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We are pleased to invite you to Berlin, Germany to participate in the international conference “Our Climate – Our Future, Regional perspectives on a global challenge” which will be held from 6–9 October, 2014 and in particular to consider submitting an abstract to our Session2: Sea level changes from global to regional and local scales and to Session 3: Arctic Change. Internationally outstanding scientists will present their keynotes during the conference, namely Prof. Dr. Jason Box (Kopenhagen, Denmark) for Session 2 and Prof. Dr. Larry Hinzman (Fairbanks, Alaska) for Session 3.

The Climate Initiative REKLIM, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and the Helmholtz Association are pleased to be your host at this conference. The scientific programme will offer a broad and interdisciplinary spectrum of current international and national research in the field of regional climate change.

At this conference following topics will be addressed:

• Session 1: Regional climate system modelling
• Session 2: Sea level changes from global to regional and local scales
• Session 3: Arctic Change
• Session 4: The land surface in the climate system
• Session 5: Atmospheric composition and climate: Interactions from global to regional scale
• Session 6: Extreme meteorological events and their impacts in a changing climate
• Session 7: Integrated strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Session 8: Rapid climate change in the past – mechanisms, processes and regional patterns

The conference will consist of plenary meetings, parallel sessions and poster sessions. It is followed by a public engagement day on 'Regional climate change – causes and effects' on the 9th of October 2014 focusing on the dialogue between scientists and decision makers (Please note: this event will be in German to include local stakeholders!).

The deadline for abstracts submission has been extended to June, 15, 2014

The Institute of the North will host the 2014 Week of the Arctic. The 2014 Week of the Arctic is a platform for community leaders, subject matter experts and interested stakeholders to learn about the Arctic while contributing to a growing list of priorities and perspectives. Presentations, roundtable discussions and workshops will be held in Nome, Kotzebue and Barrow. Throughout the week, presentations and interviews will be captured on video for distribution through social media and web-based sharing.

Topics include:

• Energy and Mineral Development in Northern Regions
• Collaborative Approaches to Science and Research
• Local Governance and Consultation
• Maritime Response Operations – Communications and Community Engagement
• Food Security and an Ecosystem Approach
• Preparation for the 2015 U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council
• Emerging Arctic Careers and Workforce Development Programs
• Offshore Development – Risk Mitigation and Impact Benefit
• Celebrating Bering Strait Relationships through Storytelling

The Week of the Arctic not only educates Alaskans but delivers key insights and recommendations, providing clear guidelines for state and federal officials while promoting informed local decision-making.

Organizers of a workshop on biomass burning and effects of ammonium and ozone deposition announce an extended deadline for abstract submissions. The workshop will convene 1-3 October 2014 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Extended abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2014.

The workshop, which is co-funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers, will address topics related to the high air concentrations of ammonium detected during the spring and summer of 2006 at low and high altitude sites in Sweden, Finland, and Norway. These events coincided with polluted air from biomass burning in eastern Europe, which passed over central and northern Fennoscandia. Unusually high values for through fall deposition of ammonium were detected at one low altitude site and several high altitude sites in northern Sweden. The ammonia dry deposition, in combination with high ozone concentrations, may have contributed to unusual visible injuries on the tree vegetation in northern Fennoscandia that occurred during spring and summer 2006.

Workshop organizers encourage students and scientists to submit abstracts within the following topics:

• Emissions from biomass burning,
• Pollution transport to the Arctic,
• Nitrogen and ozone deposition in the Arctic,
• Vegetation injuries, and
• Remote sensing based monitoring.

Extended abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2014.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words, and written in the English language, must be submitted via email (lrh [at] met.no).

Travel support of up to 500 Euro is available for Russian and Nordic students and scientists. Notification of abstract acceptance and travel support will be given within the end of May.

For information about the venue for this meeting, please go to: https://www.sokoshotels.fi/en/st-petersburg/sokos-hotel-palace-bridge.

For relevant background information, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749112005313.

For questions, contact:
Lars Hole
Email: lrh [at] met.no

IARPC Collaboration Teams meet on a regular basis to implement the Arctic Research Plan: FY 2013-2017. Most meetings are open to the Arctic research community. Collaboration teams facilitate communication and collaboration between Federal agencies, the academic community, industry, non-governmental organizations, and State, local and tribal groups.

Contact Sara Bowden, bowden [at] arcus.org, if you would like to join this meeting.

​Matt Macander of ABR, Inc. will present "Extensive mapping of coastal change in Alaska by Landsat time-series analysis, 1972–2013". The landscape-scale effects of coastal storms on Alaska's Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska coasts includes coastal erosion, migration of spits and barrier islands, breaching of coastal lakes and lagoons, and inundation and salt-kill of vegetation. In areas experiencing moderate to large effects, changes can be mapped by analyzing trends in time series of Landsat imagery. ABR, Inc.—Environmental Research & Services and the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (WALCC) performed a time-series trend analysis for over 22,000 kilometers of coastline along the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska over the time period 1972–2013.

An annual time-series of suitable Landsat imagery was compiled and analyzed for changes in near-infrared reflectance to identify areas that transitioned from land to water, or vice-versa. Thousands of coastal changes over the 42-year study period exceeded the 60-m pixel resolution of the Multispectral Scanner (MSS) data, including coastal erosion and aggradation, estuarine and delta channel dynamics, coastal lake drainage and expansion, and migrations of coastal spits. Coastal erosion was mapped for approximately 100 km² and coastal aggradation was mapped for approximately 113 km². Although an accuracy assessment based on review of patches >5 ha in size suggested that aggradation was slightly overmapped in tidal flat areas, coastal erosion and aggradation overall were close to balanced. Locally, many areas with changes appeared to have steady state coastal dynamics, with eroding sediment aggrading nearby. Many local examples of directional change (e.g., substantial and sustained coastal erosion) were also observed. An in-progress analysis of changes in temporal trends in the rate of erosion / aggradation events will be summarized. The data products of the study will be summarized, including: raster maps of change by type, physiography class, and year; point and polygon maps of change patches; and annual Landsat mosaics for the entire WALCC coastline. ​

You can either join the presentation in Anchorage at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Regional Office, 1011 E. Tudor Rd., Anchorage​, Office of Science Applications Conference Room (1st floor) or connect to the webinar​ online:
1. Go to https://mmancusa.webex.com/mmancusa/j.php?MTID=m1d79339b7223de43228f6a4…
2. If requested, enter your name and email address.
3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: WALCC
4. Click 'join'.
5. Call-in toll-free number (Verizon): 1-866-730-5871 (US)
Attendee access code: 111111​

We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming INTERNATIONAL SNOW SCIENCE WORKSHOP (ISSW) taking place in Banff from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, 2014.

The ISSW is biennial conference that brings together researchers and a wide range of practitioners in snow science and avalanche safety from all over the world. The conference aims to facilitate the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and experiences within the wider community to improve avalanche safety practices and foster innovative snow and avalanche safety related research.

For more information on the ISSW 2014, please visit the conference website.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 25, 2014. We encourage submissions from both researchers and practitioners. See http://issw2014.com/papers/ for more details on presentations at the ISSW.

Pascal Haegeli (Papers Chair) Simon Fraser University & Avisualanche Consulting

IARPC Collaboration Teams meet on a regular basis to implement the Arctic Research Plan: FY 2013-2017. Most meetings are open to the Arctic research community. Collaboration teams facilitate communication and collaboration between Federal agencies, the academic community, industry, non-governmental organizations, and State, local and tribal groups.

Contact Sara Bowden, bowden [at] arcus.org, if you would like to join this meeting.

This one-day workshop brings together users and developers of sea-ice models to start a joint effort for improving sea-ice models. We will discuss the analysis of sea-ice biases in CMIP5 models, determine the most pressing needs for model development, identify the most helpful observational data, and compile a list of the most useful sea ice variables to be saved for CMIP6. The workshop is the first in a series of planned activities from the Sea ice and Climate Modeling Forum, which is a WCRP-CliC initiative that aims at improving and better understanding large-scale sea-ice simulations by coordinating a joint effort of the international sea ice modeling community. Following a few short plenary talks, the workshop will consist of breakout group and discussion sessions. For further information about the workshop and to register for it (by June 30th 2014), please go to: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/activities/groups/seaicemodeling.

This workshop is the final one in a series of related sea ice workshops around that time in central Europe, including

• 16-17 September: 6th IICWG/ICE-ARC workshop on sea ice modeling and data assimilation, Toulouse
  http://www.ice-arc.eu/2014/04/16/toulouse-modelling-workshop/

• 18-19 September: International Sea ice concentration and thickness inter-comparison and evaluation workshop, Hamburg
  http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/meetings/seaice-conc-2014

• 22-23 September: Arctic sea ice reduction: the evidence, models, and global impacts, Royal Society, London
  https://royalsociety.org/events/2014/arctic-sea-ice/

• 24-25 September: Arctic sea ice reduction: the evidence, models, and global impacts - further discussion, The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall
  https://royalsociety.org/events/2014/sea-ice-reduction-satellite/

Please send us an email if you have any questions.

Alexandra Jahn, NCAR: ajahn [at] ucar.edu
Dirk Notz, MPI for Meteorology: dirk.notz [at] mpimet.mpg.de

he K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, The Faculty of Law, at the University of Tromsø is pleased to announce the call for papers for the energy law conference.

You are invited to submit proposals to present a paper addressing the conference theme, broadly construed. Without intending to be prescriptive, examples of topics that would fall within the scope of the conference include legal issues (domestic and international law) related to any of the following in an Arctic context: the role of strategic and project-specific environmental assessments; energy markets; energy security in an Arctic context; energy relations between the EU and Russia; the energy relations of Nordic States; energy relations between the EU and Arctic states; the role of renewables in the Arctic including wind, geothermal, tidal; non-conventional energy resources such as gas hydrates; the oil and gas leasing regimes of Arctic states; infrastructure issues (transmission lines and pipelines); navigation and other law of the sea issues associated with getting Arctic resources to market; liability issues and liability regimes for energy projects; insurance issues; project financing issues; delimitation of maritime zones and the management of transboundary hydrocarbon resources; extended continental shelf claims; energy resource projects on indigenous lands; social licence to operate; climate change issues (e.g. regulation of black carbon); Arctic energy resources and endangered species; energy as a human right; energy efficiency; regional governance issues (e.g. the role of the Arctic Council, OSPAR etc).

Confirmed Keynote Speakers include:

• Else Berit Eikeland, Member of the Arctic Council - Senior Arctic Official, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Professor Timo Koivurova—Arctic Centre/University of Lapland
• Professor Kim Talus—University of Eastern Finland
• Dr. Anatole Boute—University of Aberdeen

9:00 am on Wednesday 24 September 2014 — 5:00 pm on Thursday 25 September 2014 at The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall, home of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Buckinghamshire. Satellite meeting organized by Professor Daniel Feltham, Dr. Sheldon Bacon, Dr. Mark Brandon and Professor (Emeritus) Julian Hunt FRS

The discussion meeting will host presentations and discussion of the latest scientific developments in sea ice observation, model simulations, theory, and impacts on weather and climate. This would also include the polar ocean and atmosphere as they are affected by sea ice. The purpose of this meeting is that it offers a more informal forum for discussion among scientists.

More details, including a provisional programme and registration are at the meeting link above.