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NNA Community Newsletter
January 2025 Issue
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- Reminder: Register for 2025 NNA Annual Community Meeting
- Episode 6 Part 1 of Arctic Together Podcast Now Available
- Position Available: Community Grants Manager with ANTHC Center for Environmentally Threatened Communities
- Postdoc Opportunity: Research Associate in Engineering and Society
- Report from the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (Utqiaġvik, Alaska)
- ICARP IV Survey for Research Priority 3: "Understanding the dynamics and resilience of Arctic social-ecological systems to foster a sustainable future"
- NNA-CO Convergence Working Groups Highlights
- Upcoming Events
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Reminder: Register for 2025 NNA Annual Community Meeting | |
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The NNA Community Office is excited to welcome the NNA community to Boulder, Colorado in March for the 2025 NNA Annual Community Meeting. This meeting will be fully in-person on March 23, 2025, held in conjunction with Arctic Science Summit Week.
Registration is now open, and you can find more information on the annual meeting on the meeting website. Registration closes February 23, 2025. If you need to book a hotel room, we encourage you to do so as soon as possible as hotel blocks are filling up. You can book through the ASSW hotel blocks here.
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Episode 6 Part 1 of Arctic Together Podcast Now Available | |
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Convergence research engages with vexing and complex research challenges that are pivotal for addressing societal needs. The NNA-CO’s Convergence Working Groups (CWGs) bring together diverse experts and perspectives that engage with the Arctic to work together towards newly formed and shared goals.
Episode 6 of the Arctic Together Podcast features the Fostering Indigenous-led Research CWG Experienced Co-leads Mary Beth Jäger and Heather Jean Sauyaq Kwamboka Gordon, who share their insights to the group, what it means to foster Indigenous-led research, and how this benefits not only researchers, but also Arctic communities and peoples. Part 1 gives listeners an introduction to our guests, their position within Arctic Research, and insight into Arctic Research from two Indigenous perspectives. Check out the show notes for more information. You can listen to the latest episode wherever you get your podcasts, or on the NNA-CO website.
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Position Available: Community Grants Manager with ANTHC Center for Environmentally Threatened Communities | |
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) Center for Environmentally Threatened Communities (CETC) is recruiting a Community Grants Manager to support Alaska Communities facing climate change. This position will provide advanced grant management and financial management technical assistance to remote Alaska Native communities with climate adaptation and community development projects to include developing and implementing grant management policies, procedures, and tools in collaboration with community staff and government funding partners. Please apply to the Community Grants Manager position on the ANTHC jobs website before February 3, 2025. | |
Postdoc Opportunity: Research Associate in Engineering and Society | |
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The Arctic Research Center (ARC) at the University of Virginia (UVA) is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in social science. This scholar will work at the intersections of Indigenous studies and climate equity as a part of the ARC as well as the Mellon Foundation’s Race, Place, and Equity Program at UVA.
Review of applications will begin February 1, 2025, though the position will remain open until filled. You can read more about the position here.
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Report from the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (Utqiaġvik, Alaska) | |
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The Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL) marked a significant milestone as the Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a host of collaborators gathered to celebrate its 75-year legacy in Arctic research. The event, held in Utqiaġvik, Alaska in August 2022, brought together North Slope Borough community members, representatives from federal agencies, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and past and present Arctic researchers.
The celebration highlighted NARL’s pivotal role in advancing Arctic research over the decades. A central theme of the event was to chart a path for the next 25 years of Arctic science, focusing on the facilities, partnerships, and innovations needed to address the challenges and opportunities ahead. Please check out the final report here.
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ICARP IV Survey for Research Priority 3: “Understanding the dynamics and resilience of Arctic social-ecological systems to foster a sustainable future” | |
The goal of the International Arctic Science Committee’s (IASC’s) Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) is to identify desired outcomes and knowledge gaps and related research priorities for Arctic research for 2025-2035. By contributing your knowledge to this 3 minute survey, you will be supporting the development of the IASC’s international research strategy for the next decade. Access the survey here. | |
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The Infrastructure Futures (IF) CWG launched the CRAFT Research Coordination Network (Co-creating Research for Just Arctic Future Infrastructure Transformations, Resilience, and Adaptation) webinar program. The series launched with the Dec. 2 webinar “Engaging Social Sciences and Indigenous Perspectives in Arctic Infrastructure Research” and the Jan. 6 webinar “Engineering and Arctic Infrastructure Futures”. Webinar recordings and future event dates can be found on the IF CWG’s webpage and CRAFT Facebook group.
Join us! The next webinar discussion will be Feb. 10, focusing on biophysical research, hosted by Victoria Miles (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center). For questions contact Hannah Bradley (vbv9zu@virginia.edu).
Fostering Indigenous-led Research (FILR) Convergence Working Group
Arctic Observing Systems & Technology (AOST) Convergence Working Group
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The AOST CWG currently has 3 funding opportunities available. For each opportunity, please send a short cover letter and narrative CV to Louise Mercer (louise.mercer@northumbria.ac.uk) and Howard Epstein (hee2b@virginia.edu) by January 31, 2025. The funding opportunities are:
- Two $1250 travel stipends to attend ASSW in Boulder, CO (March 20-28, 2025).
- Six $750 stipends to participate in priority Working Group activities.
- $2,000 of support each for ~3 community-based monitoring projects. This opportunity requires a project description to be submitted along with your cover letter and narrative CV.
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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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