Past Events

Contributions are invited on all topics within geo-information and remote sensing applications. Organizers especially welcome contributions on existing and future orbital IS sensors, existing and future airborne IS sensors, image processing methods and tools, new analytical techniques, calibration and validation, application to terrestrial ecosystems, coastal and marine ecosystems, inland waters, urban environment, geology and soils, risk management, climate change, and commercial applications.

The Association of American Geographers (AAG) announces the Polar Geography and Cryosphere special sessions topics and calls for abstracts for the 2013 AAG Annual Meetings. The meetings will be held 9-12 April 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

Polar Geography and Cryosphere special sessions include the following:

• Health and Human Development in the Arctic, organized by Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu);
• Climate Change and its Impact in the Polar Regions, organized by Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu);
• Urbanization in the Arctic, organized by Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu);
• The Greenland Ice Sheet, organized by Robert Hellstrom (rhellstrom [at] bridgew.edu);
• New Advances in Cryosphere Research, organized by Robert Hellstrom (rhellstrom [at] bridgew.edu);
• Cryospheric and Polar Educational/Field Experiences for Students, organized by Robert Hellstrom (rhellstrom [at] bridgew.edu);
• Polar Geography and Cryopshere poster session, organized by Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu) and Robert Hellstrom (rhellstrom [at] bridgew.edu).

Other sessions will be considered if there are sufficient submissions. Graduate students and young scholars are encouraged to apply. Presentations with complete documentation will be considered for publication in the journal "Polar Geography"(see: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpog20/current).

Prior to submitting an abstract to one of the sessions, please register for the AAG annual meeting and obtain a PIN. To submit an abstract to a session, please send the text and your PIN to the session organizer.

To register for the 2013 AAG annual meeting, please go to: http://www.aag.org/.

Abstract submission deadline for all sessions: Wednesday, 24 October 2012.

Organizers announce that a conference on 'Sustainability in Mining in the Arctic' will be held 9-11 April 2013 at the Sanaartornermik Ilinniarfik facilities in Sisimiut, Greenland. Abstracts are now being accepted, and must be submitted by Saturday, 15 December 2012 -- please note that this deadline has been extended from the original date.

The conference will provide opportunity for participants from industry, the public sector, and the science community to share information about environmental, social, cultural, and economic issues related to large-scale mining in the Arctic and especially in Greenland.

Conference topics will include:

• Historical cases: what have we learned in the Arctic;
• Regulation and legislation;
• Environmental, health, and social impact assessments of planned Greenlandic mines;
• Extraction processes and tailings handling;
• Planning, logistics, and technical mining solutions; and
• Closing, re-cultivation, and monitoring of former mining sites.

Abstract submission deadline: Saturday, 15 December 2012.

The aim of this conference is to establish contacts between students, post-graduate students and young scientists of the Russian Federation and foreign countries for the exchange of academic ideas and research results, stimulation of interest to the research activity, and the identification of creative potential of young people. The conference will include a plenary session, thematic sections, and an exhibition entitled 'Scientific, Technical, and Art Works of the Youth.'

Participants must be under 35 years of age. Participation is available in the forms of oral, poster, and remote presentations of scientific reports. Applications and abstracts are required for participation.

Thematic sections will include:

• Technical Sciences
• Earth Sciences
• Biological and Chemical Sciences
• Psychology and Pedagogy
• Social, Economic, Legal and Philosophical Sciences
• Philology
• Physics
• Mathematics and Information Technologies

An exhibition entitled "Scientific, Technical and Art Works of the Youth" will take place during the conference. This will include:

• scientific research results
• innovative results
• computer graphics
• design and software for PC
• folk arts
• fine art

For more information, please contact the organizing committee:
Tel.: 8 (41147) 4-21-38 extension number 209.
Mrs Ekaterina Olegovna Tjutjunik: office 304
Mr Alexander Viktorovich Litvinenko: office 305
16 Kravchenko-st., Nerungry, Sakha Republic, Russia, 678960

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2013 is a three day science symposium. The over-all theme of the symposium is “The Arctic Hub - Regional and Global Perspectives”.

The ASSW is an initiative of IASC. The purpose of the summit is to provide opportunities for coordination, collaboration and cooperation in all areas of Arctic science, and to combine science and management meetings to save on travel and time. The ASSW also offers insight into Arctic research undertaken by the host country. IASSA is one of IASC’s main partners in the organization of the ASSW.

A Science Symposium is organized as part of the ASSW every other year. These symposia create a platform for exchanging knowledge, cross fertilization and collaboration and attracts scientists, students, policy makers and other professionals from all over the world.

The five Working Groups (WGs) of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) will meet in conjunction with the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2013 in Krakow, Poland on 13-19 April 2013.

The WGs (Marine, Terrestrial, Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Human and Social) are the main tool by which IASC performs its activities. WGs identify and formulate science plans, research priorities, encourage science-led programs, promote future generations of arctic scientists, and act as scientific advisory boards to the IASC Council. All WG meetings are open to the public and anyone interested in the meetings can attend as observer. Scientists are invited to submit ideas for international collaborative activities for consideration by the WGs to IASC by 15 March 2013. To submit an idea, please send an email including your name and contact information to: iasc [at] iasc.info. You need not be present at the WG meeting in order for your suggestions to be considered.

IASC is a nongovernmental, international scientific organization. The IASC mission is to encourage and facilitate cooperation in all aspects of arctic research, in all countries engaged in arctic research and in all areas of the arctic region. Overall, IASC promotes and supports leading-edge multi-disciplinary research in order to foster a greater scientific understanding of the arctic region and its role in the Earth system.

Organizers announce the annual Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Working Group (CFG) meeting, the International Arctic Vegetation Database (IAVD) Workshop, and a joint meeting of both groups. The three events will precede the 2013 Arctic Science Summit Week and convene 14-16 April 2013 in Krakow, Poland.

CAFF is the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council, whose mandate is to address the conservation of arctic biodiversity and to communicate its findings to the governments and residents of the Arctic helping to promote practices that ensure the sustainability of the Arctic's living resources.

The CFG annual meeting will convene 12-14 April 2013. CFG promotes, encourages, and coordinates international conservation of arctic flora, vegetation, and habitats as well as research activities. Meeting agenda items will include:

• The Arctic Plant Portal,
• Red list of arctic plants, and
• CFG activities associated with the Panarctic Species List (PASL).

Organizers request that CFG members planning to attend the meeting inform Kari Fannar Larusson (kari [at] caff.is) at the CAFF Secretariat.

The joint CAFF CFG and IAVD meeting will convene 14 April. The meeting agenda will include the IAVD concept, progress to date, and status of the circumpolar vegetation datasets.

The IAVD workshop will convene 14-16 April 2013. The goal of the workshop is to engage the circumpolar community of arctic vegetation scientists in assembling this first vegetation database for the arctic tundra biome. Part of the meeting will be devoted to reviewing the status of vegetation databases in the arctic countries. Topics of invited talks include:

• Status of arctic vegetation plot datasets and vegetation classification in the Arctic,
• Status of arctic vegetation databases,
• Prototype IAVD databases, and
• Possible applications of the database.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is supporting the workshop by providing funding to help some key participants get to the IAVD Workshop.

Workshop registration deadline: Friday, 1 February 2013.

For further information about the meetings, workshop, preliminary agendas, registration instructions, and funding opportunities, please visit the website.

The American Polar Society will hold a meeting and symposium at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This meeting and symposium is titled "The Polar Regions in the 21st Century: Globalization, Climate Change and Geopolitics." Keynote speakers include Lonnie Thompson, Ph.D., Byrd Polar Research Center and Paul Mayewski, Ph.D., Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME.

The Department of Archaeology and The Center for Research in Humanities at the University of Iceland announce open registration and a call for papers for the 13th Nordic Tag conference. Entitled "Borders-Margins-Fringes: Archaeologies on/from the Edge," the conference will convene 21-25 April 2013 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The conference will provide a discussion forum of theoretical debate in archaeology, cultural heritage management, material culture studies, and other related disciplines.

Open session topics will include:

• Materialized margins: the reflection on borders, margin, and fringes through material culture;
• At the crossroads of archaeology and folklore;
• Practice-led theory;
• Taking the bull by the horns: debating the roles of animals in northern human societies;
• Situating the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in northwest Europe;
• A stitch in time: combining analytical chronology in a Scandinavian context;
• Fringes of Christianity;
• Behind the (Iron) Curtain: looking back on Soviet archaeology;
• Community archaeology and the university;
• Foregrounding things: forms and faults of representation;
• Is everybody doing it? The role and value of analogical reasoning in archaeology reconsidered;
• Sites of gathering, cult, and assembly: a perspective across time;
• Archaeological exhibitionism; and
• Singularities: the particular and/or relational.

Submission deadline: Monday, 1 March 2013.

Sponsored by the World Ocean Council, SOS 2013 is designed to bring together a diverse range of ocean industries: shipping, oil and gas, fisheries, aquaculture, tourism, offshore renewable energy, ports, dredging, mining, cables and pipelines, marine science, engineering and technology, the maritime legal, financial and insurance communities, and others - as well as ocean stakeholders from the government, inter-governmental, academic and environment communities. On Wednesday, April 24th, USARC's John Farrell will be a speaker at "The Arctic Challenges and Opportunities for Responsible Industries."

The natural resources of the Barents Region are of strategic importance for Europe. One intensively developing sector is mining, which will bring new opportunities to the region, but which will also cause changes in the environment. This conference provides an excellent opportunity to discuss the environmental issues connected to the mining industry and to promote best environmental practices for mines in the Barents Region. The conference will bring together operators and authorities from Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

The conference aims to:

• Get an overall understanding of the present and future development of the metal mining sector,
• Increase awareness of the challenges of the mining sector for the environment in the Barents Region,
• Present and disseminate the best environmental practices in this sector in Barents countries, and
• Promote the exchange of information on assessing and managing environmental concerns in the mining sector.

Registration will open in early 2013.

Organizers announce the multidisciplinary conference entitled "Understanding North," which will convene 25-26 April 2013 in Umea, Sweden.

The conference is arranged by the Umea University Faculty of Arts to celebrate the status of Umea as European Capital of Culture 2014. Conference themes will include maps, photography and literature, quality-of-life in the circumpolar region, and climate change. Contributions will subsequently be peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Northern Studies.

The conference is free of charge. Participation in the conference includes lunch, coffee, and the conference dinner.

Registration deadline: 12 April 2013.

To register for the conference, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/UnderstandingNorthRegistration.

The NSERC CREATE training program announces a 2013 summer school on arctic atmospheric science. It will be held 15-19 July 2013 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. The course is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows working in the field, with some places available for CREATE undergraduate summer interns

The goal of the CREATE program is to significantly enhance the educational opportunities available to young researchers interested in polar, atmospheric, and climate sciences, enabling them to build collaborations, and to develop scientific, technical, communications, and organizational skills. Summer school attendees will have the opportunity to learn from experienced researchers in a small and comfortable setting. In addition to classroom lectures, students will partake in an interactive professional development workshop; engage in a diverse career panel discussion; develop strategies for linking scientific knowledge to public engagement, education, and outreach; and present their own research during a poster session.

Topics to be covered include ozone science; polar halogens; clouds, aerosols and radiation; the carbon cycle; greenhouse gas observations and modelling; atmospheric chemistry; remote sounding instrumentation (e.g., LIDAR and DOAS); systems engineering; Inuit history and culture; the Inuktitut language; science and policy; uses of satellite data; science journalism; and resume writing and interview skills.

This opportunity is open to Canadian and international graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as CREATE summer undergraduate interns. There are no tuition fees, however, attendees must cover the cost of return travel from their home institution. Admission to the course includes all on-site food and accommodation.

Application Deadline: Friday, 31 May 2013.

The full announcement, including application details, is available at: http://www.candac.ca/create/CREATE_summer_school_poster_2013.pdf.

For further information, please email: create_summerschool [at] atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca.

The 12th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Committee. The conference will be held at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, 29 April-2 May, 2013.

Abstract deadline: 14 January 2013.

Participate in a live interactive webchat on global cooperation on the impact of climate change on our oceans. Ask Commander Blake McBride, US Navy, Associate Director, Meteorology/Oceanography and Arctic Technologies, about research and simulation exercises the US Navy has been conducting on climate change, the related disappearance of sea ice and the implications for marine safety and security. The webchat will be moderated by Michelle Cook, US Consulate General Calgary, and Magdalena Muir, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary.

Monday, April 29, 2013
12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC )
To find out what time this takes place where you live, click the link below:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Duration: 60 minutes
To participate, go to the live webchat URL: https://conx.adobeconnect.com/canada

The Alaska Rural Energy Conference is a three day event offering a large variety of technical sessions covering new and ongoing energy projects in Alaska, as well as new technologies and needs for Alaska's remote communities. Building on the growing success, the Alaska Energy Authority and the Alaska Center for Energy and Power have joined forces again to organize and sponsor the 8th annual Alaska Rural Energy Conference.

Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is led by the International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC). It is a Sustaining Arctic Observing Network (SAON) task and part of the broader SAON implementation process, which is led by the Arctic Council jointly with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

AOS is a high-level, biennial summit that aims to provide community-driven, science-based guidance for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long term (decades) operation of an international network of arctic observing systems. The AOS will provide a platform to address urgent and broadly recognized needs of arctic observing across all components of the arctic system, including the human component. It will foster international communication and coordination of long-term observations aimed at improving understanding and responding to system-scale arctic change. The AOS will be an international forum for optimizing resource allocation through coordination and exchange among researchers, funding agencies, and others involved or interested in long term observing activities, while minimizing duplication and gaps.

As part of the Arctic Observing Summit 2013, the Greenland Summit's Science Coordination Office invites you to take part in the XXth GEOSummit meeting, to be held as a "Side meeting" on Friday, 3 May, in Vancouver, BC. It is our sincere hope that many of you will already be in Vancouver for the AOS, and will be able to take an extra day to discuss current research and future directions for Summit.

To begin the GEOSummit meeting, we are planning to showcase recent science highlights, and are asking all of you to help (even, or maybe especially, those of you who will not be able to attend). We also want to include new projects that will be starting at Summit this summer as well as currently pending proposals.

Could you please provide us with one or two power point slides that shine the brightest possible light on your recent, current, or pending project at Summit. We will do our best to organize all contributions I receive into themes, and will present this overview. Obviously, if you are in attendance you will be able to amplify (or correct) our comments, but we do really want to hear from as much of the community as possible.

For new starts and recently proposed work, it would be great to see the hypotheses you are hoping to test, and the approaches you are planning to use.

If you are part of a large coordinated effort (NOAA, LTO, ICECAPS) please discuss amongst your group whether you prefer to have an organized overview summary, or want to encourage all PI's to submit their own gems. If you decide to band together, please indicate that it is an overview when you transmit to us.

Please send all materials to Jack Dibb jack.dibb [at] unh.edu.

Recrystallization and grain growth take place during the thermal treatment of materials and as part of geological activity deep in the earth’s crust. The main objective of the Rex&GG Conference series is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information on the state-of-the art in the field. Rex&GG V will include oral and poster presentations, as well as exhibition. Topics will include, but are not limited to, recrystallization and grain growth in metals, ceramics, thin films, geological materials and nanostructured materials. Sessions will also cover the following: deformation structures; grain boundary/interface structures; static recovery and recrystallization; dynamic recovery, recrystallization and high temperature deformation; grain growth and related properties; textures; industrial control of recrystallization and grain growth; computer simulations and modelling and advanced characterization techniques, including 3D and in-situ methods.

Conference registration opens on 3 September 2012 and the abstract submission deadline is 11 December 2012.

The ReX & GG2013 Conference will build on the foundations of the previous four Conferences through a Program which will explore the latest information and current research in our field. Our speakers will foster meaningful discussion and debate amongst delegates which will, in turn, further the objectives of those involved in the fields of recrystallization and grain growth.

The organising committee for the 5th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth 2013 would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the conference. The conference will be held at the Novotel Manly Pacific from 5 to 10 May 2013.

In response to the high volume of requests from those who wish to participate in the ReX&GG2013 program but missed the original call for abstracts the committee has opened a 2nd Call for Abstracts.

The abstract submission form is now open on the ReX & GG 2013 website www.rex-gg2013.org. Abstracts will be considered for both oral and poster presentations.

The closing date for the submission of abstracts is midnight 11 December 2012 Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST).

Before submitting your abstract for the conference, please ensure that you have carefully read the abstract preparation guidelines contained on the website.

For further information on this conference, please visit the link below.