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American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2005 Fall Meeting

5-9 December 2005, San Francisco, USA
Sessions that may be of interest to the SCAR community include:

Abstract Submissions Open: Tuesday, 26 July 2005
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 8 September 2005
For further information on the AGU 2005 Fall Meeting, please go to: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/

International Symposium on Sea Ice in 2005

5 - 9 December 2005, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Theme: The sea-ice of the Arctic and Antarctic Seas exerts a major impact on the regional oceans and atmosphere, concomitantly affecting global climate and modifying the global oceans. It also strongly influences the ecology of the polar oceans. Through remote sensing, fieldwork and modelling, often with a multidisciplinary flavour, scientists are well placed to make significant progress over the next two decades in our understanding of this vital constituent of the geosphere and biosphere at all scales. Succeeding the very successful 'International Symposium on Sea Ice and its Interactions', held in Fairbanks Alaska during June 2000, the overarching goal of this Symposium is to promote interdisciplinary discussion of the geophysics of sea ice and its interactions with the ocean, atmosphere and biosphere. Closing date for submissions 30 May 2005.
Contact:
Magnús Már Magnússon, International Glaciological Society, Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK. Tel: +[44] (0)1223 355 974 Fax: +[44] (0)1223 354 931 Email: igsoc@igsoc.org
Web: http://www.igsoc.org/symposia/ and http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/research/ice/igs/
Download the Second Circular as a PDF

Antarctic Sea Ice in IPY

4 December 2005,Dunedin, New Zealand

The first workshop on Antarctic sea icein IPY (International Polar Year) will be held Sunday, 4December 2005, preceding the "International Glaciological SocietyConference on Sea Ice" (http://www.igsoc.org) in Dunedin, New Zealand.

The purpose of the workshop is to review plans for cruises, station work, modeling, and remote sensing that are being planned for Antarctic sea ice during IPY and organize efforts for international collaboration, data archiving, and communication with other IPY efforts, both Arctic and Antarctic, with some joint aims.

For further information, please contact: Steve Ackley at: sackley@pol.net

For the agenda of the workshop click here

The 5th Participants' Meeting of WCRP/SCAR International Program for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB)

3 December 2005, 9:00-17:30, Dunedin, New Zealand

The meeting will take place in the Common Room of St. Margaret's College
333 Leith Street, Dunedin, New Zealand

An updated agenda of our meeting is located at:
http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/research/ice/igs/meetings.html#IPAB

Second International Conference on Arctic Research Planning ICARP II

10 - 12 November 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark
The goal of ICARP is to prepare Arctic research plans to guide international cooperation over the next 10-15 years.
A comprehensive pre-conference process engaging over 140 scientists in the preparation of 13 draft research plans is underway.
ICARP will bring together senior and young scholars, policy experts, Arctic indigenous and other residents, science and land managers as well as funding agencies to discuss and extend the draft plans taking special note of the problems, priorities and concerns of those who live in or near the Arctic.
The outcome of ICARP will complement ongoing national and international programmes and planned major initiatives, such as the International Polar Year (IPY), in order to guide international cooperation over the next decade of change in the Arctic.
Website: www.icarp.dk

CliC Scientific Steering Group meeting

6-9 November 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact Dr J.Turner for details at jtu@bas.ac.uk

International Glaciological Society Nordic Branch meeting

3-5 November 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 21 October 2005

For further information, please go to:
http://server.oersted.dtu.dk/igsnb

2nd International Alfred Wegener Symposium

30 October - 2 November 2005 Bremerhaven, Germany
Type of Event: Symposium
Themes Meteorology; Glaciology; Geosciences; Geothemes in the future; History of Science
Contact
Email: secretary@alfred-wegener-symposium.de
Website: www.alfred-wegener-symposium.de

The Second Meeting of the International Partnership in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS II)

16-19 October 2005, Brussels, Belgium
The meeting, organized by the European Polar Consortium Offices, is a direct follow-up to the first IPICS meeting in Virginia, USA, in 2004. The main objective of the meeting is to discuss the feasibility of the four identified Ice Core flagship projects and develop a planning tool to provide a framework for the expanding of the international partnerships in the near future.
For more information go to: http://www.nicl-smo.unh.edu/IPICS/

CLIVAR/OOPC/GOOS/Argo Workshop on the South Pacific

11-14 October 2005, Concepción, Chile.
Deadline for registration of interest 9th May 2005.
Please email icpo@soc.ac.uk with your contact details and a rough title for your oral/poster presentation.
A second announcement will be made at the beginning of June 2005.
Website: www.clivar.org/organization/pacific/implementation/south_pac.html

Third International Conference on the Oceanography of the Ross Sea

10-14 October 2005, Venice, Italy
Theme(s) This edition's topics are the Southern Ocean variability, polynya processes and sea-ice interaction, Antarctic slope processes, and ecological, physical and biogeochemical linkages. The conference objectives will address these issues to identify research questions that would benefit the most from new tools and methods developed for Polar Regions, and stimulate interdisciplinary research.
Organized by Clima Project
Conference Secretariat Ross Sea 2005, CNR-ISMAR, San Polo 1364, 30125 Venice, Italy
E-mail: RossSea@ismar.cnr.it Details for the Ross Sea meeting are now available at this web site: http://www.ross-sea.org

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly
International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior

2-8 October 2005, Santiago de Chile.
We welcome papers that address the following list of topics:
1) Assessment on the actual level of intraplate seismicity in the Antarctic.
2) Distribution of the mechanical properties of the crust and upper mantle.
3) Studies of the thermal properties of the crust and upper mantle.
4) Linkage between seismic models and surface heat flow.
5) Relationship between seismicity patterns and ice mass loading and unloading.
6) Plate tectonics assessments based on accurate high precision GPS displacement determinations jointly interpreted with seismicity, focal mechanisms, and coseismic events.
7) Location of active seismic areas which imply a reactivation of structural elements and tectonic implications.
8) Progress in seismic tomography, particularly in the Scotia Arc region, and description of transition zones between continental and oceanic crust floored terrains.
9) Seismic upper mantle anisotropy in West Antarctica and the Scotia Arc: its relationship with astenospheric flow description and its bearing on Gondwana reconstructions.
10) Links between Seismology and Deep Electrical Resistivity or Aerogeophysics or both.
E-mail : iaspei2005@igm.cl
Website: www.igm.cl/iaspei/iaspei.htm

CRYOLIST--ESF Research Conference on Polar Regions and Quaternary Polar Regions
and Quaternary Climate EuroConference toward an Integrative View of Climate in Antarctica and Circum-Antarctic Regions

24-29 September 2005, Acquafredda di Maratea (near Naples), Italy
Chair: Jérôme Chappelaz (CNRS Grenoble, F)
Scientific programme, application form and further detailed information are accessible on-line through http://www.esf.org/conferences/lc05115
Deadline for application (and for abstract submission): 20 June 2005.
For further information, please contact
Ms. Anne-Sophie Gablin (asgablin@esf.org), who is in charge of the practical organization of this event.

22nd International Polar Meeting of the German Society of Polar Research

Date and Place: 18 -24 September 2005 Jena, Germany
Type of Event: Conference and Workshop
Theme: The program will consist of lectures and poster presentations. The meeting will be complemented by a workshop on "Human impact on terrestrial habitats in the Antarctic".
Detailed information (program and registration) is available on the conference web site:
www.uni-jena.de/22nd_International_Polar_Meeting-lang-en.html

Cenozoic onshore and offshore stratigraphic record from the East Antarctic margin:
recent results and future directions.

Date and place: 18-20 September 2005, Spoleto, Italy
Type of meeting: Workshop
The aim of the workshop is to synthesize existing knowledge about the evolution of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, to define future lines of research, and to develop collaborations to integrate the data already collected and for collecting new data during future cruises.
Co-sponsored by ACE. Flyer ACE Website: www.ace.scar.org/

Antarctic Regional Ecological Observatory (AREO)Workshop

13-14 September 2005, Columbus, Unitetd States
A workshop will be held on 13-14 September 2005 to bring together scientists from universities, federal agencies, and non-governmental agencies to organize the Antarctic Regional Ecological Observatory(AREO). AREO will monitor ecological processes on the continent of Antarctica and adjacent near-shore marine environments. This workshop is in response to the development of the National Ecological Observation Network (NEON; http://www.neoninc.org/) vis a vis the Consortium of Regional Ecological Observatories (http://www.neoncoreo.org/).
Organizers are making every effort to recruit a broad and diverse group. The goals of the workshop will be to:

If you would like to attend the workshop, please contact anyone on the ad hoc committee below and they will include you in future announcements. The ad hoc AREO organizing committee are: Andrew Fountain, Portland State University E-mail: andrew@pdx.edu, Maria Vernet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography E-mail: mvernet@ucsd.edu, W. Berry Lyons, Ohio State University E-mail: lyons.142@osu.edu, Hugh Ducklow, The College of William & Mary E-mail: duck@vims.edu

JCADM-9

12-16 September 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Meeting and Workshop
For further details visit the JCADM website.

Sixth International Conference on Geomorphology

7-11 September 2005, Zaragoza, Spain.
Organized by the International Association of Geomorphologists.
It includes an Special Session on Antarctic Geomorphology. General information and Second Circular at the web site of the conference: http://wzar.unizar.es/actos/SEG

Arctic Climate Workshop, Global Implications of Arctic Climate Processes and Feedbacks (GLIMPSE)

5-7 September 2005, Potsdam, Germany
Application and Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 30 June 2005
A three day workshop will focus on the evaluation and presentation of the results within the Global Implications of Arctic Climate Processes and Feedbacks (GLIMPSE) project and deliver results for endusers and decision makers. The workshop is open to all who are interested in the Arctic. Talks are organized around themes developed from the abstracts submitted.
This is a reminder that the deadline for application, as well as for abstract submission, is Thursday, 30 June 2005.
For further information, please go to: http://www.awi-potsdam.de/www-pot/atmo/glimpse/arctic-workshop/
or contact Klaus Dethloff, Alfred Wegener Institute. E-mail: dethloff@awi-potsdam.de

International Symposium on High Elevation Glaciers And Climate Records in 2005.

4 - 9 September 2005, Lanzhou, China.
Theme: High-elevation glaciers are widely distributed in the world, not only at low and middle latitudes but also in the polar regions. Even on the ice sheets in polar regions, some ice cores have been drilled at quite high elevation. Snow cover is another important process in high-elevation regions. Glacial variations, snow cover and glacial records are very important in the study of climatic changes, water resources and disasters in high-elevation regions. This symposium will focus on glacier variations, processes and their consequences, snow cover and related processes, and climate records from glaciers.
Contact:
Magnús Már Magnússon, International Glaciological Society, Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK. Tel: +[44] (0)1223 355 974 Fax: +[44] (0)1223 354 931 Email: igsoc@igsoc.org
Web: http://www.igsoc.org/symposia/ and http://www.itpcas.ac.cn/igschina
download the Second Circular

International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products

22-27 August 2005, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Sponsor: International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
Co-sponsors: International Commission of Snow and Ice (ICSI), International Glaciological Society (IGS), International Quaternary Association (INQUA), Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE), Scientific Commission on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Quaternary Research Association (QRA), British Geological Survey (BGS)
The aim of this conference is to promote dialogue between researchers in the fields of contemporary glacial processes, glacial sedimentology and ice sheet modelling in order to advance these fields in an integrated way. Contributions are invited from researchers working on all aspects of glacial sedimentary processes and products, covering glaciomarine, glaciolacustrine and terrestrial settings, from Archaean times to the present day.
Full conference details and delegate booking forms can be found at the conference website: http://www.aber.ac.uk/visitors/glaciology/

Joint IASSG/IAPSO/IABO meeting on our dynamic planet, 22-26 August, Cairns Australia

22-26 August 2005, Cairns, Australia.
For further information, please go to: http://www.dynamicplanet2005.com/

International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences 2005 Meeting

2-11 August 2005, Beijing, China.
F2: Climate Variability and Change in the Polar Regions: Causality and Prediction (ICPM, SCAR, ICCL and PAGES)
The climate in many parts of the high latitudes is changing, and the influence of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases is suspected to be a major contributing factor. This symposium will examine observed and predicted climate variability and change in both the Arctic and Antarctic in relation to the dominant circulation modes (NAM/NAO,SAM/AAO, ENSO, etc.).
Conveners:
David Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University
Phone: 614-292-6692
E-mail: bromwich.1@osu.edu
Julian X.L. Wang, NOAA/Air Resources Lab
Phone: 301-713-0295
E-mail: julian.wang@noaa.gov
Zhanhai Zhang, Polar Research Institute of China
Phone: 86-21-6850-7533
E-mail: zhangzhanhai@pric.gov.cn
For further information, please go to: http://www.iamas2005.com

Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets and Glaciers
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

25 - 29 July 2005, Seoul, Korea
Abstract Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 25 January 2005
For further information, please go to: http://www.igarss05.org
A special session on remote sensing of ice sheets and glaciers will be held at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Seoul, Korea on 25-29 July 2005. Any contributions related to this topic are welcome, with special interest in recent advances in remote sensing.
The deadline for abstract submissions is the 25th of January. All abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the online abstract collection system that is available on the conference web site at:
http://www.igarss05.org.

SCAR International Biology Symposium

25 - 29 July 2005, Curitiba, Brazil
Type of Event: Symposium
Theme(s) Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica
Organized by Dr Edith Fanta e.fanta@terra.com.br
Contact www.pucpr.br/template.php?codredir=647&&codigo=1

IAGA 2005 Scientific Assembly

18 - 29 July 2005, Toulouse, France
Theme: The scientific programme of the assembly includes Association Lectures, Joint IAGA and ICMA Symposia, Division and Interdivisional Commission Symposia with Oral and Poster Sessions, Division and Commission Business and Working Group Meetings. The joint scientific programme of IAGA and ICMA contains 61 symposia covering all the scientific fields of the two organisations: Middle Atmosphere Science, Internal Magnetic Field, Aeronomic Phenomena, Magnetospheric Phenomena, Solar Wind and Interplanetary Field, Geomagnetic Observatories, Surveys and Analyses, etc …
Contact:
Comité National Français de Géodésie et Geophysique (IAGA 2005), 5, rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France Tel: +33 (3) 88 450191 Fax: +33 (3) 88 603887
E-mail: cnfgg@eost.u-strasbg.fr Website: http://www.copernicus.org/IAGA/2005/index.htm

SCAR/COMNAP Executive Meeting

11 - 15 July 2005, Sofia, Bulgaria
This is a closed meeting.

Fourth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG-4) Science, Control, Policy and Information

4 - 6 July 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Theme: The symposium will focus on the non-CO2 Greenhouse gases; for that reason papers on general aspects of climate change or referring to CO2 alone, will not be accepted. Elements in the programme which will receive more attention in comparison with the third symposium will be integrated assessment and the implementation of control technology and policies. Apart from the plenary Opening and Closing sessions, the symposium will be conducted in parallel sessions, focusing on the main themes: Sources, sinks and inventories, Monitoring and modelling and Control and policy implementation.
Organized by: VVM section for Clean Air in the Netherlands and the Association of Environmental Professionals - VVM
Contact:
Email: bureau@vvm.to
Website: www.ncgg4.nl

Training Workshop on Pigment Analysis of Antarctic Microorganisms

29 June - 1 July 2005, University of Malaya.
The major objective of the training workshop is to introduce participants to the latest methodologies in pigment analysis of Antarctic microorganisms, especially microalgae. There will be a series of lectures and hands-on sessions. The two main trainers of the workshop are Dr Simon Wright from the Australian Antarctic Division and Dr. Hideaki Miyashita from Kyoto University.
Members of SCAR are cordially invited to particpate in the Training Workshop and associated Seminar (see above).For further details, please refer to the following website:
http://www.ippp.um.edu.my/antartika/
Flyer and Registration Form

Modes of Southern Hemisphere climate variability workshop and panel meeting

27 - 30 June 2005, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Type of Event: Workshop and Meeting
Theme: Modes of Variability and the IPY
Sponsored by: CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR
Contact: icpo@soc.ac.uk
webpage: www.clivar.org/organization/southern/MoV_agenda.html

Seminar on Antarctic Research

27-28 June 2005, University of Malaya.
Members of SCAR are cordially invited to participate in the Seminar and associated Training Workshop (see below).
For further details, please refer to the following website:
http://www.ippp.um.edu.my/antartika/
Flyer and Registration Form

15th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference and Exhibition (ISOPE)

19 - 24 June 2005, Seoul, Korea
Type of Event Conference
Theme(s)
Organized by International Offshore and Polar Engineers with cooperating organizations.
Contact ISOPE, P O Box 189, Cupertino, California 95015-0189, USA
Fax: +1 650 254 2038
Website: www.isope.org

FRISP (Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes) Workshop

7 - 9 June 2005, Bergen, Norway
FRISP workshop
Website www.gfi.uib.no/forskning/frisp

The First Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research

2 - 3 June 2005, Bavarian Academy of Science in Munich,
Type of Event: Workshop
Under the aegis of the SCAR Action Group on the History of Antarctic Research.

Contact:
Cornelia Luedecke Email: C.Luedecke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

2005 Joint AGU Assembly

23 - 27 May 2005, New Orleans, USA
Type of Event: Assembly
10 February submission deadline for abstracts
The 2005 Joint Assembly promises a broad and rich program for all Earth and space scientists. Topics will cover global science yet with an emphasis on the unique region including the southeastern U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. The Assembly takes place 23-27 May, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Program Committee has compiled about 200 suggested sessions for the Assembly. I invite you to submit an abstract for the meeting by the 10 February submission deadline.
Sponsors: Society for Exploration Geophysics, The North American Benthological Society (NABS), The Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society.
Cross disciplinary and multidisciplinary themes thread through the program, such as the variability of climate both spatially and temporally, techniques and applications pertinent to environmental problems and natural resources, the discovery of new materials in the deep Earth, and new data and evaluations from recent natural disasters, including hurricanes that hit Florida and the Earthquake and Tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Strong programs in individual disciplines and topical areas fill out the week and provide something for everybody.
The suggested list of sessions is listed in the 18 January 2004 issue of EOS, which is now available electronically to all AGU members at http://www.agu.org/pubs/eos/.
The online abstract submission deadline is 10 February. This address takes you to the submission form: http://submissions5.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp.

12th Seoul International Symposium on Polar Sciences

17 - 19 May 2005, Seoul, Korea
Type of Event: Symposium
Theme(s) 'Explorations of the Polar Seas' The purpose of this Symposium is to bring together scientists working on polar earthsciences and to provide an international forum to exchange their ideas and results. The symposium will focus on exploration and observation of geological, geophysical, glacialand atmospheric processes in the Polar Regions. One of the main goals of this symposium is to develop a new international collaborative exploration using new state-of-the-art KOPRI icebreaker in the Polar Seas.
Detailed information will be available on the conference web site: http://192.100.2.191/english/sympo/index.html
 Contact: Dr. Minkyu Park
Korea Polar Research Institute, KORDI 1270 Sa-2-dong, Sangrokgu Ansan 426-744, Korea
Fax: +82-31-408-5825 Email: minkyu@kopri.re.k

International GLOBEC Symposium

16 - 20 May 2005, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Type of Event Symposium
Theme(s) Climate Variability and Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystems
Organized by GLOBEC, Fisheries and Oceans, Canada., National Science Foundation, USA., North Pacfic Marine Science Organization (PICES)
Contact Website: www.pml.ac.uk/globec/

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2005

24 - 29 April 2005, Vienna, Austria
The scientific programme of the General Assembly includes Union Symposia and Educational Symposia, Oral and Poster Sessions on disciplinary and interdisciplinary topics covering the full spectrum of the geosciences and the space and planetary sciences, Key Note and Medal Lectures, Great Debates in the Geosciences and Townhall and Splinter Meetings.
Website: http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ga/egu05/index.htm

Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) 1st Science Conference

11 - 15 April 2005, Bejing, China
Type of Event: Conference
Background: As a core project of the World Climate Research Programme, the "Climate and Cryosphere" (CliC) project encourages and promotes research into the cryosphere and its interactions as part of the global climate system. CliC is co-sponsored by SCAR.
The project's principal goal is to assess and quantify the impacts that climatic variability and change have on components of the cryosphere and the consequences of these impacts for the climate system, and to determine the stability of the global cryosphere. To support this goal,CliC seeks to enhance and coordinate efforts to monitor the cryosphere, to study climate-related processed involving the cryosphere, and to model and understand its role in the climate system.
Format and Themes: The conference will include oral presentations of invited keynote lectures and contributed papers, poster sessions to allow presentation of a wide range of relevant studies, and workshop sessions to address future research directions. We invite papers that contribute to the conference goals and address topics in the CliC Science and Coordination Plan and the CliC Implementation Strategy.
Contact: CliC International Project Office, The Polar Environmental Centre, NO-9296 Tromsø, Norway. Tel: +47 77 75 01 50
Email: clic@npolar.no Website: http://clic.npolar.no/meetings/first

ANDRILL Workshop

1 - 2 April 2005, Denver, USA
Type of Event: Workshop
Theme: ANDRILL is an international research program designed to investigate Antarctica's role in Cenozoic global environmental change through stratigraphic drilling and numerical modeling. ANDRILL will obtain stratigraphic records of key intervals and events in Earth's history from locations proximal to the Antarctic cryosphere, using sea-ice and glacial-ice as drilling platforms.
The workshop will provide essential information about the ANDRILL approach to ice-platform stratigraphic drilling, and the long-term scientific goals of the ANDRILL Program. Two ANDRILL Projects are currently supported and aim to recover a record of ice sheet and climate history and tectonic evolution of the southern McMurdo Sound region (western Ross Sea), spanning the last ca. 20 m.y. These two projects, to be drilled in 2006 and 2007, will provide exciting opportunities for new and innovative research in multiple geoscience disciplines, including paleontology, lithostratigraphy and sedimentology, geochemistry, glacial geology, petrology, structural geology, downhole logging, paleomagnetics, geochronology, cyclostratigraphy, geomicrobiology, data integration, and numerical modeling. Specific information regarding the scientific objectives of these two projects will be presented at the workshop. Participants will also have an opportunity to provide input to further develop science objectives for current and future drilling.
Application for participation in the workshop should be sent by email to:
Laura Lacy, ANDRILL Research Support Coordinator E-mail: llacy2@unlnotes.unl.edu
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 16 February 2005.
Initial contact must include name, institution, email address, title, highest degree, and specialty. You must also include a brief statement of interest in the workshop and in ANDRILL. Attendance and financial support is limited, so early application is encouraged.
Sponsored By: NSF-OPP Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program.
For further information, please go to: http://andrill.org

The 5th Gordon Conference on Polar Marine Science

13 - 18 March 2005, Harbortown, Ventura, USA
Type of Event: Conference
Theme(s): Past and present evidence shows high sensitivity of polar seas to changing climate due to the presence of sea ice. Sea-ice variability affects the physics, biogeochemistry and biology of polar seas. These changes in turn create important positive or negative feedbacks to the climate either directly or indirectly through cascading effects. The 5th Gordon Conference will explore physical, biogeochemical and biological feedback loops to changing climate, making use of recent advances in paleo-indicators and contemporary observations and process-level studies. Particular attention will be paid to feedbacks and trophic shifts associated with changing sea-ice.
Organised by: Christiane Lancelot Email: lancelot@ulb.ac.be and Kevin Arrigo Email: arrigo@stanford.edu
Website: www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2005/polar.htm

Practical Biological Indicators of Human Impacts in Antarctica

16 - 18 March, 2005, College Station, USA
Type of Event; Workshop
Theme: To assess biological indicators of human impact and advise on implementing meaningful monitoring programs in Antarctica.
http://vpr.tamu.edu/antarctic/workshop/workshop.php

First Cryosphere Theme Workshop

2 - 4 March 2005, Kananaskis, Alberta
The workshop is a key step in the development of the Cryosphere Theme Report. It will bring together representatives from research institutions, government agencies, and industry to work on the identification of the major issues regarding a common and integrated observational strategy, where "integrated" implies the best combined use of in-situ measurements and remote sensing observations.
The workshop will consist of presentations and breakout sessions. We would like to have presentations from the major topical areas, e.g., terrestrial snow cover, seasonally frozen ground, permafrost, ice sheets, ice caps, and glaciers, sea ice, river and lake ice, and solid precipitation. We are most interested in observational requirements. What can we measure now and how well? What accuracies are required for modeling and process studies? How can we improve our observing systems? Contact us if you would like to speak on these issues at the workshop.
http://stratus.ssec.wisc.edu/IGOS-cryo/workshop1/first_wrkshp_0305.html

European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL)
" Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers - Important Water Resources of the Future"

21 - 23 February 2005 , University of Bern, Switzerland
Type of event: Workshop
Theme: "Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers - Important Water Resources of the Future."
Presentations are encouraged on all fields of environmental research with the focus on snow and ice
as water resources, methods for retrieving cryospheric parameters from various types of remote sensing data, theoretical basis of inversion methods and their application, state of the art retrieval algorithms, data assimilation of remote sensing data and in situ observations in process models, and current and planned sensors for snow and ice. The workshop also offers the possibility for sessions covering preparations of and results from field campaigns in mountainous and polar regions.
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 1 October 2004
For further information, please contact the workshop organizers:
Dr. Stefan Wunderle Email: swun@giub.unibe.ch
Dr. Thomas Nagler Email: thomas.nagler@enveo.at
Papers will be presented orally and by poster. Authors who prefer a poster presentation should notify the organizers. An abstract of approximately 500 words should be forwarded, preferably by email, to:
Dr. Stefan Wunderle Email: swun@giub.unibe.ch
Remote Sensing Research Group (http://saturn.unibe.ch/rsbern/)
Department of Geography, Hallerstr 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 631 8553, Fax: +41 31 631 8511