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Welcome to ECSA’s next major symposium, ECSA 56 – Coastal systems in transition from a ‘natural’ to an ‘anthropogenically modified’ state.

Humans are drivers of and affected by global change. Human-induced global climate and regional environmental change dramatically modify the structures and functions of coastal systems driving them into a new system state. The altered resource potentials and ecosystem services then, in turn, significantly affect the livelihoods of the population.

Distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic control factors and quantifying their impacts is a major challenge in the investigation of hydrodynamic, sedimentological, biogeochemical, ecological and socioeconomic processes in the coastal zone.

Inter- and transdisciplinary efforts are required to gain a profound understanding of these "novel" systems, which provides the basis for a sustainable management.

ECSA 55 brings together a global multi-disciplinary community of researchers and professionals to discuss and address issues of outstanding scientific importance in the science and management of estuaries and coastal seas in this rapidly changing world.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 April 2016

Follow the link above to learn more about the topics for oral and poster abstracts.

Held once every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress brings together several thousand leaders and decision-makers from government, civil society, indigenous peoples, business, and academia, with the goal of conserving the environment and harnessing the solutions nature offers to global challenges.

The Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development, but this cannot be achieved by conservationists alone. The IUCN Congress is the place to put aside differences and work together to create good environmental governance, engaging all parts of society to share both the responsibilities and the benefits of conservation.

The Congress is the place where IUCN’s more than 1,300 Member organizations exercise their rights, influence the global conservation agenda and guide IUCN’s work plan for the four years to follow.

The next Congress will take place 1-10 September in the Hawaiʻi Convention Center, in the Hawaiian capital, Honolulu. It is being hosted by the State of Hawaiʻi with the support of the Department of State of the USA.

Join us for a PolarConnect Event with Nell Kemp and the research team! This is a real-time event with teacher Nell Kemp and the researchers looking at the tundra ecosystems. They will be sharing experiences and observations of their work from Toolik Field Station and Healy, Alaska. This will be a 1 hour event with a Q&A at the end for teachers, students, friends and family. Learn more about Deep Roots and read the latest journals here:

https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/deep-roots

The 2016 WAIS Workshop will be held in Sterling, Virginia, in the Washington, DC, area at Algonkian Regional Park. This multidisciplinary Earth system science workshop will focus on the distinctive glaciological, geological, oceanographic, and climatic aspects of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Registration for the 2016 WAIS Workshop is open! For details about the meeting and to register, see the WAIS site above.

Registration fees:

• Professional fee (includes Post docs): $225
• Active students fee (pre PhD): $175

The abstract submission deadline has passed and lodging at the venue is full. A hotel option remains.

August 29 is the deadline for registration.

September 6 is the last day for Conference Rates at the local hotel.

The University of Vienna, in cooperation with the European University in St. Petersburg is pleased to announce a call for applications for a PhD summer school (VASS) that will take place in late summer 2016. The course will take place in Vienna, Austria with a field trip to the Austrian Alps.

The basic idea of VASS is to bring Arctic social science PhD students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to Vienna in order to confront them with international state-of-the-art social science approaches and methods applied outside the Arctic. At the same time, VASS will confront Arctic students with lessons learned from Alpine experience. VASS will provide its participants with in-depth treatments of three areas: human-environmental interactions in the Anthropocene, regimes of mobility and immobility, and the study of the interrelationship of human and non-human actants in technological and infrastructural settings.

VASS is designed for PhD students and younger researchers in the Arctic social sciences. Organizers are inviting applications from students in Arctic and non-Arctic countries. The total number of participants is limited to 18.

Interested students should email the following application materials to Ilja Steffelbauer (ilja.steffelbauer [at] univie.ac.at):

• a short letter of the student’s motivation to attend the summer school;
• a short Curriculum Vitae;
• a 1 page description of the applicant’s current research topic(s); and,
• non-native speakers of English should indicate their level of English-language proficiency.

Application Deadline: 4 April 2016.

HAARRP Open House is a FREE family event for all ages. Activities include:

• BBQ
• Facility Tours
• Mobile Planetarium
• Science Demos and Talks

See the link above for more information.

Speaker: Dr. Chris Fallen

Presented in partnership with the Wrangell Institute of Science and Environment (WISE).

Recommended for ages 15 and up.

Follow the link above for more information.

The in-situ snow broadband albedo is automatically measured in many stations that monitor the surface radiation budget, and is used (a) to test snow albedo parameterizations, (b) to validate remote sensing snow albedo products, (c) as input parameter for snow, hydrological, and atmospheric models, and (d) for climate studies.

The in-situ snow broadband albedo is measured to (a) validate optical remote sensing observations, (b) derive surface snow characteristics such as effective snow impurity content, optical equivalent size of snow particles, and presence of liquid water using model inversion methods, and (c) calculate the snow broadband albedo and interpret the reasons for its evolution.

In the workshop we would like to address the following questions:
What is the accuracy that spectral and broadband albedo measurements can achieve?
What is, presently, the “standard” calibration and characterization of the instruments?
Which calibration and characterization of the instruments would be required in order to allow a meaningful comparison of the measurements obtained with different instruments, and under different environmental conditions?

Objective of the workshop is to try to answer to the above questions and develop a calibration and measurement protocol that will be applied and tested in a possible future inter-comparison campaign.

The 2-day workshop will include keynote lecturers, oral presentations, discussions, and a few-hour visit to calibration facilities and radiometric instrumentation. Participants are invited to give presentations about their activity related to the use of spectral and/or broadband radiometers to measure the snow albedo, about the challenges of the measurements, the estimated measurement accuracy and, on the other hand, the wished accuracy in view of specific research applications. In the workshop, we will compare the technical characteristics of various instruments (spectral resolution, fore optics, field of view, calculation of dark current, optimization of integrating time, etc.) and their known response (angular response, temperature drift of irradiance/wavelength calibration, dome heating effect, temperature stability and spatial homogeneity of Lambertian targets). The workshop will also address the measurement uncertainties due to measurement setup and environmental conditions (levelling of the instruments fore optics and of the target surface, shadows on the target area, obstructions of the field of view of the instrument, roughness of the measured surface, sky conditions) and the strategies and tools to reduce these uncertainties.

This workshop contributes to the activities of the MicroSnow Working Group of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences ( IACS).

International Research and Practice Conference "Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials" will be organised for the fifth time. It is a large-scale event, which every year becomes larger and more important. In 2012 International Research and Practice Conference was held for the first time in the format of International Summer School for young scientists "Nanotechnology: from fundamental research to innovations". In 2013 and 2014 International Scientific and Practical Conference "Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials" was held in conjunction with the International Summer School for young scientists "Nanotechnology: from fundamental research to innovations": the first 4 days were held as the Summer School, the next 4 as International Conference. The International Summer School and International Conference in 2013 were attended by more than 300 scientists, and in 2014 they gathered more than 450 participants from about 20 countries, such as Poland, Italy, Estonia, France, Austria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, USA, Romania, Moldova, Czech Republic, Taiwan, Lithuania, Egypt, Iran, India, Algeria, Indonesia and others. Also there were Ukrainian participants actually from all over Ukraine. In 2015, the International Research and Practice Conference "Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials" expanded its theme and gathered more than 500 participants from 20 countries.

We invite to take part in the conference all scientists making research in the field of nanotechnology and nanomaterials as well as in the fields combining different scientific directions.

During the conference there will made plenary sessions, oral speeches and poster presentations.

The conference will bring together leading scientists and researchers from different countries of the world.

This event will focuse on the latest advances in nanosciences and nanotechnologies and promotes profound scientific discussions between scientists and researchers from different disciplines and countries.

Thematic priorities of the conference will be the following:

• Nanoobjects microscopy
• Nanocomposites and nanomaterials
• Nanostructured surfaces
• Nanooptics and photonics
• Nanoplasmonics and surface enhanced spectroscopy
• Nanochemistry and biotechnology
• Nanoscale physics
• Physico-chemical nanomaterials science.

One of the focuses of the International research and practice conference "Nanotechnology and nanomaterials" is Possibilities in the participation in Horizon 2020 Programme of EU.

Working language: English.

Conference hall will be located in the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

The conference will be comprised of three parts: plenary session in the morning, tematic session in the afternoon and poster presentations in the evening.

It is planned to publish abstracts and materials of the conference.

Best scientific works will be recommended for publication in the following editions: Springer book "Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials" and International journal "Nanoscale Research Letters".

Anyone who wants to participate in the conference must register online on the conference site at Registration section before March 15, 2016, prepare an abstract (rules are posted on this site at Abstracts submission section) and send them to the organizing committee before May 31, 2016 at the following address: conference.nano [at] gmail.com

Abstracts and materials of the conference will be published before the start of the conference.

Abstracts of each participant will be included in the Conference Abstract Book provided that they were submitted in time, properly made out and payment of fee made before June 20, 2016.

Abstracts of non-residents of Ukraine will be published providing that before June 20, 2016 they confirm by e-mail their intention to attend the conference and to pay publishing and registration fee on-site.

Publishing and registration fee is 300 UAH for citizens of Ukraine and CIS countries and 30 EUR for citizens of other countries.

For PhD students from Ukraine publishing and registration fee is 150 UAH.