Search Events

A regular in-person planning meeting of the SEARCH Science Steering Committee and the SEARCH Action Team leads will take place 27-29 June 2017 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

This meeting is invitation only.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) invites you to participate in the 12th Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate (previously called the Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modeling, and Forecasting Workshop) to be held in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The workshop brings together those with both research and operational interests in Antarctic meteorology, forecasting, and related disciplines. It serves as a forum for current results, ideas, and issues in Antarctic meteorology, numerical weather prediction, forecasting, and climate. Presentations on topics related to these, including those involving Antarctic logistical efforts, are welcome.

There is a registration fee of $145 (USD) for this workshop. If you would like to attend, please register through the link above.

A workshop on X-ray micro-tomography (XRT) of porous Ice Media will be hold in Trondheim to gather actors from different research and industry fields that work with this technique to explore porous media containing ice and snow. The goal is to stimulate a discussion on similarities between porous ice media (e.g. snow and firn, sea ice, soil, rocks, building, food) and on challenges that X-ray cryo-tomography of ice media involves. Examples are temperature control prior to and during imaging, trade-off between spatial resolution and sample size, physical property evaluation from 3-d images, upscaling of properties to larger scales, enhancement of contrast between ice, fat/oil and impurities, in situ studies of ice freezing and metamorphosis, synchrotron-based XRT at high spatial and temporal resolution and enhanced contrast. Numerical modelling contributions related to 3d imaging of porous ice media are also welcome. The workshop will include a short visit to the IBM-NTNU ice lab facilities and the CT-lab of the Norwegian Centre for X-ray Diffraction, Scattering and Imaging (RECX).

For more information please follow the link above to see the flyer.

Application deadline: 20 May 2017.

The symposium will be hosted by Center for Polar and Deep Ocean Development of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The symposium aims to bring together scholars, experts and policymakers from all over the world to share the topics including: Climate change Impact on Arctic shipping and Resource Exploitation; New dynamics and relevant legal issues in the polar regions; Conservation of Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions; Evolution and challenges of the polar governance regimes/systems; Key players' Polar Policies and Practices; China's Role in the Polar Governance.

The deadline for abstracts is 15 March 2017.

For further questions, please contact Ms. HE Liu (heliuholly [at] sjtu.edu.cn)

On Tuesday June 20th, join us for a PolarTREC live event with teacher Steve Kirsche and the research team from Summit Station, Greenland. This event will focus a research project based out of Summit Station in Greenland. The team is looking at the firn (granular snow, especially on the upper part of a glacier, where it has not yet been compressed into ice) to get a better interpretation of paleoclimate from air that becomes trapped within the firn. More information and journals related to this expedition and the science can be found here:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/dynamic-observations-of-the-micro…

The Arctic Data Center announces a call for applications for the Data Science Training for Arctic Researchers workshop in Santa Barbara, California. This workshop will provide researchers with an overview of best data management practices, data science tools, and concrete steps and methods for more easily documenting and uploading data to the Arctic Data Center.

Application deadline: 5:00 p.m. PDT, 19 June 2017.

Workshop topics will include:

• Arctic Data Center and National Science Foundation standards and policies
• Data management plans,
• Effective data management for data preservation,
• Publishing data at the Arctic Data Center,
• Data and metadata quality, and
• Provenance of data and software.

Space for this workshop is limited. Early- and established-career researchers from the Arctic community are encouraged to apply.
Participants will be selected based on the applicant's current research or work activities; previous experience with open science practices, data management techniques, and analysis methods; and current or former opportunities to access training in these areas.

Participants will receive support to attend the meeting.

Applications should be completed online and the application form requests information about research background and data science training and skills.

Applicants should submit a two-page curriculum vitae in PDF format via email with Arctic Data Training in the email subject line to Amber Budden at aebudden [at] nceas.ucsb.edu.

The conference is being hosted by the University of Alberta. The theme of NAFEW 2017 will be: Sustaining Forests from Restoration to Conservation. The conference will include one-day in-conference field trips to see both natural and industrial landscapes.

We have confirmed four keynote speakers and twelve Special Sessions have already been accepted for inclusion in the program. A description of these are provided on the agenda page.

Several in-conference tours are being planned for Wednesday June 21, and will provide opportunities to explore a range of topics relating to forest ecology.

Post-conference tours to Fort McMurray to learn about Oilsands activities and reclamation, to Lac La Biche and environs to learn about poplar management, and to the Rocky Mountains are being planned.

We are inviting submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations.

Deadline for abstract submission January 31, 2017.

More information, including information on the conference venue, registration fees, accommodation, and abstract submission will be posted on the website as it becomes available.

For more information contact: NAFEW17 [at] ualberta.ca

The FRISP meeting is for scientists working on ice shelf processes meeting in an informal setting and exchanging ideas, results and field plans. As always, we welcome presentations on all aspects of ice shelf research, including, but not limited to:

• Formation, flow and disintegration of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers
• Response of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers to past, present and future climate variability
• Surface and basal mass balance of ice shelves
• Ice-ocean interaction at the calving front of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers
• Mass transport across the grounding line
• Ocean circulation and water mass transformation beneath ice shelves and within pro-glacial fjords
• Impact of ice shelves on the global ocean
• Processes controlling the delivery of ocean heat to glaciated coastlines
• Climate records from on or near current or former ice shelves
• Iceberg calving, drift, melting, and decay

Registration opens on March 1st, 2017.

The International Workshop on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Elastic Deformation will take place on September 5-7, 2017, at Grand Hotel Reykjavik, Iceland.

Theme:
Past and present changes in the mass balance of the Earth's glaciers and ice caps induce present-day deformation of the solid Earth on a range of spatial scales, from the very local to global. Of principal interest are geodetic observations that validate, or may be assimilated into, models of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) and/or constrain models of present-day ice mass change through measurements of elastic rebound. Using geometric measurements alone, elastic and viscoelastic deformations cannot be separated without additional models or observations. The conference will focus on resolving these issues and work on dissemination of these measurements within the glaciological community.

• Session 1. Observations of present-day changes in glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets and the associated Earth deformation
• Session 2. Measurement and Models of Elastic Rebound
• Session 3. Glacial isostatic adjustment on a Heterogeneous Earth
• Session 4. Reconciling models and observations of GIA

Both Oral and Poster sessions will be held.

Abstract submission deadline: June 16, 2017

Final detailed programme: June 30, 2017

Application deadline for early career scientists travel support: July 1st, 2017

Registration deadline: August 2nd, 2017

The K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS) is arranging a summer course for PhD students in Tromsø, Norway.

The course covers methodological aspects of both legal and multi-/interdisciplinary research of relevance to doctoral research in the law of the sea.
The course will train the students on the sources of international law, their interpretation, and the relationship between formal sources of international law, such as the Law of the Sea Convention, and other normative instruments, such as the often non-legally binding decisions adopted by international organizations, like the IMO and OSPAR. Also covered are the relationship between the law of the sea and other branches of international law such as international environmental law and trade law, and the role of other disciplines in research related to the law of the sea.
The course covers topics that are of direct relevance to individual students’ doctoral projects and the students should be able to refine their research questions as well as develop the analytical framework for their research projects.

This is a two-day course with obligatory attendance which requires literature studies and the writing of a draft essay in advance. The draft essay must be presented during the course. Active participation is required, meaning that all students must try to link the various subjects discussed to their own projects, and give an account of this. During the course there are lectures, essay presentations and discussions.

The essay draft will be discussed during the course and must be finalized after the course
and handed in on a date set by the Faculty. The essay must focus on issues that are of relevance to the themes of the course.

The course is designed for students who have been admitted to the doctoral programme for legal science. There is a maximum of 20 seats.

The closing date for applications is Monday 3 April.