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With approximately 24,000 attendees in 2015, AGU’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California is the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. 2016 will mark Fall Meeting’s 49th year as the premiere place to present your research; hear about the latest discoveries, trends, and challenges in the field; and network with colleagues that can enhance your career.

Fall Meeting brings together the entire Earth and space science community from across the globe for discussions of emerging trends and the latest research. The technical program includes presentations on new and cutting-edge science, much of which has not yet been published, meaning you’ll return to work with knowledge you can’t get anywhere else.

With more than 1,700 sessions in 2015, Fall Meeting’s scientific program spans the Earth and space sciences, offering something for everyone no matter their scientific discipline. The meeting offers a unique mix of more than 20,000 oral and poster presentations, a broad range of general sessions, various types of formal and informal networking and career advancement opportunities, and an exhibit hall packed with hundreds of exhibitors showcasing new and relevant research tools and services that meet the professional needs of our attendees year after year. Join us in 2016 for another dynamic experience.

Organizers announce the Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS) 2016 School and Workshop. FAMOS is an international forum for Arctic Marine Modelers (liquid ocean + sea ice, physical/biogeochemical) and those scientists who are interested in working with these modelers (e.g., observationalists, hydrologists, meteorologists, geologists, glaciologists, biologists).

Organizers are now welcoming talk/poster abstracts for the workshop, and are seeking applications from students, postdocs, and more senior scientists who are new to the field for the FAMOS School to be held on the first day of the meeting.

Travel support for the school is available, usually granted to those who have not previously attended. This year, school lectures will be given by early career scientists on topics of sea ice prediction, ocean mixing, ocean circulation, snow/melt ponds/floes, and primary productivity. The workshop will have a (not exclusive) emphasis on small-scale processes and modeling.

For more information or questions please visit the link above or please contact:
Michael Steele
Email: mas [at] apl.washington.edu

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:

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Session proposals are due by November 1, 2016.

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

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Fellowships and Grants program for the 2017/18 academic year. We appreciate you notifying qualified candidates about our program.

The deadline for applications is November 1, 2016.

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 reseach/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.

We are organizing a 3-day beginner Elmer/Ice course at the University of Oslo (the week after the IGS Nordic Branch meeting which will be held at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, Norway, from Wednesday October 26 to Friday October 28).

This 3-day course is dedicated to students or researchers aiming to start working with Elmer/Ice. During the course, you will learn how to set up a simple ice flow problem for a flow line geometry as well as for a real mountain glacier. The third day will be dedicated to more advanced topics like the coupling of ice flow and temperature or inverse methods. For those interested, this last day might also be dedicated to start setting up your own problem with our help.

The number of places is limited to 20, and will be given on the basis of the first registered, first served. To register, send an email to Olivier Gagliardini with you name, affiliation, position and few lines of motivations to attend the course. There will be no registration fees, but students will have to take care of their lodging and attend the course with their own laptop. More information will be given later on the Elmer/Ice website (see link above).

The PhD course is aimed at PhD students and junior postdocs who conduct ice core analysis or are users of ice core data (glaciological, oceanographic, climate modelers).

ICAT aims to educate a new generation of ice core researchers and foster a collaborative environment for future glaciological projects.

This course will enhance the knowledge between PhD’s within the ice core community on new methods developed for the analysis of ice core climate.

LECTURES INCLUDE:
Prof Joe McConnell, Prof Ed Brook, Prof Thomas Blunier with more.

REGISTRATION FEE:
No registration fee, but students should prepare for their own lodging and transport.

APPLICATION:
Send your application as a single pdf to hellek [at] fys.ku.dk before July 30th, 2016. You will be notified the decission of the Selection Committee by September 1st, 2016.

Your application should include:

• A statement of why you want to participate
• Affiliation, name of supervisor
• A 200 word description of your research project
• A Curriculum Vitae
• For more information please contact: Helle Kjær, hellek [at] fys.ku.dk

Sitka Sound Science Center, with funding from the National Science Foundation, is sponsoring a three-day Science Communication workshop in Sitka, Alaska for scientists working in Alaska.

• October 31, 2016
• November 1, 2016
• November 2, 2016

The goal of the workshop is to provide science communication training on how to present and communicate with a variety of audiences, and also to provide specific communication training on how to effectively connect your research to the interests and needs of small communities in Alaska.

The Science Communication workshop is led by a team with extensive communication and research experience working in Alaska including:

• Dr. Richard Nelson, a world renowned cultural anthropologist, writer, and producer;
• Elizabeth Arnold, a University of Alaska professor and former NPR radio journalist;
• Laureli Ivanoff, a journalist covering rural Alaska, from rural Alaska, and living in rural Alaska. The owner of Silver Tip Media, she is a freelance writer and provides communications and public relations services to Alaska non-profit organizations.
• Dr. Jacqueline Grebmeir and Dr. Lee Cooper, internationally recognized Arctic scientists and leaders who have worked in Alaskan communities for more than 30 years.
• Lisa Busch, Executive Director of the Sitka Sound Science Center, an organization well-known for its science community engagement activities and science communication opportunities.

Full travel scholarships are available. Deadline for application is August 26, 2016. For more information, call Lisa Busch at 907.747.8878, Ext 5 or email lbusch [at] sitkascience.org

The 3rd Snow Science Winter School will be arranged by WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF and Finnish Meteorological Institute at the FMI Arctic Research Centre in Sodankylä, Finland. The school will teach advanced field techniques and relate these measurements to microwave and spectral albedo measurements. The course will consist of field and laboratory measurements combined with theoretical lessons in the classroom.

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.

The application for the 3rd Snow Science Winter School is now open until 30 October 2016. The course fee is approximately 350 Euro.

For more information and details for applying please visit the link above.

The International Glaciological Society - Nordic Branch Meeting 2016 will be held at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, Norway, from Wednesday October 26 at 13:00 to Friday October 28 14:00, 2016.

The meeting is co-organized by the Norwegian Polar Institute, CliC (the Climate and Cryosphere Project of the WCRP), the University of Oslo, Dept. of Geosciences, UiT/The Arctic University of Norway, Dept. of Geology.

The Nordic IGS meeting provides an informal venue for Nordic-based scientists and students in glaciology to present their latest results and projects. We aim to stimulate discussions and networking among all participants during the meeting, at poster sessions and social events. Presentations are welcome on all aspects of ice and snow research and related topics, and the meeting is open for all interested.

Please mark this date, further information will be forthcoming as we get closer to the event.

Time: 12:00pm to 1:00pm (EDT)

The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series brings some of the leading Arctic researchers to Washington, D.C. to share in person and via webinar the latest findings and what they mean for decision-making. The seminars are open, and will be of interest to Federal agency officials, Congressional staff, NGOs, associations, researchers, and the public.

Registration
To register please visit: https://www.arcus.org/research-seminar-series
Registration is required for the live seminar as well as the webinar. We will be using the Adobe Connect platform for the webinar. Once you register for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation email giving you the link and directions on how to join.

Speaker Details
George Divoky is the is the founder of Friends of Cooper Island and serves as its director. He has studied seabirds in arctic Alaska since 1970 and has participated in studies and assessments related to oil and gas development and regional climate change. Since 1975 he has maintained a continuing study of Black Guillemots on Cooper Island, Alaska, in the western Beaufort Sea. The study is one of the longest longitudinal bird studies in the Arctic and its findings on the consequences of decadal-scale reductions in snow and sea ice provide some of the best examples of the biological consequences of climate change.

Divoky’s research was featured in a cover story in the New York Times Magazine entitled “George Divoky’s Planet,” in the Scientific American Frontiers program “Hot Times in Alaska” and on ABC Nightly News and Nightline. He was a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman and his work and findings were featured in a play about climate change, Greenland, presented at the Royal National Theatre in London in 2011.