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Climate Change Discussions, September 8-13, 2019 (Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Juneau, Alaska USA). Climate scientist
Dr. KATHARINE HAYHOE
will be in the following Alaska cities to discuss
CLIMATE CHANGE.
Dr. KATHARINE HAYHOE
is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution climate projections to understand what climate change means for people and the natural environment.
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Senators to Launch Bipartisan Climate Caucus. Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) are teaming up to form a bipartisan climate caucus in the Senate. The group, set for a formal rollout in the coming weeks and first reported by the Washington Examiner, would in some ways be a counterpart to the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus, which grew to nearly 100 members in the previous Congress.
E&E News
 NOAA Fisheries Declares Unusual Mortality Event Due to Elevated Strandings of Ice Seals in the Arctic. NOAA is declaring an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) for bearded, ringed, and spotted seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas. From June 1, 2018 to present there have been reports of 282 dead seals, with 119 stranded seals in 2018 and 163 in 2019. The increase in ice seal mortality is nearly 5 times the average number of reported strandings, which is about 29 seals annually. Since June 1, 2018, there have been 85 bearded, 66 ringed, 40 spotted, and 91 unidentified stranded ice seals.
NOAA Fisheries
Climate Change: Arctic Glaciers 'Shrinking by 300m Each Year.' Glaciers in the Arctic are shrinking by as much as 300m a year, a Scottish-based research team has found. The researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science near Oban used robot submarines to study glaciers in the west of the Svalbard archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. SAMS scientists have been studying the area's glaciers for two decades.
BBC News
 Scientists Monitoring New Marine Heat Wave Off BC Coast Similar to 'the Blob.' A new marine heat wave spreading across a portion of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia has so far grown into one of the largest of its kind in the last four decades, officials say, second only to the infamous "blob" that disrupted marine life five years ago. The swath of unusually warm water stretches roughly from Alaska down to California, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States. The marine phenomenon began in the Gulf of Alaska sometime around June 15 and ballooned over the summer.
CBC News
Inuvialuit Knowledge Helps Mariners Choose Wildlife-Friendly Routes in Western Arctic. Mariners travelling through waters in Canada's Western Arctic have a new tool to help them mitigate impacts to wildlife and Inuit harvesting areas. The Inuvialuit Game Council, which represents Inuvialuit interests related to wildlife in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and WWF-Canada developed the Western Arctic Mariner's Guide. Arctic shipping is expected to double over the next decade, mainly with vessels related to tourism and mining, according to WWF-Canada.
CBC News
Ohio State Students Embark on Arctic Research Expedition. Two Ohio State graduate students are taking a polar plunge by way of a research expedition to the Arctic in light of changes in sea ice and climate. Oguz Demir and Brandi Downs, doctoral students in electrical and computer engineering, will deploy an ultra-wideband microwave radiometer in the Arctic to measure radiation emitted from sea ice to contribute data for climate change models in September.
The Lantern
Oases Have Appeared in Arctic from Permafrost Thawing. Bio-Geo-Clim laboratory scientists are studying basins of dried-up khasyrei lakes as oases of highly productive ecosystems in the Arctic zone of Russia. During a recent expedition to Yamal, they discovered a new phenomenon: similar oases are also forming in places of active permafrost [thawing]. This was caused by large doses of micro- and macro-elements entering the soil, which stimulates the active growth of herbs and shrubs.
Mirage News
 Starvation a Likely Cause of the 2019 Seabird Die-Off. Starvation seems to be the cause of the large-scale seabird die-off happening this year across Alaska. These types of mortality events have happened every year in the state since 2015. Scientists with the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) are tracking the ongoing die-off and are asking for the public's help. "From late June to early August, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters were reported dead and washing up on beaches in the Bristol Bay region, or observed weak and attempting to feed from salmon gillnets in inland waters," NPS wrote in a release on Sept. 9.
The Arctic Sounder
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Future Events
Bridging Science, Art, and Community in the New Arctic, Sept. 23-25, 2019, (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia USA).
The University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, VA, is hosting a conference and workshop entitled "Bridging Science, Art, and Community in the New Arctic" from Sept. 23-25, 2019, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Navigating the New Arctic program, with additional support from UVA's Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures, and Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation. The UVA Environmental Resilience Institute's Arctic CoLab is organizing the event, with assistance from the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS).
EU Arctic Forum, October 3-4, 2019 (
Umeå, Sweden).
The European Commission, the European External Action Service, and the Government of Sweden will jointly organize a high-level EU Arctic Forum
.
The EU Arctic Forum will bring together key Arctic players and stakeholders to assess recent developments in the region and to discuss the new challenges ahead.
The EU Arctic Forum will include several keynote addresses and two high-level panel sessions on the morning of 3 October. Foreign ministers from EU member states as well as the Arctic Council will be invited to participate.
ADAC Funded Solicitation Opportunity. Proposals due October 7, 2019.
The Arctic Domain Awareness Center (ADAC) announces a competitive search to address research challenges associated with multiple Arctic response capability gaps and shortfalls in science and technology discerned from a two-part workshop conducted via "
Stressing the System...managing a complex Arctic Crisis
"
Arctic-related Incidents of National Significance workshop, (Arctic-IoNS). These workshops were conducted at University of Alaska Fairbanks Northwest Campus, Nome Alaska on 18-19 April 2019 and at the University of Alaska Anchorage from 20-22 May 2019.
ADAC principally seeks proposals that can smoothly transition from research to solutions and needed capability for USCG and other DHS Arctic maritime operators.
ADAC anticipates approximately three to five projects in varying funding amounts may be awarded under this solicitation. In order to facilitate suitable alignment to the research questions and associated project length as described in this RFP, ADAC respectfully recommends proposals scoped between approximately $200,000 to $350,000 U.S. dollars.
Proposals
must be submitted in a single PDF
(electronic format) to ADAC at the following email address: rakee@alaska.edu; with courtesy email to:
jtroe2@alaska.edu and ematthews@alaska.edu
.
If application via electronic submission to email is not feasible, delivery via postal mail or commercial mail to:
Arctic Domain Awareness Center
University of Alaska Anchorage
BOC3 Suite 120
Anchorage, AK 99508
Deadline for receipt of the application (and validated by email response) is
112th Meeting of the US Arctic Research Commission. October 9, 2019 (Reykjavik, Iceland). Details to follow...
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.
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.
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.
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