[CRYOLIST] Snowflake International Arctic Station

The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) initiated to establish the Snowflake International Arctic Station (IAS), which will be located in the Land of Hope (Yamal, Russia) and is scheduled to begin operation in 2022. MIPT and its partners are going to implement an ambitious international project, building a carbon-free Arctic station, which would host visitors from all over the world.

The objective of the IAS is to test, improve, and promote solutions in the field of environmentally friendly technologies of the future for life support and the maintenance of remote communities in the Arctic region.

The MIPT proposes any options for our possible cooperation: providing grants and sending delegations to the station; participating in technological and educational projects; supplying and maintaining equipment; co-financing; logistic services etc. 

Please visit the website www.arctic-mipt.com where you can find a short video about the IAS project and more detailed information.

In case of your interest in cooperation please contact Yury Vasiliev arctic@phystech.edu or forward this e-mail to your partners.

Best regards,

 

         Yury Vasiliev

 

Executive Director,

Institute of Arctic Technologies,

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

www.arctic-mipt.com

[CRYOLIST] PhD position Permafrost Thaw Events @ AWI-Potsdam

Dear all,

the Permafrost Research Section at AWI offers a 3-year PhD position on "Permafrost thaw events".
Application deadline is February 16, 2020, exclusively online:

https://recruitingapp-5442.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/558/Description/2


Background
Understanding and quantifying the contribution of permafrost thaw events to greenhouse gas emissions and to long-term trends in the Arctic requires an integrated observation system with mobile and modular infrastructure linking observations of permafrost thaw events and trends. A rich set of such field geophysical and biogeochemical, as well as remote sensing, data was collected in dedicated campaigns in Canada and Siberia during the Helmholtz infrastructure project MOSES (Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems). The PhD candidate will use these datasets and additional field studies to explore how changing water surfaces in the Arctic due to intensified lake and ice dynamics are accelerating permafrost thaw.

Tasks
•    Merge and analyse geophysical (passive seismic, geo-electric) and aquatic data from thermokarst lakes studied during MOSES campaigns (Canada and Siberia)
•    Analyse permafrost degradation (vertical and lateral) at the water body and landscape scales using repeat geodetic surveys, and novel techniques, such as GPS Interferometric Reflectometry and Light Detection and Ranging (GPS-IR)
•    Identify rates of permafrost degradation associated with thermokarst lake dynamics
•    Scale up the role of water bodies in accelerating permafrost thaw to regional scales using remote sensing and potentially by implementing MOSES methods at further study sites

Requirements
•    A completed Masters degree in a geo-science, physics/ geophysics/ meteorology and/or data science field or related field
•    Enthusiasm for multi-disciplinary approaches to geoscience research (field experiments, modelling, and remote sensing)
•    Strong programming skills for data analysis
•    Willingness and ability to function in an international and competitive research environment and contribute to team goals

The position is limited to 3 years. The salary will be paid in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), up to salary level 13 (66%). The place of employment will be Potsdam, Germany.

The position is part of our recruiting initiative AWI INSPIRES - INternational Science Program for Integrative Research in Earth Systems. AWI INSPIRES aims at strengthening our new research program "Changing Earth, Sustaining our Future". Details about all open positions and the general application requirements can be found at www.awi.de/en/inspires.

Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.
Julia

Julia Boike  Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research  Telegrafenberg A45  14473 Potsdam  Germany  E-Mail:  julia.boike@awi.de    AWI Permafrost Research Unit: http://www.awi.de/en/science/geosciences/permafrost-research.html  Personal Page: https://www.awi.de/ueber-uns/organisation/mitarbeiter/julia-boike.html  

[CRYOLIST] Call for abstracts SCAR OSC 2020: Interplay between ice sheets and regional and global teleconnections

Cari tutti,

*** Time has come for the next SCAR Open Science Conference, 3-7 August, in Hobart (Australia)!! ***

My colleagues and I would like to draw your attention to this session:

Session 8: Past to future interplay between ice sheets in the world and regional to global teleconnections

Convenors: Florence Colleoni, Suchithra Sundaram, Sunghan Kim and Ian Goodwin

***Co-Convened with the IASC Cryosphere Working Group (Guðfinna Th Aðalgeirsdóttir)***

The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are parts of the Earth's climate system and as such, influence oceanic and atmospheric processes as much as being influenced by local to remote teleconnections. Teleconnections interacting with the ice sheets (e.g. SAM, PSA, IOD, ENSO, NAO and AMO) have various impacts on changes in local temperature, moisture transport to and from the polar regions, sea ice extent, and intermediate to bottom water exchange/ventilation. Paleoclimate and future modeling studies show that freshwater release from Antarctica is tightly linked to the bi-polar atmospheric and oceanic seesaw mechanism, acting on millennial scales. The high-resolution geological and ice core records also testify to this interplay between the ice sheets and regional to global teleconnections but are poorly understood in climatic contexts substantially different than today. Efforts are needed at both observational and modeling levels to improve multi-centennial projections of polar regions and global climate evolution, by combining current knowledge of climatic variability with the knowledge of paleoclimatic evolution of those mechanisms.

This session invites contributions from both observational, modeling, present-day to future and paleoclimate works, from Arctic and Antarctic. A particular focus is put on multi-disciplinary analysis of teleconnections, and works attempting to bridge paleo and present-day/future timescales are encouraged.

*** If you want to be teleconnected, submit an Abstract to this session! ***

Florence Colleoni,

Suchithra Sundaram,

Sunghan Kim,

Ian Goodwin,

Guðfinna Th Aðalgeirsdóttir

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Senior Scientist

Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geosfisica Sperimentale

Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/c

340120 Sgonico (TS) - Italy

Phone: +39 040 2140 609

Twitter: @FlorenceColleo1

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[CRYOLIST] Water special issue on cold region hydrology

Dear colleagues,

 

Water (IF 2.524)  is holding a special issue on Cold Regions Hydrology under Changing Climate Conditions, to which you may be interested to contribute. The Special Issue calls for innovative contributions to this theme, including  effects of glacier mass balance changes on hydrology, changes in snow accumulation and ablation processes and their effects on hydrological variability, interactions between cryospheric processes and their effects on hydrology, and the impact of seasonal soil freezing on runoff partitioning. Diverse methodological approaches are welcomed, including forthcoming observational studies, projections or sensitivity experiments based on physically based or conceptual models, as well as analyses of long-term observations. See full details here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/cold_hydrology.

 

Christophe Kinnard

Canada Research Chair in Cryosphere Hydrology

Cold Region Environmental Research Laboratory

Département des sciences de l'environnement

Centre de Recherche sur les Interactions Bassins Versants - Écosystèmes Aquatiques (www.uqtr.ca/rive)

Centre d’études nordiques / Centre for Northern Studies (www.cen.ulaval.ca)

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

 

[CRYOLIST] Two graduate student positions in sea ice geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Dear colleagues,

The sea ice research group at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska is seeking applicants for two fully-funded graduate students positions to work on two projects related to coastal Arctic sea ice:

Climatology of Alaska Landfast Sea Ice:

We are seeking a MS student with a strong background in math and physics to analyze recent and future changes in landfast sea ice along Alaska's northern coast using satellite data, ice charts, field observations and regional models.

Opening Up and Crowding In: Dynamic Adaptation to Evolving Arctic Sea Ice Loss

We are seeking a MS or PhD student with strong quantitative skills to help identify "hotspots" of sea ice change using satellite data and global models. This project will require working with an interdisciplinary team of social and physical scientists to understand how the rate and variability of change affects the ability of communities and governments to respond to change

For more information about these opportunities and our research group please contact Andy Mahoney (armahoney@alaska.edu)

--       -----------------------------   Andy Mahoney   Research Associate Professor of Geophysics  Geophysical Institute   University of Alaska Fairbanks   2156 Koyukuk Drive   Fairbanks   Alaska 99775-7320   USA   Ph. +1 907 474 5382   Fx. +1 907 474 7290  http://seaice.alaska.edu/gi/people/mahoney  =============================

[CRYOLIST] 4 year Lectureship in Physical Geography (Geochemistry) at Durham University

Dear colleagues,

 

The Department of Geography, Durham University, UK, is seeking to hire a Lecturer in Physical Geography (Geochemistry) (4 year, fixed term):

 

https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=20000095&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon

 

Closing date: 6^th March 2020.

 

This is a research and teaching post (~equivalent to Assistant Professor level), and the department is looking for someone whose research complements and extends our work in themes of palaeoclimate, carbon and nutrient cycling, and earth surface processes. The Geography department has extensive analytical facilities, which comprise of instruments for inorganic (IC, ICP-MS, ICP-OES) and organic (GC-MS, GC-FID, GC-IRMS) geochemistry. The neighbouring Earth Sciences department has extensive clean lab and isotope geochemistry facilities.

 

Please forward to anyone who may be interested, and feel free to contact myself (erin.mcclymont@durham.ac.uk), Bob Hilton (r.g.hilton@durham.ac.uk) and/or the Head of Department Mike Bentley (m.j.bentley@durham.ac.uk) with any questions.

 

Best wishes,

Erin

 

Professor Erin McClymont

Department of Geography, Durham University

Lower Mountjoy, South Road

Durham DH1 3LE

erin.mcclymont@durham.ac.uk

 

 

 

[CRYOLIST] 3-year PDRA in Arctic soil biogeochemical modelling, Queen Mary University of London, UK (James Bradley)

3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Arctic soil biogeochemical modelling. Queen Mary University of London, UK (James Bradley)

The Earth Surface Science group at Queen Mary University of London are seeking a 36-month postdoc with expertise in terrestrial biogeochemical modeling. This post is part of an exciting new collaborative project with CU Boulder, U Utah, Montana Tech & British Geological Survey, investigating the fate of Arctic soil following glacier retreat.

Glacier retreat is exposing pioneer Arctic soils that host a dynamic ecosystem and act as biogeochemical reactors. The aim of this project is to improve the understanding of how seasonal processes contribute to the long-term (i.e. multi-decadal) development of Arctic soils. The PDRA will develop, implement and apply a new fully coupled biogeochemical-geophysical model for pioneer Arctic soils. These activities are linked to a larger project whose wider ambition is to achieve continuous year-round monitoring of dynamic processes using a network of buried geophysical sensors in a High-Arctic glacier forefield, and repeated field monitoring of soil biogeochemical processes via state-of-the-art molecular techniques.

Numerical modelling will be instrumental in forming mechanistic linkages between seasonal variations, and soil biogeochemical, geophysical and hydrogeological processes over multi-decadal timescales, as well as to capture and explore year-round dynamics of Arctic soils, and conduct predictive modelling of the future fate of Arctic soils following large-scale ice retreat and climate warming. Model development and calibration will make use of field datasets that will be collected during year-round fieldwork campaigns throughout 2020 and 2021, There will be opportunities for the PDRA to participate in project-related fieldwork activities in Svalbard.

The PDRA will work within a multidisciplinary team with significant strengths in environmental-biogeochemistry, modelling, geomicrobiology, and geophysical sensing – and thus develop an interdisciplinary skill set, and collaborate nationally and internationally.

This is a full time, fixed-term appointment for 36 months, starting on 1st May 2020 or as soon as possible after that date. The starting salary is £36,098 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. The benefits package includes 30 days annual leave, pension scheme and an interest free season ticket loan.

Candidate specifications: Applicants must have a PhD (by the time of appointment) or equivalent in a relevant natural science or engineering field, and have a track record of research productivity, including peer-reviewed publications in international journals. We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate skills and experience in numerical/reactive-transport modeling and biogeochemistry, with proven ability to work independently and take the initiative. The position is open to international candidates.

How to apply: To apply, please click on the link below.
https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobRef=QMUL21261

Applications should include:
A cover letter (max. 2 pages) stating your motivation for applying to this position, your research interests, and relevant skills, training and experience.
Curriculum vitae.
Copy of official transcript(s).
Contact information for at least two and up to 3 references.
Please also email Dr. James Bradley (jbradley.earth@gmail.com) for confirmation of your intent to apply.

Deadline: Apply before 20th March 2020 for full consideration. The position will remain open until filled.

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James Bradley

Queen Mary University of London

United Kingdom

Email: jbradley.earth@gmail.com

Web: http://jbradleylab.com/

Twitter: @DrBradBrad

[CRYOLIST] How can we better monitor the Sea Ice ECV from Space? (Project KEPLER)

Dear Sea Ice ECV community,

In the context of the project KEPLER (https://kepler-polar.eu/), we prepared a questionnaire towards the *producers* of sea-ice climate data records.

Through a series of questions, we would like to better understand what can be done to get more (and better) sea-ice Essential Climate Variable products from the Earth Observation community.  By answering this questionnaire, you and/or the institution you represent can have your say in these strategic considerations for the future evolution of the polar observing system and services.

The questionnaire gives some more context, and is divided into 6 themes. You are welcome to fill your answers directly in the document, and send it back to us by e-mail. Even partial answers will help, no contribution is too small.

Download the questionnaire here:

https://kepler380449468.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/kepler-questionnaire-for-producers-of-sea-ice-ecv-records.odt

In order to compile the answers, and prepare our recommendations from the KEPLER project, we would very much appreciate your answers at your earliest convenience, and by Friday 28th February 2020 at the latest, please.

All the best,
Thomas Lavergne (Norwegian Meteorological Institute) for the KEPLER project team.

[CRYOLIST] NationalScience Foundation Office of Polar Programs Arctic Sciences - Open Meeting - US

National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Arctic Sciences - Open Meeting

https://agu.confex.com/agu/osm20/meetingapp.cgi/Session/100305

Where: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, SDCC – 1B, UL

When: Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Program Directors from NSF's OPP Arctic Sciences Section will provide an overview of our programs, as well as upcoming opportunities at NSF of interest to Arctic scientists. Organizers anticipate giving a brief presentation with the bulk of the time devoted to questions and discussion.

Organizer/Presenters: Roberto Delgado (robdelga@nsf.gov) and/or Cynthia Suchman (csuchman@nsf.gov)

[CRYOLIST] Call for abstracts SCAR2020 OSC: Past and future evolution of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

Dear colleagues,

 

We would like to call for abstracts to our session on Past and future evolution of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets at the SCAR Open Science Conference, 3-7 August 2020, Hobart, Australia.

 

Session 10:  Critical challenges in modelling past and future evolution of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets - scales, uncertainty, processes, implications for sea level.

Convenors:  Frank Pattyn, Rupert Gladstone, Adam Treverrow, Felicity McCormack, Chen Zhao

 

This session explores improvements in our understanding and quantification of past, present and future evolution of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and sea-level changes. We invite contributions about the following topics: How to improve the reliability of the projections using observations (paleo and present), models and model intercomparison exercises (ISMIP6, and others); assessment of uncertainties and probability distributions of the ice sheets' contribution to sea level change; emerging processes; feedbacks coming from interactions between components (ice sheets, ocean, atmosphere, solid earth). We focus on the present and future (multi-centennial) ice sheet evolution, but paleostudies are encouraged if they shed a light on the mentioned topics. This session is related to ISMASS, ISMIP6, SERCE, PAIS and AntClim21. 

 

Please submit abstracts here, and note that there are no restrictions on the number of abstracts that you can submit. The deadline is 5pm AEST on 28^th February 2020.

 

We look forward to seeing you in Hobart!

 

 

 

Frank Pattyn
Professor – Director Laboratoire de Glaciologie

Associate Chief Editor Journal of Glaciology

T : +32 (0)2 650 28 46
M : +32 (0)485 36 44 95
F : +32 (0)2 650 22 26
fpattyn@ulb.ac.be

Laboratoire de Glaciologie
Départment Géosciences, Environnement, Société (DGES)

Postal address: Av. F. Roosevelt 50, CP 160/03, 1050 Brussels

Office: Av. Antoine Depage 30, 1050 Brussels, Building D, DC4.118 (4^th floor)
dev.ulb.ac.be/glaciol/index.htm
homepages.ulb.ac.be/~fpattyn/

 

[CRYOLIST] Your input needed: potential users asked to provide feedback on QGreenland

Dear Cryolist,

See below for a press release about the new QGreenland project for your input and information! We hope many of you will contribute, as well as share with your colleagues / networks.

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Imagine being able to explore data about Greenland animals, ice and communities all in one place. Through the new QGreenland project, this can become a reality. QGreenland, a free geographic information system (GIS) mapping tool that is in development at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), will be available for download later this year. However, to make the project as useful and relevant as possible, the QGreenland development team needs help from potential users, who are encouraged to provide input via a survey. 

Twila Moon, a research scientist at NSIDC, is the principal investigator on the project. She will lead the creation of the GIS data package for the tool in collaboration with a team at NSIDC and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences as well as an international editorial board, which will help to identify and curate the data. Moon hopes QGreenland will inspire Arctic-wide resources of this nature.

QGreenland is modeled from the Norwegian Polar Institute's Quantarctica, and will work on QGIS software. It will contain interdisciplinary data that researchers, educators, resource managers and communities can use to access information about Greenland's ocean, land, ice sheet, biology, and communities. In addition to accessing and downloading all-in-one data, users can add to and conduct analyses on the data.

QGreenland is funded by the National Science Foundation's EarthCube program. Version 1 is expected to be released in late fall 2020. For updates and more information, please sign up for the QGreenland newsletter.

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http://about.me/allenpope

http://www.twitter.com/PopePolar

[CRYOLIST] Sites for space-borne snow depth monitoring

Dear snow colleagues,

as part of the CO3D satellite mission (CNES/Airbus) we have the opportunity to select a dozen of sites of approximately 20 km (EW direction) x 30 km (NS direction) for annual or bi-annual snow depth monitoring. If you have a site that could be of interest please send me an email with a short description of your planned activities in this site, a polygon of the site in KML (typically a watershed). In case there are many requests we will make a selection based on orbital constraints, scientific interest, and institutional support.

The CO3D constellation (launch expected end of 2022) will deliver 50 cm resolution stereo imagery to produce digital elevation models of the land surface. These data should enable to map the snow depth in mountain regions with an accuracy of 70 cm to 40 cm depending on the spatial resolution (2 m to 20 m). To know more about the method see this paper in discussion https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2020-15/.

Simon

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

[CRYOLIST] Call for Applications - ULISBOA College on Polar and Extreme Environments

Polar2E: Call for Applications for PhD graduates

ULISBOA College on Polar and Extreme Environments

The University of Lisbon College on Polar and Extreme Environments (Polar2E) opens a call for expressions of interest for PhD graduates to apply for the FCT Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus - 3rd Edition. Polar2E is the new interdisciplinary College ULISBOA, joining the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, the Faculty of Sciences and the IST-Técnico, with researchers from several research centres from the University of Lisbon.

We are accepting applications on Polar and/or Extreme Environment research under the following Polar2E Strategical Areas:

- Biogeochemistry of extreme environments (Coord: João Canário, joao.canario@tecnico.ulisboa.pt),

- Changes in Polar marine ecosystems (Coord: Vanda Brotas, vbrotas@fc.ul.pt)

- Climate modelling (Coord: Emanuel Dutra, endutra@fc.ul.pt),

- Cryosphere / Permafrost (Coord.: Gonçalo Vieira, vieira@igot.ulisboa.pt),

- Polar and extreme ecosystems (Coord: Cristina Branquinho, cmbranquinho@fc.ul.pt),

- Remote sensing (Coord: carlamora@campus.ul.pt),

- Space environment (Coord.: Paulo Gil, paulo.gil@tecnico.ulisboa.pt).

- Sustainable architecture in extreme environments (Coord: Manuel Guedes, manuel.guedes@tecnico.ulisboa.pt)

Other topics may be accepted, if within the scope of Polar2E.

The applications will be pre-evaluated by the research centres of Polar2E for assessing the possibilities for support and integration as host institution (deadline: 14 February). Then, the candidates should submit the application to the FCT Call following the guidelines available at https://www.fct.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/empregocientifico/ceec_ind_3.phtml.en (deadline: 28 February).

For the evaluation at Polar2E, candidates should submit: 1) a short cv with key publications, 2) a summary of the research plan (max 5,000 characters) and 3) a motivation letter, indicating the reference level to which is applying (Junior, Assistant, Principal or Coordinating Researcher). 

Applications for pre-evaluation by Polar2E should be submitted to the coordinator of each Strategical Area, with cc to vieira@igot.ulisboa.pt until 14 February 2020. Please read carefully the FCT call at https://www.fct.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/empregocientifico/ceec_ind_3.phtml.en before applying.

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Gonçalo Vieira, PhD - Associate Professor
Centro de Estudos Geográficos, IGOT - Universidade de Lisboa
Rua Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal

E-mail: vieira@edu.ulisboa.pt | vieira@igot.ulisboa.pt | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7611-3464 | http://goncalovieira.weebly.com

[CRYOLIST] National Science Foundation - Hill joins OPP as Program Director for Arctic Social Sciences - US

Dr. Erica Hill, from the University of Alaska Southeast, has joined OPP's Section for Arctic Sciences as the Program Director for the Arctic Social Sciences Program.

Dr. Hill earned her Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. She is an archaeologist who has worked on projects throughout the US, in Mexico, Peru, and for the last fifteen years, in Alaska. Her work integrates archaeology, biology, environmental sciences, and geography in both Alaska and Chukotka to reconstruct human-animal relations in the past, looking at the intersection of human settlement and marine mammal migration. In addition, she was selected as a 2016-2017 Fulbright-NSF Arctic Scholar to the University of Iceland, where she studied the Viking settlement period, and how humans adjusted to a previously uninhabited landscape.

She is a participant in the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Program (IPA), which temporarily assigns personnel between the Federal Government and state and local governments, colleges and universities, Indian Tribal governments, federally funded research and development centers, and other eligible organizations.

[CRYOLIST] SCOAR Town Hall at 2020 Ocean Sciences!!

Announcement 

Scientific Committee on  Oceanographic Aircraft (SCOAR) 

2020 Ocean Sciences Town Hall 

Expanding the Reach of the Research Fleet: Autonomous (and Piloted) Airborne Systems in Support of Ocean Sciences

Call for Lightning Talks

 
The UNOLS Science Committee for Oceanographic Aircraft Research (SCOAR) will host a Town Hall at the 2020 Ocean Sciences on "Expanding the Reach of the Research Fleet: Autonomous (and Piloted) Airborne Systems in Support of Ocean Sciences."  The complete abstract can be seen here.  

The Town Hall is scheduled for Wednesday, February 19 from 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm at at the San Diego Convention Center, Room 9, UL. The community will have the opportunity to hear the latest information about the use of airborne resources to enhance oceanographic research.  

The Town Hall will include a series of lightning presentations where scientists are invited to present one slide in one-three minutes explaining how s/he has used aircraft in her/his respective research. We hope you will consider presenting a slide in the lightning session.

If you will/have used airborne resources in your oceanographic work and wish to present a lightning talk please sign up here:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SCOAR_TownHall_2020_Ocean_Sciences

The Town Hall is aimed at researchers who are have or are interested in using airborne resources to expand their research.   

We hope to see you at the OOIFB Town Hall!

Event:   SCOAR Town Hall:  Expanding the Reach of the Research Fleet: Autonomous (and Piloted) Airborne Systems in Support of Ocean Sciences
When:   Wednesday, February 19th from 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
Where:  San Diego Convention Center Room 9,UL

Please sign up by February 14th to present a lightning talk.

Alice Doyle

UNOLS Deputy Executive Secretary
alice@unols.org
office: 970-403-3874 
cell: 303-319-9906

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[CRYOLIST] Postdoc position for (vibro)seismics on Thwaites Glacier

Cryolisters,

the Glaciology group at AWI offers a 3-year postdoc position to perform and analyse active (vibro)seismic measurements on Thwaites Glacier as part of the ITGC GHOST project. For details please refer to the complete description of the vacancy, also attached below.

The positions is part of our recruiting initiative AWI INSPIRES - INternational Science Program for Integrative Research in Earth Systems. AWI INSPIRES aims at strengthening our new research program "Changing Earth, Sustaining our Future". Details about all open positions and the general application requirements can be found at www.awi.de/en/inspires.

Feel free to contact us in case you are interested.

Regards,

Coen & Olaf

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   Alfred-Wegener-Institut

   Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

   Prof. Dr. Olaf Eisen             

   Glaciology

   Columbusstr.

   D - 27568 Bremerhaven   

   Fon +49 (0)471 4831 1969 

   Fax +49 (0)471 4831 1271

   olaf.eisen@awi.de

   @iceadvices      

   http://www.awi.de/en/science/geosciences/glaciology.html

   Professor for Glaciology

   Universität Bremen 

   Faculty of Geosciences

   Klagenfurter Straße

   28359 Bremen

   Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft 

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PostDoc "Geophysical glaciology on Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica" (m/f/d)

Background

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has nearly doubled its flux in the last thirty years. The rheology and topography of the bed affect how quickly ice retreats and thus contributes to global sea-level rise. As part of the US-UK-led International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, AWI are collaborators in the ice- and modeling-based project GHOST to examine the bed and interior of Thwaites Glacier – whether it could rapidly collapse, raising sea level by more than 3 meters, or whether the retreat might slow or pause.

As part of a team of geophysicists and modelers working closely to determine the highest priority survey targets and data needs from the field, this project will provide continuous active seismic data to yield profiles of bed topography and characterization of bed properties at high spatial resolution. The data will be used to improve reconstructions of past dynamics and model projections of future behavior sea-level rise.

The position is part of our recruiting initiative AWI INSPIRES - INternational Science Program for Integrative Research in Earth Systems. AWI INSPIRES aims at strengthening our new research program "Changing Earth, Sustaining our Future". Details about all open positions and the general application requirements can be found at www.awi.de/en/inspires.

Tasks
You will

• collate subglacial properties of Thwaites from literature studies and from project partners to prepare for on-site data processing and interpretation;
• participate in the field deployment of AWI's active vibroseismic source/snowstreamer system as part of the GHOST traverse (Nov 2020 – Feb 2021 and Nov 2021 – Feb 2022). This will include data processing in the field for quality control and provide the basis for decision making.
• perform post-field season seismic data processing, providing a seismic image of the ice internal structure and sub-surface, in the depth domain. This will allow analysis of seismic event attributes (e.g. sediment seismic wave speed, reflection coefficients, phase changes);
• Interpret field data
• provide a comprehensive characterization of the subglacial properties of Thwaites Glacier and publish the results.

Requirements

• Proven expertise and a PhD (or equivalent) in the field of geophysics, geosciences, physics or related disciplines.
• Well-founded knowledge in glaciology and scientific experience with active source seismology.
• Previous experience in application of seismology on ice sheets and glaciers is an asset.
• Distinct interest in the scientific exchange and communication with the project members and interdisciplinary collaborators is expected.
• Good language skills in spoken and written English

Further Information

For further information please contact Coen.Hofstede@awi.de or Olaf.Eisen@awi.de.

This is a full-time position, limited to 3 years. It is also suitable for part-time employment. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German "Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation" (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), up to salary level 13. The place of employment will be Bremerhaven.

Postdocs can register with AWI's postdoc office PROCEED, thereby gaining access to a set of tailor made career development tools.

[CRYOLIST] Postdoctoral scientist in coupled climate/ice sheet modelling at MPI-M Hamburg

Dear All,

we are looking for a postdoctoral scientist interested in climate and/or ice-sheet modelling at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany. The position is part of the PalMod project aiming at simulating a complete glacial cycle with a comprehensive ESM coupled interactively to an ice sheet model. Please feel free to forward this email to potential candidates. If you have any questions regarding the position, feel free to contact me (uwe.mikolajewicz@mpimet.mpg.de).

Offical job offer below.

Best wishes,

Uwe

The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is a multidisciplinary center for climate and Earth system research located in Hamburg, Germany. MPI-M contributes to the BMBF project "From the Last Interglacial to the Anthropocene: Modeling a Complete Glacial Cycle" (PalMod, www.palmod.de), which aims at simulating the climate from the peak of the last interglacial up to the present using comprehensive Earth System Models.

For phase II of this research project we have an open position in working group 1 (The physical system) for a

Postdoctoral Scientist (W073)

The successful candidate will be part of a local team performing and analysing long-term transient simulations covering the last glacial and the transition into the Holocene with an interactively coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet model. Additionally, the candidate will contribute to the continued development of this model. The model system consists of the MPI-Earth system model, the ice sheet model PISM, and the solid-earth model VILMA.

For further information regarding the job description, please contact Uwe Mikolajewicz (uwe.mikolajewicz@mpimet.mpg.de). Do not forward your application to this email address; the application needs to be submitted through the online application system (see link below).

Requirements: 

• A PhD in oceanography/meteorology/physics or a related science.

• Experience in performing and analysing experiments with a comprehensive earth system model or ice sheet model;

• Motivation and ability to participate in model development in an interdisciplinary and international environment;

• Ability and desire to work in a closely cooperating team;

• Excellent communication skills and publication record;

• Familiarity with coding and running computer models, very good programming skills in C++ and/or FORTRAN (on a HPC Linux platform) and scripting;

• Knowledge of the MPI-Earth system model or the ice sheet model PISM would be of advantage.

Employment conditionhttps://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/institute/opportunities/mpim-w073/s

• The position is starting as soon as possible. The contract for phase II of PalMod ends September 2022.

• Payment will be in accordance with German public service positions (TVoeD E14) including extensive social security plans. The conditions of employment, including promotions and duration, follow the rules of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science and those of the German civil service.

• The Max Planck Society strives for gender and diversity equality. We welcome applications from all backgrounds.

• Furthermore, the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.

• Handicapped persons with comparable qualifications receive prefer-ential status.

Selection criteria

Candidates will be evaluated based on their qualifications and ability to fulfill the responsibilities as outlined for this project.

Deadline for applying
All applications received prior to February, 17^th 2020, will be given full consideration. The search will be continued until the position is filled.
We are looking forward to receiving your application
including the following documents:

• A motivation letter stating research experiences and interests

• A detailed curriculum vitae including a list of publications

• The names, addresses, and telephone numbers of two referees

Please submit the application to our online application system:
https://s-lotus.gwdg.de/mpg/mhmt/perso/mpim_w073.nsf/application

Please find the official announcement here:

https://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/institute/opportunities/mpim-w073/

[CRYOLIST] Full obituary for Gunnar Østrem

Dear Cryolist members

 

We have now published the full obituary for Gunnar Østrem.

 

Please visit https://www.igsoc.org/news/gunnarostrem/ and read about this remarkable man.

 

All the best

Magnús

 

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Magnús Már Magnússon

Secretary General

International Glaciological Society

High Cross

Madingley Road

Cambridge CB3 0ET

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1223 355 974

Fax: +44 (0)1223 358 334

E-Mail: igsoc@igsoc.org or magnus@igsoc.org

Web: http://www.igsoc.org/

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[CRYOLIST] Conference

 IAL IPA 2021

 

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to take part in the IAL IPAjoint meeting "Lagos, Memoriasdel Territorio"that will be held 21-25 March, 2021 in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, Patagonia Argentina.

The goal of the IAL IPA 2021 joint meeting is to celebrate research on lakes from multipleperspectives with a focus on the sediment record as both anEarth System Archive and a social and cultural memory of the territory.This conference aims to bridge the gap across a broadrange of disciplines that work within the overarching theme of Earth System and Climate-Environment-Cultural changes.The meeting willinclude fourdays of oral and poster presentations, social events, conference courses, fieldtrips and beautiful landscapes. The registration fee includes ice breaking, mid-conference activities, coffee breaks, lunches and the conference dinner. 

Don't miss this opportunity to be in the heart of Patagoniaand fill thepre-registration form available in the meeting webpage.We thank you in advance for your attention and hope to welcome many of you in Bariloche in March 2021! 

Julieta Massaferro, Eduardo Piovano, Silvina Stutz and Marcela Tonello