Vacancy: Future Earth Executive Director
Climate Symposium 2014: registration still open
CliC Executive Officer Position Available
The Climate and the Cryosphere (CliC) Project and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) invite applications for a permanent position as Executive Officer for the CliC International Project Office. As a core project of the WCRP, the "Climate and Cryosphere" project encourages and promotes research into the cryosphere and its interactions as part of the global climate system.
Nansen Tutu Center Summer School on Ocean, Climate and Marine Ecosystem
The Nansen Tutu Center Summer School on Ocean, Climate and Marine Ecosystem will focus on the Agulhas Current, the Benguela upwelling system and the Tropical Atlantic and will deal with field observations, remote sensing and modelling.
Outputs and Recommendations from the WCRP LAC Conference
We are happy to announce that the document with "Outputs and Recommendations from the WCRP Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing, linking and applying climate knowledge" is now available.
Advanced Climate Dynamics Course
The course will take place 16th - 31st of August 2014 at Arctic Station, on Disko Island, western Greenland.
Detailed information is available online at: https://www.uib.no/rs/acdc and on the flyer
Advanced graduate students and early post-docs are encouraged to apply. The registration is now open and the application deadline is the 1st of March 2014.
The main focus of this year's course will be on understanding the basic principles and dynamics behind changes to the Greenland ice sheet in the past, present and future. The course aims to provide an environment for engaging discussions between all participants (students and lecturers), exchange of concepts and ideas between meteorology, oceanography, paleoclimate and glaciology, and identification of key scientific challenges.
The current list of confirmed lecturers includes: Fiamma Straneo (WHOI), David Battisti (U. Washington), Camilla Snowman Andresen (National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland), Kerim Nisancioglu (BCCR/U. Bergen), Patrick Heimbach (MIT), and Øyvind Paasche (U. Bergen), amongst others.
2014 Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) Workshop
The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is proud to host the 2014 Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) Workshop. The workshop will take place at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, from Monday, June 2d to Wednesday, June 4th, following the IGS conference in Chamonix. Registration will be open on April 1st, 2014.
If you are interested in attending, please send an email to issm@jpl.nasa.gov so that we can get a rough head count.
Interactive sessions will be offered for beginners/advanced users and developers interested in learning how to use ISSM. Updates to ISSM since last year's workshop, including user-requested features (i.e. a new Python port, support for new OS/Platforms, etc) will be presented. Also, we invite participants to showcase their work during an open poster session. Details for participating in this poster session will be available on the registration website (http://issm.jpl.nasa.gov/issmworkshops/).
A limited amount of travel support may be provided by CliC (Climate and Cryosphere) to help students or early-career scholars attend the workshop. Details on applying for travel support will be provided on the registration page. In addition, there is no fee for participation in the workshop.
We hope this workshop will generate fruitful interactions between our team, the growing community of ISSM users, and the broader cryosphere community.
We look forward to your participation!
Summer course in Arctic studies
The International Summer School at the University of Oslo Norway has launched a new interdisciplinary course in Arctic Studies.
The course combines Natural Sciences, Law and Social Sciences to explore the environmental, legal, and political changes in the Arctic region. Participants will learn about current issues involving the Arctic's changing environment and how this impacts the legal framework provided by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The course also explores how this may generate new opportunities, risks, and governance challenges for Arctic states, companies and non-Arctic stakeholders.
Scholarships Available:
A limited number of participants will be eligible for financial support to attend this six week course from 21 June - 1 August 2014.
Apply now!
Request an application by 10 March 2014 to see if you qualify for financial support.
Contact
Contact the International Summer School at iss@admin.uio.no or (+47) 22 85 63 85 for more information.
A full course description can be found on our website at http://www.uio.no/english/studies/summerschool/new-courses/index.html.
CUAHSI cyberseminar series
The upcoming CUAHSI cyberseminar series will focus on snow
Friday, February 7, 2014 (3:00pm ET)
Title: The World of Arctic Snow
Presenter: Dr. Matthew Sturm, University of Alaska, Faribanks, Geophysical Institute
Friday, February 14, 2014 (3:00pm ET)
Title: Assessing Snow and Snowmelt Runoff in Remote Mountain Ranges
Presenter: Dr. Jeff Dozier - University of California, Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science Management in conjunction with Dr. Anne Nolin - Oregon State University, Department of Geosciences
Friday, February 21, 2014 (3:00pm ET)
Title/Topic: Snowmelt processes in forests: Apparent paradoxes and implications for advancing hydrologic understanding in complex terrain
Presenter: Dr. Timothy E. Link - University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences
Friday, March 7, 2014 (3:00pm ET)
Title/Topic: Large-scale Snow Extent over Northern Hemisphere Lands
Presenter: Dr. David A. Robinson - Rutgers University, Department of Geography
Details, including instructions on how to connect, can be found here: