Cryo: October 2015

Saturday, October 31, 2015

[CRYOLIST] GLACIOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL, ALASKA, 2016

The Fourth INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN GLACIOLOGY by the University of Alaska Fairbanks will be held in McCarthy, Alaska, 7-17 June, 2016.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 1 February 2016

The course is intended to provide glaciology graduate students with a comprehensive overview of the physics of glaciers and current research frontiers in glaciology with focus on quantitative glaciology, modeling and remote sensing of glaciers and ice sheets. The course is taught by glaciology faculty of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and several invited guest lecturers.

Current sponsors include NASA, the International Glaciological Society (IGS), the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) and the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

For more information see: http://glaciers.gi.alaska.edu/courses/summer-school/2016

/Regine Hock

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Regine Hock
Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska
903 Koyukuk Dr.
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7320
ph: 907 - 474 7691
fax: 907 - 479 7718
regine@gi.alaska.edu
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Friday, October 30, 2015

[CRYOLIST] Call for abstracts: SCAR-OSC Session on Subglacial Aquatic Environments

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the session "Subglacial Aquatic Environments" at the SCAR Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, 20-30 August 2016.

Abstract submission is NOW OPEN, and will close 14 February, 2016.

http://scar2016.com/abstract-submission-guideline.php

Subglacial Aquatic Environments (S10)

Conveners: Martin Siegert, UK; Irina Alekhina, Russia; Trista Vick-Majors, USA

The basal regions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet are host to some of the most inaccessible and diverse aquatic environments in the world, and include subglacial lakes, rivers, swamps and deep sedimentary basins. The exploration of these frigid, subterranean environments features highly on the international scientific agenda, driven by a need to improve understanding of subglacial microbial ecosystems and future ice sheet contribution to sea level changes. Subglacial systems may also hold new records of past climate from sediments deposited in lakes and sedimentary basins. The past four years has seen several missions aimed at directly measuring and sampling subglacial lakes and basal material. Much has been learnt in terms of both scientific discovery and on the technical challenges of successfully accesses the bed beneath deep ice. This session aims to highlight recent developments in the understanding of subglacial aquatic environments in Antarctica, inviting contributions across a broad range of disciplines. This might include, for example, results of recent subglacial exploration, experimental and numerical modeling simulations of subglacial processes and their impacts, remote sensing and the development of enabling technologies for subglacial access and data collection. We also welcome presentations from those working on subglacial aquatic environments outside Antarctica, but with results relevant to Antarctic Science. The session aims to bring together diverse communities drawn from glaciology, microbiology/ biogeochemistry and engineering.

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Trista Vick-Majors

Ph.D Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant

Priscu Research Group
Montana State University
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
Bozeman, MT

Website

[CRYOLIST] Microbial Ecology of Permafrost Ecosystems at ICOP XI

Dear colleagues and friends,

I would like to draw your attention to the XI. International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP) which will be held 20-24 June, 2016, in Potsdam, Germany and invite you to submit abstracts for session 14 on:

Microbial ecology of permafrost ecosystems: Drivers of nutrient cycles, functional resilience, and adaptation in the scope of a changing climate

Convener 1: Susanne Liebner, GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Germany

Convener 2: Alexander Tøsdal Tveit, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Convener 3: Marcus A. Horn, Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Session description:

Research on microbial life exposed to permanent freeze or seasonal freeze-thaw has led to astonishing findings about microbial versatility, adaptation, and diversity in permafrost ecosystems. Microorganisms thrive in cold habitats and new sequencing techniques have produced large amounts of genomic, metagenomic, and metatranscriptomic data that allow insights into the fascinating microbial ecology at low temperatures. Moreover, permafrost soil ecosystems constitute major global carbon and nitrogen storages and are sources of the greenhouse gases methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O). Abiotic and biotic factors shape microbial communities and their huge genetic potential. Microbial communities ultimately influence reaction patterns of permafrost-affected soils towards global change. Altered patterns of seasonal temperature fluctuations and precipitation are expected in the Arctic and will affect the microbial turnover of soil organic carbon (SOC). Activation of nutrients by thawing and increased active layer thickness as well as erosion renders nutrient stocks accessible to microbial activities. However, the effects of these changes on the microbial mechanisms that determine greenhouse gas emissions are still poorly understood. In this context, the functional resilience of microbial communities in Arctic permafrost soils is of major interest. Particularly important is the ability of microorganisms and microbial communities to respond to changes in their surroundings by intracellular regulation and population shifts within functional niches, respectively. We ask whether environmental changes is met by a flexible microbial community retaining its function, or if the altered conditions also renders the community in a state of altered properties that affect the carbon cycle.
This session brings together research on different spatial scales and levels of complexity, spanning from ecosystem level to pure culture studies of model microbes in the laboratory. It aims to attract microbiologists, microbial ecologists and biogeochemists working with the effect of climate change and/or low temperatures on microbial nutrient cycling and communities, functions and cultivars under laboratory or in-situ conditions. We encourage submissions from research on terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems in Arctic, Antarctic and alpine regions.

For further details see the ICOP website (http://www.icop2016.org).

Feel welcome to forward this mail to your colleagues.

Best, Susanne Liebner

--   Section 4.5 Geomicrobiology  Helmholtz Centre Potsdam  GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences    Telegrafenberg C-423  14473 Potsdam, Germany    Phone: +49 (0)331 288-288 17  Fax:   +49 (0)331 288-288 02  Web:   http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/mitarbeiter/susanne-liebner/

[CRYOLIST] MASc or PhD position available at the University of Waterloo on SAR/sea ice

A fully funded MASc or PhD position is available at the University of Waterloo within the Department of Systems

Design Engineering. The position will be funded partially by the Network Center of Excellence (NCE) Marine Environmental

Observation and Response Network (www.meopar.ca), and will involve collaboration with other partners in the network, and with

researchers at Environment Canada. The position is described below:

The objective is to contribute to onging work on the estimation and assimilation of sea ice information from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. SAR imagery is widely used by ice services to provide key information to ensure safe operations in the Arctic. Presently, this information is typically extracted using manual interpretation of the images. The specific project will include development of a method to estimate sea ice concentration and possibly other sea ice parameters using an automated learning approach, and assimilation of this ice concentration in an operational forecasting system. Focus will be on contributing to improving predictions that impact the shipping season, for example by improving the assimilation of observational data during the summer, which can be challenging due to surface melt.

Required skills:

-Experience using FORTRAN, Matlab or Python

-Knowledge of required mathematics (linear/matrix algebra and probability)

-Experience or interest in working with SAR sea ice imagery

-Experience or interest in data assimilation or sea ice

Interested candidates should send a CV and names of two references to Dr. Andrea Scott (ka3scott@uwaterloo.ca).

It should be noted that the deadline for 2016 fall admissions is February 1st 2016.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

[CRYOLIST] An Invitation to Submit Papers to Advances in Polar Science (APS)

Advances in Polar Science (APS) is a peer-reviewed English-language journal dedicated to the presentation of multi-disciplinary achievements in Arctic and Antarctic research.

Advances in Polar Science is a true open-access journal, funded by the Polar Research Institute of China. It has no publication fees and all articles are freely accessible on the web as soon as

they are released, with an additional 500 printed copies distributed internationally. The journal is managed by an Editorial Board of both Chinese and international disciplinary editors.

We are now soliciting papers on relevant polar research topics for APS Vol. 26 No. 4 to be published towards the end of 2015. APS accepts four types of manuscripts:

(1) Reviews: Summarizing results and achievements in a particular topic or an area, commenting on the current situation, and advising on research directions.

(2) Articles: Reporting important original results in any area of polar science.

(3) Letters: Briefly presenting novel and innovative findings related to polar science.

(4) Trends: Reporting important scientific news, information, and academic affairs, as well as major international programs in all areas of polar science.

We hope that you might consider submitting a paper to this issue which will have a quick review and publication time.

Submission of new manuscripts can be made online at http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/apsci and should follow the format given in the "Instructions" for authors at the journal website http://journal.polar.org.cn/EN/volumn/current.shtml.

We welcome your involvement in this and future editions of Advances in Polar Science. We look forward to the submission of new manuscripts and for any suggestions of future "Special Issues" (which can be made via email to the editorial office at journal@pric.org.cn). We encourage you to share this announcement broadly with interested colleagues.

Co-Editors-in -Chief, APS Huigen Yang, Ian Allison

Mr. Xiaoliang Ling

Associate Editor

Email journal@pric.org.cn

Website: http://journal.polar.org.cn/EN/volumn/current.shtml

Submission Online: https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/apsci

Tel 86-21-58713642

Editorial Office of Advances in Polar Science

Polar Research Institute of China

451 Jinqiao Road, Pudong New Area

Shanghai 20136

China

[CRYOLIST] IACS 2016 Early Career Scientist Prize: correct links

Dear colleagues,

I am sorry I included a dead link in my previous posting. The correct links are:

Early Career Scientist Prize page: http://www.cryosphericsciences.org/iacsECSP.html

Guidelines: http://www.cryosphericsciences.org/downloads/iacs_ecsPrize.pdf

Charles Fierz

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The International Association for Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) is proud to announce its 2016 Early Career Scientist Prize.

The IACS Early Career Scientist Prize is an annual cash prize of € 1000 awarded to a nominated early career scientist who is assessed as having published the best scientific paper on a cryospheric subject during the previous calendar year. The objective of the prize is to recognize excellence in cryospheric science by honouring and promoting someone in the early-stages of her or his career, and to draw attention to the work of IACS.

IACS now welcomes nominations of scientific papers satisfying the eligibility criteria (see guidelines on-line at http://www.cryosphericsciences.org/iacsECSP.html).

Please submit nomination packages until 12 February 2016 the latest to ecsprize (at) cryosphericsciences.org with the subject line labeled as "IACS: 2016 ECS Prize". All submissions will be acknowledged. If in doubt, please contact the Chair of the Selection Committee (rehock (at) alaska (dot) edu).

The Selection Committee will announce the winner late-March 2016 and the 2016 Prize will be formally presented an IACS affiliated conference in 2016.

Best regards,

Dr Charles Fierz, physicist
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos
Research Unit Snow and Permafrost, http://www.slf.ch/ueber/organisation/schnee_permafrost/index_EN

Team Snow Cover and Micrometeorology, http://www.slf.ch/ueber/organisation/schnee_permafrost/Mikrometeorologie/index_EN

President
International Association of Cryospheric Sciences IACS,

Flüelastrasse 11
7260 Davos Dorf
Switzerland

Phone: +41 81 417 0165
Fax: +41 81 417 0110
E-mail: fierz (at) slf (dot) ch
Web : http://www.slf.ch/english_EN, http://www.wsl.ch

[CRYOLIST] IACS 2016 Early Career Scientist Prize

Dear colleagues,

The International Association for Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) is proud to announce its 2016 Early Career Scientist Prize.

IACS now welcomes nominations of scientific papers satisfying the eligibility criteria (see guidelines on-line at http://www.cryosphericsciences.org/iacsAwards.html).

Please submit nomination packages until 12 February 2016 the latest to ecsprize (at) cryosphericsciences.org with the subject line labeled as "IACS: 2016 ECS Prize". All submissions will be acknowledged. If in doubt, please contact the Chair of the Selection Committee (rehock (at) alaska (dot) edu).

The Selection Committee will announce the winner late-March 2016 and the 2016 Prize will be formally presented an IACS affiliated conference in 2016.

Best regards,

[CRYOLIST] Several PhD projects available at the Bristol Glaciology Centre

NERC GW4 PhD projects 2016 at the School of Geographical Sciences of Bristol University are listed at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/courses/postgraduate/physphd.html

Several of those are related to the Glaciology group:

- Evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet from satellite altimetry and SAR (contact - Professor Jonathan Bamber - j.bamber@bristol.ac.uk)

- Using observations from space and the deep ocean to uncover the ocean's role in climate change (contact - Dr Rory Bingham - rory.bingham@bristol.ac.uk)

- Collapse of the former Barents Sea Ice Sheet: an analogue for a future West Antarctica (contact - Professor Tony Payne - a.j.payne@bristol.ac.uk)

- Snowball Earth and the origin of life in extreme cold environments (contact - Dr Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo - p.sanchez-baracaldo@bristol.ac.uk)

- Biogeochemical nutrient cycling on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet (contact - Professor Martyn Tranter - m.tranter@bristol.ac.uk)

- Melting Patagonian Ice Fields as a source of nutrients to marine ecosystems (contact - Professor Jemma Wadham -j.l.wadham@bristol.ac.uk )

The deadline for applications is Friday 8th January 2016.

[CRYOLIST] PhD Opportunity - Bolivian Glaciers

Dear Colleagues,

We are advertising a fully funded PhD studentship (with annual research expenses) that will explore recent glacier and proglacial lake change in the Bolivian Andes. The PhD is based at Manchester Metropolitan University, with supervisory input from colleagues at the University of Manchester (Drs. Laura Edwards and Jason Dortch).

Deadline 16th November

Start January 2016

Must be a UK or EU resident

Details here: http://www.findaphd.com/search/phd.aspx?IID=160

I’d be grateful if you could pass this on to any exceptional graduates who might be interested in pursuing a PhD in this field.

Thanks and best wishes,

Simon

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Dr Simon Cook

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

School of Science and the Environment

Manchester Metropolitan University

Chester Street

Manchester, M1 5GD

United Kingdom

E-mail: S.J.Cook@mmu.ac.uk

Tel.: +44 (0) 161 2471202

Staff webpage

Download my papers from Researchgate

Twitter: @glacio_cook

"Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer "

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

[CRYOLIST] Call for Papers: Cryosphere Sessions at the 2016 AAG meeting

Cryosphere Specialty Group

Call for papers: AAG 2016 Annual Meeting

San Francisco, March 29 – April 2, 2016

The AAG Cryopshere Specialty Group is calling for papers on the topics below. Please let me know if you plan on organizing a session and would like the AAG CrSG to promote it. Graduate students and young scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts.

Submit submit your paper abstract through http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers, and send your PIN to venachu@berkeley.edu.

Deadline for abstract submission: October 29, 2015

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Advances in Cryosphere Research: Recent developments in cryospheric research based on studies using remote sensing, modeling, statistical dataset analysis, and field methods.

Changes in Arctic Environment: Impacts of climate change on Pan-Arctic hydrologic, atmospheric, and terrestrial systems.

Ice and Snow: Understanding of ice sheet, glacier, and snow-covered systems and impacts on human environment, including water resources and sea levels.

R.S. Tarr Student Paper Competition:

The R.S. Tarr award is given to the undergraduate or graduate student presenting the illustrated paper judged best in the special R.S. Tarr Illustrated Paper Session held during the 2016 Annual Meeting. The recipient of the R.S. Tarr award will receive a cash award dedicated to R.S. Tarr's accomplishments in geomorphology and strong advocacy of physical geography.

This session invites posters covering a broad range of approaches and applications to study the cold regions, spanning from the natural to social sciences. Techniques involving ground- and/or remote sensing-based instruments/images, controlled laboratory experiments and modeling are welcome.

The illustrated paper must be completed and presented by the student; however, the paper can be coauthored by the student's advisor. Illustrated papers will be judged on their originality and contribution to cryospheric science. To participate in the R.S. Tarr session please submit your abstract for an illustrated paper through http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers and send your PIN to venachu@berkeley.edu.

Vena W. Chu, PhD

UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California, Berkeley

Department of Geography

505 McCone Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720

venachu@berkeley.edu

www.venachu.com

[CRYOLIST] Masters/PhD position in Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill University

A fully funded Masters or Ph.D. position is available starting in September, 2016, working on cryosphere modeling in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Possible thesis topics include ice sheet – sea level interactions, modern sea level, paleo sea level and glacial isostatic adjustment, ice-sheet modeling, and sea-level observations in the cryosphere. Highly motivated candidates with a background in geophysics, climate physics, general physics, applied mathematics or engineering science, or numerical modeling experience are preferred. See here for more information on general admission requirements:

http://www.mcgill.ca/eps/studies/graduate/admissions.

Official applications are due Feb. 1, 2016, but interested candidates should contact Prof. Natalya Gomez at natalya.gomez@mcgill.ca well before this deadline with a CV, transcripts or equivalent academic record, brief letter of interest, and the names and email addresses of two references.

Natalya Gomez

Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair

Earth and Planetary Sciences

McGill University

[CRYOLIST] DUST2016 session TD05 call for abstracts

Dear colleagues,

Sorry for any cross-posting. We are pleased to invite you to the DUST2016 conference to be held in Castellaneta Marina (Italy) on June 12-17 2016 (http://www.scientevents.com/dust2016/).

This should be a very exciting pluridisciplinary dusty meeting with fascinating sessions to participate to. Among them, we encourage you to submit abstracts to the TD05 session addressing key issues of paleodust: TD05 - PALEODUST ARCHIVES: CONSTRAINING THE MAGNITUDE OF THE DUST CYCLE IN THE QUATERNARY convened by Samuel Albani, Gisela Winckler and Denis-Didier Rousseau

The session description reads as follow: " A variety of natural archives have the potential to preserve dust deposition. Records from ice cores, marine, lake sediments, loess/paleosol sequences, and peat bogs have proven not only to be useful proxies of past environmental and climatic conditions at regional and wider scales, but they also constitute an important archive for constraining the magnitude of the global dust cycle across various spatial and time scales. As such, their potential for the validation of Earth System Models is of utmost relevance.
In the past decade, compilations such as DIRTMAP successfully collected data from various archives worldwide, introducing the Dust Mass Accumulation Rate (MAR) as a common quantitative metric to organize paloedust data from different locations and types of archives. A more recent compilation focused on the Holocene provided a framework for consistently organizing time-resolved paleodust MARs records and particle size distributions.
We invite presentations contributing to the discussion on the state of the art of the dust cycle in the past, especially its variability over glacial/interglacial timescales and climate transitions, and how to use information from the past to improve our understanding of the key processes controlling the dust cycle and, thus, improve predictions for the near future."

If you want to contribute to the scientific exchanges we will have, please do not hesitate to submit your abstract before Monday 16 November 2015. The submission can be done at: http://www.scientevents.com/dust2016/abs-submission/. Please convince also your colleagues, friends, and students to attend and submit an abstract.

Colleagues interested in collaborating with the PAGES Working Group on Dust Impact on Climate and Environment (DICE) are particularly encouraged to submit an abstract.

Looking forward to meeting you next summer at DUST2016!
All the very best

Samuel Albani, Cornell University, US, s.albani@cornell.edu
Gisela Winckler, Columbia University, US, winckler@ldeo.columbia.edu
Denis-Didier Rousseau, Ecole Normale Superieure, FR, denis.rousseau@lmd.ens.fr

[CRYOLIST] Endowed Chair in Geology at Tulane University

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Brent Goehring, bgoehrin@tulane.edu

Marshall-Heape Chair in Geology

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University invites applications for the newly established Marshall-Heape Chair in Geology. We seek a scholar with an outstanding international reputation who will be appointed at the Full Professor level with tenure. We particularly seek a broad-based Earth scientist who complements current faculty expertise and offers potential for collaborative research. The Marshall-Heape Chair is expected to lead a widely recognized, externally funded research program that will attract PhD-level graduate students and postdoctoral scholars of the highest caliber. Teaching duties are both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. For full consideration, applications should be received by January 10, 2016, but the position will remain open until filled. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements that articulate how the mission of the department would be enhanced, and the names and contact information of at least three references. Applications must be submitted electronically via the following link: apply.interfolio.com/31900. Any inquiries may be directed to Dr. Torbjörn Törnqvist, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118-5698 (tor@tulane.edu). Further information about the department and university can be obtained at http://tulane.edu/sse/eens. Tulane University is an EEO/ADA/AA employer.

Brent Goehring

bgoehrin@tulane.edu

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Tulane University

210 Blessey Hall

Office: 504-862-3196

Lab: 504-314-7179

Fax: 504-865-5199

Mailing Address

6823 St Charles Ave

101 Blessey Hall

New Orleans, LA 70118

[CRYOLIST] PhD position in land ice remote sensing at the University of Edinburgh

The Glaciology group at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, invites applications for a 3-year funded PhD studentship in land ice remote sensing, improving observation and mass balance estimates from satellite altimetry. We are looking for self-motivated candidates with strong quantitative background (e.g. Remote Sensing, Physics, Math, Engineering, Geophysics, Glaciology, Meteorology). The role of the student will be to develop novel methods to exploit recent altimetry missions and apply these observations to the study of changes affecting the Cryosphere.

The successful candidate will be part of a large and vibrant GeoSciences School (geos.ed.ac.uk) and Glaciology group (www.geos.ed.ac.uk/glaciology) and interact with project partners based in the UK, Spain, Austria, and at the European Space Agency.

The position is open to international applicants; deadline for application is Nov 15. For more information on the project and details on the application process please contact Dr. Noel Gourmelen (noel.gourmelen@ed.ac.uk).

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Dr. Noel Gourmelen

School of GeoSciences

University of Edinburgh

Drummond Street

Edinburgh EH8 9XP (UK)

p: +44 (0)1316502662

f: +44 (0)1316502524

www.geos.ed.ac.uk

www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~ngourme2

www.geos.ed.ac.uk/glaciology