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The meeting of Northwest Glaciologists will be an informal event, and abstracts will not be requested in advance of the workshop.

The meeting will run from approximately 9 am – 5 pm on both days. The registration fee will likely be between $20 and $50 per person depending on career stage, in order to cover the cost of food and refreshment.

Northwest Glaciologists is a warm, supportive, and inclusive meeting, with a strong emphasis on building and maintaining community. Graduate students and other early career researchers are especially invited to present. Many attendees may choose to give ~15 minute oral presentations, including those at the beginning of their studies, although poster presentations will also be a part of this meeting. While this has traditionally been a regional meeting of northwest institutions, all are welcome to attend, particularly those working on glaciers within Northwest North America, including Alaska and the Yukon.

Climate Accessibility is an important element of the climate change discourse, comprising two aspects. 1) Ensuring minority voices and those most impacted by climate change are represented and heard, and 2) Ensuring the conversation around climate change is accessible to the general public. By highlighting the issue of climate accessibility, the organizers hope to contribute to the advancement of climate solutions.

The 2022 Arctic Circle Assembly will be held in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre, Reykjavík, Iceland. Registration will open in early June.

Governments, universities, companies, research institutions, organizations, associations and other partners are invited to submit proposals for Sessions to the Arctic Circle Secretariat. Proposals are submitted through the online submission platform. Deadline: May 15th, 2022.

The Permafrost Discovery Gateway hosts a monthly webinar series on the second Thursday of each month at 9:00 am Alaska time, raising topics of interest to the permafrost community. 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

People living in the Arctic witness dramatic landscape changes affecting their livelihood and subsistence, especially in terms of permafrost thaw. By combining Citizien Science and Machine Learning methods, we aim to support the monitoring of surface changes attributed to permafrost thaw. Together with young citizen scientists from schools in Northwest Canada and Germany, the ongoing project UndercoverEisAgenten aspires to empower Arctic communities to enhance the data basis of permafrost degradation. During the project, students from both countries exchange and discuss climate warming, permafrost and the associated regional and global challenges. A core element of the project is the development of a web application that enables citizen scientists to map landscape changes. To this end, students in Canada operate drones to capture high-resolution aerial imagery of the Arctic land surface. The imagery is processed and divided into manageable batches of simple mapping tasks (“micro tasks”). Through volunteer contributions , a unique reference data set is generated to support efforts to better understand and monitor permafrost degradation. Thereby, we build on expertise gained from MapSwipe, an open-source mobile app designed to make mapping around the world more coordinated and efficient with about 30,000 volunteers and 3 million square kilometers already mapped. We will present the current status of the UndercoverEisAgenten mapping application, discuss challenges regarding data quality of crowdsourced data, and envision future combinations of automatic and human-interactive approaches for mapping permafrost structures.

The 15th Polar Law Symposium (PLS) will be co-hosted by the Polar Law Institute and the Center for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland in partnership with the Arctic Circle.

You are invited to submit proposals for keynotes, panels, workshops and/or single topic presentations for inclusion on the PLS agenda. Please note that the deadline for the call for proposals has been extended to 15 May 2022.

An advisory committee is composed of Gudmundur Alfredsson (Stefansson Arctic Institute), Pia Hansson (University of Iceland), Julia Jabour (University of Tasmania), Timo Koivurova (University of Lapland) Akiho Shihata (University of Kobe), and Embla Eir Oddsdottir (Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network). Jonathan Wood, Symposium Manager and PhD fellow at the University of Iceland will be heading a planning committee with the members currently consisting of Federica Scarpa, (Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network – IACN) and Snæfríður Grímsdóttir (Centre for Arctic Studies).

Abstract Submission

The PLS Advisory Committee particularly welcomes submissions on the Arctic and Antarctic including, but not limited to topics addressing:

• Legal regimes in the Arctic and Antarctic within the fields of international law, national law, and regional law
• Arctic and Antarctic Governance & Policy
• Constitutional developments
• Sovereignty issues and boundary disputes on land and sea, land resource claims
• Human Rights, rights of Indigenous Peoples, decolonization and reconciliation
• Environmental law, Transitional Justice, Energy Justice, and Environmental Justice
• Biodiversity, wildlife use, and governance of natural resources
• Indigenous Peoples and Minorities, Self-Governance and Good Governance Law of the Sea, Shipping, and Fisheries Agreements
• International Arctic marine governance and management
• Arctic Geo- Politics and Security, including Non-Military Aspects
• Gender Equality in the Arctic
• Development Economics in the Arctic and Arctic Economies and business Future of Polar Law: existing and new challenges
• Sustainable and inclusive Development, Food security
• Policy - Relevant-Science within the context of Arctic; Antarctica and the third pole

Proposals should be sent to Jonathan Wood: wood.jonathan.w [at] gmail.com no later than 15 May 2022. Presentations are expected to be 10-12 minutes long.

SIOS Knowledge Centre and the SIOS Remote Sensing Working Group invites abstracts from the Svalbard science community working on applications using Earth Observation (EO), Remote Sensing (RS), and Geoinformation (GI).

The organizers are pleased to announce this years' conference on Earth observation and Remote Sensing applications in Svalbard. The conference aims to:

• Promote the work of PhD students, postdocs, researchers, senior scientists, and academics who are actively contributing to the science of Svalbard
• Review the state-of-the-art EO and RS applications in Svalbard

Abstract submission extended deadline: 12 September 2022.

Registration is free, but required for attendance. Once registered, participants will receive information for joining the Zoom platform.

Satcom Forum meetings are a place where scientists who use satellite communications to collect data from remote instruments (such as weather stations, drifting buoys or hydrological gauging stations) can meet both the satellite network operators and the manufacturers of instrumentation. It’s a chance to learn about new products and services, and for the networks and manufacturers to learn about the challenges that the scientific community are facing.

The meeting is conducted only in English in a hybrid format.

You are more than welcome to join the meeting physically in Paris, but remote participation is also possible, both for speakers and attendees.

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) play a key role in the global water cycle as the primary mechanism conveying water vapor through mid-latitude regions. The precipitation that ARs deliver in many parts of the world, especially through orographic precipitation processes, is important for water resources; but it also regularly is a hazard, triggering floods and landslides, as well as coastal windstorms.

The main objective of the International Atmospheric River Conference 2022 (the fourth IARC) is to advance the state of the AR science (dynamics, impacts, monitoring, forecast & projections) providing a forum to a growing community of researches and practitioners. This event effectively strengthens worldwide, cross-disciplinary collaboration. The organizers also aim to connect different disciplines, stakeholders and users.

The in-person conference will be held in Santiago, Chile, including plenary talks, poster sessions and breakout room discussions. Plenary sessions will be transmitted on-line, and participants may present remotely if needed.

Main themes

• Physics and dynamics aspects of ARs
• Hydro-meteorological impacts of ARs Observing, tracking, modeling and forecasting ARs
• ARs in past and future climates

Special Sessions

• Socio-economical impacts of ARs
• ARs and polar Meteorology and Climate
• Compound events

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission Period: 2 May to 15 June 2022
• Registration: 1 July to 10 October 2022
• Draft Program: 31 July 2022
• Final Program: 30 September 2022

Seeing ice first form on lakes and rivers signals the start of winter for many Alaskans. Despite longer and warmer falls in recent years, trends in freeze-up timing are often inconclusive. Part of this challenge may be defining whether freeze-up occurs as a single-day event or a progressive process with widely varied timing depending on the waterbody and season of interest. Defining freeze-up in terms that matter to how people use waters for travel, recreation, and subsistence is likely just as important. As part of a new freshwater ice observation program, Fresh Eyes on Ice, we are looking for citizen observations and insights into freeze-up and the entire ice cycle. This webinar will discuss new efforts being made to improve ice observation in Alaska and ways that you can help.

Please register to attend.

The 9th International Conference on Polar and Alpine Microbiology will be a continuation of the eight highly successful previous meetings of this conference series.

The objective of the Potsdam meeting is to bring together researchers from all over the world to discuss various aspects of microbial diversity, function and activity related to cold-adapted microorganisms in polar and alpine environments. The organizers' aim is to foster discussions about recent developments in the field and to exchange ideas and experiences on an international scale.

The meeting will cover different aspects of polar and alpine microbiology:

• Microbial diversity and biogeography in permafrost environments
• Metabolic activity at subzero temperature
• Mechanisms of microbial adaptation and survival in permafrost environments
• Permafrost astrobiology
• Plant-microbe interaction
• Microbial communities and global change
• Carbon and nitrogen turnover
• Microbial gene pool of cold environments
• Biotechnology for cyrospheric microorganisms
• Eukaryotic microbial diversity (e.g. algae and fungi)
• Viruses in polar and alpine environments

The organizers cannot offer a hybrid mode option for participation but aim to stream selected talks each day for free, to broaden the audience.

Abstract submission is extended to 15 July 2022.