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The purpose of the Byrd Center's annual Symposium is to showcase climate change research at Ohio State and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Onsite attendance will be limited. Please only register for onsite attendance if you fully expect to attend.

Those who indicate an intent to present posters will be asked to submit final titles and abstracts in late September, as well as pdf versions of the poster to place online.

There is a pre-conference event for individuals that are currently teaching classes focused on climate to learn about ways of expanding climate education on campus. This event will be held from 8am-10am, before the symposium starts.

Onsite attendees will be expected to follow OSU protocols regarding the prevention of COVID-19 transmission.

For non-OSU participant registration, please contact us at byrd-contact [at] osu.edu

Registration will close September 30, 2022.

The Alaska Marine Science Symposium (AMSS) will take place 23-27 January 2023 and be an in-person event in Anchorage, Alaska that will allow virtual access to pre-recorded presentations. This will bring us back to creating an environment that focuses on engagement and collaboration between our participants, while still allowing those who are unable to travel access to presentations.

The Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Alaska’s premier marine research conference, has been bringing together scientists, educators, resource managers, students, and interested public for thirty years to discuss the latest marine research being conducted in Alaskan waters. Over 700 people attend this 4-day long conference held annually during the month of January.

Abstract submission deadline 21 October 2022.

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 November 2022. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Please register to attend.

Please join the National Science Foundation’s Arctic Sciences Section for an office hour. During this time, program officers discuss topics including broader impacts, the timing of Arctic community engagement, data policy and repository resources, and an update on the upcoming field season logistics and COVID-19 management. There will also be ample time for Q&A with the community.

This will take place on Zoom.

The 10th Workshop on Remote Sensing of Land Ice and Snow of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) will take place at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland from 06 - 08 February 2023.

This workshop will focus on the latest developments in remote sensing of land ice and snow. Presentations are encouraged on all fields of research and applications with the focus on snow and ice as proxy for a changing cryosphere, methods for retrieving cryospheric parameters from various types of remote sensing data, theoretical basis of inversion methods and their application, state of the art of retrieval algorithms including deep learning, data assimilation of remote sensing data and in situ observations in process models, and current and planned sensors for snow and ice. Half of a day will be dedicated to the activities from ESA (CCI+) and EUMETSAT.

Papers will be presented orally and as posters. Contributions must comply with one of the workshop topics specified below. Please indicate under which session topic your contribution shall be presented.

Preliminary session topics:

• Glaciers and Ice Caps
• Snow cover (regional to global scale)
• Snow and permafrost
• Snow hydrology
• Albedo of the cryosphere
• Cryosphere and climate
• Cryospheric modelling and data assimilation
• Airborne and ground-based observation methods
• New technologies (sensors/methods)
• ESA CCI+ snow
• EUMETSAT operational services

Important Dates

• Abstract submission extended deadline: 20 October 2022
• Authors notification: 15 November 2022
• Preliminary program: 15 December 2022

The Alaska Federation of Natives Convention serves as the principal forum and voice for the Alaska Native community in addressing critical issues of public policy and government. The convention convenes thousands of official delegates and participants from membership organizations across the state.

At the Convention, delegates discuss strategic opportunities and challenges, listen to memorable keynote speeches, hear reports from political leaders and presentations from expert panels, and share stories resilience, experiences, strengths, knowledge and hope for the future.

The resolutions passed by the voting delegates set the priorities for the year and guide AFN’s efforts. The Convention is the largest representative annual gathering in the United States of Native peoples.

The 2022 Annual AFN Convention will meet in-person for the first time in two years.

The 2022 Convention theme is "Celebrating Our Unity," honors the unity among our communities, families, and organizations of working together in taking on the challenges of today and those that lay ahead.

The University of Southern California (USC) invites registration for online viewing of the Arctic Environment and Strategy Workshop.

Funded by the National Science Foundation and hosted by USC, this event is formally titled Strategic Ambition and Environmental Constraint: a Conference-Workshop on the Impact of Rapid Environmental Degradation on the Security Strategies of Arctic States. The workshop features approximately two dozen invited experts—on Arctic environmental issues, on Arctic security, and on global threat assessment and strategy—discussing the collision of geopolitical rivalry with rapid environmental change. The breakdown of relations between Russia and other Arctic Council states aggravates a trend toward militarization in the region even as accelerating environmental degradation prioritizes broader international cooperation.

The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE Arctic) is a 10-year project (2012—2022) to improve our predictive understanding of carbon (C)-rich Arctic system processes and feedbacks to climate. This is achieved through experiments, observations, and synthesis of existing datasets that strategically inform model process representation and parameterization, and that enhance the knowledge base required for model initialization, calibration, and evaluation.

The 12th Annual Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments Arctic (NGEE Arctic) All Hands Meeting (Fall 2022) will take place October 19-21, 2022 at the DoubleTree Hotel
in Chattanooga, Tennessee and virtually.

As Alaska’s salmon respond to a rapidly changing environment, Alaskan fishing communities are experiencing record highs, disastrous lows, and uncertainty about what the future will bring. Climatic conditions affect salmon throughout their life cycle, from freshwater to the ocean and back. Climate can also influence salmon indirectly via their predators, prey, or pathogens, and through landscape changes like wildfire and melting glaciers. However, scientists are still working to understand which effects are most critical and how we can apply this knowledge to conserve salmon and sustain fishing communities. In this webinar, Erik Schoen will contend that we can better understand and adapt to these changes through collaborations between climate scientists, fisheries biologists, and local communities. Erik Schoen will share insights from student-led fieldwork on local rivers, research melding climate and population models, and conversations among Indigenous knowledge holders, agency scientists, and academics. Finally, Erik Schoen will suggest pathways forward that incorporate traditional knowledge, novel technologies, collaboration, and co-production into the research process.

Please register to attend.

The Online Workshop on Ice-Ocean Interactions is organized by the Joint IAPSO/IACS Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions (JCIOI), and aims to draw together researchers interested in the processes that govern ocean-driven melt of glaciers and ice sheets. The organizers hope that this meeting will draw together the
community, sharing knowledge across different research areas, and identifying critical knowledge gaps. The workshop will address four key science themes:

1. The physics of the ice-ocean boundary
2. The role of glacial melt in the wider ocean
3. The impact of ocean-driven melt on glacier and ice sheet mass balance
4. New and emerging technologies for studying ice-ocean interaction

The workshop will be entirely online, with a format primarily consisting of keynote presentations, followed by an open breakout session to discuss priority research questions and strategies for addressing existing gaps and limitations. There will also be a limited number of short presentations allowing participants to present their own work, with priority given to students and early career researchers. Sessions are spread over a broad schedule to facilitate interactions across time zones, including three virtual "coffee" sessions to facilitate networking.

The meeting is open to any interested participants, and the organizers particularly encourage involvement from students and early career researchers.

Registration is free, and will remain open until 7 October 2022.