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The Department of Archaeology and The Center for Research in Humanities at the University of Iceland announce open registration and a call for papers for the 13th Nordic Tag conference. Entitled "Borders-Margins-Fringes: Archaeologies on/from the Edge," the conference will convene 21-25 April 2013 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The conference will provide a discussion forum of theoretical debate in archaeology, cultural heritage management, material culture studies, and other related disciplines.

Open session topics will include:

• Materialized margins: the reflection on borders, margin, and fringes through material culture;
• At the crossroads of archaeology and folklore;
• Practice-led theory;
• Taking the bull by the horns: debating the roles of animals in northern human societies;
• Situating the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in northwest Europe;
• A stitch in time: combining analytical chronology in a Scandinavian context;
• Fringes of Christianity;
• Behind the (Iron) Curtain: looking back on Soviet archaeology;
• Community archaeology and the university;
• Foregrounding things: forms and faults of representation;
• Is everybody doing it? The role and value of analogical reasoning in archaeology reconsidered;
• Sites of gathering, cult, and assembly: a perspective across time;
• Archaeological exhibitionism; and
• Singularities: the particular and/or relational.

Submission deadline: Monday, 1 March 2013.

The American Polar Society will hold a meeting and symposium at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This meeting and symposium is titled "The Polar Regions in the 21st Century: Globalization, Climate Change and Geopolitics." Keynote speakers include Lonnie Thompson, Ph.D., Byrd Polar Research Center and Paul Mayewski, Ph.D., Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME.

Organizers announce the annual Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Working Group (CFG) meeting, the International Arctic Vegetation Database (IAVD) Workshop, and a joint meeting of both groups. The three events will precede the 2013 Arctic Science Summit Week and convene 14-16 April 2013 in Krakow, Poland.

CAFF is the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council, whose mandate is to address the conservation of arctic biodiversity and to communicate its findings to the governments and residents of the Arctic helping to promote practices that ensure the sustainability of the Arctic's living resources.

The CFG annual meeting will convene 12-14 April 2013. CFG promotes, encourages, and coordinates international conservation of arctic flora, vegetation, and habitats as well as research activities. Meeting agenda items will include:

• The Arctic Plant Portal,
• Red list of arctic plants, and
• CFG activities associated with the Panarctic Species List (PASL).

Organizers request that CFG members planning to attend the meeting inform Kari Fannar Larusson (kari [at] caff.is) at the CAFF Secretariat.

The joint CAFF CFG and IAVD meeting will convene 14 April. The meeting agenda will include the IAVD concept, progress to date, and status of the circumpolar vegetation datasets.

The IAVD workshop will convene 14-16 April 2013. The goal of the workshop is to engage the circumpolar community of arctic vegetation scientists in assembling this first vegetation database for the arctic tundra biome. Part of the meeting will be devoted to reviewing the status of vegetation databases in the arctic countries. Topics of invited talks include:

• Status of arctic vegetation plot datasets and vegetation classification in the Arctic,
• Status of arctic vegetation databases,
• Prototype IAVD databases, and
• Possible applications of the database.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is supporting the workshop by providing funding to help some key participants get to the IAVD Workshop.

Workshop registration deadline: Friday, 1 February 2013.

For further information about the meetings, workshop, preliminary agendas, registration instructions, and funding opportunities, please visit the website.

The five Working Groups (WGs) of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) will meet in conjunction with the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2013 in Krakow, Poland on 13-19 April 2013.

The WGs (Marine, Terrestrial, Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Human and Social) are the main tool by which IASC performs its activities. WGs identify and formulate science plans, research priorities, encourage science-led programs, promote future generations of arctic scientists, and act as scientific advisory boards to the IASC Council. All WG meetings are open to the public and anyone interested in the meetings can attend as observer. Scientists are invited to submit ideas for international collaborative activities for consideration by the WGs to IASC by 15 March 2013. To submit an idea, please send an email including your name and contact information to: iasc [at] iasc.info. You need not be present at the WG meeting in order for your suggestions to be considered.

IASC is a nongovernmental, international scientific organization. The IASC mission is to encourage and facilitate cooperation in all aspects of arctic research, in all countries engaged in arctic research and in all areas of the arctic region. Overall, IASC promotes and supports leading-edge multi-disciplinary research in order to foster a greater scientific understanding of the arctic region and its role in the Earth system.

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2013 is a three day science symposium. The over-all theme of the symposium is “The Arctic Hub - Regional and Global Perspectives”.

The ASSW is an initiative of IASC. The purpose of the summit is to provide opportunities for coordination, collaboration and cooperation in all areas of Arctic science, and to combine science and management meetings to save on travel and time. The ASSW also offers insight into Arctic research undertaken by the host country. IASSA is one of IASC’s main partners in the organization of the ASSW.

A Science Symposium is organized as part of the ASSW every other year. These symposia create a platform for exchanging knowledge, cross fertilization and collaboration and attracts scientists, students, policy makers and other professionals from all over the world.

The aim of this conference is to establish contacts between students, post-graduate students and young scientists of the Russian Federation and foreign countries for the exchange of academic ideas and research results, stimulation of interest to the research activity, and the identification of creative potential of young people. The conference will include a plenary session, thematic sections, and an exhibition entitled 'Scientific, Technical, and Art Works of the Youth.'

Participants must be under 35 years of age. Participation is available in the forms of oral, poster, and remote presentations of scientific reports. Applications and abstracts are required for participation.

Thematic sections will include:

• Technical Sciences
• Earth Sciences
• Biological and Chemical Sciences
• Psychology and Pedagogy
• Social, Economic, Legal and Philosophical Sciences
• Philology
• Physics
• Mathematics and Information Technologies

An exhibition entitled "Scientific, Technical and Art Works of the Youth" will take place during the conference. This will include:

• scientific research results
• innovative results
• computer graphics
• design and software for PC
• folk arts
• fine art

For more information, please contact the organizing committee:
Tel.: 8 (41147) 4-21-38 extension number 209.
Mrs Ekaterina Olegovna Tjutjunik: office 304
Mr Alexander Viktorovich Litvinenko: office 305
16 Kravchenko-st., Nerungry, Sakha Republic, Russia, 678960

Organizers announce that a conference on 'Sustainability in Mining in the Arctic' will be held 9-11 April 2013 at the Sanaartornermik Ilinniarfik facilities in Sisimiut, Greenland. Abstracts are now being accepted, and must be submitted by Saturday, 15 December 2012 -- please note that this deadline has been extended from the original date.

The conference will provide opportunity for participants from industry, the public sector, and the science community to share information about environmental, social, cultural, and economic issues related to large-scale mining in the Arctic and especially in Greenland.

Conference topics will include:

• Historical cases: what have we learned in the Arctic;
• Regulation and legislation;
• Environmental, health, and social impact assessments of planned Greenlandic mines;
• Extraction processes and tailings handling;
• Planning, logistics, and technical mining solutions; and
• Closing, re-cultivation, and monitoring of former mining sites.

Abstract submission deadline: Saturday, 15 December 2012.

The Association of American Geographers (AAG) announces the Polar Geography and Cryosphere special sessions topics and calls for abstracts for the 2013 AAG Annual Meetings. The meetings will be held 9-12 April 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

Polar Geography and Cryosphere special sessions include the following:

• Health and Human Development in the Arctic, organized by Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu);
• Climate Change and its Impact in the Polar Regions, organized by Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu);
• Urbanization in the Arctic, organized by Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu);
• The Greenland Ice Sheet, organized by Robert Hellstrom (rhellstrom [at] bridgew.edu);
• New Advances in Cryosphere Research, organized by Robert Hellstrom (rhellstrom [at] bridgew.edu);
• Cryospheric and Polar Educational/Field Experiences for Students, organized by Robert Hellstrom (rhellstrom [at] bridgew.edu);
• Polar Geography and Cryopshere poster session, organized by Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu) and Robert Hellstrom (rhellstrom [at] bridgew.edu).

Other sessions will be considered if there are sufficient submissions. Graduate students and young scholars are encouraged to apply. Presentations with complete documentation will be considered for publication in the journal "Polar Geography"(see: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpog20/current).

Prior to submitting an abstract to one of the sessions, please register for the AAG annual meeting and obtain a PIN. To submit an abstract to a session, please send the text and your PIN to the session organizer.

To register for the 2013 AAG annual meeting, please go to: http://www.aag.org/.

Abstract submission deadline for all sessions: Wednesday, 24 October 2012.

Contributions are invited on all topics within geo-information and remote sensing applications. Organizers especially welcome contributions on existing and future orbital IS sensors, existing and future airborne IS sensors, image processing methods and tools, new analytical techniques, calibration and validation, application to terrestrial ecosystems, coastal and marine ecosystems, inland waters, urban environment, geology and soils, risk management, climate change, and commercial applications.

The EGU General Assembly 2013 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists, it is the aim of the EGU to provide a forum where they can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna.