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The International Arctic Science Committee’s Network on Arctic Glaciology (IASC-NAG) invite registration and abstract submissions for the Workshop on the Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers and IASC Network on Arctic Glaciology Annual Meeting. These events will convene 22-24 January 2018 in Obergurgl, Austria.

The purpose of the meeting is to present and discuss new results on observations and modeling of the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers, including the Greenland ice sheet; to provide a forum for glaciologists and marine biologists to present and discuss their work and stimulate future collaborations; and to plan and coordinate field work with the aim of using available infrastructure and logistics in the most efficient way.

Submissions that comply with one of two special themes are encouraged:

Understanding atmosphere-glacier-ocean interactions and the implications for the pan-Arctic glacier mass budget and
The importance of Arctic glaciers for the Arctic marine ecosystem.
Besides addressing classical topics on Arctic Glaciology, this year the workshop will host a cross-cutting activity of the Marine and Cryosphere working groups of IASC, with the aim to bring together people from glaciology, marine ecology, and oceanography.

Contributions in the form of oral presentations and or posters are welcomed. Presentation will be 15-20 minutes, including discussion. For those poster presentations, time will be reserved in the program for presenters to give a short two- to three-minute introduction.

Abstracts submission and registration must be completed online using the Google form, at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAgDPmw1Xaf4GT4QOBFIq0SoJZDfV…

Please indicate whether you prefer oral or poster presentation and if you like to contribute to one of the special sessions.

Workshop support has been received through IASC and the IASC-Cryosphere Working Group. Depending on the number of participants, organizers may request a small registration fee (not more than 30 EUR), in order to ensure sufficient supply of coffee and other refreshments.

Registration deadline: 10 November 2017

Abstract submission deadline: 10 November 2017

The goal of the Graduate Climate Conference (GCC) is to provide a discussion forum for graduate students undertaking research on climate and climate change in an array of disciplines throughout the physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The format is designed to encourage new climate researchers to become acquainted with the details of diverse areas of study and to place their own work in the broader context of the climate research community.

The GCC will return to Cape Cod, Massachusetts for its 11th iteration in November 2017. Historically, the responsibility for organizing the GCC has rotated between grad students from MIT and the University of Washington. This year’s conference will be a joint venture between students from the MIT Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Application deadline: June 15, 2017.

More information about this year’s meeting will be available soon. For updates, check our blog, or connect with us via Twitter/Facebook (top right of this page). In the meantime, you can contact our organizers at gcc-2017 [at] mit.edu.

Join PolarTREC teacher George Hademenos and the research team working with Automated Weather Stations in Antarctica. You can learn more about George's expedition here:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/antarctic-automatic-weather-stati…

This event will be 1 hour long with Q&A at the end for teachers, students, friends and family.

Register for this free event today!

This event is hosted through the PolarTREC PolarConnect program. Participants will have a chance to learn about research from the scientists while on-site, ask questions, and chat with the teacher and researchers during the presentation.

Questions? Contact us at info [at] polartrec.com

Svalbard Science Forum (SSF) and The Research Council of Norway in collaboration with The Norwegian Polar Institute and The Ny-Ålesund Science Managers Committee (NySMAC) invite you to inspire and be inspired.

We are offering a meeting place that brings researchers and other stakeholders together, with the goal to stimulate and inspire in a way that will advance and provide further impact from research on Svalbard.

The Svalbard Science Conference is free, but you pay for your own accommodation and travel expenses. We encourage participants to stay at the conference hotel Scandic Fornebu.

Conference secretariat: Contact Carina Leander, email: cle [at] rcn.no

The 9th International Conference on Geomorphology of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) will take place in New Delhi at Vigyan Bhawan. The main theme of this Conference is “Geomorphology and Society”.

Organized by the Indian Institute of Geomorphologists and open to all scientists and practitioners, this Conference will include scientific sessions, keynote lectures and a Workshop devoted to Young Geomorphologists.

Field trips will be arranged in various parts of India and neighboring countries, before, during, and after the Conference.

You all are most welcome to attend this important event in one of the most exciting parts of the World with an astounding diversity of landscapes and cultures that is unique and unparalleled.

Registration and abstracts deadline: May 20th, 2017.

We look forward to seeing you in the historic city of New Delhi at the 9th ICG!

The call for abstracts for the QRA Annual Discussion Meeting (University of Plymouth, 3rd-5th January 2018) closes at noon on 24th October. Early-bird registration rates for both regular and postgraduate delegates are available until October 31st.

This meeting aims to bring together researchers across the broad range of sub-disciplines within Quaternary science. This will enable the sharing of ideas, approaches to data-model inter-comparisons including dealing with uncertainties, and the dissemination of research across the discipline. There have been major recent advances in Quaternary research in both data and modelling approaches and the conference aims to highlight these.

Sessions will be arranged around topics and it is envisaged that these will include both data and modelling presentations, which will encourage and provide opportunity for discussion and initiate collaboration. We welcome the submission of abstracts on topics that use a data approach, a modelling approach or that integrates both approaches. Therefore, if you are engaged in, or interested in learning more about, data-model intercomparison in the field of Quaternary Science, we would encourage you to attend.

Proposed scientific themes:

• Intercomparisons between climate modelling and palaeoclimate reconstructions
• Glacial system modelling and glacial geomorphology
• Long-term ecology, ecological processes and biodiversity
• Human/environment interactions including refining and testing models of anthropogenic land cover change
• Palaeohydrology and long-term landscape evolution
• Past and future sea-level change

The call for abstracts for the QRA Annual Discussion Meeting has been extended until 12 noon on 3rd November. Early-bird registration rates for both regular and postgraduate delegates will be available until 8th November

For more information, follow the link above.

BIT's 6th Annual World Congress of Ocean-2017 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on ocean economy and policy, maritime law, integrated marine management and environment, integrated coastal zone management and oceanography. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, professionals and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, concerns and solutions adopted in ocean fields.

The 4th Snow Science Winter School takes place at Col du Lautaret, France, from Feb. 11-17, 2018.

Objectives:
The cryosphere forms an integral part of the climate system of the Earth. Measuring the properties of the seasonal and perennial snow cover properties is therefore essential in understanding interactions and feedback mechanisms related to the cryosphere.

Snow is a extremely complex and highly variable medium, and all essential properties of seasonal snow cover are challenging to measure. Diverse fields such as hydrology, climatology, avalanche forecasting and Earth Observation from space benefit from improved quantification of snow cover properties, in particular related to the snow microstructure.

The past 10 years snow science has seen a rapid change from a semi-quantitative to a quantitative science. Understanding physical and chemical processes in the snowpack requires detailed measurements of the microstructure.

The 4th Snow Science Winter School will teach these advanced techniques, as micro-tomography, measurement of specific surface area by reflection and spectroscopy, near-infrared photography and high-resolution penetrometry. You will learn:

• State-of-the-art snow measurement techniques
• Understanding the physical processes responsible for the evolution of the snowpack
• Understanding vertically resolved snowpack models (Crocus, SNOWPACK) and larger scale land-surface models

Target audience:
Any graduate student or post-doc working on snow or in some snow related field, this year especially in remote sensing of the cryosphere, is welcome to participate. Those fields include everybody interested in cryospheric sciences.

Applications will close on November 3, 2017, 24:00 UCT

For more information, follow the link above.

Join PolarTREC teacher Jennifer Bault and the Seasonal Ice Production in the Ross Sea Team on a live event from McMurdo Station, Antarctica!

Read more about their research and what Jennifer is learning here:
https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/seasonal-sea-ice-production-in-th…

Register for this free event today!

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Fellowships and Grants program for the 2018/19 academic year. We would appreciate it if you could notify qualified candidates about our program.

The deadline for applications is November 1, 2017.

Awards for Research/Study in Scandinavia

The ASF will offer around $300,000 to outstanding American students, scholars, professionals and artists for study and/or research in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden. Fellowships of up to $23,000 are intended to support an academic year-long stay, and priority is given to students at the graduate level who need to spend time at foreign academic or research institutions. Grants of up to $5,000 are considered more suitable for shorter research visits, both on the graduate or post-doctoral level. Funding is available to candidates in all fields.

Awards for Arctic Research

In partnership with Scandinavian Seminar, a not-for-profit organization sponsoring educational and cultural interaction between Scandinavia and the United States, The ASF annually provides fellowships totaling $50.000 to outstanding American students, researchers, and artists for projects relating to the Arctic and pursued at University of the Arctic member institutions. The purpose of these fellowships is to increase knowledge about the Arctic and issues relating to the Circumpolar North. Past fellowship winners have included scholars pursuing Arctic projects in marine biology, geology, the environment, and indigenous peoples, as well as artists photographing Arctic landscapes.

Awards for Research/Study in in the United States

The ASF also awards fellowships and grants to Scandinavians doing research/study.. These are made on the recommendation of ASF’s cooperating organizations abroad, with each country setting its own deadline. Contact information for the ASF’s cooperating organizations in Scandinavia can be found on the ASF website.

Online application and further ASF Award information available online at the link above.