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In June 2021, the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored the Crevasse Risk Management and Safety Workshop. In continuing the conversations of this workshop, the NSF Office of Polar Programs is hosting a four-part webinar series on using technology to increase the ability to detect crevasses, an essential need while doing fieldwork in rapidly changing, ice-laden landscapes.

There is no need to register in advance.

Panelists

• Ching-Yao Lai, Princeton University
• Ellyn Enderlin, Boise State University
• Tim Bartholomaus, University of Idaho

Organizers invite you to Ōtautahi, Aotearoa (Christchurch, New Zealand), for the XIII SCAR Biology Symposium which will take place 31 July to 4 August 2023. Many of the world’s leading scientists and early career researchers in Antarctic biology and ecology will be joining for the first face-to-face SCAR meeting in three years.

This meeting will offer four days of invited keynotes, plenaries, and concurrent sessions, with a mid-week break of excursions to allow attendees to enjoy some of the most spectacular parts of New Zealand’s South Island. Satellite meetings and workshops will be held during the weekends before and after the meeting.

The conference will be enriched by the tikanga (traditions) and mātauranga (knowledge) of New Zealand’s indigenous knowledge (mātauranga Māori people) and a true dedication to sustainability.

Extended deadline for abstracts is 5:00 pm 28 March 2023 New Zealand Time (8:00 pm 27 March AKDT, 12:00 am 28 March EDT).

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will host a series of virtual listening sessions to inform the development of the 2023- 2028 Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Strategic Plan. As part of a robust public engagement plan, OSTP encourages input from all interested parties, including students, teachers, administrators, parents, researchers, employers, and others to provide information and perspectives on the challenges faced by – and within – the STEM ecosystem in the United States and solutions that might be implemented by the U.S. Government.

Format: Each listening session will focus on one aspect of the STEM ecosystem. The last session aims to include speakers unable to attend any of the earlier sessions and as such, will cover each of the five areas covered in the previous sessions. Registration is required to attend sessions.

The IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute will be facilitating and moderating the meeting on OSTP’s behalf. The meeting will be recorded and participation implies consent for OSTP to capture your name, voice, and likeness, and anything you say may be recorded and transcribed for OSTP use.

Rick Thoman will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, discuss forecast tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for April 2023 and the early spring 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 inaugural SOOS Symposium, “Southern Ocean in a Changing World” will take place 14 to 18 August 2023 in Hobart, Australia. The Symposium will consist of plenary presentations, parallel sessions and workshops incorporating a wide spectrum of Southern Ocean research. The organising committee invites proposals for sessions for the symposium topics below.

Proposals for sessions incorporating short talks and posters, panel discussions and/or workshops are welcome:

• Circumpolar observations and programmes
• Regional observations and programmes
• Data systems
• New observing technology and systems in Southern Ocean observations

Important Dates

• Abstract deadline: 24 March 2023
• Early bird reg open: 8 Feb 2023
• Notification of abstract acceptance: 14 April 2023
• Early bird reg closes: 30 April 2023

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will host a series of virtual listening sessions to inform the development of the 2023- 2028 Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Strategic Plan. As part of a robust public engagement plan, OSTP encourages input from all interested parties, including students, teachers, administrators, parents, researchers, employers, and others to provide information and perspectives on the challenges faced by – and within – the STEM ecosystem in the United States and solutions that might be implemented by the U.S. Government.

Format: Each listening session will focus on one aspect of the STEM ecosystem. The last session aims to include speakers unable to attend any of the earlier sessions and as such, will cover each of the five areas covered in the previous sessions. Registration is required to attend sessions.

The IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute will be facilitating and moderating the meeting on OSTP’s behalf. The meeting will be recorded and participation implies consent for OSTP to capture your name, voice, and likeness, and anything you say may be recorded and transcribed for OSTP use.

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 22 March 2023, David Nielsen, Postdoc, Ocean Biogeochemistry Group, at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany will give a talk on Modeling Coastal Erosion Impacts on Ocean C02 Uptake.

Abstract

How could coastal erosion change the Arctic Ocean's uptake of atmospheric CO2 in the future? - an Earth system modelling perspective.

Coastal erosion releases organic matter (OM) from the permafrost into the Arctic Ocean, transporting about 5 to 15 Tg (mega tons) of organic carbon every year. Recent projections show that such rates could increase by a factor of 2 to 3 by the end of the century due to anthropogenic climate change. However, the impact of the increasing coastal permafrost erosion on the Arctic Ocean's uptake of atmospheric CO, is unknown. Especially under difference future emission scenarios, how could coastal erosion change the Arctic Ocean's uptake of atmospheric CO,? This question is particularly difficult because, once eroded, the OM may take several different pathways. It could 1) be remineralized onshore or in the ocean, producing COz, 2) boost primary production, consuming CO2, or 3) sink and be buried in the ocean bottom sediment, having little immediate effect on surface CO,. Here, we represent OM fluxes from coastal erosion into the Arctic Ocean in the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM and investigate the ocean's biogeochemistry response. We run a set of 8 sensitivity simulations varying permafrost OM characteristics, covering the historical period (1850-2014) and 3 future scenarios (2015-2100) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) phase 6. In all scenarios and sensitivity simulations, coastal permafrost erosion reduces the Arctic Ocean's atmospheric CO, uptake by 1 to 2 T9C/year per degree of increase in global mean surface temperature. The yearly sink of atmospheric CO, into the Arctic Ocean could thus be reduced by about 10% to 20%, depending on scenario and, mostly, on OM characteristics. While all simulations robustly show a decrease in the oceanic CO, uptake, the magnitude of such decrease is highly sensitive to the representation of OM in our model (i.e. C/N ratio and particulate-dissolved fractions). Despite large uncertainties, our work highlights the relevance of coastal permafrost erosion to the Arctic carbon cycle, and thereby the need for considering such fluxes in Earth system model simulations.

The first FOGSS workshop took place online, 6-8 April 2022. FOGSS workshop is a follow-on to the long-running NASA PARCA and NSF GEOSummit meetings.

The organizers envision a community-driven forum that focuses on the current state of knowledge regarding the Greenland Ice Sheet, especially on poorly constrained processes impacting its mass balance, geophysical characteristics, and future behavior. The workshop’s mission is to identify and advise on medium-to-long-term priorities for U.S. research on Greenland. The organizers will continue building on the research priorities slide decks developed from the last meeting and expand them to include other new and exciting scientific areas/priorities.

The organizers seek to create an open and cooperative environment that accelerates the pace of Greenland Ice Sheet Science. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are embraced at the FOGSS Workshop, and the organizers are committed to creating and maintaining a safe and inclusive environment to all.

Registration is now open. Please register (whether in-person or remote) by Wednesday 1 March 2023.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will host a series of virtual listening sessions to inform the development of the 2023- 2028 Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Strategic Plan. As part of a robust public engagement plan, OSTP encourages input from all interested parties, including students, teachers, administrators, parents, researchers, employers, and others to provide information and perspectives on the challenges faced by – and within – the STEM ecosystem in the United States and solutions that might be implemented by the U.S. Government.

Format: Each listening session will focus on one aspect of the STEM ecosystem. The last session aims to include speakers unable to attend any of the earlier sessions and as such, will cover each of the five areas covered in the previous sessions. Registration is required to attend sessions.

The IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute will be facilitating and moderating the meeting on OSTP’s behalf. The meeting will be recorded and participation implies consent for OSTP to capture your name, voice, and likeness, and anything you say may be recorded and transcribed for OSTP use.

Organizers invite panel submissions to the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society 2023, after a four years’ pandemic-induced break. The general topic of the conference is “Relations and beyond”.

For the first time hosted by the Arctic Anthropology Research Team in Lapland, this conference invites contributions to an anthropology of relations and beyond, celebrating the multiplicity of facets and “theoretical heterogeneity [that] may strengthen rather than weaken the force of relations as a general concept” (Strathern 2018, in CEA, p.8). These theoretical avenues will be addressed by the three keynotes at this conference, by Dame Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge), Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) and Piers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge).

During the final plenary discussion these keynote speakers shall engage with selected specialists in the field and the plenary audience to advance our understanding of relations and beyond to the next level. Within Finnish Anthropology, we aim to foster conversations between anthropologists working in the Arctic and elsewhere. The 2023 conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society invites panels that explore the topic of “relations and beyond” in diverse ethnographic and theoretical settings. Panels are also welcome to focus on relations between anthropology and other disciplines – a topic that has become particularly relevant in the current funding landscape with its emphasis on multidisciplinary projects. We encourage submissions on relations between anthropologists and their research partners in the field, be they international and Finnish colleagues or practitioners, and how the process of co-creating knowledge bases on such relations.

Deadlines

• Proposal for panels should be submitted by 30 September 2022 to: finnanthro [at] ulapland.fi
• Acceptance of panel submissions and opening of paper submissions: 15 October 2022
• Paper submission deadline: 30 November 2022