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Organizers invite participation in the upcoming NSF-sponsored Interdisciplinary Antarctic Earth Science Meeting (ANT-Sci). It will be held 20-22 September 2015 on the Sylvan Dale Ranch in Loveland, Colorado.

The meeting is intended to provide a forum for recent Antarctic research, to facilitate the exchange of information, and to encourage interdisciplinary research in the Earth Sciences. It will be convened as a single-session meeting that will include invited and contributed presentations, daily poster sessions, and dedicated discussion time to promote exchange of ideas. The program will be guided by an interdisciplinary organizing committee that will identify unifying session themes based on community interest along with the critical questions identified by the U.S. Polar Research Board and the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. The meeting will immediately follow the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) meeting at the same venue.

In advance of the proposed Shackleton Camp logistics hub, the ANT-Sci meeting will include a dedicated session to communicate key information about the camp planning process with participation by NSF and Antarctic Support Contract staff.

Details on session topics, registration and lodging will follow. For questions, please contact organizing committee member Melissa Nigro at melissa.nigro [at] colorado.edu.

Scientific Conference: Longyearbyen, 20-21 September 2015
Field Workshops for young researchers: Longyearbyen area, 18-19 September 2015; Hornsund, 22-24 September 2015

The University Centre in Svalbard, Norway (UNIS) and the Centre for Polar Studies, Poland (CPS) together with University of Oslo and University of Sheffield invite to conference and field workshops under the common title Interdisciplinary Polar Studies in Svalbard (IPSiS).

The main goal of IPSiS is to facilitate international and interdisciplinary cooperation in studies on the interactive effects of climate change on Arctic nature and societies. The meeting has a special focus on young scientists and PhD students in particular, and is meant to enable them to share ideas and acquire new skills and experiences in Arctic research, mainly by participating in the workshops.

The conference part of IPSiS will provide a venue where scientists, authorities, entrepreneurs and local inhabitants will have an opportunity to meet, exchange experience and discuss monitoring the current climate change and its effects in the Arctic. The plenary sessions of the conference will be open to general audience including Longyearbyen citizens, authorities and entrepreneurs.

IPSiS will cover wide range of disciplines and study areas: climatology and atmosphere physics, glaciology, geomorphology, periglacial processes, freshwater hydrology, terrestrial ecology, physical oceanography, marine ecology, environmental chemistry, human activity in the Arctic. Abstracts of oral presentations and posters are welcomed for submission.

Important dates:
Abstracts submission, application for workshops: 15 May 2015
Notification on acceptance of abstracts and participation in workshops: 8 June 2015
Registration with regular fee rate: 30 June 2015
Late registration: 31 July 2015
Application forms will be available at the webpage shortly.

This three-day conference aims to bring together UK Arctic scientists of all natural and social science disciplines to present and discuss recent findings. We welcome presentations on the following topics:

• Terrestrial Biogeochemistry
• Terrestrial Ecology
• Arctic Oceanography
• Ice-Ocean Interaction
• Landscape Processes and Dynamics
• Arctic Climate
• Terrestrial Cryosphere: Snow and ice – past and present
• Arctic Change – implications for society and culture

Key dates:
Friday 17th July 2015: Abstract submission deadline.
Friday 28th August 2015: Registration deadline.

Please note: Although there is no registration fee, refreshments will be provided, including a sandwich buffet lunch on Thursday 17th September. Participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.

To register, please follow this link: https://secure.antarctica.ac.uk/conference/ukarctic2015/

Organizers announce that registration is currently available for the 21st Integrating Arctic Plant and Microbial Ecology (ITEX) Meeting. It will be convened 16-18 September 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden.

The conference is open to all scientists and students with an interest in Arctic and alpine ecology. All areas of ecological research in both terrestrial and aquatic environments in alpine or polar regions are welcome. A special focus at this meeting is linking above and below-ground processes under climate change.

Registration and session proposal deadline: 1 June 2015.

For further information, please visit the conference webpage above.

The Swedish Agricultural University, Uppsala University, and The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) announces that the 21st ITEX meeting is scheduled for 15-18 September 2015. It will be held at the Campus Ultuna, Swedish Agricultural University in Uppsala, Sweden.

The conference is open for all scientists and students with an interest in arctic and alpine ecology. All areas of ecological research in both terrestrial and aquatic environments in alpine or polar regions are welcome! A special focus at this meeting is linking above and belowground processes under climate change.

You can look forward to three interesting days, and we especially welcome students to present research. Ten of the 40 slots for oral presentation are reserved for students.

All areas of ecological research spanning climate change and above- and below- ground processes in alpine or polar regions are welcome. Information on how and when to register, conference fees, and instructions for oral and poster presentations are available on the conference website.

Ideas for workshops (focusing on meta-analysis, new collaboration, etc.) can be sent to:
Sara Hallin
Email: Sara.Hallin [at] slu.se

The National Park Service's Shared Beringian Heritage Program announces the 2015 Request for Proposals.

The NPS Shared Beringian Heritage Program funds cooperative efforts that link people, organizations, institutions, and local governments across the Bering Strait. Projects funded under this program may be either scientific research projects or local, community-based educational, cultural or conservation projects that fulfill some or all of the goals of the Beringia program. Full proposals are due Monday, September 14, 2015

To be eligible to apply:

• A duration of 1 to 3 years and funding not to exceed $150,000 for three years.
• Cooperator must be a non-profit organization, which Includes non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, tribal governments, and representative indigenous groups from the region
• Project has to meet one or more of the goals of the Beringia Program
• Proposal includes a "meaningful" Russian component
• Submitted applications must be received electronically by midnight on the 14th of September and if mailed in, must be postmarked by the 9th of September.

If you are having issues with any part of the application, or have questions about any step in the proposal process, please call:

Katerina Wessels, Program Specialist
Phone: 907-644-3602
Email: katerina_wessels [at] nps.gov

or Janis Kozlowski
Phone: 907-644-3503
Email: janis_kozlowski [at] nps.gov

The ongoing global process of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) contributes significantly to present-day rates of sea level change, causes temporal changes in the Earth’s gravitational field, and is evident in the displacement of the Earth’s surface.

A training school focused on GIA modeling will be held from 13-19 September, 2015, at the Ohio State University’s Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie, Ohio. The school is aimed at early-stage researchers from a wide range of backgrounds, and no previous experience in GIA modeling is required. An introduction to the fundamentals, methods, applications, and current state of GIA modeling will be provided. Participants will be given intensive training on GIA modeling and relevant processes, including ice mass change, solid-earth deformation, and sea-level and geoid variations, and they will learn about the multitude of relevant data and data sources used to generate, tune, and constrain GIA models. The program will include both lectures and computer exercises utilizing freely available modeling software, and participants should expect to come away with an understanding of the theory and development behind GIA modeling as well the practical ability to independently install and run GIA modeling software.

Instructors for the GIA School include Mike Bentley, Mike Bevis, Ian Dalziel, Erik Ivins, Matt King, Meredith Nettles, Giorgio Spada, Holger Steffen, Bert Vermeersen, Wouter van der Wal, Pippa Whitehouse, and Doug Wiens.

There is no registration fee, and participants will be provided with food and lodging for the duration of the training school. Funding for additional travel expenses, including airfare, may be available for both US and non-US participants. Individuals seeking financial support should submit both an Enrollment Application and a Financial Support Application, available at www.polenet.org. The deadline for application is 31 March, 2015.

Financial support is provided by NSF-Polar/Antarctic Earth Sciences and the SCAR-SERCE Research Programme.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The course provides a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. Topics include:

• Continuum mechanics
• Kinematics
• Ice rheology
• Sliding and hydraulics
• Numerical modeling
• Polar meteorology
• Ice-ocean interaction
• Ice cores
• Interaction of ice sheets with the solid earth
• Glacier fluctuations

Lectures will be given in the morning and exercises (including computer projects) in the afternoon. An excursion will be organized to nearby glaciers. The course is meant for Ph.D. students that work on a glaciology-related climate project. Some places are available for junior scientists. The registration fee is € 700. This covers lodging, full board, excursion and course material.

Lecturers include:

• T. Blunier
• O.Eisen
• H. Gudmundsson
• A. Jenkins
• N. Karlsson
• F. Ng
• F. Pattyn
• A. Stroeven
• C. Tijm-Reijmer
• R. van de Wal
• J. Oerlemans (convenor)

Send your application to the convenor (j.oerlemans [at] uu.nl), before 18 May 2015. You will be notified about the decision of the Selection Committee by 15 June 2015.
Your application should include:

• A statement why you want to participate in this course
• Affiliation, name of supervisor
• A description of your research project (~200 words)
• A curriculum vitae
  Please supply this information as a single PDF file.

The Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 11) will be taking place in Vienna from September 7-11, 2015. CHAGS 10 - held at Liverpool in June 2013 - has put hunter-gatherer studies back at the centre of scholarly debates and CHAGS 11 will make sure that the momentum is not being lost. The Vienna conference will be a joint effort by four among the major anthropological institutions in town – the World Museum Vienna (formerly the Museum of Ethnology), the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, and the Anthropological Society Vienna.

Call for Sessions (deadline October 1, 2014)

CHAGS 11 Conference Theme - REFOCUSING HUNTER-GATHERER STUDIES

With the landmark conference Man the Hunter in 1966 the study of hunter-gatherer societies became a major topic within the social and human sciences. Since then, some of the topics and concerns – egalitarianism, sharing, and mobility – remain central, while others – such as social and technological evolution – have seen better times. Thus, while scholarly trends change over time, the goal of the initial conference, to establish a unified field of hunter-gatherer studies, is still valid. The general question of CHAGS 11 therefore is how the results of the last 50 years and new research agendas can be utilized for the present and future.

While many hunter-gatherers are forced to give up their ways of life and subsistence practices, they figure prominently in public discourses on ecological and ideological alternatives to industrial society. Thus, CHAGS 11 will attempt to attract a variety of stakeholders in these debates – indigenous representatives, NGOs, scholars, etc. Based on fieldwork and research from the full spectrum of hunter-gatherer ways of life and from all perspectives our disciplines have to offer, the goal of CHAGS 11 is to bring hunter-gatherer studies back to the center of the human and social sciences.

Session proposals addressing topics ranging from the classical domains of hunter-gatherer research to new and alternative practices referencing hunter-gatherer lifestyles are welcome. We would like to encourage colleagues to think about NEW FORMS OF SESSION STRUCTURES and PRESENTATION FORMATS. While the old 20-minute lecture style is still valid, sessions in the form of a round table, science-slam, debate session, informal exchange, etc., as well as the inclusion of discussants, are encouraged. Also, we suggest that session organizers strive to balance the composition of their presenters by age, gender, geography, and ethnicity to provide a dialog across divergent experiences in the world of hunter-gatherer scholarship.

Please send your session proposals in a WORD document, including the name of organizer(s), title, description of content and form (maximally 300 words) to chags11 [at] univie.ac.at by OCTOBER 1, 2014. The proposals will be reviewed by the International Organizing Committee of CHAGS 11 shortly thereafter.

Organizers of the 6th International Conference on Polar and Alpine Microbiology announce a call for early registration and abstract submission. The conference will be held 6-10 September 2015 in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.

This meeting will be a continuation of the highly successful meetings previously held in Rovaniemi 2004 (Finland), Innsbruck 2006 (Austria), Banff 2008 (Canada), Ljubljana 2011 (Slovenia), and Big Sky 2013 (USA). The conference will bring together the scientific community for discourse on the latest in all aspects of cold-living microorganisms and their role in polar and alpine environments. The 2015 conference will again provide an opportunity to share ideas and build research collaborations addressing the latest developments in microbiology in polar and alpine habitats.

We welcome submissions for oral and poster presentations that fit any of the conference topics:

• Polar/alpine microbiology and environmental change: past, present and future
• Microbial diversity and evolution
• Cold physiology and cryobiology
• Supraglacial, glacial and subglacial microbiology
• Polar/alpine cyanobacteria
• Biotechnology in low temperatures
• Astrobiology of icy worlds

The deadline for abstract submission and early registration is 1 May 2015.

For further information, or to register or submit an abstract, please go to: http://polaralpinemicrobiology2015.prf.jcu.cz/pages/index.