needs to create and explore big data.

Abstract

In the Arctic, climate warming has led plants to colonize previously barren ground and existing plant communities to become more productive and often shrubbier. There has also been an overall increase in plant biomass that can impact northern human communities, wildlife, and biogeochemical cycles. Despite its importance, the current amount, distribution, and composition of plant biomass remains highly uncertain across the Arctic, let alone changes that occurred during recent decades. Our project focuses on mapping total plant biomass and shrub biomass across the Arctic using field measurements, Landsat satellite observations, and ancillary environmental datasets. We are synthesizing existing field measurements from across the Arctic and linking these measurements with wall-to-wall Landsat data processed using Google Earth Engine. Over the next two years, we will develop next-generation plant biomass maps for the Arctic that can be used to better understand and help manage a broad suite of climate change impacts.

The IGS Global Seminar Series are live on Zoom most Wednesdays. Please register in advance for the seminars.

The seminars are also be live-streamed to the IGS Facebook page so that you can watch them afterwards if you can’t make the live seminar.

This week's talk

This week the IGS Global Seminar Series will have two talks on sea ice. Dr. Arttu Jutilla from AWI will present Multi-sensor airborne observations of Arctic Sea Ice: Recent Results from the AWI IceBird Winter 2023 Campaign, while Dr. Mark England from UC Santa Cruz will present Spurious Climate Impacts in Coupled Sea Ice Loss Simulations.

The European Space Agency, together with the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is organizing the SeaSAR2023 workshop in Svalbard.

The following topics will be addressed:

• Wave Retrievals
• Near Surface Wind Retrievals
• Doppler Shift Retrievals
• Detection of Extremes
• Sea Ice Retrievals
• Sensor Synergy
• Methodology and Techniques
• Future Missions
• Applications (Oil Spill, Ship Detection, etc)

The workshop is open to ESA Principal Investigators, co-investigators, Sentinel-1 users, scientists, students, representatives from national, European, and international space agencies and value adding industries. No participation fees will be charged. Participants are expected to finance their own travel and accommodation expenses.

Due to the capacity of the venue, the number of attendees will be limited to around 120.

Deadline for abstract submission: 25 January 2023.

Registration deadline: 25 February 2023.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) has put together a second discussion panel about job opportunities beyond academia for polar scientists. This will focus on non-tenure track faculty jobs and what opportunities exist for polar scientists beyond academia. The information from this panel will also be transferrable to jobs outside of polar science.

Panelists for this event include Kirsten Arnell, Allen Pope, Anthony Powell, and Karli Tyance-Hassell.

This event will not be recorded.

The 18th Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate (WAMC) 2023 meeting will be held in Madison, Wisconsin at the Pyle Center, from 31 May to 2 June 2023. This will be a hybrid meeting welcoming online as well as in-person attendees. The WAMC brings together those with common interests in Antarctic meteorology, climate, forecasting and related disciplines. The three-day event will focus on observational networks, numerical modeling, weather forecasting, operational/logistical interests, and Antarctic meteorological and climate research from contributors around the world. Additional sessions will focus on the Year of Polar Prediction - Southern Hemisphere.

Organizers are now accepting abstract submissions.

• Short abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2023
• Extended abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2023

The National Science Foundation has released a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) and solicitation for supporting open polar research software.

Federal agencies are celebrating 2023 as a Year of Open Science. Open software tools, libraries, frameworks, and data are playing increasingly prominent and impactful roles in activities supported by the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) in the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), as they are across federally funded research.

Complementing the disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and cyberinfrastructure goals articulated in the current Antarctic and Arctic solicitations, this Dear Colleague Letter (NSF DCL 23-053) is designed to encourage the sustainable development and use of open-source software, tools, libraries, and frameworks that are critical for OPP scientific objectives. OPP encourages the submission of new proposals and supplemental funding requests which support the opening, documenting, and sharing of open polar research software/code.

Principal Investigators are encouraged to contact Allen Pope, Program Officer for Polar Cyberinfrastructure at apope [at] nsf.gov, with any questions pertaining to this DCL and to discuss the scope and size of potential proposals.

Proposal deadline for full consideration in Fiscal Year 2023: 1 May 2023. Supplemental funding requests may be submitted at any time.

UArctic and the Arctic Circle are pleased to open the call for nominations for the 2023 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award.

The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2023.

The Arctic Academic Action Award provides high-level recognition for innovative ideas that aspire to transform knowledge into action to help address the causes and impacts of climate change in the Arctic. Through this award it is hoped to bring together potential concepts preventing, mitigating, adapting, and reversing Arctic climate change. The cohort of award recipients will form a powerful group of leaders whose ideas will be fostered to develop and implement meaningful solutions and projects to address Arctic climate change.

The recipient(s) will be announced at the Arctic Circle Assembly in October in Reykjavík, Iceland followed by a special reception. 100,000 Euro of unrestricted funds are provided to the awardee to help facilitate the development of ideas and increase impact through outreach, engagement and communication.

The VII Convection Permitting Climate Modelling Workshop will take place 29 August 2023 to 31 August 2023 in Bergen, Norway, and aims to:

1. Communicate advances in CPCM and our understanding of fine scale processes; how these influence/are influenced by larger scale features and elucidate how climate change and its impacts are experienced at local scales.
2. Address, and propose solutions to, barriers to continued advancement – such as lack of key earth system or human components.
3. Through concrete examples discuss how we can tailor CPCM research in such a way so as to support adaptation efforts, vulnerability & impacts assessments and downstream climate services.

This will be a hybrid event, i.e., with on-site and remote participation. Oral sessions and panel discussions in plenary will be live streamed and recordings made available for remote delegates. There will be no parallel sessions.

Topics

1. Mountainous & high-latitude regions
2. Extremes & impacts
3. Model development
4. CPCM for society, adaptation planning and mitigating risk
5. Data access, accessibility and equitability in CPCM research
6. What have we learned from CPCM modelling and what is next

Important Dates

• 1 March: Abstract submission and financial support application open
• 30 April: Abstract submission and financial support application close
• 30 May: Notification of abstracts and financial support
• 1 June: Registration opens

Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative and the Arctic Mayors’ Forum announce their upcoming virtual seminar, titled Building Climate Resilience in the Urban Arctic.

The seminar will explore how Arctic cities are addressing the current and future impacts of climate change, as well as the lessons that Arctic cities and other cities elsewhere in the world can learn from each other’s experiences.

The panel will feature Ida Maria Pinnerød, Mayor of Bodø, Norway; Avaraaq Olsen, Mayor of Sermersooq, Greenland; Annika Myrén, Development Strategist of the City of Umeå, Sweden; and Bryce Ward, Mayor of Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska. Arctic Initiative Postdoctoral Research Fellow Nadezhda Filimonova will moderate.

This event is open to the public and hosted on Zoom. For those who cannot attend live, the seminar will be recorded and available to watch (typically within two weeks). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

Integrating your research with digital media technology through storytelling to support collaboration and convergence - this 90-minute webinar will help you explore and evaluate how the facilitation, creation and sharing of stories as digital stories can lead to a more powerful, deeper and more expansive sense of knowing.

Using a combination of presentation, inquiry and group discussion the 90-minute webinar, facilitated by StoryCenter’s Robert Kershaw and Allison Myers, will create space for participants to explore how storytelling can be aligned to tell authentic and meaningful narratives for NNA-CO researchers and community partners’ work. Participants will acquire a deeper knowledge of the power of storytelling while considering how perceptions and biases can leave significant gaps in the stories told and subsequent efforts to push community-focused initiatives forward. It will also explore critical ethical principles and questions: supporting storyteller wellbeing; the meaning of consent; ensuring and upholding local practices and protocols; sovereignty of the narrative; acknowledging ethical and cultural humility; the distribution (or not) of individual and community stories.