Arctic.ru Awards Young Geologists Studying the Arctic. From November 26 to 30, Moscow hosted Russia's 8th youth research and practice school, New Knowledge in Ore Forming Processes. Arctic.ru presented a prize to a competition winner in a ceremony at the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IGEM RAS). During the conference, young scientists from different regions of Russia and neighboring countries presented the results of their research in the field of Earth sciences. The Arctic

In a blink of an eye, a hunt for oil threatens pristine Alaska.  For decades,

opposition to drilling has left the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off limits. Now the  Trump administration is hurriedly clearing the way for oil exploration. New York Times.

Northernmost Point in Sweden Sees Sun for Last Time This Year. The sun set at 11:51am on Friday at the landmark and will not appear on the horizon again until January 2019. Treriksröset -- Three-Country Cairn in English - is both Sweden's most northern point and the spot where the international borders of Finland, Norway and Sweden meet. The polar night, when the night lasts for more than 24 hours, will gradually move south over the Norrland region in coming days. In Keinovuopio, Sweden's most northern settlement with five registered inhabitants over the age of 16 in 2016, the polar night began on December 1st. The Local

 

To Image Leaky Atmosphere, NASA Rocket Team Heads North. For a month's time, Ny-Ålesund will be home to the rocket team behind NASA's VISIONS-2 mission, short for Visualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral Atom Sensing-2. They have ventured to this extreme place for an up-close look at atmospheric escape, the process whereby Earth is slowly leaking its atmosphere into space. Understanding atmospheric escape on Earth has applications all over the Universe -- from predicting which far off planets might be habitable, to piecing together how Mars became the desolate, exposed landscape it is today. VISIONS-2 is scheduled to launch no earlier than Dec. 4, 2018. Led by Doug Rowland of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, VISIONS-2 is a sounding rocket mission, a type of suborbital rocket that makes brief, targeted flights into space before falling back to Earth just a few minutes later. Science Daily

* New this week *  Senate hearing on Arctic Marine Transportation,

December 6, 2018 (Washington, DC). 

• Mr. Willie Goodwin, Chairman, Arctic Waterways Safety Committee
• Andrew Hartsig, Director, Arctic Program, Ocean Conservancy 
• Ms. Kathy Metcalf, President and CEO, Chamber of Shipping of America
• Captain Ed Page, Executive Director, Marine Exchange of Alaska

American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, December 10-14, 2018 (Washington, DC USA). The AGU 2018 Fall Meeting will mark another dynamic year of discovery in Earth and space science, serve as the advent of AGU's Centennial year, and provide a special opportunity to share our science with world leaders in Washington, D.C. As the largest Earth and space science gathering in the world, the Fall Meeting places you in th

e center of a global community of scientists drawn from myriad fields of study whose work protects the health and welfare of people worldwide, spurs innovation, and informs decisions that are critical to the sustainability of the Earth. 

Arcti c F ron tiers, January 20-25, 2019 (Tromso, Norway) . The Arctic Frontiers  is a global scientific conference on economic, societal, and environmental sustainable growth.  This year's theme will be "Smart Arctic," with a pan-arctic emphasis, and an effort to build new partnerships across nations, generations and ethnic groups. Arctic Frontiers provides a forum for dialogue and communication between science, government and industry . The plenary program will have five main sessions: State of the Arctic, Blue Growth, Smart Solutions, Bridging the Gap, and Arctic business prospects. An abstract-driven science program will address Plastics in the Ocean, the Future of Governance and Handling Vulnerability in Arctic Ecosystems, State of the Arctic and A Smart Arctic Future.

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"A New Arctic:" 8^th Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations (IDA-8), July 17-18, 2019, Wash., DC.

Mark your calendars to attend IDA-8, which some have called one of the best Arctic gatherings around. Historically, this biennial symposium was co-hosted by U.S. National/Naval Ice Center (NIC) and the US Arctic Research Commission (USARC). In 2019, these partners will join forces with the preeminent Wilson Center's Polar Institute, as a third co-host. The now 2-day symposium will be held in the Ronald Reagan Building Amphitheater, in Washington, DC. The event will focus on a broad cross-section of naval and maritime operations and issues in an ice-diminishing Arctic. The symposium brings together nationally and internationally recognized experts on Arctic governance, geopolitics, marine operations, infrastructure, science, and environmental observations, from the local, regional, and pan-Arctic scale. Information on prior symposia, including lists of speakers, video clips, and copies of presentations, is available here. Attendance is free, and registration will begin in Spring 2019. The event will be webcast live, and video recorded.