BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ff5dda75db78652e1f7c35869b0ac7c0 CATEGORIES:Polar Conferences, Meetings and Events CREATED:20191216T100004 SUMMARY:2020 Polar Technology Conference LOCATION:Boulder\, Colorado\, USA DESCRIPTION:The Polar Technology Conference (PTC) (https://polartech.datatransport.org/ ) was a small, but impactful meeting held annually from 2005–2016, which cr eated space for polar scientists, technology developers, and technology use rs to share technology needs and discoveries. The absence of this opportuni ty for polar people to connect has resulted in reduced connectivity and col laboration within the broader polar science community. The National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs has responded to this need with supp ort to resume the PTC as a biennial meeting.\nPlanning for the next PTC is underway in partnership with ARCUS and a ten-member, multidisciplinary Orga nizing Committee. The 2020 meeting will be held in Boulder, Colorado during 10–12 March at the University of Colorado’s Sustainability, Energy and Env ironment Community (SEEC) building. This interdisciplinary conferen ce is intended to provide an opportunity for technical and theoretical exch ange on challenges impeding polar research and field operations. Community input is crucial to ensure that technological infrastructure investments ar e efficient, satisfy science drivers, and meet field requirements. The conf erence will address approaches to working and studying in the polar regions , including: terrestrial, marine, atmospheric, and social science disciplin es; autonomous instrumentation; observation platforms; and all levels of lo gistical support.\nThe goal of the meeting is to link experts in polar scie nce and technology development to discuss current technological resources f or polar research and identify barriers to research and application of tech nology for problems unique to polar regions. The conference aims to: (1) id entify and define priorities using bottom-up community feedback to enhance polar science through technological advances; (2) scope out areas where res earch and development (R&D) projects could deliver new technology to me et scientific or logistical user needs and identify where new technology wo uld benefit from field trial; (3) increase awareness of current funding cal ls appropriate for technical or R&D projects and provide input to fundi ng agencies on effective support of technology-related projects for polar r esearch; and (4) build on past PTCs to create a community of practice for f uture dialogue between the users, manufacturers, and developers of technolo gy used in polar research. Science topics are anticipated to include scienc e drivers, power systems, instrumentation, communications, data access and sharing, and overarching integrative technology.\nOrganizers welcome abstra cts for oral and poster presentations that address one or more of the six c onference themes and topics:\n\n - Science Drivers,\n - Power Systems,\n - Instrumentation,\n - Communications,\n - Data Access and Sharing, and\n - O verarching and Integrative Technology.There is no registration fee for the PTC. Registration is limited to 100 participants, and will be first-come, f irst-served. Presenting authors of submitted abstracts will be given priori ty registration until Friday, 24 January 2020. Submitters will receive an e mail confirmation that contains a link to the priority conference registrat ion form. General registration will open for all attendees on Friday, 24 Ja nuary and close either on 9 March 2020 or when the conference has reached c apacity.\nA call for abstracts and registration information is forthcoming. For more information on the conference, please visit https://www.arcus.org /logistics/2020-polar-technology. \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Polar Technology Conference (PTC) was a small, but impactful meeting held annually from 2005–2016, which created sp ace for polar scientists, technology developers, and technology users to sh are technology needs and discoveries. The absence of this opportunity for p olar people to connect has resulted in reduced connectivity and collaborati on within the broader polar science community. The National Science Foundat ion’s Office of Polar Programs has responded to this need with support to r esume the PTC as a biennial meeting.

Planning for the next PTC is und erway in partnership with ARCUS and a ten-member, multidisciplinary Organiz ing Committee. The 2020 meeting will be held in Boulder, Colorado during 10 –12 March at the University of Colorado’s Sustainability, Energy and Enviro nment Community (SEEC) building. This interdisciplinary c onference is intended to provide an opportunity for technical and theoretic al exchange on challenges impeding polar research and field operations. Com munity input is crucial to ensure that technological infrastructure investm ents are efficient, satisfy science drivers, and meet field requirements. T he conference will address approaches to working and studying in the polar regions, including: terrestrial, marine, atmospheric, and social science di sciplines; autonomous instrumentation; observation platforms; and all level s of logistical support.

The goal of the meeting is to link experts i n polar science and technology development to discuss current technological resources for polar research and identify barriers to research and applica tion of technology for problems unique to polar regions. The conference aim s to: (1) identify and define priorities using bottom-up community feedback to enhance polar science through technological advances; (2) scope out are as where research and development (R&D) projects could deliver new tech nology to meet scientific or logistical user needs and identify where new t echnology would benefit from field trial; (3) increase awareness of current funding calls appropriate for technical or R&D projects and provide in put to funding agencies on effective support of technology-related projects for polar research; and (4) build on past PTCs to create a community of pr actice for future dialogue between the users, manufacturers, and developers of technology used in polar research. Science topics are anticipated to in clude science drivers, power systems, instrumentation, communications, data access and sharing, and overarching integrative technology.

Organize rs welcome abstracts for oral and poster presentations that address one or more of the six conference themes and topics:

There is no registration fee for the PTC. Registration is limited to 100 participants, and will be first-come, first-served. Present ing authors of submitted abstracts will be given priority registrat ion until Friday, 24 January 2020. Submitters will receive an emai l confirmation that contains a link to the priority conference registration form. General registration will open for all attendees on Friday, 24 Janua ry and close either on 9 March 2020 or when the conference has reached capa city.

A call for abstracts and registration information is forthcomin g. For more information on the conference, please visit https://www.arcus.org/log istics/2020-polar-technology. 

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