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The school will be the second in the series of summer schools to be organised from 2016 to 2018 under the Jean-Monnet project “Systems for monitoring and responses to early warnings — EU experience for Russia”.

The School faculty includes the resident faculty of Siberian Federal University and guests from Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden (the list of faculty will be published in the late February).

The Summer School on water governance is organised by Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia). It is designed as a research training exercise, with the Krasnoyarsk Water Reservoir (also known as the Sea of Krasnoyarsk, the Eurasia-largest water reservoir) on the river of Yenisei and the lake of Baikal (the world largest freshwater body) set as case studies.

Deadline for applications is April 28, 2017.

For more information and to apply, please see the website above.

The World Climate Research Program (WCRP), jointly with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), announces a call for abstracts for the Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts Conference.

This conference will address the existing challenges in describing and predicting regional sea level changes and quantifying the intrinsic uncertainties. The conference will serve as a basis for a new assessment of the state of regional sea level research and will serve as input to the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment.

The structure of the conference will consist of plenary sessions followed by extensive poster sessions. In the evenings, there will be "think-tanks" focusing on new science frontiers and activities.

Conference registration opens 15 March 2017

Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2017

Early registration deadline: 31 May 2017

For information about abstracts and to submit an abstract, to go:
http://www.sealevel2017.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i…

For questions, contact conference organizers at:
Email: sealevel2017 [at] clivar.org

Members for the SEARCH Land Ice Action Team will participate in the conference.

If you are in your first three years of a permanent academic position, please apply to join us for a multi-day workshop in a stimulating and resource-rich environment where you will participate in sessions on topics including effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research program in a new setting, working with research students, balancing professional and personal responsibilities, and time management. The workshop is offered by NAGT On the Cutting Edge professional development program for geoscience faculty with support from the National Science Foundation, Geological Society of America and American Geophysical Union.

Participants must have a full-time faculty position at a two-year or four-year college or a university at the time of the workshop and must be in their first three years of full-time teaching or starting a full-time position in the Fall.

Please note the application deadline is March 22, 2017.

For additional information and a link to online application, please visit the website above.

Innovative technologies in geology, geophysics, and geography are of great importance due to their close connections with various applied problems and tasks such as search for mineral deposits and their exploration, evaluation of engineering-geological conditions and environments, including forecasting of catastrophic geological processes and phenomena. Most of innovative approaches originate at the interfaces between different fields of the knowledge, through its integration and exchange, the generalization of the already developed and new ideas including those of young scientists, particularly.

With this in view, the Sevastopol Branch of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia will arrange an International Youth Conference entitled “Innovation in Geology, Geophysics and Geography-2017” in Sevastopol.

Students, undergraduates, PhD students and early career students are welcome to participate in the Conference.

Antarctica rarely makes it onto the map of the humanities and social sciences. While artists have produced responses to the continent for centuries, non-scientific researchers have been reluctant to venture intellectually into the far southern latitudes. The continent’s lack of an indigenous or permanent human population, together with a popular Antarctic exceptionalism which frames the continent as immune to the political, social and economic forces that affect the rest of the globe, has made it seem off-limits to analysis outside of a scientific framework.

Increasingly, however, public attention is being drawn to Antarctica, as the surface of its ice plays host to tourists, proliferating stations, heroic re-enactments, and national manoeuvring; its icy depths reveal the environmental history of our planet; and its ocean currents ominously undermine the glaciers around its edges. While scientific efforts are crucial, understanding the Antarctic region – past, present and future – requires contributions across the disciplinary spectrum. This conference aims to bring together humanities, creative arts and social sciences researchers interested in the Antarctic, fostering a community of scholars who can act in concert with natural scientists to address the issues that face the Antarctic region.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

We invite papers from a broad range of disciplines – including history, literary and cultural studies, creative arts, sociology, politics, geography and law – that engage with the Antarctic, sub-Antarctic and Southern Ocean. Contributions from scientists interested in engaging with the HASS community are encouraged. Both proposals for individual papers (20 minutes with 10 minutes question time) and interdisciplinary panels are welcome.

For a full list of topics and more information, please follow the link above.

Deadline for Abstracts: 3 March 2017

The 2nd Asian Conference on Permafrost (ACOP2017) will be hosted by the International Permafrost Association (IPA) and covers all aspects of frozen ground – both permafrost and seasonal frost – and its related natural and technological topics. The proposed sessions are as listed below:

• Periglacial Geomorphology
• Ground ice dynamics
• Mountain permafrost and geohazards
• Permafrost eco-hydrology
• Permafrost mapping and techniques
• Climate change and the carbon balance in permafrost
• Frozen ground physics
• Frozen ground engineering
• Asian frozen ground
• Paleo-permafrost
• Extrazonal permafrost and seasonal frost
• Living and working on frozen ground: cultural and historical significance of permafrost
• Outreach/education, history

Also we will offer options of pre- and post-conference field excursions as follows (dependent on the numbers of participants).

• Daisetsu Mountains, Japan
• Artificially frozen ground sites, Tokyo and Fukushima-daiichi nuclear power plant
• Mongolia
• Kamchatka Peninsula
• Northeast China
• Mt Fuji, Japan

For more details, please visit the website link above.

Registration and abstract submission are already open until 31 January, 2017.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact by email: acop2017 [at] arc.hokudai.ac.jp

We look forward to see you in Sapporo in summer 2017!

SEARCH Permafrost Action Team Leads (Christina Schädel and Ted Schuur) will convene a session (Climate change and the carbon balance in permafrost) at the 2nd Asian Conference on Permafrost in Sapporo, Japan.

Session Description: Warming induced greenhouse gas release to the atmosphere from organic carbon stored in permafrost has the potential to affect regional and global climate through feedback processes. Contributions towards evaluation of the current status and future projection of permafrost carbon stocks, decomposability, model projections, carbon and nutrient cycling in permafrost, and topics related to the permafrost carbon feedback to climate change are welcome.

The 12th Session of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel will be held June 29-30, 2017. It is open to those interested in the activities of SORP. The topics covered will include: Southern Ocean oceanographic observations needed during YOPP-SH; how oceanic behavior out to two months projects onto atmospheric behavior; climate predictability of the ocean-atmosphere-ice system in the Southern Ocean (discussions on SOMIP (Southern Ocean Model Intercomparison Project) and AntClim21); and other SORP business.

There is no registration fee to attend these meetings, however if you wish to participate, please follow the link above and sign up via the "Registration" tab.

The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) will be officially launched in May 2017. YOPP will be an internationally-coordinated period of intensive observing, modeling, prediction, verification, user engagement, and educational activities initiated by the World Meteorological Organization’s World Weather Research Programme (WWRP). The goal of YOPP is to advance significantly our environmental prediction capabilities for the polar regions and beyond.

The core phase of YOPP will be from mid-2017 to mid-2019, and within this a Special Observing Period in the Southern Hemisphere will occur from mid-November 2018 to mid-February 2019. This will have intensified research activities, including enhanced synoptic observations and radiosonde launches.

To make further progress in the coordination of the various activities planned in the Southern Hemisphere during YOPP, the second YOPP-SH planning meeting will be held June 28–29, 2017 at NCAR immediately following the Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate. In order to improve Southern Ocean forecasting capabilities in a joint effort, modeling efforts, observations taken at Antarctic stations and in various field campaigns, and the contribution of Southern Ocean data to the YOPP data portal will be discussed during the meeting. Sessions will address the topics of modeling, observations, and YOPP products.