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Published: 16 November 2022

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When: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 , 3:00pm to 4:30pm ET

Where: Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies

Note: this event is hosted by the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies.

The Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Canadian Armed Forces, and Wilson Center Polar Institute present the event "Technological Innovation and Arctic Climate Security" for a discussion about the intersection between technology and the cryosphere (i.e., the frozen parts of the earth). Ms. Marisol Maddox will frame the Arctic climate security problem set to illuminate the critical issues. Dr. Kimberley Miner with discuss risks and impacts from cryosphere degradation. Ms. Leslie Canavera will describe examples of how we can use a blend of indigenous knowledge and western data with specialized artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to forecast climate change and translate knowledge into action.

Please register to receive the virtual teleconference information. Any questions should be directed to the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies.

Speakers

• Marisol Maddox - Senior Arctic Analyst, Polar Institute
• Dr. Kimberley Miner - Scientist and Systems Engineer, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA
• Leslie Canavera - CEO, PolArctic

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Published: 16 November 2022

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Dear and Distinguished Colleagues,

Good afternoon from the small, but growing Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies.

Over the past two+ months the TSC has surged in executive education, strategic engagement, provided support to research, obligated FY22 Congressional appropriation, and gained new members. In executive education, the TSC completed 2 X full Arctic Region Security Orientation Courses (and underway in a 3^rd course this week) that have averaged more than 60 participants per class. In strategic engagement, the TSC partnered with the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies (GCMC) for an important workshop on the developing security environment of the European high North, plus supported international engagement/outreach workshops in Nuuk Greenland, Reykjavik Iceland, Kingston, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as well as events in Anchorage and Colorado Springs. With the recent onboarding of the deputy lead for TSC Research & Analysis, the Center is now underway in organizing efforts for overall research, while also provided important support to the International Cooperative Engagement Program for Polar Research (ICE-PPR). The TSC is also advancing special programs as outlined in the POAM.

We were honored to host the Acting Deputy Assistant SecDef for Arctic & Global Resilience for substantial orientation between South Central, Interior and North Slope Alaska, while supporting a recent visit from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Center also supported Congressional staff delegations hosted by Alaskan Command and 11^th Airborne Division (Arctic).

While continuing to prosecute the 9 Feb 2022 approved Plans, Objectives and Milestones (POAM) the TSC have significantly revised the prior POAM to create a new edition, dated 29 Oct 2022.  This updated document addresses the October 2022 releases of the U.S. National Security Strategy, National Strategy for the Arctic Region, and National Defense Strategy. The new POAM also addresses the draft strategic guidance under consideration by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, while incorporating the 12 July 2022 Commander, USNORTHCOM signed guidance and priorities. In parallel with the updated POAM is also the updated TSC Fiscal Year 23 Annual plan. Both POAM and Annual Plan are under review and coordination at the Deputy Assistant SecDef (DASD) Arctic & Global Resilience and USNORTHCOM J5. More to follow on this...but this does help the small but growing TSC accomplish its campaign of "building while doing."

Ongoing and new TSC Executive/Practitioner Education: On the education front, please know w have new opportunities for our fundamentals "ARSOC" participation...please see the associated attached flyer & We also have a new "Arctic Maritime Law" Course coming up in early December. The current flyer for that new class is attached for your reference. As is with all TSC education efforts...these are for Defense Allies and Security Partners and U.S. practitioners as well.

We are also honored to announce the following 2 new opportunities for information and collaboration:

• New Webinar Series: The TSC is launching a new webinar series titled "Hot Topics and Cold Facts for the High North." This new series is produced in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson Center Polar Institute. This new series is a revitalization of the prior "Arctic Security Dialogues" partnered between the Polar Institute and the Arctic Domain Awareness Center. Accordingly, planned webinar moderators include myself and & Dr. Mike Sfraga, Chair & Distinguished Fellow, Polar Institute; Chair, US Arctic Research Commission. Our first event is 15 Nov 2022 from 12:30-2 PM Eastern, in support of the “Newport Manual on Arctic Security” authored by Dr. Walter Berbrick, Professor & Director at the U.S. Naval War College, Dr. Gaëlle Rivard Piché, Strategic analyst with Defence Research & Development Canada, and Col Michael Zimmerman, Former Staff Judge Advocate for U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa.

• New Professional Journal: The TSC is developing a partnership with Air University Press at Maxwell AFB Alabama for the new "Journal of Arctic and Climate Security Studies" (JACSS). This new journal provides an opportunity for authors to contribute to the developing community focused on Defense and Security Concerns. We are now planning the inaugural edition and respectfully offer the following update for authors to consider: Features – 6000 word max; Articles / Perspectives – 4000-4500 words; Commentaries – 2000-3000 words. Submission deadline is 13 January 2023 and the primary site to submit is "This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.." Our planned publishing date is now planned for Mid-March 2023.  Please see the attached graphic.

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Published: 14 November 2022

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My latest book Assigiippugut is now available.  Vi er ens - We are the same.

The book is about climate crises.

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Published: 11 November 2022

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with Dave Morris and Nadia White of the Wild Rockies Field Institute

When: 15^th November 2022, 1:00PM-2:00PM MST

Where: Online seminar

Journalists and scientists have been working – sometimes in unison, sometimes at cross purposes -- to communicate the understanding and implications of anthropogenic climate change since the end of the 1950s. It has proven challenging work as the human issue-attention cycle frustrates the ability of audiences to focus on the implications of change that is slow, far away or in the future.

Teaching the causes, impacts and implications of climate change from the seat of a bicycle is our attempt to interrupt the issue-attention cycle before our audience reaches the off-ramp of their awareness. Offered through the Wild Rockies Field Institute and the University of Montana, Cycle the Rockies is an experiential learning opportunity that gives college students a chance to slow down and take a personal look at factors that inform climate change policy debates.

The 27-day, 600-plus mile bicycle tour across western Montana considers energy production and transmission, as well as climate change impacts and implications in the state. The students tour a coal mine, a wind farm, a hydro power dam. They visit ranches and national parks and a proposed copper mine at the headwaters of a cherished wilderness river. They bike along oil refinery pipelines and high voltage transmissions lines and meet with energy developers and environmental advocates. They ride into the wind and under a prairie sun. On any given year, they see and feel evidence of a changing climate, including, in the last two years: extreme heat, drought and its impacts on ranchers and rural communities, floods, and the impacts extreme weather events have on towns supported by outdoor recreation and tourism.

Experiential teaching challenges students to synthesize information they take in from reading and lectures with knowledge they derive from conversations and observations along the way. Structured blog posts, call-to-action letters and substantial social media posts require them to refine the lessons learned into engaging anecdotes supported by science and their own experience.

Morris, an ecologist and outdoor educator, has taught Cycle the Rockies many times since he helped develop the course more than a decade ago. He and White, a journalist and journalism professor, have taught the course together the past two years. This talk will consider their observations about the efficacy of field teaching for communicating climate science and policy to college students.

LIVESTREAM VIA ZOOM: 
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/5409618610

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US: 1-646-558-8656 
Meeting ID: 5409618610
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/MNl8z