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The Arctic Frontiers conference is a central arena for discussions on arctic issues. The conference brings together representatives from science, politics, and civil society to share perspectives on how upcoming challenges in the Arctic may be addressed to ensure sustainable development. Arctic Frontiers 2013 will focus on the current status, challenges, and future perspectives of arctic geopolitics, security, and marine productivity.

The scientific portion will be held under three parallel sessions:

*Geopolitics in a changing arctic
*Marine harvesting in the Arctic
*Arctic marine productivity

One of the biggest issues the world faces today is global warming that occurs owing to influence of human activities. Pure snow, forming a bright surface, reflects heat back into space and causes cooling, while being polluted with industrial waste and soot, dark snow absorbs sunlight and results in warming. This environmental challenge needs world community’s special attention and deserves a separate discussion. But there are few global events, which have respect to ecological problems and city management issues of winter period.

The conference will gather representatives from international organizations, global experts on snow and wintertime problems, and arctic city mayors and national authorities to discuss environmental problems and city management issues specifically relevant to arctic regions. It will raise issues of global geopolitical and environmental problems, and discuss the development and preservation of northern territories. The conference will be organized into three sessions each lasting one day:

• Snow and City Management
• Snow and Ecology
• Snow and Sport

The World Snow Forum will also include an extensive cultural program featuring ice and snow sculpture, dance, and various competitions.

The World Snow Forum is supported by the Russian Government as well as the Arctic Council, the International Arctic Science Committee, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and the Winter Cities Institute.

Interested individuals are welcome to attend the 'North-South Workshop' at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) in Copenhagen, Denmark between January 14-16th, 2013. The workshop, which is funded by the European Union seventh framework (FP7) programme 'ice2sea: estimating the future contribution of continental ice to sea-level rise', is an effort to bring together a new community of researchers working on prediction of similar 'near-polar' glacier systems in the northern and southern hemispheres.

The ice2sea 'North-South Workshop' aims to highlight importance and difficulties / opportunities in future projections of glacier change in rapidly changing 'near-polar' glacier systems, such as the Arctic, the Gulf of Alaska, Patagonia, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Future projections of change are hampered by a lack of key datasets (e.g. mass balance, ice thickness), uncertainty in the attribution of processes driving these changes, and uncertain predictions of regional climate.

The 'North-South Workshop' aims to:

• Highlight these issues with examples from 'near-polar' glacier systems throughout the northern and southern hemispheres;
• To reduce the disconnect between distinct glaciological communities working in the north and south; and
• To provide an opportunity to suggest future targeted grant applications and/or data acquisition campaigns.

A statement of the outcome of the meeting will be prepared for publication under the authorship of the attendees.

If you are interested in attending, please get in touch with the organisers. We hope to see you in Copenhagen next year.

Nick Barrand (British Antarctic Survey)
Jon Ove Hagen (University of Oslo)
Horst Machguth (GEUS / University of Zurich)

Organizers announce that the Third International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-3) will be held in Tokyo, Japan on 15-17 January 2013.

ISAR-3 will be directed to detect and clarify the recent changes and understand the substantial processes in the region, and to search the global influence. It will also be directed to envision the future through further scientific discussions and to enhance more national and international cooperation/collaboration, including the ones between arctic and non-arctic countries.

This workshop will exchange concepts and ideas on the development and application of geophysical exploration methods to problems in the changing cryosphere relating to snow, sea ice, permafrost, glaciers and ice sheets. We will focus mainly on how various methods of subsurface imaging can help monitor changes in the cryosphere and thus elucidate the consequences of a changing climate. These changes may include the mass balance of ice sheets and glaciers, active layer depth and extent, the state and depth of terrestrial and offshore permafrost, and the mass budget and state of sea ice and the seasonal snow cover. The workshop will also highlight advances in geophysical methods, especially as may be relevant to resource development, environmental hazard monitoring and assessment, and bridging the gap between development and practical application of geophysical technology.

We invite papers that investigate all aspects of cold regions subsurface imaging and extraction of in situ petrophysical properties.

Cryosphere Geophysics: Understanding a Changing Climate with Subsurface Imaging

The earth's cold regions present perhaps the most diverse set of geophysical problems of any earth system. We must understand the influence of water in all its phases on the dynamics and thermodynamics of snow, ice and frozen soil masses whose geophysical properties can change dramatically on time scales from hours to millennia. This workshop will exchange concepts and ideas on the development and application of geophysical exploration methods to problems in the changing Cryosphere relating to snow, sea ice, permafrost, glaciers and ice sheets. We will focus mainly on how various methods of subsurface imaging can help monitor changes in the Cryosphere and thus elucidate the consequences of a changing climate. These changes may include the mass balance of ice sheets and glaciers, active layer depth and extent, the state and depth of terrestrial and offshore permafrost, and the mass budget and state of sea ice and the seasonal snow cover. The workshop will also highlight advances in geophysical methods, especially as may be relevant to resource development, environmental hazard monitoring and assessment, and bridging the gap between development and practical application of geophysical technology.

We invite papers that investigate all aspects of cold regions subsurface imaging and extraction of in situ petrophysical properties.

For more than 20 years, the Geophysical Institute has hosted the Science For Alaska Lecture Series in locations across the state, sharing cutting-edge research in local communities. The 2013 lecture series will undergo important changes from previous years: all lectures will be hosted on campus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and will span over four Saturdays in January.

Kicking-off on Jan. 5 at 2 p.m., the lecture series will feature scientific research of earthquakes, sea ice, air quality and lasers. Scientists presenting the lectures are on the forefront of their fields and will be focusing on research that is relevant to Alaska. Lectures will continue on Saturday afternoons through Jan. 26.

Presentations will be held in the Schaible Auditorium, located in the Bunnell Building (303 Tanana Loop). All Lectures and parking on campus are free to the public. Following each of the lectures, coffee and hot tea will be provided and audience members will have an opportunity to meet the scientists.

The 2013 Science for Alaska Lecture Series is sponsored by the Geophysical Institute and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Science for Alaska is one of the largest public outreach efforts undertaken each year by the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The series brings current scientific research to communities throughout the state and serves as a method of collaboration between each major campus of the University of Alaska system, state and federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Each year, administrators, faculty, staff and the public weigh-in on possibilities for speakers and topics to be included in the popular lecture series. The result is a well-rounded event that pools expertise from scientists studying in various locales in Alaska, on topics as diverse as alternative energy to walruses.

The Marine Mammal Commission will meet in open session on Friday, 14 December 2012, from 12:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the National Marine Fisheries Service's main conference room (Room 445), Juneau Federal Building.

The Commission plans to meet with regional management and scientific officials in each of the National Marine Fisheries Service's six regions to identify the most pressing marine mammal research and management needs. The Commission will use these meetings to develop a set of national priorities for guiding federal conservation efforts for marine mammals. Members of the public are invited to attend these meetings and to provide comments concerning priority issues.

This webinar is part of a series of Alaska Climate Webinars given by the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy (ACCAP). This webinar will be given by Chris Wilmers, of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

To hear the audio presentation during a webinar:
1. With a regular telephone dial: 1- (877) 594-8353
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The British Society for Geomorphology runs a workshop for new research students in December each year and we encourage you to attend. The workshop has been running at the fantastic Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park for over 30 years - many notable researchers and academics have been and benefited from this course!

The content is non-technical, but provides training in project management, group work, dealing with large data sets, fieldwork, lab and numerical modelling. But one of the most important aspects is meeting other new researchers, finding out how the PhD is working for others in different Universities and often making friends and contacts that can last a career. You'll also meet a wide variety of academics and facilitators who are practicing researchers as well as the BSG postgrad representatives.

The cost is a heavily subsidised £110 for BSG research students (we require non members need to join the BSG, at the postgraduate rate of £45 for three years).