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January 2013

ERCA 2013 - European Research Course on Atmospheres

7 January - 8 February 2013, Grenoble, France

ERCA is a high level international course on the Physics and Chemistry of the atmosphere of the Earth, the climate system and climate change, atmospheric pollution at different scales and the human dimensions of environmental changes. The course also covers other planets, satellites and objects of the solar system and beyond. It is designed as a multidisciplinary course with a wide diversity of subject matter, intended for PhD students, scientists and engineers from universities, public research institutes and private research or industrial organizations. It is held in English. Most of the course takes place at the Polytech Grenoble, with the final week at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP).

For more information, please visit the ERCA website.

Arctic Frontiers 2013

21 - 25 January 2013, Tromsø, Norway

The theme of the conference is 'Geopolitics and Marine Production in a Changing Arctic'. The policy section will run for the first two days, followed by three days of science, divided into three parts:

Abstract submission and registration are now open. Abstract submission deadline is 24 October 2012.

For more information, please visit the Arctic Frontiers website.

February 2013

WCRP Special Workshop on Ozone Depletion in the Southern Hemisphere

25 February - 1 March 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The WCRP Special Workshop on 'Climatic Effects of Ozone Depletion in the Southern Hemisphere: Assessing the Evidence and Identifying Gaps in the Current Knowledge' is a cross-cutting, interdisciplinary workshop that aims to promote an enriching exchange from multiple perspectives on the consequences of ozone depletion upon the climate of the Southern Hemisphere. In particular, it will address the following questions:

  1. How well do we understand the mechanisms relating Antarctic ozone loss to tropospheric climate in the Southern Hemisphere?
  2. How will greenhouse gas concentration increases and ozone depletion/recover interact in future and what will be their impacts on the polar vortex and on tropospheric climate?
  3. What don't we know, and what observing or research programs need to be undertaken?

Participants in the Workshop will include specialists from multiple domains of research, including Southern Hemisphere weather and climate, atmospheric chemistry, cryosphere and oceanography.

Presentations will be in poster format only. Abstract submission deadline has been extended to 30 November 2012.

Registration deadline - 15 January 2013. Partial travel grants are available for students and early career scientists.

For full information about the workshop, including registration, abstract submission and accommodation, please visit the Workshop website.

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March 2013

4th Polar Shipping Summit

12 - 13 March 2013, Montreal, Canada

Looking into the future of polar shipping. For more information, please visit the conference website.

April 2013

Holocene Climate Change Meeting

4 - 5 April 2013, Burlington House, London, UK

The main theme of this meeting is the examination of high frequency climate changes reflected in the geological record, and the pacings of change and their geological consequences, during the Holocene – the past 11,700 years. The meeting will be divided into sessions on Ocean Change, Sea-Level Variability, Terrestrial Change, Ice Core Change, the Modelling of any or all of these, and the interaction between climate and humans.

Meeting registration is now open. Some travel and accommodation grants are available - please contact Georgina Worrall (georgina.worrall@geolsoc.org.uk) before 28 February 2013 for further information.

For more information, please see the meeting poster or visit the Meeting website.

EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly and Conference

7 - 12 April 2013, Vienna, Austria

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.

The deadline for abstract submission is 9 January 2013. For more information, please visit the Conference website.

Session CL2.3 Arctic climate change: governing mechanisms and global implications

This session specifically aims to identify, characterize and quantify the processes and feedbacks that govern amplified Arctic warming, and the climate impacts on the lower latitudes associated with Arctic changes (for instance the relation between sea ice reductions, heat flux changes and atmospheric circulation changes beyond the Arctic region). We invite contributions on the causes, mechanisms and climate feedbacks associated with Arctic climate change. We welcome studies based both on climate model results and/or observational datasets, for near-past, present and future climate changes. For further details, please read the session description.

Arctic Science Summit Week 2013

13 - 19 April 2013, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

The Arctic Science Summit Week will consist of:
13 - 16 April: Business Meetings
17 - 19 April: Science Symposium

The three-day Science Symposium is entitled 'The Arctic Hub: Regional and Global Perspectives'. The Arctic is characterized by unique environmental and socio-economic conditions. It is in specific interactions with low latitudes and changes in the 'Arctic Hub' have far-reaching regional and global implications. The Symposium focuses on these changes and linkages.

Disciplinary sessions include:

Online registration and abstract submission open on 20 October 2012. The registration fee will rise after 15 February 2013. The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 16 January 2013.

For more information, please see the Second Circular or visit the ASSW website.

Arctic Observing Summit 2013

30 April - 2 May 2013, Vancouver, Canada

The Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is a high-level, biennial summit that aims to provide community-driven, science-based guidance for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long-term (decades) operation of an international network of arctic observing systems. The AOS is a task of the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) which is led by the Arctic Council and IASC.

Registration is open and the organisers are calling for Community Input and White Papers, deadline 7 April 2013. For more information, please see the Call for Community Input or visit the AOS website.

May 2013

International Conference on Arctic Ocean Acidification

6 - 8 May 2013, Bergen, Norway

The First Circular includes the announcement, call for papers and information on preliminary registration. For more information, please visit the Conference website.

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The Scotia Arc - Geodynamic Evolution and Global Implications

14 - 16 May 2013, Granada, Spain

An international symposium dedicated to the memory of Peter Barker and to the scientific contributions he made in the Scotia Arc region. The symposium will provide a forum for advanced studies on the geodynamic evolution of the Scotia Arc and of its implications for global evolution, including paleoceanography, climate, ice-sheets and biota. Proposed topics will include:

  1. The Break-up of the South America - Antarctic Peninsula continental bridge: geodynamic reconstruction;
  2. Tectonic development of the Scotia Sea: ocean basins, volcanic arcs, jumping spreading centers and opening of new seaways;
  3. Seismic stratigraphy and the development of paleoceanographic circulation in the Southern Ocean;
  4. Effects of the final break-up of Gondwanaland on biota;
  5. Late Cenozoic climate evolution and the growth patterns of Antarctic icesheets;
  6. Importance of the Scotia Arc development on global processes.

The deadline for abstract submission is 1 March 2013. Registration deadline and programme announcement 30 April 2013. There will be no registration fees.

For more information, please see the Symposium flyer and preliminary programme, or visit the Symposium website.

VI International Antarctic Conference 'Internationalization of Antarctic Research - Way to Spiritual Unity of Humanity'

15 - 17 May 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine

We invite all scientists - Antarctic researchers as well as young scientists, postgraduate students and students that take an active part in research of the sixth continent and wish to become proficient in their knowledge and professional skills - to participate in the VI Antarctic International Conference. Proposed sections are:

A full conference programme will be available by 30 March 2013. The deadline for registration and for abstract submission is 15 February 2012. Poster presentations should be in English; oral presentations may be in English, Russian or Ukrainian.

For more details of the conference, and information on how to register or submit abstracts, please visit the conference website.

Information Letter No 1
Information Letter No 2 and Application Form

ATCM XXXVI - CEP XVI

20 - 29 May 2013, Brussels, Belgium

For more information, please visit the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat website.

The Geopolitical Consequences of an Arctic Spring - A Live Online Conference

21 May 2013, online

An overview of the emerging political, diplomatic, economic, and security dynamics caused by unprecedented climate change in the Arctic region, presented by Heather Conley.

For more information and to register, please visit the conference website.

SOOS Asian Workshop

23 - 24 May 2013, Shanghai, China

The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Scientific Steering Committee is convening a 2-day workshop to highlight Asian activities in Southern Ocean observations and research, and to stimulate discussion about enhanced involvement in SOOS from Asian countries. The first day is open to all interested parties (registration essential) and will see guest speakers from the Asian science community present their nation/organization's Southern Ocean observation and research activities. Members of the SOOS Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) will also present a brief overview of relevant SOOS activities. Day 2 is by invitation only (guest speakers, SSC members and other key representatives) and will provide an opportunity for working group discussions and strategic development planning.

Anyone wishing to attend Day 1 of the Workshop is urged to register with SOOS (email: info@soos.aq) by 23 April 2013, as numbers will be limited to 100 participants (due to the maximum capacity of the workshop venue).

For more information, please see the Workshop Prospectus or visit the SOOS website.

Symposium on Ice Mass Change

30 May - 2 June 2013, Ilulissat, Greenland

This international symposium, entitled 'Reconciling Observations and Models of Elastic and Viscoelastic Deformation due to Ice Mass Change', seeks to bring together those working on observation and modelling of cryospheric change and solid earth response to further our understanding of the Earth system. These include, but are not limited to, the fields of GIA modelling, ice sheet reconstructions, geodesy (changes in deformation, gravity and Earth rotation), glaciology and seismology. The principal interest is in discussing existing, and initiating new, studies at the interface between these various disciplines. We also seek to maximise the use of existing and future datasets to provide the most robust tests/constraints on models.

For more information, please visit the symposium website.

June 2013

The 8th Antarctic Meteorological Observations, Modeling, & Forecasting Workshop

9 - 12 June 2013, Madison, WI, USA

This workshop brings together those with research and operational/logistical interests in Antarctic meteorology and forecasting and related disciplines. As in the past, the annual activities and status of the AMRC, AWS, and AMPS efforts will be addressed, and feedback and results from their user communities will be solicited. More broadly, this workshop also is a forum for current results and ideas in Antarctic meteorology, numerical weather prediction, and weather forecasting, from contributors around the world. There will be discussions on the relationships among international efforts and Antarctic forecasting, logistical support, and science. We welcome papers and posters on these topics.

Registration and abstract submission deadlines: 15 May 2013.

For more information, please visit the workshop website.

July 2013

Joint SCAR History EG / Social Sciences AG Workshop

1 - 5 July 2013, Cambridge, UK

We are pleased to announce that the SCAR History Expert Group and the SCAR Social Sciences Action Group will hold a joint workshop that will focus on the past, present and future of human connections to the Antarctic (and the polar regions in general). We welcome contributions and participation from Antarctic researchers and our Arctic colleagues to stimulate debate, academic engagement and future dialogue.

A limited amount of funding will be made available to offer a small number of travel grants for research students (PhD and Masters) to attend the workshop - these travel fellowships will be granted on the basis of merit, need (e.g. lack of other funding), and the quality of the abstract submitted.

Deadline for abstracts 31 March 2013.

For more information, please contact Conny Luedecke (C.Luedecke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de), chair of the SCAR History EG, or Daniela Liggett (daniela.liggett@canterbury.ac.nz), co-chair of the SCAR Social Sciences AG.

Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly (DACA-13)

8 - 12 July 2013, Davos, Switzerland

To face today's key challenges of global environmental change it is essential to cooperate at the interface between atmospheric and cryospheric sciences, and to pay attention to the complex interactions between these two vulnerable components. The Assembly is organised by the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) and the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS), both Associations of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).

The conference will bring together some 1200 scientists from both fields to present and discuss the latest research in separate or joint sessions, covering topics from ice-sheet modelling to extreme climate events, from solar UV radiation to avalanche formation and permafrost.

Some travel grants are available to participants submitting abstracts by 14 December 2012. Abstract submission closes on 31 January 2013.

For more information, and to view the First and Second Circulars, please visit the DACA-13 website.

XI SCAR Biology Symposium

15 - 19 July 2013, Barcelona, Spain

Life in Antarctica: Boundaries and Gradients in a Changing Environment

The main theme for the XIth Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) symposium is "Life in Antarctica: Boundaries and Gradients in a Changing Environment". This symposium links the functional importance of land and water ecosystems and their biocomplexity, under an ecosystemic perspective in order to understand the Antarctic trophic web, effects of human impacts such as the ozone hole, climate change, the increase in tourism activities, the flexible boundaries anddynamic gradients in Antarctic ecosystem, as well the Antarctic marinebiodiversity through its patterns, processes and trends.

An important aspect of this symposium is the outreach and education section, which will emphasize the importance of communication between polar researchers and educators in order to improve understanding and connections between scientists and society. Moreover, one of the aims of the symposium is transferring scientific knowledge beyond the scientific community and letting the general public take an active part in post-symposium hands-on activities, open lectures, seminars, courses and exhibitions. Such exposure will be of undoubtedly benefit to polar science. The newly created Spanish Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS Spain) is going to be highly involved in the symposium by organising round table sessions and preparing outreach contents.

This symposium will be also the perfect oportunity to show the final results of the SCAR programme "Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic". Similarly, the new SCAR programmes "State of the Antarctic Ecosystem" (AntEco) and "Antarctic Thresholds - Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation" (AnT-ERA) will be presented to the scientific community and will outline their objectives and perspectives for the coming years.

For more information, please visit the Symposium website or email xithsbs@icm.csic.es with any queries.

Abstract Submission is open. The deadline for abstract and awards submission has been extended to 28 February 2013. Registration is open on the Symposium website.

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SCAR Chief Officers' and Cross-Linkages Meeting

20 July 2013, Barcelona, Spain

This is a closed meeting with attendance by invitation only.

SCAR Executive Committee Meeting

22 - 23 July 2013, Barcelona, Spain

This is a closed meeting with attendance by invitation only.

SCAR AAA Second Workshop

24 - 26 July 2013, Siena, Italy

The second workshop of the SCAR "Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica" programme will take place at Certosa di Pontignano, a former Carthusian Monastery near Siena, Italy.

This meeting builds upon the foundations laid at the Taronga Zoo meeting in Sydney in 2011 and is themed around the four AAA Working Groups:

Astronomy and Astrophysics from Antarctica became a Scientific Research Programme of SCAR in 2010. Broadly stated, its objectives are to coordinate astronomical activities in Antarctica in a way that ensures the best possible outcomes from international investment in Antarctic astronomy, and to maximize the opportunities for productive interaction with other disciplines. This meeting brings together the key players in Antarctic astronomy to review the implementation plans of the four AAA Working Groups, and to coordinate future activities.

On-line registration is now open on the workshop page of the AAA website.

As this is a live-in workshop at a former medieval monastery, space is limited and early registration is highly recommended to secure a place. Further information is available from Silvia Masi (email: silvia.masi@roma1.infn.it).

August 2013

5th International Symposium on the Environmental Physiology of Ectotherms and Plants

12 - 16 August 2013, London, Ontario, Canada

Topics covered will include (but are not restricted to) thermal biology, water balance and anhydrobiosis, metabolism, climate change, and applied ecological physiology. For more information, please visit the Symposium website.

International Workshop on Antarctic Ice Rises

26 - 29 August 2013, Tromsø, Norway

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop on Antarctic ice rises is to look at all aspects of their physical science to bring an Earth Systems Science perspective to their major controls of Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics.

Recent studies have highlighted the important role of the ice rises, the grounded ice surrounded by ice shelves, in both supporting the ice shelf and buttressing upstream glaciers. This is particularly significant in the Antarctic coastal regions, which are seen as crucial foci of continental changes in ice mass balance. Ice rises also provide a unique platform for reconstructing the highly-variable coastal climate by obtaining and analyzing ice cores. Given their crucial role, ice rises are not well studied, and part of the reason for this is their understanding requires cross-disciplinary integration. The researchers involved in ice-rise research are distributed across nations and disciplines and are not well coordinated.

The goal of this workshop is to develop a summary of the current challenges of ice-rise research, share community-wide understandings of the current status of knowledge beyond each discipline, and identify and produce recommendations for future directions of collaborative interdisciplinary work on ice rises.

The workshop is sponsored by SCAR, CliC, APECS, the Research Council of Norway, British Antarctic Survey, and Center for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems (ICE) of the Norwegian Polar Institute.

Registration deadline is 24 June 2013. Travel support is available for early career scientists and attendees from countries in economic transition.

For more details, please visit the Workshop website.

8th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology - Geomorphology and Sustainability

27 - 31 August 2013, Paris, France

For more information, please visit the Conference website.

September 2013

7th Latin American Congress of Antarctic Science

4 - 6 September 2013, La Serena, Chile

On behalf of the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), the Centre for Arid Zone Studies (CEAZA) and CNIA (SCAR-Chile), we are pleased to invite you to the 7th Latin American Congress of Antarctic Science to be held at Hotel-Club La Serena in La Serena. The congress provides the opportunity for the presentation of results of research conducted around Antarctica and its associated ecosystems, and for the formation of multidisciplinary networks and international collaborative work. There will be a series of Thematic Symposia and Keynote Speakers talks, as well as Oral Presentations and Posters.

Presentation submission deadline and early bird registration deadline are 14 June 2013.

For inquiries and questions, please contact the official email: congresoantartico2013@gmail.com. For online registration, submission and payment details, visit the official Congress website.

5th Polar and Alpine Microbiology Conference

8 - 12 September 2013, Big Sky, Montana, USA

The objectives of this conference will be to bring together scientists, students and professionals to discuss all aspects of cold-adapted microorganisms and the roles they play in polar and alpine environments, to address recent developments, and to exchange ideas and experiences on an international scale. The conference will provide a multi-disciplinary forum to explore emerging areas in the field and as always, will have a wealth of opportunities for the exchange of ideas and building of collaborations.

Sessions include topics related to prokaryotes, eukaryotes, viruses, technological developments, and process related research:

The initial call for abstracts and registration will be made in January 2013. The deadline for registration and abstract submission closes on 24 June 2013.

For more information, please visit the Conference website.

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