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Starting off as a national students' event, Youmares has expanded over the years to a bottom-up worldwide network and international meeting of young ocean researchers and experts.

We are very happy that we can meet at Kiel University, place of the Cluster of Excellence 'The Future Ocean' with organisational support of the 'Integrated School of Ocean Sciences' (ISOS).

Follow the link above for more information.

Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2017.

The Arctic-FROST research coordination network is pleased to announce the availability of travel awards for Early Career Researchers to attend The Third Arctic-FROST network meeting and Early Career Scholars Workshop on Community Sustainability in the Arctic.

Arctic-FROST: Arctic FRontiers Of SusTainability: Resources, Societies, Environments and Development in the Changing North is a new NSF-funded international interdisciplinary collaborative network that teams together environmental and social scientists, local educators and community members from all circumpolar countries to enable and mobilize research on sustainable Arctic development, specifically aimed at improving health, human development and well-being of Arctic communities while conserving ecosystem structures, functions and resources under changing climate conditions

The theme of the Annual Meeting and Early Career Scholars Workshop is on Community Sustainability in the Arctic. Papers could deal with (1) sustainability and sustainable development in the Arctic or Sub-Arctic of particular relevance to the rest of the world, (2) comparative studies of sustainability between Arctic and other regions, (3) studies from various geographic contexts, which provide valuable insights into Arctic sustainability, (4) studies that analyze the role of outside actors in arctic sustainable development are welcome.

The main focus question of the conference is “What sustainability theories and practices work and what fail in Arctic Communities?”
At this first meeting the Arctic-FROST casts a wide net and welcomes papers that address one of the following broad categories:

• Sustainable environments
• Sustainable economies
• Sustainable cultures
• Sustainable regions/communities

All participants:

• Will present their work at the Annual Meeting (all papers/presentations will be published online and considered for inclusion in the Arctic-FROST edited volume and/or in Polar Geography)
• Will participate in discussions and round tables with leading sustainability science researchers
• Will participate in the Workshop activities immediately following the Annual Meeting

Eligibility: an applicant shall be:

• Early career scholar (5 years since PhD) or current graduate student.
• Arctic-FROST network member by registering at uni.edu/arctic/frost prepared make an oral presentation on the subject related to sustainability and/or sustainable development in the Arctic or Sub-Arctic regions at the meeting.
• Available to participate in all conference and workshop activities.

We accept applications from eligible applicants from all countries, disciplines and institution types. Applications from Indigenous scholars and Arctic residents are especially encouraged.

Funding: Arctic-FROST will cover full cost of attendance including travel and accommodations. Normally funds will be paid after the travel is completed; based on the reimbursement claim. The participants will be expected to comply with NSF travel requirements.

Application Deadline: May 10th, 2017

Application: submit extended abstract of your paper (500-750 words), short biosketch (1 page), statement of interest in workshop participation (1 page), register as Arctic-FROST member at www.uni.edu/arctic/frost

Send your applications and inquiries to ann.crawford [at] uni.edu and andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu (copy to both emails).

We invite the private, public, and civic sectors as well as researchers, developers, and the academic community. We invite student and community participation and the conference sessions will take place in a variety of settings. The North Atlantic Forum aims to be trans-sectoral and welcomes paper and poster proposals on a variety of topics connected to the conference theme.

Organizers are still encouraging submissions for the programme. Deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2017.
For further details on the Forum see our website.

Registration for the conference is now open and can be done through the website. The Early bird rate is available until April 15, 2017.

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) announces a webinar on the United States Arctic Research Commission (USARC) Working Groups. This webinar will be presented by Cheryl Rosa of the USARC.

The webinar will be available online or in-person at the Akasofu building, Room 407 on the University of Alaska campus.

Webinar Summary:

A primary duty of the USARC is to interact with Arctic residents, international Arctic research programs and organizations, and local institutions including regional governments, in order to obtain the broadest possible view of Arctic research needs. To facilitate this, the USARC coordinates working groups to examine and develop research needs for specific topics, generally based on feedback from stakeholders.

USARC's Anchorage-based office currently coordinates three working groups: the Alaska Rural Water and Sanitation Working Group (ARWSWG), the Arctic Renewable Energy Working Group (AREWG) and the Arctic Mental Health Working Group (AMHWG).

This webinar will present an overview of the mission and objectives of the three USARC working groups, as well as ways to connect with their activities.

For questions, contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu

Sponsored by:
The Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University
Netherlands Earth System Science Centre
The Descartes Prize (EPICA), EU

The course will provide a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. The course is meant for Ph.D. students that work on (or will soon start working on) a glaciology-related climate project. The registration fee will be € 700. This includes lodging, full board, course material and excursion.

Lecturers include:
T. Blunier, O. Eisen, I. Hewitt, A. Jenkins, N. Karlsson, F. Pattyn, G. Spada, A. Stroeven, C. Tijm-Reijmer, J. Oerlemans (convener).

Send your application to the convener (j.oerlemans at uu.nl), before 8 May 2017.
You will be notified about the decision of the Selection Committee by 7 June 2017.

Your application should include:

• A short statement why you want to participate in this course
• Affiliation and name of supervisor
• A description of your research project (~200 words)
• A curriculum vitae

Please supply this information as a single PDF file.

Please visit the link above for more information.

The Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS), a global research project of Future Earth, will hold its 5th Science Conference in Oxford, United Kingdom.

The event has the theme 'Understanding the impact of land-atmosphere exchanges.' It is being organised by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology of the Natural Environment Research Council. The iLEAPS International Project Office (IPO) has a limited number of financial bursaries available to cover registration fees, especially for early-career scientists and those from developing countries.

How the Greenland Ice Sheet responds to climate change is important for society for a number of reasons, least of which is sea level rise. Understanding ice sheet stability is central to this effort. However, we do not currently have data or models that allow for a definitive consensus view of ice sheet variability during the past. The goals of this workshop are two-fold: (1) With a community of experts, both senior and junior, bring different datasets and approaches together to see if consensus can be reached on the current state of knowledge of Greenland Ice Sheet history and sensitivity to climate forcing, and (2) Develop key research priorities that will help guide future efforts to make significant traction on the problem of Greenland Ice Sheet stability.

To tackle the issue of Greenland Ice Sheet stability requires input from a range of disciplines. These include ice coring, ice sheet modeling, glaciology, geophysics, geodesy, glacial geology, paleoceanography, geochronology, geochemistry, sea level studies, and others. These disciplines have focused on four major (and integrated) approaches that collectively hold most promise for going forward: (1) ice and bedrock coring, (2) stratigraphy and chronology, (3) ice sheet modeling, and (4) ice sheet processes.

Invited keynote presentations by Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (U Copenhagen), Sophie Nowicki (NASA Goddard), Jeremy Fyke (Los Alamos Nat’l Lab)

Organizing Committee: Richard Alley, Michael Bender, Jason Briner (chair), Beata Csatho, Kristin Poinar, Joerg Schaefer

For more details, and to apply, please follow the link above.

The organizing committee from Swiss Polar Institute calls for poster proposals by PhD and Early Career Researchers to "High Altitudes meet High Latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues" Conference.

We invite contributions expending upon the main topics addressed at the conference. We are encouraging proposals that highlight the relations between High Altitudes and High Latitudes and are looking for a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including physical sciences, earth and bio sciences, as well as social sciences and humanities. In addition to a conventional poster presentation, all selected posters presentations will take part in flash-talk sessions (120' for each session).

In order to mobilize PhD and Early career researchers from European and non-European research communities, we will provide partial travel and accommodation support (up to 1200 CHF). Participants will be selected on the basis of an extended abstract (up to 600 words).

Application and deadline:

Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2017
Deadline for a Flash-talk presentation: September 5, 2017

Please, send abstracts to spi.cransmontana [at] epfl.ch

This workshop will address sea ice processes across a wide range of lengths and time scales, with an emphasis on understanding emergent and scale-invariant phenomena. Mathematical methods that account for the smaller scale processes and enable computation and analysis of these processes' effect on larger scales relevant for coarse-grained climate models will be a focus of the workshop and linkage of scales is a central theme of this workshop.

Registration deadline: Sunday, 11 June 2017.

Workshop Theme:

Realistic models of Earth's climate system are essential to making projections about what we may experience as our climate changes. Polar sea ice forms a critical system component which must be accurately accounted for in global climate models. It forms the thin boundary layer coupling the polar oceans and atmosphere and has seen rather dramatic changes over the past two or three decades. An important feature of sea ice is that it displays rich structure and behavior on scales ranging over 10 orders of magnitude, length scales from microns to hundreds of kilometers, and time scales from milliseconds to decades. This broad range of scales for sea ice structure and properties is relevant to biological, chemical, industrial, weather, and climate-related processes. It also leads to sea ice structure at certain scales being similar to other materials such as porous human bone and polycrystalline metals, which can be used to bring new techniques to studying sea ice.

The complex behavior of sea ice over such a large range of scales presents a fundamental challenge to modeling these systems. For example, many key processes, whose relevant length scales may be centimeters or meters to kilometers, impact climate and must be incorporated into large-scale numerical climate models with grid sizes often on the order of tens of kilometers. Moreover, some sea ice properties exhibit scale invariance or predictable scale dependence while others appear to be wholly emergent, a consequence of interacting processes within and applied to the ice cover.

Potential workshop topics include:

• Large-scale numerical models of the evolution of polar sea ice
• Sea ice simulations including variability, predictability, and climate projections
• Sea ice microphysics, fluid transport, convection, and the porous brine microstructure
• Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice
• Ice thickness distribution, melting, freezing, mechanical redistribution, ridging, and rafting
• Waves in the marginal ice zone
• Scaling in sea ice fracture and dynamics, sea ice rheology
• Momentum balance including form drag, interactions with currents, tides and winds
• Sea ice thermodynamics and exchange processes
• Low order models of polar climate
• Tipping point phenomena
• Stochastic processes in sea ice modeling

The aim of the conference is to present recent results that address still open questions in understanding the sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and its contribution to past and future sea level and climate change (http://www.scar.org/horizonscan Kennicutt M.C. Chown S. et al., Nature, 2014).

An important development in understanding and predicting Antarctic ice-sheet behaviour has been the validation and testing of ice sheet models on past climates with boundary conditions that are relevant to future projections.

While the focus of the conference will be on the latest developments in paleo-ice sheet and climate reconstructions using data and models, we also invite researchers and students from geodynamical, climatological, glaciological, oceanographic, ecosystem and ice cores communities, since their work is crucial for understanding the processes and dynamics of the integrated system.

All presentations will be in plenary oral and poster sessions, and each day will end with a plenary discussion to enable the maximum interaction of different groups and disciplines.

Abstract deadline: May 10th, 2017.

For more information please follow the conference's link above.