Polar and Alpine Community News

The Karthaus Summerschool on Ice Sheets and Glaciers in the Climate System will (hopefully) take place from 20 May - 29 May 2025 in the South Tirolian town Karthaus, Italy. The Karthaus Summerschool is a 10-day international course intended for early stage PhD candidates that work in glaciology-related climate projects from all over the world.

The course provides the students with a thorough introduction into the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interaction. Although the course is anchored in continuum-mechanics and numerical modelling, it also provides lectures on ice-atmosphere interaction, climate of ice sheets and glaciers, glacier hydrology, ice-ocean interactions, geomorphology, and geodynamics. An important part of the course is networking and community building, for participants and teachers.

The course has place for 36 students.

Application deadline: 10 January 2025

See for more information: https://www.projects.science.uu.nl/iceclimate/karthaus/

SCAR is recruiting a Secretary to join the SCAR Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Action Group (AG).

This role will be an opportunity for early-career researchers, particularly students and those new to SCAR, to gain experience in project management, expand their network, familiarize themselves with SCAR and SCAR groups, as well as contribute to the activities of the EDI AG.

Toolik Field Station welcomes all to join them at the 2025 Toolik All Scientists Meeting, celebrating 50 years of Toolik research. The meeting will take place January 16-18, 2025 in Santa Barbara, CA. Register on our website by Dec. 6 (https://www.uaf.edu/toolik/news/all-scientists-meetings/index.php).

The All Scientists Meeting is intended to spark conversation, inspire new ideas, and garner feedback amongst the Toolik community. All are welcome to attend the meeting, including science talks, poster presentations, and breakout discussions/workshops on topics like education & outreach, equitable Arctic research with Alaska Native communities, creating field safety & inclusion plans, and station support needs.

Picture by Jason Stuckey, UAF

The Arctic Data Center is happy to announce we opened applications for our 5-day in-person "Scalable and Computationally Reproducible Approaches to Arctic Research” workshop this April 7-11, 2025!

This 5-day in-person workshop will provide researchers with an introduction to advanced topics in computationally reproducible research in python, including software and techniques for working with very large datasets. This includes working in cloud computing environments, docker containers, and parallel processing using tools like parsl and dask. The workshop will also cover concrete methods for documenting and uploading data to the Arctic Data Center, advanced approaches to tracking data provenance, responsible research and data management practices including data sovereignty and the CARE principles, and ethical concerns with data-intensive modeling and analysis.

IARPC Collaborations is seeking volunteer co-leads for the Early Career Community of Practice. @Angela Bliss (NASA), @Katy Smith (NSF/QED), and @Samantha Halstead Santez (NASA/UMD) are currently co-leading this team and new co-leads will join this amazing leadership team. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply. This is an excellent opportunity for postdocs or students doing Arctic research to join the IARPC Collaborations team.

ASSW 2025 organizers are now accepting abstracts for the ICARP IV Summit, which will take place during 25–28 March 2025, immediately following the ASSW 2025 business and community meetings (20–24 March 2025).