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Intelligent Systems and GEOsciences (IS-GEO) and iHARP (National Science Foundation HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions) invite registration for a virtual workshop on model-based reasoning for closer collaboration between polar scientists and data scientists and beyond. This virtual workshop will take place online.

This workshop will provide methods that engage researchers across disciplines to explore how data and models can inform artificial intelligence (AI). Hands-on activities will support the development of conceptual models and participatory modeling implementation using data across applications in polar regions, hydrologic models, hazards planning, and climate change impacts on communities, as well as other topics salient to workshop participants. A mini-hackthon will be hosted during the latter half of the workshop allowing geosciences, cognitive sciences, data science, and advanced intelligent systems to form mixed teams and then pitch, develop, and present results from ad hoc project ideas created during this event.

Workshop sessions and topics will include:

• How to bridge across disciplines for convergent research
• Data science skills for spatiotemporal data modeling
• Best practices for cyberinfrastructure design
• High resolution image processing and analysis
• Ontological descriptions of common tools used in earth sciences and data science
• Sharing pedagogical resources that can be used in the classroom
• Earth systems modeling of Antarctic ice sheets
• Lightning talks from fellow participants

The workshop will take a hybrid form consisting of a global virtual event and a number of regional “satellite” events that are either in-person or virtual.

OceanHackWeek (OHW) is a 5-day collaborative learning experience aimed at exploring, creating and promoting effective computation and analysis workflows for large and complex oceanographic data. It includes tutorials, data exploration, software development, collaborative projects and community networking. Its objectives are to:

• Promote data and software proficiency in ocean scientists: Provide participants with computational and data science skills that can advance oceanography research, which often requires the integration and manipulation of diverse sources of data and models.
• Facilitate inclusive community building: Connect oceanographers across disciplines and career stages and cultivate an open science and a sharing culture.

Application deadline: 1 June 2022. Accepted applicants will be notified no later than 18 June 2022.

The U.S. Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) is supporting development of four Convergence Working Groups to address collaboratively issues of critical importance to NNA projects and Arctic communities. Each group will work together under a broad theme, with the working group members together determining a more focused set of activities and group outcomes. Before beginning the process of developing team co-leads and participants, the NNA-CO is seeking community input on the themes that might become Convergence Working Group focus areas.

The NNA-CO is collecting comments from all interested parties (e.g., Arctic community members, researchers, partners, etc.). These comments will be reviewed and a list of eight themes will be evolved for presentation to the broad NNA community before and at the Annual NNA Community Meeting (Nov. 15-17). At that time, the NNA-CO will open up the nomination/application process for those interested in co-leading a Convergence Working Group. Nominees/applicants will indicate their theme(s) of interest. Working group co-leads and Convergence Working Groups Themes will be finalized during winter 2022/23.

Comment form is open through August 15, 2022.

The Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) is hosting a photo contest to showcase the beauty of the Arctic and its peoples, along with all the remarkable work that goes into NNA research.

The NNA-CO invites your photos of fieldwork, research stations and sites, communities and life in the Arctic (with permissions), wildlife, natural landscapes, and cultural landscapes. Though, all ideas are welcome! There will be prizes for the top three photo submissions, as well as for seven honorable mentions. The NNA-CO plans to use the submitted photos for outreach, engagement, and communications about NNA.

Extended submission deadline: Sunday, 14 August 2022.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) is opening the PSECCO Conference Travel Grant Program to US-based polar early career scientists and educators who are in need of funding to attend an international or domestic conference at which they intend to present polar science-related content. Travel funding grants aim to support polar early career scientists and educators with demonstrated financial need.

The deadline by which to apply is August 14, 2022 at 11.59pm MT.

To be eligible for funding applicants must:

• Be an early career scientist ranging anywhere from an undergraduate student to seven years or less since your last terminal degree OR be a currently practicing educator
• Be based in the United States and affiliated with a US-based institution
• Do research/science focused on or related to polar regions or educate about the polar regions
• Have demonstrated financial need

PSECCO is committed to supporting and creating opportunities for those from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences, people from groups historically excluded from the polar sciences are encouraged to apply.

Expectations for applicants related to attending the conference include that each PSECCO-funded grantee must:

• Give a presentation at the conference (poster or oral)
• Organize a PSECCO social meet-up event for polar early career scientists and educators at the conference
• Submit a report to PSECCO (psecco [at] colorado.edu) within two months of the conclusion of the conference, which includes: a 500-word written reflection on what you got out of attending the conference and at least two photographs of you at the event that can be shared on the PSECCO website and media outlets

If you have any questions or need clarification about anything related to the PSECCO Conference Travel Grant Program, please email psecco [at] colorado.edu

The NNA Community Office, in concert with NSF and the NNA Advisory Boards, will organize the 2022 NNA Annual Community Meeting from 15-17 November 2022 in Anchorage, Alaska, hosted by Alaska Pacific University.

The meeting will include in-person, hybrid, and virtual sessions and events. The meeting is for NNA researchers, research partners, Indigenous community and organization representatives, decision-makers, and others who have an interest in the NNA initiative.

Registration will open in August.

The organizers invite session and workshop proposals from across the NNA community (NNA-funded and prospective researchers, research partners, Indigenous community and organization representatives, etc.) to complement these themes or other priorities that align with the NNA initiative. More information about the annual meeting, these themes, and how to submit a session or workshop proposal is provided on our website.

The deadline for session proposals is August 12, 2022.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop will take place September 26–29, 2022 in Estes Park, Colorado.

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!

Join ecologist Kim Bernard and her team live from Palmer Station, Antarctica for World Krill Day! In this live Zoom event, learn how researchers study krill, small crustaceans that play an important role in the marine food web, and why these tiny critters are so important to the health of the ocean. You can submit questions or topics ahead of time that you would like the presenters to address during the webinar. All are welcome!

Join the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy (ACCAP) for an overview of the Bering Science publication, featuring speakers on crab, salmon, seabirds and climate in the Bering Sea. The Bering Science publication is a collaboration between the Alaska Ocean Observing System and the International Arctic Research Center. The publication shares observations and research that is happening in and around the region. This year’s report focused on six topics identified by our Community Advisory Panel – salmon, walrus, crab, halibut, seabirds and climate.

Please register to attend.

The 17th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Polar Meteorology
and Oceanography Committee, will be held at the Monona Terrace in Madison, WI. The conference will be held jointly with the AMS 25th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, and the AMS 16 the Conference on Cloud Physics/16th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation as part of the Collective Madison Meeting.

Papers are solicited for sessions that cover a wide range of topics on polar meteorology and oceanography. *A list and detailed description of sessions can be found at the following abstract submission link for the 17th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography.

The abstract submission deadline is 14 April 2022. The abstract submission fee of $95 USD is charged at the time of submission and refundable only if the abstract is not accepted. Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via email by mid-May 2022.

Submissions by students, early-career scientists, and underrepresented groups will be prioritized, and limited funds in the form of registration fee waivers or travel grants are available to support participation and further details will be available when abstract acceptance notifications are sent.