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We invite scientists, managers, students as well as representatives of governments, media and funding organizations, who have researched or are interested in cryospheric sciences, climate change, hydrology, ecology, and sociology to share research results and to discuss about the sustainable development in Central Asia. The official language of the symposium will be English.

This international symposium aims to:
-establish a baseline for the condition and trend of Central Asia's cryosphere;
-quantify the influences of cryospheric changes on water resources, environment, and sustainable development;
-outline measure to adaptive to cryospheric changes;
-provide a platform to discuss methodological approaches;
-define research needs and priorities; and to
-strengthen cooperation especially amongst experts working in the Central Asian countries;

For more information, please go to:
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~tbolch/symposium/ChangingCryosphereCentralAsia_F…

Hosted by the Russian Geographic Society and the regional government of Arkhangelsk, the forum will host discussion on Arctic navigation, development of the Northern Sea Route, railway extensions, and construction of a deep-water port in Arkhangelsk.

The official website is in Russian:
http://www.arcticforum.ru/?lang=ru&cat=forum2011&sub=Forum%202011

The Alaska Rural Energy Conference brings energy experts together to provide practical information and energy projects, ideas, and solutions for Alaska's Communities.

This event is open to the public, utilities, educators, consultants, communities, and all resource professionals.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.uaf.edu/acep/rec

Watersheds face resource impacts driven by accelerated change related to land use, population, and climate. The Fourth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds will view watershed science with a
continental perspective including pressing issues of watershed science and management in Alaska. The purpose of the conference is to better understand the processes driving change and help managers incorporate
societal needs and scientific uncertainty in the management of natural resources.

Attendees are invited to present their personal and professional experience with watershed research, management, and user perspectives during the conference. Abstracts for presentations or posters are
invited on the following topics, or other topics that attendees may wish to suggest, related to pristine or altered watersheds:

- Observing Watersheds: Instrumentation, remote sensing, data management, observed trends.
- Studying Watersheds: Research, analysis, and interpretation of data; causes and effects; experimental approaches; cumulative effects; relationships; predictions; models. Drivers of change can include climate, land use, growth in population and water demand, wildfire, disease, insects, agriculture, mining, and energy development. Impacted goods and services include quantity and quality of water, biota, and habitats; controls on carbon, nutrient, and sediment fluxes; aesthetics; and opportunities for education and recreation.
- Managing Watersheds for Change: Approaches to adaptive management, incorporation of uncertainty in decision-making, prioritization of management actions. Collaborative approaches. Ecosystem restoration and strategies for adaptation, mitigation, and enhancement of resiliency.

Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 18 February 2011.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.hydrologicscience.org/icrw/index.html

The symposium will address all aspects of polar science, with a focus on the functioning of the earth system in the Arctic and Antarctic, the major drivers of pervasive change, and the as yet unaddressed research issues in these regions. These issues will be considered within the context of the ICSU Grand Challenges in Global Sustainability framework and the research priorities of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS), and other ICSU unions and interdisciplinary scientific bodies with interests in polar sciences.

Invited speakers will outline the major current global challenges and changes in terrestrial and oceanic domains in the polar regions and highlight how these are linked to the ICSU research priorities. A panel
session, involving representatives from a range of ICSU bodies, will discuss the relevance of these issues to their organizations' research priorities and to the overall ICSU research strategy.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.mna.it/english/News/ICSU_symposium

The Arctic AAAS Division promotes science activities and communication among researchers, graduate students, wildlife managers, business leaders, rural residents, Alaska natives, high school teachers, students and others.

The Arctic Division of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) is open to all scientific scholars who are working on Arctic, Alaskan, Canadian, northern or Antarctic issues, and seeks to help them communicate their interests and discoveries to others.

For more information, please visit:
http://arctic.aaas.org/

A technical workshop, organized by Dr. Peter Wadhams, on the physical problems associated with oil spills and blowouts in sea ice will be held at the Istituto Geografico Polare "Silvio Zavatti," Fermo, Italy, on September 20-23, 2011. Scientists, engineers and policy makers are invited to address the questions of how oil is emitted from a blowout or spill, how the oil and gas are incorporated in the under-ice surface, how the oil layer evolves, how the oil is transported by the ice, and how and where eventual release occur. The aim is to incorporate the experience of those scientists who worked in this field in the 1970s-1990s, when large-scale field experiments involving oil release were possible, and to relate this to the needs of present researchers who are seeking solutions to the problem of a sustainable Arctic oil spill management system. Notably, the workshop will be attended by the oil spill work package of the EU ACCESS project (Arctic Climate Change and its Effect on Economic Systems).

For more information, please visit:
http://www.oilspillsinseaice.net/

This three-day conference aims to bring together UK Arctic scientists of all natural science disciplines: atmosphere, biology, ecology, geology, marine and terrestrial cryosphere, modern climate and palaeo-climate, oceans; their various interactions; observations and modelling; and relevant engineering research and development.

The conference will run from the afternoon of Wednesday 14th September, all through Thursday 15th September and close at lunch on Friday 16th September. There will be an icebreaker reception on the Wednesday evening, posters with drinks on the Thursday afternoon and a conference dinner Thursday evening. There will be a prize for the best student poster. There is no fee either for registration or for the conference dinner.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.ukarcticscience.org/

The 27th Lowell Wakefield International Fisheries Symposium, entitled "Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change," will be held in Anchorage, Alaska. This international symposium will provide a forum for scholars, fishery managers, fishing families, and others to explore the human dimensions of fishery systems and growing need to include social science research in policy processes. The conference is part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Sea Grant program.

For more information, please visit:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2011/wakefield-people/index.php

The course will provide a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. The course is meant for Ph.D. students that work on (or will soon start working on) a glaciology-related climate project.

Send your application to the convenor (j.oerlemans [at] uu.nl), before 9 May 2011.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwimau/education/summer_school/