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The Arctic Science Summit Week 2023 will be held 17 - 24 February 2023 in Vienna, Austria and Online.

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
• November 2022: Registration opens

Organizers invite session abstracts for the Sixth Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences (XMAS-VI). This symposium will take place 9-12 January 2023 in Xiamen, China and online.

To promote interdisciplinary studies in marine environmental science and to foster the next generation of ocean scientists, the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University (MEL) initiated the first Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences (XMAS) in 2014. Since then, XMAS has grown to become one of the largest international conferences in the field of marine sciences in Asia and acts as a hotspot to exchange research interests in global and regional oceans.

In its sixth iteration, XMAS-VI will be held in Xiamen from January 9th to 12th, 2023 with the theme focusing on Multidisciplinary and Solution Sciences for a Sustainable and Healthy Ocean. The symposium will consist of various interconnected sessions covering physical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, biological oceanography, geological oceanography, and marine ecotoxicology along with workshops and other events for emerging topics in marine environmental sciences such as ocean-based carbon removal, ocean sustainability, etc.

Abstract Deadline: 30 September 2022.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), in cooperation with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), is launching its IASC Fellowships Program 2023.

The IASC Fellowship Program is meant to engage early career researchers in the work of the IASC Working Groups (WGs): Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Marine, Social & Human and Terrestrial. This year, there will be 8 IASC Fellowships. As part of the Polar Initiative with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, two of those Fellowships will be generously funded by the foundation.

• At least one IASC Fellow will be chosen per IASC WG
• At least one IASC Indigenous Fellow will be chosen; this individual will be an early career Arctic Indigenous Scholar or Knowledge Holder who can choose which IASC WG to engage in

The deadline for applications for all fellowships is 30 September 2022.

Organizers invite registration for the 3rd Workshop on Food Life History of the North. This hybrid workshop will take place 30 September–1 October 2022 in Kyoto, Japan and online (29-30 September in the United States).

With a focus on the study of traditional food and local knowledge in the past, present, and future, organizers seek to learn from Indigenous and academic presenters from various disciplines and regions on “Food Life History: from Global to Local perspectives.”

This workshop is organized as part of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature feasibility study, “Food Life History of Cold Storage of the North using Natural Freezing Energy – History, Transformation, and Future Vision of Food Preservation Under the Influence of Global Shift,” and the U.S. National Science Foundation-funded “Changes in Traditional Underground Food Storage Practices: Exploring Food Life History in Beringian Communities” grant.

Registration deadline: 28 September 2022 (27 September in the United States).

Åsa Rennermalm is an associate professor at the Department of Geography at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research interest is hydrology and glaciology of the Arctic region. Her current work explore how climate change is transforming the Greenland ice sheet by studying ice sheet melting and river discharge.

Before coming to Rutgers, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Geography at University of California Los Angeles. Her Ph.D is from Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University.

The annual Polar CORDEX (COordinated Regional Climate Downscaling EXperiment) meeting will be a hybrid meeting, but the organizers encourage people to attend in person. It will be hosted by NORCE and held in Bergen, Norway. The meeting venue will most likely be the Bjerknes Centre (Jahnebakken 5, Bergen). The organizers plan for 2.5 days (Wednesday 28th Sept, 11am to Friday 30th Sept., 1pm).

There will be 3 sessions, as follows:

• Wed 28: Arctic CORDEX
• Thur 29: Antarctic CORDEX
• Fri 30: Plans for 2023: plenum discussion

If you want to attend, please complete the online registration form.

Presentations are very welcome on all aspects of Antarctic and Arctic CORDEX work (e.g., processes, recent and future climate change, key drivers, coupled modeling, model evaluation, multi-model intercomparisons). Time allotted is maximum 10 minutes.

Deadline for registration is September 1st.

The NSF GEO wide P4CLIMATE (Paleo Perspectives of Present and Projected Climate) will host two virtual office hours on Tuesday 20 September and Wednesday 28 September from 2:00-5:00 pm EDT.

P4CLIMATE program directors will present a brief overview of this new solicitation and will be available to answer solicitation-specific questions, such as expectations for the research themes and topics supported by P4CLIMATE.

Registration is required in advance for this meeting.

The conference will kick off with an informal dinner on Monday 9/26, and the formal science agenda will conclude by lunch on Thursday 9/29, with an optional Thursday afternoon workshop. More details about the 2022 workshop will be available in the coming months! Sponsored by the NSF and NASA, the workshop will focus on marine ice-sheet and adjacent earth systems, with particular emphasis on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Please contact the Organizing Committee if you have any questions or concerns regarding the WAIS Workshop.

Deadlines

The deadline for Abstract Submission is August 12 at 5:00 PM PDT (UTC-7). Abstract submission is separate from the registration process.

Early-career travel support request deadline is also August 12. There are limited funds to support air or ground travel to the meeting as well as registration fees (including lodging). Please submit your application or early-career travel support.

Registration deadline is August 26 at 5 PM PDT, but the workshop has reached capacity before this deadline in the past, so register early!

The Metrology for Climate Action Workshop is on online workshop open to experts and stakeholders active in the fields of climate science, observations, modelling, GHG mitigation and measurement and measurement science willing to contribute to the development of recommendations on key technical challenge areas for metrology in these fields.

Workshop Aims

• Present progress and identify requirements for further development of advanced measurements, standards, reference data, comparisons, calibration supporting the physical science basis for and adaptation to climate change
• Identify stakeholders’ metrology needs, assess current metrological techniques, analyses, and modeling capabilities, and identify gaps in quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and uptake for effective actions on mitigating climate change and its impacts

The output of the workshop will be a set of recommendations on key technical challenge areas for metrology over the next decade.

Arctic Frontiers welcomes you to submit abstracts to their upcoming conference Moving North, which will take place in Tromsø, Norway and Online from 30 January to 2 February 2023.

Sea ice, new species, technology hubs and the impacts of climate change are all moving closer to the Arctic, whilst simultaneously, the people of the Arctic are moving south, providing both challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. The knock-on effects of the war in Europe are vast, including food and fuel security, fertilizer and agriculture limitations, energy demand, and supply chain issues.

The conference will have seven science sessions with the following titles:

• Occupational health and safety in the Arctic
• City transformation by and for the citizens of the Arctic using digital technologies and visualisation
• Modelling and monitoring challenges to maritime safety in a changing Arctic
• Plastic pollution, priorities and perspectives in the Arctic
• Impacts and adaptations in response to Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean
• Adaptive management of rapidly changing Arctic ecosystems using interdisciplinary and system-science approaches
• Assembling the valuable and vulnerable North

The extended abstract deadline is 26 September 2022.