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The Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding is honored to host Dr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, the President of Iceland. Prior to taking office as president in 2016, the President taught history at the University of Iceland as well as Reykjavik University. He earned his Ph.D. in history at Queen Mary University of London in 2003, and previously studied at Oxford University as well as the University of Iceland. He has published books and articles on modern Icelandic history, the presidency, economics, and other extensive subjects.

As the Arctic has increasingly become the center of political, economic, environmental, and strategic discourse, the nations and peoples have had to contend with rapidly changing times. The President offers his reflections on this subject, and how Iceland continues to maneuver through the challenging political waters of a transforming world.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) and the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) invite registration for a virtual Arctic Research Funders Meet and Greet networking event.

The Arctic Research Funders Meet and Greet will provide an informal opportunity for Arctic researchers to connect with multiple funding agency representatives to gain insight into each organization’s Arctic research interests. The event has been planned using a “speed networking” format that will allow representatives from each funding organization to meet with small groups of up to 10 people for approximately 10-15 minutes at a time. Researchers will be invited to move between breakout rooms hosted by agency staff in a round-robin format.

Small group conversations will explore the Arctic research interests of each funding organization, how proposals are evaluated for funding consideration, or provide an opportunity to address a handful of specific questions that would be appropriate for group discussion.


There is no cost to participate and attendees do not need to be a member of either ARCUS or IARPC to attend. We do encourage you to register early, however, as attendance may be capped to ensure small group sizes.

For questions, please contact Brit Myers
 at brit [at] arcus.org
.

The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) will coordinate the Cryosphere Pavilion at COP27, building on the success of the first Cryosphere Pavilions at COP25 and COP26.

ICCI brings together scientists and policymakers to protect the planet from the global consequences of cryosphere melt. COP27 represents a key opportunity to make the global impact of overshoot of the Paris Agreement temperature limit of 1.5°C from the cryosphere abundantly clear.

Join either of the hour-long webinars in August to learn more about the Cryosphere Pavilion, ICCI's goals, the types of events hosted, and how to get involved — including as an early career scientist volunteer. The webinars will also be your chance to ask any questions about the application process or logistics.

The mission of the US Permafrost Association (USPA) is to encourage scientific and engineering investigations in permafrost and to share those findings. As the USPA celebrates their 20th Anniversary, they invite you to a workshop where speakers will present on various science and engineering topics related to permafrost in Alaska.

Topics of the presentations varies from a historic perspective of permafrost in Anchorage to a new program that has mapped more than a billion ice wedge polygons across the Arctic. They will also have presentations related to projects related to permafrost engineering and our changing climate.

The Bering Strait region is a particularly unique area - one of the Arctic's most productive and sensitive environments but also a region increasingly facing pressure and challenges. Amidst an upheaval in relations between Russia and the other Arctic states exist transboundary risks associated with increased vessel activity, which continue to advance despite these deteriorated conditions.

Please join the Harvard Kennedy School's Arctic Initiative, the Wilson Center's Polar Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund in Cambridge, MA, and online for a half-day event on transboundary risk management in the Bering Strait region.

This is a hybrid event. Members of the Harvard community and the public are welcome to attend in-person or virtually.

The 11th International Workshop on Sea Ice Modelling, Assimilation, Observations, Predictions and Verification (aka IICWG-DA-11) will take place from 21-23 March 2023 at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo, Norway.

The organizers welcome contributions in the fields of sea-ice modelling, data assimilation, observations, forecast and verification. Contributions from recent research-to-operation transfers that aim towards automated sea-ice prediction systems are encouraged.

The organizers welcome your abstracts no later than 1 November 2022. Participants will be contacted by 15 December 2022 regarding their proposed contribution.

Are you planning a Humanities/Social Sciences field campaign in Greenland in 2023? Arctic Hub is working towards establishing a new forum for researchers with a background in social sciences and humanities to coordinate funded SSH projects and fieldwork in Greenland. During this meeting, the organizers will ask you to share your plans and knowledge to enter a dialogue about coordination and cooperation.

Target Group: Researchers representing funded social sciences & humanities projects with fieldwork in Greenland in 2023.

Participation: The meeting will be held digitally on Zoom. You will receive a Zoom Meeting ID together with the registration confirmation by Arctic Hub.

Aim: 1) Coordinate between research projects 2) Enhance quality of research through collaboration and knowledge exchange 3) Reduce research fatigue in Greenland.

Registration deadline is Wednesday, 26 October 2022.

The ARCUS Annual Meeting is an important opportunity for ARCUS' Members, Board of Directors, staff, and other interested individuals to meet, talk, and connect with one another around key Arctic research and education issues and collaboration opportunities.

The meeting is open to all interested participants and there is no cost to attend. The meeting will focus on small group discussions to encourage sharing and networking.

Please register to attend.

Meeting Goals

• CONNECT: Bring members of the Arctic research and education community together to meet, talk, and connect.
• SHARE: Explore what individuals and organizations are doing to address key challenges and opportunities.
• ADVANCE: Identify actionable ways we can work together and support each other.

The WCRP Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) organises a hybrid workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models, hosted by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

The workshop brings together a wide range of experts on simulating the Earth System including atmosphere, ocean, waves, land-surface, atmospheric composition, and associated disciplines to advance the understanding of systematic simulation errors at all timescales. A particular emphasis is given to identifying errors in complex coupled systems and to understand their root causes. Progress in diagnosing and addressing systematic errors using a wide range of tools ranging from classical methods to advanced technologies such as data assimilation and machine learning / AI will be documented. The workshop will encourage an active discussion on relative merits of active development of physical models and parametrisations to address systematic errors versus bias correction methods.

The workshop will review recent progress made on the atmospheric systematic error priorities identified from the 5th Workshop on Systematic Errors, while also expanding focus to coupled systems. The workshop will be broadly organized around the following themes:

• Clouds and precipitation
• Atmosphere-land-ocean-cryosphere interactions
• (sub-)tropical circulations
• Stratosphere-Troposphere interactions
• Machine learning/AI and data assimilation
• Quantifying uncertainty
• Challenges and surprises in simulating the climate system

Format

The format of the workshop will facilitate online and physical participation and follows the previous successful workshop in Montreal in 2017.

• To participate in this workshop, it is necessary to submit an abstract, and for that abstract to be accepted.
• Assuming there are no social distancing measures in place, the meeting can accommodate 120 physical participants. There is no limitation to the number of online participants.
• There will be a single session of oral presentations (no parallel sessions) from selected abstracts plus keynote talks of solicited speakers.
• The majority of presentations will be in the form of posters which can be discussed in dedicated online rooms and dedicated physical sessions.
• The workshop science steering committee will review and decide on acceptance.

The Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-7) will take place in 6-10 March 2023 in Tachikawa, Japan and online.

Although the rapid warming of the Arctic is widely known, the prediction of the future development of climate and environment is still uncertain. On the other hand, resource development and economic activities are rapidly growing. In ISAR-7, we will discuss how we can find the solutions from studies of various disciplines to the challenge of a rapidly changing Arctic for building a sustainable society.

ISAR-7 will consist of General Sessions and Special Sessions. General Sessions will address the following topics:

• Atmosphere
• Ocean and sea ice
• Rivers, lakes, permafrost, and snow cover
• Ice sheets, glaciers, and ice cores
• Terrestrial ecosystems
• Marine ecosystems
• Geospace
• Laws, politics, and economy
• Language, culture, and health
• Engineering for sustainable development

Important Dates

• Abstract submission extended deadline: 6 November 2022
• Early registration deadline: 19 December 2022
• Registration deadline: 6 February 2023