[CRYOLIST] 2017 Sea Ice Outlook June Report Available Online

The June report for the 2017 Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) is now available. The
SIO is an activity of the Sea Ice Prediction Network project (SIPN,
http://www.arcus.org/sipn) as a contribution to the Study of
Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH,http://www.arcus.org/search-program).
The goal of the SIO is to improve Arctic sea ice prediction on seasonal time-scales.

The complete report is available at:
https://www.arcus.org/sipn/sea-ice-outlook/2017/june

The organizers thank the groups that contributed to the 2017 June
report; 33 contributions that include pan-Arctic predictions, 2
additional contributions with a regional focus, and 7 Antarctic
forecasts. This June Outlook report was developed by lead authors
Julienne Stroeve (NSIDC) and Walt Meier (NASA GSFC), with contributions
from Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth (UW), Francois Massonnet (Université
Catholique de Louvain) and the rest of the SIPN Leadership Team.
(https://www.arcus.org/sipn/leadership).

The median Outlook value for September 2017 sea ice extent is 4.43
million square kilometers with quartiles of 4.10 and 4.71 million square
kilometers. Contributions are based on a range of methods: statistical,
dynamical models, estimates based on trends, and two informal polls.

This month's report also includes:

- A discussion about the 14 dynamical model contributions and their variance;
- A section on predicted spatial fields with discussion on sea ice
probability (SIP) and the first ice-free day (IFD) from a number of
dynamical models;
- A section on current sea ice and atmospheric conditions;
- A section on regional ice conditions;
- A discussion of pan-Antarctic contributions,
- Key statements from the 33 individual pan-Arctic Outlook; and
- Links to view or download the pan-Arctic Outlook, pan-Antarctic,
regional, and informal contributions.

This is the first monthly SIO for the 2017 season. A call for
contributions for the July report will be announced via ArcticInfo and
the SIPN mailing list (http://www.arcus.org/sipn/mailing-list).

For more information, please contact:
Betsy Turner-Bogren, ARCUS
Email: betsy@arcus.org

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[CRYOLIST] QRA Annual Discussion Meeting 2018

Dear Cryolisters,

The QRA Annual Discussion Meeting will be held at Plymouth University from 3rd-5th January 2018, and we are now welcoming the submission of abstracts. The overarching theme of the 2018 meeting is data/model inter-comparison, and one of the central scientific themes will be glacial systems and glacial geomorphology. We have five confirmed keynote speakers, including Professor Chris Clark. 

For more information, and to submit an abstract, please visit https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/qra-annual-discussion-meeting-2018, and follow us on Twitter @QRA2018. Registration will also open soon, with early bird rates until the end of October.

If you have enquiries about the conference please contact me directly (caroline.clason@plymouth.ac.uk) or via QRA2018@plymouth.ac.uk

Best wishes,

Caroline

Dr Caroline Clason | Lecturer in Physical Geography | School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK | +447482304784 | caroline.clason@plymouth.ac.uk 

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[CRYOLIST] 2017 AGU Session: Geophysical characterization of coupled cold regions hydrology and permafrost dynamics

We are pleased to announce the following session on geophysics in permafrost at AGU 2017 New Orleans and we hope that you will consider submitting an abstract.

Geophysical characterization of coupled cold regions hydrology and permafrost dynamics [ID#22537]

The cold regions of Earth are changing, with significant impacts on landscape-scale hydrological processes. Surface and airborne geophysical methods are increasingly used to observe these changes because of the contrasts in geophysical properties that exist between frozen and thawed ground, or between solid-ice features and liquid water. In permafrost regions, geophysical methods also offer insight into groundwater flow, surface-water/groundwater exchange dynamics, and post-fire changes to the hydrologic system. This session is open to ground or airborne geophysical studies that focus on scientific objectives such as the detection and delineation of ground ice or permafrost, evaluating sub- and suprapermafrost water flow, thermokarst evolution, and monitoring active layer dynamics. We will consider field-measured or modeled seismic, resistivity, ground-penetrating radar, gravity, magnetics, and other electromagnetic studies at any spatial scale. We also encourage multidisciplinary projects that incorporate geophysics with the impacts of frozen material change on cold-regions ecology and/or biochemistry.

 https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session22537

As a reminder, submissions are due before midnight EDT on August 2nd.

Best, 

Session Conveners
Andy Parsekian, University of Wyoming

Martin A Briggs, USGSBurke Minsley, USGSBaptiste Dafflon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

[CRYOLIST] AGU Fall Meeting Session - C010: Diagnosis of Hydrological Change in Cold Regions

Dear colleagues,

 

We encourage you to submit an abstract to our session, Diagnosis of Hydrological Change in Cold Regions, at the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24000.    

Session Description:

In recent decades warming trends and other changes in climate have driven major and rapid changes in landscapes, ecology, cryosphere, and hydrology, especially in high latitude and mountainous cold regions. Hydrological responses have often been complex and spatially and temporally variable as a result of multiple interacting processes, sometimes compensatory, and there is a need to diagnose and better understand the causes and underlying mechanisms of response to be able to improve model projections of future change. This session invites papers that address the analysis and diagnosis of hydrological change in cold regions using observations and models. Key questions to be addressed include how have hydrological processes and their interactions changed in response to climatic drivers, what are the feedbacks and thresholds leading to system changes, and/or what factors impart hydrological resilience or lack thereof?

Primary Convener:  Howard S. Wheater, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Conveners:  John W Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Chris M DeBeer, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

 

Regards,

Chris

 

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Chris DeBeer, Ph.D.

Science Manager, Global Water Futures Programme

Changing Cold Regions Network Manager

 

Global Institute for Water Security

University of Saskatchewan

 

National Hydrology Research Centre
11 Innovation Boulevard
Saskatoon, SK S7N 3H5 Canada

Tel: (306) 966-6224

Email: chris.debeer@usask.ca

Web: www.globalwaterfutures.ca; www.ccrnetwork.ca

 

 

[CRYOLIST] Arctic paleoclimate session at Fall AGU

Dear colleagues,

 

We cordially invite researchers who are reconstructing or modeling past climate in the Arctic (whether by land or sea) to consider submitting abstracts to a special session at the Fall AGU Meeting:

 

Past Climate Change in the Arctic and Subarctic: Lessons for the Future (PP034).

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23839

 

Session description:  The Arctic’s climate, cryosphere and oceans are changing rapidly and influencing global climate systems. Understanding past warm conditions and past periods of climate change in the Arctic and subarctic will aid in forecasting future high-latitude changes and associated global impacts. We invite submissions of proxy and modeling studies that assess the magnitude, rates, causes and impacts of past climate changes in the Arctic and subarctic. Studies may address timescales from decades to millions of years.  We also welcome submissions that compare recent observations with paleoclimate records or that link past Arctic climate events to global changes.

 

Abstract submission is open until Aug 2.  Hope to see you in New Orleans! http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/

 

Yarrow Axford, Northwestern University

Meredith Kelly, Dartmouth College

Erich Osterberg, Dartmouth College

 

[CRYOLIST] AGU Session C009: Changing Cold Regions Hydrology and Hydrogeology

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to our new session entitled ' Changing Cold Regions Hydrology and Hydrogeology' at AGU December 11-15. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session22455

Session Description:
Frozen ground, which underlies half of the exposed land surface in the Northern Hemisphere, is found extensively at high latitudes and intermittently at high elevations at lower latitudes. In these cold regions, frozen ground exerts a primary control on the timing and distribution of surface and subsurface water flow and storage. As global air temperatures increase, frozen ground is expected to degrade, altering hydrologic conditions through changes in soil moisture, groundwater-surface water interactions, streamflow seasonality, and surface water body connectivity. This session welcomes studies across the disciplines of hydrology, global environmental change, and the cryosphere that explore ongoing changes to the hydrology and hydrogeology of cold regions. These include, but are not limited to, studies that utilize field observations, remote sensing datasets, geophysical techniques, and numerical modeling. We particularly encourage presentations that highlight cold region groundwater-surface water interactions as well as hydrologic and ecologic consequences of frozen ground thaw.

With best regards,

Sarah G. Evans, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Barret Kurylyk, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Michelle A Walvoord, USGS, Lakewood, CO, United States
Elchin E. Jafarov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

[CRYOLIST] Glacial Geomorphology Session - GSA 2017

For all glacial researchers working in western North America, we would like to draw your attention to our session "New Concepts in Glaciation of the Western Cordillera of North America" (T179), at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, October 22-25, 2017.

We welcome any presentations of novel research and fresh insights into ancient and modern glacial processes in the Cordilleran region of western North America. A reminder that the abstract submission deadline is August 1, and the registration deadline in September 18.

We hope to see you there!

With usual apologies for cross posting,
Doug Clark (UWW) and Jonathan Cripps (SFU).
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[CRYOLIST] PROMICE invite: 22 Sep

Hi everyone,

 

On Friday 22 September we celebrate the first 10 years of the Programme for Monitoring the Greenland Ice Sheet (www.PROMICE.dk) at GEUS, Copenhagen. Between 13.30 and 17:00 there will be talks and drinks to entertain a diverse crowd. Please consider joining us, especially if you’re already in town for the 20-22 Sep workshop on “modeling meltwater in snow and firn” organized by Peter Langen (DMI).

 

Please let me know if you plan to stop by.

 

Cheers,

Dirk

 

 

Dirk van As

Senior research scientist, PROMICE manager

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark

Delivery address: Rigensgade 13, 1316 København K, Denmark

 

[CRYOLIST] AGU session on Greenland and Antarctica

Please consider submitting an abstract to our AGU session on reconstructing glacier and ice sheet change over geological to instrumental timescales.

 

Session ID: 22650

Session Title: C017. Ice sheet and glacier change: integrating instrumental, geological and modelling methods to understand ice sheet and glacier evolution.

Section/Focus Group: Cryosphere

Session Viewer Link:  https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session22650

 

Understanding the past evolution of ice sheets and glaciers, and producing predictions of future change requires a longer-term perspective than can be provided by geodetic data alone.  The aim of this session is to improve our understanding of how and why glaciers and ice sheets change.  The session focus is on investigating the multitude ways that glacier and ice sheet histories are reconstructed over a range of timescales from decadal to millennial.

We especially welcome submissions that provide a new perspective by integrating instrumental, geological and modelling techniques to understand past glacier or ice sheet change.  In particular we welcome studies that focus on combining onshore and offshore records, different types of proxy data, a range of geodetic techiques and/or innovative modelling approaches to enhance our understanding of past glacier or ice sheet evolution and help us to better predict future changes.

 

Conveners: Sarah Woodroffe, Durham University, Kristian Kjeldsen, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Laura Levy, Aarhus University and Leanne Wake, Northumbria University

Cross-Listed:

·         G - Geodesy

·         GC - Global Environmental Change

·         PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

 

[CRYOLIST] AGU Fall meeting Session "Coastal Sea-level Rise and Isostatic Adjustment"

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to the following AGU Fall 2017 meeing

Coastal Sea-level Rise and Isostatic Adjustment

Submit an Abstract to this Session

Session ID#: 26355

Session Description:

Low-lying coastal areas such as river deltas and atolls are extremely vulnerable to sea-level rise. Relative sea-level (RSL) change is driven by changes in vertical land motion (e.g. glacial, sedimentary, and hydrologic loading, sediment compaction, fluid extraction) and changes in sea level (e.g. eustasy, steric effects, ocean circulation, glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA)). Understanding the mechanisms behind past and present RSL change on both global and regional scales is critical for predicting and mitigating future hazards. We invite contributions that constrain past and present RSL changes due to GIA and recent ocean-mass and ocean-circulation variations as well as regional hydrologic and sedimentary loading processes in coastal zones. Additionally, we welcome broader contributions that include paleo-RSL reconstructions, ice sheet reconstructions, and analyses of modern geodetic data from GNSS, tide gauges, and altimetry. This session is sponsored by PALSEA2.

Primary Convener:  Elena Steponaitis, Tulane University of Louisiana, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States

Conveners:  Karen Simon, Delft University of Technology, Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft, Netherlands, Volker Klemann, GFZ German Research Centre, Dept. 1 Geodesy, Potsdam, Germany and Erik Roman Ivins, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:

• C - Cryosphere
• GC - Global Environmental Change
• OS - Ocean Sciences
• PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Index Terms:

0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
1223 Ocean/Earth/atmosphere/hydrosphere/cryosphere interactions [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1236 Rheology of the lithosphere and mantle [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Best regards,
Volker

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[CRYOLIST] AGU 2017 - H024: Blue and Green Water in Cold Mountains...

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the session below at the AGU Fall Meeting (Dec 11-15, 2017) in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Session ID#: 

29418

Session Title:

H024. Blue and Green Water in Cold Mountains: Changes in Climate, Hydrologic Regimes, Extreme Events, and Ecological Responses

Session Description:

In cold mountainous watersheds, winter precipitation stored as snow and ice is released during the growing season as meltwater runoff. Snowpack and glacial reservoirs thus modulate the amount and timing of water availability for natural and human systems, impacting evapotranspiration, streamflow regime and extremes, growing season length, crop production, and aquatic habitat. Warmer winters may shift precipitation phase and snowmelt energy, affecting hydrologic extremes, meltwater hydrographs, and soil recharge dynamics, with consequences for water management, rain-on-snow flood risk, ecosystem services, and food-energy-water systems. This session examines how mountain ecohydrology evolves with environmental change, with specific interest in (1) key interactions between biota, climate, snow/ice, and water, (2) the frequency and severity of hydrologic extremes, and (3) precipitation phase shifts. We invite contributions addressing linkages between environmental change and cryospheric, hydrologic, and ecologic processes in mountain systems.

Conveners:

--Mark S Raleigh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States

--Yonas B Dibike, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology, Victoria, BC, Canada

--Mohammad Sohrabi, Center for Ecohydraulics Research, Boise, ID, United States

--Rajesh Shrestha, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology, Victoria, BC, Canada

Co-Organized with:

Hydrology, Cryosphere, and Global Environmental Change

Cross-Listed:

C - Cryosphere

GC - Global Environmental Change

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:

C - Cryosphere

GC - Global Environmental Change

Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE] 

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE] 

1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE] 

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE] 

1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]

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Mark S. Raleigh, PhD

[CRYOLIST] MEaSUREs Greenland Image Mosaics from Sentinel-1A and 1B Data Set is Now Available

The MEaSUREs Greenland Image Mosaics from Sentinel-1A and 1B, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set, part of the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program, provides 6 and 12-day 50 m resolution image mosaics of the Greenland coastline and ice sheet periphery. The mosaics are derived from C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (C-SAR) acquired by the Sentinel-1A and 1B imaging satellites, between January 2015 and April 2017. Sample visualizations of the data are available as animations compiling the mosaic tiles and a timeseries of Upernavik Glacier.

Access to the data and documentation is provided on the data set Web page at the NSIDC DAAC: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0723

Data Acknowledgements
Data authors: Ian Joughin
Data set DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/8LCCSFWL7L28
Data center: NSIDC DAAC (http://nsidc.org/daac)

If you have questions, please contact the User Services Office at nsidc@nsidc.org

[CRYOLIST] PhD Studentship Opportunity - Microwave Remote Sensing of Arctic sea ice

Dear Cryolist Members

Please find below (and attached) details about a PhD Studentship in Microwave Remote Sensing of snow covered Arctic first-year sea ice at the Cryosphere Climate Research Group, Dept of Geography, University of Calgary. 

Please circulate and forward this mail to any potential interested students, thank you very much in advance!

PhD Studentship Opportunity (Beginning Sept. 2018)

Multi-frequency Polarimetric Microwave Scatterometry of Snow Covered Arctic First-Year Sea Ice

Position Description:

The focus of the research to be undertaken will be the development and application of space-borne and/or surface-based multi-frequency, multi-resolution microwave (SAR and scatterometer) remote sensing datasets for improved characterization of Arctic snow covered first-year sea ice thermophysical processes over the annual cycle. Emphasis is placed on enhancing the existing capacity of space-borne multi-frequency, multi-resolution polarimetric microwave scatterometry for determining critical timings associated with the thermodynamic evolution of sea ice during the spring-summer seasonal cycle and determining regional scale variations of the thermodynamic and geophysical processes operating at the air-ocean interface. Special emphasis on determining/validating the snow water equivalent (SWE) on first-year sea ice will be of particular importance. The objectives for this Ph.D. studentship will be focused around (1) development of a robust methodology for estimating snow thickness distributions on first-year sea ice (FYI) from time series surface-based polarimetric scatterometer data and provide 'up- scaled' estimates using polarimetric space-borne SAR data (ie. RADARSAT-2, Sentinel-1A, Cosmo SkyMed, ALOS PALSAR) and (2) developing a set of methodologies to infer the surface optical/radiative (albedo) properties of sea ice throughout the spring melt season from time series polarimetric microwave scattering. Opportunities for field work in the Canadian Arctic or Sub-arctic Sea ice are likely in 2019 and/or 2020.

Award Details:

• Funding will be comprised of a combination of Department teaching Assistantships and supervisor supplemented top-ups, overall valued at $30,000 (CAD) for 4 years.
  
• You will join our dynamic Cryosphere Climate Research Group (CCRG) that involves Arctic researchers and a large, collaborative team of Arctic sea ice scientists specializing in microwave remote sensing of snow covered Arctic sea ice.
  
• Current Master's students nearing completion of their degree and entering a PhD program as a new student are eligible.
  

Requirements:

• You hold a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Geography, Geomatics Engineering, Earth or Environmental Science, Geophysics or related discipline.
  
  
• Demonstrable experience in working with handling space-borne optical/SAR satellite datasets with specialization in Polarimetric SAR being a distinct advantage.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience in producing peer-reviewed publications is an asset.
  
  
• Programming experience in either R, Python, IDL or MATLAB is desirable.
  
  
• Previous knowledge in using SAR datasets for sea ice applications is an advantage.
  
  
• You have an entering GPA of at least 3.5 on the 4 point scale (or equivalent) in your last two years of study
  
  
• You are intellectually curious, driven, have technical aptitude
  
  
• You have experience in undertaking field research and are interested in working in the Arctic
  
  

Application Process:

Please submit your letter of interest, CV, transcripts and contact information of three referees to:

Prof. John Yackel

Cryosphere Climate Research Group

Department of Geography

University of Calgary

yackel@ucalgary.ca

Application Deadline: October 31, 2017

For additional information about the University of Calgary see: http://www.ucalgary.ca/ , the Department of Geography see: http://geog.ucalgary.ca/

The University of Calgary has a clear strategic direction to become one of Canada's top five research universities by 2022, where innovative teaching and groundbreaking research go hand in hand, and where we fully engage the communities we both serve and lead. The strategy is called Energizing Eyes High, inspired by our Gaelic motto, which translates to 'I will lift up my eyes'. We are increasing our scholarly capacity by investing in people who want to change the world, bringing the best and brightest to Calgary to form a global intellectual hub and achieve advances that matter to everyone.

On behalf of Prof. John Yackel

Thanks

Vishnu Nandan

Cryosphere Climate Research Group

Dept of Geography

University of Calgary

[CRYOLIST] AGU Session on "Machine Learning Applications in Earth Science and Remote Sensing"

Dear Colleagues,

 

We cordially invite you to submit an abstract to the session on "Machine Learning Applications in Earth Science and Remote Sensing" at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting.

 

Please find details of the session in the following.

We appreciate if you can forward it to other interested colleagues as well.

 

 

Regards,

Joel, on behalf of the conveners

 

 

Session ID: 22660 

Session Title: Machine Learning Applications in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Section/Focus Group: Hydrology, Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences, Cryosphere, and Global Environmental Change

 

Submit an Abstract to this Session

 

Session Description:

Remote sensing technology has facilitated data acquisition over large and small spatio-temporal scales resulting in valuable large datasets. Present advances in technology with availability of large computing and scalable storage allow us to explore these datasets in a unique way to use data-driven techniques to learn patterns, understand physical processes, and characterize feedbacks in the Earth system. Among the many fields within data exploration, Machine Learning (ML) has had a major impact on not only scientific thinking but also in commercial applications. ML's advantages include, application flexibility and scaling, fast running time, and ability to represent complex relationships from historical data in conjunction with physics-guided processes. This session is a platform to discuss advancements in the applications of ML in Earth science and remote sensing as well as challenges and future opportunities for ML applications. Presentations will address the merger of discrete mathematics, statistics, physics, and non-linear optimization techniques. 

 

Conveners: Hamed Alemohammad, Pierre Gentine, Joel Gongora, and Sangram Ganguly

[CRYOLIST] Theia releases first batch of snow products made with Sentinel-2

We are pleased to announce that Theia (https://theia.cnes.fr) has put online 92 Sentinel-2 snow products, corresponding to 6 tiles in the Alps, Pyrenees, and Atlas mountains between July 2016 to November 2016. The operational production should start in autumn 2017, and will cover more tiles.

More information: http://www.cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/multitemp/?p=10800

User feedbacks are welcome!

Simon

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Simon Gascoin
Chargé de recherche CNRS
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO) - Toulouse
Tel. +33 5 61 55 86 68

[CRYOLIST] IGS British Branch 2017: deadline for registration and abstract submission is this Friday, 30th June.

Dear all,

Please be advised that the deadline for registration and abstract submission for this year's British Branch meeting is THIS FRIDAY 30th JUNE. Registration and abstract submission is invited through the local website: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/igs-bb/registration/

The meeting will be held on Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th September 2017 at Lancaster University. An ice-breaker BBQ will be held on the evening of the 5th for delegates arriving the night before the meeting and the conference dinner will take place at Lancaster Brewery on the evening of the 6th.

The conference will include oral and poster presentations, spread over two days, and abstracts are invited on any aspect of snow and ice research. Keynote talks will be given by Dr Robert Mulvaney, British Antarctic Survey, Prof John Smellie, University of Leicester and Prof Jemma Wadham, University of Bristol.

Lancaster is a historic city located in a beautiful part of the country and is famous for its history, thriving arts scene and excellent pubs. The 12th century Lancaster castle, for example, showcases 1,000 years of heritage and justice in the city and was the venue for the famous Pendle Witch trials in the 1600s. For those interested in outdoor pursuits then the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District are right on our doorstep and are well served by both road and rail links from the city.

See you all in Lancaster!

Amber Leeson, Jennie Gilbert, Peter Wynn, Crispin Halsall, Hugh Tuffen, Jacqui Owen, Mounir Takriti
Local organising committee

[CRYOLIST] AGU session: Integrating Observations and Models to Better Understand a Changing Arctic Sea Ice Cover

Please consider submitting an abstract to the following fall AGU session -

C019: Integrating Observations and Models to Better Understand a Changing Arctic Sea Ice Cover

Session ID#: 24294

Session Description:

The Arctic sea ice cover is in decline, with a reduction in summer ice extent and a transformation from primarily perennial ice to seasonal ice. There is a significant need to understand the ongoing changes in the Arctic sea ice cover and to predict future changes. Models play a fundamental role in these tasks by synthesizing the elements of the Arctic sea ice system. However, progress in model development suffers from a disconnect with the discoveries being made within the observational community. Observational activities could make better use of model guidance regarding the relative importance of various processes, and spatial and temporal sampling strategies. This session welcomes presentations that integrate in situ observations and remote sensing data with sea ice modeling studies. Examples of this integration range from improving the treatment of individual processes to advances in coupled earth system models to using models to inform observational network design.

Conveners: Don Perovich and Marika Holland

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Marika Holland

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder CO

USA

[CRYOLIST] post-doc position IMAU, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Mean and Extreme Sea Level Projections in Climate Services for Coastal Adaptation (1,0 FTE)

The main task is to generate sea level projections with emphasis on the Maldives and French Polynesia. Projections will be performed with a stochastical tool, SEAWISE developed at IMAU and improved during this project. It combines the various components, which are based on climate output data. The project is carried out within a European consortium aiming to develop climate services for coastal adaptation. Read more.

[CRYOLIST] ALL 2017 AGU Cryosphere Sessions

It's once again "AGU session advertising" season, I figured I'd post a comprehensive list of ALL this year's AGU Cryosphere Sesssions. It's my hope to occasionally stem the tide. I do what I can.

Convener lists & abstracts: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Program1449

42 Cryosphere sessions and thirteen cross-listed sessions, in numerical order:

C001. A Decade of Structure from Motion: Shaping Advances in Surface Process Understanding

C002. Advances in land ice-ocean interactions: Mechanisms, Impacts, & Synthesis

C003. Advances in Understanding Processes at the Beds of Glaciers and Ice Sheets

C004. Altimetry of the polar regions

C005. Antarctic Ice Shelves: surface and basal processes, instability and breakup

C006. Applications of Newly Available Enhanced Resolution Satellite Passive Microwave Data

C007. Arctic Science: Beyond Silos to Synthesis and Systems

C008. Birth, Life, and Death of Icebergs

C009. Changing Cold Regions Hydrology and Hydrogeology

C010. Diagnosis of Hydrological Change in Cold Regions

C011. Dust, Black Carbon, and other Aerosols in the Cryosphere

C012. Foundations for Sustained Arctic Observing: Connecting Observational Networks to Societal Benefit

C013. Glacier mass balance: integrated observations and models, and downstream impacts

C014. Glacier Monitoring From In-Situ and Remotely Sensed Observations

C015. Hydrology of Mountain Glaciers and Ice Sheets

C016. Arctic Coastal Dynamics: processes, rates, and spatial variability

C017. Ice sheet and glacier change: integrating instrumental, geological and modelling methods to understand ice sheet and glacier evolution

C018. Indicators of Arctic Climate Variability and Change

C019. Integrating Observations and Models to Better Understand a Changing Arctic Sea Ice Cover

C020. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Conceptualizing Nonlinear Changes in Permafrost Landscapes

C021. Modeling of the Cryosphere: Glaciers and Ice Sheets

C022. Modeling of the Cryosphere: Seasonal Snow

C023. Monitoring and Modeling Snow on Sea Ice – From Grain Size to Global Climate Models

C024. Phase Dependent: Water, Ice and Vapor in Cryospheric Deserts

C025. Polar Climate: Processes & Predictability

C026. Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variability of Snow and Snow Processes

C027. Recent Advances in Monitoring, Measuring, and Modeling Snow Processes

C028. Recent advances in understanding the high-mountain water cycle

C029. Recent Developments in Cryoseismology

C030. Records of Post-LGM Antarctic Ice Sheet Contraction

C031. Remote Sensing of Sea Ice

C032. Remote sensing of polar permafrost

C033. Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: ASO, Water Cycle Science, and High Resolution Retrievals

C034. Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: NASA SnowEx and Multisensor Approaches to Measure Snow Water Equivalent

C035. Sea ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions in the "New" Arctic and Southern Oceans

C036. Seasonal Sea Ice: Processes, properties, and sensitivity to atmospheric and oceanic conditions

C037. Societal Impacts of Global Cryosphere Change and Associated Mitigation and Adaptation Policies

C038. Studying the mountain cryosphere in the Anthropocene: challenges for innovation

C039. The Looming Gap in Microwave Radiometer Coverage and its Potential Impact on Climate Records

C040. The Nye Lecture and Honored Member Presentations

C041. Understanding Ice Sheet Surface Melt

C042. Visualizing the Dynamic Cryosphere (eLightning)

A031. Coupled processes of environmental prediction models

A042. Extratropical and High-latitude Storms, Teleconnections, Extreme Weather, and the Changing Polar Climate

A060. Links between Arctic Cloud Processes and their Environment

A106. Tropospheric Composition in Cold Environments: Sources, Processes, and Impacts

GC054. Observation and Modeling of Processes and Feedbacks Contributing to Arctic Amplification and Its Global Linkages

H024. Blue and Green Water in Cold Mountains: Changes in Climate, Hydrologic Regimes, Extreme Events, and Ecological Responses

H082. Machine Learning Applications in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

H108. Runoff Generation in Snow Dominated Regions: Connecting Seasonal Snowpacks and Streamflow Response

H121. The MacGyver Session. The Place for Novel, Exciting, Self Made, Hacked or Improved Sensors, Data Acquisition and Data Transmission Solutions to Understand The Geosphere.

P008. Connecting Cryospheres on Earth and Beyond: Geological & Chemical Processes on Icy Surfaces

P009. Cryospheres of Terrestrial Planets

P014. From the Earth to the Moons: Ice-ocean systems on Earth and Ocean Worlds

T035. Structure, evolution and influence of the Antarctic and Arctic lithosphere