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The Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University is hosting the 2022 edition of the British Society for Geomorphology’s Annual Meeting from Monday 5 September to Wednesday 7 September 2022 at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. The conference will follow the well-established format of oral and poster presentations, spread over three days, on a wide variety of geomorphological and geomorphology-related topics. Registration and accommodation costs have been kept to a minimum to promote participation, especially for postgraduate and other early career researchers.

Important Dates

• Call for abstracts and registration now open
• Abstract submission deadline: Friday 15 July 2022
• Notification of acceptance: end of July 2022 (latest)
• Registration closes: Tuesday 23 August 2022

The International Oil Spill Science Conference 2022 (IOSSC) will be held on October 4-7, 2022 in Halifax, Canada. This conference is co-hosted by the Multi-Partner Research Initiative of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Industry Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC), and Oil Spill Research Group of Concordia University. The conference aims to provide a platform for professionals, scholars and students from the oil spill response community, government, industry, and academia to work together to deal with the challenges in the field of oil spill response. The conference will bring experts from around the world to present their latest research in the field of oil spill science including spill prevention, contingency planning, and environmental rehabilitation.

The program at this conference that will allow members to reflect upon and celebrate past accomplishments, renew friendships, extend networks, and jointly explore current and future research directions. The organizers welcome you to join for an exciting four days of learning, sharing ideas, and networking in IOSSC 2022.

International Oil Spill Science Conference (IOSSC) 2022 is now ready to receive abstracts and the deadline to submit an abstract has been extended to July 12, 2022.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at iossc2022 [at] gmail.com

The topics of International Oil Spill Science Conference (IOSSC) 2022 include, but are not limited to arctic oil spill response, oil containment and recovery, spills of opportunity and field trials, oil spill waste management and disposal, etc.

The conference will provide an opportunity to share the present status and future of climate-related sea-level research with a strong focus on the application of sea-level science for adaptation and stakeholder needs. Given the critical need for risk assessment and coastal adaptation, it will include direct participation by a global cross-section of both leading sea level researchers and adaptation practitioners. The conference will feature a robust conversation between these communities to inform efforts to bridge science and society at this critical moment, including consideration of the new structure of WCRP (World Climate Research Programme).

Linking sea-level science to practitioner concerns and needs is an essential step towards effective coastal adaptation. Talks and participation from all those interested in these issues is encouraged. There is one day for Paleo sea-level, GIA and the cryospheric contribution to sea-level.

Five years after the WCRP sea level conference took place in New York in 2017, and one year after the last AR6 report provided a comprehensive summary of the state of climate related large scale sea level research, the conference will address the existing challenges in describing and understanding regional sea level changes. The conference will focus strongly on the link from large-scale sea level information to coastal areas and societal implications of those changes to coastal communities. This will include dedicated sessions devoted to practitioner interests and concerns, the science/practitioner interface, and the co-production between sea-level scientists and practitioners of appropriate information to support coastal adaptation.

The meeting is held in Singapore adjacent to south, south-east and east Asia where three quarters of the global population vulnerable to sea-level rise live today. The meeting is hybrid allowing virtual or in-person participation.

The call for papers and registration is open for this meeting. Submit abstracts by the extended deadline: 15 April 2022.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs (OPP) invite registration for their upcoming NSF Polar Program Officer Chat for Early Career Scientists webinar.

The first hour of the webinar will be an entry-level overview of the Office of Polar Programs, and information directly relevant to polar early career scientists.

Questions that may be covered during the webinar include:

• What is a program officer and why it is relevant to know them?
• What sorts of questions might be good to ask a program officer as a polar early career scientist considering putting in a proposal?
• How should early career scientists best stay updated on solicitations?
• What are some current opportunities that the NSF OPP would like to highlight for early career scientists?

During the last thirty minutes of the webinar, early career scientists will have an opportunity to ask program officers questions and/or engage in general conversation as a group related to OPP and NSF funding.

SnowEx Hackweek 2022 will be hosted entirely in-person by the University of Washington's eScience Institute in partnership with the NASA SnowEx Mission.

Join the Hackweek for five days of tutorials, data exploration, software development and community building focused on open source tools to analyze and visualize data. This year’s hackweek will focus primarily on developing ongoing collaboration on radar and LiDAR snow retrievals, in situ observations and modeling, as well as tools for conducting open source science. Tutorials will focus on these topic areas, and projects will be designed around developing new tutorials that can be shared both in these focus areas and broader topics. While accepted participants are required to attend the in-person hackweek, our goal is to co-design a curriculum that can be openly delivered and extended to the public community in a series of biweekly, virtual tutorials through Fall 2022.

The organizers welcome applications from participants at any career stage and level of technical ability. All tutorials and projects will use the Python programming language, and the organizers may provide optional educational opportunities in advance of the event for those new to Python based on demand.

Travel support will be offered to a limited number of applicants.

Application deadline: Friday, May 6th at 11:59 p.m. PST.

The Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean (GRISO) science network will host the first GRISO Summer School in Nuuk, Greenland. The topic is Impacts of glacier retreat on Greenland's coastal margins. The school will take place at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. The GRISO Summer School emphasizes Greenland science and building collaboration, communication, and complex problem-solving skills across disciplines. Participants in the summer school will:

• Learn about the state of science and research techniques pertaining to Greenland's ice sheet and ocean margins.
• Develop skills in cross-discipline collaboration and communication to explore cutting-edge system science topics facilitated by experts from Knowinnovation.
• Build and strengthen research community connections, especially a healthy and strong early career network.

The 2022 summer school is able to accommodate approximately 12 students. The primary audience for the summer school is advanced PhD students and postdocs. The organizers encourage applications from Greenland-based students and underrepresented minority groups. Summer school participants will have the opportunity to participate in boat trips and hiking, as well as other outdoor activities. No previous outdoor experience is required and arrangements will be available for people with limited mobility.

Applications close on 11 February 2022. Applications will be evaluated by the GRISO steering committee, and applicants will be admitted with the aim of having a diverse and interdisciplinary group of students. Participants will be notified of acceptance via email by roughly 1 March 2022.

Registration and abstract submission for the 3rd PalaeoArc International Conference have opened. The conference will gather together researchers who are interested in climatically-induced environmental changes in the Arctic during the Quaternary period and present day.

The Conference will be held in the Arctic Centre at the heart of the town Rovaniemi, in northern Finland from 23-26 August 2022.

Registration will close on 31st July 2022.

Abstract submission is already open and template for the abstracts are available in the registration page. Deadline for the abstracts is 8th July 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors on 18th July latest.

Furthermore, the organizers are also organizing a pre-conference field course for students from 21-22 August. Focus of the field course is in glacial geology and morphology as well as sedimentology in the central part of the last Weichselian glaciation, in the southern Finnish Lapland. The maximum number of places in the field course is 15 and PhD students are preferred. Places will be fulfilled according to the registration order. Field course will be free of charge for participants.

The Methane in a Changing Arctic International Conference will be hosted by the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø from 14-16 September 2022.

This conference aims to bring together scientists working on all aspects of Arctic methane and its role in the global carbon cycle. It will provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and exchange of knowledge relating to our current understanding of these complex systems and their response to and impact on, the rapid environmental and climatic changes that characterise the Arctic.

Themes

The conference will address themes including the formation, storage, cycling, transport, release and budgets of methane through the Arctic geo-, hydro-, cryo- and atmosphere since the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation and towards the future. There will be a strong emphasis on integration of these themes, and the organizers encourage all relevant contributions to the following topics:

• Methane in the geosphere: subsurface thermogenic, (a-)biogenic and methane stores and sinks
• Methane in the hydrosphere: methane processes and budgets in marine and lacustrine settings
• Methane in the cryosphere: methane dynamics in ice sheets and permafrost
• Methane in the atmosphere: methane source, sinks, and budget in the atmosphere
• Microbial cycling of methane: the role of microbes in methane budgets
• Past methane histories: past methane processes and budgets as analogues for future climate scenarios

Important Dates

• 4 July 2022: Abstract submission extended deadline.
• 14 August 2022: Registration deadline.

The North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) will release the 2022 Core Program Request for Proposals (RFP) in October 2022. Input from the research community is considered by the NPRB Science Panel, Advisory Panel, and Board to highlight areas of particular interest. Public input is welcome throughout the year. To have your recommendations considered for the 2022 RFP, please submit recommendations by Thursday, 30 June 2022. Please keep suggestions brief and easily converted to a bullet format.

The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) invites registration for their June 2022 Early Career Social Hour.

Join other polar early career scientists to connect, network, build community, and have some fun at PSECCO's Early Career Social Hour in the virtual world of Topia.

Topia is an interactive and unique way to connect with others remotely, in a virtual setting. Appearing in the world as an avatar, participants can move around the PSECCO space and meet people in a natural way. Sit and chat with other polar scientists who do science in the same region or move to gather with other folks chatting around a campfire. In Topia, participants can decide who to chat with and where to go within the space.

PSECCO will bring icebreakers for participants to kick off their conversations and/or provide natural breaks during which participants can choose to move on to chat to someone else.