Past Events

The 12th Session of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel will be held June 29-30, 2017. It is open to those interested in the activities of SORP. The topics covered will include: Southern Ocean oceanographic observations needed during YOPP-SH; how oceanic behavior out to two months projects onto atmospheric behavior; climate predictability of the ocean-atmosphere-ice system in the Southern Ocean (discussions on SOMIP (Southern Ocean Model Intercomparison Project) and AntClim21); and other SORP business.

There is no registration fee to attend these meetings, however if you wish to participate, please follow the link above and sign up via the "Registration" tab.

The 2nd Asian Conference on Permafrost (ACOP2017) will be hosted by the International Permafrost Association (IPA) and covers all aspects of frozen ground – both permafrost and seasonal frost – and its related natural and technological topics. The proposed sessions are as listed below:

• Periglacial Geomorphology
• Ground ice dynamics
• Mountain permafrost and geohazards
• Permafrost eco-hydrology
• Permafrost mapping and techniques
• Climate change and the carbon balance in permafrost
• Frozen ground physics
• Frozen ground engineering
• Asian frozen ground
• Paleo-permafrost
• Extrazonal permafrost and seasonal frost
• Living and working on frozen ground: cultural and historical significance of permafrost
• Outreach/education, history

Also we will offer options of pre- and post-conference field excursions as follows (dependent on the numbers of participants).

• Daisetsu Mountains, Japan
• Artificially frozen ground sites, Tokyo and Fukushima-daiichi nuclear power plant
• Mongolia
• Kamchatka Peninsula
• Northeast China
• Mt Fuji, Japan

For more details, please visit the website link above.

Registration and abstract submission are already open until 31 January, 2017.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact by email: acop2017 [at] arc.hokudai.ac.jp

We look forward to see you in Sapporo in summer 2017!

SEARCH Permafrost Action Team Leads (Christina Schädel and Ted Schuur) will convene a session (Climate change and the carbon balance in permafrost) at the 2nd Asian Conference on Permafrost in Sapporo, Japan.

Session Description: Warming induced greenhouse gas release to the atmosphere from organic carbon stored in permafrost has the potential to affect regional and global climate through feedback processes. Contributions towards evaluation of the current status and future projection of permafrost carbon stocks, decomposability, model projections, carbon and nutrient cycling in permafrost, and topics related to the permafrost carbon feedback to climate change are welcome.

Antarctica rarely makes it onto the map of the humanities and social sciences. While artists have produced responses to the continent for centuries, non-scientific researchers have been reluctant to venture intellectually into the far southern latitudes. The continent’s lack of an indigenous or permanent human population, together with a popular Antarctic exceptionalism which frames the continent as immune to the political, social and economic forces that affect the rest of the globe, has made it seem off-limits to analysis outside of a scientific framework.

Increasingly, however, public attention is being drawn to Antarctica, as the surface of its ice plays host to tourists, proliferating stations, heroic re-enactments, and national manoeuvring; its icy depths reveal the environmental history of our planet; and its ocean currents ominously undermine the glaciers around its edges. While scientific efforts are crucial, understanding the Antarctic region – past, present and future – requires contributions across the disciplinary spectrum. This conference aims to bring together humanities, creative arts and social sciences researchers interested in the Antarctic, fostering a community of scholars who can act in concert with natural scientists to address the issues that face the Antarctic region.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

We invite papers from a broad range of disciplines – including history, literary and cultural studies, creative arts, sociology, politics, geography and law – that engage with the Antarctic, sub-Antarctic and Southern Ocean. Contributions from scientists interested in engaging with the HASS community are encouraged. Both proposals for individual papers (20 minutes with 10 minutes question time) and interdisciplinary panels are welcome.

For a full list of topics and more information, please follow the link above.

Deadline for Abstracts: 3 March 2017

Innovative technologies in geology, geophysics, and geography are of great importance due to their close connections with various applied problems and tasks such as search for mineral deposits and their exploration, evaluation of engineering-geological conditions and environments, including forecasting of catastrophic geological processes and phenomena. Most of innovative approaches originate at the interfaces between different fields of the knowledge, through its integration and exchange, the generalization of the already developed and new ideas including those of young scientists, particularly.

With this in view, the Sevastopol Branch of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia will arrange an International Youth Conference entitled “Innovation in Geology, Geophysics and Geography-2017” in Sevastopol.

Students, undergraduates, PhD students and early career students are welcome to participate in the Conference.

If you are in your first three years of a permanent academic position, please apply to join us for a multi-day workshop in a stimulating and resource-rich environment where you will participate in sessions on topics including effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research program in a new setting, working with research students, balancing professional and personal responsibilities, and time management. The workshop is offered by NAGT On the Cutting Edge professional development program for geoscience faculty with support from the National Science Foundation, Geological Society of America and American Geophysical Union.

Participants must have a full-time faculty position at a two-year or four-year college or a university at the time of the workshop and must be in their first three years of full-time teaching or starting a full-time position in the Fall.

Please note the application deadline is March 22, 2017.

For additional information and a link to online application, please visit the website above.

The World Climate Research Program (WCRP), jointly with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), announces a call for abstracts for the Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts Conference.

This conference will address the existing challenges in describing and predicting regional sea level changes and quantifying the intrinsic uncertainties. The conference will serve as a basis for a new assessment of the state of regional sea level research and will serve as input to the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment.

The structure of the conference will consist of plenary sessions followed by extensive poster sessions. In the evenings, there will be "think-tanks" focusing on new science frontiers and activities.

Conference registration opens 15 March 2017

Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2017

Early registration deadline: 31 May 2017

For information about abstracts and to submit an abstract, to go:
http://www.sealevel2017.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i…

For questions, contact conference organizers at:
Email: sealevel2017 [at] clivar.org

Submission deadline for all sessions has been extended to 6 March 2017.

Scientific programme of the IAHS Scientific Assembly:

• 01 Water security and the food-water-energy nexus: drivers, responses and feedbacks at local to global scales
• 02 Hydrology and the Anthropocene
• 03 Understanding spatio-temporal variability of water resources and the implications for IWRM in the semi-arid east and southern Africa
• 04 Water Balance and Crop Water Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa Agricultural Watersheds
• 05 Land use change impacts on water resources
• 06 Water resources management and the competition/balance between humans and ecosystems (eco-hydrology)
• 07 Measurements in the 21st century: innovation in hydrological observations
• 08 Environmental and artificial tracers as indicators in hydrology
• 09 Innovative ICT tools for water management and science
• 10 Prediction in ungauged basins
• 11 Modelling hydrological processes for prediction under change
• 12 Probabilistic forecasts and land-atmosphere interactions to advance hydrological predictions
• 13 Extreme events: links between science and practice
• 14 Advances in cold-region hydrological models: Integration of process understanding and application to climate and landcover changes
• 15 Operational snowmelt runoff modelling: Advances and prospects for water management
• 16 Water quality and sediment transport issues in surface water
• 17 Long-term evolution in catchment water quality
• 18 Changing biogeochemistry of aquatic systems in the Anthropocene: inter-comparison of data and models for predicting water quality
• 19 Advancements in modeling and characterization of aquifer
• 20 Methodologies for risk assessment of groundwater contamination
• 21 Quantifying uncertainty in hydrological systems: A Bayesian point of view
• 22 Nonstationarity in Hydrology: Theories, Methods and Applications
• 23 Multivariate statistics for hydrological application
• 24 Stochastic hydrology: simulation and disaggregation models
• 25 Graduate Schools in Water Sciences
• 26 Facilitating Scientific contributions in water diplomacy and cooperation processes

Members for the SEARCH Land Ice Action Team will participate in the conference.

The International Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research (SCAR) Biology symposia were initiated in 1973 with the purpose of bringing fundamental and applied scientists together with an interest in Antarctic terrestrial and marine life sciences, including man. Symposium themes under consideration include: Distribution and trends; Adaptation and processes; New insights through multi-disciplinary research; Threats and impacts: from the poles to the globe to the poles; Societal impact of Antarctic biological science; Human biology at the poles.

For more information, registration and other information, please follow the link above.

Abstract submission deadline: 15th of February 2017.

The school will be the second in the series of summer schools to be organised from 2016 to 2018 under the Jean-Monnet project “Systems for monitoring and responses to early warnings — EU experience for Russia”.

The School faculty includes the resident faculty of Siberian Federal University and guests from Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden (the list of faculty will be published in the late February).

The Summer School on water governance is organised by Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia). It is designed as a research training exercise, with the Krasnoyarsk Water Reservoir (also known as the Sea of Krasnoyarsk, the Eurasia-largest water reservoir) on the river of Yenisei and the lake of Baikal (the world largest freshwater body) set as case studies.

Deadline for applications is April 28, 2017.

For more information and to apply, please see the website above.

The Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) announces the call for contributions for the 2017 Sea Ice Outlook July report (based on May and June data).

The Sea Ice Outlook provides an open process for those interested in Arctic sea ice to share ideas. The monthly reports contain a variety of perspectives—from advanced numerical models to qualitative perspectives from citizen scientists. A post-season report will provide an in-depth
analysis of factors driving sea ice this summer as well as explore the scientific methods for predicting seasonal conditions.

Pan-Arctic and Alaska Regional Sea Ice Extent Outlooks and any additional figures and gridded fields will be accepted for the 2017 July
Outlook. We particularly encourage submissions for the Alaska region (i.e., Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas). Submissions that include spatial forecast maps are encouraged. We are also accepting pan-Antarctic sea ice extent of the September monthly mean.

We encourage all past contributors to submit Outlooks this year and we also hope to see new participants!

This symposium will bring together nationally and internationally-recognized experts on arctic marine operations, environments, science, policy, law, and governance including notable speakers from the Alaska Congressional Delegation, NOAA, Navy, USCG, USARC, and other representatives from the US Arctic nations and international community. It will take place at the Navy Memorial’s Heritage Center in Washington, DC.

The event offers a special opportunity to meet, interact, and share your insights about the impact of an ice-diminishing Arctic Ocean on marine transportation, resource development, oceanographic research, federal, state, local and international operations, and policy implications, and many other issues in the rapidly evolving Arctic region.

Registration is COMPLIMENTARY and REQUIRED. Historically, the Heritage Center’s 250 seat auditorium has been filled to capacity so early registration is encouraged.

To register for the symposium, please follow the link above.

Abstract deadline: 14 July 2017.

Registration deadline: 18 July 2017.

Submissions on Arctic-related topics such as marine transportation, infrastructure, security, commerce, policy, law, technology, and science are welcome. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged.

At a minimum, posters should include author names, affiliations, contact information, and an abstract. Posters typically contain an introduction, materials and methods, results, conclusions, references, and acknowledgments.

Posters will be displayed for the duration of the symposium, and authors are encouraged to participate in a dedicated poster session on 18 July.

The main goal of the Joint Summer School 2017 is to provide participants with innovative practical and methodological skills to characterise complex terrain and objects using close-, near range and remote sensing techniques. The Summer School will be the second edition after a successful first version in 2015.

Theoretical lectures will be complemented by fieldwork assignments and hands-on data processing sessions using different novel software. The assignments will be divided into two different tracks. One track will focus on mountain research, the other on sensor and data processing techniques.

A variety of sensor systems will be available for data acquisition in the high mountain surroundings of the summer school venue, including terrestrial laser scanners, unmanned aerial vehicles and spectral cameras.

Thematic focus will be on mountain research, and will include vegetation mapping, monitoring and deformation analysis for glaciology, geomorphology and natural hazard research.

Technical focus will be on sensor and data aspects, such as sensor modeling, calibration, data acquisition, 2D and 3D data fusion, geometric methods for information extraction from point clouds and (multispectral) images and data quality assessment.

Theoretical focus will address critical steps within a processing chain, such as impact of a registration method, choice of stand points during data acquisition and derivation of deformation vectors, issues related to multispectral image analysis etc.

Practical exercises using predominantly open source software, deepen the conveyed knowledge and help all participants establish a workflow for their research.

The Summer School will take place in and around Obergurgl, at almost 2000 m the highest village in Austria. The main venue is the Obergurgl University Center. Here lectures will take place and accommodation and food is provided to all participants. Directions will be available via the website.

This summer school is designed for any well-motivated PhD student, post-docs and young researchers from any field, provided they have interest in these type of techniques.

Go to the website above for more information, and to register.

Registration deadline: 30 December 2016

The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) will host a webinar on the outcomes of the Arctic Horizons project. This webinar will be hosted via Zoom Video Conferencing and open to the public.

The Arctic Horizons project brought together members of the Arctic social science research and Indigenous communities through a series of workshops to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arctic Social Sciences Program within the context of a rapidly changing circumpolar north. The Arctic Horizon's Program Manager and Principal Investigators will describe the outcomes of the workshop series, including the soon to be released final synthesis report which will describe the community's vision for the future of Arctic social science research.

Webinar speakers will include:

• Andrey Petrov, University of Northern Iowa
• Colleen Strawhacker, National Snow and Ice Data Center and University of Colorado
• Shelby Anderson, Portland State University
• Anna Kerttula de Echave, National Science Foundation

Further information and instructions on connecting to this webinar are available on the webinar homepage.

For questions, contact:
Jessica Rohde
Email: jrohde [at] arcus.org

This symposium will bring together nationally and internationally-recognized experts on arctic marine operations, environments, science, policy, law, and governance including notable speakers from the Alaska Congressional Delegation, NOAA, Navy, USCG, USARC, and other representatives from the US Arctic nations and international community.

The event offers a special opportunity to meet, interact, and share your insights about the impact of an ice-diminishing Arctic Ocean on marine transportation, resource development, oceanographic research, federal, state, local and international operations, and policy implications, and many other issues in the rapidly evolving Arctic region.

Registration is COMPLIMENTARY and REQUIRED. Historically, the Heritage Center’s 250 seat auditorium has been filled to capacity so early registration is encouraged.

To register for the symposium, please follow the link above.

Abstract deadline: 14 July 2017.

Registration deadline: 18 July 2017.

Submissions on Arctic-related topics such as marine transportation, infrastructure, security, commerce, policy, law, technology, and science are welcome. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged.

At a minimum, posters should include author names, affiliations, contact information, and an abstract. Posters typically contain an introduction, materials and methods, results, conclusions, references, and acknowledgments.

Posters will be displayed for the duration of the symposium, and authors are encouraged to participate in a dedicated poster session on 18 July.

Many places have a local saying that reads, “if you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes.” This idiom is not as applicable to Alaska, where strong seasonality is an ever present fact of life. In December, January, and February, all of Mainland Alaska has snow on the ground and experiences sub-freezing temperatures. In June, July, and August, long days mean warm temperatures, clouds, rain, and mosquitoes. Within those seasons, large variation exists from one year to the next. Winter 2016-17 is much colder and snowier than either of the previous two winters. Those differences are meaningful in the cold season for activities that involve travel on frozen rivers and shorefast ice, following game tracks in snow, meat and fish storage, and more. In summer, year-to-year differences in climate affect fish runs, berry production, river runoff, and fire activity. An IARC project with John Walsh and Rick Thoman, Brettschnieder uses an analog technique to forecast seasonal conditions based on previous months’ conditions. If conditions over a 1, 2, 3, or more month time period are similar to some other year, then highlighting that match year is useful for determining what the current year’s conditions will resemble 1, 2, 3, or more months in the future. For example, a forecast for June temperatures based on the three years with the best global 500 mb geopotential height match to October-December 2016 in the northern hemisphere indicate near normal temperatures for most of the state with slightly below normal temperatures for the eastern interior. This type of pattern-match analog forecasting provides long lead-time indications for seasonal conditions.

Available in-person in IARC/Akasofu 407 on the UAF Campus or online.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) is pleased to announce the next Arctic Research Seminar Series event featuring Sandra Starkweather (NOAA/U.S. AON). The event will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office at 1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. or online for the webinar live-stream.

Registration is required for this event.

The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series brings some of the leading Arctic researchers to Washington, D.C. to share the latest findings and what they mean for decision-making. These seminars will be of interest to federal agency officials, congressional staff, non-governmental organizations, associations, and the public.

For more information about Sandra Starkweather and her presentation, please follow the link above.

This event is a brown-bag lunch that will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office (1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. Fourth Floor). Cookies and beverages will be provided. A live webinar is also available to those unable to attend in person. Instructions for accessing the event online will be sent to webinar registrants prior to the event.

For those of you on Twitter, we also invite you to join us in live-tweeting the event using the hashtag #arcuswebinar.

For questions, contact:
Brit Myers
Email: brit [at] arcus.org

Communities and governments need reliable information to adapt to rapid changes in the Arctic environment. Scientists need to continually advance the body of knowledge and—at the same time—answer immediately practical questions. The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and institutions to accelerate cross-discipline syntheses and to make scientific understanding more readily accessible to policy makers and other stakeholders. Knowledge pyramids utilized in the creation of Arctic Answers foster syntheses and broad understanding across sectors and stakeholder groups, including at the policy level. Brendan Kelly, Executive Director of SEARCH, will discuss SEARCH and the Arctic Answers initiative.

With more than 23,000 Earth and space scientists in 2016, AGU’s Fall Meeting is the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. The meeting continues to be the premiere place to present your research; hear about the latest discoveries, trends, and challenges in the field; and network with colleagues that can enhance your career.

Fall Meeting sessions will take place throughout the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, which is located at 900 Convention Center Blvd., New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 in close proximity to nationally renowned restaurants. The world famous attractions of the French Quarter lay just steps away while the historic St. Charles streetcar line runs past the elegant homes of the Garden District. Learn how to make the most of your time in the Crescent City in addition to joining us for another dynamic scientific program.

Fall Meeting brings together the entire Earth and space science community from across the globe for discussions of emerging trends and the latest research. The technical program includes presentations on new and cutting-edge science, much of which has not yet been published, meaning you’ll return to work with knowledge you can’t get anywhere else.

With more than 1,700 sessions in 2016, Fall Meeting’s scientific program spans the Earth and space sciences, offering something for everyone no matter their scientific discipline. The meeting offers a unique mix of more than 20,000 oral and poster presentations, a broad range of keynote lectures, various types of formal and informal networking and career advancement opportunities, and an exhibit hall packed with hundreds of exhibitors showcasing new and relevant research tools and services that meet the professional needs of our attendees year after year.