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** New this week ** Context is Everything Series: Arctic Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities, October 23, 2019 (Washington, DC USA). The Foreign Area Officers Association (FAOA) and the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security are coming together to begin a series of security, economic, and policy focused breakfast panels. The panels will bring together experts that will build your context on complex issues around the globe. The hosts kick of the series with a discussion on the Arctic. The political, economic and security dynamics of the Arctic have shifted over the past decade, garnering increased international attention and refinement to national strategies for a region, often overlooked in the past. Moderator Pablo Clemente-Colón is an advisor to the US Arctic Research Commission.
Alaska Board of Fisheries Meeting: Work Session, October 23-24, 2019 (Anchorage, Alaska USA). This event will include a presentation on ocean acidification in Alaska-- Ocean Acidification in Alaska - Hear the latest on ocean acidification in Alaska including current and future conditions and species response. Bring your questions! The presentation also includes a new project on pink salmon response in Alaska and exploring potential management and economic implications. Organizers welcome input and participation from the fishing community.
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Opinion: Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think. For some time now it has been clear that the effects of climate change are appearing faster than scientists anticipated. Now it turns out that there is another form of underestimation as bad or worse than the scientific one: the underestimating by economists of the costs. The result of this failure by economists is that world leaders understand neither the magnitude of the risks to lives and livelihoods, nor the urgency of action. How and why this has occurred is explained in a recent report by scientists and economists at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. New York Times
 Melting Glaciers in the Russian Arctic Uncover Five New Islands. The Russian Navy has discovered five previously unchartered islands. They were found near the Vylki glacier off the coast of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north west of Russia. Their unveiling was the result of melting glaciers and extreme ice loss. An expedition to the archipelagoes of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya in August and September chartered the islands. The mission involved a team of 60 people, including civilians from the Russian Geographic Society. Oceanographic
UTEP Awarded $551k Grant to Research Effects of Solar-Induced Fluorescence to Monitor Arctic Vegetation. The University of Texas at El Paso Department of Biological Sciences was awarded a $551,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Biological Sciences to research the relationship between solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) and vegetation photosynthetic capacity. Findings could aid scientists in predicting the future response of arctic vegetation to climate change. El Paso Herald Post
How Can Space Chart the Future of a Warming Arctic Circle? The portion of the Earth above the Arctic circle is experiencing the effects of a warming climate even faster than the rest of the planet, and the summer Arctic Ocean could be ice free as early as 2030. This rapid change will spur increased demand for space-based capabilities like fast and ubiquitous communications among residents of the Arctic, as well as improved means to accurately navigate the altered region and observe the Arctic's changing conditions. A new report by The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS), Closing the Arctic Infrastructure Gap: Existing and Emerging Space-Based Solutions, examines the space-based communication, navigation and surveillance infrastructures that could serve as solutions for these emerging commercial, civil and military needs in the Arctic. Space Daily
 Board of Fish Directs Focus Toward Ocean Acidification. Risks to Alaska shellfish, salmon will be discussed at upcoming meeting. Hundreds of fishery stakeholders and scientists will gather in Anchorage next week as the state Board of Fisheries (BOF) begins its annual meeting cycle with a two-day work session. The seven-member BOF sets the rules for the state's subsistence, commercial, sport and personal use fisheries. The Arctic Sounder
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Future Events
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.
** New this week ** Fulbright Arctic Initiative: Research and Policy Findings for Sustainable Arctic Communities and Economies, October 31, 2019 (Washington, DC USA). The Arctic faces critical policy challenges on many issues including climate change response, public health and healthcare infrastructure, energy, environmental protection, sustainable management of the Arctic Ocean, infrastructure, Indigenous rights, and governance. This symposium reports on research findings and selected policy recommendations from the Fulbright Arctic Initiative thematic research teams.
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 fields 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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