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The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR and the International Arctic Science Committee IASC invite the international polar and high altitude community to their joint meeting POLAR2018, hosted by WSL and SLF in Davos, Switzerland.

Program Overview

• 15 - 18 June 2018: SCAR and IASC/ASSW Business & Satellite Meetings
• 19 - 23 June 2018: SCAR/IASC Open Science Conference, including the COMNAP Symposium
• 24 - 26 June 2018: SCAR Delegates Meeting & 2018 Arctic Observing Summit

The goal of POLAR2018 is to bring together excellent research from both poles, as well as from high altitude areas, focusing on the similar challenges those regions face. The program features 65 different sessions, structured into 12 categories. In addition to the parallel sessions, central elements of the Open Science Conference (OSC) will be keynote presentations, mini-symposia, extended poster sessions, and exhibitions. The annual COMNAP symposium will be held during the OSC, as well as a plenary lecture from the 2018 Arctic Observing Summit as an opening to this biennial summit immediately after the OSC. A range of excursions and trips will allow participants to make the most of coming to the Swiss Alps and enjoy science, nature, culture, and sports.

Davos

POLAR2018 will be held in the Swiss mountain town of Davos, which can easily be reached by train from Zurich Airport. Davos, Europe's highest city, is situated in the Eastern part of the Swiss Alps at 1560 meters above sea level. It offers an advanced congress infrastructure and a wide range of accommodation for all budgets. The stunning alpine environment will ensure your visit is an enjoyable experience.

Invitation to submit an abstract to the Open Science Conference

The Scientific Committee for POLAR2018 invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for oral or poster presentations. The session program provides guidance on the thematic areas covered at POLAR2018. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 November 2017. Authors wishing to submit an abstract are required to pay a submission fee of CHF 30 for each abstract. You can submit as many abstracts as you like, but only two with a preference for oral presentation. Early career and other authors who wish to apply for a submission fee waiver grant can follow this link.

Submit an abstract here:
http://www.polar2018.org/abstracts.html

Important deadlines:

• 1 September 2017: Abstract submission opens
• 1 November 2017: Deadline abstract submission, early-bird registration opens
• 31 December 2017: Side meeting requests close
• 31 January 2018: Acceptance notification with oral/poster information

For questions, contact organizers at:
Email: polar2018 [at] slf.ch

The 32nd FRISP workshop will be held in the French Alps from September 3rd to 6th. Preregistration and abstract submission are now open. Deadline for pre-registration is 15 May 2018.

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

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.

The University of Hawaii Sea Level Center, in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of California at Irvine will host the 2018 Sheet System Model (ISSM) Sea Level Workshop. This will be the first time an ISSM workshop is dedicated to Sea-Level Science. The workshop will take place at the at the East-West Center on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. It will be hosted by Pr. Phil Thompson of the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center and sponsored by the N-SLCT NASA Science Team.

Interactive sessions will be offered for beginners/advanced users and developers interested in learning how to use ISSM. Updates to ISSM since the 2016 workshop, including user-requested features will be presented. Specific focus will be on tutorials that allow users to make use of ISSM's SESAW capabilities. This will include computation of sea-level fingerprints using GRACE based estimates of ice-mass changes, use of high-resolution meshes to refine sea-level estimates in specific areas of the world, and computation of resulting stresses in the Earth crust (including lateral and vertical displacements). Participants will be invited to showcase their work during an open poster session, and science talks will be organized around relevant topics.

Please follow the link above for more information.

We are pleased to invite you to the Fifth Forum for Young Permafrost Scientists to be held in Yakutsk, Russia from 4 to 23 June 2018. This event is open to young researchers under the age of 35 years, including undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. Interested school children are also welcome to participate.

The Forum for Young Permafrost Scientists will include:

• The Geocryological Conference held from 4 to 8 June 2018
• The Geocryological Field Workshop from 9 to 23 June 2018

The Geocryological Conference themes include:

• Regional and historical geocryology
• Permafrost geothermics and thermal physics
• Periglacial processes and forms
• Landscape dynamics in permafrost regions
• Permafrost geochemistry
• Permafrost hydrology and hydrogeology
• Climate change and permafrost evolution
• Greenhouse gases and gas hydrates
• Permafrost microbiology
• Remote sensing of permafrost
• Stability of engineering structures on permafrost

The summer school, in the form of a Geocryological Field Workshop will take place in the vicinity of Yakutsk and Amga (204 km south-east of Yakutsk). It will focus on permafrost degradation effects on agriculture and rural infrastructure in central Yakutia.

Organizers invite those interested in attending the conference and/or field school to pre-register before 28 January 2018.

For questions, please contact:
Anna Kut
ankaurban [at] mail.ru

The UK National Earth Observation Conference 2018 is being organised by RSPSoc, NCEO and CEOI. It will take place September 4-7, 2018 at Birmingham University, United Kingdom.

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 Fifth International Summer School in Glaciology organized by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), will be held in McCarthy, central Alaska, from 5 to 15 June 2018.

The course will provide a comprehensive overview of the physics of glaciers and current research frontiers in glaciology with focus on quantitative glaciology and remote sensing. The course is open to 28 graduate students from around the world targeting primarily early stage PhD students who perform glacier-related research. It will be taught by faculty of UAF’s glaciology group and several invited guest instructors from outside Alaska.

Application deadline: 20 January 2018

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. The western counterpart to this organization is the Western Snow Conference (WSC), also a joint Canadian/US organization.

The 75th ESC has a longer program than usual to allow for more sessions. The program will also include an excursion on the Chesapeake Bay and Banquet in registration fee. The scientific program is open to sessions on theoretical, experimental, remote sensing, modeling and operational studies of snow, ice, and winter hydrology. We anticipate including sessions on historical perspectives of snow such as “Remote Sensing History”, “Data Preservation and Archiving” and “SnowEX”. This year’s general theme is “SNOW PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE”. The ESC has only plenary (oral and poster viewing) sessions, allowing time to view and discuss the research of each participant.

Students are encouraged to enter the ESC Student Paper Competitions. The winner of the best submitted student paper will receive the Wiesnet Medal, a $750 prize. The Campbell Scientific Canada Award of $500 can be awarded to the Canadian student who submitted the paper demonstrating the most innovative use of technology in the gathering of data. In addition, the David Hewitt Miller Student Poster Award of $100 will be awarded to the best student poster. To be considered for the Weisnet or Campbell awards please send an electronic copy of the paper with the supervisor's endorsement (separate email) to the Chair of the Research Committee (Barton Forman), no later than 27 April 2018. Please consult the ESC web site for conditions and details.

Dr. Barton Forman
baforman at umd.edu

All papers will be published in the ESC Proceedings; please consult the ESC web site for details on submission.

Deadline for abstracts has been extended to 23 April 2018.

The conference which will be held under the auspices of the International Geographical Union (IGU) is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) - the largest world-renowned geographical research organization in Russia. This occasion provides an opportunity to make an overview of the domestic and international trends in geography’s development to analyze the growing impact of scientific research internationalization, the aggravation of global problems, changing theoretical paradigms, radical renewal of research methods and predictions’ validity, as well as to strengthen the integration between social and environmental branches of geography.

In addition to fundamental research, Institute of Geography has been closely associated with practical demands aimed at solving urgent national issues related to its research agenda. Its stuff actively participated in the development and examination of territorial concepts, laws and norms regulating environmental protection and large-scale economic programs. Therefore, the main task of the conference is to sum up Russian and international experience in practically oriented research in the fields of social and environmental geography meeting the diverse and critical challenges of the XXI century.

Being the leading geographical scientific institution in Russia, the Institute of Geography RAS has always played a significant role in scientific cooperation between Russian (Soviet) geographers and foreign scholars. Institute of Geography staff have regularly participated in major international programs and projects, while the Russian National Committee of IGU functions in the framework of the Institute. Renowned geographers from the Institute have been repeatedly elected as IGU Commissions’ Chairs and members and Vice-Presidents of IGU. One of the most well-known was the untimely deceased corresponding member of RAS, IGU Vice-President (2000-2005) Nikita F. Glazovsky. The present conference is also dedicated to him and his scientific legacy.

Deadline for abstract submission is 01 March.

We are pleased to invite you to the Fifth Forum for Young Permafrost Scientists to be held in Yakutsk, Russia from 4 to 23 June 2018. This event is open to young researchers under the age of 35 years, including undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. Interested school children are also welcome to participate.

The Forum for Young Permafrost Scientists will include:

• The Geocryological Conference held from 4 to 8 June 2018
• The Geocryological Field Workshop from 9 to 23 June 2018

The Geocryological Conference themes include:

• Regional and historical geocryology
• Permafrost geothermics and thermal physics
• Periglacial processes and forms
• Landscape dynamics in permafrost regions
• Permafrost geochemistry
• Permafrost hydrology and hydrogeology
• Climate change and permafrost evolution
• Greenhouse gases and gas hydrates
• Permafrost microbiology
• Remote sensing of permafrost
• Stability of engineering structures on permafrost

The summer school, in the form of a Geocryological Field Workshop will take place in the vicinity of Yakutsk and Amga (204 km south-east of Yakutsk). It will focus on permafrost degradation effects on agriculture and rural infrastructure in central Yakutia.

Organizers invite those interested in attending the conference and/or field school to pre-register before 28 January 2018.

For questions, please contact:
Anna Kut
ankaurban [at] mail.ru

You are cordially invited to the XXIV IAHR International Symposium on Ice. The XXIV IAHR International Symposium on Ice is sponsored by the International Association of Hydro Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR).

The successful events were held previously in St. Petersburg, Russia (2004), Vancouver, Canada (2008), Lahti, Finland (2010), Dalian, China (2012), Singapore (2014) and Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (2016). 2018 year will be the first time when IAHR Symposium on Ice is held in Vladivostok, on the Russkiy island, on the Far Eastern Federal University campus that is a one of the leading federal universities in Russia.

At present time in the Far Eastern Federal University the project “Center of Excellence in Arctic Technologies “Far Eastern Arctic Engineering Center” is being implemented with the aim to develop world ocean resources in the nearest future. The Far Eastern Arctic Engineering Center includes research laboratories capable to provide a scientific support for projects on the Arctic and subarctic shelf as well as perform a full range of engineering services.

Far Eastern Arctic Engineering Center annually holds the International Winter School "ICE MECHANICS". This winter course was created for young scientists and experts from Russia and abroad and allow them to know more about sea ice properties and mechanisms, its impact on engineering structures both in theory and practice.

For more information please see the link above.