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2019 Arctic Circle Assembly, October 10-13, 2019 (Reykjavík, Iceland).
The annual Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from 60 countries. It is attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, indigenous representatives, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the future of the Arctic.
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Media
 Former Military Officials Call for Climate Security Plan, Arctic Research. Millions of people around the world are demanding action on climate change, including dozens of former US military and intelligence officials. The group is calling on President Donald Trump to adopt a climate security plan that treats climate change as a national security threat. Calls for a High Arctic Research Center in response to climate change could have significant benefits for Alaska, according to a former security analyst.
KTVA
Arctic Circle Assembly Opens Today. The 2019 Arctic Circle Assembly opens at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík today. The conference runs through Saturday. About 2,000 guests from over 60 countries attend the conference, which has been held annually at Harpa since 2013, attracting more and more people every year. Addressing the conference at the opening session, starting at 12:30 pm, will be former President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who chairs the Arctic Circle Assembly, Prime Minister of Iceland Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Finland Antti Rinne, Premier of Greenland Kim Kielsen, Crown Princess of Sweden Victoria, US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, the foreign ministers of Denmark and of the Faroe Islands, Russian Dmitry Artyukhov, governor of Yamalo- Nenets Autonomous Okrugand, and others.
Iceland Monitor
Protecting Life in the Arctic Seas. Climate change is making Arctic waters more accessible to vessels, raising the controversial prospect of more industrial-scale fishing. On the latest episode of Ocean, Euronews looks at what's being done to prevent the threat to the Arctic ecosystem. Greenland is warming. Among other things, this means longer fishing seasons. Between the icebergs of Ilulissat, it's a gold rush. Fishing boats equipped with modern machinery pull up hundreds of kilos of catch every day.
EuroNews
 Northern Japan Port Aims to be Hub for Arctic Passage. A port on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido welcomed a container ship Wednesday after a trial passage through the Arctic Ocean from Europe, hoping to become a hub on a new sea lane. The port of Tomakomai held a ceremony to mark the arrival of the vessel operated by Cosco group, China's largest maritime shipper, following a roughly three-week journey through waters once too daunting for commercial ships.
Nikkei Asian Review
MacArtney Supports Arctic Research Expedition with Underwater Ice Camera. As the world steps up environmental awareness, the RV Polarstern prepares for a yearlong stay in the Arctic ice drift, and MacArtney Germany is playing a small part. The company has recently designed and delivered an underwater ice camera system for the research vessel, the Polarstern, a German icebreaker embarking on a global climate mission to investigate and research previously inaccessible regions during an Arctic winter. The MOSAiC International Arctic Drift Expedition, led by the German-based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, will collect vital data on climate change over the course of the year.
Hydro International
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Future Events
Large-scale Volcanism in the Arctic: The Role of the Mantle and Tectonics, October 13-18, 2019 (Selfoss, Iceland).
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference will focus on the diversity of Arctic magmatism and tectonics from the Paleozoic to present-day. The conveners are Owen Anfinson, Bernard Coakley, Carmen Gaina, and Grace Shephard. The program will focus on five themes including: Theme I: pre-breakup and rifting; Theme II: seafloor spreading; Theme III: mantle-derived heterogeneity (including plumes and large-igneous provinces); Theme IV: subduction related volcanism, and, Theme V: HALIP and environmental effects.
The website (link above) is open for abstract submission until June 19th and for meeting registration until September 9th. Funding is available for travel support, particularly for early career scientists. Travel support will be awarded on the basis of submitted abstracts and to promote diversity among attendees.
Narwhal: A Tusk with a Twist, October 28, 2019 (Washington, DC USA). After over a dozen years chasing the elusive and mysterious Narwhal in its Arctic habitat, conducting laboratory analysis, and applying a traditional study of Inuit and Greenlandic culture, Martin Nweeia, a dentist in Connecticut and lecturer at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and assistant professor at Case School of Dental Medicine, solved one of science's greatest riddles: the function of the narwhal's unicorn-like tusk. Join the National Museum of Natural History as Nweeia reveals his findings and what we can learn about the evolutionary history of the narwhal and its tooth, and asks us to consider adaptation of northern regions, animals, and peoples in a rapidly warming Arctic.
Greenland Science Week, December 1-5, 2019 (Nuuk, Greenland).
Greenland Science Week builds bridges between science and the Greenlandic society, business community and government, and creates a networking and cooperation platform for the Greenlandic and international science community around research in the Arctic.
ASM2019 Annual Scientific Meeting, December 2-5, 2019 (Halifax, NS Canada). Canada's North is experiencing unprecedented change in its sea and terrestrial ice, permafrost and ecosystems under the triple pressures of climate change, industrialization and modernization. The impacts of these pressures can be seen on food and energy security, shipping, sovereignty, northern community health and well-being, and sustainable development and resource exploitation. All these issues have brought the North to the forefront of national and international agendas.
With a focus on networking events, this gathering of
leading Arctic researchers, graduate students, Northern community representatives, government and industry partners and stakeholders from all field
s will provide all with
valuable connections where innovative ideas and initiatives
can
develop
in
support of health
and sound
governance in the Arctic.
Greenland Science Week, December 2-5, 2019 (Nuuk, Greenland). The Arctic research conference, Polar Research Day, will be held in Nuuk on December 4, 2019. Alongside the one-day conference, several additional science events are planned and organized, so that the conference, a public outreach day, themed workshops, seminars and networking activities will be part of Greenland Science Week. The event will include opportunities to meet and network with a broad range of researchers, business community, government employees and society in an Arctic context, and the organizers anticipate participants from all disciplines in discussions of Arctic science in relation to Greenland. Greenland Science Week is organized by Ilisimatusarfik, AAU Arctic, Sermersooq Municipality and Greenland Perspective.
ISAR-6: Arctic Research: the Decade Past and the Decade Future, March 2-6, 2020 (Tokyo, Japan). Rapid changes are taking place in the Arctic that impact regional human and natural systems, and affect the global environment. The International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR) will meet for the sixth time since its first symposium in 2008 to identify changes in the Arctic environment and society, and to discuss possible future sustainable development. The hosts invite all researchers with interests in the Arctic to participate in this multidisciplinary symposium and share their insights, their challenges, and to explore the possible futures of the Arctic.
Arctic Science Summit Week and the 5th Arctic Observing Summit. March 27 to April 2, 2020, (Akureyri, Iceland).
The Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is a high-level biennial summit that provides a platform to address urgent and broadly recognized needs of Arctic observing across all components of the Arctic system. The theme of AOS 2020 is Observing for Action. AOS 2020 will be held in Akureyri, Iceland (March 31-April 2) and will focus on pressing issues related to the use, design, optimization and implementation of the observing system. To that end, submissions in the form of white papers, short statements and poster abstracts are requested that address any and all aspects of the overarching theme and sub-themes. Currently seeking submissions to the AOS. See link for additional information.
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