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The goals of the Science of Learning (SL) Program are to: advance fundamental knowledge about learning through integrative research; connect the research to specific scientific, technological, educational, and workforce challenges; and enable research communities to capitalize on new opportunities and discoveries. The program supports projects that emphasize consilience of knowledge, adopting diverse disciplinary approaches to shared research questions. The program seeks to develop robust and integrated accounts of contexts, mechanisms, and effective strategies of learning.

This solicitation invites proposals for the creation of new research networks to address important integrative questions in the science of learning. Each network must identify an integrative research goal involving convergence of evidence from the diverse disciplinary approaches represented by participants in the network. The proposed research must substantially advance understanding of learning in more than a single discipline. Networks may focus on advancing basic research through experiments and theory, as well as translating findings from basic research on learning to applications in order to benefit society and further inform fundamental theories of learning. This solicitation is for proposals that do not fit into existing NSF programs, by virtue of the emphasis on interdisciplinarity in service of knowledge consilience and integration.

Each network is expected to engage in both of the following activities:

• Partnership-building activities among the network participants to optimize scientific exchange for the co-design and execution of network goals; and
• Collaborative, integrative research to be conducted by the network participants. Integrative research must address questions of genuine significance across multiple disciplines, or multiples levels of analysis.

Hosted by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado.

DEADLINES:

01 March, 2016 for Hotel Special Rate

18 March 2016 for Registration and Abstracts

TOPICS

The Arctic Workshop is open to all interested in high latitude environments, including those of the past, present, and future. Talks and posters on all aspects of Arctic science, social science, and engineering are invited, including Arctic and Antarctic climate, anthropology, atmospheric chemistry, engineering and infrastructure, environmental geochemistry, paleoenvironment, sociology, archeology, geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology, soils, ecology, oceanography, Quaternary history and more. If you are studying the Arctic, this is the conference for you.

THEME

The Arctic’s New Normal: Shifting environmental baselines over decades to millennia and comparisons with Antarctica. Please consider contributing to the optional workshop theme by tying your talk or poster to changing conditions in the Arctic. Also encouraged are documenting changes in the land around Antarctica and comparing responses between the two Polar Regions. The program will be organized in sessions developed from the submitted abstracts.

SCHEDULE

Reception and registration: Friday evening, April 1 from 5-8pm.

Main Program: Saturday and Sunday April 2-3, meeting will end by 4pm (the exact time will be posted after abstract deadline)

REGISTRATION

$25 Students presenting talk or poster
$50 Arctic Indigenous Resident
$100 Students not presenting
$150 Professionals
$200 Late Registrant

All registrations include lunch Saturday and Sunday as well as snacks and drinks during the breaks.

LODGING

Organizers have arranged a block of rooms at the Best Western Plus Boulder Inn

Deadline for hotel special rate is 01 March, 2016 http://instaar.colorado.edu/meetings/AW2016/travel_info/lodging.html

EMAIL CONTACT

ArcticWS [at] colorado.edu

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

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.

Welcome! Bienvenue! Tunngasugit!

The 2016 Students on Ice Arctic expedition will be a profound hands-on experience for youth to expand their knowledge of the changing circumpolar world, foster a new understanding and respect for the planet, and gain the inspiration and motivation needed to help lead us to a healthy and sustainable future.

Our ship-based expedition will bring together more than 100 youth from around the world with inspiring scientists, elders, educators, artists, musicians, CEO’s, dignitaries, journalists, authors and innovators. Immersed in nature and engaged in cross-disciplinary activity, students will be inspired, motivated, educated and challenged.

Each day will be filled with exploration, discovery, presentations, workshops, hands-on research, hikes, and lots of adventure! Activities will include wildlife encounters, visits to Arctic communities, as well as the opportunity to acquire first-hand knowledge and insight into the dynamics of climate change, traditional knowledge, scientific research, policy and other important Arctic and global topics.

Please explore this website for information about the 2016 Students on Ice Arctic Expedition and how you can apply as a student or staff and check back in the winter for updates and scholarship opportunities!

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2016 AT 5PM EST!

*Due to a new scholarship and internship opportunity for Arctic 2016 participants, the application deadline has been extended to April 1, 2016 at 5pm EST.

The third speaker for the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) D.C. Seminar Series will be Dr. Jeremy Mathis of the NOAA Climate Program Office.

Where: ARCUS DC Office - 1201 New York Avenue, NW. Fourth Floor. Washington, DC 20005 and live webinar online.

Registration: (required for both D.C. seminar attendees and for webinar) is now available online. Please see above link.

The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series brings some of the leading Arctic researchers to Washington, D.C. to share the latest findings and what they mean for decision-making in clear and understandable terms. The seminars are open, and will be of interest to Federal agency officials, Congressional staff, NGOs, associations, and the public. Please help us by spreading the word to your colleagues and others who might be interested.

A live webinar is also available to those unable to attend in person. Instructions for accessing the webinar will be sent to 'Webinar Only' registrants prior to the event.

Space is limited for this free seminar, so please sign up today. This event is a brown-bag lunch. Cookies and beverages will be provided.

To read the abstract and Dr. Jeremy Mathis' bio, please follow the link above.

The Juneau Workshop, organized in collaboration with University of Alaska Southeast Department of Social Science, aims to explore the contributions and potentials of Arctic social sciences in the emerging synergies that involve humanities, natural sciences, and engineering. The connections we attempt to foster reach mainly into two directions within the recent history of Arctic research. One direction builds on the legacy of the IPY 2007-2008, which helped highlight numerous transformative contributions made by social scientists. The second direction considers (1) transdisciplinary methodological and analytical frameworks that connect social sciences and humanities and (2) the collaborative undertakings that broadly engage social sciences and humanities while also involving the instrumentation of engineering and natural science. The workshop attempts to extend the legacy of social and biological science collaborations (cultivated over multiple endeavors and especially during the IPY 2007-2008) to inform engineering and infrastructure in the circumpolar regions; it explores the aesthetic perspectives employed in the development and use of built environments; it asks how the humanities and social science synergies fostered elsewhere can benefit and be enhanced through current and future research in Arctic social sciences.

The International Glaciological Society will hold a second International Symposium on ‘Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean’ in 2016. The symposium will be held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and is a follow-on to the successful 2011 IGS symposium on the same theme, which brought together 194 delegates from nearly 20 countries and resulted in the publication of 36 peer-reviewed research articles cited over 650 times since 2012. The Symposium will also serve as the first of two annual Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP) meetings to be held in 2016. FRISP (http://folk.uib.no/ngfso/FRISP/index.html) originated as a subcommittee of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Working Group of Glaciology.

THEME:
The mass balance of the Earth’s land ice (ice sheets, glaciers and ice caps) and the circulation of the adjacent oceans are strongly coupled through physical processes occurring at the ice–ocean interfaces at the fronts and bases of ice shelves and glacier tongues, and the termini of tidewater glaciers. Improved understanding of these processes is essential to realistically represent the evolution of ice sheets and glaciers in a changing climate and to improve predictions of global ocean circulation and sea-level change. The goals of this symposium are to: (1) assess the state of our knowledge of ice–ocean interactions; and (2) discuss what is needed for development of reliable, quantitative models of ice-sheet evolution.

We expect that this symposium will attract experts in ice-sheet, ice-shelf, glacier, ocean and climate studies whose research addresses interactions of the ocean (including sea ice) and land ice in the global climate system using in situ observations, remote sensing and/or modeling. While we expect most contributions to be related to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, we encourage contributions on all aspects of interactions between ice sheets, glaciers and the ocean, towards achieving the symposium goals.

For more information please follow the link above.

Abstract submission is now open. Deadline for submission is EXTENDED until 29 March. Please note that the abstract submission system is separate from the IGS portal. You will have to register your details if you have not submitted an abstract with us before.

Interested in attending? Please register your interest. This will ensure you will receive all relevant notifications related to the symposium.

Co-sponsored by:

• Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP)
• Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean network (GRISO)
• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• National Science Foundation
• NASA

Arctic human systems are undergoing unprecedented change. Against a backdrop of climate change, globalization and technological advances are positioning the Arctic as a site of resource wealth, international shipping, and political contestation. President Obama’s recent trip to Alaska highlighted at once the changing environment of the Arctic, symbolized by melting sea and glacier ice, and the drive to develop Arctic resources epitomized recently by Shell’s Arctic offshore oil campaign. Though climate warming and resource extraction are already leaving their imprint on the Arctic, it is not yet clear how northern communities will respond to these interlinked forces.

In this session, we seek to improve understanding of human responses to environmental and economic change in the Arctic. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Changing demographics of Arctic cities
• Cultural responses to globalization in the North
• Vulnerability and resilience to environmental change
• Growth and impacts of extractive economies
• Port development and shipping activities
• Environmental protection and regulatory frameworks
• Evolving national and international governance regimes

You’re invited to attend the public release of Next Generation Earth System Prediction: Strategies for Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecasts, a new consensus report that identifies opportunities to improve forecasting of weather, ocean, and other environmental conditions weeks to months ahead. The report presents a 10-year research agenda to accelerate progress in the nation’s subseasonal to seasonal forecasting capabilities to help support decision making.

The report release briefing will feature:

• A presentation by the Chair of the report’s authoring committee, Raymond Ban of Ban Associates, LLC
• A Q&A session with Mr. Ban and committee members Robert Hallberg of NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory and Scott Sandgathe of the University of Washington.

WHAT:
This is a three part meeting: 1) to advance efforts by the International Snow Working Group-Remote Sensing (iSWGR) in promoting snow remote sensing efforts through research initiatives and education, 2) to continue planning for a large NASA (and possibly international) snow remote sensing field effort (SnowX), and 3) to educate the community about the potential of the ASO airborne snow observatory operated by JPL.

WHEN:
Tuesday, March 29, 8-noon: International Snow Working Group Remote Sensing (iSWGR) and Decadal Survey Updates
Tuesday, March 29, noon-5: SnowEx Planning
Wednesday, March 30, 8-5: SnowEx Planning
Thursday, March 31, 8-1: Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) Info and Workshop

All interested in snow remote sensing are welcome to attend. Please sign up here:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jdlund/292655?solstice_selected_but…

If you plan to attend, please fill out the short form by following the link above.

The meeting will be held in the Waterfront Activities Center on the
University of Washington Campus:

http://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/wac

This is very close to the new light rail station, which will be the best way to get there if you're not within walking distance.

http://www.soundtransit.org/ulink