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The University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research is please to announce the 2023 international conference One Health, One Future at the Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

This years theme for the conference is Voices of One Health: Embracing Change & Transformation (Innovation & Creativity leading to Change, Reengagement, and Resilience).

The organizers invite faculty, staff, and students of higher education, researchers, K-12 educators, community leaders, administrators, non-profit partners, government agencies, and other professionals to participate.

The conference will engage in dynamic conversations and networking opportunities through hands-on workshops, individual/panel presentations, posters, and plenary sessions.

This is expected to be the largest circumpolar One Health conference held in the United States in 2023, with participation anticipated from across the Arctic region.

In the event that there are still COVID-19 restrictions, the organizers will also be offering an online, non-participatory, zoom link to watch the conference presentations.

Important Dates

• Registration Opens: August 2nd, 2022
• Call for Proposals & Poster Release: August 2nd, 2022
• Abstract Proposal & Poster Submission Deadline: October 5th, 2022
• Accepted Proposal & Poster Notification: October 21st, 2022
• Last Date to Register as Presenter: November 4th, 2022
• Presentation & Poster Submissions Due: January 5th, 2023
• Review Process: January 6th – Feb 6th, 2023
• Standard Registration Deadline: February 14th, 2023

Toolik Field Station invites the community to join for a virtual town hall. The organizers will give an informative overview regarding summer 2023 operations, including updates to the COVID-19 mitigation plan and the summer truck schedule. Following the overview, there will be time for questions and comments.

Please send questions about 2023 operations ahead of time to the Toolik management team. Alternatively, you may also submit questions during the town hall.

A recording will be made available for those who are unable to attend.

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

The PDG development team is working on finalizing the publication of the pan-Arctic ice-wedge polygon map. But before the team calls the first version of this map final, they want to hear from you on how they can clean up the data and how they need to build the ImageryViewer tool to make this data easy to work with. The webinar will start with an overview of the dataset and what information it contains, briefly how it was developed, and what post-processing/cleaning that is in the works. The last half hour will be devoted to an open discussion.

The Russian North and the maritime Arctic are critically important to the future of the Russian state. This vast, cold region should be viewed from three key perspectives: national security, environmental change, and economic development. Russia's long, open border to the Arctic Ocean is a strategic vulnerability as well as a coastline that provides essential maritime access to a remote but developing region (and access to one largest storehouses of global natural resources). Great environmental change and extraordinary industrial development are happening in this region creating a suite of complex impacts and contradictions. This talk will highlight the complexities and uncertainties of the Russian maritime Arctic.

Bio

Lawson Brigham is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. A career U.S. Coast Guard officer he commanded the icebreraker Polar Sea on Arctic and Antarctic expeditions and also chaired the Arctic Council's Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment. He received his PhD in polar oceanography from Cambridge University and has focused his research on the Russian Arctic, polar marine safety and environmental protection.

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 talks

• Sean Chua & Anton Steketee ‘Intro to the Sea-Ice Tracker with use cases'.
• Andy Mahoney from the University of Alaska Fairbanks presenting ‘Ikaagvik Sikukun: bridging the scientific and Indigenous communities understand sea ice change in a changing Arctic’.

Dr. Nafisa Yeasmin will present on the immigration and security aspects of the Finnish Arctic. Dr. Nafisa Yeasmin presents immigration and security aspects of the Finnish Arctic region. She is from the University of Lapland, Finland, and is the lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Migration. She is a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tampere in Finland. Her research focuses on Arctic migration with a particular focus on sustainable entrepreneurship development, socio-economic integration, regional development, migration management, community resilience, and social inclusion. with the well-being of young people and women with migrant backgrounds." She is the Academic of the Year 2019 in Finland.

Dr. Heather Nicol will present on Arctic borders and transnational actors. She is the Director of the School for the Study of Canada and a Professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario (Canada). She received her BA from the University of Toronto, her MES. from York University and her PhD. from Queen’s University. Her northern research interests lie in the critical geopolitics in the circumpolar North and the relationship between the interests of nation-states and peoples of the North. The geopolitical context of the North and the contemporary issues raised in the North which create puzzles for sovereignty and governance have fueled Prof Nicol’s interest in the North. Prof Nicol is also involved in the Thematic Network on Geopolitical and Security through the University of the Arctic and the Northern Research Foundation.

Migration in Harmony is a Research Coordination Network on Arctic migrations funded by the National Science Foundation. We are a network of researchers, practitioners, and traditional knowledge holders working to synthesize current research, jointly identify and prioritize research topics, and build collaborative project teams to support a resilient, just, and sustainable Arctic in motion.

The next International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly will take place at the Messe Berlin – City Cube in Berlin, Germany from 11-20 July 2023. The assembly will include IACS symposia and joint symposia with other IUGG Associations. IACS will have an open plenary meeting for its members and correspondents.

This is a special opportunity for participants from around the world to come together and share their science and culture. Join the IUGG) General Assembly for a host of scientific activities, including special public lectures, keynote Union lectures, and a wide variety of themed sessions.

Important Dates

• Abstracts must be submitted via the online submission system by the extended deadline of 21 February 2023.
• Abstract/grant acceptance sent to participants 7 March 2023.
• Early-bird registration closes 28 April 2023.

Doğacan Su Öztürk will present “Satellites to Cell Phones: New Ways of Understanding the Aurora.”

Auroras, bright displays of light across the night sky at high-latitudes, occur when charged particles collide with neutral particles at Earth’s upper atmosphere. Although the conditions that lead to seeing the aurora are fairly well understood, the physical processes behind different types of vibrant auroras are not. As a result, computer models are unable to reproduce the auroral forms at different locations and times, making reliable aurora forecasting difficult.

With the ever-increasing computational resources, new space-borne missions and ground-based experiments, and new methods of using everyday tools, there are now many exciting and accessible opportunities to investigate the aurora.

This talk will review current methods and introduce new approaches that help understand the various aurora forms and how they affect Earth’s upper atmosphere.

Talks are free and for the public. All ages are encouraged to attend.

The Early Glaciologists Group (EGG) of the International Glaciological Society (IGS) is pleased to announce the CryoHackathon 2023. The overall aim of this event is for all participants to have fun across an exciting weekend, collaborating together on exciting projects linked to the cryosphere in a fun, inclusive and respectful atmosphere. Anyone is more than welcome to participate, no coding experience is required and there are prizes for the winning teams!

The general theme of the ASSW 2023 Science Symposium is "The Arctic in the Anthropocene". Vienna and the Austrian Polar Research Institute invite researchers from all scientific disciplines to discuss the role of the Arctic in the Anthropocene, spanning the time frame from the past to the future.

Never before has the Arctic experienced such a high pressure by human impact either by local environmental disturbances or by global climate change leading to long-term changes and massive challenges to the resistance and resilience of polar ecological systems and Arctic societies. The Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 will bring together scientists, Indigenous people, Arctic community members, and Arctic science stakeholders from all over the world to present and discuss the most recent advances on Arctic knowledge in the natural sciences, social sciences, the humanities as well as in the field of Indigenous knowledge. Besides the major Arctic focus of ASSW 2023, the OSC will also be an opportunity to foster research synergies between both Polar Regions, with sessions that integrate Arctic and Antarctica in order to understand global dimensions of anthropogenic impact.

The OSC will have plenary lectures and a large number of parallel science sessions, accepting both oral and poster presentations. Abstract submission for the ASSW 2023 Science Symposium is now open!

Never before has the Arctic experienced such a high pressure by human impact either by local environmental disturbances or by global climate change leading to long-term changes and massive challenges to the resistance and resilience of polar ecological systems and Arctic societies. “The Arctic in the Anthropocene” is a quite appropriate theme to focus on the increasing pressure of high latitudes. Several sessions offer space to shed light on short- and long-term changes, respectively, on human, terrestrial, aquatic or aerial systems. Despite the focus on the Arctic, contribution on the Antarctic, aiming at fostering networking and advances on research on both poles, are accepted and appreciated.

The conference will be held in a hybrid format including opportunities for both in-person and online oral / poster presentations.

Extended deadline for abstract submission is 2 October 2022.

The ASSW was initiated by International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) in 1999 to provide opportunities for coordination, cooperation and collaboration between the various scientific organizations involved in Arctic research and to economize on travel and time. Over the years the summit evolved into the most important annual gathering of the Arctic research organizations.

The Conference is organized by the Austrian PolarResearch Institute (APRI), the Austrian Arctic Community, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and partners. The venue will be the University of Vienna, one of the oldest universities in Europe. To meet the requirements of a potential influence of Covid-19 on the conference, but also to make the event as CO2 friendly as possible, the conference is planned as a hybrid event.

Important Dates

• 12 June 2022: Call for sessions extended deadline
• May - October 2022: Call for Community / Business Meetings
• 2 October 2022: Abstract submission extended deadline
• November 2022: Notification of Abstract Acceptance
• 1 December 2022: Registration opens
• 9 January 2023: Early bird registration closes