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The U.S. Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) announces their call for applications for the 2022-2023 executive board. Members of the USAPECS Board work together to develop and execute activities of interest and beneficial to Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) members in the U.S. These activities can include anything you're passionate about—relevant to polar early career researchers—from organizing social events or panel discussions at meetings to running a remotely-hosted AMA (‘Ask-Me-Anything’) session or organizing a webinar.

USAPECS' activities in 2021/22 included:

• Updating and increasing their focus on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) initiatives
• Organizing a blog series focusing on ‘Becoming a Polar Scientist’
• Creating early career newsletters in collaboration with the IARPC Early Career Forum
• Participating in International Polar Week activities including an AMA on reddit
• Sharing research and other opportunities on their Twitter account

Task groups USAPECS hopes to run in 2022/23 include:

• AGU Events
• Social media
• Blog
• Webinars
• Website maintenance
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA)
• IARPC Collaboration on the Early Career Forum

Applications are due September 7th. USAPECS will have an online meeting to welcome new members mid-September.

The Sentinel North 2022 Scientific Meeting will be held from 25-27 October 2022 at the Quebec City Convention Centre.

The Sentinel North 2022 Scientific Meeting will showcase a variety of impactful results in northern research. Submit your abstract now to share your work with your peers from other disciplines and contribute to the emergence of innovative ways of doing interdisciplinary research at Université Laval.

All of Université Laval's research community and its partners (students, researchers, postdoctoral fellows, research professionals and collaborators, funded or not by Sentinel North) are welcome to submit an abstract. Four options are proposed : oral presentation (10 minutes + questions), oral presentation and poster, blitz presentation (3 minutes without questions) and poster, poster only.

Abstracts proposals must be submitted by September 7, 2022.

The Oxford University Polar Forum are inviting researchers of all disciplines, people from local and Indigenous Arctic communities, policymakers, funders of research, and all other stakeholders to contribute towards the Horizon Scan by participating in an secure online survey, which asks respondents to name one or more priorities for Arctic research in the next decade. Organizers welcome submissions about local-scale as well as large-scale issues; well-known topics and under-appreciated ones; urgent concerns as well as more distant ones; and topics concerning the environment, ecosystems, geology, industry, politics, language, culture, weather, and climate.

Workshop organizers will condense the online submissions into a categorized set of research priorities for the next decade. Based in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, the workshop will invite participation from researchers, Arctic stakeholders, and Indigenous rights holders.

The Horizon Scan will build towards a peer-reviewed written report summarizing the findings of the workshop and online survey. This will be an agenda-setting document useful to researchers, funders of research, policymakers, and other Arctic stakeholders and rightsholders. Through participation in the Horizon Scan, organizers also hope that new cross-disciplinary connections and partnerships will be made, and that different forms of knowledge (e.g., scientific and traditional) will be brought together.

Deadline to submit input: 23 August 2022.

The Challenger Society Conference 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the Challenger expedition and celebrates the birth of international and interdisciplinary oceanography.

On 7th December 1872, the HMS Challenger departed the Royal Navy Dockyard at Sheerness on the River Medway in Kent, England, on a four-year global scientific expedition across the world’s oceans. It was the first truly interdisciplinary grand scientific project, international in scope and involving the study of the physics, chemistry, biology and geology of the global ocean.

The UK Challenger Society and the Challenger Conferences are named after this expedition and exist to bring together UK marine scientists and international colleagues to discuss the latest science and inspire new generations of ocean researchers.

Challenger 150 will be the opportunity to take stock of where we have come in our science, the way we do oceanography, and an opportunity to discuss, imagine and design the future of open, international, collaborative, inclusive and diverse marine science.

The conference will include plenary sessions covering the very latest research in oceanography and a wide variety of special science sessions covering the physical, biological and chemical oceanography, marine conservation and biodiversity and marine geology and geophysics.

Important Dates

• Early bird registration closes 1 May 2022
• Abstract submission deadline extended to 8 June 2022
• Registration closes 1 July 2022

Update: Because the Omicron variant is spreading over the world at an explosive pace, the organizers cannot judge whether they can hold an onsite conference on Sept. 2022. Although a purely-online conference can be one possible option, the scientific committee members determined a one-year postponement of the conference.

The 15th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice (PCI-2022) will be held in Sapporo, Japan. The organizers are also planning to accept online participation. The organizers cordially invite you to enjoy active and fruitful discussions in all fields related with physics and chemistry of Ice.

This conference will cover a wide range of topics related to physical, chemical, biological, geological, and environmental aspects of ice. The topics will range from fundamental to applied research, and will include laboratory, field, modelling, and computational work. The organizers expect to have interdisciplinary discussions of ice. Session topics include:

• Surfaces and interfaces of ice
• Mechanical, dielectric, and optical properties of ice
• Ice phases, amorphous ice and glass transition
• Ice and life
• Reactions on/in ice
• Ice and snow in the cryosphere
• Ice in space
• Clathrate hydrates
• Computational science of ice
• Others

English is the official language of this conference.

Organizers invite abstracts and registration for the 2023 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Seminar on Polar Marine Science. This conference, with the theme of Integrating Ocean Physics and Biogeochemistry to Assess Polar Ecosystem Sensitivity to Rapid Change, will take place 5-10 March 2023 in Ventura, California.

This GRC on Polar Marine Science will highlight recent advances in the understanding of physical-chemical-biological linkages and feedback processes across coupled ocean-cryosphere-atmosphere-ecosystems of the Arctic and Southern oceans. Special emphasis will be given to understand impacts on polar marine species, food webs, and habitats. Sessions will highlight recent advance in polar climate change detection and attribution, impacts of multiple stressors on biota, changes in habitat distribution, integrated approaches to collect multi-disciplinary observations, and novel methods to analyze and link long-term time-series data with conceptual and numerical models.

The conference will consist of both talks and posters. One-minute oral summaries of posters will allow presenters to address the entire group, promoting enhanced interactions, in-depth discussions, and brainstorming. A GRC "Power Hour" will be held to help address the challenges women face in polar science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.

A Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) will be held on the weekend prior to the GRC. The GRS will provide a forum for graduate students and postdoctoral scientists to present their work in a peer-to-peer setting. The participants will discuss cutting-edge aspects of their research, and have the opportunity to build collaborative relationships with other early career researchers as well as with established scientists and mentors.

The seminar will focus on the spatial and temporal variability of processes (and specific methodology applied) occurring in the polar oceans, with a particular emphasis on interfaces. The seminar will feature approximately 10 talks and two poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS, either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.

Abstract submission deadline: 5 September 2022.

Registration deadline: 4 February 2023.

The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) invites registration for a training course on artificial intelligence (AI) in Svalbard. This week-long course will take place in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.

The course is intended for scientists, Masters/PhD students, engineers, and technicians with no or modest experience with AI and machine learning in their research. Basic knowledge of programming languages (python) is preferable.

This training course will consist of four components: lightning talks by speakers from the AI field, lecture series and hands-on sessions by AI experts, field excursions, and mini-project development after the training course.

There is no cost for registration, but participants are expected to cover their own accommodation, travel, and associated costs.

Registration deadline: 15 May 2022.

The Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University is hosting the 2022 edition of the British Society for Geomorphology’s Annual Meeting. The conference will follow the well-established format of oral and poster presentations, spread over three days, on a wide variety of geomorphological and geomorphology-related topics. Registration and accommodation costs have been kept to a minimum to promote participation, especially for postgraduate and other early career researchers.

Important Dates

• Call for abstracts and registration now open
• Abstract submission deadline: Friday 15 July 2022
• Notification of acceptance: end of July 2022 (latest)
• Registration closes: Tuesday 23 August 2022

The EMS2022 (European Meteorological Society) is planned to be held as an in-person meeting at the Poppelsdorf Campus of the University of Bonn. The conference will have an online component. For onsite participation the organizers will follow the then-valid regulations on travelling and access to large events.

The challenges and opportunities for meteorological science and services are growing continuously: climate change and more frequent extreme weather events with high socio-economic impact pose growing threats. However, new opportunities emerge from increasing computer and telecommunication resources, artificial intelligence, new observing systems and technologies as well as a broader awareness of the potential of meteorological science and applications across diverse communities, from meteorological research organisations and companies to society and stakeholders.

Abstract submission deadline is 26 April 2022.

Climate change is any change in the temperature or water levels that affects Earth for a long period of time. Humans today are experiencing rapid and unexpected changes in temperature where we witness hotter weather and sudden severe storms. However, the impacts of climate change do not stop at hotter temperatures. The rising temperatures that result from the burning of fossil fuels cause the melting of ice glaciers and the increase of water levels. On the other hand, drought in other regions causes changes in the subterranean layers of Earth due to the absorption of water from these layers. According to an article by NASA, these changes in the water levels are one possible reason behind sudden earthquakes due to the changes in the tectonic movements of Earth layers.

Rising oceans threaten the flooding of coastal cities like Alexandria, Miami, and Tokyo, which will result in the sudden and unplanned displacement of people. This affects the physical and mental health of human beings, causes the loss of crops and shortage of food supply, and disturbs the ecological system due to the loss of certain animal or plant species.

The first edition of the International Conference on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES) in 2021 discussed the effects of greenhouse gases on Earth’s temperature and global warming. This year, the conference’s second edition will take these previously-discussed pressing issues forward as well as tackle the new threats that arise every day.

The conference is a chance for scientists and researchers from around the globe to excavate solutions for the new threats as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which develop due to climate changes and try to figure out the reasons behind them. IEREK welcomes participants with various scientific backgrounds to gather and find solutions to save our planet Earth.

Abstract submissions deadline (extended): 05 April 2022.
Full paper submission deadline: 03 July 2022.