Past Events

Since 2012, the annual Arctic Conference at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy has provided a platform for policymakers, business leaders, academics and students to address the implications of a volatile Arctic. This conference brings together high-level leaders working in business, governance

The Alaska Forum on the Environment (AFE) is Alaska's largest statewide gathering of environmental professionals providing an opportunity for government agencies, non-profit and for-profit businesses, community leaders, Alaska’s youth, conservationists, biologists and community elders to come

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces the release of the new Fiscal Year 2020 solicitation for the Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) NSF Big Idea.

Navigating the New Arctic, one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas, embodies the Foundation's forward-looking response to the profound challenges detailed

We would like to invite you to the 4th Polar Ecology Conference organised by the Centre for Polar Ecology at University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. The conference theme is “Interactions between Ocean and Terrestrial Ecosystems”. However, we accept submission of abstracts

The organising committee is pleased to announce a one-day workshop to be held in Cambridge on Friday 14 February 2020. The theme of the workshop is 'recent disturbance and recovery of terrestrial arctic and boreal ecosystems', where 'disturbance' can be at any spatial or temporal scale, i.e

The XVII Glaciological Symposium will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 26-29 May 2020. The Glaciological Association, the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute are organizing the meeting.

The symposium will cover a wide

The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is the flagship conference for the ocean sciences and the larger ocean-connected community. As we approach the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, beginning in 2021, it is increasingly important to gather as a scientific community to raise

The Snow Science Winter School aims to teach modern techniques of snow measurements, based on a field training and theoretical lessons. It includes the practice with some of the state-of-the-art snow measurement techniques (specific surface area by reflection and spectroscopy, near-infrared

The workshop will be structured to reach specific outcomes through working group sessions and consensus building on themes such as the need for a national data management strategy for Canada, data discovery and federated search, all aspects of data interoperability, and other themes related to polar

Program Directors from NSF’s OPP Arctic Sciences Section will provide an overview of our programs, as well as upcoming opportunities at NSF of interest to Arctic scientists. Organizers anticipate giving a brief presentation with the bulk of the time devoted to questions and discussion.

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The Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable will hold a webinar on the National Science Foundation's Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) program. Conceived as one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas in 2016, Navigating the New Arctic embodies the Foundation's forward-looking response to profound challenges

Join the International Arctic Research Center for this month’s IARC Salon featuring scientists Rob Rember and Marc Oggier. The pair will speak about their sea ice research on the historic Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAIC) expedition. Rember and Oggier

The 26th International Symposium on Polar Sciences organized by Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) will be held on May 12-13, 2020 in Incheon, Republic of Korea. This symposium aims to bring polar scientists together to discuss their research findings and to promote international collaborative

The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction

To empower Indigenous scholars and provide a key opportunity for officials at US government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other groups working on Arctic issues to learn and integrate information/perspectives from multiple Arctic knowledge systems, the Arctic Research Consortium of

The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) will host its 54th Congress from May 24-28, 2020 at the Delta Hotels by Marriott, Ottawa City Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

The CMOS Congress in 2020 in Ottawa has the unique opportunity to highlight to policy makers the national

First of its kind, the World Bio­di­ver­si­ty Fo­rum will bring to­geth­er lead­ing re­searchers, ear­ly ca­reer re­searchers, prac­ti­tion­ers, rep­re­sen­ta­tives from dif­fer­ent sec­tors, de­ci­sion-mak­ers and so­ci­etal ac­tors to have a con­ver­sa­tion on the kind of fu­ture we want (and/or

The FRAM Centre, Nature Climate Change, and Nature Reviews Earth and Environment are pleased to present A Changing Arctic, which will take place June 2-5, 2020 in Tromsø, Norway.

Robust evidence now exists for anthropogenically-forced shifts in the Earth's environment. Observations in the

“Arctic Worlds: A Symposium on Environment and Humanities” will be hosted by BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. We will have speakers from the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities reflecting together on questions of time or history in their

*We regret to announce that in light of the recent outbreak of Coronavirus disease in northern Italy, we are forced to postpone the AGM 2020. To halt the spread of the virus, the conference of rectors of Italian Universities has decided to take extraordinary precautionary measures, which include