Study of Environmental Arctic Change
SEARCH News
Helping Alaskan Communities Facing Climate Risks
7 February 2020
SEARCH scientists examine how best to use science to help communities respond to rapid climate change in the Arctic in this new article from Eos magazine.
Bering Sea Elders Contribute to NOAA Arctic Report Card
16 December 2019
The SEARCH Sea Ice Action Team partnered with the Bering Sea Elders Group (BSEG) by hosting a two-day workshop with elders from the Bering Sea region in September 2019 to develop the first Indigenous community contribution to the NOAA Arctic Report Card. A short video, which will ultimately be part of a larger video series called "After the Ice", showcases this workshop and some of its participants. The workshop focused on recent environmental changes across the Bering Sea region and the impacts on the local Peoples of the region. The elders' contribution to the Arctic Report Card can be found here.
SEARCH Town Hall at AGU
25 November 2019
SEARCH will hold a Town Hall at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, on Friday, 13 December 2009 at 12:30-13:30pm PT, in Moscone West - 2003, L2. In this town hall, SEARCH seeks best practices and ideas to further improve how we share knowledge of the Arctic with policy makers. Other SEARCH-related events will include a Permafrost Carbon Network meeting and several sessions and talks.
Large Loss of CO2 in Winter Observed Across the Northern Permafrost Region
22 October 2019
A new publication in Nature Climate Change provides a baseline for winter CO2 emissions from northern terrestrial regions and indicates that enhanced soil CO2 loss due to winter warming may offset growing season carbon uptake under future climatic conditions. This science synthesis effort was led by Dr. Susan Natali and the Permafrost Carbon Network.
IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC)
4 October 2019
The SROCC Report's Polar Regions Chapter (3.4) focused on 'Arctic Snow, Freshwater, Ice and Permafrost: Changes, Consequences and Impacts'. Members of the Permafrost Carbon Network took a leadership role in developing the report.
To learn more, please join Ted Schuur (Chapter 3 Polar Regions Lead Author) on Tuesday, 8 October, 2-3pm ET for an IARPC Collaborations webinar presentation focused on the permafrost aspects of the report with an overview of the latest science on the state of changing permafrost and the regional and global implications.
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Arctic Futures 2050 Conference
Arctic Futures 2050 was a novel conference of Arctic scientists, Indigenous Peoples, and policy makers jointly exploring the knowledge needed to inform decisions concerning the Arctic in coming decades. The conference took place 4-6 September 2019 in Washington, D.C.