The XLV Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XLV) and the XXV Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XXV) will be taken in Helsinky, Finland. Due to the decision in the ATCM XLIV in Berlin to hold an extra full-day ATCM/CEP joint session on Climate Change on Friday 2 June 2023, the sessions will run from 28 May to 8 June 2023 at the Scandic Marina Congress Center in Helsinki.

For further information vist: https://um.fi/atcm45

Key dates: https://um.fi/atcm45/key-dates

EU-PolarNet 2 and the European Polar Board co-organise a webinar "Governing and protecting the Antarctic and Southern Ocean" taking place on 15 May 2023 at 14:00 CET. The webinar will give an overview of Antarctic Governance and various actors involved – the Antarctic Treaty and its related agreements including the Madrid Protocol; other international agencies and organisations that provide advice and support the work of the ATS; other conventions that are relevant for the Southern Ocean.

Register for the Webinar here: [ Link ]

Polar Data Forum V (PDF V) will be hosted by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) from October 30th through November 3rd, 2023 and will be held both at the Aurora Innovation Centre in Cambridge, UK and online. The Forum follows International Data Week (IDW) to be held in Salzburg Austria October 23-26, 2023.

The meeting is co-organized by various polar partners, including the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM), Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON), the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), and the World Data System, among others.

The focus of PDF V will be on improving large-scale data exchange and interoperability – between organisations and at the international level.

Si è conclusa ufficialmente la missione della rompighiaccio Laura Bassi nell’ambito della campagna oceanografica della 38° Spedizione Italiana del Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide, Dopo più di 12 mila miglia percorse e 40 giorni di navigazione dal porto di Lyttelton in Italia, lunedì 17 Aprile la rompighiaccio Laura Bassi è arrivata al porto di Ravenna.
La nave, di proprietà dell’Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, ha riportato in Italia i campioni scientifici raccolti in Antartide e quest’anno si è distinta per aver portato la ricerca italiana nel punto più a sud dell’Antartide, raggiungibile via mare.

The INStabilities & Thresholds in ANTarctica (INSTANT) Scientific Research Programme aims to quantify the Antarctic ice sheet contribution to past and future sealevel change, from improved understanding of interactions and feedbacks with atmosphere, ocean and solid Earth interactions and feedbacks, so that decision-makers can better anticipate and assess the risk in order to manage and adapt to sea-level rise and evaluate mitigation pathways. 
This international conference aims to bring together researchers across the geophysical,  biological and  social sciences interested in understanding the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, solid Earth and the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) and their global consequences.

Si conclude con l'arrivo al porto di Lyttelton in Nuova Zelanda il 5 marzo alle ore 3:31, ore italiane, la campagna di ricerca oceanografia della nave italiana rompighiaccio, Laura Bassi, dell’OGS. Il rientro della nave  in Italia è previsto per la seconda metà di aprile 2023.

Comunicato stampa OGS : Conclusa la missione in Antartide della nave rompighiaccio Laura Bassi

The 6th European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP6) will take place June 18-22, 2023, in a potentially hybrid format with online and in-person attendance to Puigcerdà, Catalonia, Spain. Three days of plenary lectures, oral presentations and posters, combined with several local field trips across the eastern Pyrenees. for further information visit: https://www.permafrost.org/event/eucop6/

XXI INQUA 2023 - International Union for Quaternary Research

• Session 84: Extending the limits of ice core science beyond new analytical, conceptual and inter- disciplinary frontiers

Understanding the past climate variability and sensitivity from glacial archives is fundamental for placing the current changes in a longer-term context. The scientific ice core community is currently putting an enormous effort towards retrieving the oldest continuous ice core from Antarctica (Project Beyond EPICA) and training a new generation of ice core scientists capable of analyzing, interpreting, and modelling the new records that will be obtained (ITN DEEPICE project).

• Session INQUA-MARE: Pole to pole teleconnections as registered in Antarctic and Arctic Holocene Archives