[CRYOLIST] Pushchino permafrost conference, September 22 to 25, 2013, Second circular

Happy New Year!

The Scientific Council on Earth Cryology, Russian Academy of Science and Earth Cryosphere Institute would like to invite you to Pushchino, Russia from September 22 to 25, 2013 for the International Conference "Earth Cryology: XXI century" .

The main topics of the conference will be:
Mountain and volcanic permafrost
Subsea permafrost
Subglacial permafrost
Permafrost processes
Permafrost modelling and mapping
Constructions on frozen ground
Permafrost microbiology and astrobiology
Permafrost dating and paleoreconstructions
Permafrost-affected soils and biosystems
Permafrost biogeochemistry
Permafrost hydrology and hydrogeology
Permafrost long-term monitoring
Constructions on frozen ground

If you are interested in being a chair of the section, or have an idea to add an extra one - we are open for disscussion. 

Several roundtables will be organized: Antarctic permafrost and soils (ANPAS), TSP, CALM, Antarctic and mountain permafrost, palaeoreconstructions, PYRN.

The deadline for Registration is April 15, 2013

The congress language is English.

Detailed information on the Conference and forms for registration and abstract submission will be available at  www.cryosol.ru/publ/kalendar_konferencij/earth_cryology_xxi_century/1-1-0-5 after January 10, 2013.

Any questions - Permaconf2013@gmail.com

Andrey Abramov

[CRYOLIST] PhD scholarships at Centre for Ice and Climate

Fully funded PhD scholarships at Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
 
A number of fully funded PhD scholarships are available at the Centre for Ice and Climate, a Danish National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence located at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
The successful candidates will be part of the centre team of about 50 people that works on drilling of ice cores through the Greenland ice sheet (e.g. the NGRIP and NEEM projects) and analysis of ice cores and modelling data with the objective of understanding the governing processes of past and future climate. 

PhD positions are available within the following fields:

1. Water isotope analysis.
2. Isotopes of Methane.
3. Ice flow modelling.
4. Modelling interglacial climate (co-funded with the Danish Meteorological Institute).
5. Modelling past abrupt climate change.

A description of the projects is available online at http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/vacancies/.

The standard PhD program at the centre is for three years and provides all students with full benefits and a monthly salary starting at approx. 25,000 Danish kroner (~3300 EUR). The applicants of the PhD studentships should have obtained a MSc degree or similar in geophysics, physics, or other related or relevant fields.
 
Deadline for applications including all materials is January 24, 2013, at noon CET. The application must be submitted electronically. Follow the link from http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/vacancies/.

 
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Sune Olander Rasmussen, PhD
Centre Coordinator, assoc. prof.
Centre for Ice and Climate
Niels Bohr Institute
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone (+45) 3532 0590

[CRYOLIST] Postdoctoral position on permafrost modelling at the University of Exeter

Sorry for cross-posting 

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Job title : Associate Research Fellow
Job reference : P43292
Application closing date : 14/01/2013
Location : Exeter
Salary : £24,520 up to £31,020 per annum
Package : Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme, car lease scheme and relocation package (if applicable)
Job category/type : Research

Job description :

College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences

 

The College wishes to recruit an Associate Research Fellow to support the work of Professor Pierre Friedlingstein. This EU/FP7 funded post is available immediately. The successful applicant will work within the PAGE21 European project on high-latitude permafrost modelling, assessing the future impact of potential permafrost thawing on the climate system.  

The post will include development of permafrost dynamics in the JULES global land surface model, model  evaluation followed by future climate projections in order to assess the vulnerability of permafrost. The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes, communicate complex information, orally, in writing and electronically and prepare proposals and applications to external bodies.

Applicants will possess a relevant PhD and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the numerical modelling applied to Earth System sciences in order to work within the project. Applicants will be able to develop and use large numerical models of Earth System components, lead model intercomparisons activities within the PAGE21 project and conduct the analysis of permafrost role in coupled climate simulations.

For further information please contact Prof Pierre Friedlingstein, e-mail p.friedlingstein@ex.ac.uk . 

To view the Job Description and Person Specification document please click here.

 

The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer which is 'Positive about Disabled People'. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce.

 

HOW TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION:

 

Please send your CV, covering letter and the details of three referees, along with a completed application and equal opportunities form to Linda McIlwraith, e-mailL.McIlwraith@exeter.ac.uk quoting the reference number P43292 in any correspondence.

 

To download the application and equal opportunities form please follow the below links;

 

http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/app_form.rtf

 

http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/EO_form.rtf

To view job details or apply on-line click here.

To search for other jobs click here.

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University of Exeter
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Harrison Building, North Park Road
Exeter, EX4 4QF
UK
Phone +44 117 331 7269 
Fax +44 1392 725 279
Mobile +44 777 094 1126
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[CRYOLIST] Midwest Glaciology Meeting: 7-8 March, 2013

Annual Midwest Glaciology Meeting    The Pennsylvania State University: 7- 8 March, 2013     The Penn State Ice and Climate Exploration Group (PSICE) would like to invite you to this year's Midwest Glaciology Meeting (MGM), hosted at the Penn State Campus in University Park, PA.    MGM has historically been a small, informal meeting, with approximately 30 - 50 participants. Attendees are encouraged to present their work. Students are especially encouraged to attend, as MGM offers graduate students the opportunity to receive feedback from the glaciology community. There are no required abstract submissions, and talk titles will be collected during registration.    A registration fee ($30 for faculty, $20 for students) will be collected on Thursday morning. Coffee and snacks will be provided.  

More information will be sent out in the next few weeks regarding local hotel accommodations and travel information.    If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nathan Amador (nsa125@psu.edu)      We hope to see you here at Penn State!    ~Nathan Amador

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                  Nathanael S. Amador
               Department of Geography
                   107 Walker Building
        The Pennsylvania State University
                  University Park, PA

[CRYOLIST] glacier monitoring sessions @ EGU & DACA

Dear cryolist subscribers,

the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers (GTN-G, www.gtn-g.org), run by
the WGMS, the NSIDC, and the GLIMS initiative, organizes sessions on:

Glacier Monitoring from In-situ and Remotely Sensed Observations

at the EGU General Assembly 2013 in Vienna, Austria (22-27 April 2013),
as well as
at the DACA (Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly), in Davos,
Switzerland (8-12 July 2013)


We kindly invite you to make use of this opportunities to present your
contributions to the internationally coordinated glacier monitoring.
Abstracts are welcome on both in-situ and remote sensing monitoring of
glaciers and ice caps, from new and well established sites, and on related
uncertainty assessments.

The abstract submission closes 09 January 2013 for EGU and 31 January 2013
for DACA!

Further details are available here:
EGU-Link: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/12333
DACA-Link: http://www.daca-13.org/wsl/daca13/program/SympA5/A5.1_EN


Looking forward to interesting and successful meetings next year,

the two convenor teams,
Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Liss M. Andreassen, Tobias Bolch & Bruce Raup
Michael Zemp, Richard Armstrong, Andreas Kääb & Vladimir Ryabinin


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World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)
Department of Geography
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich
SWITZERLAND

phone: +41-44 635 51 39
email: wgms@geo.uzh.ch
http://www.wgms.ch

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Glacier monitoring session @ EGU 2013:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/12333

Glacier monitoring session @ DACA-13:
http://www.daca-13.org/wsl/daca13/program/SympA5/A5.1_EN

Call-for-Data 2010/11:
http://www.wgms.ch/datasub.html

Glossary of Glacier Mass Balance and Related Terms:
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~mzemp/Docs/Cogley_etal_2011.pdf

Global Glacier Changes: facts and figures:
http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/

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[CRYOLIST] Arctic Workshop

Arctic Workshop Announcement

 

43rd International Arctic Workshop

March 11- 13, 2013

Amherst, Massachusetts

 

Abstracts will be due Thursday, January 31, 2013.

 

 Julie Brigham-Grette will lead a field trip to see local geological features on Sunday, March 10

 

Keynote speakers for the Workshop will include:

 Prof. John Smol, Queens University

Prof. John England, University of Alberta

 

More information will be coming soon.

[CRYOLIST] announcement: ESP&L special issue and EGU2013 session on proglacial areas

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Dear colleagues,

the deadline for abstract submission (January 9th, 2013) for the 2013
EGU conference in Vienna is approaching,
so we would like to advertise once again our session on geomorphological
and hydrological processes in proglacial areas under conditions of
(rapid) deglaciation.
The session description is available here:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/12837
We welcome contributions from all fields of geomorphology, hydrology,
natural hazards etc that cover the dynamics of processes in or near
glacier forefields in the wake of (rapid) deglaciation.

We will organise a special issue of Earth Surface Processes and
Landforms on the session topic - please do also consider this
publication opportunity which is not linked to the participation in the
EGU session !
You're welcome to contact us if you have questions.

With our best wishes for a merry christmas and a happy new year

Tobias Heckmann on behalf of all conveners:
Andrew Kos, Christian Briese, Reynald Delaloye, Volkmar Mair, Sam
McColl, David Morche, Phil Owens and Tim Stott

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Dr. Tobias Heckmann
Sen. Lecturer
Dept. of Physical Geography
Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
Ostenstraße 18
D-85072 Eichstätt
Germany
Tel.: ++49-8421-93-1309
Fax: ++49-8421-93-1787

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[CRYOLIST] Research assistantship in Antarctic meteorology @ Brown University

A research assistantship position for a MA/PhD level graduate student is available at the Environmental Change Initiative (http://www.brown.edu/Research/ECI/) at the Department of Geological Science at Brown University (http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Geology/).  The assistantship will provide full tuition support and stipend for a student interested in studying Antarctic meteorology.

The Antarctic ice sheet constituted the largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth, representing tens of meters of sea level rise if it were to melt completely. We are investigating the role of cyclones in modifying the Antarctic climate. In particular we are interested in investigating what the role of cyclones in modifying the ice sheet mass balance by bringing and redistributing snow. We are also interested in investigating how cyclones affect sea ice around Antarctica.

The graduate student will join the on-going project contributing to climate modeling and data analysis efforts. Strong quantitative skills are required, prior interest in polar regions and/or meteorology and climatology is preferred.

If interested, please contact Dr. Maria Tsukernik maria_tsukernik@brown.edu or Prof. Amanda Lynch amanda_lynch@brown.edu prior to launching a formal application.

Formal applications for graduate school at the Department of Geology at Brown are due January 15, 2013 and the position will start in August 2013.  Please launch your formal applications here:https://www.applyweb.com/browng/

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Dr. Maria (Masha) Tsukernik
Research scientist/Adjunct Lecturer
Environmental Change Initiative
Department of Geological Sciences
Brown University
Box 1951
Providence, RI 02912

[CRYOLIST] Ph.D. position in climate and snowpack modeling at University of Utah

The University of Utah invites applications for a Ph.D.-level graduate student fellowship focusing on how climate and land use change impact snowpack and availability and demand for montane water resources. This fellowship opportunity is part of a multi-year, NSF funded study aimed at understanding water resources sustainability in the urbanizing Wasatch Front (see www.iutahepscor.org for more information). The successful applicant will use observations and models to improve projections of water quantity and quality under various climate change and urbanization scenarios. Applicants should have experience using existing modeling techniques for driving regional-scale hydrologic processes with large-scale climate projections (e.g., statistical or dynamical downscaling), and the ability to develop and validate new numerical modeling frameworks. Modeling will enable testing of hypotheses about the hydrologic cycle’s sensitivity to snowmelt dynamics, runoff generation, infiltration, evapotranspiration, and deep percolation as a function of elevation, microclimate, and land cover. Although the home department is Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, the incumbent will be expected to work in an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional research team that includes researchers from Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, and Utah State University. Faculty from these institutions are likely committee members and potential co-advisors.  Prospective students should contact Dr. Court Strong (court.strong@utah.edu) for more information; please include a current resume and statement of research interests with your inquiry. Application deadline is January 15, 2013.

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Court Strong, Assistant Professor

Department of Atmospheric Sciences

University of Utah

www.inscc.utah.edu/~strong

[CRYOLIST] 17th Alpine Glaciology Meeting (AGM) -Grenoble - 14-15 February 2013

Dear all,

The next Alpine Glaciology Meeting (AGM) will be held in Grenoble, France, on 14 and 15 February, 2013.

As usual, this meeting serves as informal exchange platform for researchers working on snow, glaciers or permafrost.

Oral and poster presentations are welcome, and young scientists are especially encouraged to present their work in progress.

The meeting will be held at University of Grenoble (France).

The deadline for registration is 1st February 2013.

All information can be found here: http://lgge.osug.fr/AGM2013/home.html

For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Christian.Vincent@ujf-grenoble.fr
or
Delphine.Six@ujf-grenoble.fr

Have a good Christmas

Christian and Delphine

--   Christian Vincent  Ingénieur de recherche  Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE)  54 rue Molière  BP 96 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères Cedex  Tel: 04.76.82.42.47  CNRS/UJF

[CRYOLIST] "Soils in cold regions" at EGU

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to our session at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2013 in Vienna: SSS5.4 "Soils in cold regions".

 

See details at: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/11926

 

Soils in cold-climate regions, particularly in high latitudes and high mountain areas, play a decisive role on the environmental dynamics of the terrestrial ecosystem. Some of these areas have experienced very significant warming trends during the last decades and soils are undergoing rapid change, occasionally with severe impacts on the environment. The study of paleosols can provide data about past environments in cold-climate regions that may be used to better understand how soils have responded in the past to changing climate conditions. In the last decades a wide range of new methods and dating techniques have been used to reconstruct the landscape of the sedimentary record in cold environments.

The aim of the session "Soils in cold regions" is to bring to light the state of progress in knowledge of soils in cold regions, with a focus both on present and past soil processes. Unlocking the palaeoenvironmental information from paleosols in cold regions may contribute to reconstruct the landscape evolution and better understand how soils may react to future climate scenarios.

 

In this session, contributors will have the oportunity to publish the full version of the communications in a special issue edited in Solid Earth. 

Visit: http://www.egu2013.eu/home.html  for abstract submission. The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 9th.

 

We cordially invite you to participate in this session and look forward to seeing you in Vienna.

 

Marc Oliva, Ana Navas and James Bockheim

 

Marc Oliva i Franganillo, PhD
Research Group on Antarctic Environments and Climate Change
Centro de Estudos Geográficos / IGOT, Universidade de Lisboa
Edifício FLUL, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 - Lisboa, Portugal

Tel: +351 210442936 / Fax: +351 217938690

HOLOANTAR project: http://holoantar.weebly.com / http://www.antecc.org

 

Research Group on Landscape Research and Mediterranean Mountain Palaeoenvironments

Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona

c/ Montalegre, 6-8, 08001- Barcelona, Catalonia

Tel: +34 934037561 / Fax: +34 934034529

http://www.ub.edu/palaeo/english/