Wednesday, October 31, 2012

[CRYOLIST] NE GSA - arctic session in a great place - March 2013 - submit an abstract

Please consider submitting an abstract to the Northeastern GSA sectional meeting.  Because this year is GSA's 125th anniversary, the section meeting is going to be bigger than usual.  We are convening a cosmogenic isotope session focusing on work in the Northeastern USA, Greenland, and Arctic Canada. Although most of us typically go to bigger meetings like AGU to present cosmogenic work, we hope this will be a unique chance to come together at a more local meeting.

In case you need added incentive, NEGSA will be held at Bretton Woods at Mt Washington this year and we've heard rumor that discount ski tickets will be available to meeting attendees. The resort is an amazing historic property.  Sounds like it's going to be a really fun NEGSA. The meeting is 3/18/13-3/20/13 and the abstract deadline is 12/11/12. The meeting page is here: http://www.geosociety.org/Sections/ne/2013mtg/.

Below is a description of our session. We really hope to see some of you there.

T11. Dates and Rates: Two Decades of Cosmogenic Studies in Eastern North America, the Canadian Arctic, and Greenland. 
Paul R. Bierman, Univ. of Vermont; Lee Corbett, Dartmouth College; Meredith Kelly, Dartmouth College.
Over the last several decades, the application of cosmogenic nuclides in eastern North America, the adjacent Canadian Arctic, and Greenland has provided both specific chronologies and a better understanding of the distribution and effectiveness of glacial and weathering processes. For this session, we encourage both the presentation of new results and compilations of existing cosmogenic nuclide data that help us better understand the comings and goings of ice sheets as well as the processes that change North American and arctic landscapes.

Best,

P, L and M.

Paul Bierman                       Professor
pbierman@uvm.edu UVM Geology Dept.       
Delehanty Hall 180 Colchester Avenue
Burlington, VT 05405 802-238-6826 (cell)
802-656-4411( v)                802-656-0045 (fax)

uvm.edu/~pbierman
uvm.edu/geomorph
uvm.edu/landscape
uvm.edu/cosmolab

[CRYOLIST] IDPO/IDDO Ice Bits Newsletter: Fall 2012 Now Available - Community Updates

IDPO/IDDO Ice Bits Newsletter: Fall 2012
Ice Drilling Program Office - U.S. Ice Drilling Program

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the Fall 2012 issue of the Ice Bits newsletter, the quarterly update of IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities, is now available at:
http://www.icedrill.org/news/icebits.shtml

Topics include:
- Field Support to Antarctic Projects
- Future Plans for the DISC Drill
- Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions AGU Town Hall Meeting
- 7th International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology
- Intermediate Depth Logging Winch Now Available for Community Use
- Educational Outreach
- Visit Us on Facebook
- NSF Solicitation for Ice Coring and Drilling Program for the Office of Polar Programs
- U.S. SCAR Office and ANSWER News Digest Move to Ohio State University
- South Pole 1500 m Ice Core
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support

To download the newsletter, please go to:
http://www.icedrill.org/news/icebits.shtml

Visit us on the web at:
http://www.icedrill.org/

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U.S. ICE DRILLING PROGRAM

Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO)
Mary Albert - Executive Director
Mark Twickler - Director of Communications

Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO)
Charles Bentley - Principal Investigator
Don Lebar - Program Director
Alex Shturmakov - Engineering and Research Director
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[CRYOLIST] World Snow Forum 2013

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[CRYOLIST] International Symposium: Reconciling Observations and Models of Elastic and Viscoelastic Deformation due to Ice Mass Change

International Association of Geodesy  International Symposium: Reconciling Observations and Models of Elastic and Viscoelastic Deformation due to Ice Mass Change
30 May - 2 June 2013, Ilulissat, Greenland
http://www.dtu.dk/subsites/iag.aspx

Abstracts are invited for presentation at the International Symposium on Reconciling Observations and Models of Elastic and Viscoelastic Deformation due to Ice Mass Change, deadline 15th February 2013.

Knowledge of present-day changes in the ice sheets and glaciers are critical to partitioning the individual sources of the well-observed global sea-level change. Similarly, knowledge of past changes is required to advance understanding of the paleo sea level budget and also provide the context for present-day changes. Both past and present changes in the mass balance of the Earth's glaciers and ice caps induce present-day deformation of the solid Earth on a range of spatial scales, from the very local to global. Observations of present-day changes in Earth’s shape, gravity field and rotation are therefore sensitive to changes in ice load over a large range of time-scales.

Particularly relevant to this are data from GRACE, and proposed follow-on missions, which require accurate removal of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) to obtain present-day ice mass balance. Likewise, the increasing network of geodetic measurements, especially continuous GPS, in presently, or formerly, glaciated regions may validate, or be assimilated into, models of GIA and/or constrain models of present-day ice mass change through measurements of elastic rebound. Notable here are the International Polar Year POLENET networks of Greenland and Antarctica. It is impossible to interpret data or validate or improve models of the kind mentioned here without close interaction between a wide group of geophysicists. The symposium will focus on enabling this interaction and creating new collaborations through the discussion of the results of scientific studies focused on visco-elastic deformation of the solid Earth due to ice (un)loading. 

This symposium 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. 

Sessions (full details: http://www.dtu.dk/subsites/iag/Programme.aspx)
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- Observations of present-day changes in glaciers and ice sheets and solid Earth response
- Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) on a heterogeneous Earth: Going beyond 1D Maxwell Earth models
- Cryospheric Deformation in Low Viscosity Regions
- Reconciling models and observations of GIA

Travel support
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Thanks to generous funding from the SCAR SERCE programme, there are funds available to part-support a limited number of attendees. These will be awarded after the abstract submission deadline and preference will be given to early stage researchers and scientists from a SCAR nation with an emerging Antarctic programs. Details will be posted soon on the symposium website. Please be aware that early stage researchers may also apply for an IAG travel award (http://iag.dgfi.badw.de/fileadmin/handbook/1-8-iag-travel-award.pdf with applications needed 3 months before the meeting).

Some important deadlines
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Abstract submission: 15 February, 2013
Abstract accept notification: 26 February, 2013
Registration deadline:  8 March, 2013
Hotel booking: 8 March, 2013

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Monday, October 29, 2012

[CRYOLIST] Fall AGU Town Hall Meeting: Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions

Fall AGU Town Hall Meeting: Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office

Town Hall Meeting Announcement:
"Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions"

Date: 3 December 2012
Time: 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm
Place: Moscone Center; Moscone West, Room 2008

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is organizing a Town Hall meeting at the Fall AGU Meeting entitled "TH15G Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions". Ice sheets and ocean sediments hold important climate evidence from the past. International collaboration for drilling in the polar regions requires coordination between science, technology, and logistics.  The research community is invited to hear updates on recent planning by the IDPO/IDDO, IPICS, ANDRILL, IODP, SCAR-ACE, and WAIS initiatives. Opportunities for community involvement in interdisciplinary planning will be highlighted and input solicited.

The Town Hall is on Monday, December 3 from 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm in Moscone West, Room 2008. Please check the 2012 Fall AGU Meeting website for more information:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/calendar/town-halls/

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U.S. ICE DRILLING PROGRAM

Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO)
Mary Albert - Executive Director
Mark Twickler - Director of Communications

Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO)
Charles Bentley - Principal Investigator
Don Lebar - Program Director
Alex Shturmakov - Engineering and Research Director

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Friday, October 26, 2012

[CRYOLIST] 3 yr PDRF in Sheffield

The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Job Reference Number: UOS005461
Job Title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Contract Type: Fixed term for 3 years
Department: Department of Geography
Salary: £28,401 - £ 31,020
Closing Date: 12th November 2012

Summary:
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to
participate in a UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)-funded
project entitled "Permafrost catchments in transition: hydrological
controls on carbon cycling and greenhouse gas budgets". The principal
objective of this post is to quantify and understand the biotic/abiotic
controls on carbon fluxes in permafrost environments, with particular
emphasis on the interface between the water and carbon cycles, and on
the implications for global radiative-forcing. You will become part of a
world-class UK and international research team, but have specific
responsibility for aspects of the work-programme dealing with plant-soil
interactions, and with surface-atmosphere exchanges of carbon dioxide
and methane. Overall, the team will measure the capture of carbon from
the atmosphere, its distribution in plants and soils, and the
biological, physical and chemical controls of carbon transport and
delivery from soils to freshwaters, and ultimately to the atmosphere as
carbon dioxide and methane.

You should have a PhD in ecology or biogeochemistry, or another relevant
area of environmental /ecological science, and have experience of
designing, developing and publishing research. This is an opportunity
for an outstanding researcher to join a vibrant and successful unit in
one of the UK's leading research-intensive universities. The opportunity
offers significant potential for professional growth and exposure in
Europe and North America.

This post is fixed-term with a start date of 1 January 2013 and an end
date of 31 December 2015.

Supporting documentation and information on how to apply can be found at
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs. For informal enquiries about this job
and department contact Professor Philip Wookey on
p.wookey@sheffield.ac.uk or +44 (0)114 222 7978.
 

Doerthe Tetzlaff, PhD, MSc

Professor in Hydrology and Landscape Ecology

Director of the Northern Rivers Institute (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/nri)

weblink: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/geography/profiles/d.tetzlaff/

School of Geosciences

University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen Scotland, UK AB24 3UF

phone: +(0)1224 273702

 

Associate Editor Hydrological Processes

 



The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.

[CRYOLIST] PDRA in glacier geophysics and modelling


A 12 month PDRA is available at the Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol, to continue work on a NERC funded programme to study the ice sheet boundary conditions of the Weddell Sea sector of the WAIS. The programme has previously acquired and processed >40,000 km of airborne radar data from the Institute and Moller ice streams. The PDRA would assist in its interpretation, and dissemination of findings. The project aims to combine glacier modelling with the geophysics observations to quantify current processes and past/future behaviour. The project involves collaboration with BAS and the Universities of York, Exeter, Aberdeen and Newcastle. 
Additional information, details on how to apply and the relevant dates, are in the links below. For all further enquiries, please contact Martin Siegert at m.j.siegert@bris.ac.uk.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

[CRYOLIST] Gordon Research Seminar and Conference

Hello all,


I would like to draw your attention on two coming events: the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Polar Marine Science for graduate students and postdocs, highlighting the high latitude physical, chemical, and biological processes and their impact on regional and global systems, and the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Polar Marine Science, linking polar observations, processes and models at regional and global scales. 

Deadlines are: November 9th for speakers, February 9th for posters.

The GRS and the GRC will happen in March 2013, in Ventura (CA):
- the GRS on 9 - 10, chaired by Jeff Bowman (USA) and Marie Séguret (USA),
- the GRC follows 10 - 15, chaired by Christine Michel (Canada) and Paul Wassman (Norway).

The program descriptions and registration are available at 
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2013&program=grs_polar and  http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2013&program=polar.

Funding will be available for graduate students and postdocs attending both the GRS and GRC.

The details of the sessions:
- Session 1: The global picture: Large-scale atmosphere-ocean-sea ice interactions and oceanic forcings
Session chair: James Overland, USA

- Session 2: Linking sea ice-ocean observations and models: regional couplings and feedbacks
Session chair: Dave Barber, Canada

- Session 3: From within: why do microscale processes matter
Session chair: Søren Rysgaard, Denmark

- Session 4: Linking bio-physical processes and observations at regional and global scales
Session chair: TBD

- Session 5: From the top: why do upper trophic predators matter
Session chair: Nina Karnovsky, USA

- Session 6: Linking ecological responses and models from contemporary observations
Session chair: TBD

- Session 7: Linking ecosystem changes and models from paleo and recent tracers
Session chair: Martin Jakobsson, Sweden

- Session 8: Biochemical responses and feedbacks to the climate system
Session chair: Leif Anderson, Sweden

- Session 9: Changing Polar Marine Systems: Challenges, opportunities and future outlook
Session chair: TBD

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:
http://www.grc.org/chairs.aspx?meeting=14832
http://www.grc.org/chairs.aspx?meeting=12640

Cheers,

Marie

 










[CRYOLIST] International Polar Initiative Town Hall at AGU Fall 2012: 4 December 2012 from 1230-1330

 

"The International Polar Initiative"

Town Hall TH22D of the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2012

1230-1330, Tuesday 4 December 2012

Room 2005, Moscone West, San Francisco, USA  

 

Sorry for a crossposting!

 

The polar regions of the world are undergoing fast and dramatic transformations that impact their environment, economy and the life of local residents. These changes are anticipated to increase in the decades to come and result in significant global implications. To effectively address the related challenges, a cooperation framework provisionally entitled "International Polar Initiative" (IPI) is proposed.  The Framework envisages preparation of a common IPI Implementation Plan for the development of observing systems, research, services, related education and outreach, and practical applications of scientific knowledge in the polar regions.  One of the motivations for IPI is to optimize the use of existing resources and, at the same time, identify areas where new investments in polar activities are necessary for environmental protection, sustainable development of the regions, and addressing existing and emerging societal needs. Existing polar programs and infrastructure, including the legacy of the recently concluded International Polar Year 2007-2008, will provide initial building blocks for IPI.  Given the many commonalities between the polar and alpine regions, involvement of the alpine research community in IPI is considered. If properly planned and successfully implemented, the IPI has the potential to turn polar activities into a series of coordinated and resourceful interagency initiatives aimed at addressing the major challenges of polar regions. 

 

Views of the science community on the advantages of having an initiative like IPI and any other input to its Concept are being sought. If there is sufficient interest in and support to the IPI idea from the polar research communities, the IPI Concept will be submitted for consideration by leading international organizations involved in polar activities. 

 

The next opportunity for a broad discussion of IPI presents itself during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2012 (San Francisco, USA, 3-7 December 2012).   The town hall meeting TH22D "The International Polar Initiative (IPI)" is scheduled from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM on Tuesday 4 December 2012 in the meeting room 2005 (Moscone West).  All individuals and groups with interest in polar regions are cordially invited to attend this event. The draft Concept of IPI is available at the following URL: http://www.iasc.info/index.php/home/initiatives/22.

 


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[CRYOLIST] Abstracts Call "CryoSat 3rd User Workshop" deadline approaching (7 November 2012)

Gentle reminder to recall that the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd CryoSat User Workshop is approaching: 7 November 2012.

The 3rd CryoSat User Workshop will be held in Dresden, Germany, on 12-14 March 2013. 

ESA's Earth Explorer CryoSat mission, whose rebuilt spacecraft, Cryosat-2, was launched on 8 April 2010, is dedicated to precise monitoring of the changes in the thickness of marine ice floating in the polar oceans and variations in the thickness of the ice sheets overlying Greenland and Antarctica, as well as continental glaciers. Following a successful commissioning phase and after nearly one and half years of operations, new and greatly improved CryoSat processors (i.e. baseline B) were installed in February 2012, followed by the start of the reprocessing campaign. This activity will be completed in spring 2013.
Since the start of operations, the mission has been providing systematic data to the scientific community supported by validation and calibration activities to ensure high data quality. The first results were presented at main international conferences,  at which great interest from the marine and gravity scientific community was confirmed.

This workshop is intended to provide a forum to present and discuss all topics related to the exploitation of the CryoSat mission and to identity novel scientific challenges. The objectives of the workshop are:

- To inform users about mission performance, product status and data access with an outlook to future improvements
- To review the major scientific results and consolidate the roadmap to achieving the primary mission objectives before the end of the first three years of - operations
- To review novel scientific applications and identify opportunities of exploiting CryoSat data beyond its primary objectives
- To present and discuss the latest calibration and validation results
- To identify synergies and potential use of data and products with other Missions (e.g. Envisat, GOCE, Sentinel-3, etc.)
- To review the synergies with national and international programmes from other space, research and development, and operational Agencies
- To review the current tools available to PIs including documentation, processing and training

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

[CRYOLIST] Vacancy for glaciologist at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland

Dear Cryolisters,

Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland announces a vacancy for a geophysicist,
within the field of glaciology.    The scientist will join the Glaciology Group of the Institute and
is
expected to contribute to its ongoing research in glaciology. The research fields include mapping
of the surface and bedrock topography of Icelandic glaciers, monitoring and modelling of the surface
mass and energy balances of the glaciers, ice dynamics, remote sensing of glaciers from satellites
and aircrafts, glacier surges, calving into terminal lakes, glacier hydrology, water storage within
glaciers and glacier outburst floods (jökulhlaups), glacier-volcano interaction, glacier-isostatic rebound.
Moreover, development of numerical models of glacier mass balance, glacier dynamics and the
response of glaciers to climate change, past, present and future.


for further information about the post in English:
http://earthice.hi.is/vacant_position_institute_earth_sciences_glaciologist

and Icelandic:
http://jardvis.hi.is/laust_starf_serfraedings_i_jardedlisfraedi_med_joklafraedi_ad_starfssvidi

The deadline for application is December 3, 2012.


regards,

Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir
Institute of Earth Sciences
University of Iceland
Sturlugata 7, 101 Reykjavík,
Iceland
http://earthice.hi.is

[CRYOLIST] Ph.D. position available at Clark University (Worcester, MA, USA)

Clark University seeks Ph.D. student

Ocean-Ice Sheet Interactions, West Greenland

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

 

The Graduate School of Geography at Clark University invites applications for a Ph.D. research assistantship in satellite remote sensing of ocean-ice sheet interactions across West Greenland.  This NSF-funded project seeks to further our understanding of ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions around the Jakobshavn Isbrae and Disko Bay region of West Greenland, with a particular focus on the role of sea surface temperature and sea ice variability in modulating outlet glacier behavior and ice sheet/cap mass balance.  Ice coring work to reconstruct past environmental conditions will take place over two field seasons.  Candidates should have strong interests in satellite remote sensing, quantitative analysis, and remote fieldwork.  The successful candidate will join the Polar Science Research Laboratory at Clark (http://wordpress.clarku.edu/kfrey/) and will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of Washington, Wheaton College, and Milton Academy.  For further information, please contact Prof. Karen Frey (kfrey@clarku.edu) and see application details at www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/graduate/apply.cfm (deadline December 31, 2012).  Clark University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.  Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

_____________________________________

Karen E. Frey, Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Geography, Clark University

950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610

Email: kfrey@clarku.edu, Tel: (508) 793-7209

http://wordpress.clarku.edu/kfrey

 

[CRYOLIST] AAG abstracts call: Greenland ice sheet

Presenters are sought for the Greenland ice sheet paper session at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles from April 9-13, 2013.  Each presenter is allotted 20 minutes.


Session details:
The Greenland Ice Sheet
 
Satellites depicted a 97% surface melt extent over the Greenland ice sheet on July 12, 2012.  This is one example of how the Greenland ice sheet has been responding to a changing climate.  A holistic view of the Greenland ice sheet is necessary to understand the complexity of the physical processes underlying this and other events.  This session provides a broad overview of investigations over the ice sheet, including but not limited to surface mass balance, glacial dynamics, feedback mechanisms, and internal physical processes.


If interested in joining, please:
-upload your abstract on the AAG website, www.aag.org  [Note:  The deadline for submissions is today!]
-email a copy of your abstract along with your PIN # to chen.2889@osu.edu


Thanks for your consideration,
Christine






Christine Chen
Department of Geography
Byrd Polar Research Center
The Ohio State University


[CRYOLIST] Workshop for postgraduate students just starting their research - Windsor Workshop, UK 10-13 December

New postgraduates (and supervisors of such students) just starting their research may be interested in the following course:

BSG Windsor Postgraduate Training Course 10th - 13th December 2012.

http://www.geomorphology.org.uk/postgraduates/windsor

The British Society for Geomorphology runs a workshop for new research students in December each year and we encourage you to attend. The workshop has been running at the fantastic Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park for over 30 years - many notable researchers and academics have been and benefited from this course!

The content is non-technical, but provides training in project management, group work, dealing with large data sets, fieldwork, lab and numerical modelling. But one of the most important aspects is meeting other new researchers, finding out how the PhD is working for others in different Universities and often making friends and contacts that can last a career. You'll also meet a wide variety of academics and facilitators who are practicing researchers as well as the BSG postgrad representatives. 

"BSG Windsor gave me the opportunity to interact with other PhD students from all over Europe. It was very helpful meeting researchers sharing their research experiences and helpful advices to develop a good thesis" (2011 attendee)

The cost is a heavily subsidised £110 for BSG research students (we require non members need to join the BSG, at the postgraduate rate of £45 for three years). This gives you with all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) tea/coffee breaks (Monday afternoon to Thursday lunchtime) and accommodation in the 'up market' environment of Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. As well as being a former home to royalty, Cumberland lodge features in several feature films including the Kings Speech. You can find more information about the Lodge here: http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/

You should also be able to offset the time against any departmental postgraduate training credits.

Apply online here: http://www.geomorphology.org.uk/postgraduates/windsor

Or contact Tom Coulthard (T.Coulthard@hull.ac.uk) 


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        Professor Emeritus                             Visiting Professor
        Queens University Belfast                 Department of Geography
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

[CRYOLIST] 9th annual Polar Technology Conference - 2-4 April 2013

Meeting Announcement

9th annual Polar Technology Conference
2-4 April 2013
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis, Maryland, USA

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The 9th annual Polar Technology Conference will be hosted by
the Polar Science Program of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Maryland. Mark the dates on your calendar. A call for
presentations and conference registration will be announced in
mid-December. For further information, please go to:

http://PolarTechnologyConference.org
E-mail questions to: register@PolarTechnologyConference.org


The primary purpose of this conference is to bring together Polar
Scientists and Technology Developers in a forum to exchange
information on research system operational needs and technology
solutions that have been successful in polar environments. This
exchange of knowledge helps to address issues of design,
implementation, and deployment for systems that are to achieve
their research goals in the Polar Regions.

Past participants have come from the private sector, state and
federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and academia.
Presentations generally cover system requirements for proposed
research along with descriptions of systems and approaches that
have been proven in polar deployments. Typical hardware and
software topics have included weather stations, robotics, power
systems, telemetry, and remote communications. The scale of
systems ranges from the autonomous data collection towers to large
scale research stations. Polar venues represented include under,
on, and above the ice, tundra, or sea.

Discussions on intra- and inter-national cooperation in site
deployment and maintenance are encouraged. Informal breaks allow
for opportunities for networking and information exchange. A
poster session is also included. We are pleased to have support
from the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs as
an endorsement of the concept of bringing together providers and
consumers of these technologies in hopes of benefiting from that
synergy. Previous years' lists of presentations and participants
can be found through links on the conference website.

Presentations in all technology fields are invited. Regular oral
presentations and a poster session will be scheduled.
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[CRYOLIST] Abstacts Call: "Cryosphere Education and Student Field Experiences" at AAG meeting in LA, 2013

Call for Abstracts AAG 2013:

 

You are invited to submit abstracts to the following 100 minute-long PAPER session with one 20 minute DISCUSSANT:

 

Cryospheric and Polar Educational/Field Experiences for Students

 

Active student engagement including but not limited to laboratory experimentation, teaching practices and field expeditions are crucial for developing future cryospheric scientists and geographers studying the social-political-economic dynamics of people living in polar regions.  This session invites a broad range of papers that include strong mentoring and student-oriented endeavors.  Students and Mentors are expected to attend the session; it will conclude with a discussion of best practices that engage students.

 

Please submit your abstract through www.AAG.org   and send your PIN# to rhellstrom@bridgew.edu (Cryosphere Specialty Group Chair).

 

Best Regards,

Rob

 

 

 

Dr. Robert Hellström

Geography Department

203 Conant Science and Math Center

24 Park Avenue

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Monday, October 22, 2012

[CRYOLIST] AAG session about mountain environments

Dear Cryolisters,

If somebody is going to the forthcoming AAG meeting (LA), please consider to submit a paper to the following session

Global environmental changes in mountain land-water-scapes (sponsored by the Mountain Geography Specialty Group).

This session focuses on the understanding of interactions among environmental transformations occurring at diverse spatial scales (continental, regional, local) and their impact on water availability and land cover in mountain areas. Mountain land and waterscapes are particularly sensitive to changes in atmospheric processes, snow/ice volume, and land use, among others. In particular, water availability and the consequences thereof are an increasing concern because hydrological changes affect both physical and human dimensions of mountain environments.  

We seek contributions related to all dimensions of environmental changes in mountain environments,  from theoretical or applied perspectives. A particular focus will be multi-scale comparisons/relationships and the application of models of diverse complexity linking the diverse spheres in which mountain environments interact with the atmosphere, lithosphere, and cryosphere. 

Interested?, please send the paper title, abstract, and your AAG PIN to me (fernandez-rivera.1@osu.edu) after you have registered and submitted the abstract for the AAG meeting. If you may, please do it by this Wednesday October 24.

A few days ago we have agreed with Charles Lafon (Mountain Geography Specialty Group) that if you feel that this session may fit better with your proposed presentation than the one he is suggesting, you may redirect it to here. 

Thank you very much
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Alfonso Fernandez
The Ohio State University
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[CRYOLIST] Environmental Research Letters (ERL) special issue on ?Cryospheric Ecosystems? ? call for articles



Dear Colleagues

We would like to invite you to contribute to an upcoming special issue of Environmental Research Letters entitled:  Cryospheric Ecosystems, edited by Andy Hodson (Sheffield University), Benjamin Brock (Northumbria University), Johanna Laybourn-Parry (Bristol University), David Pearce (British Antarctic Survery) and Martyn Tranter (Bristol University).

Since the turn of the last millennium, our perception of glaciers and ice sheets has shifted from one of a lifeless, abiotic realm to a distinct biome with a microbial biomass broadly similar to all of Earth's unfrozen freshwater. Also, it is now known that major, climate-driven mass balance changes in the glacial cryosphere have the capacity to influence productivity in ice marginal ecosystems. These range from small soil and lake ecosystems in glacier forefields, to some of Earth's most important marine ecosystems in the Southern and Pacific Oceans. Further, the direct investigation of subglacial lakes and watery sediments beneath the Antarctic ice sheet has commenced, and so new data sets that characterise the ecosystems encountered there are about to emerge.

This focus issue will therefore bring together recent advances in our understanding of cryospheric ecosystems and also a characterisation of their coupling to ice marginal ecosystems.

Submission will be accepted until 31st March 2013, please visit the website below for full details on the scope, key questions to be addressed by the issue and submission process.

http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/focus/Cryospheric%20Ecosystems

As ERL (2011 Impact Factor 3.631) is a fully open access journal, authors should also be aware of the publication costs ($1600, £1000 or Euro 1100) per article. If you believe you have may have a suitable article to contribute to the issue, please contact the ERL Publisher, Guillaume Wright (guillaume.wright@iop.org) or the one of the Guest Editors above.

Best wishes,

Guillaume Wright
Publisher
Environmental Research Letters
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

[CRYOLIST] Postdoc position - Paleoclimate modeling

Dear all,

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher who would wish to work
with us, as a member of Paleo-climate Modeling Research Team, in
Global Change Projection Research Program, Research Institute for
Global Change, JAMSTEC, Japan.

Job Description
The main job is to investigate the mechanism of climate change and
variability of the past through numerical experiments and data
analysis using paleoclimate models developed in the team. The
models are the atmosphere-ocean coupled model (MIROC-GCM), the
earth system model (MIROC-ESM), ice sheet model (IcIES), carbon
cycle model and so on.

Closing date
November 15th, 2012

Contact (about research)
Ayako Abe-OUCHI (JAMSTEC/AORI) abeouchi@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Contact (other)
Mikiko Tanioka (JAMSTEC) rsd-jinji@jamstec.go.jp

More details are shown in
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/recruit/rigc_20121015_5.html
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[CRYOLIST] Arctic Hydrology session at 2013 AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California

Please consider submitting your AAG abstract to the Arctic Hydrology in a Changing Climate session at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, April 9-13, 2013. To be included in the session, please register at the AAG website (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting), upload your abstract, and send your PIN number by October 24 to Asa Renneramalm (asa.rennermalm@rutgers.edu) and Vena Chu (venachu@ucla.edu). Find more details about the session below.

Title: Arctic Hydrology in a Changing Climate
Description:One of the most striking contemporary environmental changes is the warming of the Arctic region and its profound impact on the Arctic hydrological system. Impacts include thawing permafrost, altered land surface water balance fluxes, decreasing snow and sea ice cover, and increased mass loss from glaciers, ice caps, and the Greenland ice sheet. In addition, new records are being continually being set, such as the 2012 September minimum sea ice area and the 2012 July Greenland ice sheet extreme melt. Improving observations and models are primary objectives in understanding these changes and projecting future impacts. We invite contributions examining trends, variability, and the importance of components of the Arctic hydrological system at multiple scales using field studies, modeling, and remote sensing analysis.

Asa Rennermalm
Department of Geography
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Vena Chu
Department of Geography
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Friday, October 19, 2012

[CRYOLIST] NASA/JPL NPP Post-Doc opportunity. Reconstruction of the WAIS (Antarctica) ice flow over the last 1500 years.

Dear Cryolist members, 

the Ice Sheet System Model team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA, US)
(http://issm.jpl.nasa.gov) is looking to fill a NASA NPP Post-Doc position, to carry out higher-order ice flow
reconstructions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, over the last  1500 years. The goal is to reproduce the
grounding line retreat of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, using the MITgcm ocean circulation model
to reproduce sub-ice shelf forcings through time, the Ivins and James [1999] Post-Glacial Rebound model, and
the Ice Sheet System Model. The overall goal is to better  constrain hindcast models of WAIS ice flow, in order to improve 
forecast models and reduce current sea level rise estimates. 

More details on the position can be found at: https://www3.orau.gov/NASA_Catalog/Opportunity/18656

The NPP Post-Doc call deadlines are November 1st, March 1st and June 1st each year. 
We invite people interested in the position to contact us and discuss the specifics of the 
position in detail. We would also encourage anyone interested, to come and visit JPL and
discuss with the team of scientists involved in this line of research. 

Best regards, 

Eric L.

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