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This multi-disciplinary conference will be both inclusive and substantive involving biologists, geologists, geographers and palaeontologists addressing research questions over different timescales, i.e. decadal, multi-decadal, millennial or tens of millennia to millions of years in deep time.

The conference will provide a unique platform to present a range of research cultures and topics linked to the common challenges of understanding the impact of climate change on ecosystems throughout geological time.

Four Key Themes have been identified:

• Bridging Timescales: reconciling research on Ma timescales with that on a resolution of ka or a;
• Data Modeling: framing and testing hypotheses in deep and shallow time;
• Comparing the impacts of change at the equator and the poles, and;
• Looking forward: what can past changes tell us about the present/future.

The conference will take place in association with the Climate Impacts Research Centre and will be hosted at Van Mildert College, Durham University as part of its 50th Anniversary celebrations.

For further information, please visit the conference workshop link above.

The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of anywhere else on Earth. Recent monitoring indicates that this is having major impacts on the extent and distribution of ice masses, sea ice, permafrost, and Arctic ecosystems. Environmental change in this sensitive region has implications not only for the Arctic itself, but also for the global climate system. This session explores the current status of climate change in the Arctic and the approaches that are being used to manage these changes for local environments, communities, and industries. The special session, to be held as part of the World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation, to be held in Manchester, UK on 2-4th September 2015, will bring together climate scientists, engineering and energy specialists, as well as social scientists and NGOs. We particularly welcome papers that focus on innovative environmental monitoring, engineering, and adaptation strategies.

Papers accepted for the special session will be published in the book “Innovative Approaches to Implement Climate Change Adaptation” (Springer), as part of the “Climate Change Management Series”, the leading book series on the topic: http://www.springer.com/series/8740

Details of the Symposium are available at:
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/wscca-2015.html

An abstract submission form and guidelines are available at:
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/FakLS/07Forschung/FTZ-A…

For abstract submissions, please indicate the special session ‘Arctic climate change’. If you have any queries or need further details, please contact Dr Adamson at: K.Adamson [at] mmu.ac.uk

Abstract deadline: December 20th 2014
Submission of full papers: 30th March 2015
Early bird registration deadline: January 30th 2015
Registration deadline: May 30th 2015

The Department of Geography at Durham University is delighted to be hosting the British Branch meeting of the International Glaciological Society on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd September, 2015.

As in previous meetings, the conference will include oral and poster presentations, spread over two days, on a wide range of snow and ice research. In the spirit of previous meetings, registration and accommodation costs will be kept to a minimum and delegates from overseas are very much welcome to attend.

The conference dinner will take place in the magnificent Great Hall of Durham Castle on the evening of Wednesday 2nd September. Accommodation (both en-suite and shared bathroom) has been reserved in nearby Grey College. A number of other accommodation options are available for those who wish to make their own arrangements.

Durham is a spectacular cathedral city with a rich heritage. Narrow cobbled streets wind their way around the rocky peninsula to the majestic Norman cathedral and castle, which are a designated World Heritage Site. The city is well served by motorway access, Durham railway station, and Newcastle International Airport (30 minutes by car, 1 hour by rail).

Registration and abstract submission will open in mid-May, when further details will be circulated.

We are pleased to announce the 33rd International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM). It will take place from 31 August to 04 September 2015 in Innsbruck, a scenic town located in the heart of the Austrian Alps. Papers on all aspects of mountain weather and climate are welcome, including but not limited to:

• Dry and moist dynamical processes in complex terrain
• Boundary layer processes, air quality and chemistry in mountainous regions
• Stable and convective orographic precipitation
• Snow, ice and hydrological processes in mountainous terrain
• Mountain climate, extreme events and associated risks
• Impacts of climate change in mountainous regions
• Numerical modeling of weather and climate in mountainous regions
• Data assimilation and predictability in complex terrain
• Statistical post-processing of numerical weather and climate predictions
• Recent and future field campaigns in complex terrain

The conference is hosted by the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (IMGI) at the University of Innsbruck (UIBK). It will be held at the Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine (CCB).

Important Dates include:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 07 April 2015
• Notification of Acceptance: End of May 2015
• Early Registration Deadline: 26 June 2015
• Hotel Booking Deadline: 30 July 2015
• Conference: 31 Aug - 04 Sep 2015

For more information and to register, please visit the conference website.

APECS members are invited to participate in an IARPC (Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee) webinar to learn about the benefits of being a part of the IARPC Collaborations website. This special website tutorial will focus on effective use of the IARPC Collaborations website for early career scientists.

During the webinar you will learn how to:

• Join one or more of the 12 thematic research teams led by federal program managers
• Attend collaboration team meetings with informational research webinars
• Effectively post on the IARPC Collaborations website to contribute your research to reporting on the Arctic Research Plan
• Form interdisciplinary collaborations with Arctic scientists and stakeholders from Federal, State, academic, NGO, and industry organizations

Date: August 26, 2015 (through WebEx)
Time: 3 to 4 pm EDT

Attendance is limited and registration is required. Email IARPC Collaborations Web Manager Jessica Rohde to request attendance (jrohde [at] arcus.org).

What is IARPC Collaborations?
IARPC Collaborations is the structure created by the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) to implement its 5-Year Research Plan. The structure is organized around 12 topical Collaboration Teams. The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), which consists of principals from 16 agencies, departments, and offices across the Federal government, is charged with enhancing both the scientific monitoring of and research on local, regional, and global environmental issues in the Arctic. In order to meet the Nation's economic, scientific, and environmental needs, IARPC envisions a prosperous, sustainable and healthy Arctic understood through research coordinated among Federal agencies and domestic and international collaborators. More information about IARPC and its charter can be found on IARPC page at the National Science and Technology Council website.

ATTENTION RESEARCHERS IN THE NOME REGION: The US Arctic Research Commission (Fran Ulmer, Chair) invites you to share your Arctic research activities and/or suggestions on research when the Commission meets in Nome, Alaska, August 25-26, 2015. There will be limited opportunities for formal presentations to the Commission, as well as a community comment period. If you would like to share your research (or ideas on research) with the Commission and will be in the area during our visit, please contact USARC's Deputy Director, Cheryl Rosa, at crosa [at] arctic.gov by June 30th.

An increasingly ice-diminished environment in the Arctic is accelerating interest and potential for new maritime trade routes, merchant transportation, and resource development such as mining, oil & gas exploration, tourism and fishing. The IMO and the Arctic Council have been focused on ‘Safe Arctic Shipping’ through the recently adopted Polar Code and as a key theme among the Arctic Council’s priorities. The World Maritime University plays a key role in conducting research on, and building capacity in, Arctic issues and governance.

The pace of development in the Arctic marine environment is challenging our capacity to prepare for it in a safe and sustainable way. It is urgent to engage stakeholders in resource development, shipping, sustainable management, and those most likely impacted (e.g., coastal communities) in the ShipArc 2015 international conference to discuss a forward-looking regulatory, governance, research, and capacity-building agenda that will assist in achieving Safe and Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic Environment.

Themes

• The Polar Code: Implementation & Compliance Assurance
• Beyond the Polar Code
• Arctic Governance
• Sustainable Arctic Business Development
• Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
• Training, Capacity-Building, Science & Research
• Call for Papers and Posters

Papers and posters under all themes will inform and enrich the conference discussions. The extended abstract submission deadline is 30 June 2015 to AbstractsShipArc2015 [at] wmu.se

We invite people to participate in the second international conference for "Polar Climate and Environmental Change in the Last Millennium", to be held in Torun, Poland, August 24-26, 2015. The aim of the conference is to present scientific achievements, detect gaps in the field of the historical climatology of the area of polar regions based on early meteorological observations, history, dendroclimatology, paleolimnology, geophysics, geomorphology and other sources.

Conference Topics include:

• Sources of paleoclimate information;
• Research methods of climatic changes in historical times;
• The climate of the area of polar regions in the last millennium and its changeability;
• Causes and effects of climate change in historical times

Invited speakers and their topics include:

Prof. Terry Callaghan, UK
Interpreting long-term ecosystem change and stability: case studies from the Arctic and sub-Arctic
Prof. Klaus Dethloff, Germany
Regional and global interactions between Arctic sea ice and the atmospheric circulation
Prof. Antoni Lewkowicz, Canada
Evolution of mountain and latitudinal permafrost in northwest Canada
Prof. Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Iceland
Documentary evidence of changes in climate and sea-ice incidence in Iceland during the last millennium
Prof. Rein Vaikmäe, Estonia
Polar climate and glaciation during the last millennium
Prof. Jan Marcin Wês3awski, Poland
20 years of observations of the warming of marine ecosystem on Svalbard versus older historical records
Dr. Kevin Wood, USA
Old Weather: progress and future plans

Registration is open on the conference website. Details about the submission of abstracts (including a template) and about the conference fees are also available there. After the abstracts are evaluated the Scientific Committee will decide about the form of presentation (oral or poster).

ACDC 2015 (Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses)

Topic: Climate and Volcanism

Target: Advanced PhD candidates and early career scientists.

Goal: To mix students and lecturers with empirical/proxy and dynamical training within climate science and focus on understanding the basic principles and dynamics behind current topics in our field. This year we will focus on changes to volcanism and its link to climate in the past, present and future. In particular, we will investigate the possible link between volcanic activity on mid-ocean ridges, sea level and glacial cycles, as well as the link between glacial unloading and volcanism on land. Lectures will also focus on the impact of volcanic eruptions on atmospheric chemistry, circulation and climate.

Confirmed lecturers:

• Peter Huybers (Harvard),
• Annica Ekman (Stockholm University),
• Trude Storelvmo (Yale),
• Ilona Riipinen (SU),
• Kristin Krüger (UiO),
• Kerim H. Nisancioglu (UiB),
• Patrick Heimbach (UTA/MIT),
• David Battisti (University of Washington),
• Jake Gebbie (WHOI),
• Tore Furevik (UiB), and
• Øyvind Paasche (UiB)

Application form and more information can be found online at above link or resclim.no/activities/courses/acdc-2015-climate-and-vuolcanism/

Deadline is now 21st of March, 2015!

The Arctic Circle in cooperation with Alaskan partners and authorities invites decision-makers, experts, business and political leaders and others for a forum on Arctic shipping and port development, August 23–25, 2015, at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska.

The goal of the forum is to articulate plans and facilitate partnerships for developing safe, secure and reliable shipping through the Arctic, with a focus on the Bering Sea and other Arctic sea routes. At this stage of Arctic development, public- and private-sector cooperation will be essential to good outcomes. Similar partnerships in the past helped create the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Panama and Suez Canals. The meeting will lead to the establishment of an Arctic Circle task force on shipping.

The forum is being hosted by the State of Alaska and partners, including President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland; Alice Rogoff, publisher of Alaska Dispatch News; and Mead Treadwell, president of Pt Capital and former Alaska lieutenant governor, in cooperation with Governor Bill Walker and legislative leaders.

Attendees will work toward the following goals:

• Plans for safe and reliable global shipping practices that protect the hunting and fishing activities of our Arctic residents and our environment
• Public, private and intergovernmental cooperation models to produce the necessary infrastructure investments to reach these goals
• The establishment of a task force that will develop further partnerships necessary to offer global shippers a regular, safe, secure and reliable shipping system in the Arctic

This gathering builds on the success of the Arctic Imperative Summits convened in Alaska in 2011 and 2012 and the Arctic Circle Assemblies in Iceland in 2013 and 2014. It will be convened under the umbrella of the Arctic Circle as the first in a series of issues-based forums held around the world.

To register, please visit www.alaskasummit.com, where you will find more information, meeting details, and a draft program. For further questions, please contact:
info [at] alaskasummit.com
alaskaforum [at] arcticcircle.org