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The #GreatAntarcticClimateHack will be held October 9-12 2017, at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography Forum, La Jolla, California. Our first-ever Climate Hack will focus on bringing Antarctic and Southern Ocean observations to bear on evaluating the latest generation of climate and earth system models (with an emphasis on CMIP), producing new climate model metrics for the 21st century.

#GreatAntarcticClimateHack is a workshop to train non-modeling experts to interrogate CMIP model results and evaluate against observational datasets, thereby creating new model metrics and validation tools. The aim of the workshop is to facilitate preparation for the next IPCC report for a much broader science community, increase non-traditional climate modeling publications, and learn to apply/utilize data sets that help develop model validation skills.

This first workshop will accommodate 50 participants on site, and 50 participants to join remotely online. To learn more or apply to attend, please visit the website above.

Submission Deadline is 30 May 2017.

Changing climate conditions are driving the recent intensification of the high–latitude water cycle. Permafrost degradation leads to a transformation of landscape structure causing thermokarst development, enhancing the connectivity between surface and ground water, changing the regime of wetlands, lakes and aquifers, shifting streamflow seasonality and amplitude. New understanding of those processes is required for timely development of adaptation strategies and preventing threats to cold regions worldwide, including economically critical infrastructure.

The Workshop will address the following research topics:

• Observational evidence of change in coupled snow-frozen ground-hydrology-ecology system
• Present state and future projections of local, regional and pan-Arctic and Antarctic hydrology
• Modelling studies representing landscape evolution, dynamics of water storage and permafrost degradation
• Impacts of cold-region hydrology changes on ecology and local communities

Objectives:

• Build research capacity of early career scientists
• Create and develop research linkages between UK and Russian Federation

Fully funded places for early career researchers based in UK and Russia (travel, accommodation and meals) are available on competitive basis.

Applications open now to early career researchers. Deadline is 26 March 2017.

The 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) and the Canadian Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (CSAFM) will be held at the beautiful University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver from Sunday May 28 to Wednesday May 31, 2017.

At this time, we invite you to propose scientific sessions for the meeting:

http://cgu-ugc2017meeting.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CGU_CSAFM_2017_…

Session proposals are due by November 1, 2016.

Please see the conference website or email: contact.cgu2017 at ubc.ca for more information.

This IARPC Arctic Data Collaboration Team Meeting will include a presentation by SEARCH's Permafrost Action Team lead Christina Schädel on the Permafrost Carbon Network and a discussion of Arctic Carbon Budget synthesis efforts.

The public is invited to attend the first meeting of a new study to develop a research and development agenda for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and carbon sequestration approaches on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 in Washington D.C. (or via WebEx). The committee of experts who will conduct the study are tasked with identifying the research needed to assess the benefits, risks, and sustainable scale potential for various approaches and increase their commercial viability.

The open session begins at 1:00 p.m. EDT with a welcome and overview from Committee Chair, Steve Pacala of Princeton University, followed by a quick review of the findings of the National Academies 2015 report, Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration. The sponsors of the study will share their perspective on what the study should accomplish. From 4:45 until 5:30 p.m., attendees will be invited to make comments to the committee on such topics as what they see as the most urgent research needs, how this study can be made most useful, and related issues that might affect communities.

Register today by following the link above!

You can also subscribe to follow the study and submit input to the committee via the study website:

http://nas-sites.org/dels/studies/cdr/?utm_source=America%27s+Climate+C…

Abstract: Climate change in Alaska is causing widespread environmental change that is damaging critical infrastructure. As climate change continues, infrastructure is expected to become more vulnerable to damage, increasing risks to residents and resulting in large economic impacts. In this study, we quantified potential economic damages to Alaska public infrastructure resulting from climate driven changes in flooding, precipitation, near-surface permafrost thaw, and freeze–thaw cycles under relatively high and low climate scenarios. We also estimated coastal erosion losses for villages known to be at risk. Our findings suggest that the largest climate damages will result from flooding of roads followed by substantial near-surface permafrost thaw related damage to buildings. Proactive adaptation efforts as well as global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could considerably reduce these damages.

About the Speaker: April Melvin is an Associate Program Officer with the National Academy of Sciences Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC). Prior to joining BASC, April was a Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the Climate Change Division at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). As an AAAS Fellow, April’s work focused largely on economic impacts of climate change in Alaska, including damages to infrastructure and costs of responding to wildfire. She also spent extensive time in Alaska as a Postdoctoral Research Associate while studying climate change and wildfire in Alaska’s boreal forests. April received her Ph.D. in ecosystem ecology/biogeochemistry from Cornell University and holds a B.S. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Rochester.

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The 5th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium, hosted by Dalian Maritime University in collaboration with Polar Research Institute of China, will take place in Dalian, a port city in Northern China, with the conference theme of “Towards the Future: Trans-regional Cooperation in the Arctic: Development and Protection”.

CNARC and Dalian Maritime University cordially invite proposals for oral presentations at the 5th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium. Proposals are welcome from researchers affiliated with Nordic and Chinese universities, research institutes, think tanks and organizations. All presentations will focus on Arctic-related issues, within one of the session topics:

• Session I Europe-Asia Connectivity: Promoting the Potential Utilization of Arctic Sea Route
• Session II Interaction between Arctic and Non-arctic regions: Compatibility of Arctic Strategies and Policies
• Session III Exploring the Way forward in Cooperation: Global Governance of the Arctic Ocean

The deadline for abstract submission is on March 17 2017.

The abstract (250-400 words) is to be submitted electronically to:

Mr. Li Zhaokun / Ms. Zhang Shuang, Dalian Maritime University: cnarc2017 [at] 163.com
Mr. Deng Beixi, CNARC: dengbeixi [at] pric.org.cn

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs has issued a new solicitation for Antarctic research proposals.

The NSF-managed U.S. Antarctic Program supports scientific research on the southernmost continent and provides related operational research support. OPP's Antarctic Sciences Section supports research to:

• Expand fundamental knowledge of the Antarctic region
• Improve understanding of interactions between the Antarctic region and global earth systems
• Utilize the unique characteristics of the Antarctic continent as an observing platform

Antarctic fieldwork is supported for research that can only be performed or is best performed in Antarctica. The Antarctic section encourages research using existing samples, models, and data that does not require fieldwork as well as research that crosses and combines disciplinary perspectives and approaches.

The new solicitation, which describes all requirements for submitting a proposal, may be found in HTML and PDF formats at the above link.

The deadline for full proposals is 5 p.m., at the submitter's local time, on May 23.

This webinar is organised and hosted by the British Geological Survey, an ECORD Science Operator partner and a component institute of the U.K.'s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

Please join this information webinar about the scientific objectives of this IODP Expedition 377: Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography (ArcOP) expedition, participating in IODP Mission Specific Platform Expeditions, and how to apply to join the expedition. Webinar places are limited to 100, and will be provided on a first come, first served basis. The webinar link will be sent to the first 100 registered participants in due course. A link to the webinar recording will be made available to all other registrants.

The exciting topic of Marine Turbulence will be revisited for the 3rd time during “Marine Turbulence Re-visited” as the 49th Liège Colloquium in 2017.

As already in 2007, the workshop will be co-organised together with the Warnemünde Turbulence Days (its 8th edition), a biennial workshop on specific challenges in marine turbulence, organised by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde, Germany.

From decade to decade enormous progress is achieved in our understanding of marine turbulence. A major trigger of this progress is the technological development of oceanic instrumentation, numerical modeling and theory. For the instruments, higher sampling rates, larger data storages and faster data processing facilities generally allow for better resolution but do also open perspectives for novel mechanical, acoustical and optical devices. For the numerical modeling, steadily growing computer resources allow for substantially more complex models and higher resolution than a decade ago. The theory of marine turbulence has further developed towards concepts linking small-scale turbulence, internal waves, surface waves, and (sub)meso-scale dynamics. Tight collaboration between marine and atmospheric scientists in all these fields has substantially triggered progress in the field of geophysical turbulence.

Combining the historically broad approach of the Liège Colloquium with the specialized Warnemünde Turbulence Days, this joint venture will concentrate on five focal topics:

• Turbulence-wave-interaction
• Turbulence-(sub)mesoscale interaction
• Turbulence and the marine ecosystem
• Turbulence observations in the ocean
• Turbulence modelling in the ocean

Contributions to these focal topics as well as to related problems of marine turbulence are invited to the Liège Colloquium in 2017.

Further details (submission, registration, deadlines, venue, ...) are available on the web site.

Submission of abstracts deadline: 30th January 2017

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Liège in the name of the Organizing Committee.

Sincerely,
Jean-Marie Beckers, Ulg, Belgium
Hans Burchard, IOW, Germany
Carsten Eden, UH, Germany
Lars Umlauf, IOW, Germany