<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">Good morning, and h</font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">appy Thursday!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif">My colleague at NASEM is organizing this workshop in early May. She is seeking graduate students, postdocs, and other early career scientists </font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">(although not exclusively) </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">to participate in this workshop and to submit ideas and insights. Deadline to submit ideas is April 20th. See the attached document for more information. Feel free to share.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/technology-developments-to-advance-antarctic-research-a-workshop" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><b>Technology
Developments to Advance Antarctic Research A Workshop | National Academies</b></a></span><b></b></font></p>

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12:00–4:00 pm (EDT) each day | Held online (Virtual) </font></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine invites you to join a workshop to foster
community-wide discussion about harnessing cutting-edge technological
innovations to <i>advance, facilitate, and transform Antarctic and polar
research; to increase the reach of Antarctic and polar research while
reducing the environmental footprint of these operations; and to facilitate
broader, more diverse participation in Antarctic and polar research</i>. </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">While
focused primarily on Antarctic science, the workshop will explore lessons from,
and solutions applicable to, Arctic science as well—<a name="_Hlk98433979">and
we actively seek to draw insights from science and engineering fields beyond
polar science. </a>As input to this workshop, we invite your creative
ideas regarding existing or possible new technologies that could be used
for advancing key aspects of Antarctic/polar research. </span><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">[</span><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Submit
by <b>April 20.</b></span><i><span style="color:red;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span></i><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">You do not have to register for
the workshop to submit ideas.]</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">To:  <a href="https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6773084/Seeking-Community-Input-for-a-National-Academies-Workshop-Technology-Developments-to-Advance-Antarctic-Research" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Submit Input</a>         To: <a href="https://nasem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYoce2rpjIsG9f6hzxUGfabm_f4gFoAWeFm" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Register for Workshop</a></font></p></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><u>From the webpage: </u></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">New and improved technologies can help advance, expand, and transform Antarctic research, by providing opportunities to carry out research more efficiently, safely and reliably, and over a greater spatial/temporal range, while minimizing costs and environmental impacts.   In this activity, a workshop will be organized to solicit insights and ideas from within and beyond the Antarctic research community, regarding opportunities for technological advances related to: observing systems for geological, biological, atmospheric, cryospheric, oceanic environments;  astronomy, astrophysics, space weather research sensors;  data and communications technologies;  electronics, batteries, and power systems for cold-weather environments; and robotics and autonomous instrument engineering.</span></font></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">-- <font size="1"><br></font></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Valerie Sloan, Ph.D.<br></font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Director of the <a href="https://ncar.ucar.edu/what-we-offer/education-outreach/faculty-resources/geo-reu-resource-center" target="_blank">GEO REU Network</a></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">& Sr. Higher Education Specialist</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">NCAR Education, Engagement and Early-Career Development</font></span></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">P.O. Box 3000</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Boulder, CO 80307-3000</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Email: </span><a href="mailto:vsloan@ucar.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">vsloan@ucar.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I recognize that Boulder, Colorado, sits on the ancestral homelands and unceded</span><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">territory of Indigenous Peoples, <a href="https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/sand-creek-massacre" target="_blank">many of whom were displaced from Boulder Valley</a> </span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">in the 18</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">50s.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> These include people of the </span><a href="https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/indigenous-peoples-native-american-history-us-canada-colonialism-news-16521/" target="_blank">Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">.</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>