Polar and Alpine Community News

The Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Science (GRISO) network will host the fourth GRISO Summer School in Nuuk, Greenland during September 8-19, 2025. The topic is "From Ice to Impact: Understanding Greenland’s Glaciers and Coastal Change”.

The GRISO Summer School emphasizes Greenland science and building collaboration, communication, and complex problem-solving skills across disciplines. Participants in the summer school will:

• Learn about the state of science and research techniques pertaining to Greenland's ice sheet and ocean margins.
• Develop skills in cross-discipline collaboration and communication to explore cutting-edge system science topics facilitated by experts from Knowinnovation.
• Build and strengthen research community connections, especially a healthy and strong early career network.

School and application information is available at https://griso.ucsd.edu/griso-summer-school-2025/. Applications are due 2 March 2025.

Photo: Twila Moon, NSIDC

The Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative warmly invites the polar research community to join them and explore what contributes to “successful” collaborations! During this hour-long panel discussion, panelist will consider collaborations through multiple lenses and embrace the benefits that come from engaging with interdisciplinary research groups, policy and decision makers, and Indigenous and local community members. Whether you are building a career in polar research, have decades of polar experience, or want to learn more about how communities, scientists, and decision makers can better work together to solve complex problems, this panel discussion will offer insights and inspiration for all!  

POTSDAM SUMMER SCHOOL 2025
BEYOND 2030 – TRAJECTORIES & PRIORITIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

From September 15 until September 19 in Potsdam, Germany

SCAR INSTANT Programme invites you to the online ECR Flash Talks Event designed specifically for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in Antarctic research. Whether your focus is on ice sheet dynamics, biology, atmospheric sciences, or social impacts of Antarctic research, this event is a great opportunity to share your research in a low-pressure and friendly setting. Either come along and share your research, or join the audience to find out what others are doing.

Applications are open for Wrangell Mountains Field Studies 2025.

Field Studies is an interdisciplinary field research program hosted by the Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska, located in the center of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The program is accredited through the University of Maine and offers six (6) semester-credits for Field Research Experience in Earth and Climate Sciences. Areas of focus include local geophysical processes (including glacier dynamics), ecology, system modeling, and land use/policy.

Interested students should apply via our application at https://wrangellmountainsfieldstudies.org/apply. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so early submission is recommended. For questions please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Image by Wrangell Mountains Center

The Arctic Youth Network (AYN) is excited to announce the recruitment of motivated and engaged youth aged 18 to 35 y.o. to join its current Board of Directors and people with extensive experience working in and with the Arctic to join an Advisory Board (no strict age limit). This recruitment aims to fill in 4 vacant positions in the Boards.

Deadline to apply January 30th, 2025

More information about the positions

Aplication form, click here! 

Every year, the European Union awards around 1,700 MSCA postdoctoral fellowships. These fund researchers to focus on the scientific puzzles they are most passionate about, full-time for up to three years.

MSCA funding is highly competitive. During the 2023-24 round, less than 16% of applications were successful. In contrast, all three applicants who applied through iC3 received funding – a perfect 100% success rate.

Building on this success, the iC3 Polar Research Hub is launching its own, in-house support programme for strong MSCA candidates.

We will actively support each selected applicant on a 1:1 basis, from the moment we take them on board until the day they submit their proposal.

This is an opportunity for you to help to shape the science and structure of a new SCAR biological research programme.

The aim of the new SCAR scientific programme concentrating on all areas of biology and ecology, Changes in Circumpolar Antarctic Gradients in Ecosystems (C-CAGE), is to use the natural environmental gradients in temperature, ice cover, and other physical drivers that exist in different parts of Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic (with latitude, longitude, altitude, and depth) to better predict the likely outcomes for life as the region’s habitats change.

C-CAGE is at the programme planning group stage and looking for input from the scientific community and they need your help to establish who is interested in being part of C-CAGE and what it should be focusing on. They ask you to fill out a short survey (less than 10 minutes of your time) to help them narrow down these big themes and questions to those that are relevant to current and future work by the SCAR biological research community: https://forms.office.com/e/345VHHwT0Z

They would greatly value as many responses as possible before the end of March 2025 and would appreciate it if you would share this message with any relevant colleagues who might be interested. They encourage researchers of all career stages, backgrounds, nationalities, and areas of interest to contribute and ensure that their science is represented. 

SCARFISH is a newly formed action group from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) under the Life Sciences Group that aims to identify research gaps in fish biology and foster broader international collaboration and coordination to fill those gaps; synthesize fish research needs from the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and work to integrate more comprehensive Southern Ocean fish research into CCAMLR; while increasing diversity in the Southern Ocean fish research community, including increasing the engagement of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in this research topic. 

SCARFISH is launching its Working groups and aims to engage ECRs in its activities, from co-leadership positions to working group members, that will be working alongside other ECRs and established scientists to achieve SCARFISH goals. If you are involved in Antarctic fish research and would like to participate in SCARFISH Working groups, please fill out this form.

This e-Journal is being curated by a volunteer team of Arctic scholars as a supplement to the fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) process and as a complement to the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)’s annual report on Arctic research. As a Research Priority Team 5 (RPT 5) for IASC, we seek to address areas in Arctic research of Indigenous-led methodologies and co-production of knowledge. We intend to fill the research gaps and prioritize these topics across the global Arctic and publish a new e-Journal each year leading up to the next International Polar Year IPY (2032-2033). Leading up to the IPY, we envision this as the first Indigenous Polar Year that uplifts and carries the voices of the Arctic through effective and respectful community engagement and research. We aim to present this first e-Journal during the ICARP IV Summit / ASSW 2025 in Boulder, Colorado, USA (21 – 28 March 2025) as part of the supporting materials for the ICARP IV process for RPT 5.