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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.

The ACORN series is a monthly online seminar series by PerCS-Net members on topics related to Arctic coastal research. Talks are scheduled for the 4th Wednesday of the month at 1 pm Eastern Time.

On 26 April 2023, Julia Guimond, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will give a talk on The Impact of Wind on Groundwater Dynamics along a Microtidal Arctic Lagoon.

The US and its international partners have long recognized the urgency of improving Arctic observing and data systems in order to better track and respond to widespread, rapid change in the region. Unique challenges confront such efforts, including technology limitations in harsh polar environments and a complex array of independently funded efforts, often inadequately integrated, within the US and across other Arctic and non-Arctic nations. The US Arctic Observing Network was established to address these challenges, particularly those related to identifying priority improvements and facilitating partnership development, both nationally and internationally. This talk will provide a status on these efforts with a focus on planning tools and processes being developed and utilized by US AON and its partners.

Bio

Sandy Starkweather serves as the Executive Director of the US Arctic Observing Network and chair of the international Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks. She has a background in engineering, climate science and science and technology policy. She is a research scientist at the University of Colorado and a NOAA-Affiliate through the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Green-up, that time when leaves burst forth from Alaska’s deciduous trees, has important implications for the seasonal ecology, society and even meteorology in the state. The unique multi-decadal record of green-up dates in Fairbanks has been used to develop a technique for forecasting green-up and related events in the Interior and more broadly in the boreal forest regions in Alaska. This webinar will be the fourth annual review of the green-up forecasting tools and will provide a look-ahead for green-up for Spring 2023. One Tree will demonstrate citizen science-outreach tools for birch tappers and others.

Please register to attend.

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative, an international multi-disciplinary collaboration on Arctic research, will conclude with a series of events in in Washington, D.C., from 24 – 28 April 2023. Scholars from the Arctic Council’s eight member states will present their research and policy recommendations, capping twenty-four months of research and collaboration.

Launched in 2015, the Fulbright Arctic Initiative reinforces U.S. priorities by supporting international scientific cooperation on Arctic issues and increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. As Arctic nations continue to take concrete steps to work together and address public-policy research questions relevant to shared challenges and opportunities, the Fulbright Arctic Initiative offers a collaborative model for scholarly exchange. The current group of nineteen scholars represent the eight countries that make up the Arctic Council: Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States.

Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholars conducted research in the areas of Arctic security and cooperation, Arctic infrastructure in a changing environment, and the community dimensions of health. They covered a wide range of topics, including engaging local and Indigenous knowledge towards human, environmental and food security; exposure toxic chemicals in the Faroe Islands; community-based solutions to Indigenous health and elder care in Alaska; climate change resilience; sustainable development; and the role of the arts in Arctic communities.

On Tuesday 25 April, the scholars will share their research in a poster exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (from 2:00 – 4:00 pm, open to the public).

On Thursday 27 April the scholars will present their work to policymakers at a symposium at the Wilson Center. This event will be live-streamed online for public viewing.

More than ever the changes of the Arctic region in terms of climate change, geopolitical issues, societal resilience and adaptation have enhanced the need for mapping, monitoring, precision navigation and new technologies in all its aspects inspiring new ways of collaborations between the world of science, authorities, business and community.

Arctic International Technology Conference (AITC) 2023 will gather academia, experts, users of mapping and monitoring of the cryosphere in three overall thematic tracks: sea, cryosphere, and land, ranging from ocean, sea-ice, and land ice including permafrost and ice-free land.

The geopolitical situation and increased interests in a sustainable development of the Arctic, underlined by among others UNs Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), have resulted in new Arctic funding strategies from agencies such as ESA, the American NSF and the EU work programmes. The gathering of various stakeholders at the AITC conference will provide opportunities to interact across scientific, civil and commercial domains, to develop new ideas and projects, and to create new collaboration aiming for a sustainable development of the Arctic regions and especially Greenland.

The programme includes internationally recognised key-note speakers, panel debate and thematic parallel meetings hosted by participants. facilities for project-development, one-to-one meetings, as well as time to experience the Greenlandic culture and nature in and around Nuuk.

Researchers, professionals, policy-makers and business people are encouraged to join the conference. In order to secure the next generation of highly skilled experts, a limited number of PhD students are offered a reduced conference fee.

NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) will host the 51st Global Monitoring Annual Conference (GMAC), fostering collaboration and partnerships in the global atmospheric monitoring community. The conference will be held in person 23-24 May 2023 in Boulder, Colorado.

For those unable to attend in person, the organizers will have a virtual option available for attending and presenting.

This year’s GMAC will be held on the University of Colorado campus in the University Memorial Center’s Glenn Miller Ballrooms. The new venue will provide a comfortable large meeting space, a dedicated poster display location, and break-out rooms for enhanced collaboration.

Abstract submission is now open. The conference agenda is driven by the abstracts received, so GML looks forward to and welcomes your submission. Abstract guidelines are on the submission page. Presentations can be either in person or virtual.

Abstracts are due by Saturday, 24 April 2023.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

The abstract submission deadline is 10 January 2023, 13:00 CET.

Join NSF's Arctic Sciences Section for a community office hour. NSF will highlight new Dear Colleague Letters, discuss solicitation updates, outline research support and logistics expectations for the upcoming season, and provide other updates.

There will be time set aside for Q&A as well as breakout rooms with program officers.