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.

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

21-22-23 March 2023 hosted by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, in Oslo, Norway.  A joint workshop of the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG), the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, the EUMETSAT Ocean and Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF), the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative for Sea Ice (ESA CCI), and the Sea Ice Retrieval and Data Assimilation in Norway (SIRANO). Objective: The workshop, which is the 11th in a series organized with the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG), aims at improving international capabilities to perform sea ice prediction on timescales ranging from hours to a season. The aim of the workshop is to discuss cross-cutting issues in sea ice modelling, assimilation and observations and how deficiencies of current systems can be diagnosed and addressed more efficiently.

The XIII SCAR Biology Symposium will be held from July 31st to Aug 4th, 2023 in Aotearoa New Zealand and specifically in Ōtautahi Christchurch. The goal is to bring together the world’s leading scientists and early career researchers in Antarctic Biology for the first face-to-face SCAR meeting in 3 years.

This meeting will offer four days of invited keynotes, plenaries, and concurrent sessions, with a mid-week break of excursions to allow attendees to enjoy some of the most spectacular parts of New Zealand’s South Island. Satellite meetings and workshops will be held during the weekends before and after the meeting. The conference will be enriched by the tikanga (traditions) and mātauranga (knowledge) of New Zealand’s indigenous knowledge (mātauranga Māori people) and a true dedication towards to sustainability.

SETAC (Society of Environmental, Toxicology and Chemistry) Europe Annual Meeting. Session Title: Climate change in Arctic and Antarctica and its effect on legacy and emerging micropollutants in abiotic and biotic environmental compartments Track: 3. Environmental chemistry and exposure assessment: analysis, monitoring, fate and modelling.

Chairman: Luisa Patrolecco (CNR-ISP), Italy
Co-chairman: Francesca Spataro (CNR-ISP), Italy; Fabiana Corami (CNR-ISP), Italy; Ida Beathe Overjordet (SINTEF Ocean), Norway - Abstract of the session.

For more information about the meeting, visit:  https://europe2023.setac.org/

The Antarctic Environments Portal (www.environments.aq) links Antarctic science and Antarctic policy, by providing easy access to information on a range of scientific issues relevant to Antarctic environmental governance and management.

The Portal supports the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in its role of providing independent and objective scientific advice to the decision making bodies of the  Antarctic Treaty system. All scientific information available through the Portal is prepared by Antarctic experts and goes through a rigorous editorial process before publication.

Al via nella base italo-francese Concordia, a 3.300 metri di altitudine nel continente antartico, la 19a campagna invernale del Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), finanziato dal Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca e gestito da ENEA per l’organizzazione e la logistica e dal Cnr per il coordinamento scientifico. Sono 12 gli invernanti selezionati che trascorreranno nove mesi in completo isolamento: 5 italiani del PNRA, 6 francesi dell’Istituto polare Paul Emile Victor (IPEV) e 1 medico tedesco dell’Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA). Durante tutto l’inverno polare, infatti, la stazione non sarà più raggiungibile a causa delle temperature esterne proibitive, che possono scendere fino a -80°C. In questi mesi saranno condotti studi su clima, glaciologia, fisica e chimica dell’atmosfera e biomedicina e diverse attività di manutenzione della stazione.