Past Events

Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) announces an open meeting during the 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meetings.

This meeting will provide a forum to:

- Re-cap and discuss the 2016 Arctic sea ice/Sea Ice Outlook season (a post-season report is forthcoming)
- Discuss the next phase

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces a roundtable meeting with Arctic Research Program Director, Jeremy Mathis. This roundtable will convene from 12:40-1:30 p.m. PST in the Arctic Community Meeting Room Foothill E on the second floor of the San Francisco Marriott

Conveners will provide an overview of the science and policy drivers, scope, and research goals of the Arctic Research Plan FY2017-2021. The Research Plan describes Arctic research priorities of the Federal Government that are expected to benefit from interagency collaboration during the period

The NSF Arctic Natural Sciences Program will hold a Town Hall meeting during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. The meeting will be held Thursday evening, 15 December 2016, from 7:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. in the Arctic Community Meeting Room, Foothill E, in the

The North Pacific Research Board announces the 2017 Request for Proposals (RFP). The 2017 RFP has an anticipated funding amount of $4.55 million. This RFP is similar in form and content to past NPRB RFPs, with research categories structured around the 2005 NPRB Science Plan.

Applicants are

An international conference on high latitude dust will take place at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik from Monday 22nd to Thursday 25th May 2017. This will be the first such conference and focuses on all aspects of dust which is sourced from within the high latitudes (North of 50 deg. N and

The 2017 GRC on Polar Marine Science "Understanding Polar Ecosystem Change Through Time Series Observations, Technological Advances, and Biophysical Coupled Modeling" will bring together leading investigators in Antarctic and Arctic marine research. Using a tradition of excellence facilitated by the

Organizers of the Gordon Research Seminar in Polar Marine Science 2017 announce a call for abstract submissions. The seminar will convene 25 March 2017 in Ventura, California.

Abstract submission deadline: 25 December 2016.

The Gordon Research Seminar on Polar Marine Science is a unique

The XI International Symposium on Permafrost Engineering will be held in Magadan, Russia on October 5 to 8, 2017.

Symposium themes include:

1. Permafrost as foundation, enclosing and construction material.
2. Physical, thermal and mechanical properties of permafrost and their changes

The Innsbruck Joint Summer School 2017 will take place in Obergurgl, Austria from July 16 to 22, 2017. The main goal is to provide participants with innovative practical and methodological skills to characterise complex terrain and objects using close-, near range and remote sensing techniques. The

The 4th Winter Field Course for Snow Measurement is a course for serious students of snow, whether engaged in modeling, measuring, or teaching about snow. The course will introduce students to standard and specialized quantitative and qualitative measurements of snowpack characteristics, as well as

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) announces the Arctic Research Seminar Series event featuring Craig Fleener, State of Alaska Arctic Policy Advisor. The event will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office and online as a live-stream event to those unable to attend in person.

Registration

The Science Symposium will be on 4-7 April 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic, and will address the three sub-themes: (a) Changes in the Arctic, (b) Global Implications of Arctic Changes and (c) Impacts of Global Change on the Arctic.

To facilitate the participation of early career scientists and

Join us for a PolarConnect event with teacher Eric Thuma and Dr. Jim Madsen from the Antarctic Neutron Monitoring Program from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Read more about the research and what Eric and the team are learning here:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/antarctic-neutron-monitors

The meeting will convene Wednesday, 11 January 2017 at 10:00 a.m. AST. This meeting will be available via teleconference or in-person in the Dr. Glenn A. Olds Hall Conference room on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Alaska Pacific University (APU) campus, 4210 University Avenue, in

Organizers announce a call for registration for the Circum-Arctic Flux Workshop. This workshop is hosted by the Pan-Eurasion Experiment (PEEX) of the University of Helsinki and will be held 6-9 February 2017 in Hyytaila, Finland.

The workshop is open to all scientists interested in detailed

The International Arctic Social Science Association (IASSA) announces a call for poster and paper abstract submissions to the 9th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences Conference (ICASS IX) entitled "People and Places." The conference will convene 8-12 June 2017 in Umeå, Sweden.

The

Presenter: Amy Merten, Ph.D., Chair of the Arctic Council's Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Working Group, NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration

Sponsor: NOAA's National Ocean Service Science Seminar; seminar host is tracy.gill [at] noaa.gov

Remote Access: Mymeeting

Join us for a PolarConnect event with teacher Eric Thuma and Dr. Jim Madsen from the Antarctic Neutron Monitoring Program from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Read more about the research and what Eric and the team are learning here:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/antarctic-neutron-monitors

The 2017 Alaska Marine Science Symposium (AMSS), Alaska’s premier marine research conference, will take place on January 23-27, 2017 at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska.

AMSS brings together scientists, educators, resource managers, students, and interested public to discuss the latest