NNA Community Newsletter

June 2025 Issue

• Applications Open for Co-creating a Shared Framework for Teaching AI and Machine Learning with Applications in Arctic Research Workshop
• Polar STEAM Opportunity for Researchers
• PSECCO Photo Contest
• Getty Announces New Global Art and Sustainability Fellows Program
• WCRP CliC Open Science Conference Travel Grant Opportunity
• AGU Fall Meeting 2025 Sessions Now Accepting Abstracts

Applications Open for Co-creating a Shared Framework for Teaching AI and Machine Learning with Applications in Arctic Research Workshop

Applications are now open for the 2025 Scaling Impact: Co-Creating a Shared Framework for Teaching AI and Machine Learning with Applications in Arctic Research workshop that will take place at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, CA from Oct. 20-24, 2025.

This year’s workshop will bring together AI and Machine Learning practitioners, instructors, and other experts to collaboratively improve and expand upon existing curriculum while designing an extensible framework for delivering training in different course formats. 

Learn more about the workshop and submit your application by June 30, 2025 here. Reach out to greco@nceas.ucsb.edu with any questions.

Polar STEAM Opportunity for Researchers

Polar STEAM is currently recruiting researchers for their next cohorts, specifically for (1) Arctic field research for boreal summer 2026, and (2) virtual collaborations for the Arctic and Antarctic, 2026/27. They welcome applications from NSF-funded polar researchers across a wide spectrum of research disciplines including social sciences. The Polar STEAM team is also interested in talking with researchers who are submitting NSF proposals for future work and are interested in collaborating with them. For more information, email polarsteam@oregonstate.edu or visit the application webpage.

PSECCO Photo Contest

Do you have photos that highlight your research, fieldwork, or polar adventures? Participate in the Summer 2025 PSECCO Photo Contest, which has five categories for submission: animals, landscape, perspective, people, and black and white. Prizes will be awarded for the top photo submissions of each category, and honorable mentions will be celebrated. 



To participate, please review the contest rules and submit your photos via this form. For more information, please visit the photo contest page. The submission deadline is July 31, 2025.

Getty Announces New Global Art and Sustainability Fellows Program

Getty recently announced a multi-year global initiative that unites contributions from the art and culture sector with the worldwide push towards sustainability. The Getty Global Art and Sustainability Fellows program will support early-career professionals and visual artists at the forefront of international conversations on climate resiliency at 15 cultural and scientific organizations on six continents. With Getty support, fellows will contribute to critical priorities around sustainable management of heritage resources, apply cutting-edge science to the cultural sector, and communicate the cultural dimensions of the climate and biodiversity crises to broader audiences. Read more here.

WCRP CliC Open Science Conference Travel Grant Opportunity

Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) is hosting an Open Science Conference in Wellington, NZ in February of 2026, and they are offering travel funding for early career researchers (ECRs) to attend. Travel Grants are available to students, ECRs, and scientists with a permanent base in a low or lower-middle income country. 

The deadline for travel grant applications is July 31, 2025. Full details can be found here. 

AGU Fall Meeting 2025 Sessions Now Accepting Abstracts

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, during December 15-19, 2025. The following two sessions, led by the NNA-CO, are now accepting abstracts:

• Convergence Research in the Arctic: Drawing from Diverse Disciplines and Knowledge Systems to Address Complex Societal Challenges (C008)
• Arctic Education & Outreach - Effective ways of engaging  diverse learners in Arctic science (ED005)

The deadline for abstract submissions is July 30, 2025 (23:59 EDT). Submit your abstracts here. 

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