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The 39th International Glaciological Society British Branch meeting will be hosted by the Department of Geography in the School of Social, Political and Geographical sciences, Loughborough University.

As with previous annual meetings, the event will comprise an informal two days of presentations on all aspects of snow and ice research. All are welcome; postgraduate students and international colleagues visiting the UK are particularly encouraged to attend and present their work. A conference dinner will be held on the evening of the first day. A Polar Film Festival outreach event is being held in the evening of 3rd September, which may be of interest to delegates who intend to arrive early. A UK Polar Network mentor panel will also be held as part of the meeting. Further information about these activities and the meeting in general will be available at the conference website.

Registration is £22.50 (unwaged) or £28.60 (waged). Accommodation starts from £20.40 per night (unwaged) or £30.60 per night (waged). The conference dinner is £28.05 for all.
We look forward to welcoming you in Loughborough in September!

Teachers and researchers interested in learning more about participating in PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) are encouraged to participate in an informational webinar (web seminar), scheduled for Tuesday, 3 September, at 3:30 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time (4:30 p.m. PDT, 5:30 p.m. MDT, 6:30 p.m. CDT, 7:30 p.m. EDT).

The informational webinar will give an overview of the PolarTREC program, its goals and objectives, program components, the application process, and will address frequently asked questions. The webinar is scheduled to last one hour, but PolarTREC Project Managers will stay online to answer all participant questions.

Participation in the webinar is free of charge, optional, and is not a prerequisite for applying to the PolarTREC program. Anyone interested in participating in the webinar should register at:
FOR RESEARCHERS: http://www.polartrec.com/researchers/webinar
FOR TEACHERS: http://www.polartrec.com/teachers/webinar

Instructions will be sent to all registered participants, and the webinar will be archived and available online afterwards.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

PolarTREC—a program of the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS)—is a professional development program for educators, which pairs teachers with researchers to improve science education through authentic polar research experiences. The program integrates research and education to produce a legacy of long-term teacher-researcher collaborations, improved teacher content knowledge and instructional practices, and broad public interest and engagement in polar science.

PolarTREC teachers will spend three to eight weeks in the Arctic or Antarctic, working closely with researchers in the field as an integral part of the science team. PolarTREC teachers and researchers will be matched based on similar goals and interests, and teachers will be trained to meet the program requirements prior to the field season. While in the field, teachers and researchers will communicate extensively with their colleagues, communities, and students of all ages across the globe, using a variety of tools including online journals, photos, other multimedia, and web-based seminars.

Teachers and research projects will be selected and matched to fill the approximately 12-14 openings available. All major expenses associated with teacher participation in PolarTREC field experiences are covered by the program and program partners, including transportation to and from the field site, food, lodging, and substitute teacher costs.

The application period for teachers and researchers to apply to participate in PolarTREC begins on Monday, 26 August 2013 and end Monday, 16 September 2013.

With the dramatic rise in geomorphological maps and mapping over the last decade there has been a natural progression towards finding more objective, and sometimes automated, techniques and procedures for mapping. Yet manual, interpretive, techniques remain effective and commonly used. We therefore think that it is important that criteria for interpretive mapping are developed, and agreed, in order to facilitate comparability and compatibility of mapped outputs. To this end we want to compare glacial geomorphological mapping by different interpreters for statistically representative synthetic drumlins within a real landscape. This can then inform both the differences/similarities in mapping and quantify the impacts upon the calculation of derived metrics. This study will then be used as the basis for a 1-day workshop at Loughborough University on developing a set of objective criteria for mapping. The workshop will lead to a joint publication of all participants.

If you are interested in participating in this project, in both the landform digitization and seminar stages, then please contact the workshop organizers.

This EGU funded workshop has bursaries available for widening participation through the support of the attendance of young researchers. Four awards of up to 500 euro are available - please send a CV and 250 personal statement in support of an application.

Confirmed participants include: C. Clark (Sheffield), C. Stokes (Durham), A. Hughes (Bergen), C. Hattestrand (Stockholm), J. Napieraiski (Michigan), M. Spagnolo (Aberdeen), P. Dunlop (Ulster).

Deadline for involvement: 22 March 2013
Cost: FREE registration

In the first week of September 2013, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) organizes a Summer School on Mass Balance Measurements and Analysis. This summer school is carried out within the framework of the project “Capacity Building and Twinning for Climate Observing Systems” (CATCOS) which is led by MeteoSwiss and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

The course will be restricted to about a dozen participants from the Andes and Asia who are involved with ongoing mass balance programs in their region. The participants are trained in both field and office work by an international team of experts in glacier monitoring and capacity building.

Deadline for application is 30 November 2012.

The Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program is now recruiting students for graduate studies. Several Canadian universities are participants in the program, which is available for September 2013.

The CREATE program aims to provide students and postdoctoral fellows with training in arctic atmospheric science, including the use of state-of-the-art instrumentation and analysis of large datasets. The program uses the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL), which is run by the Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change (CANDAC) located on Ellesmere Island in Eureka, Nunavut.

The program has projects and stipends available for September 2013. Students interested in pursuing a graduate degree involving arctic atmospheric science are invited to contact the CREATE investigator with whom they wish to study. When a potential supervisor has been identified, students should apply to the relevant university and department and inform the CREATE Training Program Director of their application.

Or contact the CREATE Training Program Director: Kimberly Strong
Email: create_grad [at] atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca

The Alaska Arctic Policy Commission was legislatively created by HCR 23 (1 & 2) in April 2012, and held its first meeting March 23, 2013. The Commission will carry on the work of the Alaska North Waters Task Force (NWTF) in more detail, and create an actionable Arctic policy for Alaska.

The 3rd meeting of the Alaska Arctic Policy Commission will continue its mission to positively influence federal Arctic policy. The Commission will compile a list of all the current federal programs that directly affect Arctic Alaska and Arctic policy, and track and thoroughly investigate each program. These findings will inform the Commission's Final Report.

The 8th International Conference on Geomorphology of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) will take place in Paris at the Cité des Sciences de La Villette from August 27 to 31, 2013. The main topic of this 8th Conference is “Geomorphology and Sustainability”.

Organized by the Groupe Français de Géomorphologie (GFG) and open to all scientists and practitioners, this Conference will include 26 scientific sessions, 4 key-note lectures and one workshop devoted to young geomorphologists. Before, during and after the conference, about twenty field trips in various parts of France and neighboring countries will be proposed to participants.

The abstract submission deadline is 15 October 2012 and registration deadline is 1 March 2013.

We would like to draw your attention to the International Workshop on Antarctic Ice Rises that will be held in Tromso, Norway, between 26th and 29th of August, 2013.

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop on Antarctic ice rises is to look at all aspects of their physical science to bring an Earth Systems Science perspective to their major controls of Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics. Recent studies have highlighted the important role of the ice rises, the grounded ice surrounded by ice shelves, in both supporting the ice shelf and buttressing upstream glaciers. This is particularly significant in the Antarctic coastal regions, which are seen as crucial foci of continental changes in ice mass balance. Ice rises also provide a unique platform for reconstructing the highly-variable coastal climate by obtaining and analyzing ice cores. Given their crucial role, ice rises are not well studied, and part of the reason for this is their understanding requires cross-disciplinary integration. The researchers involved in ice-rise research are distributed across nations and disciplines and are not well coordinated. The goal of this workshop is to develop a summary of the current challenges of ice-rise research, share community-wide understandings of the current status of knowledge beyond each discipline, and identify and produce recommendations for future directions of collaborative interdisciplinary work on ice rises.

Registration deadline is 24th of June. Travel support is available for early career scientists and attendees from countries in economic transition.

The 101st meeting of the US Arctic Research Commission will be held in Dutch Harbor/Unalaska. The meeting agenda will be posted on the USARC website, www.arctic.gov, closer to the meeting date.

We would like to announce a workshop on Subglacial Hydrology organized by the Nordic Centre of Excellence SVALI (http://www.ncoe-svali.org/) at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland 26-30 August 2013 with excursion 31.8-1.9 2013.

The aim of this workshop is to give a thorough introduction on the theory, observations and modeling in the field of glacial hydrology. Students and researchers with interest in glaciology and hydrology are encouraged to join the course.