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Only two weeks left to submit your application for 2019-2020 PolarTREC program. Applications are due Monday, 24 September by 5PM Alaska Daylight Time.

Earth's Polar Regions feature cold-climate environments characterized by unique landscapes, biota, and processes. Many of these features and dynamics are Cryosphere-driven and either are already subject to or have the potential for fundamental and rapid changes in a warming world. Earth observation technologies provide crucial tools to understand and quantify these changes.

This symposium deals specifically with remote sensing applications in the polar environments, both Arctic and Antarctic.

The theme of the 15th ICRSS is Polar Regions in Transformation - Climatic Change and Anthropogenic Pressures.

This symposium will be of interest to scientists, scholars, and industry and government professionals involved in studying and quantifying Arctic and Antarctic Change, renewable and non-renewable resource management, and development of new technologies and methods targeting remote sensing observations of polar environments. The symposium will provide a platform for the exchange of current applied research and best practices, the presentation of new technology and further innovation, and the advancement of international co-operation in the circumpolar regions of the world.

Abstracts are being requested that directly address the following topics:

• Past, present and future changes in the Arctic and Antarctic
• Inventory and dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets
• Floating Ice: sea, river, and lake ice
• Seasonal snow cover
• Changing permafrost
• Polar coastlines
• Oceanography of polar seas
• Hydrology of inland waters
• Polar land cover and land use change
• Arctic vegetation
• Environmental monitoring
• Wildlife management and habitat protection
• Land and water management
• Archaeology
• Geology, mineral, and oil and gas exploration
• Microwave remote sensing applications
• Optical and thermal remote sensing applications
• LiDAR imaging
• Hyperspectral remote sensing
• All remote sensing platforms from satellite to terrestrial-based
• Data Integration and Data Mining
• Modeling using remote sensing-based parameterization
• Geographic Information System and Web-based portals
• Calibration and validation of geometric, radiometric and spectral properties
• Mapping and Scaling

Abstracts due date has been extended to 31 May 2018.

The 2018 symposium is hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in the beautiful city of Potsdam, Germany.

The aim of the first Arctic Resilience Forum is to form a better understanding of the opportunities for cooperation connected to the resilience of the Artic and to showcase and learn from concrete best practices in the region.

Resilience is a cross-cutting topic, which has become increasingly important to the Arctic Council in the face of rapid changes. The Arctic Resilience Action Framework (ARAF) was endorsed at the 10th Ministerial meeting in Fairbanks, USA, on 11 May 2017. It provides the Arctic Council with a common set of Guiding Principles and Priorities for Action, as well as a platform to continue discussing priorities as they evolve.

The Arctic Resilience Forum will focus on climate resilience work in the Arctic regions and help concretize the framework. The first day (10 September) is open for larger audiences for presenting and discussing good examples of how resilience in the Arctic can be strengthened. On 11 September, the forum continues with a workshop primarily dedicated to the Arctic Council Working Groups and other key Arctic stakeholders to share lessons learned and harness synergies between the different angles of climate resilience work.

We are pleased to announce that Durham University will be hosting this year's UK Antarctic Science Conference on 10th-12th September 2018 (the conference will run from Monday lunchtime to Wednesday lunchtime). The conference will include oral and poster presentations, and abstracts are invited on any aspect of Antarctic Research.

The conference dinner will take place in Hatfield College on the evening of Tuesday 11th September. Accommodation has been reserved in nearby Collingwood College. Other accommodation options are available for those who wish to make their own arrangements.

Durham is a spectacular cathedral city with a rich heritage. Narrow cobbled streets wind their way around the rocky peninsula to the majestic Norman cathedral and castle, which are a designated World Heritage Site. The city is well served by motorway access, Durham railway station and Newcastle International Airport (30 minutes by car, 1 hour by rail).

Abstract submission deadline extended to 5:00pm on Monday 13th August, 2018.

Students are strongly encouraged to attend, and will be given priority for oral presentations

Deadlines:
Please e-mail Martin Truffer (mtruffer2 [at] alaska.edu) as soon as possible if you are planning to attend. Please include the following information: your name, your affiliation, whether you are planning to give a talk, whether you are planning to go to the permafrost tunnel, whether you are a student or not, and whether or not you would like floor space at someone's home (i.e., free accommodation). No abstracts need be submitted.

Schedule:
Schedule is as follows and is subject to change/clarification at a later date.

Friday, 7 September:
0800 - 0900, Registration and breakfast/coffee
0900 - 1600, Presentations
1800, Dinner/Party

Saturday, 8 September:
0900 - 1700, presentations (coffee/bagels are provided)
Sunday, 9 September
In case there is sufficient interest we will offer a tour of the Sunday morning. Please let us know if you are planning to attend.

Oral presentations:
Talks should be no longer than 15 minutes (including discussion and speaker change). Following the informal character of previous meetings a listing of the specific presentations and their dates/times will be compiled on 7 September in the morning, i.e., it will not be available prior to the meeting. If you have not already done so, please let us know if you intend to give a talk so that we have a rough idea of how many talks to expect. Poster presentations are also welcome.

CLIVASH2k is a PAGES 2k project, which aims to improve our understanding of large scale modes of climate variability and the mechanisms and drivers of climate change in Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic and the wider Southern Hemisphere during the past 2000 years. Investigating how large-scale modes of atmospheric circulation, such as the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), influence the climate in Antarctica and the Southern Hemisphere on a regional scale.

Together with support from two SCAR scientific research programmes, AntClim21 and PAIS, we will be hosting a 2-day workshop investigating climate variability in Antarctica and the Southern Hemisphere over the past 2000 years.

The workshop is open to all. We want to engage a broad spectrum of the scientific community, including paleoclimate data gathers (such as ice cores, lake sediments, marine records, and terrestrial records), climatologists and climate modellers. We especially encourage those who wish to be actively contribute to the CLIVASH2k project goals, including contribution to synthesis products and publications. The workshop will be informative but be prepared to get involved!

Our aim is to review and evaluate our current understanding of the drivers of Southern Hemisphere climate variability, through short presentations, posters and discussion sessions.

A full programme will be available on the CLIVASH2k webpage shortly.

Register for this event
Standard registration fee £65 per person (plus fees)
Student fee (for students currently enrolled for a PhD) £15 per person (plus fees)

Click here to register
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clivash2k-workshop-tickets-46359412250

Registration includes morning and afternoon refreshments, buffet lunch and an evening dinner (4th September).
Registration deadline: 17th August.

The UK National Earth Observation Conference 2018 is being organised by RSPSoc, NCEO and CEOI.

Important Dates:
- 8 June: Submit an Abstract (until 23:59, London Time)
- 23 July: Early Bird Registration (until 23:59, London Time)
- 20 August: Final Registration: (until 23:59, London Time)

Please follow the link above for more information.

The University of Exeter will be hosting the IGS British Branch Meeting on the 4th/5th September 2018. Information relating to registration, accomodation and the event programme will be posted at the website above.

For further information please email:
igsbbm2018 [at] gmail.com

Organising team: Anne Le Brocq, Steve Palmer, Ali Graham, Damien Mansell, Olly Bartlett and Vicky Naylor.

The next International Seabird Group Conference is being organised by Jon Green and Samantha Patrick and colleagues from the University of Liverpool. The conference promises to provide an exciting showcase of the latest seabird research, located within the heart of the city of Liverpool, famous for its maritime history and cultural diversity. Keynote speakers and early career events will compliment two and a half days of talks and posters, covering all aspects of seabird research.

The Seabird Group registered charity, was founded in 1966 to promote and help coordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. The group has a rich history of seabird census work, and continues to provide support to seabird research projects across the globe. To find out more, and become a member, visit the Seabird Group website:

http://www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/membership

FRISP is a subcommmittee of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Working Group of Glaciology. For several years the work of the FRISP parties was focused on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS). But meanwhile the geographical restriction to FRIS was widened up and other ice shelves have been included into the investigations. 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. More info can be found on FRISP website. Workshops are regularly organised, and this year workshop, FRISP-2018, is organised by JB Sallée and N. Jourdain.

The 32nd FRISP workshop (2018) will be held in the French Alps in Aussois at the Paul Langevin center.

Deadline for submission of abstract is the 15th June 2018.