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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.

The Observing, Modeling, and Understanding the Circulation of the Arctic Ocean and Sub-Arctic Seas Workshop will take place 27-30 June 2022 in Seattle, Washington.

In recent decades we have seen major changes in Arctic Ocean circulation, salinity, and temperature and associated declines in sea ice coverage and thickness. There is evidence of connections of these changes with climate indices, and the changes arguably affect climate by altering the radiative heat balance at high latitudes, impacting the strength of the global overturning circulation, and influencing the interaction between the ocean and Greenland ice sheet. There are also indications that Arctic sea ice and atmospheric circulation can play an important role in extended range predictability of extreme weather events in mid-latitudes. In spite of its importance, Arctic Ocean observations are limited. Several major in situ observing programs that existed in the 2000s have ended, and today sustained oceanographic observations outside the Canada Basin have almost ceased to exist. This workshop will aim to assess our understanding of the Arctic Ocean circulation and discuss observing system requirements needed to confirm and extend that understanding.

More specifically, the workshop will explore changes in Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas circulation related to global change and the observing system required to track those changes in the future. The observing system design effort will be cognizant of the practical, geopolitical, and operational constraints of Arctic Ocean observing, but will incorporate modern objective experimental design and data assimilation using numerical models as fundamental guiding principles. Its work will contribute to evaluations of model simulations and observational analyses to assess opportunities for model improvements.

The US CLIVAR Observing, Modeling, and Understanding the Circulation of the Arctic Ocean and Sub-Arctic Seas Workshop will include presentations addressing:

A. The state of knowledge of Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas circulation with an eye toward identifying critical gaps in observations of modes of variability
B. The observing system needs and data assimilation approach to track those modes of variability
C. The practical, institutional, technical, and geopolitical challenges of increasing the coverage of Arctic Ocean observations that are required by A) and B)

Important Dates

Organizers are currently accepting abstracts for talks and posters. Abstract submission is through the registration platform and abstracts have a 250-word limit.

Registration is on a first come, first-served basis until capacity is reached. The organizing committee anticipates 100-120 participants at the workshop. Abstracts are not a requirement for participation.

• Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2022
• In-person registration deadline: 13 June 2022
• Virtual registration deadline: 26 June 2022

The new Arctic Research Plan 2022-2026 articulates the need for continued work towards ethically open data and research practices. But what does “open science” mean for Arctic research funders? And how can you get funding to support it?

Come to this IARPC Program Officer Chat with Thorsten Markus & Kaitlin Harbeck (Program Officers for Cryospheric Sciences at NASA) and Allen Pope & Kelly Brunt (Program Officers in the NSF Office for Polar Programs) to talk about what open science means in their programs, and how NASA and NSF provide funding and support to advance open polar and cryospheric science. After short presentations, there will be ample time for Q&A with the panel of program officers.

The International Polar Foundation (IPF), Schneider Electric, and Venturi would like to cordially invite you to the official EU Green Week 2022 partner hybrid event, Striving to Reduce the Environmental Footprint of Polar Research.

The event will take place at Atelier 29, Rue Jacques de Lalaing 29, 1000 Brussels. It will also be streamed interactively online for those unable to take part in-person.

From 2007-09, the International Polar Foundation, with the support of its many private sector partners and the Belgian State, designed and constructed the world’s first zero-emission polar research station - the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA).

Fully operational since 2009, the primary goal of constructing the groundbreaking station was to serve as a zero-emission platform for scientists working in the Dronning Maud Land region of East Antarctica.

Now that the revolutionary Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station has been in operation for more than a decade, IPF would like to showcase the latest innovations at the revolutionary research platform that reduce even further the environmental footprint of doing scientific research in Antarctica. Improvements and initiatives that will be explained during the event include:

• Industry-leading upgrades to the station’s renewable energy production and management
• A brand new water treatment system with higher capacity - a system that goes above and beyond the requirements of the Madrid Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty
• The entry into use of the Venturi Antarctica, the first electric polar exploration vehicle, which is now used to support of polar research at PEA

Please register if you're interested in attending we can accurately prepare catering. Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

A limit of 100 people will be admitted to this in-person part of this event. Online participation is also possible. A link to participate online will be sent to those interested in participating only online.

Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee: "Come celebrate our colleague and friend Sara Bowden as she retires from the IARPC Secretariat at the end of May. As Executive Secretary of IARPC, Sara has driven the creation and implementation of several federal Arctic research plans, supported interagency collaboration in Arctic research, overseen the development of the innovative IARPC Collaborations website, and more. Sara has been the backbone of IARPC for over a decade. Before serving in IARPC, she was the Executive Officer for the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and helped coordinate international Arctic research efforts. We welcome this opportunity to honor her many contributions to Arctic research. Old and new friends near and far are invited to share stories, raise a toast, and celebrate Sara."

Registration required. After you register, you will receive the Zoom information.

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) invites input into their draft 2022 Long Range Science Plan.

Each year in the spring, the IDP works with its Science Advisory Board and the research community to update the Long Range Science Plan. This Plan identifies the science in the coming decade that will require the use of ice drilling technology and expertise for the community. This also drives the formation of other plans, for example, the Long Range Drilling Technology Plan. The plans provide the basis for multi‐annual planning for the actions and drill development projects of IDP and others, and the plans give the funding agencies advance notice of upcoming community science needs.

Those that need an ice core or a hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade or a rock core from under shallow glacial ice, should ensure their science is captured in the current draft update of the Long Range Science Plan.

Those interested can read through the draft Long Range Science Plan and send corrections, updates, or additions to Icedrill [at] Dartmouth.edu by 27 May 2022. When sending corrections/updates, reference the appropriate line number in the draft Long Range Science Plan where the correction/update is needed.

Deadline to submit input: 27 May 2022.

The course provides a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. Topics include: continuum mechanics, sliding and hydraulics, numerical modelling, polar meteorology, ice-ocean interaction, ice cores, interaction of ice sheets with the solid earth, etc. The course is meant for Ph.D. students that work on a glaciology-related climate project. Some places are available for junior scientists.

Deadline for applications is 15 January 2022.

The Northern Arctic Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov is pleased to announce the International Forum of Young Scientists 2022.

This year the Forum welcomes PhD, Master and Bachelor students and is held under the auspices of the Russia’s Chairmanship at the Arctic Council 2021-2023 and aligns with its priority areas: Arctic people, including indigenous peoples of the North; environmental protection and climate change issues; socio-economic development of the region and strengthening the Arctic Council.

The participants will have an opportunity to broaden their knowledge about the Arctic Region in various scientific fields, learn about the large-scale industrial and environmental Arctic projects, participate in discussions addressing the following topics related to the key challenges of the Arctic Region development and exploration:

• Russian Arctic agenda 2035
• Logistics and transport systems in the Arctic
• Environmental challenges and risk management in the Arctic
• Local communities in the changing region environment
• Geopolitics and international relations in the Arctic

The highlight of the Forum remains NArFU annual International PhD School which serves a platform for young researchers to share their knowledge with the leading Russian and foreign scientists, high-officials, project managers and practitioners about the current global and local Arctic agenda. The PhD School will be held online (Zoom platform) and include lectures, discussion panels and students’ presentation sessions. The working language is English.

Master and Bachelor students are invited for an off-line session in Arkhangelsk. The working language is Russian.

Application for PhD School: PhD students and early-career researchers from the HEIs of Arctic and non-Arctic countries are asked to fill in the application form indicating a topic of their research project and attaching its abstract to the form.

Workload: 3 ECTS (certificate of participation; transcript of records upon request).
The deadline for application is 15th of March 2022.
Financing: No participation fee.
Questions to: articschool [at] narfu.ru

This meeting is intended for anyone interested in ice core science or related fields, including ice-core analysis, ice or subglacial drilling, glacier geophysics that supports or depends on ice core records, paleoclimate, and contemporary climate and ice sheet change.

Goals of the meeting include:

1) sharing of the latest science
2) discussion of future ice core science projects in both the polar regions and in alpine environments
3) providing career development opportunities
4) improving communication about ice-core and related science both within and beyond the scientific community

The organizers hope to attract a diverse group of participants, including those who may not have extensive experience working with ice cores.

While this meeting is primarily oriented at researchers in the US, international attendees are welcome.

The meeting will begin the morning of Tuesday, May 24 and end by early afternoon Thursday, May 26, followed by the annual meeting of the U.S. Ice Core Working Group.

This meeting is jointly organized by representatives and leaders of the Hercules Dome Ice Core Project, the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, the U.S. Ice Drilling Program, and the Juneau Icefield Research Program.

The organizers do not anticipate COVID restrictions to require us to change the meeting to “all virtual”. If the meeting is canceled, the decision to do so will be made prior to March 21.

Registration

Registration and abstract submission will open on March 1 and close on April 15. Meeting registration is $100. Virtual attendance is free. Limited funds are available to support participant expenses, particularly for early career researchers.

Convergence research brings together diverse participants to craft – together – new languages of understanding and form new perspectives and solutions pathways around complex societal challenges and opportunities. Convergence is an intentional, careful process requiring relationship building and open sharing of individual perspectives so that groups can create integrated pathways to make progress together, often towards community-level activities or applications. Rapid climate change in the Arctic is causing unprecedented environmental shifts that are intrinsically connected with complex social and community activities and concerns, from food security to infrastructure, conservation to geopolitics.

The NSF-funded Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) is supporting new and future Arctic-focused convergence research. One activity of support is development of four Convergence Working Groups that will bring together researchers, local experts, and engaged community representatives to work together on a focused, self-formed project; for example, hosting community workshops, creating shared Arctic Data Center portals, developing policy briefs, or crafting science storytelling products. The Convergence Working Groups themselves will attempt to apply convergence concepts and act as test beds and examples for best practices. The process for Working Group formation has already been available for community feedback, with an ongoing workflow aimed to solidify areas of focus and participation by early 2023.

Join this webinar to find out more about convergence research, formation and activities of upcoming Convergence Working Groups, and broader opportunities for cross-community interaction within the NNA-CO.