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Tradition for Tomorrow presents Nordic music and dance through performances, workshops, jam sessions, lectures and discussions. Each Nordic country will present its best and brightest in 4 days and nights of non stop music making, dancing, teaching and discussing.

Tradition for Tomorrow provides a singular opportunity to enjoy and examine Nordic traditional music and dance up-close and personal, discover similarities and differences between the Nordic neighbors, investigate multiculturalism and explore methods used to safeguard intangible heritage.

For more information, please contact:
Sigrun Vesteinsdottir, e-mail: sv [at] unak.is, tel. +354 460 8900, University of Akureyri Research Center
Gudrun Ingimundardottir, email: runa [at] thjodlist.is, tel. +354 869 3398, ÞjóðList / FolkArt

The International Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC) is a series of workshops devoted entirely to ice cave research. IWIC is the only conference focused on state-of-the-art in ice cave research, where international experts discuss ongoing research efforts and promote global cooperation in ice cave science and management. These meetings have happened every year since 2004, and all in Europe. The next IWIC, IWIC-VI, will be held next year on 17-22 August 2014 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA!

For Europeans this will be the first opportunity to see cave ice in a completely different setting—lava tubes! For North Americans and many others, this is an excellent opportunity to meet with the world's leading cave ice experts.

Major themes of IWIC-VI include:

• Cave glaciology and ice dynamics
• Cave meteorology and climatology
• Cryo-mineralogy and cryo-crystallography
• Paleoclimatology and global change
• Chemistry and geochemistry of ice caves
• Ice cave management and technology
• Glacier caves

IWIC is a conference of the Glacier, Firn, and Ice Caves Commission of the International Union of Speleology, and IWIC-VI is being hosted by the National Cave and Karst Research Institute of the USA. Save the dates and look for more information to be posted within 3-4 months on registration and submitting papers for the conference.

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 changes to the Greenland ice sheet in the past, present and future.

Confirmed lecturers: Gerard Roe (University of Washington), Richard Hindmarsh (BAS), Helene Seroussi (JPL), Fiamma Straneo (WHOI), Andreas Vieli (UZH), Camilla Snowman Andresen (GEUS), Øyvind Paasche (UiB), Kerim H. Nisancioglu (UiB), Patrick Heimbach (MIT), David Battisti (University of Washington), Jake Gebbie (WHOI), Tore Furevik (UiB).

The online application is now open! For more information visit the ACDC 2014 website.

This ground-breaking conference will bring together the entire weather science and user communities for the first time to review the state-of-the-art and map out the scientific frontiers for the next decade and more. We encourage you to come to the conference in Montreal to take part and contribute to what promises to be a once in a generation event.

We are particularly excited about bringing together the international community – those starting out in science and those with longer experience – to review progress and set the long-term agenda. There has never been a more important time for weather science, which is poised for great breakthroughs.

Papers are welcome that contribute to the development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours to seasonal. The following topics are of particular relevance:

• Guidance on optimizing polar observing systems, and on coordinating additional observations to support modelling and verification;
• Development of data assimilation systems that account for the unique characteristics of polar regions;
• Development and exploitation of ensemble prediction systems with appropriate representation of initial and model uncertainties in polar regions;
• Improvement of the representation of key polar processes in (coupled) models of the atmosphere, cryosphere, ocean and land;
• Improvement of knowledge in two-way linkages between polar and lower latitudes and their implications for prediction;
• Determination of predictability and identification of key sources of forecast error in the polar regions;
• Development of verification methods suitable for the polar regions; and
• Understanding and evaluation of the use of (enhanced) prediction information and services in the polar regions.

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.

You are cordially invited to the 22nd IAHR International Symposium on Ice, which will be held from 11-15 August 2014 in Singapore.

The aim of the Symposium is the development of international collaboration, exchange of experience between scientists of different countries in research of ice processes, and determination of the most significant tasks for investigations.

The Symposium will cover all areas of ice research, including river, lake, and sea ice, as well as glacial and hydrological processes such as:

• Climate change impacts on the cryosphere
• Ice and offshore structures
• River, lake, and reservoir ice
• Sea ice processes
• Ice dynamics and shipping
• Field and laboratory technology
• Environmental and ecological concerns

Special sessions will be organized on lake ice, numerical modeling of ice-structure interaction, impact of climate change on developments in Arctic regions, and dynamics of river ice and channel morphology. We invite additional special session proposals on topics of current interests or research results from large research projects with a group of participants.

The Network for Sustainable Climate Risk Management (SCRiM) links an international, transdisciplinary team of climate scientists, economists, philosophers, statisticians, engineers, and policy analysts to answer the question, “What are sustainable, scientifically sound, technologically feasible, economically efficient, and ethically defensible climate risk management strategies?”

As a central part of its educational and research mission, SCRiM will host a week-long summer school to foster opportunities for collaboration and to provide advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with a solid foundation in the broad, multidisciplinary knowledge, tools, and methods of the diverse fields participating in the network.

Taught by senior researchers in the SCRiM network, the summer school will offer sessions on Earth system science, policy analysis, uncertainty quantification, coupled epistemic-ethical analysis, and integrated assessment. Participants will also gain hands-on experience with key methods and tools such robust decisionmaking, the use of simple models, and analysis of relevant datasets. A key focus of the workshop will be developing a common vocabulary to help foster enhanced cross-disciplinary communication, enabling the possibility for future collaborative research among participants.

While the summer school is designed primarily for advanced graduate students and postdocs collaborating within the SCRiM network, participants from other institutions will also find it an enriching experience. Furthermore, the SCRiM network is open to new members and summer school participation may provide opportunities to explore the potential for new collaborations.

To apply, please send an single PDF file containing an application letter (briefly describing your research interests and explaining why you would like to attend the summer school), a current CV, and contact information for two references to summer_school [at] scrim.psu.edu Applications should be submitted no later than Monday 26 May 2014 to receive full consideration. Funding is available to support travel and accommodations for all participants.

To learn more about SCRiM, please visit the link above.

TENTATIVE INSTRUCTORS & SESSIONS


* Karen Fisher-Vanden — Integrated Assessment

* Chris Forest — Earth System Modeling

* Murali Haran, Patrick Applegate — Uncertainty Quantification

* Klaus Keller — Risk Analysis
* 
Robert Lempert — Policy Analysis / Robust Decisionmaking

* Robert Nicholas — Climate Data Analysis

* Nancy Tuana — Coupled Epistemic-Ethical Analysis

The Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) and the Environmental Sciences Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is organizing a workshop on " Next Generation of Methods and Techniques to Address Global Change Problems” as part of the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting to be held in Sacramento, California from August 10-15, 2014. The workshop brings together a representative group of researchers to stimulate discussions on techniques and methods used in global change research. The overarching goal of the workshop is to review the current state-of-the-art in global change research methods and envision the emerging novel approaches that will be critically important in the future.

This workshop will be held on Sunday, August 10, 2014 from 8am- 11:30am. The description of the workshop and preliminary agenda can be found in the workshop link above.

To encourage participation of students, the CCSI is sponsoring two fellowships of $500 each. The award details and the application form can be found at the following link:
http://climatechangescience.ornl.gov/content/climate-change-science-ins…

The deadline to submit application for the award is July 11, 2014.

This is the first announcement for the Workshop on Microstructure in Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (MICROSNOW workshop), which will take place on 6-8 August 2014 in Reading, UK. This immediately follows the Intercomparison of Snow Grain Size Measurements Results Workshop, with the aim to link new measurements of snow microstructure with microwave scattering theory.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Discussion of the physics of microwave scattering from snow
• How grain size information should be used (grains vs chains)
• Sensitivity to stratigraphy
• Current state of microwave models
• Future improvements needed in microwave models
• Application of microwave models to data products
• Coupling physical and microwave models
• Optimal calibration / validation of models

We will announce a website for this workshop when it is set up. In the meantime, please contact the organizing committee for more information, and save the date for the MICROSNOW workshop.

This three-day workshop will provide an overview of geophysical methods for permafrost characterization (i.e., depth, thickness, spatial extent) and monitoring (i.e., time-lapse imaging). The course comprises lectures, data-analysis exercises, and field surveys. Participants will gain practical field experience using a variety of geophysical instruments, including ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity, passive seismic, and electromagnetic induction. Participants will analyze field data and gain hands-on experience using state-of-the-practice software for data processing and visualization. Instructors include scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. The target audience for the course includes hydrologists, engineers, environmental scientists, and geologists. No prior experience with geophysical methods is required. The course is open to USGS, other Federal agency, State, and University personnel or students. Cost for the workshop is $250, but this fee may be waived for students.

Instructors: John Lane (USGS), Fred Day-Lewis (USGS), Martin Briggs (USGS), Seth Campbell (CRREL), Tom Douglas (CRREL)

For additional information or for assistance in registering for the course, please contact Fred Day-Lewis: daylewis [at] usgs.gov or 860.487.7402 x21.