2017 Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science

2017 Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate

The Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate is taking place from July 17 to 21, 2017 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. The Summer Institute is supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund and builds on the Summer School program developed by the NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science (CREATE-AAS). It is affiliated with three NSERC-funded networks: Probing the Atmosphere of the High Arctic (PAHA), the Network on Climate and Aerosols (NETCARE), and the Canadian Sea Ice and Snow Evolution (CanSISE) Network. The Summer Institute spans the disciplines of physics, chemistry, earth sciences, geography, environmental science, and related areas, and encompasses the use of experimental, field observation, and modelling methodologies to study the Arctic region.

Forty-three graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from Canada and the USA are attending. This year, the program will be linked to the North2Warm initiative, which is examining the impact of 1.5°C or greater global warming on Canada’s North. Topics will include the Arctic climate system, observed changes, projected changes under different warming scenarios, and impacts and adaptations underway and anticipated, as well as high-latitude climate dynamics, sea ice observations, lake/land–atmosphere interactions, atmospheric composition and air quality, Arctic aerosols, permafrost engineering, climate modelling, and more.

Speakers and panelists include Amir Aliabadi (U Guelph), Lukas Arenson (BGC Engineering Inc.), Rachel Chang (Dalhousie), Claude Duguay (U Waterloo), Dan Falk (Science Journalist), David Hudak (Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada - ECCC), Steve Howell (Climate Research Division, ECCC), Alexandra Jahn (U Colorado Boulder), Paul Kushner (U Toronto), Kent Moore (U Toronto), Kerri Pratt (U Michigan), Michael Sigmond (Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, ECCC), and Francis Zwiers (Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium). Students are also participating in an introductory Jamboree, a science writing workshop, and a career panel discussion, and presenting their own research during a poster session.

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Summer Institute Schedule

2017 Connaught Summer Institute Program

Monday, 17 July	Tuesday, 18 July	Wednesday, 19 July	Thursday, 20 July	Friday, 21 July
	Kerri Pratt Arctic halogen chemistry, Part II	Paul Kushner North2Warm: The impact of 1.5 degrees or greater global warming on Canada’s North	Steve Howell Top of the world: observations of Arctic sea ice Video: Sea ice motion	Claude Duguay Lake ice modelling: predictions and projections
	Rachel Chang Arctic aerosols – interactions with clouds and radiation Video: No Particles No Fog	Rachel Chang Land-atmosphere carbon exchange in Alaska	Claude Duguay Ground-based and satellite observations of Arctic lake ice	Kent Moore The role of the atmosphere and sea ice in midwinter warmings at the North Pole
	Student poster session Tips for creating a research poster Thoughts and suggestions from the 2011 Summer School poster session	Michael Sigmond Seasonal forecasts of sea ice	Alexandra Jahn Projections of 21^st century Arctic sea ice loss	Steve Howell Changing sea ice in the Canadian Arctic
Kimberly Strong, Shannon Hicks, and Paul Jeffery Welcoming remarks		Lukas Arenson Permafrost engineering in a warming climate	Michael Sigmond Recent trends in Antarctic sea ice	Alexandra Jahn The challenge of assessing sea ice simulations from climate models with observations
All participants Student and speaker research jamboree	Claude Duguay Lake-atmosphere interactions at high latitudes	Career Panel Panelists: Lukas Arenson, Rachel Chang, David Hudak, Paul Kushner, Michael Sigmond. Moderated by: Paul Jeffery	Dan Falk Communicating science: challenges and rewards	Closing Session Survey and closing remarks
Kerri Pratt Arctic halogen chemistry, Part I	Kerri Pratt Changing Arctic aerosol chemistry		Dan Falk Communicating science: challenges and rewards
Rachel Chang Arctic aerosols – sources and composition	Alexandra Jahn Introduction to climate modeling, and sources of uncertainty	Francis Zwiers Detection and attribution of long-term climate change	Francis Zwiers Detection and attribution of changes in extremes
Amir Aliabadi Transport implications for Arctic air quality and meteorology	Steve Howell Sea ice: physical properties, trends and feedbacks Video: NASA Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age 1984 - 2016	Kent Moore An introduction to the changing Arctic atmosphere	Kent Moore Impact of sea ice retreat on open ocean convection in the Greenland and Iceland Seas
Welcoming Icebreaker Organized by the CREATE/PAHA Trainees’ Advisory Committee	Outdoor recreational activities		Poster Awards Winning posters
	Outdoor recreational activities		Indoor recreational activity: Minigolf

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Suggested Readings and Websites

Amir Aliabadi:

AIR Laboratory: http://www.aaa-scientists.com/

Lukas Arenson:
www.bgcengineering.ca

Rachel Chang:
http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/~rachel.chang/research.html

Good primer on aerosols and climate effects: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Aerosols/

Claude Duguay:
http://env-blogs.uwaterloo.ca/crduguay/

Dan Falk:
www.danfalk.ca

Steve Howell:
http://www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n=F97AE834-1&xsl=scitechprofile&formid=963A39BC-DB6A-404D-9CCF-2BEC13A55BD1

Alexandra Jahn:
http://instaar.colorado.edu/people/alexandra-jahn/

Kay, J.E., et al., The Community Earth System Model (CESM) Large Ensemble Project: A Community Resource for Studying Climate Change in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, 1333-1349, 2015. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00255.1
ArcticInfo: https://www.arcus.org/arctic-info
CLIMLIST: http://climlist.wku.edu/

CRYOLIST: http://cryolist.org/

Useful career advice & often a good read: Science careers http://www.sciencemag.org/careers

Paul Kushner:
http://uoft.me/pjk
Atmosphere Related Research in Canadian Universities: www.ARRCU.ca
Reto Knutti, Projections of climate change Climate sensitivity, cumulative carbon, IPCC AR5 slides: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/unfccc/cop19/2_knutti13sbsta.pdf
The UNFCCC Paris Agreement on climate change: http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php

Kent Moore:

https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cps/faculty-staff/moore-kent

Kerri Pratt:

http://prattlab.chem.lsa.umich.edu/
Simpson, W.R., et al., Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 4375-4418, 2007. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/4375/2007/

Michael Sigmond:
http://www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n=F97AE834-1&xsl=scitechprofile&formid=324CB983-7278-4B3C-8263-A2ABDA3DF370
Sigmond, M., et al., Skillful seasonal forecasts of Arctic sea ice retreat and advance dates in a dynamical forecast system, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 12,457-12,465, 2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL071396/full

Kimberly Strong:
http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/strong/strong.html
ArcticNow - sign up for daily news updates: https://www.arcticnow.com/

Francis Zwiers:

https://www.pacificclimate.org/about-pcic/people/francis-zwiers

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/21852/attribution-of-extreme-weather-events-in-the-context-of-climate-change

https://www.wcrp-climate.org/ictp-2014-agenda

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter10_FINAL.pdf

WCRP-ICTP 2014 Summer School on Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/ictp2014-about

PAHA/CANDAC:

http://www.candac.ca

NETCARE:

http://www.netcare-project.ca

CanSISE:

http://www.cansise.ca/

@CanSISE

https://twitter.com/CanSISE

CREATE-AAS

http://www.candac.ca/create/

@CREATEArcticSci: https://twitter.com/CREATEArcticSci

CANDAC: http://www.facebook.com/groups/CANDAC/

CREATE Arctic Science Blog: http://createarcticscience.wordpress.com/

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Student Poster Session

Click on thumbnails for larger versions of the photos and posters.

Name, Institution		Poster		Name, Institution	Poster
Achini Abayakoon (MSc) University of Western Ontario			A New Ceilometer for Routine Measurements of Aerosols in the Troposphere	Médard Agbazo (MSc) Université du Québec à Montréal		Characterization of physical inconsistency generated by univariate quantile mapping of daily temperature extrema: a case study over Hudson Bay
Gabriel Auclair (MSc) McGill University		Not available	Impact of ocean heat fluxes pathway on sea ice decline in CESM1-LE	Jill Bachelder (MSc) Université de Montréal		Characterization of wind-blown dust after river piracy in the Canadian Yukon
Whitney Bader (PDF) University of Toronto			The question of the methane increase though the retrieval of its isotopologues from FTIR ground-based observations	Natalia Bliankinshtein (MSc) McGill University		Origin of cold-air outbreaks: polar air masses formation from radiation perspective
Kevin Bloxam (MSc) McGill University			Quantifying the timescale of radiative damping through an investigation of sudden stratospheric warming events	Brendan Byrne (PhD) University of Toronto		Monitoring trace gases in downtown Toronto using open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Laurence Coursol (MSc) Université du Québec à Montréal			Impact of far infrared measurements on analyses of temperature and humidity	Joelle Dionne (MSc) Dalhousie University		Modelling the Radiative Effects of Fog and Low Cloud in the Summer Arctic
Ghazal Farhani (PhD) University of Western Ontario			Using the Optimal Estimation Method (OEM) for Retrieval of Stratospheric Ozone Profiles from DIAL Lidar Measurements	Sham Gamage (PhD) University of Western Ontario		First application of the Optimal Estimation Method (OEM) to retrieve temperatures from RALMO Pure Rotational Raman (PRR) scatter measurements
Roghayeh Ghahremaninezhad (PDF) Environment and Climate Change Canada		Not available	Dimethyl sulfide in the Arctic atmosphere	Matthew Henry (PhD) McGill University		The role of the nonlinearity of the Stefan-Boltzmann law on the structure of radiatively forced temperature change
Shannon Hicks (PhD) University of Western Ontario		Not available	A Calibration of the MeteoSwiss RAman Lidar for Meteorological Observations (RALMO) Water Vapour Mixing Ratio Measurements using a Radiosonde Trajectory Method	Haruki Hirasawa (PhD) University of Toronto	Not available	Differences in the spatial pattern of anthropogenic aerosol impacts between CMIP5 models
Yukari Hori (PDF) University of Toronto			Examining the projected freezing degree-days for Ontario’s winter road networks	Nicole Jacobs (PhD) University of Alsaska Fairbanks		Using mobile solar-viewing infrared spectrometers to detect regional methane fluxes from the northern wetlands of interior Alaska
Ali Jalali (PhD) University of Western Ontario		Not available	Calculating a temperature climatology and measuring temperature trends in the middle atmosphere using Rayleigh lidar measurements with OEM	Paul Jeffery (PhD) University of Toronto		A First Look at PARIS-IR Measurements from the 2017 Canadian ACE/OSIRIS Arctic Validation Campaign
Rachel Kirpes (PhD) University of Michigan			Sea Spray Aerosol and Organic Aerosol Mixing States in the Winter-Spring Arctic	William Knee-Walden (PDF) University of Toronto		Development of a Balloon-borne Laser Absorption Spectrometer
Slawomir Kowal (MSc) University of Toronto			Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Hudson Bay Sea Ice (1971-2011)	Natasha Leclerc (PhD) University of Toronto	Not available	Halted by Sea Ice: Reconstructing Shipwreck Histories with Coralline Red Algae
Lei Liu (PDF) University of Toronto			Analysis of Atmospheric Ozone, Mercury, Methane, and Biomass Burning Emissions in South-Central Texas	Erik Lutsch (PhD) University of Toronto	Not available	Observing the long-range transport of wildfire pollution to the Arctic using ground-based FTIR measurements at PEARL
Marzena Marosz-Wantuch (PhD) York University			Spatial variations in sea ice thickness and surface temperature patterns, Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, May 2017	Stephen McNamara (PhD) University of Michigan		Nitrogen Oxide-Influenced Chlorine Chemistry in Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska
Emma Mungall (PhD) University of Toronto			Microlayer source of oxygenated volatile organic compounds in the summertime marine Arctic boundary layer	Bimochan Niraula (MSc) McGill University		Partitioning of heat between Fram Strait and Barents Sea
Thomas Oudar (PDF) University of Toronto			Respective roles of direct GHG radiative forcing and induced Arctic sea ice loss on the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation	Ludovick Pelletier (MSc) Université du Québec à Montréal	Not available	Far Infrared Radiometer radiometric accuracy and observation during the field campaign at Eureka
Peter Peterson (PDF) University of Michigan			Airborne Imaging of Bromine Monoxide Over Northern Alaska With Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS)	Saroat Ramjan (MSc) University of Calgary		Relationship between Microwave-Derived Winter Backscatter and Aerial Melt-Pond Distribution to Estimate Snow Thickness on Winter First Year Sea-Ice
Sébastien Roche (PhD) University of Toronto		Not available	CO2 profile retrieval from near-infrared spectra	Housseyni Sankaré (PhD) Université du Québec à Montréal		Diagnostic of Arctic atmosphere energy budget during the polar night
Gurpreet Singh (MSc) York University			Optical bench breadboard of an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Climate Observations	Jeff VanKerkhove (PhD) University of Western Ontario		Investigation of potential wet bias in Purple Crow Lidar water vapor mixing ratio
Shoma Yamanouchi (PhD) University of Toronto			Using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometers to measure atmospheric composition at Toronto	Bernard Yang (PhD) University of Toronto		High frequency observations of temperature and oxygen in a large Canadian lake over two winters reveal the role of solar radiation and ice cover in the development of the mixed layer
Yuan You (PDF) Environment and Climate Change Canada	Not available	Not available	The impact of shipping on air pollution at two Canadian Arctic communities	Kedong Zhang (PhD) University of Manitoba		The fate and transport of oil-related contaminants in ice-covered Arctic waters – a photochemical study
Xuesong Zhang (PhD) University of Toronto			Quantifying emissions of CO and NOx using satellite observations from multiple chemical species

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Photos

For photos of the 2017 Summer Institute, see our flickr page.

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Information about the 2017 Summer Institute can be found on this poster, but the competition for 2017 has closed.
The application form can be downloaded from this link. The application deadline was May 29, 2017.
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