Polar and Alpine Community News

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).

The European Space Agency is organising the 13th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing with focus on Snow and Glaciers,which will be held at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, from 16 to 20 September 2024. The course aims at:

• Training the next generation of scientists and professionals in remote sensing of snow and glaciers
• Explaining the theoretical principles, processing algorithms and data products from multiple sources including optical, thermal and microwave 
• Stimulating the use of EO in the domains of water cycle science, water management and hazards e.g. floods.

The Sikumiut Field School will take place on the sea ice near Utqiagvik, Alaska, from April 7-11, 2025 and organizers are requesting applications from all sea ice knowledge holders.

What is the Sikukuit Field School?
Sikumiut means "people of the ice" in Iñupiaq and the field school aims to bring together sea ice knowledge holders from Indigenous and scientific ways of knowing to create a learning environment that blurs the
line between students and instructors. Participants will learn about sea ice using methods based on Indigenous Knowledge, On-ice Observations, Remote Sensing, and Numerical Modeling.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Group (SCAR EDI AG) are teaming up to host a workshop at the 2024 SCAR OSC titled “Synergistic approach to addressing DEI issues; learning from different contextual initiatives” (W20) to be hosted on Friday, August 23, 2024, from 14:00 to 15:30 local time. Our goal for the workshop is to create a plan for pursuing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) action through coordinated, synergistic activities by first understanding how DEI efforts vary across international contexts, and then exploring with workshop attendees how we can learn from one another about how to improve DEI across the Antarctic research community. This workshop will be the start of an ongoing conversation and action plan, that we hope to continue through workshop outputs and online interaction in the months following the OSC. We encourage those interested in attending to RSVP by filling out this form by 23:59 UTC on Sunday August 4th, so that we can gear the workshop towards our planned participants; that said, an RSVP is not required to attend, and all are welcome!