NNA Community Newsletter

July 2022 Issue

• Upcoming Broader Impacts Network Meeting
• NNA-Related Deadline Reminders
• AGU No-Cost Registration for Members of Indigenous Communities
• PSECCO BAJEDI Training for Polar Early Career Scientists
• Report Available: Understanding and Overcoming Collaborative Arctic Research Challenges
• Greenland Natural Science Data Workshop: An NSF-Funded Workshop to Assess the Current Data Ecosystem and Map the Path Forward
• Job Opportunity: ELOKA Outreach & Network Manager 
• NNA Project Highlight: Origin and Fate of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Warming Chukchi Sea
• Upcoming Events

NNA Proposal Solicitation Reminder: The next NNA proposal solicitation deadline is February 8, 2023. See solicitation details here.

Tip: Familiarize yourself with the three proposal tracks that are invited through this solicitation: NNA Incubator Grants, NNA Research Grants, and NNA Collaboratory Grants.

Upcoming Broader Impacts Network Meeting

August 31, 2022 - 2-3pm Eastern / 12-1pm Mountain / 10-11am Alaska Virtual

What is your dream research collaboration? Are you hoping to broaden your NNA community connections? The NNA-CO invites you to the Broader Impacts Network (BIN) collaboration accelerator. We will use the Topia platform to break out into small groups facilitated by NNA project leaders. Groups will be organized by geographic region and research interests across diverse knowledge systems and career levels. The focus of these breakout groups will be to explore ways to leverage resources and efforts across projects.  

Register here.

NNA-Related Deadline Reminders

The NNA-CO has several upcoming deadlines that we’d like to once again bring to your attention.

• Submit a photo to the NNA Photo Contest (Deadline: July 31, 2022). 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. Read more about the contest rules, prizes, and how to submit your photo(s) here. 
• Submit an abstract to two NNA-themed sessions at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (Deadline: August 3, 2022 at 11:59pm EDT), which will take place during December 12-16, 2022 from Chicago:
• Convergent Research in the Arctic: Addressing Complex Societal Challenges through Action-Oriented Coastal and Ocean Science (OS006)
• Arctic Education & Outreach - Effective ways of engaging diverse learners in Arctic science (ED004)
• Propose a session for the 2022 NNA Annual Community Meeting (Deadline: August 12, 2022). We are now accepting session and workshop proposals for the 2022 NNA Annual Community Meeting, which will take place in a hybrid mode from Anchorage, Alaska during November 15-17, 2022. Learn more about the meeting themes and submit your proposal here. 
• Provide Input on Convergence Working Group Themes (Deadline: August 15, 2022). The NNA-CO is seeking community input on the draft themes that might become Convergence Working Group (CWG) focus areas. The CWGs are being formed to collaboratively address issues of critical importance to NNA projects and Arctic communities. Submit your input here.

AGU No-Cost Registration for Members of Indigenous Communities

The AGU 2022 Fall Meeting will offer no-cost registration to 100 AGU members who are members of an Indigenous Community anywhere in the world. The last day to submit your application is August 3, 2022. Each application will be reviewed, and notifications will be sent via email.

Membership in an Indigenous community should be understood as a sovereign right established both through self-determination and community acceptance.

Learn more and apply here.

PSECCO BAJEDI Training for Polar Early Career Scientists

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) recently announced the launch of its first belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (BAJEDI) training specifically designed for polar early career scientists. This workshop will be run by THRIVE Lifeline in conjunction with PSECCO. 

This training workshop will be run as a two-part series. You must be able to attend both parts of the training to register.

• Part one: Monday, September 19, 2022 - 8-11am AKT | 10am-1pm MT | 12-3pm ET 
• Part two: Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 8-11am AKT | 10am-1pm MT | 12-3pm ET 

Learn more and register to attend the training workshop here. 

Report Available: Understanding and Overcoming Collaborative Arctic Research Challenges

Greenland Natural Science Data Workshop: An NSF-Funded Workshop to Assess the Current Data Ecosystem and Map the Path Forward

Organizers invite registration for the Greenland Natural Science Data Workshop: A National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Workshop to Assess the Current Data Ecosystem and Map the Path Forward. This hybrid workshop will take place October 5-6, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado and online. The workshop will focus primarily on data, tools, and workflows necessary to improve organization and insight within the natural sciences and ensure this community is well-prepared to contribute within broad models of co-production and interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or convergent research.

Registration deadline: August 1, 2022

Learn more and apply here.

Job Opportunity: ELOKA Outreach & Network Manager

The Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) welcomes applications for an Outreach and Network Manager position to be based in either Boulder, CO or Alaska. The Outreach and Network Manager will work closely with ELOKA team members and partners to support partner and network activities to develop and apply data management systems for communities across the Arctic, including a number of partners in Alaska.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received. This position will remain open until filled.

Learn more here.

FIGURE 1. Toxins produced by harmful algal blooms (HABs) can be accumulated and transferred throughout the food web when algal cells are eaten by zooplankton, fish, and shellfish that are, in turn, consumed by other animals and humans. At sufficiently high levels, these toxins can sicken or kill both humans and wildlife. 

Origin and Fate of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Warming Chukchi Sea

Many organisms may spread into and flourish in Pacific Arctic waters as a result of climate warming, but few present such significant threats to human and ecosystem health as harmful algal bloom (HAB) taxa. Alexandrium catenella cells have been documented in recent plankton samples from the Chukchi Sea, in sediments on the Chukchi Shelf, and its potent toxins have been found in the tissues of the range of marine organisms that are important food resources for local residents. This project is a joint physical–biological field program to study the relationship between the distribution and dynamics of Alexandrium and other HAB species and the physical environment of the Chukchi Sea region. The project team's hypothesis is that Alexandrium blooms in Pacific Arctic waters are not only transported from the south through the Bering Strait, but are now originating locally on the Chukchi Shelf due to warming temperatures. HABs are of great societal importance because of their impacts on human and ecosystem health, especially in a study region where little is known about the present and future risk from toxic algae to communities reliant on subsistence harvesting.



Project PIs are Don Anderson and Bob Pickart of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Other team members include Evangeline Fachon, Mindy Richlen, Kali Horn, Dave Kulis, Nate Spada, Peigen Lin, and Leah McRaven (WHOI), as well as Kate Hubbard (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). In late summer, 2022, the team will conduct two survey cruises from the northern Bering Sea to the Beaufort Sea to document HAB distribution and dynamics. Significant project outreach activities are planned to inform, and learn from, local communities in the region affected by these HABs. Questions can be directed to Don Anderson (Lead PI): danderson@whoi.edu.

Planning Virtual Experience Tours workshop

• Fall 2022 (exact date TBD)

Broader Impacts Network August Meeting

• August 31, 2022 - 2-3pm ET / 12-1pm MT / 10-11am AKT

NNA Annual Community Meeting (meeting website)

• November 15-17, 2022

AGU Session on “Convergent Research in the Arctic: Addressing Complex Societal Challenges through Action-Oriented Coastal and Ocean Science” (OS006)

• December 12-16, 2022 (exact date/time TBD)

AGU Session on “Arctic Education & Outreach - Effective ways of engaging diverse learners in Arctic science” (ED004)

• December 12-16, 2022 (exact date/time TBD)