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UPCOMING EVENTS FOR ISAC AND AOS (ARCTIC OBSERVING SUMMIT) For OTHER EVENTS, visit this link |
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2016 |
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Arctic Science Summit Week 2016 (ASSW 2016) and 3rd ARCTIC OBSERVING SUMMIT |
ASSW and AOS 2016 - March 12-18, 2016 - Fairbanks, Alaska Planning is underway for the next ASSW event to be held on the campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The ASSW 2016 will include several joint meetings and side events, including the 3rd Arctic Observing Summit (AOS), an Arctic Council Senior Arctic Officials meeting, and other events, with one joint day (tentatively scheduled for March 15th). The 3rd AOS will include working groups to discuss and chart the implementation of a collaborative, international and sustained Arctic observing systems network. The development and planning of AOS is led by ISAC. Please visit the AOS 2016 and ASSW 2016 for updates! |
2015 |
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Arctic Science Summit Week 2015 (ASSW 2015), ISAR-4, |
ASSW 2015 - April 23-30, 2015 - Toyama, Japan The Arctic Science Summit Week, ASSW 2015 includes include scientific presentations and events as part of the 4th International Symposium on the Arctic Research (ISAR-4) 'Rapid change of the Arctic climate system and its global influence', the 3rd International Conference on Research Planning (ICARP-III) 'Integrating Arctic Research: a Roadmap for the Future ', and other side meetings. The event will highlight the 25th anniversary of the International Arctic Science Committee (ISAC). (See more information)
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PAST EVENTS |
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2014 |
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ISAC Townhall at the AGU 2014 |
ISAC and AOS: 6th Town Hall Meeting: American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California The biennial Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is a pillar activity led and co-organised by the ISAC International Program Office and partners. The AOS functions as a forum for solutions-oriented discussion, planning and priority-setting to link stakeholder needs with Arctic observing systems design, data collection, analyses, and the creation of audience-appropriate data products. The AOS is a SAON (Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks, Arctic Council) task to identify and pursue specific activities designed to improve Arctic observing for a full spectrum of applications, from climate research to the delivery of useful products to Arctic stakeholders. For its 6th AOS/ISAC Town Hall Meeting, new participants, members of the Arctic research community, professionals, members of the private sector, environmental and government agencies, and representatives from polar networks and other sectors were invited to share their insight and to provide input into key priorities for Arctic observing, emerging themes in the North, and adaptation or mitigation strategies. Planning is underway for the third AOS in early 2016, including the development of concrete recommendations and solutions to coordinate, expand, and link international Arctic observing activities and to develop systems that are lacking. |
ISAC at AGU Fall Meeting, 2014 |
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU) - San Francisco, California: Dec. 17, 2014 Session GC13K Arctic Change: Integrating Long-Term Perspectives and Current Observations for Understanding Future Impacts and Responses II ISAC Members co-organised a special session on Arctic Change and oral and poster presentations included physical, social, environmental and political perspectives and themes. The introductory presentation was a special study prepared by ISAC researchers and staff.
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ISAC at Arctic Change, Ottawa (ArcticNet meeting, 2014) |
Arctic Change 2014 - Dec. 8-12, 2014, Ottawa ISAC researchers presented updates on the success and results from previous Arctic Observing Summits (2013 and 2014) and on feedback to guide the implementation of a coordinated and collaborative Arctic observing systems network. THE ARCTIC OBSERVING SUMMIT: HARNESSING KNOWLEDGE AND GUIDING THE FUTURE FOR DESIGNING, OPTIMISING, AND IMPLEMENTING AN ARCTIC OBSERVING NETWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ADAPTATION
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Arctic Science Summit Week 2014 and Arctic Observing Summit 2014 |
ASSW 2014 and AOS 2014 - Helsinki, Finland (April 5-11) Websites for Meetings: ASSW and AOS 2014 The AOS 2014 was held in conjunction with the Arctic Science Summit Week 2014 (ASSW 2014) in Helsinki, Finland. It was led by the International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) and co-organized with the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Thule Institute. Videos and more information are available from the meeting websites (and from ArcticHub: AOS 2014). |
2013 |
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ISAC Townhall at the AGU 2013 |
International Study of Arctic Change - 5th Annual Town Hall The International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) held its 5th Annual Town Hall at Annual Meeting of the AGU. The Town Hall covered ISAC progress to date, including a report of the first Biennial Arctic Observing Summit held in Vancouver in spring 2013, and information about the 2nd Arctic Observing Summit, scheduled in conjunction with Arctic Science Summit Week, 6-12 April 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. In addition to the AOS reports, the ISAC SSG and Program Office held an open discussion on the continued development and implementation of the Responding to Change (RtoC) component of the ISAC Science Plan. An RtoC Scoping Meeting was planned to be held in Tromsø on 21 January 2014 in conjunction with the Arctic Frontiers meeting, and a full-scale RtoC Workshop was tentatively scheduled for fall 2014. The ISAC Town Hall is an important mechanism for soliciting input on ISAC activities and provides framework for discussion of ISAC goals and objectives for the coming year. All interested individuals and organizations were invited and input was particularly sought from those involved in Arctic observing programs and trans-disciplinary programs. Members of the Arctic research community from outside the US involved in similar initiatives, in the Arctic or elsewhere, were also welcome to participate in the Town Hall meeting. For further background see the ISAC Science Plan. |
Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) 2013 |
Arctic Observing Summit 2013 - Inagural AOS: Vancouver, B. C., Canada (Apr. 30 - May 2) Meeting website: AOS 2013 and Program The Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is a high-level, biennial summit that aims to provide community-driven, science-based guidance for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long-term (decades) operation of an international network of Arctic observing systems. The AOS is a platform to address urgent and broadly recognized needs of Arctic observing across all components of the arctic system, including the human component. The AOS 2013 is an implementation activity of the ISAC and it is a contribution to the Sustaining Arctic Observing Network (SAON) ) initiative. Call for papers to the proceedings of the Arctic Observing Summit 2013 for publication as a thematic cluster of peer-review articles in a polar science journal: The foundation of the Arctic Observing Summit 2013 (AOS2013) was community input. To capture and integrate input from a broad range of participants the AOS included the preparation of community-based white papers and statements. Building on this input, authors are invited to further develop contributions to a thematic cluster of articles to be published in a scientific journal. Articles will be subjected to their standard peer-review procedure. Submission deadline is October 30, 2013. The articles for the AOS thematic cluster should be rooted in the outcome of the AOS 2013 process and address some or several of the AOS 2013 defined themes:
These themes were broadly defined to encompass diverse perspectives and topical areas. As previously stated in the call for white papers; we encourage papers to articulate and explore underlying questions such as:
For those building on AOS2013 white papers, additional authors may be entrained, and we encourage collaboration between papers that address similar themes. |
2012 |
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ISAC Townhall at the AGU 2012 |
ISAC Town Hall (3 December 2012), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA. ISAC held an annual town hall meeting at the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco. Updates were provided on ISAC activities including a series of Responding to Arctic Environmental Change workshops, the Arctic Ocean Drift Study and on planning for the Arctic Observing Summit. |
RtoC Workshop 2012: Responding to Arctic Environmental Change |
Responding to Arctic Environmental Change, Translating our Growing Understanding into a Research Agenda for Action An International Study of Arctic Change Workshop January 30 - February 1, 2012 The first ISAC Responding to Arctic Environmental Change Workshop was held at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Thanks to all participants for an excellent and productive workshop. Below is the final agenda, along with links to workshop presentations, background documents, and the list of participants. Continue to watch these pages for updates on workshop products, including a poster presentation at the Planet Under Pressure Conference in London (26-29 March 2010), a conference paper at the IPY 2012 Conference: From Knowledge to Arctic, in Montreal (22-27 April 2012) and a final workshop report. You can view the workshop agenda, background reading list, the presentations and workshop participants below. (Link: Responding to Arctic Environmental Change)
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2011 |
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2010 |
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2009 |
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Workshop: Arctic Hydrological System, |
SYNTHESIZING INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM - International Workshop Fall 2009, Stockholm Sweden ISAC partnered with NSF-ARCSS Freshwater Integration study, Arctic-Hydra and others to strengthen international co-operation in Arctic change research and efforts to develop a pan-Arctic system level understanding of arctic change. The workshop aimed to:
Some topics considered at the workshop included:
Workshop participants can be found here. |