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Dear Polar Research Community,
April and May have been busy months for us - here are some of our news that may be of interest to you:
We have opened a call for applications for the position of Executive Secretary of the European Polar Board that will be based at Umeå, Sweden. Application deadline: 5 June 2024. More information about the position, role accountabilities and application procedure can be found here: https://www.europeanpolarboard.org/news-events/news/article/news/join-our-team/
The Members of the EPB Plenary (representatives and alternative representatives of research institutes, logistics operators, funding agencies, scientific academies and government ministries from across Europe) gathered in Katowice for this year’s EPB Spring Plenary meeting. Many fruitful discussions were conducted and important decisions were made. Find more information here.
In April 2024, EU-PolarNet 2, in collaboration with the European Polar Board and the Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, launched a white paper featuring 80 actionable policy-level recommendations aimed at enhancing international collaboration in polar observations. Find more information here.
On May 6th, 2024, the Polar Institute, the European Union, and the Global Europe Program livestreamed an event on Arctic cooperation between the European Union and the United States. Invited experts discussed the global importance of Arctic science and research, how science diplomacy supports the safety and stability of Arctic regions, and how the US and EU scientific communities can improve cooperation to build bridges of understanding in a world moving towards strategic competition. Find more information here.
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When: 15th May 2024 - 11:00AM - 12:00PM MDT (05:00PM - 06:00 GMT)
Where: online event
In recent years, rain on snow (ROS) events have become a prevalent issue in the Arctic region. These weather events impact the wellbeing of humans and wildlife alike. This study seeks to understand the synoptic patterns conducive for ROS events and to study the variability in ROS events in Alaska. Analysis was conducted using a self-organizing map (SOM) displaying a gridded array of anomalous synoptic states comprising 40 years of daily mean sea level pressure for Alaska. Temperature (925 mb and 2 m) and total column water vapor (TCWV) were used to assess the meteorological variability for ROS events. Case studies from stations in southern Alaska were selected from the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s (NSIDC) ROS database for analysis. The atmospheric state was evaluated for ROS events and the conditions governing them. It is found that despite general similarities for ROS events in southern Alaska, there is considerable variability in atmospheric conditions for ROS events to occur. This can make it difficult to accurately predict how ROS events may change over time with a warming climate.
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Taylor O'Brien is currently a graduate research assistant in the Geography Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been completing thesis research at NSIDC with her advisor, Dr. Mark Serreze. Taylor's passion for understanding the impacts of a changing climate began during her undergraduate studies at UNC Chapel Hill and her love for snow and ice was sparked. Her research interests include rain-on-snow, natural hazards, and Arctic amplification.
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On Thursday 23 May at 9.00 UTC EDU-ARCTIC invites you to an online lesson "Glaciers and glacial landforms" by Dhruv Maniktala - PhD student working on sea-ice interaction and glacier calving in the arctic region in Marine and polar research group at Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences.
You often hear that with the global warming, the glaciers are melting. But have you wondered what the glaciers are and how are they formed? Did you know that there are several types of glaciers and they do grow larger and become shorter from time to time? And that the glaciers shape and form many different types of landforms on the Earth. Join us in this lecture to learn all about it!
Registration: Edu-Arctic
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On May 14th from 14:00 to 15:30 (GMT+3) the nuclear advisors of The Bellona Environmental Transparency Center will host an online event to present new report on the nuclear and radiation threats in the Russian Arctic.
Register to get access to the report and YouTube-link and ask questions during the QA session.
The Soviet nuclear legacy on the North-West of Russia includes the radionuclide-contaminated buildings of the former military base at Andreeva Bay, spent nuclear fuel from nuclear submarines and the status of sunken nuclear and radiation-hazardous objects at the bottom of the Arctic seas.
“As Russian money goes to war instead of environmental protection, the Russian Arctic remains a radiation threat”, - claims Bellona’s nuclear advisor and the author of the report Alexandr Nikitin.
The greatest threat to the environment is the nuclear submarine K-27, whose reactors are loaded with highly enriched nuclear fuel. It was scuttled decades ago off the coast of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, where today the Russian Ministry of Defense is testing new weapons.
The war in Ukraine has stopped international cooperation to eliminate nuclear and radiation threats in this region. Before the war, Norway, with the support of a number of European countries, led large-scale efforts to rid the region of the Soviet nuclear legacy.
Moderator of the event: Dmitry Gorchakov, nuclear advisor at The Bellona Foundation
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When: 5th June 2024 15:30-16:30 GMT
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The year 2023 was a year of conflict and empowerment in Iceland like in many other countries of the world with a reawakened feminist wave. In Iceland over 100 thousand women, non-binary individuals and others took to the streets on October 24, 2023 in a “Women´s Strike” for full gender equality in Iceland.
For more information and registration please visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-gender-pay-gap-and-violence-two-sides-of-the-same-coin-tickets-897443476597