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The Arctic CORDEX Meeting will be held November 8, 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. This short (half day) meeting will be organized in concert with the CORDEX meeting (see more at: http://cordex2013.wcrp-climate.org/) to discuss plans for common analysis and simulations over the Arctic CORDEX domain.

The International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013 brings together the international community of regional climate scientists to present and discuss results from WCRP regional climate studies, with a particular emphasis on the CORDEX initiative.

A NSF-sponsored workshop will be held at the University of Houston on November 7th & 8th, 2013, for US-based scientists to discuss future drilling projects in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Abstracts (<250 words) for talks or posters are invited in the broad themes of site selection, continental drilling, stratigraphic drilling, physical properties and logging, and data integration and modeling. All presentations should focus on potential future drilling projects and their scientific justification. The participation of early career scientists is encouraged. Limited travel funds are available for presenters. For more information, or to submit an abstract, please write to jwellner [at] uh.edu prior to July 1st; notifications of acceptance and funding level will be made by August 1st.

This workshop will bring together a diversity of stakeholders to learn more about and respond to community desires to be part of oil spill first-response efforts that help protect food security and other local resources; come to agreement on the multiple roles local community members can play in responding to oil spills; and create an action plan for moving forward on this topic. The workshop is sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Goals for the workshop include:

• Establish what tools can be safely and effectively deployed by Alaskan and Chukotkan hunters and other community members to combat both small oil spills and to engage as part of a collective response to large spills in select areas around the Bering Strait region (encompassing Bering and Anadyr straits). This includes both efforts to constrain or divert oil away from wildlife and key habitats, as well as diverting marine mammals and other fauna away from a spill.
• Establish what training and local/regional capacity is required to sustain an ongoing safe and effective local spill response capacity.

Through the NORA REGION CONFERENCE 2013, NORA seeks to focus on the common challenges that many media outlets in the NORA Region face. Such as media economy, journalistic impartiality and critical journalism in small communities where direct confrontation is generally not the norm. NORA hopes that the conference will help enhance regional news coverage through a closer cooperation among representatives of the media in the NORA Region.

Questions that will be discussed include:

• What impact has this interest had on the global media picture of the countries in the NORA Region?
• How can small North Atlantic media companies survive in an increasingly competitive global media environment? * How can critical journalism be strengthened in small communities where resources are limited and where a journalist's sources often could be a close friend or relative?
• What challenges and opportunities does social media present for the NORA Region?

For more information, please visit the conference website.

APECS is pleased to invite you to participate in the Antarctic glaciology webinar highlighting recent glaciological studies in Antarctica on 5 November 2013 at 16:00 GMT.

Presentations and speakers are:

• Holocene glacial history of the Weddell Sea: the record in the ice rise
  Neil Ross | Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Newcastle, UK

• Weakening contract between ice shelves and ice rises caused by fracture
  Christopher Borstad | Post Doc, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

• Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf: Bathymetry and Ice Thickness
  Kiya Riverman | Penn State University, USA

• Geologic control of Whillans Ice Stream grounding lines and the Crary Ice Rise, inferred from ground-based gravity measurements
  Atsuhiro Muto | Penn State University, USA

This webinar is a follow-up of the first International Workshop on Antarctic Ice Rises held in Tromsø late August this year, with support from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC), Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), British Antarctic Survey and Norwegian Polar Institute’s Center for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems. Presentation video, slides, posters and Frostbytes are available on the workshop web-site: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/meetings/past-meetings/ice-rises-2013

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Date and Time: Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 16:00 GMT

Check your time zones at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

TO RESERVE A SPOT FOR THE WEBINAR

To reserve a spot in the webinar, please follow the link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/394912104

TO ATTEND THE WEBINAR

To attend a webinar a computer or smartphone and an internet connection are needed. A headset or headphones and a built-in microphone are recommended but not required. Webcams and telephones will not be used in the presentations and are not needed to participate.

GoToWebinar has been provided as an in-kind contribution from Bredbåndsfylket.

For questions, please email: info [at] apecs.is or pavlov.alexey.k [at] gmail.com

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will host the webinar. The webinar will be presented by Jeremy Mathis from the Ocean Acidification Research Center at UAF and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.

Commercial and subsistence fisheries in Alaska are located in seas projected to experience rapid transitions in pH caused by ocean acidification (OA). Many of the marine organisms that are affected by OA contribute substantially to the state’s commercial activities as well as the gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States. Here, we describe the current patterns of dependence on marine resources within the state that could be negatively impacted by OA and current community characteristics to determine the risk to Alaska’s fishery sector. Our analysis showed that regions in southeast and southwest Alaska that are highly reliant on fishery harvests and have relatively lower income and employment alternatives face the highest risk.

To determine public awareness of this threat we conducted a statewide survey to examine the variables that influence the perceptions of the risk associated with OA. We then used this information to determine if and how individuals react to the current degree of OA in different regions. These results can be used to prepare individuals, communities, and the Alaska fishing industry for future changes in ocean chemistry.

Pre-registration for webinars is strongly encouraged.

The meeting provides an informal venue for Nordic-based scientists and students in cryosphere research and related topics to present their latest results. The meeting is hosted by the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki.

Detailed information about the IGS Nordic Branch 2013 meeting can be found at the webpage.

Important dates:
Abstract deadline is 30th of August 2013
Registration deadline is 30th of August 2013

The registration fee includes accommodation (Thursday - Saturday) with full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner and two coffee breaks per day) including towels & bed linen and Thursday & Friday evening sauna with snack.

Registration fees:

• 1 Person in 2 person room with shared bathroom 160 Eur
• 1 Person in 1 person room with shared bathroom 185 Eur
• 1 Person in 1 person room with private bathroom 210 Eur

Due to the limited accommodation capacities of Lammi Biological Station, the maximum number of participants at the IGS Nordic Branch meeting is limited to 80 persons.

Abstract submission, registration and payments will be handled by IGS (abstract submission and registration websites will be announced in April).

The Sitka WhaleFest hosts a unique science symposium blending local knowledge and scientific inquiry concerning the rich marine environment of the North Pacific. The festival includes many community and cultural activities such as the science symposium lectures, interactive student sessions, marine wildlife cruises with scientists, a marine themed artisan market, music, local foods, a banquet, art and fun run/walk.

Come to Colorado, where great ideas will drop out of thin air during the 125th Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of America! Denver is ready for you with a great convention center, conveniently located hotels, the fourth largest museum in the nation, and lots of friendly geologists to help you feel at home. And GSA staff and officers and the local committee are going all-out to make this a memorable experience for you.

The 125th Annual Meeting of the GSA will include:

• 27 field trips planned, including one on the Yellowstone hotspot;
• 33 short courses submitted;
• A record number of technical sessions (259!) and 13 Pardee sessions;
• An exciting Hall of Maps;
• A black-tie/Victorian gala that includes a new symphony (Formations) composed to celebrate GSA's 125 years.

Registration and abstract submission periods are open. Please visit the website for more information.

The ecosystem changes underway in the Arctic region are expected to have significant impacts on living resources in both the short and long run, and current actions and policies adopted by the Nordic states over such resource governance will have serious and ultimately irreversible consequences in the near and long terms. In particular, the breadth and scope of integration of science and political economy into the formulation of strategies for economic resource use and preservation will determine the outcomes of such policies. Policies to contain invasive species in one nation's waters will be limited in effectiveness by decisions of neighboring nations as well as by the ecological context of the invasion. Coordinated resource policy across space and time is therefore essential to maximizing the full economic value, including potential non-use and indirect-use values, of the living resources of the Arctic Ocean as the base productivity undergoes ecological changes.

Key note speakers include:

• Whitman Miller, Marine Invasions Research Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution
• Mike Gill, Environment Canada and Chair of Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Group
• Linda M Fernandez, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Brooks Kaiser, University of Southern Denmark

Updated information about the workshop can be found at the FAME website www.sdu.dk/fame under courses. For further information, please contact Irene Nygaard at fame [at] sdu.dk.