Past Events

CHC 2012 will explore new approaches to the challenges of Arctic hydrography. We look forward to receiving innovative ideas from industry, academia and national hydrographic offices, exploring different ways of utilizing existing technology and examining new and emerging technologies.

http://www.chc2012.ca

EARSeL is a scientific network of European remote sensing laboratories, coming from both academia and commercial/industrial sector, which covers all fields of geoinformation and earth observation through remote sensing. All scientists, professionals and researchers involved or interested in the field of the symposium are strongly encouraged to present papers according to the following topics. Authors are requested to submit their abstracts by December 15, 2011.

Contributions are invited in one of the following topics:

-Scientific applications of remote sensing, emerging methods and technologies
-Education and training in school, university, and public life
-Capacity building at organisations and authorities involved in environmental monitoring and protection
-Activities dealing with natural and cultural heritage
-Remote sensing for archaeology
-Land use and land cover, degradation and desertification
-Urban remote sensing
-Oceans, coastal zones and inland waters
-Natural and man-made disasters
-Forestry and forest fires
-Applications related to assist developing countries: mapping, monitoring and change analysis
-Remote sensing and its associated support to the understanding of climate change
-Hydrological applications: water management, underground water sources, land ice and snow
-3D remote sensing, Radar, Lidar, Thermal Remote Sensing
-New instruments and methods, including ground truth

For more information, please visit:
http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2012-symposium-Mykonos/index.php

This workshop about PISM will foster the exchange between different groups especially from Europe. The first day is dedicated to oral and poster presentations from all groups. During the second day, key aspects are introduced and afterward these are discussed in parallel group sessions to share experiences and to identify future needs.

Currently we plan to have groups for the following topics:
1) PISM introduction (by Ed Bueler),
2) calving law (by Anders Levermann's group),
3) coupling between ice sheets and earth system model models (N.N), and/or
4) ocean-ice sheet interaction (N.N)

Please indicate your preference during registration or suggest further topics which you consider to be important.

For further information please contact:
christian.rodehacke [at] zmaw.de

Organizers announce that the 18th International Symposium on Polar Sciences will be held in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea on 22-24 May 2012. The conference will be sponsored by the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI).

The International Symposium on Polar Sciences has been held every year since 1994, and is intended to build better understanding and consensus on the progress and future of polar research programs. The theme of the 2012 symposium is "Milestones in Polar Research Collaboration." The main objective of this event is to examine polar environmental changes observed in the atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. The symposium will also address meteorites in the Antarctica and new technology for polar sciences.

The 97th meeting of the USARC will be held in Montreal, Canada, in conjunction with the "From Knowledge to  Action" IPY meeting. The Commission will meet on April 27-28, and will meet jointly with the Canadian Polar Commission on the afternoon of the 27th, to discuss common interests in Arctic Research. Details to follow. 

The International Glaciological Society will hold an International Symposium on ‘Seasonal Snow and Ice’ in 2012. The symposium will be held in Lahti, Finland, from 25 May to 1 June 2012.

New technologies have broadened our ability to examine the seasonal ice zone, though large uncertainties about its current state remain. Numerical modelling is advancing but thin ice and seasonal snow covers close to the climatological ice margin remain difficult to model because of their transient nature. Ecological impact studies in the seasonal ice zone have increased over the past ten years, and serve to further highlight the important role seasonal ice has on the many physical, chemical and biological systems of the sub-polar latitudes.

In view of these advancing technologies, modelling improvements and ecological studies, we announce a symposium focussed on the understanding of seasonal snow and ice. The goal of the symposium is to progress further in understanding how seasonal snow and ice is responding to changes in the environment and climate, and what changes can be expected in the future. This meeting seeks to address these problems by bringing together scientists from diverse communities engaged in research on snow, sea ice, freshwater lake and river ice and frozen ground.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.gastro.physics.helsinki.fi/IGS2012/

The Symposium will cover a wide range of glaciological problems focusing on recent changes in the state of the cryosphere and its impacts in different time scales. Each oral presentation will be allowed 20 minutes, including discussion. The program includes poster sessions and time for discussion.

Participants are expected to arrive to Arkhangelsk on Sunday, 3 June. The Symposium sessions will be held on the 4-8 June. A reception will be organized on one of the evenings. Further information about excursions will be available later on our website.

The Eastern Snow Conference (ESC) is a joint Canadian/U.S. organization founded in the 1940s originally with members from eastern North America. Today, Our members come from the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany, as well as North America. Our current membership includes scientists, engineers, snow surveyors, technicians, professors, students and professionals involved in operations and maintenance.

At its annual meeting, the Eastern Snow Conference brings the research and operations communities to discuss recent work on scientific, engineering and operational issues related to snow and ice.

For more information and link to the Call for Abstracts and registration form, please visit:
http://www.easternsnow.org/.

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 24th Polar Libraries Colloquy in Boulder, Colorado.

The conference theme is Cold Regions: Pivot Points, Focal Points. Scientists, economists, and governments are focused on the evolving role of polar regions in world affairs. Polar libraries are evolving as well. What changes have you noticed in your collections, focus, or administration as global attention pivots on the poles? The Colloquy will feature a number of interesting presentations and panels, an experiment with an “unconference” session to address practical problems in polar libraries, and a field trip to one of the coldest labs in the world.

FRISP started out as an European forum, but now welcomes any scientist working on ice shelves and related issues. FRISP remains a focus on glaciology, but the scope is extended to include continental shelf oceanography, meteorology, and quaternary paleoclimatology to encourage discussion between these disciplines.

The conference comprises 3 days and welcomes presentations (oral and posters) on all aspects of ice shelf research and ice-ocean interaction, in both hemispheres , including, but not limited to:

-Formation, flow and disintegration of ice shelves;
-Response of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers to past, present and future climate variability;
-Surface and basal mass balance of ice shelves;
-Ice-ocean interaction at the calving front of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers;
-Mass transport across the grounding line;
-Ocean circulation and water mass transformation beneath ice shelves and within pro-glacial fjords;
-Impact of ice shelves on the global ocean;
-Processes controlling the delivery of ocean heat to glaciated coastlines;
-Climate records from on or near current or former ice shelves;
-Iceberg calving, drift, melting, and decay.

Please note that the deadline for booking accommodation is 29th February 2012, because the venue is very popular in the summer months.

Full details of the meeting, venue and registration procedures can be found at http://rechenknecht.natgeo.su.se/FRISP2012.

This symposia is part of the ISOPE 2012 Conference

Topics include:

-Materials development (steels, composites, etc.)
-Welding consumables
-Welding technology
-Low temperature properties
-Mechanisms of embrittlement
-Large deformations
-Testing and evaluation methods
-Modelling and simulation
-Design, safety and risks
-Codes and standards development

For more information, please visit:
www.isope2012.org

Since ISOPE-1992, the annual ISOPE conferences have been the world’s largest technical conferences of its kind with peer-reviewed papers. Proceedings are INDEXED by Engineering Index and Compendex.

Individual Symposia scheduled include:
ARCTIC-2012: The 3rd Arctic Science and Technology
ARCTIC M-2012: The 2nd Arctic Materials
FERT-2012: The 4th Frontier Energy Resources & Technology
SBD-2012: The 6th Strain-Based Design
REES-2012: The 3rd Renewable Energy and Environment
SLOSHING-2012: The 4th Sloshing Dynamics & Design
NANOS-2012: The 3rd Nanotechnologies for Clean Energy
HPM-2012: The 10th High Performance Materials
Tsunami-2012: The 1st Tsunami and Safety
Corrosion-2012: The 1st Corrosion Control

For more information, please visit:
http://www.isope2012.org/

The joint IAVCEI-IACS Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions would like to announce the Third International Conference on Volcano-Ice Interactions on Earth & Other Planets, to be held in Anchorage, Alaska, June 18–22, 2012. We are planning a three-day oral and poster session meeting format followed by two days for field excursions to the Wrangell volcanic field and Cook Inlet volcanoes. The conference precedes the International Glaciological Society symposium on mountain glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets in a warming climate that will be held in Fairbanks the following week from June 25–29.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together scientists with a common interest in volcano-ice interactions and to highlight recent studies and eruptions at snow- and ice-clad volcanoes. We are particularly interested in encouraging students and post-docs to attend and present their research results.

Preliminary Agenda and Session Topics include:
• Recent significant eruptions: Huila 2007-08, Redoubt 2009, Eyjafjallajökull 2010, Grimsvötn 2011, Puyehue-Cordón Caulle 2011
• Generation, transport, erosion, sedimentology and hydraulics of jökulhlaups
• Wet volcanic mass flows associated with eruptions at snow and ice clad volcanoes
• Glacier-volcano dynamics associated with changing glacier ice loads, past –current - future
• Hazards and risks at snow and ice clad volcanoes
• Glacier-volcano interactions during recent eruptive activity at Aleutian arc and Andes volcanoes
• Heat transfer mechanisms during glaciovolcanic events, lava-scale to edifice-scale
• Paleoenvironmental studies of volcano-ice interactions, dating of glacial events and implications for ice sheets
• Planetary volcano-ice interactions

Determining reliably the recent changes of the large continental ice sheets is a major scientific challenge. The results are of great societal importance, especially in terms of global sea level rise. Various satellite missions have provided unique data for monitoring the changing cryosphere, with each measuring technique having different strengths and limitations.

This course will cover fundamentals of space based monitoring of glaciers and ice sheets, such as satellite radar and laser altimetry, satellite gravimetry (GRACE), GPS and SAR interferometry.

The 2012 NMEA conference is entitled "North to Alaska's Seas: A Confluence of Science and Culture". The NMEA Annual Conference will bring together formal and informal educators, scientists, students, and resource managers to share ideas about the world of water. Conference sponsors are the Northwest Aquatic and Marine Educators (NAME) and the Alaska Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE Alaska).

Conference themes include science and art, science and culture (i.e. integrating traditional knowledge and western science), science and technology, and large marine ecosystem science and education.

Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 17 February 2012.

For further information about the conference, please visit:
http://www.coseealaska.net/nmeaconference2012/.

Glaciers and ice sheets are making large contributions to rising sea level, and their mass losses are expected to accelerate in a warming climate. New technologies have broadened our ability to detect and monitor glacier and ice sheet changes, though large uncertainties about the current state of the cryosphere remain. Moreover, predictive models are at present unable to capture many key processes of glacier mass balance and dynamics, many of which are non-linear. How are glaciers and ice sheets responding to recent changes in climate, and what changes can we expect in the future? This meeting seeks to address these problems by bringing together experts in glacier, climate and ocean studies, using in-situ observations, remote sensing and modeling.

Abstract deadline: 1 March 2012

For more information, please visit:
http://glaciers.gi.alaska.edu/events/igs2012

The International Conference on Permafrost, held every four years, is the premier venue for all research related to permafrost.

The conference will focus on both arctic, antarctic and alpine permafrost research. The theme of the conference is “Resources and Risks in permafrost regions in a changing world” and refers to both the impacts of a changing world on permafrost and the impact of permafrost on a changing world. It also uses the world “resource”, which, in the host university tradition, relates to permafrost as both an industrial and environmental resource. The conference will also host official IPA Executive Committee and Council meetings.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.ticop2012.org/

The workshop will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of scientists representing the bio-, cryo-, geo- and atmospheric sciences to investigate the issues that can be addressed by remote field programs. The aim is to exchange ideas about scientific priorities which could be explored from 2-3 possible sites and develop a consensus on the highest priority site that would be the focus of the next round of proposals (in 2013). Another goal is to introduce a new generation of researchers to the possibilities for future scientific investigations in the Transantarctic Mountains.

The first two days will be dedicated to discussion of scientific opportunities culminating in the selection of a single deep field camp site. The third day will focus on helping new investigators understand the logistics system and begin thinking about field plans. A group of logistics specialists will be in attendance to provide assistance.

Panelists include Suzanne Bevan, of Swansea University, Erin Pettit of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Ross Powell of Northern Illinois University, and Ian Willis of Cambridge University. Each panel member will give a short overview of their career to date and then there will be a discussion session with the opportunity for all attendees to ask questions of our panelists on all matters pertaining to building a successful career in polar or cryospheric research.

The panel discussion will take place on Monday, 25 June 2012 from 5:30-6:30 PM in the Wood Center Ballroom on the University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus - the main presentation hall for the IGS conference. Attendance is open to anyone attending the meeting, but especially graduate students/postgraduate researchers, post-docs and other early career scientists. Sadly, we don't have a budget for any refreshments during the panel but we will be going for drinks, and possibly dinner, at a venue nearby after the session.

This workshop will provide training in the sampling, production, description and interpretation of thin sections of sediments from a wide variety of environments, with particular focus on glacigenic sediments. It is intended for research students, early career and established researchers who wish to explore the potential of thin section micromorphology, SEM and 3D-computed tomography within their research.

The workshop is limited to 18 delegates, and will cost £250 (£150 for postgraduates); on-campus accommodation is available at QMUL.

For more details, please contact the Centre for Micromorphology (geog-cfm [at] qmul.ac.uk), or visit: http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/ research/centres/micromorphology/index.html.