Tuesday, June 30, 2020

[CRYOLIST] Upcoming ACCAP July Webinars - July 7, 15, 17, 23, & 24

Oh Boy do we have a slug of webinars coming your way.  
ACCAP has five upcoming webinars in July.  Please share as you see fit.  
They will all be recorded and available at the links below.
Tina
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Tuesday July 7 @10am
Wednesday, July 15 @ 11am
Friday, July 17 @ 12pm
Thursday July 23 @ 10am
Friday July 24 @ 10am
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Tuesday, July 7 (10am ADT)
Alaska's berries and their changing seasons
Dr. Katie V. Spellman & Dr. Christa P.H. Mulder, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Changes in the timing of the seasons in Alaska influences our wild berry flowering, pollination, ripening and fruit dispersal (including by us berry pickers). Dr. Katie Spellman and Dr. Christa Mulder will discuss the ongoing research by the UAF International Arctic Research Center and Institute of Arctic Biology that explores how earlier springs, warmer summers and wetter falls influence our amazing Alaska berries throughout their life cycles. Learn how public participation in this scientific research is helping improve our knowledge of ways berries are changing across our state.

More information and registration below

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Wednesday, July 15 (11am ADT)
VAWS: Recent Advances in Water Vapor Products from Satellites for Forecasters
John Forsythe
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
Colorado State University
Forecasters routinely monitor total precipitable water (TPW) in the atmosphere via the NOAA operational blended TPW product. A new Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) product provides a vertical dimension and depicts long-fetch flows of moisture which enhance flood events. How these products are generated will be explained, and typical forecast uses including in the Alaska region will be presented. Upcoming improvements to these products will be discussed.
 
More information and registration below

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Friday, July 17 (12pm ADT)
June 2020 National Weather Service Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing
Rick Thoman, ACCAP
The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center's forecast for the coming months.

More information and registration below (https://uaf-accap.org/event/july-2020-nws-briefing/)
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Thursday, July 23 (10am ADT)
Bering Science: Spring 2020 Bering Region Ocean Update
Molly McCammon (AOOS) & Rick Thoman (ACCAP)
The Bering Sea is undergoing rapid unprecedented change. Using funds from a national Ocean Data Sharing Initiative, the Alaska Ocean Observing System is working with federal and academic partners and Bering region communities to foster greater sharing of Indigehttps://uaf-accap.org/event/bering-science-spring-2020-bering-region-ocean-update/nous ocean-related observations and scientific information. We will be presenting some new data and information products, based on the needs of federal and state agency managers, coastal communities, tribes, and private industry, and invite webinar participants and other residents of western Alaska to join our conversation about their observations and their needs.

Here is the Bering Science: Spring 2020 report which was written for a general audience and is intended to be the first of several reports published annually. Funding for this publication was provided to AOOS from a national initiative to increase sharing of ocean and coastal data. AOOS is focusing on the Bering Sea region for the initial phase of this project. More information can be found at www.beringregionoceandata.org.
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Friday, July 24 (10am ADT)
Hollings Scholar Presentations: Exploration of the Hot Dry Windy Index and wildfire; Climate Change and overnight fire growth
Clairisse Reiher & Emily McCutchan, 2020 Hollings Scholars
During the summer of 2020 ACCAP and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium hosted two Ernest F. Hollings scholars for the summer internships. Because of COVID-19 their internships were remote. During this webinar the scholars will present their summer's work.
1. An exploration of the Hot Dry Windy Index & its applicability to the Alaska wildfire environment (Emily)
2. Changing Summer Nighttime Climate and its Impact on Alaska Fire Growth (Clairisse)
More information and registration below
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All webinars available online.

General Webinar Information Here (https://uaf-accap.org/events/about-accap-webinars/)

For questions contact Tina Buxbaum (tmbuxbaum@alaska.edu, 907-474-7812)


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Program Manager
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)
International Arctic Research Center (IARC)
University of Alaska Fairbanks
2160 Koyukuk Drive * P.O. Box 757245 * Fairbanks, AK 99775
Phone: 907-474-7812 * Fax: 907-474-5662
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[CRYOLIST] The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) June Members Report is Now Available

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) June members report is now available online at: 

https://www.arcus.org/civicrm/mailing/view?id=2816

The ARCUS monthly members report includes news from ARCUS members, ARCUS activity updates, calls for Arctic research community input, and links to current jobs, funding, and professional development opportunities that might be of interest to the Arctic research community. 

If you have information, news, or opportunities that you would like to see featured in future ARCUS monthly reports, please contact Brit Myers (brit@arcus.org) &/or to submit your announcements directly to the Arctic Info listserv (https://www.arcus.org/arctic-info). 

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Brit Myers
Project Manager
Arctic Research Consortium of the U. S. (ARCUS)
Office: (907) 450-1622
Cell: (206) 697-2822
http://www.arcus.org
Follow ARCUS on Twitter: @ArcticResearch

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[CRYOLIST] Final submitted Landsat 10 document

Dear GLIMS Listers and Crylistees:
Again, sorry for cross posting. Bruce Raup uploaded our final recommendations (final for this round) to the team who is designing the Landsat Next (Landsat 10) sensor specifications. Most likely, only "GLIMS1" and "GLIMS2" bands may be considered, but we were not shy about proposing very substantial other increased capabilities. "You won't get what you don't ask for." Several of you provided extremely helpful input which now manifests in a much improved document. We should soon see the full magnitude of how unrealistic we are!
The document, along with a few other items such as key referenced papers, is available here: https://spot.colorado.edu/~braup/glims/
Sincerely,
Jeff Kargel 
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[CRYOLIST] PhD positions in the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Hamburg - Germany

The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), located in Hamburg, Germany, offers fellowships to outstanding students interested in interdisciplinary climate research.

Our doctoral candidates contribute to the understanding of the Earth system through the application, evaluation and development of a spectrum of Earth system models at different levels of complexity and at various spatial and temporal scales. Emphasizing the physical system, the School encompasses the broader field of Earth sciences, including economics and social sciences. The IMPRS-ESM strives to attract a diversity of talented women and men from all nationalities to research in the Earth system sciences.

 

The PhD program is open to applicants holding a Master’s degree (with written thesis) in physics, geophysical sciences (incl. meteorology and oceanography), ecology, mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, or political science. Also students currently still working on their MSc thesis are encouraged to apply.

 

Please apply online through our website until 15 September 2020. The selection procedure includes an interview (probably end of November 2020).

Doctoral candidates receive financial support of about 1,775 Euros/month for a period of three years. There are no tuition fees but a semester fee is charged by the university. Funding will be available starting March 2021.

 

For questions, please contact: office.imprs@mpimet.mpg.de

Internet: imprs-esm.mpimet.mpg.de

 

 

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IMPRS-ESM

Bundesstrasse 53 | room 202

D-20146 Hamburg


phone:  +49 (0) 40 41173 - 467
www.imprs-esm.mpimet.mpg.de

 

 

 

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[CRYOLIST] AGU Fall Meeting 2020 - Session on Molecular Biomarkers in Polar Regions and the Cryosphere

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to submit an abstract to our session "Molecular Biomarkers in Polar Regions and the Cryosphere" (ID: 103071) for the AGU Fall Meeting 2020. This session highlights organic biomarker research contributing to a growing understanding of the vulnerable and rapidly changing polar regions and cryosphere. We encourage contributions from research on terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems in Arctic, Antarctic and alpine regions. For the full description, see below.

The deadline for abstract submission is the 29th of July 2020. Here you find the link to the session: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/gateway.cgi/Session/103071

Please contact us if you have any questions (loeka.jongejans@awi.de)

Best regards,

Joanne Heslop, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Lisa Bröder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Xiaojuan Feng, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Loeka Jongejans, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany


Session description: Polar regions are changing rapidly. As a result, increased fluxes of sediments, carbon and nutrients from terrestrial to marine and freshwater environments will impact geochemical, microbial and ecological processes. The magnitude and duration of these impacts are still poorly understood. Concurrently, the permafrost carbon store is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of ongoing permafrost thaw. When permafrost thaws, organic matter (OM) stored for geological time scales in the frozen underground can become bioavailable. Its biodegradability and contribution to the permafrost carbon climate feedback cycle is of utmost interest. The analysis of biomarkers is crucial in the characterization of living and fossil microbial communities and of OM degradation and greenhouse gas production. This session highlights organic biomarker research contributing to a growing understanding of the vulnerable and rapidly changing polar regions and cryosphere. We encourage contributions from research on terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems in Arctic, Antarctic and alpine regions.


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Loeka L. Jongejans, PhD Student
Permafrost Research

Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Telegrafenberg A45
14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49(331)288-2126
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Monday, June 29, 2020

[CRYOLIST] PhD scholarship in downscaling of Antarctic sea ice, Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand

As part of the Antarctic Science Platform funded through AntarcticaNZ (https://www.antarcticscienceplatform.org.nz/) there is support for a three-year PhD position studying sea ice over the Ross Sea region, focusing on the area around the Ross Sea polynya. The Platform has a focus on the Ross Sea and sea ice variability is central to many components of the research.

 

The work under the scholarship aims to work across spatial scales from the hemispheric to the local, to interpret changes in sea ice characteristics at the 1km scale in terms of changes in atmospheric circulation and the wider sea ice field on scales of tens of kilometres and larger. Questions we wish to address include: What is the highest spatial scale of sea ice characteristics that can be accurately derived using downscaling? Are there wind speed thresholds associated with the presence or absence of sea ice in the polynya region or in the marginal ice zone?

 

The work will involve statistical analysis of data from a range of sources, including atmospheric reanalyses (primarily ERA5), large-scale sea ice concentration and motion data (~25km scale), and high-resolution (~1km scale) sea ice characteristics, from a range of satellite platforms. The approaches to be used will include techniques such as Cluster Analysis, Self-Organising Maps, Empirical Orthogonal Functions, and also data-driven machine-learning techniques.

 

The results of the research will provide insights into the morphology of sea ice in the present-day climate and will lead to estimates of the future of sea ice in the Ross Sea region through application to climate model output. The work will be supervised by Prof James Renwick at Victoria University of Wellington and Prof Adrian McDonald at Canterbury University. The successful applicant will also be expected to interact with researchers at Otago University and at NIWA and GNS. As part of the wider Antarctic Science Platform team, the successful applicant may have the opportunity to travel to Antarctica for field work.

 

Applications close 31 August 2020.

 

For more information, and to apply, see

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships/current/antarctic-science-platform-sea-ice-research-scholarship

 

 

 

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Dr James Renwick

Professor and Head of School

School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences/ Te Kura Tātai Aro Whenua

Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka

P: +64-4-463-4719  M: +64-21-178-5550  Skype: jarenwick

ORCID: 0000-0002-9141-2486  Twitter: @CubaRaglanGuy

www.victoria.ac.nz/sgees/about/staff/james-renwick

 

 

 

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[CRYOLIST] Join the SOOS Regional Working Group Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land Leadership

Two member positions are opening in the leadership group of the SOOS regional Working Group Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land (WS-DML).

http://soos.aq/

http://soos.aq/activities/rwg/wsdml

 

The objective of our regional working group is to facilitate coordinated and standardized observational studies of major physical, chemical and biological variables including their drivers and interactions. The working group strives to increase the quality of the science output, and strengthen the awareness of the relevance of research in the WS-DML sector of the Southern Ocean through international projects contributing to SOOS.

Our leadership group is composed of: 

Co-chairs: Laura de Steur (Norway), Sebastien Moreau (Norway), Markus Janout (Germany)

 

Leadership Group (LG) members: Mia Wege (South Africa), Andrew Meijers (United Kingdom), Jean-Baptiste Sallee (France), Sarah Fawcett (South Africa), Louise Biddle (Sweden), Uwe Nixdorf (COMNAP, Germany)

 

We are looking for 2 researchers with interests in the Weddell Sea and Dronning Maud Land, particularly in the research fields of biology, biogeochemistry and sea ice to complement the current LG and join actively in strategic leadership, planning activities, carry out communication and reporting, and driving the Working Group forward in accordance with the objectives of the SOOS 5-year implementation plan. 

 

The appointment is initially for 3 years, with the possibly of a 2nd term or becoming one of the group's co-chair after the initial term.

 

We strive to keep our gender balance and career-stage representation: we encourage female and male as well as early career and senior applications. We encourage applications from countries that are not presently represented in the leadership group (e.g., Brazil, Argentina, India).

 

The application deadline is September 15, 2020. Appointment shall start in fall 2020, at or shortly after our planned online workshop (20-23 October 2020).

 

To apply please send a 1 page document motivating your interest and a short CV (max 3 pages) to sebastien.moreau@npolar.no

 



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[CRYOLIST] AGU 2020 session on "Mechanisms Driving Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt"

Hi Cryosphere Scientists,

Please consider submitting to our session on "Mechanisms Driving Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt" at AGU 2020.
We'd like to bring together scientists working on this complex topic from different perspectives.
The submission deadline is July 29th, 2020.

Session Description:
The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) has been losing mass rapidly since the 1990s and is leading cryospheric contribution to global sea-level rise. Over half of the mass loss can be attributed to surface melt and runoff. The mechanisms causing the GIS surface to melt vary in spatio-temporal scales and locations, ranging from large-scale atmospheric circulation to regional-scale meteorology and from extrapolar forcings to local sea-ice impacts. Evaluating and integrating these mechanisms is crucial to better understand, attribute, and predict surface mass loss. This session aims to bring together studies on mechanisms of GIS surface melt using multiple approaches and on varying spatio-temporal scales. We welcome submissions across disciplines to investigate the GIS surface energy budget and surface mass loss including, but not limited to, recent major melt events and long-term melt trends using approaches such as in-situ observations, satellite measurements, model simulations, and paleoclimate analyses.

Thank you!

Best,
Wenshan Wang, Kyle Mattingly, and Marco Tedesco

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[CRYOLIST] 3-year postdoc at LOPS (Brest) in physical oceanography

Dear all,

A 3-year post-doctoral position is open at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Ifremer (Brest, France). The goal of the project is to investigate the interplay between mesoscale dynamics and sea ice in the Arctic. More details can be found in the attached document or here.

Deadline for application is August 31st

Thanks, and all the best 
Camille

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[CRYOLIST] AGU Fall Meeting - Remote Sensing of Rivers, Lakes, Reservoirs and Wetlands Session - Abstracts Submission Deadline July 29th

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit abstracts to the session:

Remote Sensing of Rivers, Lakes, Reservoirs and Wetlands

Session Description: Surface water processes play an essential role in Earth systems. However, these processes are not fully understood at regional to global scales. Passive and active remote sensing offer the potential to address knowledge gaps in surface water entities, including rivers, lakes, reservoirs and wetlands. Multi-satellite remote sensing data can not only facilitate an improved understanding of the long term variability and trends of surface water processes, but can also provide observations on a near real-time basis for monitoring and prediction, particularly in data-sparse regions.

We are soliciting abstracts that employ remote sensing data and approaches to study surface water processes (e.g., river discharge, lake volume variation, wetland inundation, floods), and support the development of novel applications (e.g., new algorithms/datasets, integration with models). The session focuses on, but is not limited to, exploring the roles of surface water bodies and wetlands in water management, hydrological cycles, ecosystem services, and land-atmosphere interactions.


Link to session: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/101887
Click on

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/h/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=101887

The deadline for abstract submissions is Wednesday, 29 July at 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).


We look forward to receive your abstracts!

Best regards

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[CRYOLIST] AGU Fall Meeting - Arctic Coastal Dynamics Session - Submission Deadline July 29th

Dear Arctic Coastal Researchers, 

we are excited to announce a session on Arctic coastal dynamics at the virtual AGU Annual Fall Meeting (7-11 Dec 2020). We are inviting presenters to report on processes, rates, drivers and mechanisms underpinning Arctic coastal dynamics as well as reports on impacts of coastal changes on the natural and social environment.  

Session Title: Arctic Coastal Dynamics: Rates, Impacts, Hazards and Implications for the Future

Session ID: 105213

Link to session: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/105213

Session Description: Arctic coastlines are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic and climate-driven changes. Coastal hazards like erosion and flooding are intensifying and creating risks for coastal communities. The goal of this session is to create a platform for discussing recent research on the changes in Arctic coastal dynamics, resulting hazards and risks, and advances in modelling. We invite studies that cover topics related to Arctic coastal changes, the driving forces, geomorphological processes, modelling approaches and impacts on ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, infrastructure, and social systems. Further, we discuss the co-production of knowledge and tools for forecasting coastal hazards and risks to quantify their social and economic impacts. We welcome abstracts on cross-disciplinary studies at the nexus of 1) environmental variables that influence nearshore hydrological, geomorphological, ecological, and biogeochemical processes; 2) variability in coastal change and key driving forces; 3) collaborative approaches from communities, researchers and agencies to develop monitoring programs to support hazard forecasting.


The deadline for abstract submissions is Wednesday, 29 July at 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Please note that since AGU will be mostly virtual this year  the registration fee will be about 50% less than the in-person rate.


We look forward to receive your abstract!

Best regards

Anna M. Irrgang, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

Louise M. Farquharson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

Rebecca Rolph, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

Thomas Ravens, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA

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[CRYOLIST] AGU 2020 session MOSAiC and more

Dear Cryolist,

Several organizers within MOSAiC invite abstract submissions to a session at the AGU
Fall Meeting this year:

Coupled-system Processes of the Central Arctic Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Ocean System: Harnessing Field Observations and Advancing Models

Abstract submission is now open until 29 July:
https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/2020/Present/Abstracts 

Session ID#: 103136
Session Description:
The central Arctic coupled environmental system is changing rapidly, with dramatic potential impacts on climate, weather, and society. Thinner and less extensive sea ice can impact the flow of heat, the exchange of gases, seasonal melt and freeze of ice, ice dynamics, and many other related physical and biogeochemical processes. Importantly, many of these changes and processes are interdependent. In this session we welcome field, remote sensing, and modeling studies that examine all aspects of the changing central Arctic coupled system, especially including processes that cut across the atmosphere, sea ice, and ocean. Submissions are encouraged that incorporate cross-disciplinary research topics, interseasonal linkages, and/or combined observing-modeling syntheses. Contributions from recent central Arctic field campaigns like MOSAiC are particularly relevant.

Best,
Matthew Shupe, Annette Rinke, Benjamin Rabe, and Gunnar Spreen

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Gunnar Spreen, Ph.D.
University of Bremen - Institute of Environmental Physics
Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
phone: +49-421-218-62158
office: NW1 N3330
email: gunnar.spreen@uni-bremen.de
www.seaice.uni-bremen.de

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[CRYOLIST] IGS Global Seminar Wednesday July 1st, Hester Jiskoot, IGS Chief Editor

Dear all

 

This week is the 11th in the IGS online seminar series and the one we are all waiting for…

 

IGS Global Seminar Series:

Wednesday July 1st Hester Jiskoot

Chief Editor of Journal of Glaciology and Annals of Glaciology, University of Lethbridge Canada

 

"The Journal, the Annals, the glaciologist and the editorial process"

 

And please feel free to volunteer to give a future seminar – just drop me an email: don't be shy – both full length and shorter slots are available late September and beyond…! 😊

 

Please register in advance for the seminars - if you have already registered you should be able to use the same link as last week (check and if it doesn't work, just re-register). Once you have registered please check the link (you should see the waiting room I think). Any issues drop me an email and I'll try and help. There's a short question to answer - please tell me enough to accept you! I'll be doing that manually, so just be kind and make it obvious... (I'm a PhD student with X... or whatever). Using your work email would make my life really easy.

 

https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqfuirrzouG9C5Dj7FfLjpsy3cINaVRWK6

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the seminar.

 

Seminar times:

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London - 9pm

Europe - 10pm

East Coast US - 4pm

West Coast US - 1pm

Delhi (+1) - 1.30am (sorry!)

Tokyo (+1) - 5am

Australia (+1) - 6am

New Zealand (+1) - 8am

 

The seminar will also be available afterwards on the Friends of the International Glaciological Society Facebook page so that you can watch it there if technology fails or you can't make it! We are investigating other platforms for those in countries where Facebook can't be used.

 

Hope to see you on Wednesday!

 

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Next week: July 8th Doug Macayeal, University of Chicago US, "Backyard glaciological phenomena: investigation of snow rollers during a Chicago quarantine"

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Sunday, June 28, 2020

[CRYOLIST] Landsat Next (Landsat 10) sensor specs

Dear GLIMS colleagues and Cryosphere community,
We have a revised draft-- still incomplete-- of a Landsat 10 sensor specifications guidance document. The idea is to improve the cryosphere mapping capabilities. Bruce Raup uploaded it here: 

And see the Landsat NEXT team's planning document: 2019-05-07_Draft_SLI_Requirements-Landsat_10.pdf

The draft, though incomplete, is made available because of a short timeline before the Landsat team needs our guidance. My goal is to deliver a finished document by Tuesday morning Arizona time, 36 hours from now. Bruce, Frank Paul, and I had a productive discussion which resulted in major improvements to this updated draft. No doubt more can be improved, and some of you may help. I will add Table 2. 
My wild guess is that we will get only one added band (termed here "GLIMS 1"), but even that would improve the utility of Landsat 10 data for cryosphere studies.  Frank Paul will be added as an author based on his major, helpful suggestions, but this draft does not yet show that. If you have feedback, try to get it to me within 24-36 hours.

Sincerely,
Jeff Kargel


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Saturday, June 27, 2020

[CRYOLIST] Subglacial exposure dating postdoc as part of International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration

Hello All

I am happy to announce that the Tulane Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher. I am seeking an individual with an interest in applying measurements of cosmogenic in situ carbon-14 to subglacial bedrock cores collected from Mt Murphy, Antarctica to detect recent changes in the thickness of Thwaites Glacier. The in situ carbon-14 measurements will complement measurements of longer-lived cosmogenic nuclides and luminescence dating of the core tops. Additionally, the incumbent postdoctoral researcher will also work on to-be-collected cores from the Hudson Mtns with the possibility for fieldwork. Backgrounds in cosmogenic nuclide analyses and applications and/or glacial geology and glaciology is preferred but not required. This is part of the interdisciplinary International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration and the overall aim is to answer "How Much, How Fast" can the Thwaites system contribute to sea level rise. The postdoc will join the Geological History Constraints, which aims to quantify if and when Thwaites Glacier was smaller than present during the Holocene and earlier times. More information on the GHC project can be found at www.thwaites-ghc.org and the larger ITGC project at www.thwaitesglacier.org.

Tulane University is in the vibrant and diverse city of New Orleans and is unlike any other place. We are a private research university with a large group of researchers in multiple disciplines focusing on sea level rise, coastal resiliency, and societal impacts and thus the postdoctoral researcher will have many opportunities for collaboration. Additionally, the ITGC initiative has a focus on ECR mentoring. The position is funded for 2 full calendar years; starting date will be after October 1 and is flexible to accommodate those currently in postdoctoral positions or finishing their dissertation.

For more information on applying please visit http://apply.interfolio.com/76581. Interested candidates are encourage to contact me (bgoehrin@tulane.edu) and I would more than happy to have a brief Zoom/Skype call to discuss more details. 

Best
Brent

Dr. Brent Goehring (he/him/his)
bgoehrin@tulane.edu
Associate Professor
EENS Major Advisor (Geology and Env Sciences)
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Tulane University
210 Blessey Hall

Office: 504-862-3196
Cell: 253-951-5331
Lab: 504-314-7179
Fax: 504-865-5199

Mailing Address
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Friday, June 26, 2020

[CRYOLIST] 2020 AGU Session on ice sheets and sea level

Dear Cryolist,

Please consider submitting an abstract to this year's Palsea & Quigs session at AGU 2020 (title and description below). The submission deadline is July 29th 2020 and abstracts can be submitted here. 

Best,
Benjamin Keisling, Tamara Pico, Jacky Austermann, and Jerry McManus

Session #103946: In and out of the ice age: Sea level, ice sheets, and climate during ice age transitions
Earth's climate system has oscillated between warm interglacials and cold glacial maxima across the Pleistocene – what was once thought to be a simple and repeating saw tooth pattern is now recognized to be more complex. For example, glaciations might not be slow and glacials and deglaciations might vary significantly from one cycle to the next. Understanding these variations is important to identifying drivers of ice age change, and necessary to appropriately use past warm periods to inform Earth's response to future warming.  
 
In this session, co-organized by the PALSEA and QUIGS working groups, we invite contributions that present observation- and / or modeling-based studies of glacial-interglacial changes associated with sea level, ice sheets, and climate. Time periods of interest include (but are not limited to) the last and penultimate deglaciation, the last interglacial and the Holocene, the last glacial inception, and the transition into the last glacial maximum.
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[CRYOLIST] Ph.D. position in atmospheric modeling

Ph.D. position in coupled Arctic climate modeling

The section Physics of the Atmosphere at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, Germany, invites applications for a PhD position (m/f/d) funded within the Transregional Collaborative Research Center TR172 on "ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms (AC)³" (www.ac3-tr.de) by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Within the TR172, AWI together with the collaboration partners (Universities of Leipzig, Cologne and Bremen, TROPOS) aim to better observe, understand, and simulate processes leading to the current drastic climate changes in the Arctic. Specifically, the title of the PhD project at AWI is:

Precipitation and snowfall: Processes, extremes and impacts

Focus of this PhD project will be the systematic assessment of atmospheric moisture transport into the Arctic and its role for the hydrometeorological climate in general, and for water vapour and precipitation particularly.This will include exploiting water vapour, precipitation and snowfall information from in-situ measurements, satellite data, high-resolution reanalyses and simulations. A central aim is to identify the impact of cyclones and anomalous moisture transport on regional precipitation as well as on the surface energy budget. This will cover different scales, from individual events to long-term characteristics of different seasons and regions in the Arctic. High-resolution modeling will be applied to analyse and understand precipitation mechanisms associated with cyclones and frontal structures, including atmospheric rivers. Overall, the objectives of the dissertation include: (i) performance and evaluation of ICON-NWP applied on an Arctic-focussed domain, (ii) sensitivity studies to clarifying atmospheric and surface factors important for air mass transport and transformation, and related moisture, precipitation/snowfall, (iii) quantification of anomalous moisture transport for surface and tropospheric warming in the Arctic.

Requirements

Diploma/M.Sc. degree in physics, meteorology, geosciences, or related fields. Good skills in statistical data analysis and scientific programming (R, Python, Fortran, Matlab, or similar). Interest in atmospheric physics and dynamics is expected. Experience in climate modelling and working with Unix-like operating systems is an advantage. Good English language skills are expected.

Further Information

For further information please contact Dr. Annette Rinke (Annette.Rinke@awi.de, +49(331)288-2130).

The position is limited to 3 years pending final approval of funding. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes (TVöD Bund), up to salary level 13 (66%). The place of employment will be Potsdam. The targeted starting date is 1st September 2020.


This characterizes AWI

our scientific success - excellent research.
collaboration and cooperation - intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary
opportunities to develop – on the job, aiming at other positions and beyond AWI.
a culture of reconciling work and family – audited, and even more than that.
our outstanding research infrastructure – ships, stations, aircraft, laboratories and more.
an international environment – everyday contacts with people from all over the world.
having an influence – fundamental research with social and political relevance
flat hierarchies – freedom and responsibility.
exciting topics – also in technology, administration and infrastructure.

Equal opportunities are an integral part of our personnel policy and we encourage women to apply.

As Ph.D. student at AWI you will be member of the Helmholtz Graduate School for Polar and Marine Research 'POLMAR' (_http://polmar.awi.de <http://polmar.awi.de/>_) or another graduate school.

Disabled applicants will be given preference when equal qualifications are present. The AWI fosters the compatibility of work and family through various means. Because of our engagement in the area of work-life compatibility we have been awarded the certificate "Career and Family".


We look forward to your application!

Please forward your application by July 20, 2020 exclusively online. Reference number 20/89/D/Kli-b

https://www.awi.de/arbeiten-lernen/jobs/stellenangebote.html

https://www.awi.de/en/work-study/jobs/job-offer.html





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[CRYOLIST] Ph.D. position in coupled Arctic climate modeling

Ph.D. position in coupled Arctic climate modeling
The section Physics of the Atmosphere at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, Germany, invites applications for a PhD position (m/f/d) funded within the Transregional Collaborative Research Center TR172 on "ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms (AC)³" (www.ac3-tr.de) by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Within the TR172, AWI together with the collaboration partners (Universities of Leipzig, Cologne and Bremen, TROPOS) aim to better observe, understand, and simulate processes leading to the current drastic climate changes in the Arctic. Specifically, the title of the PhD project at AWI is:

Interactions between atmosphere and sea ice-ocean in the Arctic

The PhD project intends to achieve a better understanding of atmosphere-sea ice-ocean interactions in the Arctic. In particular, we aim to quantify the seasonal and regional thermodynamic and dynamic responses of the ice-ocean system to storms. This includes the analysis of impacts on sea ice (concentration, thickness, drift), upper ocean (temperature, heat budget, mixing/stratification) and the surface energy budget. Further, the feedback of sea-ice retreat, heat and moisture release, and oceanic heat fluxes on cyclone characteristics and a potential (pre)conditioning for (extreme) cyclones will be studied. An observation-modelling synergy approach will be applied. For this, a set of ensemble simulations with the coupled regional model HIRHAM-NAOSIM will be analyzed in concert with reanalysis, campaign and satellite data. Overall, the objectives of the dissertation include: (i) performance and analysis of model experiments with HIRHAM-NAOSIM, (ii) quantification of cyclone's impacts on changes in the sea ice and upper ocean, (iii) improved understanding of the mechanisms for the feedbacks between cyclones and sea ice-ocean in the Arctic.

Requirements

Diploma/M.Sc. degree in physics, meteorology, geosciences, or related fields. Good skills in statistical data analysis and scientific programming (R, Python, Fortran, Matlab, or similar). Interest in Interest in atmospheric physics and atmosphere-sea ice interactions is expected. Experience in climate modelling and working with Unix-like operating systems is an advantage. Good English language skills are expected.


Further Information

For further information please contact Dr. Annette Rinke (Annette.Rinke@awi.de, +49(331)288-2130).

The position is limited to 3 years pending final approval of funding. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes (TVöD Bund), up to salary level 13 (66%). The place of employment will be Potsdam. The targeted starting date is 1st September 2020.


This characterizes AWI

our scientific success - excellent research.
collaboration and cooperation - intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary
opportunities to develop – on the job, aiming at other positions and beyond AWI.
a culture of reconciling work and family – audited, and even more than that.
our outstanding research infrastructure – ships, stations, aircraft, laboratories and more.
an international environment – everyday contacts with people from all over the world.
having an influence – fundamental research with social and political relevance
flat hierarchies – freedom and responsibility.
exciting topics – also in technology, administration and infrastructure.

Equal opportunities are an integral part of our personnel policy and we encourage women to apply.

As Ph.D. student at AWI you will be member of the Helmholtz Graduate School for Polar and Marine Research 'POLMAR' (_http://polmar.awi.de <http://polmar.awi.de/>_) or another graduate school.

Disabled applicants will be given preference when equal qualifications are present. The AWI fosters the compatibility of work and family through various means. Because of our engagement in the area of work-life compatibility we have been awarded the certificate "Career and Family".


We look forward to your application!

Please forward your application by July 20, 2020 exclusively online. Reference number 20/88/D/Kli-b

https://www.awi.de/arbeiten-lernen/jobs/stellenangebote.html

https://www.awi.de/en/work-study/jobs/job-offer.html





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