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The next (26th) Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly will be held in Prague from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July, 2015. Registration and abstract submission are now open! The deadline for grant applications is January 15th, 2015, and the abstract submission deadline is January 31st, 2015.

This will be an important meeting for the cryospheric sciences, with more than 20 symposia led by The International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) http://www.cryosphericsciences.org.

This meeting will provide a forum for cryospheric scientists to interact with oceanographers, hydrologists, atmospheric scientists, seismologists, volcanologists, geodesists and geomagneticists, as IUGG assemblies bring together scientists from all branches of geophysics represented by the eight semi-autonomous IUGG Associations (http://www.iugg.org/associations/).

The full programme is available at http://www.iugg2015prague.com/scientific-program.htm. Note that IAMAS (meteorology and atmospheric sciences) are yet to put up their programme, thus more relevant sessions will appear soon.

Many of the sessions below will be co-convened by a young scientist from APECS (http://www.apecs.is/en/). Selection of APECS conveners is currently in progress - there may still be an opportunity to assist if you are interested.

IACS will offer a number of travel grants, especially to postgraduate students, early career scientists, and scientists from developing countries who submit a high-quality abstract. See here for more information: http://www.iugg2015prague.com/funding-grant-applications.htm.

The XXI Conference on Groundwater in Siberia and Far East will be held in Yakutsk, Russia from 22-26 June 2015. Organizers invite those interested in attending the conference to pre-register before 31 December 2014.

The Conference on Groundwater in Siberia and Far East has a long-standing history and is held every three years. The first conference was convened in October 1955 by the East Siberian Department of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Irkutsk Geological Survey, USSR Ministry of Geology and Mineral Conservation. The 2015 conference will mark the 60th year since the first forum of Siberian hydrogeologists was organized.

This conference will be held as part of the Federal Target Program 2010-2015: Clean Water to present the advances in fundamental hydrogeology since the XX Conference in 2012 (Irkutsk) and to discuss a wide range of issues of importance for hydrogeology in Russia and worldwide.

The topics for the conference are as follows:

• Groundwater in permafrost: state of knowledge, exploration, and use
• Evolution of groundwater systems related to climatic change and human activities
• Interaction of groundwater with soils, rocks and surface water
• Petroleum hydrogeology
• Groundwater use and protection
• Modeling and GIS technologies in hydrogeology
• Hydrogeology education
• Regional hydrogeology

For more information on the conference, please visit the conference link above.

The International Glaciological Society (IGS) will hold an International Symposium on ‘Hydrology of glaciers and ice sheets’ in 2015 in Höfn, Iceland, from 21–27 June 2015.

This symposium will provide a forum to discuss all aspects of glacier and ice sheet hydrology and their connections to other areas of the cryosphere as well as climate sciences. It will provide an opportunity to present advances in ground- based measurements, remote sensing and modelling to stimulate discussions on their interpretation and implications. The meeting seeks to bring together scientists from around the world, to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of glacier and ice-sheet hydrology and to provide a focus on key areas for future research.

This symposium will cover all aspects of glacial hydrology, including:

• Glacier catchment hydrology (timing and magnitude of runoff, floods and droughts, influence of climate change, subdaily variations, applications to stakeholders, future water availability)
• Supraglacial and firn hydrology (surface mass balance, meltwater retention in firn, percolation, ice lensing, supraglacial streams and lakes, supraglacial systems on ice shelves and ice tongues, aquatic biological communities, ice/ dust interaction, influence on albedo)
• Englacial and subglacial hydrology (crevassing and moulins, influence on thermal structure, basal melting/freezing, englacial and subglacial channels, submarine melting, subglacial lakes, thermodynamics at meltwater–ice interface, biology)
• Basal sliding and ice dynamics (sliding speed, dependence on effective pressure, cavitation, sediment strength, hydrology of ice streams, calving processes)
• Jökulhlaups and hazards (subglacial lakes and outburst floods, marginal lakes, moraine-dammed lakes, timing and magnitude of discharge)
• Erosion and landforms (role in quarrying, deformation and transport of sediments, eskers, drumlins, mega-scale glacial lineations)
• Hydrology of subglacial eruptions (meltwater production and pathways, eruption site water retention, steam and ash, floods, subglacial geothermal areas, porous media hydrology and thermodynamics)
• Instrumentation and methods (remote sensing, field techniques, new technologies, geochemistry)

A mixture of oral and poster sessions, interlaced with ample free time, forms the general framework of the symposium, which is intended to facilitate exchange of scientific information between participants in an informal manner. Additional activities include the customary icebreaker, a symposium banquet along with pre-, mid- and post-symposium field excursions to specifically selected, stellar locations at and around Vatnajökull and south Iceland.

Please go to http://www.igsoc.org/symposia/2015/iceland/ and register your interest to attend. That way you will ensure you will receive all communications relating to the symposium.

ISOPE-2015 Technical Program Committee members from 35 countries plan to organize some 150 technical and keynote sessions of peer-reviewed papers in cooperation with 30 global cooperating organizations. Delegates from some 50 countries will participate. Since 1990, ISOPE has held 54 successful international conferences and symposia. Topics cover ocean and Arctic-related technologies. For details, find call for papers on www.isope.org.

The goal of this project is to assist the Arctic, Western Alaska, and Aleutian and Bering Sea Island Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) with synthesis and delivery of coastal resilience and adaptation information, ideas, tools, activities, and lessons learned across the coast of Alaska. This project aims to deliver existing coastal resilience and adaptation information to a primary audience of communities and resource managers in western Alaska.

Deadline: 12:00 midnight (ADT), June 21, 2015.

Download the full RFP with instructions: https://absilcc.org/outreach/Hosted%20Documents/Coastal%20Resilience%20…

Organizers announce the availability of a National Weather Service Alaska Climate Forecast Briefing webinar. The event will be held Friday, 19 June 2015 at 12:00-1:00 p.m. It can be attended on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus (IARC, Akasofu 407) or online (http://accap.adobeconnect.com/june_2015/event/event_info.html).

Do you lay awake at nights wondering what the upcoming season will be like? Want to place bets with friends and family on next month's weather? If so, good news:

The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. Rick Thoman (Climate Science and Services Manager, Environmental and Scientific Services Division, National Weather Service Alaska Region) will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review forecast tools and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center's forecast for the upcoming season.

Thoman will also present a "Feature-of-the-Month" special addition in which each month he will highlight a topic relevant to the particular month. This will be a monthly series generally taking place the third Friday of each month.

For questions, please contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Phone: 907-474-7812
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu

Presented by Dr. Mary Albert, Executive Director for IDPO, the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) coordinate planning and provide ice drilling and ice coring support for NSF-funded ice core research. The webinar will include a quick overview of the IDPO-IDDO, including how IDPO-IDDO works with the science community for short and long-range (decadal) planning of science involving ice coring or drilling, and how IDPO-IDDO retrieves cores or create access holes in ice for U.S. scientists. Webinar participants will learn how they can tap into these resources if conducting ice core analyses on the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, glaciers, and/or seasonal ice in temperate regions. Information on IDPO-IDDO and their services can be found at: http://icedrill.org/.

To register, please visit: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/608954986533373954. Webinar ID: 114-406-971

The British Antarctic Survey, in cooperation with the Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences (part of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research), announce an invitation to the attend and participate in the 10th Antarctic Meteorological Observing, Modeling, and Forecasting Workshop (AMOMFW). The event will be held 17-19 June 2015 at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

This workshop brings together those with research and operational/logistical interests in Antarctic meteorology and forecasting and related disciplines. As in the past, the annual activities and status of the observing (e.g. Automatic Weather Stations) and modeling (Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System) efforts will be addressed, and feedback and results from their user communities will be solicited. More broadly, this workshop also is a forum for current results and ideas in Antarctic meteorology, numerical weather prediction, and weather forecasting, from contributors around the world.

There will be discussions on the relationships among international efforts and Antarctic forecasting, logistical support, and science. Organizers welcome papers and posters on these topics.

For further information, please visit the workshop website.

For questions, please contact:
Steve Colwell
Email: src [at] bas.ac.uk

This symposium, to be held at the University of Washington, is intended for interdisciplinary scholars who will be prepared to discuss their research in the sub-arctic North Atlantic, sub-arctic North Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean that bears on the issue of how changes in sea ice are likely to affect these marine ecosystems. The symposium will also consider the people who depend upon these ecosystems and how they may be able to cope with the changes in the ecosystem goods and services that are coming. These goods and services include the availability of transportation corridors, the availability of subsistence foods, and the opportunity for commercial fishing. To put the present day in a longer perspective, the symposium will include a session on the paleo-ecology of people in sub-arctic and arctic regions that were forced to adjust to changing sea-ice conditions in the past. There will also be a session of contributed papers on other topics of interest related to the Sub-Arctic Seas or on the Arctic itself.

Registration
The registration fee for the ESSAS ASM will be $100 and $25 for UW students.
Note that due to venue space restrictions, registration will have to be limited to the first 125 registrants.
To register and submit an abstract, please go to: https://www.imr.no/conferences/ESSAS/

The Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology & Geochemistry Gordon Research Conference will be held in conjunction with the Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology & Geochemistry Gordon Research Seminar. Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRS in addition to an application for the GRC. Please refer to the Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology & Geochemistry GRS web page for more information.

Observing, predicting, and understanding the consequences and feedbacks of environmental thresholds are crucial for predicting future changes in catchment systems across interacting hydrological, biological and geochemical processes. This GRC will focus on new research, including thresholds, early warning indicators, and resilience using long-term data, experimental studies, theory, and modeling approaches to study the behavior of catchments systems under changing conditions such as climate variability or land use/cover changes.

The topics and speakers for the conference sessions are displayed below (italics denote discussion leaders). The Conference Chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by February 14, 2015. Please check back for updates.

• Thresholds in Time and Space: Exploring at the Big Picture (Erika Marin-Spiotta, John Stoddard / Irena Creed)
• Conceptual Frameworks: Are Thresholds and Resilience Useful Frameworks for Understanding Catchment Behavior? (Vazken Andreassian, Patricia Soranno / Kathryn Cottingham / Brian McGlynn / Tim Peterson / Richard Pouyat)
• Dynamical Thresholds in Water Quality (Vazken Andreassian, Patricia Soranno / James Kirchner)
• Observations: What's To Be Learned from Catchment Experiments and Models? (Gary Lovett, Ilja van Meerveld / Christine Alewell / Louise Bracken)
• Where Observations Fall Short (Gary Lovett, Ilja van Meerveld / Emily Stanley)
• Predicting Thresholds Under the Wings of Change (Stacey Archfield, Daniele Penna / Jill Baron / Markus Hrachowitz / Hilary McMillan / Stefan Gerber)
• Is It Possible to Predict Surprises? (Stacey Archfield, Daniele Penna / Michael Pace)
• From Vertical to Horizontal Frontiers: Exploring Resilience and Elasticity in Catchments (Diane McKnight, Tom Harmon / Jan Fleckenstein / Alberto Montanari / Stephen Sebestyen / Beverley Wemple)
• Frontiers in Time and Space: Practical Applications of Thresholds (Diane McKnight, Tom Harmon / Jennifer Tank)