Past Events

This meeting, organized in the framework of the ESF project MicroDIce, aims to present a multi-scale view of our present understanding of the processes controlling plasticity and recrystallization at high temperature in geomaterials (ice and rocks). Recent advances in electron microscopy (e.g. HR

Polar Educators International is pleased to announce the upcoming workshop "Education Meets Science" in Hannover, Germany 1-4 April 2015. Educators, Scientists and Interested People from around the world are invited to continue the collaboration of previous conferences (Oslo 2010, Montreal 2012, and

This workshop will bring together anyone interested in the predictability of polar sea-ice on seasonal to inter-annual timescales. Contributions will include presentations on understanding causes of inter-annual polar climate variability, as well as idealized predictability studies, and operational

Understanding ice changes is critical for supporting community sustainability, habitat conservation and resource development in Alaska and the Arctic as a whole. Please join the Office of Policy Analysis on April 9 to learn how the USGS Alaska Climate Science Center (CSC) uses a whole-systems

In this webinar, Julie Raymond-Yakoubian of Kawerak, Inc. will present a recently completed project on indigenous knowledge and use of ocean currents. She will share perspectives on the importance of traditional understandings of ocean currents as a critical aspect of the body of knowledge held by

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has released a Notice of Funding Availability announcement for proposals to provide for Tribal Climate Adaptation Planning & Ocean/Coastal Management Planning. There is a total of $8M available nation-wide and proposals for up to $250,000.00 are due April 24th.

The General Assembly 2015 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, from 12 – 17 April 2015. The assembly is open to the scientists of all nations.

The EGU General Assembly 2015 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world

The 4th annual Warming Arctic International Inquiry at the Fletcher School comes at a time when the United States assumes the chairmanship of the Arctic Council. With this honor comes the responsibility to protect the Arctic and its environment as it continues to warm at a much faster rate than the

Glaciologists of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution would like to invite you to the first annual New England Glaciology Meeting: NEGM 2015! The meeting will be held on April 16th and 17th at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Building on the long and

On April 16, 2015, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, there will be a summary briefing on the recently completed National Petroleum Council (NPC) report "Arctic Potential: Realizing the Promise of US Arctic Oil and Gas Resources" by Carol Lloyd, Chair of the study's Coordinating Subcommittee, and other study

ARCTIC STATES, a three-day symposium at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, brings together an international consortium of leading designers and colleagues from allied disciplines to posit the role of design in the rapidly transforming region, and generate critical discussions by

Join a panel of Arctic experts for a webinar to explore a new booklet that introduces the threats and opportunities of the Arctic’s rapidly changing environment and explains why the Arctic matters — to all of us.

Viewed in satellite images as a jagged white coat draped over the top of the globe

On April 24-25, 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry, his fellow Arctic Council Foreign Ministers and indigenous representatives will gather in Iqaluit, Canada when, at the conclusion of the ministerial meeting, the United States will assume its two-year chairmanship of the Arctic Council. The United

Register today for upcoming PolarConnect event on Saturday, 18 April 2015!

Celebrate Earth Day by joining a PolarConnect Event with teacher Dominique Richardson in East Antarctica and the team aboard the R/V Palmer in the Southern Ocean. This is sure to be a unique event! The event starts at 12

We are happy to announce that first Students In Polar Research Conference will take place in Brno, Czech Republic between April 20 and 22, 2015. The Department of Geography and Faculty of Science at Masaryk University will host the conference, which aims to introduce actual topics in Polar geography

The Polar Geography and Cryosphere Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers call for papers for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the AAG under the following areas:

Polar Geography Sessions

Current Topics in Human-Environment Interactions:

* Issues pertaining to sustainable

The session proposal website for this year’s AGU fall meeting is open until April 22nd.
Criteria and guidelines are available at http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2015/sessionproposals/

Things to note:

* If appropriate, sessions may now be identified as “co-organized” or as “cross-listed.” “Co

ASSW is the annual gathering of international organizations engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research. The purpose of the summit is to provide opportunities for coordination, collaboration and cooperation in all areas of Arctic science. IASC's (International Arctic Science Committee)

The 7th AOS / ISAC Town Hall meeting will take place at the upcoming Arctic Science Summit Week 2015 in Toyama, Japan, and is open to everyone. We seek input from the Arctic community, researchers, managers and decision makers to participate in the guidance and development of a sustained

In July, 2012, the world witnessed a shocking event when widespread melting occurred over the surface of 97% of the Greenland Ice Sheet. According to ice core records, the last time such widespread melting occurred was in 1889. What caused such widespread melt? Was it just the warm temperatures, or