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Registration and abstract submission are open for the 35th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting.

Deadline for abstract submission extended to 01 March 2022.

Themes

• Environment and climate
• Understanding volcanoes
• Geodynamics & tectonic evolution
• Geoscience and the society: hazards and anthropogenic impact
• Igneous and Metamorphic Geochemistry
• Earth resources
• Interdisciplinary sessions
• Applied geology
• Remote Sensing in geosciences

Connect to a Live Science Event in the Arctic! Join the PolarConnect event with Erin Towns and the Greenland Subglacial Tremor Project. Erin and the team will be calling in from Ilulissat, Greenland. Tell your friends, colleagues and family. Anyone with an e-mail address can register, and registration and participation is FREE!

Note: This event was originally scheduled to take place 21-22 October 2021, but was postponed to 23-24 June 2022.

Please join The Cryosphere in a Changing Climate in Davos, Switzerland from 23-24 June 2022 for an exciting scientific symposium with high-level speakers, scientific poster sessions and ample networking time. The symposium aims to build a bridge between generations of cryosphere and climate scientists. Use this opportunity to present and discuss your latest research in a stimulating environment. The organizers invite Early Career Scientists interested in participating to apply for a travel grant.

The Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL announces that the registration to the above mentioned symposium in the memory of our past Director, Koni Steffen, is now open.

Konrad Steffen – or Koni, as everyone knew him – was a passionate researcher and teacher, who dedicated his life to science through the study of the cryosphere and the climate of cold environments. Koni was driven by the mission of informing about the ongoing, rapid human-driven changes and the resulting impacts on human and natural systems these changes could impose. This scientific symposium will honour Koni’s scientific legacy, covering a wide range of topics, including the study of Arctic sea ice, the dynamics of polar ice sheets, the quantification of climate-driven ice losses in Antarctica and Greenland, the effects of melting ice on global sea level, as well as more generally the impacts of climate change on polar and high mountain environments. By bringing together long-term colleagues that accompanied Koni over the years and early-career researchers that have recently embarked in the related disciplines, the event will aim at building a bridge between generations of cryosphere and climate scientists – a task in which Koni excelled.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline 10 May 2022.
• Registration deadline 31 May 2022.

This webinar is the next talk in the Webinar Series on Ice Sheets, Sea Level, and GIA in the months leading up to the WCRP Sea Level Meeting and PALSEA Workshop, both in Singapore and online in July, 2022.

Please register in advance for this webinar.

Speaker Bios

Terry Wilson is Academy Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and senior research scientist in the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at the Ohio State University. With her research group and collaborators, she investigates the structural architecture of Antarctica and the interactions between the solid Earth and the Antarctic ice sheet, using structural field observations, geophysical and geodetic data; she has spent 25 austral summers collecting field data in Antarctica. The Antarctic Network (ANET) of the Polar Earth Observing Network (POLENET), a collaborative project led by Wilson, operates autonomous GNSS and seismic sensors across West Antarctica.

Doug Wiens is the Robert S. Brookings Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St Louis. He has worked extensively on the structure of the Antarctic continent, as well as ice quakes and other seismic phenomena in Antarctica. He has participated in the development of seismic instrumentation and the deployment of seismographs in Antarctica going back to the 1990s. He also works on the structure and seismicity of subduction zones in the Western Pacific, using data from ocean bottom seismographs.

The final seminar before the WCRP and PALSEA meetings in July will be held on 14 June with Sally Brown “Impacts and adaptation to sea-level rise” and Ivan Haigh “The impact of sea-level rise on storm surge barriers”.

The ASTM8 will be a hybrid event. In-person participants will gather at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK. Virtual participants will be able to join both plenary and breakout sessions via Webex. To better accommodate virtual participants from other time-zones, the organizers have planned most of the discussion-based activities to occur earlier in the day when possible.

Objectives

• Reports from NASA and Affiliated projects via plenary and parallel sessions
• Reports from Working Groups
• Research to Operations discussions with representatives from resource and land management agencies
• Finalize plans for airborne remote sensing in 2022
• Advance integration, synthesis, and modeling

Important Dates

• Registration and Abstract Submission Open: March 28th
• Reduced Hotel Rate Deadline: April 15th
• Abstract Submission Deadline: April 19th

In association with ASTM8, the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) will be hosting the Research to Operations (R2O) Workshop: Using Remotely Sensed Data in Fire and Resource Management on 12-13 May, 2022. This workshop will be in-person only, starting at 1:00 pm on May 12th.

The 2022 Arctic Frontiers - Pathways conference was originally scheduled for 31 January to 3 February, but was postponed to May 2022 due to Covid-19.

The 2022 theme of Arctic Frontiers, Pathways, reflects on the choices the Arctic is facing when addressing pressing global challenges.

The urgency for action will be discussed in terms of pathways to economic development, sustainability, climate action, security, stability, and respect for science in decision-making. The scale spans from national to global policies, from corporate strategies to regional actions and Indigenous perspectives, emphasizing the need for broad stakeholder engagement and partnership.

Arctic Frontiers Science conference is traditionally international and multidisciplinary, bringing together social sciences, humanities, physical and life sciences. The Arctic Frontiers Science is focusing on both fundamental and solution-oriented research with strong impact, which addresses growing societal challenges and needs in the Arctic region.

The organizers will host an in-person conference in Tromsø (Venue – Clarion Hotel The Edge) and a possibility of digital participation. In 2022, Arctic Frontiers will host five science sessions:

• Session 1 – Pan-Arctic Infrastructure Development
• Session 2 – Food from the Ocean and Ocean Science for Sustainable Development – Bridging the UN Decades
• Session 3 – Arctic Coasts in Transition
• Session 4 – The Arctic, ocean conflicts, and pathways to sustainability
• Session 5 – Experiences from the science-policy interface in the Arctic

Registration is now open.

Organizers invite registration for the first Polar Technology Community Forum IARPC Self-Forming Team Meeting which will take place on Zoom.

This first meeting will include information about the intentions for this team, outcomes from the 2020 Polar Technology Conference, and a presentation from Mike Prior-Jones (Cardiff University) entitled, Solar Regulators: How to Stop Them Sucking the Life Out of Your Polar Instrumentation.

Participants must be IARPC members to register. Joining IARPC is free and membership can be requested through the IARPC webpage. The meeting and team membership are open to all who are interested in Arctic and Antarctic polar technology.

The latest IPCC report tells us that we need global, coordinated, and immediate efforts to mitigate climate change if we are to keep temperatures from rising to catastrophic levels for our planet and people. With Arctic lands and peoples at the front lines of experiencing climate change - and a world challenged by increasing geopolitical tension and resource competition in the North - what is the outlook for future international cooperation on global climate research and policy?

Speakers

• Dr. Renuke Badhe, Executive Secretary of European Polar Board (EPB), former Executive Officer of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• Professor Ross Virginia, Distinguished Stefansson-Nef Arctic Faculty Fellow and Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science at Dartmouth; Member of US National Academies' Polar Research Board
• Moderated by IAS Director Melody Brown Burkins

Arctic security is increasingly recognized as an important topic. As relations between NATO and Russia have deteriorated, the strategic importance of the Arctic and the North Atlantic has been underscored.

Norway – which shares a border and maritime boundary with Russia in the north – faces a more challenging security environment, with an increase in Russian military activity and modernized capabilities. Allied activity, presence, and exercises closely coordinated are ever more important. The Kingdom of Denmark is aware of great power competition between the United States and China, as well as security concerns for NATO. At the same time, both Norway and the Kingdom of Denmark have a range of foreign and domestic policy concerns as they safeguard their Arctic maritime and land domains, while working to ensure ”High North, low tension.”

Please join the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, Fulbright Arctic Initiative, and Fridtjof Nansen Institute for a discussion about these common concerns and challenges—with particular focus on how these two Nordic countries perceive and approach security in the Arctic and how they can work closer together with stakeholders in the United States to achieve their common goals.

Keynote Speakers

Ambassador Anniken Ramberg Krutnes
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to the United States

Ambassador Lone Dencker Wisborg
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to the United States

Speakers

Dr. Andreas Østhagen
Senior Researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute and High North Center; Fulbright Fellow, Polar Institute, Wilson Center

Ph.D.-fellow Sara Olsvig
Ph.D.-fellow, Centre for Foreign & Security Policy at University of Greenland

Dr. Kristian Søby Kristensen
Senior Researcher, Centre for Military Studies at University of Copenhagen

Moderator

Michael Sfraga
Chair & Distinguished Fellow, Polar Institute // Chair, US Arctic Research Commission

The Alaska Ocean Acidification Network announces their Spring Discussion Series with four specialized dialogue sessions from March through May, with the intention to:

• Address and explore topics within ocean acidification that are of most interest to Alaskans
• Discuss ideas and identify priorities
• Document key issues and needs so they can be communicated to funding sources, policymakers and potential collaborators

These dialogue sessions are spaces for you to both learn and provide input. Each session will run from 1-3pm AK time, beginning with a 30 minute presentation by topic area experts, followed by interactive discussion and breakouts. (The dialogue series will also be recorded and made available to registrants after each event).

Topics and Schedule

• March 23 – Regional Conditions: What do we know about ocean acidification conditions around the state, what parts are expected to change most rapidly in the future, and what areas may be most sensitive to change?
• April 5 – Species Response #1: OA and Local Communities: What does ocean acidification mean for mariculture and subsistence?
• April 20 – Species Response #2: Commercial Species: What does ocean acidification mean for commercially harvested species including groundfish, salmon, and crab?
• May 4 – Adaptation and Mitigation: How can carbon dioxide removal, carbon sequestration, and natural climate solutions help us adapt to or mitigate climate change and ocean acidification?