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The International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM) is a forum for earth scientists who study the Arctic Ocean and adjacent landmasses. It was founded to promote scientific cooperation and collaboration in Arctic geoscience. There have been eight meetings since its inception in 1991. Canada last hosted an ICAM meeting in 2003, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. ICAM 9 will be held in Canada’s National Capital in June 2022.

CAM scientific themes include: Geology and Geophysics; Mapping; Remote Sensing; Plate Tectonics; Climate, and studies that are related to Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The ICAM 9 Technical Program is the result of a community effort, and it includes a Special Session on the Communication of Science.

Abstract submission deadline is February 16, 2022. Registration opens March 16, 2022.

Abstract submission for the 10th SCAR Open Science Conference (1-10 August 2022) is now open. The theme of the conference is "Antarctica in a Changing World". The conference will be held online.

Abstracts can be submitted electronically via the Abstract Submission Portal on the SCAR 2022 Meetings website. There is no abstract submission fee.

The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, is hosting the SCAR Open Science Conference 2022. The 10th SCAR Open Science Conference will feature a comprehensive schedule of meetings, symposia, virtual side events and social activities, daily plenary lectures and poster sessions in an innovative online format.

Important Dates

• 02 June 2022: Registration opens.
• 12 June 2022: Extended abstract submission deadline.
• 27-29 July 2022: SCAR Business Meetings.
• 01-10 August 2022: SCAR 10th Open Science Conference 2022.
• 05-07 September 2022: SCAR Delegates Meeting.

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Polar Technology Collaboration Team invites participation at their June 2022 meeting on Web Based Software for End Users Living and Working in the Arctic.

This session of the Polar Technology team will focus on characteristics of web-based software that can be used by IARPC for engaging with end users who live in the Arctic. Two aspects of this include 1) presenting scientific and technical information in context so that it is relevant to end users, and 2) providing sensemaking capabilities for local residents while protecting their privacy. From the technology perspective, we need to understand how these software systems function, and how to sustain and scale them to address pan-Arctic societal challenges.

Participants must be IARPC members to attend. Joining IARPC is free and membership can be requested through the IARPC webpage.

The Challenger Society Conference 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the Challenger expedition and celebrates the birth of international and interdisciplinary oceanography. The conference will be held in person at the Royal Geographical Society, Natural History Museum and Imperial College in South Kensington, London from 6 to 8 September 2022, with side events 5 and 9 September.

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

The Arctic Institute (TAI) proudly celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2021. Their mission is to help inform Arctic policy in the context of the climate crisis, and they believe that circumpolar decision-making must be based on interdisciplinary, inclusive research. As the TAI begins their second decade, they see an opportunity to broaden their mission, and proudly announce their first conference with traditional paper presentations, scenario workshops, and special sessions.

The climate crisis destabilizes traditional understandings of security in the Arctic. Many conferences and scholars have produced invaluable scholarship that seeks to understand how climate change affects security, regional development, and social and Indigenous welfare in the Arctic. The Arctic Institute chooses to upend the narrative by reframing their central question. How will global developments affect the circumpolar north? TAI offer graduate students and early career scholars a call for papers to address this question by applying different forms of security studies on global issues that affect the circumpolar north.

• Cultural Security
• Economic Security
• Energy Security
• Environmental Security
• Food Security
• Health Security
• Military Security
• Political Security

Submissions

The organizers welcome university students and early career scholars who seek to cultivate new networks and interdisciplinary conversations related to Arctic scholarship. The organizers welcome submissions on topics such as (but not limited to): Arctic studies, Indigenous knowledge, global affairs, international relations, political science, security studies, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, public administration, and legal studies. The outcomes of the roundtable discussions and special sessions will be summarised in a report on The Arctic Institute’s website.

The deadline for abstracts is March 25, 2022.

After two pandemic-related cancelations, the Sixth International Summer School in Glaciology organized by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) / Oslo University, will (hopefully) be held in McCarthy, central Alaska, from 7 to 17 June 2022 (just before the IGS Symposium on Maritime Glaciers, to be held in Juneau, Alaska, 19 - 24 June; https://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2022/juneau2022).

The summer school will provide a comprehensive overview of the physics of glaciers and current research frontiers in glaciology with focus on quantitative glaciology and remote sensing. The course is open to 28 graduate students from around the world targeting primarily early stage PhD students who perform glacier-related research. It will be taught by faculty of UAF’s glaciology group and several invited guest instructors from outside Alaska.

Application deadline: 15 January 2022.

This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) from the NSF Office of Polar Programs announces the opportunity to participate in this developing project. This announcement invites participation in the development and operation of this prospective Antarctic Research Vessel, through the issue of two Requests for Information, or RFIs.

Deadline for responses is 6 June 2022.

UPDATE: The 28th PLC Organising Committee, with the approval of the PLC Steering Committee and the Université Laval Library administration, have made a decision, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, to postpone the event from June 6-12, 2021 until June 5 – June 11, 2022.

The conference will focus on contribution of librarians and archivists to the sharing of northern and polar cultures and knowledge. The event will be an excellent opportunity to:

• Bring together specialists in northern and polar information, from more than 15 different countries.
• Highlight the unique expertise of librarians and archivists in this field through stimulating presentations.
• Showcase the work of renowned researchers in northern or arctic studies.
• Address the issue of metadata decolonization in a special workshop.
• Discuss various issues related to the management of research data for polar studies in a panel session.
• Introduce participants to the culture of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal of northern Quebec.

Université Laval’s Library, an organization that believes in values of collaboration and sharing practices between colleagues and institutions, is proud to host the 28th Polar Library Colloquy. Here are some highlights of the Library:

• The Collections includes more than 6 million documents.
• The Library team is composed of 220 employees, including 46 librarians.
• The acquisition Budget was CAD$ 12.2 million in 2017-18.
• More than 600,000 visits in 2017-2018, an increase of 8% from 2016-17.

Université Laval’s Library owns an extensive collection of documents on northern and Arctic studies, including:

• Monographs and periodicals covering emerging multidisciplinary fields on these topics.
• Geospatial data covering the North and the Canadian Arctic areas.
• First editions of travel accounts and exploration diaries of the Arctic.
• Antique maps of the Arctic.
• Scientific, artistic and heritage objects and specimens related to northernness.
• Cutting-edge expertise consisting of librarians, library technicians and geomatics experts to support research in this field.

The International Glaciological Society (IGS) and the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) are glad to announce the ‘International Symposium on Ice in a Sustainable Society’ (ISS). The ISS Symposium will be held at the Bizkaia Aretoa Convention Centre in Bilbao (Spain). This venue is located on one of the most emblematic sites of Bilbao, which opens out onto the estuary and the Guggenheim Museum. The Symposium will take place from Monday morning, 6 June, until the afternoon of Friday 10 June. On World Environment Day, Sunday 5 June, there will be several celebration activities and a pre-symposium icebreaker event at Bizkaia Aretoa. Different Social Events are scheduled thorough the Symposium.

During the ISS Symposium we will celebrate the 85th anniversary of IGS. The first official meeting of the ‘Association for the Study of Snow and Ice’ was held in April 1937. The Association would go through a few name changes through the years until it acquired its current name, ‘The International Glaciological Society’ in 1962. We will be celebrating the anniversary throughout the year, and of course during the ISS Symposium in Bilbao.

Important dates

• Opening of online abstract submission: 15 January 2022
• Opening of online registration: 21 February 2022
• Extended abstract submission deadline: 18 March 2022
• Early-bird registration deadline: 25 March 2022
• Deadline for full refund: 22 April 2022
• Late registration: 8 May 2022

The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 56th Congress, the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Annual Meeting, and the 78th Eastern Snow Conference (ESC) will be held jointly over a 6-day period, 1-3 June 2022 and continuing 6-8 June 2022. Due to the continuing impact and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the joint meetings will be held using a virtual (online) format. More detailed information will be posted as it becomes available on the Congress website.

The theme of the joint meeting is "Science Serving Society", recognizing that the science we all do provides an essential service to our society. This ranges from discovery that pushes the boundaries of our understanding, to the provision of climate, water, weather, oceanic and geophysical services (including policy and regulation development), and even extends to the development of the effective mechanisms for the delivery of services to stakeholders and the users of our work. The organizers hope that this Congress will help maintain and sharpen the focus of the broad professional community on the science while also paying specific attention to the specific needs of users. Proposals for scientific sessions are being invited for all areas of CMOS, CGU, and ESC interest, especially relating to the following areas:

• Advances in observational science including new and updated data sets, methodologies, campaigns and instruments
• Advances in our understanding of observed variability and change, including process knowledge and the ability to represent those processes in models
• Advances in predicting and projecting future variation and change on all times scales
• All aspects of extremes, past, present and future
• Applied science and the development and evaluation of user services
• Service delivery mechanisms

The abstract submission deadline is February 28, 2022.