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On April 16, 2015, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, there will be a summary briefing on the recently completed National Petroleum Council (NPC) report "Arctic Potential: Realizing the Promise of US Arctic Oil and Gas Resources" by Carol Lloyd, Chair of the study's Coordinating Subcommittee, and other study leaders. The briefing will be held at the NPC office, 1625 K Street, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20006-1656. Capacity is limited, and thus RSVP is required.

Please RSVP by calling Laura Alvarez at 202-393-6100 or by emailing lalvarez [at] npc.org. The NPC is a federally chartered and privately funded advisory committee that advises the US Secretary of Energy.

Glaciologists of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution would like to invite you to the first annual New England Glaciology Meeting: NEGM 2015! The meeting will be held on April 16th and 17th at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Building on the long and successful tradition of NWGM and MGM, NEGM is an informal, small meeting (~30-50 people), where everyone in attendance is encouraged to give an oral presentation on recent results or work in progress. NEGM is a great conference for students!

If interested, please check out the conference website (http://www.whoi.edu/website/negm2015/) and register for the meeting by March 31st, 2015 through the online registration form (http://www.whoi.edu/website/negm2015/registration). No abstract required! Just your name, affiliation, and a brief presentation topic or title to aid in coordinating talks. Detailed meeting specifics (schedule, locations, etc.) will be sent out in early April to registered participants.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Laura Stevens (stevensl [at] mit.edu).

The 4th annual Warming Arctic International Inquiry at the Fletcher School comes at a time when the United States assumes the chairmanship of the Arctic Council. With this honor comes the responsibility to protect the Arctic and its environment as it continues to warm at a much faster rate than the rest of the globe, opening up land, waters and treasures to exploitation.

The Fletcher School will convene high-level decision makers from both diplomacy and security, cutting-edge energy and science researchers, and social, environmental and business stakeholders, to investigate solutions to the Arctic Paradox and promote a sustainable future for Arctic inhabitants within a “High North, Low Tension” policy framework.

There will be a special appearance by the North American debut of the Arctic Circle Assembly's panel "Rising Stars: Young Arctic Energy Researchers".

The General Assembly 2015 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, from 12 – 17 April 2015. The assembly is open to the scientists of all nations.

The EGU General Assembly 2015 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna!

Please visit the conference website for more information.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has released a Notice of Funding Availability announcement for proposals to provide for Tribal Climate Adaptation Planning & Ocean/Coastal Management Planning. There is a total of $8M available nation-wide and proposals for up to $250,000.00 are due April 24th.

Thanks to our neighbors at the ABSI LCC for notifying us about the Wildlife Conservation Society's Climate Adaptation Fund announcement for the next round of grant making through the Climate Adaptation Fund, a program made possible through the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Grants are awarded to projects that serve as innovative examples of on-the-ground efforts helping species and the ecosystems on which they depend adapt to changing climatic conditions across the United States. Pre-proposals should be submitted by Friday, April 10, 2015 by 5:00 PM MDT. Find out more and download a pre-proposal application from the link above.

In this webinar, Julie Raymond-Yakoubian of Kawerak, Inc. will present a recently completed project on indigenous knowledge and use of ocean currents. She will share perspectives on the importance of traditional understandings of ocean currents as a critical aspect of the body of knowledge held by communities in the region, how this knowledge was collected, and the modern-day practical applications of this knowledge for marine policy, planning, and safety considerations. Examples of where this knowledge is currently being used will also be presented.

Webinar co-sponsored by the NOAA National Marine Protected Areas Center, the EBM Tools Network, OpenChannels.org, and MPA News. Please visit the link above to register for the webinar.

Understanding ice changes is critical for supporting community sustainability, habitat conservation and resource development in Alaska and the Arctic as a whole. Please join the Office of Policy Analysis on April 9 to learn how the USGS Alaska Climate Science Center (CSC) uses a whole-systems approach linking glacier retreat and permafrost loss to impacts on ecosystems and the goods, services and the amenities they provide. The Alaska CSC is developing vulnerability assessments, decision-support tools, landscape scenarios, and other products that have a wide variety of immediate, real-world applications in the face of changes in the Arctic.

To Livestream this event, please join 5-10 minutes early to avoid technical difficulties: http://www.doi.gov/ppa/seminar_series/index.cfm Login is required to ask questions. Please click "join" or "login to chat" and follow instructions. Closed captioning will be available. The recorded event will be posted to the Office of Policy Analysis website: (http://www.doi.gov/ppa/seminar_series/video)

Live presentations occur at 12:15-1:15 pm (Eastern Time) in the Rachel Carson Room, located in the Basement Cafeteria of the Main Interior Building (1849 C St. NW, Washington, DC).

Live webcasts are available at doi.gov/events. Closed captioning is available.

This workshop will bring together anyone interested in the predictability of polar sea-ice on seasonal to inter-annual timescales. Contributions will include presentations on understanding causes of inter-annual polar climate variability, as well as idealized predictability studies, and operational forecasts. This workshop is a follow-up to the Sea Ice Prediction Workshop held in Boulder in April 2014. A call for abstracts will appear in January. Please contact Ed Hawkins (e.hawkins [at] reading.ac.uk) for more information.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

Polar Educators International is pleased to announce the upcoming workshop "Education Meets Science" in Hannover, Germany 1-4 April 2015. Educators, Scientists and Interested People from around the world are invited to continue the collaboration of previous conferences (Oslo 2010, Montreal 2012, and Coimbra 2013).

A Registration Fee of 50 Euros will be paid at the conference.

This meeting, organized in the framework of the ESF project MicroDIce, aims to present a multi-scale view of our present understanding of the processes controlling plasticity and recrystallization at high temperature in geomaterials (ice and rocks). Recent advances in electron microscopy (e.g. HR-SEM-EBSD) allow characterization of the microstructure in complex multi-phase materials from the nanometre to the centimetre scale. Associated with in-situ experiments digital image correlation (DIC), these techniques provide a multi-scale tracking of the deformation field and the associated microstructural evolution. Diffraction pattern cross-correlation techniques in high-resolution EBSD analysis allow accessing the statistical distribution of defects (e.g. dislocations, disclinations), their crystallography and measurement of local lattice rotations of 1/100°. These high-resolution quantitative microstructural methods provide an increasingly sound physical basis for the analysis of heterogeneous polycrystalline behaviour. Our knowledge of processes like recrystallization, where localization of the deformation within grains or along grain boundaries are key factors, greatly benefit from these new developments. On the other hand, a sound understanding of the evolution of microstructures and textures during deformation is also essential for the characterization of the strain-dependence of the rheological behaviour of ice, rocks, and other crystalline materials. Physical properties, like seismic anisotropy caused by strain-induced crystal preferred orientations, can be used to bridge scales from the laboratory or hand-specimen to the planetary applications, as the study of flow or fracturing in glaciers or convection in the deep Earth. In glaciers, for instance, changes in seismic anisotropy due to the evolution of texture with changing deformation conditions may be used for remote monitoring, via seismology, of the deformation.

30 March – 1 April 2015 : Conference
2-3 April : 2-day MTEX open source & free texture analysis training workshop

Registration for the conference (30th March-1st April) must be done online (https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR13/AzurInscription)
Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts: EXTENDED DEADLINE 25 February, 2015
Registration Fees:
Senior researchers 100 € PhD & Post-docs 50 €

For more information, please use the conference link above.