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Media
 Zombie Wildfires are Blazing Through the Arctic, Causing Record Burning. "Zombie" wildfires that were smoldering beneath the Arctic ice all winter suddenly flared to life this summer when the snow and ice above it melted, new monitoring data reveals. And this year has been the worst for Arctic wildfires on record, since reliable monitoring began 17 years ago. Arctic fires this summer released as much carbon in the first half of July than a nation the size of Cuba or Tunisia does in a year. LiveScience
Melting Glaciers are Filling Unstable Lakes. And They're Growing. Nearly freezing and often an otherworldly shade of blue, glacial lakes form as glaciers melt and retreat. These lakes are a source of drinking and irrigation water for many communities. But they can turn deadly in an instant when the rocks that hold them in place shift and send torrents of water coursing downstream. Now, researchers have compiled the first global database of glacial lakes and found that they increased in volume by nearly 50 percent over the last few decades. That growth, largely fueled by climate change, means that such floods will likely strike more frequently in the future, the team concluded in a paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change. New York Times
 In Just 20 Years, Ships Could Cross an Open Arctic Ocean. Sailing via the North Pole was impossible until the 1950s. Now, it is all but inevitable. Even if all greenhouse gas emissions ceased, the Arctic Ocean is set to become ice-free in September by 2050. Last summer, I wrote a blog post entitled, "The Arctic shipping route no one's talking about." Now, with four colleagues - Scott Stephenson, Kang Yang, Michael Bravo, and Bert De Jonghe - I've elaborated on the ideas explored in the post in the form of a peer-reviewed article, which has just been published in Marine Policy. Maritime Executive
Pink Salmon Could Prosper in Warmer Arctic, New Study Finds. Scientists like to say that climate change is creating winners and losers in Alaska: Some species will struggle, while others could benefit from warmer habitats. One of those climate change winners could be pink salmon in the Arctic, according to a news paper published by U.S. and Canadian scientists in a journal called Deep Sea Research Part II. The study provides new evidence that global warming could produce higher numbers of pink salmon in the region, by making previously too-cold rivers and streams more hospitable for spawning. Alaska Public Radio
 UNB Physicists Developing New Weather Monitoring Instrument for Canadian Arctic. Work to develop and install a new space weather monitoring instrument in the Canadian Arctic has begun in the physics department at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. P.T. Jayachandran, the chair of UNB's physics department and principal investigator of the Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network, will oversee the three-year project after being selected by the Canadian Space Agency. CBC News
Arctic Frontiers Goes Digital, and Only That. "We have decided to move the content of Arctic Frontiers 2021 online to ensure that no one will lose out on the Arctic Frontiers experience," the organizers informs. The original format of the Tromsø-based conference is cancelled over COVID-19, just like the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik on Iceland was cancelled in August. "The Arctic family will meet from February 1-4, 2021 in a slightly different way than what we are use to," Arctic Frontiers writes on its portal. The Barents Observer
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Future Events
Building Arctic Educator-Researcher Collaborations, 1:00 PM EDT on September 9, 2020 (virtual). In this webinar led by Jennifer Chavez-Miller, you will learn how to reach out and partner with educators on public programming, how to foster effective educator-researcher collaborations, and how you can improve your communication skills for younger audiences. Jennifer will share her expertise of collaborations from over 18 years as a public school educator, including research trips to Svalbard and Finland, and a recent National Geographic funded education project. You will leave this webinar with next steps you can take to begin meaningful outreach to interest students in your field and create a path to participation. This webinar is supported by the Migration in Harmony Research Coordination Network.
2021 Alaska Marine Science Symposium, January 26-28, 2021 (virtual). The Alaska Marine Science Symposium (AMSS) has been bringing together scientists, educators, resource managers, students, and interested public for over twenty years to discuss the latest marine research being conducted in Alaskan waters. Over 700 people attend this 4-day long conference held annually during the month of January. Each day of the conference highlights important Alaskan marine ecosystems: Gulf of Alaska (Tuesday), Bering Sea & Aleutian Islands (Wednesday), and the Arctic (Thursday). Research topics discussed range from ocean physics, fishes and invertebrates, seabirds, marine mammals, to local traditional knowledge. Since its inception, NPRB has been a proud sponsor and one of the leading organizers of AMSS.
Arctic Science Summit Week, March 20-26, 2021 (Lisbon, Portugal). The Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Local Organizing Committee will host the Arctic Science Summit Week 2021. The Conference is organized by FCT, Ciência Viva, AIR Center, the Portuguese Arctic Community and by IASC and partners. Framed by the overarching theme for the Science Conference "The Arctic: Regional Changes, Global Impacts," Lisbon invites International experts on the Arctic and Indigenous Peoples to discuss the "New Arctic" and also its impacts and interactions to and with the lower latitudes.
Save the Date: 2nd Symposium on Polar Microbes and Viruses, May 3-6, 2021 (Hanko, Finland). Organizers announce, that due to the coronavirus outbreak, the 2nd Symposium on Polar Microbes and Viruses has been postponed to 2021. This symposium will bring together molecular microbial ecologists specializing in different organism groups to share our latest results and discuss methodological problems, as well as future prospects in the field, including practical international collaborations. The environmental focus will be on cryospheric environments including sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, and permafrost, but excellent research in other polar environments is also invited. The methods to be discussed will focus on 'omics' techniques, ranging from single cells to metagenomes, but research using additional methods is encouraged as well.
3rd Arctic Science Ministerial, May 8-9, 2021 (Toyko, Japan). The Japanese and Icelandic organizers of this ministerial continue to plan for an in-person ministerial, in Tokyo, but have moved the dates from November 21-22, 2020 to May 8-9, 2021 because of Covid-19. Since the last Arctic Science Ministerial in 2018, changes in the Arctic ecosystem and the resulting impacts locally and globally have been severely felt. Considering the need for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and repair measures, the relevance of an international Arctic Science Ministerial has never been greater. It is necessary to strengthen scientific cooperation and collaboration among both Arctic and non-Arctic States in order to develop our understanding of the rapid changes impacting the Arctic. The First Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM1) was hosted by the United States in 2016, and two years later, the Second Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM2) was co-hosted by Germany, Finland, and the European Commission. ASM3 will be co-hosted by Iceland and Japan.
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