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NNA Community Newsletter
August 2024 Issue
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- ICARP IV Summit at ASSW 2025 - Call for Abstracts
- Call for NNA Education & Outreach Resources
- NNA Photo Contest
- NNA-CO Convergence Working Groups Reports Now Available
- Call for Applications: Sikumiut Field School
- Position Available: Early Career Community of Practice Co-lead
- NNA Project Highlight: Historical Ecology of the Pacific Cod Fishery
- Upcoming Events
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ICARP IV Summit at ASSW 2025 - Call for Abstracts | |
The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2025 organizers are now accepting abstracts for the Fourth Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) Summit, which will take place during March 25–28, 2025, immediately following the ASSW 2025 business and community meetings (March 20–24, 2025). The ICARP IV Summit will engage Arctic researchers, Indigenous Peoples, policymakers, and other interested parties from around the world to discuss critical topics and priorities for the next decade of Arctic research, serving as a crucial milestone for shaping the Fifth International Polar Year in 2032–33.
Sixty sessions are available for abstract submissions. More information and submission instructions are here. The deadline to submit abstracts is September 30, 2024.
Additionally, ASSW 2025 participants can submit proposals for business and community meetings through September 30, 2024. Details here.
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Call for NNA Education & Outreach Resources | |
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The NNA-CO is hosting a photo contest to showcase the beauty of the Arctic and its peoples, along with all the remarkable work that goes into NNA research.
We invite your photos of fieldwork, research stations and sites, communities and life in the Arctic (with permissions), wildlife, natural landscapes, and cultural landscapes. Though, all ideas are welcome! There will be prizes for the top three photo submissions, as well as for seven honorable mentions. The NNA-CO plans to use the submitted photos for outreach, engagement, and communications about NNA.
Deadline to submit your photos is September 30, 2024. Read the contest rules and submit your photos here.
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NNA-CO Convergence Working Group Reports Now Available | |
The NNA-CO’s Convergence Working Groups, which bring together diverse experts and perspectives to work together on newly formed and shared goals, recently published their May 2023-May 2024 reports. In these reports, you can read about each working group’s activities in the past year, areas of focus, plans for the coming months, and working group members. | |
Call for Applications: Sikumiut Field School | |
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Organizers invite applications for the Sikumiut Field School, which will take place April 7-11, 2025 in Utqiaġvik, Alaska.
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. Sea ice knowledge holders of any discipline or career stage interested in learning about other ways of exploring and understanding sea ice are encouraged to apply.
Applicants from U.S. institutions are eligible to participate. Travel, accommodations, and meal expenses will be covered for attendees. For more information and to apply, please see the field school application form. Deadline to apply is September 15, 2024.
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Position Available: Early Career Community of Practice Co-lead | |
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The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Collaborations invites applications for a co-leader for their Early Career Community of Practice.
The Early Career Community of Practice encourages sharing information, news, and events relevant to early career development and to foster connections within the Arctic sciences. Team leaders work with the U.S. Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) to develop regular newsletters promoting recent early career research publications and sharing training, job, funding, and collaboration opportunities relevant to community members. Within IARPC Collaborations, the community of practice promotes participation in monthly meetings and webinars and to report on early career efforts that contribute to deliverables of the Arctic Research Plan.
Deadline to apply is September 19, 2024. Learn more here.
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Historical Ecology of the Pacific Cod Fishery
Pacific cod has historically been and continues to be an extremely important economic resource for coastal Alaskan communities. However, the world’s oceans are experiencing rapid warming events that have already negatively impacted fish and fisheries. Additionally, the introduction of commercial Pacific cod fishing in the late 19th century was completely transformative to the Indigenous communities and landscapes of the Shumagin Islands and Alaska Peninsula. This region was the center of the schooner-dory and shore station fishery from the 1870s until the 1930s, when the fish began to disappear from their waters until the 1960s.
To address these more contemporary changes, the Historical Ecology of the Pacific Cod Fishery project team conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the village of Sand Point, the last inhabited community out of dozens of abandoned Unangan villages and cod stations. Team members conducted interviews that centered on the history and development of the fisheries, family histories, management variables, and environmental observations, which help shed light on long-term relationships to the fishery and the effects of volatility. To address changes in the fishery over longer periods of time, zooarchaeological specimens, paleogenomic analysis and environmental data are being used to track the evolution of Pacific cod throughout the last two thousand years. Targeting two historical climate events, the Medieval Warming Event and the Little Ice Age, the project team is now assessing how Pacific cod populations in the past responded to climate variation which will help contextualize how cod may fare under current climate warming. A graduate student on the project from Idaho State University has put together an ethnographic exhibit titled “There is Hope From the Sea,” which will be opening at the Idaho Museum of Natural History and will later be relocated and housed in Sand Point.
For more information, contact Catherine West at cfwest@bu.edu.
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Top image: Crew of the Sand Point-based F/V Decision catching Pacific cod during an Aleutians East Borough study expedition in the Shumagin Islands. Cod were fitted with satellite tags and released back into the ocean to study their distribution and migration. Photo by Zack Beal.
Bottom image: Remains of the Aleut community of Unga and major cod fishing center from the 1870s to 1930s, last inhabited in the 1970s. Photo by Kate Reedy.
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Article submitted by Courtney Hofman and the Historical Ecology of the Pacific Cod Fishery team. | |
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The Navigating the New Arctic Community Office (NNA-CO) is jointly implemented by the University of Colorado Boulder, Alaska Pacific University, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The NNA-CO is supported through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award #2040729).
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