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Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuk climate change advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, will give a public lecture on the human dimensions of climate change Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 7:00 p.m. EST. The lecture will be held in Convocation Hall at Mount Allison University (Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada) but will also be broadcast online.

Entitled 'Not the Time to COP Out,' the lecture will mark the second day of the international United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-17) climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa.

In addition to the local event in New Brunswick, the lecture will be broadcast live over the internet on IsumaTV, an indigenous-focused multi-media website. Communities across Canada and the world are encouraged to organize screenings. These satellite events can tune in (at http://www.isuma.tv or via Skype address isumatvwebcaster) live to Mount Allison University to ask questions.

For more information, please contact:
Patrick Forestell
Email: plforestell [at] mta.ca
Phone: 506-227-3632

Arctic Oil & Gas 2011 will focus on market trends, commercial drivers and the technical challenges of offshore oil and gas production in Arctic and cold regions.

In addition, there will be two intensive one-day seminars:

1. Arctic Pipelines seminar will provide a platform for industry professionals to discuss and address the challenges of designing, engineering and operating pipelines in ice-covered waters.

2. FPSOs for Arctic Operation - The Arctic offers a unique set of considerations for the design and safe operation of an FPSO. This seminar will highlight some of the challenges and issues which need to be addressed including impact of ice loads, technology qualification, winterization, offloading, suitable hull shape and system designs.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.informaglobalevents.com/event/Arctic

Join the Institute of the North for this quarter's Arctic Policy Forum. This presentation and networking event will focus on science and collaboration in the Arctic and will feature Michael Macrander, Lead Scientist for Shell and Fran Ulmer, Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.

The Institute of the North's Arctic Policy Forums are a new way of engaging in Arctic issues. These quarterly networking events serve to underline and elevate Alaska’s role in the Arctic. Informal policy presentations followed by networking events invite policy makers and administrators, researchers, community leaders and interested citizens together for an informal sharing opportunity. Participants will hear from expert presentations on key policy findings and positions; emerging Arctic technologies; and challenges facing infrastructure development in the Arctic. Participants will also have the opportunity to spend time getting to know key stakeholders in Alaska’s Arctic.

At the community, state, regional, national or global level, Alaskans must understand their role in decisions affecting the state while maintaining strong relationships with one another and key partners. The Arctic Policy Forum will provide a space for accomplishing this.

For more information, please visit:
https://www.institutenorth.org/calendar/events/APF-Nov

The course is for those interested in using groundwater models to solve practical or theoretical hydrology problems involving freeze/thaw. Participants may be consultants, hydrologists, hydrogeologists, engineers, faculty and students, staff from governments, consultancies, and universities are welcome. Some experience in the application of numerical models to study groundwater problems is recommended.

Workshop participants will learn to set up, run, and interpret a highly-configurable variable-density groundwater flow and solute/energy transport simulator (U.S. Geological Survey's SUTRA code) in a new version that incorporates the dynamic freeze-thaw process.

The course brochure is here:
http://eps.mcgill.ca/~mckenzie/SUTRA-Workshop-Nov7-11-2011.pdf.

For additional information about the workshop, or to register, please contact Jeff McKenzie (jeffrey.mckenzie [at] mcgill.ca) or Cliff Voss (cvoss [at] usgs.gov).

The purpose of this conference is to gather researchers from the material science community around the following subjects that have been studied with ice:

• Intermittency and scale invariance, from dislocations to polycrystal
• Strain heterogeneities and recrystallization mechanisms
• Multi-scale characterization and modeling
• Brittle deformation, from the material to the large scale environment (sea ice, mantle crust, etc.)
• Ice and engineering materials
• Polar ice deformation
• Extraterrestrial ice deformation

Deadline for abstract submission is July 1st.

For more information, please visit:
http://microdice.eu/activities/ice-deformation-from-the-model-material-…

The 10th Ny-Alesund Seminar will be held 25-26 October 2011 at the Lillestrom Centre of Expertise in Kjeller, Norway. The meeting is organized by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU).

The seminar intends to bring together scientists who have Ny-Alesund as a base for their research. The aim of the two-day meeting is to exchange experiences and share advancements from research and monitoring activities in the Arctic. The meeting wants to encourage collaborations between researchers related to the following flagship programs:

- Kongsfjord System Flagship
- Atmospheric Research Flagship
- Terrestrial System Flagship
- Glaciology Flagship

The conference is now accepting abstracts. Presentations from recent and ongoing 2011 campaigns are welcome. All submissions will be considered
for oral presentations and posters, but authors are welcome to indicate a preference upon submittal.

Abstract deadline: 1 September 2011.

For further information, please visit:
http://nyalesund-seminar.nilu.no/

Canada will discuss polar bear conservation with governments and scientists from four other Arctic nations at a meeting this fall in Iqaluit. The meeting, slated to take place Oct. 24 to 26, will mark the first time the five signatories to the 1973 Agreement on Conservation of Polar Bears will meet in Canada's North, where two-thirds of the world's polar bears are based.

More information coming soon.

The WCRP Open Science Conference (OSC) will represent a unique opportunity to assemble the large international scientific community to focus on key challenges and opportunities in advance understanding and prediction of variability and change of Earth?s climate system on all space and time scales. The OSC will assist WCRP and its partners to identify and develop the climate information required to address climate-related challenges facing all citizens of the planet.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.wcrp-climate.org/conference2011/

This symposium is for early-career climate change researchers. The symposium is hosted by Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS).

This symposium will provide 30 invited DISCCRS Scholars the opportunity to present research, hone interdisciplinary communication and teambuilding skills, discuss emerging research and trends, and talk
about societal and professional challenges involved in climate change research with established researchers invited to serve as mentors. Participation is limited to 30 early-career PhD scholars. Airfare and
on-site expenses are supported through grants from NSF and NASA.

For more information, please visit:
http://disccrs.org/application_instructions

Details will be forthcoming