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The 27th IUGG General Assembly will be held at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, Québec, Canada. This is a special opportunity for participants from Canada and from around the world to come together and share their science and culture. 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of IUGG; we will look back on the accomplishments of the previous century of Earth and space science research, and forward to the next century of scientific advancement. Join us for a host of scientific activities, including special public lectures, keynote Union lectures and a wide variety of themed sessions.

In conjunction with the IUGG General Assembly, a number of scientific workshops and cultural events are planned. We will also be offering the chance to explore the geological treasures of our region through a number of field trips ranging from half-day to multi-day excursions.

Deadline for Abstract Submission has been extended to Friday 1 March 2019 (11:00 UTC+1).

Under the leadership of the Sentinel North program at Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada), the International PhD School (IPS) is a unique transdisciplinary training program aiming to understand the key role of microbiomes in shaping the structure and functioning of the Arctic, including their impacts on food webs, ecosystem services, and human health.

Taking place at the Centre for Northern Studies (CEN) research station in Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik (Nunavik, Canada) on the eastern shore of the Hudson Bay (55°16’N, 77° 45’ W), the school will provide participants with an integrative, hands-on experience spanning a wide range of disciplines such as Arctic microbiology and molecular ecology, biogeochemistry, complex system networks, environmental optics/photonics, remote sensing and human health.

Applications are accepted until February 15, 2019.

Who Should Apply:

Up to 20 international graduate students with various backgrounds will be selected. The target audience are PhD students, but in some cases, postdoctoral fellows or M.Sc. students (or equivalent) with relevant professional qualifications may also apply.

Note: Due to the practical and hands-on approach of fieldwork in northern environment, all applicants should be in reasonably good physical condition, and be equipped/dressed accordingly. Details will be provided to selected participants.

For more information please follow the link above.

Seminar No. 3 in the NCA4/NOAA 11-part Seminar Series: The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States.

Presenter(s):

Jim Wickham is a Research Biologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to joining EPA in 1998, Jim worked for Tennessee Valley Authority, Desert Research Institute, and Earth Satellite Corporation. Jim has a broad interest in the environmental impacts of spatial and temporal land cover patterns (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=27c2SekAAAAJ). He coordinates EPA's participation in the MultiResolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium, a group of 10 federal agencies that produces the National Land cover Database (NLCD), the Cropland Data Layer (CDL), the Coastal Change Analysis Program land cover (C-CAP), and LANDFIRE.

Jim Vose is a Senior Research Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Integrated Forest Science (CIFS) at Research Triangle Park, NC. Prior to his current appointment as Co-Director of CIFS, he spent 25 years at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory studying and leading research on watershed ecosystem responses to disturbances and forest management. He has published over 250 research papers and two books. His current research examines the interactions among climate change, changing forest conditions, and water resources at landscape scales. In addition, he has led numerous national assessments and syntheses investigating forest ecosystem responses to drought and climate change, including the recently released National Climate Assessment.

Dave Peterson is Emeritus Senior Research Scientist with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, and Professor of Forest Biology at the University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. He has conducted research on climate change and fire science throughout western North America, has published 230 scientific articles and four books, and as a contributing author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He recently published the book Climate Change and Rocky Mountain Ecosystems, and currently works on climate change assessment and adaptation on federal lands throughout the western United States. Dave lives in northwest Washington state where he manages Mountain Heart Tree Farm.

Webinar Access:

Please register at: [URL TBD]

Users should use either IE or Edge on Windows or Safari if using a Mac. Audio will be available thru the computer only; no phone. Questions will be addressed in the chat window. This Webcast will be recorded, archived and made accessible in the near future.

Following the first edition of this congress, held in Lisbon (Portugal) in 2013 and the second edition organized in Graz (Austria) in 2015, the third edition of STRATI has been assigned by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) to Italy, a country with a long historical tradition in Stratigraphy since the 17th century. Some milestones in the history of Stratigraphy were added in Italy by outstanding scientists such as Niels Stensen and Giovanni Arduino. Moreover, a wide variety of extraordinary stratigraphic successions and settings, often preserved in breath-taking natural environments, can be visited in Italy.

The topics of the congress will range from the Precambrian to the Holocene and will include all the stratigraphic techniques. The congress will provide the opportunity to discuss the recent developments in the study of the stratigraphy of the volcanic areas, Antarctic and Arctic sedimentary successions and ice caps, as well as of crystalline rocks. We also invite specialists from georesources exploration and hydrogeology to present their most advanced contributions to subsurface stratigraphy.

As in previous editions, the congress will also host meetings of the ICS and of its Subcommissions to debate topics and problems in updating and improving the geological time scale.

Abstract submission deadline has been extended to 17 March 2019.

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Polar Programs invites proposals for their Antarctic Artists and Writers (AAW) Program. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.

The program provides opportunities for artists and writers, from promising early career practitioners to longstanding professionals, to make observations at U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) research stations, field camps, and/or aboard research vessels.

Through the Antarctic AAW Program, NSF encourages the production of professional-quality literature and art that complements USAP science, engineering, and education programs to increase public understanding of the Antarctic continent, the surrounding oceans, human endeavors on the continent, and the region's unique geopolitical position.

The AAW Program gives priority to projects that focus on interpreting and representing the scientific activities being conducted in the unique Antarctic region. Artists and Writers Program field teams should consist of no more than one or two people. Larger projects, such as television or documentary film crews, should contact the cognizant AAW Program Officer.

Successful projects will be provided with USAP logistical support needed to implement the proposed activity. USAP infrastructure available to support projects undertaken by artists and writers consists of three year-round stations, numerous austral summer research camps in Antarctica, two research vessels, and surface and air transportation.

Due to the unique nature of this program, proposers are strongly encouraged to carefully follow the guidelines described in this solicitation and to contact the cognizant Artists and Writers Program Officer prior to submitting a proposal to discuss the unique requirements and restrictions of the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program and Antarctic logistics in general.

This Summer School will provide Ph.D. students and junior scientists specializing in sea level research with a basic introduction to the dynamics of current and future sea level change and to state-of-the-art tools to measure and project it. The different contributors to global and regional sea level change will be presented by world-leading experts. The school has a strong component on “hands-on” learning, with practical exercises on the observation and modelling of sea level change, its contributors, and forcing mechanisms. Participants will also receive a training on science communication.

This Summer School will cover the most important physical processes contributing to sea level change and the main observations thereof. The focus is on the dynamics of these processes, on how they are modelled, on how past and current changes can be observed, and on current limitations in our understanding of sea level variations, including our ability to project future changes.

The school is open to PhD students and junior post-docs. Registration by March 1st.

For more information and to register, please follow the link above.

The fifth Sea Level and Coastal Change (SLaCC) field meeting will take place in Devon and Cornwall, United Kingdom between Sunday 1st and Wednesday 4th September 2019. The meeting series will bring together scientists working in sea level and coastal research.

Attendance is open across all career stages and to all SLaCC related disciplines (including: palaeo studies, archaeology, modern processes and geomorphology, past and future sea-level change, coastal communities, adaptation and resilience).

The meeting will open with an icebreaker reception at the Marine Station on the waterfront (1 September) before a full day of presentations at the University (2 September) and field excursion days to the South Devon and North Cornwall coastlines (3-4 September). Registration fees include the conference dinner (2 September) and attendance to an evening of presentations and discussion at a public engagement event (3 September), which will focus on what past and future sea-level change means for coastal communities in the South West.

Registration and abstract submission close on Sunday 30 June.

Under the aegis of the upcoming International Year of Indigenous Languages declared by the United Nations in 2019, the Institute of Humanitarian Research and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) and the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North of Sakha Republic will hold an International Scientific and Practical Conference “Indigenous Languages and Sustainable Development in the Arctic”.

This International Scientific and Practical Conference is aimed to unite the efforts of researchers, civil society, practitioners, Indigenous communities, and indigenous language speakers to discuss the issues and possibilities of sustainable development of indigenous peoples living in the North and the Arctic. The discussion will include the issues related to learning, development and preservation of indigenous languages and cultures in the frames of the diverse approaches of folklore, literature, anthropologic, ethnographic, historic, politic, social, cultural, legislative and economic practices.Conference themes cover diverse areas of socio-economic development of Indigenous peoples of the North and the Arctic:

• Languages of Indigenous Peoples of the North and the Arctic: issues of interaction and language typology
• Traditional epistemologies and Indigenous languages
• Indigenous languages and globalization: tendencies and perspectives of development, successful and effective practices of indigenous communities in language revitalization and maintenance
• Indigenous written languages of Russia: contemporary state and functionality issues
• Yakut language: contemporary state and new dimensions in the research
• Literature and folklore as sources of safeguarding and enrichment of Indigenous languages
• Ethnic history of Indigenous peoples of the North and the Arctic: past, present and future
• Current issues related to traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples as the bases of their sustainable development
• The role of contemporary technologies and mass media in revitalization and development of Indigenous languages

The program of the conference includes a symposium, exhibitions and presentations of new publications and projects.

It is expected to publish an electronic peer-reviewed collection of papers upon the selection of the articles made by the organizing committee. Criteria for the article format will be defined in a second information letter.

This conference invites linguists, philologists, historians, anthropologists, ethnographers, cultural scientists, philosophers, sociologists, policy scientists, economists, teachers, Indigenous language speakers and leaders of the Indigenous organizations, and graduate students.

Conference working languages: Russian, English.

There is no registration and publication fee.

AntClim21 would like to announce an upcoming workshop on CMIP6 21st century projections and predictions for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. The aim is to help ensure that the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate science communities make a significant contribution to the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).

Contributions on model-observation comparisons and evaluation of CMIP6 21st century predictions and projections from decadal to century timescales will be encouraged. However, relevant non-CMIP6 simulations, such as Antarctic CORDEX, are also encouraged. In addition, a session dedicated to science-policy discussion is planned.

Registration deadline: 15 March 2019 23.30 UTC

David Walker and the Carbon in the Arctic Team will be broadcasting live from Toolik Field Station in Alaska. During this event, the team will share their recent research on how microbes and sunlight interact in the Arctic and where thawing permafrost soils release large amounts of carbon from land to water. Read more about their research and what David is learning here.

Team scientists will be on hand to answer your questions. The events will be 1 hour long with Q&A at the end for teachers, students, friends and family.

The event is free. Please join us!