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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.

In the framework of WP5 activities of ACCESS, a 2-day workshop on “Arctic Indigenous Peoples and the results of the EU ACCESS project on long term climate change effect on the Arctic” will be organized in Paris on July 9 to 10, 2014.

The aims and objectives of the workshop are:

• To ensure as far as possible, different Indigenous Peoples views are appropriately integrated with relevant ACCESS tasks and deliverables;
• To understand how the results of the ACCESS project can better help the indigenous peoples of the Arctic;
• To ensure that the academic community's progress in the Arctic proceeds in full accord with Indigenous Peoples considerations;
• To ensure that ACCESS project is fully informed by the Indigenous Peoples in completing its work and programme deliverables.

Draft Agenda:
Day 1: An overview from ACCESS scientists regarding climate changes in the Arctic for the next 30 years and how this might impact human activities such as marine transportation and tourism in the Arctic, fisheries and aquaculture in the Arctic marine environment, oil and gas extraction in the Arctic Ocean, and Arctic governance.

Day 2: Developing Arctic Scientific Research under the leadership of Indigenous Peoples (organisations) of the region, based on a partnership with the International Scientific Community.

The workshop is co-funded by ACCESS and ICE-ARC EU projects.

In summer 2014 the University of Innsbruck and the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) will for the first time organise a summer school on the topic “Mummies and Glacial Archaeology”.

This two-week course taking place in the Schnalstal / Val Senales region of South Tyrol and the EURAC laboratories will encompass practical experiments and in-depth scientific study in the fields of glacial archaeology and interdisciplinary mummy research. Areas covered will include anthropology, paleopathology, glacial archaeology, paleoecology, archaeobotany and climate research as well as modern scientific and medical methods in mummy research. Led by the University of Innsbruck, this course will for the first time offer participants the chance to acquire multidisciplinary university-level knowledge relevant for high-level university work as well as for activities at state monument offices and research-oriented museums.

The course will bring together leading international scientists presenting state-of-the-art knowledge and the latest research results and methods.

The summer school is aimed in particular at (international) students who have graduated from Master’s study programmes in the field of natural sciences and are keen to deepen and expand their existing knowledge through interdisciplinary work. Participants must have completed a Master’s in a natural sciences subject or in archaeology. All applicants must submit a letter of motivation, a CV and proof of graduation from a Master’s study programme. Decisions on admission to the course will be taken by the Rectorate based on recommendations made by the course directors.

Attendance fee: 1.850€ (excl. accommodation)

This year's New Zealand Snow and Ice Research Group (SIRG) workshop will take place at Aoraki Mt Cook Village in the central Southern Alps from July 2nd - July 4th.

The SIRG annual workshop brings together snow and ice researchers from around New Zealand and beyond and serves as New Zealand's branch meeting of the International Glaciology Society.

Field excursions will take place in the vicinity of Mt Cook Village where a rich variety of snow and ice walks and activities are possible. The timing of field excursion will be weather dependent. Excursions will aim to be completed by early afternoon on Friday to allow participants time for their homeward journey.

Further details and a registration form are available by emailing SIRGNZ2014 [at] gmail.com

Participation (including basic accommodation and food) is free for students and $100 for professionals. Registration is due June 6th. Please see www.sirg.org.nz for more details.

Important dates for the workshop:

• June 6th : Registration and abstract submission deadline. Students will not be charged a registration fee. Non-students are asked to contribute $100 per person.
• June 20th : Final schedule and abstracts released electronically.
• July 2nd-4th 2014: SIRG-NZ workshop will be held at Unwin Lodge, Mt Cook Village. The workshop will start at 1:00 PM on Wednesday July 2nd and finish 1pm Friday July 4th.

The first ESA Call for Research Proposals of the Living Planet Fellowship has been opened.

The main objective of this initiative is to provide support to young researchers who have a doctoral degree and who would like to initiate a scientific career in the context of Earth Observation, Earth science and Climate research. Candidate researchers shall submit research proposals responding to one of following Programmatic Areas:

A) Support To Science:

• Scientific exploitation of ESA.s Earth Explorer missions (i.e. SMOS, CryoSat, GOCE and Swarm), developing and validating innovative methods, novel products and promoting new scientific results.
• Earth System Science research maximizing the exploitation of ESA missions and long-term ESA archives (e.g. ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat), also in synergy with other ESA and non-ESA data sets, specifically addressing the new scientific challenges of the Living Planet Programme.

B) Scientific Exploitation of the Sentinels:

• Development and validation of advanced EO methods and products for scientific exploitation of the continued observations and innovative features of the Sentinel missions (Sentinel 1, Sentinel 2, Sentinel 3 or Sentinel 5P).
• Developing novel scientific methods and tools for enhancing the synergetic exploitation of the Sentinel missions (Sentinel 1, Sentinel 2, Sentinel 3 and Sentinel 5P).

C) Climate Change Initiative:

• Exploiting Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products generated by the ESA.s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) for improved understanding of the climate system.
• Examining Cross-ECV consistency and multiple ECV use (those under the CCI Programme in particular).

Selected project proposals, will be awarded with a maximum budget of 40KEuro per year as a co-funding contribution to a standard post-doctoral position plus 3KEuro to cover costs associated to travels, conference fees and publications. The Host Institution shall co-finance and provide a post-doctoral contract to the candidate to undertake the research activity proposed. The Host Institution shall contribute with, as a minimum, 30% of the overall cost for the two years.

The documentation and call information (Call for Research Proposals package) can be downloaded from http://livingplanetfellowship.esa.int.

Proposal and all supporting documents must be sent by e-mail to: EOScience [at] esa.int by no later than 30 June 2014 (the Closing Date).

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.

The 25th Polar Libraries Colloquy will be held in Cambridge, UK, co-hosted by the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The Colloquy will feature a number of interesting keynote speakers, presentations and panels, and field trips to collections of interest in Cambridge and London.

The conference theme is "Connecting Communities: Collaborating, Creating and Communicating." Questions that will be addressed are:

• How do we connect with our audiences and with each other?
• Do we make the best use of available technologies to promote polar resources?
• How are polar collections put to creative uses, beyond standard research?
• How do we open up our collections to non-polar researchers and other interest groups?
• How can we work with non-polar libraries that have common interests and overlaps with our own collections?

Information on registration can be found at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/25th-polar-libraries-colloquy-tickets-105….

Tickets will be £120 for full membership, which includes:

• The four days of the Colloquy in Cambridge
• A day trip to visit institutions in London on 4 July
• Travel within Cambridge
• Membership of the Polar Library Colloquy itself (2014-16)

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.

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.

Understanding the challenges to food security in the rapidly changing Arctic and ensuring safe and consistent availability, access, and usage of food resources for indigenous communities is critical for sustaining livelihoods, promoting health and well-being, and helping to preserve cultures, traditional knowledge, and socio-linguistic heritage. Given projected climatic and environmental changes, with expected concomitant development activities and opportunities for increased natural resource exploitation, reliance on community-based monitoring programs to track changes in the distribution and relative abundance of food resources, along with impacts on biodiversity, cultural identity, health, language, livelihoods, and traditional knowledge, will be crucial for safeguarding sustainable communities in the Arctic.

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