Past Events

This symposium, to be held at the University of Washington, is intended for interdisciplinary scholars who will be prepared to discuss their research in the sub-arctic North Atlantic, sub-arctic North Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean that bears on the issue of how changes in sea ice are likely to affect these marine ecosystems. The symposium will also consider the people who depend upon these ecosystems and how they may be able to cope with the changes in the ecosystem goods and services that are coming. These goods and services include the availability of transportation corridors, the availability of subsistence foods, and the opportunity for commercial fishing. To put the present day in a longer perspective, the symposium will include a session on the paleo-ecology of people in sub-arctic and arctic regions that were forced to adjust to changing sea-ice conditions in the past. There will also be a session of contributed papers on other topics of interest related to the Sub-Arctic Seas or on the Arctic itself.

Registration
The registration fee for the ESSAS ASM will be $100 and $25 for UW students.
Note that due to venue space restrictions, registration will have to be limited to the first 125 registrants.
To register and submit an abstract, please go to: https://www.imr.no/conferences/ESSAS/

The British Antarctic Survey, in cooperation with the Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences (part of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research), announce an invitation to the attend and participate in the 10th Antarctic Meteorological Observing, Modeling, and Forecasting Workshop (AMOMFW). The event will be held 17-19 June 2015 at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

This workshop brings together those with research and operational/logistical interests in Antarctic meteorology and forecasting and related disciplines. As in the past, the annual activities and status of the observing (e.g. Automatic Weather Stations) and modeling (Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System) efforts will be addressed, and feedback and results from their user communities will be solicited. More broadly, this workshop also is a forum for current results and ideas in Antarctic meteorology, numerical weather prediction, and weather forecasting, from contributors around the world.

There will be discussions on the relationships among international efforts and Antarctic forecasting, logistical support, and science. Organizers welcome papers and posters on these topics.

For further information, please visit the workshop website.

For questions, please contact:
Steve Colwell
Email: src [at] bas.ac.uk

Presented by Dr. Mary Albert, Executive Director for IDPO, the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) coordinate planning and provide ice drilling and ice coring support for NSF-funded ice core research. The webinar will include a quick overview of the IDPO-IDDO, including how IDPO-IDDO works with the science community for short and long-range (decadal) planning of science involving ice coring or drilling, and how IDPO-IDDO retrieves cores or create access holes in ice for U.S. scientists. Webinar participants will learn how they can tap into these resources if conducting ice core analyses on the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, glaciers, and/or seasonal ice in temperate regions. Information on IDPO-IDDO and their services can be found at: http://icedrill.org/.

To register, please visit: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/608954986533373954. Webinar ID: 114-406-971

Organizers announce the availability of a National Weather Service Alaska Climate Forecast Briefing webinar. The event will be held Friday, 19 June 2015 at 12:00-1:00 p.m. It can be attended on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus (IARC, Akasofu 407) or online (http://accap.adobeconnect.com/june_2015/event/event_info.html).

Do you lay awake at nights wondering what the upcoming season will be like? Want to place bets with friends and family on next month's weather? If so, good news:

The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. Rick Thoman (Climate Science and Services Manager, Environmental and Scientific Services Division, National Weather Service Alaska Region) will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review forecast tools and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center's forecast for the upcoming season.

Thoman will also present a "Feature-of-the-Month" special addition in which each month he will highlight a topic relevant to the particular month. This will be a monthly series generally taking place the third Friday of each month.

For questions, please contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Phone: 907-474-7812
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu

ISOPE-2015 Technical Program Committee members from 35 countries plan to organize some 150 technical and keynote sessions of peer-reviewed papers in cooperation with 30 global cooperating organizations. Delegates from some 50 countries will participate. Since 1990, ISOPE has held 54 successful international conferences and symposia. Topics cover ocean and Arctic-related technologies. For details, find call for papers on www.isope.org.

The International Glaciological Society (IGS) will hold an International Symposium on ‘Hydrology of glaciers and ice sheets’ in 2015 in Höfn, Iceland, from 21–27 June 2015.

This symposium will provide a forum to discuss all aspects of glacier and ice sheet hydrology and their connections to other areas of the cryosphere as well as climate sciences. It will provide an opportunity to present advances in ground- based measurements, remote sensing and modelling to stimulate discussions on their interpretation and implications. The meeting seeks to bring together scientists from around the world, to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of glacier and ice-sheet hydrology and to provide a focus on key areas for future research.

This symposium will cover all aspects of glacial hydrology, including:

• Glacier catchment hydrology (timing and magnitude of runoff, floods and droughts, influence of climate change, subdaily variations, applications to stakeholders, future water availability)
• Supraglacial and firn hydrology (surface mass balance, meltwater retention in firn, percolation, ice lensing, supraglacial streams and lakes, supraglacial systems on ice shelves and ice tongues, aquatic biological communities, ice/ dust interaction, influence on albedo)
• Englacial and subglacial hydrology (crevassing and moulins, influence on thermal structure, basal melting/freezing, englacial and subglacial channels, submarine melting, subglacial lakes, thermodynamics at meltwater–ice interface, biology)
• Basal sliding and ice dynamics (sliding speed, dependence on effective pressure, cavitation, sediment strength, hydrology of ice streams, calving processes)
• Jökulhlaups and hazards (subglacial lakes and outburst floods, marginal lakes, moraine-dammed lakes, timing and magnitude of discharge)
• Erosion and landforms (role in quarrying, deformation and transport of sediments, eskers, drumlins, mega-scale glacial lineations)
• Hydrology of subglacial eruptions (meltwater production and pathways, eruption site water retention, steam and ash, floods, subglacial geothermal areas, porous media hydrology and thermodynamics)
• Instrumentation and methods (remote sensing, field techniques, new technologies, geochemistry)

A mixture of oral and poster sessions, interlaced with ample free time, forms the general framework of the symposium, which is intended to facilitate exchange of scientific information between participants in an informal manner. Additional activities include the customary icebreaker, a symposium banquet along with pre-, mid- and post-symposium field excursions to specifically selected, stellar locations at and around Vatnajökull and south Iceland.

Please go to http://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2015/iceland/ and register your interest to attend. That way you will ensure you will receive all communications relating to the symposium.

The goal of this project is to assist the Arctic, Western Alaska, and Aleutian and Bering Sea Island Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) with synthesis and delivery of coastal resilience and adaptation information, ideas, tools, activities, and lessons learned across the coast of Alaska. This project aims to deliver existing coastal resilience and adaptation information to a primary audience of communities and resource managers in western Alaska.

Deadline: 12:00 midnight (ADT), June 21, 2015.

Download the full RFP with instructions: https://absilcc.org/outreach/Hosted%20Documents/Coastal%20Resilience%20…

The next (26th) Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly will be held in Prague from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July, 2015. Registration and abstract submission are now open! The deadline for grant applications is January 15th, 2015, and the abstract submission deadline is January 31st, 2015.

This will be an important meeting for the cryospheric sciences, with more than 20 symposia led by The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) http://www.cryosphericsciences.org.

This meeting will provide a forum for cryospheric scientists to interact with oceanographers, hydrologists, atmospheric scientists, seismologists, volcanologists, geodesists and geomagneticists, as IUGG assemblies bring together scientists from all branches of geophysics represented by the eight semi-autonomous IUGG Associations (http://www.iugg.org/associations/).

The full programme is available at http://www.iugg2015prague.com/scientific-program.htm. Note that IAMAS (meteorology and atmospheric sciences) are yet to put up their programme, thus more relevant sessions will appear soon.

Many of the sessions below will be co-convened by a young scientist from APECS (http://www.apecs.is/en/). Selection of APECS conveners is currently in progress - there may still be an opportunity to assist if you are interested.

IACS will offer a number of travel grants, especially to postgraduate students, early career scientists, and scientists from developing countries who submit a high-quality abstract. See here for more information: http://www.iugg2015prague.com/funding-grant-applications.htm.

The XXI Conference on Groundwater in Siberia and Far East will be held in Yakutsk, Russia from 22-26 June 2015. Organizers invite those interested in attending the conference to pre-register before 31 December 2014.

The Conference on Groundwater in Siberia and Far East has a long-standing history and is held every three years. The first conference was convened in October 1955 by the East Siberian Department of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Irkutsk Geological Survey, USSR Ministry of Geology and Mineral Conservation. The 2015 conference will mark the 60th year since the first forum of Siberian hydrogeologists was organized.

This conference will be held as part of the Federal Target Program 2010-2015: Clean Water to present the advances in fundamental hydrogeology since the XX Conference in 2012 (Irkutsk) and to discuss a wide range of issues of importance for hydrogeology in Russia and worldwide.

The topics for the conference are as follows:

• Groundwater in permafrost: state of knowledge, exploration, and use
• Evolution of groundwater systems related to climatic change and human activities
• Interaction of groundwater with soils, rocks and surface water
• Petroleum hydrogeology
• Groundwater use and protection
• Modeling and GIS technologies in hydrogeology
• Hydrogeology education
• Regional hydrogeology

For more information on the conference, please visit the conference link above.

Katrina E. Bennett from Los Alamos National Laboratory will present "Changing extreme streamflow patterns in boreal forest watersheds of Alaska" on Tuesday, 23 June at 10:00 am AKDT.

The Interior discontinuous permafrost zone of the boreal subarctic represents one of the largest ecosystems on earth and is vastly understudied with respect to changing hydrologic extreme events. The first part of this presentation will focus on recent research results for snowmelt and glacially dominated Interior Alaska river basins for the past 50/60 years (1954/64-2013).

The second part of this presentation will present projections of future extreme streamflow changes in a snowmelt dominated basin of the Tanana River, a sub-watershed to the Yukon River system, using six global climate models, two emission scenarios, two hydrologic models and two different time periods. Projections for temperature, precipitation and streamflow will be discussed, with a focus on changing peak flows events, and return intervals.

Pre-registration for webinars is strongly encouraged. The audio portion of the call is through a toll-free phone line and the slide presentation is streamed via computer. For instructions on participating through your home office or at a satellite viewing location with others in your community, please see our webinar information page at https://accap.uaf.edu/?q=webinars

Presented by Mark Twickler, Science Director for NICL, the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) facility for storing, curating, and studying meteoric ice cores recovered from the glaciated regions of the world. NICL is managed by the U.S. Geological Survey through an Inter-Agency Agreement. NICL provides scientists with the capability to conduct examinations and measurements on ice cores, and it preserves the integrity of these ice cores in a long-term repository for future investigations. This webinar will discuss the policies for accessing archived ice cores and use of the facility. To familiarize yourself with the facility, please visit: http://icecores.org.

To register, please visit https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1507385728798496258. Webinar ID: 145-067-619

Presented by Dr. Nicole Spaulding of the University of Maine, this webinar will provide participants with an overview of traditional and emerging methods for the analysis of ice core chemistry. Traditional systems rely upon a heated metal disk or plate to melt the ice prior to analysis by ion chromatography or inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Emerging instrumentation, such as that utilized by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s W. M. Keck Laser Ice Facility, combines state of the art laser ablation sample introduction with ICP-MS analysis. The latter method offers greatly enhanced sample resolution thereby allowing the recovery of sub-annual signals from regions with very low accumulation rates, in highly compressed ice at great depths, and in regions of ascending flow (blue-ice exposures). We will also discuss the types of research questions each method is best suited to answer.

To register for this webinar, please visit https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5381167503592883458. Webinar ID: 151-706-531.

Ecologic Institute and its' partners are pleased to announce the 2015 Arctic Summer College and are seeking applications from emerging leaders working to improve Arctic governance from around the world. The Arctic Summer College creates a network of emerging leaders and experts that will be brought together for 8 weeks in a series of web-based seminars (webinars) Thursdays from 18:00-20:00 Central European Time from June 25 to August 13. The program aims to build a lasting, policy-oriented network of Arctic professionals to strengthen communication between peoples and nations, scientific disciplines, policy areas, and across the science-policy interface to improve governance and sustainable development in the Arctic. Fellows may earn spots to travel and present their work at this year's Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik. Participation in the Arctic Summer College is open to applicants with a minimum of two years of experience in a related field, and a desire to share perspectives and seek professional collaboration with a network of peers. The course will be conducted in English. Applicants will be accepted until June 11.

The Snow and Ice Research Group (SIRG) is an association of researchers interested in cryospheric observations and processes. SIRG forms the New Zealand branch of the International Glaciological Society and the annual workshop provides an opportunity for the community to meet and discuss their common interests. The workshop encompasses the wide range of cryospheric research being undertaken in New Zealand, Antarctica, and beyond. Participants include students and academics from universities and crown research institutes. A strong emphasis is placed on student participation and presentation. In 2015, the workshop will be held at the University of Canterbury's Cass Field Station, located in the inter-montane basin in the Waimakariri River catchment in North Canterbury. Its relaxed high-country setting is an ideal location for the SIRG community to congregate.

Key Dates

• June 1: Registration and abstract submission deadline. For 2015, registration fees have been set at students $20 and all others $100. This fee includes meals and bunkstyle accommodation at the field centre.
• June 19: Final schedule and abstracts released electronically.
• July 2-4: SIRG-NZ workshop will be held at the Cass Field Station, Canterbury.

The workshop will start at 1 pm on Thursday July 2nd and finish 3 pm Saturday July 4th. Presentations will be held on Thursday and Friday and a field excursion (weather permitting) to Porters Skifield will take place on Saturday. Participants are welcome to pay for an additional night of accommodation if they want to stay on and enjoy the local skifields and tramping tracks (bookings essential).

For more information, please visit the conference link above.

There will be an important International Science Conference on "Our Common Future Under Climate Change" in advance of the COP21 talks in December 2015. The conference will be 7th to 10th July in Paris and has a number of sessions relevant to glaciologists, in particular one on "Sea level rise and ice sheets" convened by Martin Siegert and others.

This session will be on Tuesday 7th July and will comprise four invited talks on sea level and its projection, and ice sheet contributions and uncertainties. There will also be a poster session for which abstract submission is currently open.

Abstract for the session on Sea level rise and ice sheets.

The major contribution to future sea level change is likely to come from melting of the polar ice sheets. Considerable uncertainty exists as to how Antarctica and Greenland will change in the coming decades, however, limiting our ability to predict sea level rise with certainty. In this session established information and new knowledge of global sea-level, based on measurements of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and quantification of uncertainty, will be discussed to provide a state-of-art account of future sea level change, and the cryospheric response to climate and ocean warming.

Conveners:

• Martin Siegert
• Sylvie Charbit
• Tony Payne
• Catherine Ritz
• Don Blankenship
• Frank Pattyn
• Sun Bo

Abstracts for posters can be submitted athttp://cfcc.contribution.y-congress.com/ScientificProcess/Submission/. Unfortunately there is a very tight deadline on this of 10th March, although it seems that this may well be extended. Nonetheless, this promises to be an excellent forum for bringing your work to the attention of policymakers.

More information about the meeting can be found at http://www.commonfuture-paris2015.org/

The International Scientific Conference “Our Common Future under Climate Change” will take place at UNESCO and UPMC (Paris) in July 2015.

This four-day conference will be the largest forum for the scientific community to come together ahead of the 21st UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP21), which will be hosted by France in December 2015 (“Paris Climat 2015”). Building on the results of IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5), the Conference will address key issues concerning climate change in the broader context of global change. It will offer an opportunity to discuss solutions for both mitigation and adaptation issues. The Conference will also welcome Side Events organized by different stakeholders.

The conference is organized under the umbrella of ICSU, Future Earth, UNESCO and major French research institutions, with the support of the French Government.

The Conference has four overarching objectives:

• Provide state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on climate change, one year after the release of IPCC AR5: physical basis of climate change, impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, mitigation, storylines and scenarios.
• Explore a wide range of pathways combining climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable development.
• Assess the potential for evidence-based solutions to climate change challenges.
• Contribute to a science-society dialogue.

To receive more information about the conference, subscribe to their email list at http://www.commonfuture-paris2015.org/Receive-information.htm

We would like to draw your attention to the XII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, a SCAR initiative, to be held in Goa during 13-17 July 2015. We are inviting abstracts for session 16: Interactions between cryosphere, atmosphere and oceans in coastal Antarctica. The abstract submission is now open (www.isaes2015goa.in). This session aims to integrate latest results on past, current and future changes in coastal Antarctica from a range of disciplines to identify knowledge gaps and suggest future priorities. In addition to its roles in global climate system and biogeochemical cycles, interactions between the cryosphere, atmosphere, and ocean in this region must be better understood to predict future. We welcome contributions to this session regardless of methods (observational / geophysical/ biogeochemical data/ proxy data/ remote sensing / modeling).

The International symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) is a SCAR-initiative aimed at showcasing Antarctic Geoscience research, taking stock of the accomplishments of the International fraternity and providing guidance for future studies. SCAR is renowned for its congresses, held since 1963. ISAES will be our first Conference in India, and greatly anticipated. The Symposium is scheduled to be hosted by the Earth System Science Organization (ESSO) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, and its R&D Wing, the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) in Goa, famous for its beaches and places of worship.

The MicroSnow2 Workshop will be held July 13-15, 2015 at USRA, 7878 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD 21045. The SnowEX meeting is to be held July 16, 2015 at the USRA facility as well.

The MicroSnow workshops aim to develop understanding on how snow microstructure information should be used in radiative transfer theory, to examine microwave radiative transfer model assumptions, and determine what the implications are for snow remote sensing. MicroSnow2 will continue the exchange of latest model developments, results, field measurements, and ideas related to understanding the relationship between snow microwave observations and snow microstructure. This workshop is an opportunity to share recent progress, and to make plans for next year.

SnowEx: Following 3 days of MicroSnow2 (July 13-15), the snow modeling and remote sensing communities are invited to participate in an international planning discussion on July 16 for a near-future major airborne snow campaign (all remote sensing techniques, not just microwave; plus ground measurements & modeling). We especially want to encourage our international colleagues to attend this discussion, to combine our experience & expertise in order to define a true community effort. The last time such a campaign was conducted was over a decade ago (CLPX-1 in 2002-03), so this is an opportunity not to be missed.

There is no registration fee for either MicroSnow2 or SnowEX. The meetings are open to the public and anyone may register. When registering, please be sure to note which days of MicroSnow2 you plan to attend and if you plan to attend SnowEX.

Please mark your calendars for the 6th Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations, co-hosted by the U.S. National Ice Center (NIC) and the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC), July 14-16, 2015 at the Naval Heritage Center, 701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC.

Discussion: This symposium brings together nationally and internationally recognized experts on Arctic observations, climate change, and maritime operations. High-level opening remarks are anticipated from NOAA, Navy, USCG, USARC, Canadian Coast Guard, and other U.S. and international government representatives; special invitations to be sent to the Alaska Congressional Delegation and from representatives from other Arctic nations.

The 2015 symposium program will be influenced by relevant Arctic-related events since the 2013 symposium, including:

• 2015's peak winter Arctic sea ice extent occurred Feb. 25, 2015, a maximum that is not only early but is the lowest in the satellite record.
• Despite a modest increase in the age and thickness of sea ice in 2014 compared to 2013, the long-term evidence points to continued global warming and loss of sea ice.
• The updated USN Arctic Roadmap 2014 - 2030 released.
• The White House released the Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for the Arctic Region to advance U.S. security interests, pursue responsible stewardship for Arctic region, and strengthen international cooperation.
• Executive Order 13689: Enhancing Coordination of National Efforts in the Arctic released on Jan. 21, 2015

The symposium talks will cover three general topic areas:

• Latest research on observed and forecast changes of the Arctic sea ice environment;
• Present and future impact of these changes on Arctic operations;
• Relevant national and international Arctic policy issues and potential need for additional policy.

This third workshop of the PALeo constraints on SEA level rise 2 (PALSEA2) working group builds upon and complements previous workshops by focussing on the integration of data and models to better understand and constrain past changes in sea level, the cryosphere and climate with a primary aim to produce more accurate projections of future changes in ice extent and sea level. As in previous PALSEA2 workshops, a focus will be on data and modeling for past warm periods when ice extent was similar to or less than that at present (e.g. mid-Holocene, last interglacial, mid-Pliocene) with a key goal being to place improved constraints on the amplitudes and rates of sea level changes during such periods. However, data and model results for other periods are also of interest.

We encourage abstracts from colleagues who reconstruct changes in sea level, the cryosphere and climate from the geological record and/or apply models to interpret the observations and better understand the processes responsible for these changes. The format will follow that of previous workshops with the schedule being split into coherent sessions with a handful of presentations in each – ranging from overview talks that highlight areas of uncertainty and/or poor understanding to those that are more detailed and focus on a specific problem. Ample time will be allocated for discussion on key issues or topics of contention. The intention is to attract a group of researchers that have a diverse and complementary range of expertise covering field and modelling approaches relevant to quantifying and understanding environmental changes that link sea level, the cryosphere and climate.

The workshop is scheduled immediately before the INQUA congress in Nagoya (27 July to 2 August) which is only a few hours away by train, making it possible to attend both meetings during one trip to Japan. Some funds will be available to support the attendance of early career researchers.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

• Jacqueline Austermann (Harvard University),
• Jeremy Fyke (Los Alamos National Laboratory),
• Bette Otto-Bliesner (National Center for Atmospheric Research),
• Axel Timmermann (University of Hawaii).

To apply to the workshop:

• Email your abstract to gamilne [at] uottawa.ca by 15 February 2015
• Please use the subject heading: “PALSEA2 ABSTRACT: ORAL/POSTER” where you select oral or poster as your preference.
• Notification of participation will occur in March.

Abstract Formatting:

Please follow the following guidelines and use Times new roman 12pt font throughout. Margins
all set to 1”. Please submit as a Word document (not pdf).
TITLE (all caps, centered)
[skip one line]
Authors1: (centered: Last name, Initials with no periods or spaces)
[skip one line]
Institutions: (centered, Italics)
[skip one line]
Abstract text: left justified, no indent for first line of each paragraph, skip one line between
paragraphs, not to exceed one page in length.

Please contact Glenn Milne for further information (gamilne [at] uottawa.ca).