[CRYOLIST] US CLIVAR Variations & Broadcast: Polar ocean and sea ice interactions

The 2017 summer edition of US CLIVAR Variations, with guest editor Sonya Legg (Princeton U.), is themed: "Polar ocean and sea ice interactions." 

Read here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/f8a5e449-6784-484d-8ef4-ab39855d1ede

The Arctic and Antarctic regions have very different ocean circulations, which has a resulting influence on sea ice cover. And sea ice can alter the ocean circulation beyond the immediate polar regions. In this edition of Variations, the contributors focus on describing and understanding the interactions between ocean circulation and sea ice, in addition to highlighting new observational and modeling opportunities. 

Articles featured in this edition:

• Recent changes in Arctic sea ice and ocean circulation (Kwok and Morison)
• An Arctic Ocean in transition (Stroeve et al.)
• Improving our understanding of Antarctic sea ice with NASA's Operation IceBridge and the upcoming ICESat-2 mission (Petty et al.)
• What processes drive Southern Ocean sea ice variability and trends? (Donohoe and Blanchard-Wrigglesworth)

Join us for a live broadcast during the US CLIVAR Summit, featuring contributing authors, on August 8 from 5:45-7:45 pm ET. 

More information available at https://usclivar.org/webinars.

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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. We are pleased to announce the session has confirmed Charlie Luce and John Pomeroy as the invited presenters. Please note that the abstract deadline is Wednesday, August 2 at 11:59 PM EST.

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.

Confirmed Invited Presenters:

--Charlie Luce, U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station

--John Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan

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]

[CRYOLIST] AGU 2017: session on air-snow/ice chemistry

Colleagues,

the abstract submissions deadline to this year's AGU meeting is this Wednesday Aug 2. If you haven't made up your mind yet please consider submitting your contribution to the session below co-organised with Atmospheric Sciences. 

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

Polar regions, as well as other cold regions, play important roles in the Earth system. However, the complex processes and feedbacks controlling atmospheric composition and their impacts on air quality and climate are poorly understood, particularly in the Arctic, where rapid change is occurring. Physical, chemical, and biological processes in the atmosphere, snow/ice, ocean, and biosphere influence atmospheric trace gas and aerosol abundances and properties, as well as cloud properties and precipitation and ecosystem chemical cycling. Anthropogenic and natural emissions, as well as long-range transport and deposition of atmospheric constituents have consequences for ecosystems, human health, and polar/global climate change. This session invites contributions reporting on recent progress through observation, modeling, and laboratory studies aiming to understand properties and/or processes related to atmospheric composition of polar/cold regions including studies of aerosol/trace gas emissions, transport, processing, cloud interactions, snow and ice interactions/trace constituent recycling, deposition, and climatic, ecological and societal impacts.

on behalf of all session conveners,

Markus

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Markus M. Frey, PhD

British Antarctic Survey

High Cross - Madingley Road

CB3 0ET Cambridge, UK

email: maey@bas.ac.uk

Skype: citlaltepetl2006 

phone: +44 1223 221268

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/profile/maey

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[CRYOLIST] AGU session: snow on sea ice

Dear colleagues,

since the abstract deadline for the AGU fall meeting this year is approaching fast, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our session:

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

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23224

Depth and physical properties of snow dominate many processes and properties of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. They are among the least known and most difficult to observe climate variables, mainly due to their high spatial and temporal variability and complex vertical structure. Active and passive microwave data, as well as laser and radar altimeter satellite observations, have recently been applied to retrieve snow depth over sea ice, but their accuracy and sensitivity needs to be better understood. Snow studies using atmospheric reanalysis products are hampered by large uncertainties and biases. Numerical simulations of snow processes, accumulation, and ablation from 1D micro scales to global circulation models reveal major challenges with strong impacts on atmosphere-ice-ocean interaction. In-situ, autonomous, and airborne observations of snow on sea ice are advancing and are expected to become more comprehensive. We welcome abstracts from these wide fields of snow on sea ice research.

See you in New Orleans,

Marcel Nicolaus, Julienne Stroeve, Michel Tsamados, and Andrew Barrett

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Marcel Nicolaus

Meereisphysik / Sea Ice Physics

 

Bussestr. 27-29

27570 Bremerhaven

Germany

 

Tel: +49 (0)471 4831 2905

Fax: +49 (0)471 4831 1797

Email: Marcel.Nicolaus@awi.de

Web: http://www.awi.de/People/show?mnicolau

[CRYOLIST] New release of Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI 6.0)

Dear colleagues,
 
The IACS Working Group on the Randolph Glacier Inventory and Infrastructure for Glacier Monitoring is happy to be able to announce the release of version 6.0 of the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI), the globally complete data set of digital outlines of glaciers, excluding the ice sheets. The RGI is a resource for global/regional-scale mass-balance assessments and projections.
 
In most regions, glacier outlines are unchanged between RGI 5.0 and 6.0. Outlines were updated in the conterminous US, Scandinavia, Iran, and the European Alps. In addition surging codes were added to >1500 glaciers based on the global inventory of Sevestre and Benn (2015). Improved digital elevation models were used to derive each glacier's hypsometry for several high-latitude regions. Digital Object Identifiers (doi) have been obtained for this and earlier versions.
 
The new version of the inventory and accompanying Technical Note (reference: RGI Consortium, 2017, Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) – A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines: Version 6.0. Technical Report, Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Boulder Colorado, USA. Digital Media, doi:10.7265/N5-RGI-60)
can be downloaded from http://www.glims.org/RGI/randolph60.html. The general URL for the RGI is www.glims.org/RGI/.
 
We thank all contributors to the new RGI release.
 
With regards, for the Working Group members*,
Graham Cogley and Regine Hock (Co-chairs).
 
The RGI working group is sponsored by the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS)
http://www.cryosphericsciences.org/wg_randGlacierInv.html
 
* Members of the Working Group:
Etienne Berthier, Andrew Bliss, Tobias Bolch, Graham Cogley, Koji Fujita,
Alex Gardner, Regine Hock, Matthias Huss, Georg Kaser, Christian Kienholz,
Anil Kulkarni, Shiyin Liu, Christopher Nuth, Ben Marzeion, Takayuki Nuimura,
Frank Paul, Valentina Radić, Bruce Raup, Akiko Sakai, Donghui Shangguan,
Arun Shrestha.

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Regine Hock
Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska
903 Koyukuk Dr.
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7320
ph: 907 - 474 7691
fax: 907 - 474 5882
rehock@alaska.edu
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[CRYOLIST] Call for Contributions: 2017 Sea Ice Outlook August Report

The Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) announces the call for contributions for the 2017 Sea Ice Outlook August report (based on May, June, and July Data).

- Submission deadline: 6:00 p.m. (AKDT) on Friday, 11 August 2017.
- Guidelines for contributors can be found at: https://www.arcus.org/sipn/sea-ice-outlook/2017/august/call.

For questions, contact Betsy Turner-Bogren, ARCUS Email: betsy@arcus.org

The Sea Ice Outlook provides an open process for those interested in Arctic sea ice to share ideas. The monthly reports contain a variety of perspectives ranging from advanced numerical models to qualitative perspectives from citizen scientists. A post-season report will provide an in-depth analysis of factors driving sea ice this summer as well as explore the scientific methods for predicting seasonal conditions.

Pan-Arctic and Alaska Regional Sea Ice Extent Outlooks and any additional figures and gridded fields will be accepted for the 2017 August Outlook. We particularly encourage submissions for the Alaska region (i.e., Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas). Submissions that include spatial forecast maps are encouraged. We are also accepting pan-Antarctic sea ice extent of the September monthly mean.

We encourage all past contributors to submit Outlooks this year and we also hope to see new participants!

NEW SUBMISSION PROCESS:
An on-line form has been designed for submitting contributions to the 2017 SIO, in order to make the submission process as efficient as possible. If you submitted an Outlook in June, you can use the link that was emailed to you from "Google Forms" to edit your previous entries.

Required and core information will be collected on a Google-based form: https://goo.gl/forms/kKSpPgjyD9B4I1IC3

Submissions of more detailed Outlooks reports, including discussions of uncertainties, probabilities, relevant figures, references, and submissions of gridded data or full spatial fields will be accepted via Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/request/FogfdEenGGNxbd9t7WMN

Note: If either the Google form or Dropbox are not workable options, files may be sent via email to: sio2017@arcus.org.

For more information about the SIO, please see:
http://www.arcus.org/sipn/sea-ice-outlook
Or, contact Betsy Turner-Bogren at ARCUS (betsy@arcus.org).

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR SEA ICE OUTLOOK 2017 MONTHLY REPORTS

JUNE REPORT: (Based on May data)
- 26 May 2017 (Friday): Call for Contributions for June Report
- 12 June 2017 (Monday): Contributions Due for June Report
- 30 June 2017 (Friday): June Report Released

JULY REPORT: (Based on May and June data)
- 6 July 2017 (Thursday): Call for Contributions for July Report
- 13 July 2017 (Thursday): Contributions Due for July Report
- 24 July 2017 (Monday): July Report Released

AUGUST REPORT: (Based on May, June, and July data)
- 28 July 2017 (Friday): Call for Contributions for August Report
- 11 August (Friday) 2017: Contributions Due for August Report
- 23 August (Wednesday) 2017: August Report Released

POST-SEASON REPORT
- Developed during September-November 2017
Note: A call for nominations for a post-season SIO Action Team will be circulated in early September via the SIPN mailing list:
http://www.arcus.org/sipn/mailing-list

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Project Manager
Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS)
3535 College Road Suite 101
Fairbanks, AK 99709-3710
Phone: 907/474-1600
betsy@arcus.org

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[CRYOLIST] Rock drill

Dear Colleagues,

can anyone recommend a portable shallow (max. 20 m) drill for permafrost or rock glaciers?

Gino Casassa

[CRYOLIST] AGU 2017 - C024: Phase Dependent: Water, Ice and Vapor in Cryospheric Deserts

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to our new session entitled 'Phase Dependent: Water, Ice and Vapor in Cryospheric Deserts' at AGU December 11-15. We welcome a wide variety of abstracts and hope to stimulate discussion across disciplines.

Session Title: Phase Dependent: Water, Ice and Vapor in Cryospheric Deserts

Session Viewer Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session27123

Session Description:

In the Cryosphere, water commonly exists in and cycles between three phases: liquid water, ice, and water vapor. In nominally 'dry' settings – typical of polar deserts like Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys, high alpine permafrost regions like parts of the Himalaya and Hawaii's Mauna Kea, and extraterrestrial targets like the crust of Mars – liquid water and/or water vapor are highly limited. Thus, the phase of water and the transition of water between phases plays a critical role on physical, chemical and biological processes. This session aims to explore how ground and surface water – as permafrost, glaciers, lakes, streams and vapor – affects the chemistry, biology and hydrology of 'dry' cyrospheric landscapes on Earth or extraterrestrial settings. We encourage abstracts that use field-observation, modeling or remotely sensed surveys to understand how water across its phases is vital to shaping these environments through space and time.

Invited Speakers:
Kevin Hand, JPL
Corien Bakermans, Penn State Altoona

Primary Convener:  Neil Foley, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Convener:  Jill Mikucki,University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States

Cross-Listed:

• B - Biogeosciences
• H - Hydrology
• P - Planetary Sciences

Index Terms:

0475 Permafrost, cryosphere, and high-latitude processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES] 
0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE] 
0746 Lakes [CRYOSPHERE] 
1823 Frozen ground [HYDROLOGY]

[CRYOLIST] Study light absorbing particulates in snow/ice? This AGU session is for you!

Since I know we all wanted to read about more AGU session on cryolist, I thought I would bring your attention to another great session- C011: Dust, Black Carbon, and other Aerosols in the Cryosphere. Our session grows every year, and the excellent research by students in our session has been consistently recognized through OSPA awards. Furthermore, this year we intentionally expanded the scope of our session to reach out to those study biological constituents in snow and ice and bioalbedo.

We are excited this year to welcome Marie Dumont and Joe Cook as our invited speakers.

Session Description:

Observation and modeling efforts have established the powerful regional impact on snow and ice cover from the deposition of light absorbing aerosols, such as mineral dust, carbonaceous particles, and biological constituents.  The subsequent darkening of the snow surface and initiation of snow albedo feedbacks has implications for the global climate and water cycle. This session will focus on observations and modeling of the past, present, and future impacts of mineral dust, carbonaceous particles, biological constituents, and other aerosols on snow and ice cover including transport and deposition processes, optical properties, impacts to albedo and snowmelt, glacier/ice sheet mass balance, and atmospheric heating.

See you in New Orleans, and don't forget the abstract deadline is August 2nd!

Cheers

McKenzie Skiles

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S. McKenzie Skiles, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography

University of Utah

[CRYOLIST] AGU session C015: Hydrology of Mountain Glaciers and Ice Sheets

We would like to welcome you to submit an abstract to the session "Hydrology of Mountain Glaciers and Ice Sheets" at the AGU Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans.  This session always features a wide range of ice-sheet hydrology topics, and this year we are planning to add to that an emphasis on the hydrology of alpine glaciers.  Our confirmed invited speakers are Hamish Pritchard and Helen Dahlke.

We welcome your work on modeling and/or observations of supraglacial, englacial, and/or subglacial water and its effects on ice flow, ice thermodynamics, mass balance, geomorphology, or other aspects of the earth system.

Session Title: Hydrology of Mountain Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Session Number: C015
 
Water can lubricate the beds of glaciers and ice sheets and thereby affect ice dynamics, glacier mass balance, and geomorphology.  The systems that store and transport water through glaciers take many forms, including supraglacial lakes and streams; features associated with the collection, flow, or refreezing of water within snow and firn; englacial elements such as crevasses, moulins, and incised channels; and the subglacial drainage system and its erosive processes. Interactions among these and other components shape glacial hydrologic systems. Ongoing advances in our understanding of the spatiotemporal variability of glacier hydrology inform the effort to predict how glacial systems respond to our changing climate. This session explores the role of water on, in, and under glaciers and ice sheets. We invite contributions from all aspects of glacial hydrology and particularly welcome studies that focus on mountain glacier hydrology or on connections among different components of the glacial hydrologic system.
 
Focus Group: Cryosphere

 
Abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 2 August.
 
Thank you,
 
Kristin Poinar (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Christine Dow (University of Waterloo)
Colin Meyer (University of Oregon)
 
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Kristin Poinar
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow
Goddard Space Flight Center
301-614-7041

[CRYOLIST] Liestøl Symposium, November 8-9 2017

Liestøl Symposium: Integrating field measurements, remote sensing, and models of Svalbard glacier mass balance

The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers from international groups studying Svalbard glacier mass balance. We seek to 1) promote better collaboration and cooperation between these groups, and 2) integrate the field studies with glacier and regional climate modelling efforts.

The workshop is named in honor of the pioneering Norwegian glaciologist Olav Liestøl (1916-2002), who initiated mass balance measurements in Svalbard in the 1950s.

 

The Liestøl Symposium will be held November 8-9^th, and will be a part of the Svalbard Science Conference 2017 (SCC) meeting to be held Nov 6-8 in Oslo (https://forskningsradet.pameldingssystem.no/svalbard-science-conference-2017).  Liestøl Symposium talks will be held Wednesday (10:40-16:30), and continue on into Thursday (all day), and there will be a poster session.

 

Attendance for the SCC and Liestøl Symposium is free, but you will have to cover accommodation and travel expenses. It makes most sense to stay at the conference hotel Scandic Fornebu (https://www.scandichotels.com/hotels/norway/oslo/scandic-fornebu); the booking code for a discounted rate is BFOR141117. Conference rate is available until 23 October. Also, please register for the SCC at https://forskningsradet.pameldingssystem.no/svalbard-science-conference-2017?tab=regform

 

Most importantly, the deadline for submitting abstracts to the meeting is August 10^th (https://forskningsradet.pameldingssystem.no/svalbard-science-conference-2017?tab=optional).

 

All are welcome!

-Jack

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Dr. Jack Kohler
Norwegian Polar Institute
Framsenteret
N-9296 Tromsø, Norway
Tel: +47 77 75 06 55
E-mail: jack.kohler@npolar.no
Web: http://www.npolar.no/

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@NPIglaciology

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[CRYOLIST] Position Available: Education & Outreach Coordinator, Polar Geospatial Center

The Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota is seeking an experienced Education & Outreach Coordinator responsible for managing, authoring, and standardizing the organization's education and outreach material which includes website content, digital newsletters, documentation, and print promotional/exhibition material. A major responsibility of this position is planning and organizing the annual Summer Polar Boot Camp, a weeklong workshop instructed by PGC staff on advanced GIS techniques and data products. The E&O Coordinator will also complement PGC User Services by actively responding to / engaging users. Other duties include: publication of outreach materials such as calendars, feedback/surveys; collaborating with all levels of PGC staff to curate content; and leading directed training, webinars, and meetings.

The successful candidate will be creative, enthusiastic, and proactive. A knack for design and excellence is desired. Proficient communication and organization skills are essential, as this position requires technical writing and event coordination to a diversely-skilled community. Applicants will be expected to participate and demonstrate experience in presenting at professional events and workshops. Most importantly, the successful candidate will engage both PGC's user community and the public, positively representing our organization, mission, and affiliations.

This position is posted as a 0.8 FTE position (4 days/week or 32 hours/week).

Link:

Apply Now! 

https://www.pgc.umn.edu/careers/position-available-education-and-outreach-coordinator-july-2017/

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Paul Morin
Director
Polar Geospatial Center
R280 Learning & Environmental Sciences
1954 Buford Ave

St Paul MN 55108

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[CRYOLIST] Post-Doctoral Fellow in snow-land-climate modelling at University of Waterloo, Canada

Post-Doctoral position in modelling of snow-land-climate interactions and their response to climate change.

The climate modelling and analysis group based in the department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo, Canada invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, fixed-term Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) research position in modelling of snow-land-climate interactions and their response to climate change. For more details about our research group see <https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/c5fletch/>. 

The PDF will be engaged in two projects. The first involves the implementation and analysis of a suite of global land surface model simulations using the Community Land Model (CLM) to assess the impact of snow process parameterizations on climate. The second project involves the analysis of the CMIPx suite of model output to characterize projected land surface hydrological responses to climate change and their impact on the frequency and intensity of future drought in Canada. The position is partially supported by CanSISE (<http://www.cansise.ca>), a Canada-wide network of researchers from academia and government, engaged in climate modelling efforts related to quantifying sea ice and snow evolution. The position will involve collaboration internally within the research group at Waterloo, and externally with colleagues in CanSISE, at Environment and Climate Change Canada (<https://www.ec.gc.ca>), and at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (<http://www.agr.gc.ca/>).

Essential requirements: the PDF must have (or be about to obtain) a Ph.D. in atmospheric science, physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, or a related field. Experience analysing and visualising large climate/geophysical datasets, preferably in netCDF format, using a scientific programming language such as Python, IDL, Matlab, or NCL in a Linux computing environment. The PDF will be a highly effective oral and written communicator, and be able to work as part of a research team. 
Desirable requirements: Experience running simulations with global or regional models of the atmosphere and/or land surface would be a distinct advantage, particularly with any of the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) suite. Knowledge of advanced multivariate statistical methods, and/or statistical learning techniques such as support vector regression would also be an asset.

The position has an anticipated start date of September 5, 2017, or as soon as possible after that date. The initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal based on performance.  A review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. To apply, please send a single document in PDF format containing a cover letter summarizing your research interests and career goals, current CV, and contact information for three references to Prof Chris Fletcher (<chris.fletcher@uwaterloo.ca>).  We regret that only applicants being called for interview will be contacted.

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Chris Fletcher
Associate Professor
Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1
(519) 888-4567 x36855
http://env-web3.uwaterloo.ca/c5fletch/
twitter: @ClimoChris
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[CRYOLIST] Workshop on cryoturbation, Oslo, Norway, 05.09.2017

​We will arrange a small workshop on cryoturbation at the University of Oslo September 5th 2017​, and ask anyone with interest in this theme to consider joining. One aim of the workshop is to work towards an IPA action group proposal on cryoturbation.

Keynote speaker: Professor Bernard Hallet, University of Washington

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Workshop topics include, but are not restricted to

• Cryoturbation in earth system models - is diffusion the only solution?
  
• Cryoturbation response to warming permafrost and thicker active layers; will surface burial increase or decrease?
  
• Past and present carbon sequestration from cryoturbation and periglacial creep
  
• From point measurements to surface displacement fields at the landform scale, but then where? Scaling issues.
  

Time and place:

Tuesday, 5th of September 2017, 10.00 - 17.00 at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo. 

Attending the workshop is free, and lunch will be included. There will be one session of presentations; the regular 15 minutes + 5 min questions/discussion after each presentation, and a final session with round-table summary discussions. The workshop is sponsored by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and is part of a project to safeguard and sustain the measurement series started by Bernard Hallet on the sorted circles on Kvadehuksletta, Svalbard. The workshop will take place right after fieldwork on this project. We have some restricted funds available for reimbursing travel costs; PhD students will have priority.

Registration: Send a mail to the organizer with suggested title of presentation.

​

Organizer: Professor Ivar Berthling, Department of Geography, NTNU

ivar.berthling@ntnu.no

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[CRYOLIST] Call for Researcher Applications for the 2018-19 PolarTREC Field Seasons

Call for Researcher Applications
Host a PolarTREC Teacher
Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating

Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.
Researcher Application Deadline: Monday, 4 September 2017
For further information, please contact PolarTREC at:
Email: info@polartrec.com
Phone: 907-474-1600
Or visit the PolarTREC website:
http://www.polartrec.com
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PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) 

is currently accepting applications from researchers for teacher research 
experiences. Researchers are invited to submit an application to host a 

PolarTREC teacher in the 2018 arctic and/or the 2018-2019 Antarctic 

field seasons. More information and application forms are available 

at: http://www.polartrec.com.
IMPORTANT! Funding is pending for PolarTREC during the 2018-19 
field seasons. ARCUS will keep researcher applicants informed of our 
funding status. If funding is secured, final matches should be made in 
December 2017 or January 2018.

A one-hour informational webinar for both researchers and teachers 

interested in PolarTREC will be held on 

Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 11:00 am AKDT (12:00 pm PDT,

1:00 pm MDT, 2:00 pm CDT, 3:00 pm EDT). Please register for the event
at: https://www.polartrec.com/teachers/webinar by Monday,
28 August 2017.

PolarTREC, a program of the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.
(ARCUS), is a project in which middle and high school teachers, as well
as informal science educators participate in polar
research, working closely with scientists as a pathway to improving
science education. The program integrates research and education to
produce a legacy of long-term teacher-researcher collaborations,
improved teacher content knowledge and instructional practices, and
broad public interest and engagement in polar science. PolarTREC
projects focus on a wide variety of research activities occurring in
both the Arctic and Antarctic, providing an outstanding opportunity for
researchers to share their passion for polar science through topics that
naturally engage students and the wider public.
 
Through PolarTREC, teachers spend two to six weeks in the Arctic or
Antarctic, working closely with researchers in the field as an integral
part of the science team. PolarTREC teachers and researchers are matched
based on similar science interests; selected researchers will have the
opportunity to interview top applicants and make final selections.
Teachers participate in an orientation and are trained extensively to
meet the program requirements prior to the field season. While in the
field, teachers and researchers communicate extensively with their
colleagues, communities, and students of all ages across the globe,
using a variety of tools including online journals, forums, podcasts,
and interactive webinars from the field.

PolarTREC researchers must be at U.S. institutions. Applications from
researchers on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects will
receive priority in the selection process. Researchers should have
secured funding for their research project prior to applying; if funding
is pending and you would still like to host a teacher, please contact
PolarTREC at info@polartrec.com to discuss your situation.
 
If you are interested in participating in PolarTREC, but are unable to
apply during the application period, please contact PolarTREC staff at
info@polartrec.com to discuss opportunities for future participation.
Applications and additional information about researcher and teacher
requirements can be found on the PolarTREC website at:
http://www.polartrec.com.

Researcher Application Deadline: Monday, 4 September 2017.
If PolarTREC funding is secured, we expect that final teacher-researcher
selection decisions will be made in December 2017 or January 2018.

For further information, please contact the PolarTREC staff at:
Email: info@polartrec.com
Phone: 907-474-1600
Or visit the PolarTREC website:
http://www.polartrec.com

[CRYOLIST] GSA Field Trip 421: Grounding Line Processes of the Southern Cordilleran Ice Sheet

Hi All,

In the rush to submit abstracts for both GSA and AGU, I want to remind the community about a GSA field trip (#421) to explore the stratigraphic record of grounding line processes of the southern Cordilleran Ice Sheet. 

The 1-day trip will facilitate discussion about ice-bed interactions and grounding line behavior at a larger scale and higher resolution than capable with geophysical surveys and sediment cores from contemporary and ancient grounding lines. 

The field trip registration deadline is Sept. 18, although those who register later may be able to attend depending on available space. Hope to see you all there! 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Best,

Lauren Simkins, John Anderson, and Brian Demet

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Lauren M. Simkins, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Rice University

Department of Earth Science

6100 Main Street

Houston, TX 77005

Research Website | ResearchGate

[CRYOLIST] 2 x Chairs in Data Analytics and Environmental Sensing at Lancaster University, UK

Dear All,

Lancaster University are currently recruiting to two Chairs (Professorial level) in Environmental Data Analytics and Environmental Sensing. The posts will provide leadership for the new Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, an exciting joint venture between Lancaster University and the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). Our goal is to secure our reputation as a world leading, cross-disciplinary research centre addressing global environmental challenges through methodological advances in data science. This builds on existing strengths across the two institutions in data science, environmental sciences and in managing and providing national capability in the form of data and modelling. As an indication of the scale of activity in this area, based on the Lancaster University campus are 80 academic staff (including 20 professors) in LEC, 100 staff in CEH Lancaster and over 100 members of the Data Science Institute (DSI) who are working within a collaborative environment that is producing research outputs of the highest international quality that have significant real-world impacts.

We welcome applications to the Chair in Environmental Data Analytics from those with leading expertise across this broad and emerging research field and may incorporate modern machine-learning approaches, data assimilation, ensembles, emulators, 'big' data methods, data mining and those with interests in uncertainty in environmental modelling. We are particularly interested in applicants that can shape this emerging field and exploit a range of data science methods and innovations to address key environmental grand challenges.

With regards to the Chair in Environmental Sensing, sensing is defined broadly incorporating the span of technologies from satellite Earth Observation through to in situ sensor networks, and the range of environmental applications from monitoring anthropogenically-produced change to quantifying fundamental environmental processes. We are particularly interested in applicants who operate at the interface of sensing and data science. Applicants with research interests related to environmental sensing of the hydrosphere including water resource management would be particularly encouraged to apply.

The University is partnering with the executive search firm Perrett Laver on this appointment. Further information, including details of how to apply, can be downloaded at https://candidates.perrettlaver.com quoting reference 3089. For informal inquiries please contact Yana Shevkirova on yana.shevkirova@perrettlaver.com or +44 207 340 6208. The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 31 July 2017.

Best wishes,

Amber Leeson

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Dr Amber Leeson
Lecturer in Environmental Data Science

Lancaster Environment Centre / Data Science Institute

 

[CRYOLIST] Land Ice-Ocean interactions AGU session

Dear colleagues,

 

Our session is aiming to bring together glaciologists and oceanographers, and everyone in between, to discuss land ice-ocean interactions.

 

We have confirmed two excellent invited authors: Helen Fricker (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) and Josh Willis (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

 

So, if you're interested, please consider submitting an abstract to the AGU Fall Meeting session C002: Advances in land ice-ocean interactions: Mechanisms, Impacts, & Synthesis https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session29346

 

Thanks!

The Conveners

 

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Tom Armitage | Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar

Radar Science and Engineering

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

California Institute of Technology

Email: Tom.W.Armitage@gmail.com

Phone: +1 (818)-354-3318

Twitter: @twkarmitage

 

[CRYOLIST] QRA Annual Discussion Meeting 2018 - registration now open!

Dear Cryolisters,

Registration for the QRA Annual Discussion Meeting (which will be held at Plymouth University, UK from 3rd-5th January 2018) is now open, with early-bird rates available until 31st October. There will be an optional field trip to Kent's Cavern and Hope's Nose raised beach on 6th January, and the conference dinner will be held at the National Marine Aquarium.

The overarching theme of the 2018 conference 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. Abstract submission is open until noon on the 24th October, and we encourage submissions from both UK-based and international researchers! 

We also invite all attendees of the QRA Annual Discussion Meeting 2018 to submit up to three photos on the theme of Quaternary Science to our photo competition. The photos will be judged by a panel at Plymouth University, and the shortlisted images (including the winner) will be on display throughout the conference. Please email all photo submissions to QRA2018@plymouth.ac.uk - we look forward to seeing your images!

For more information about the conference (including scientific themes and keynote speakers), and to register/submit an abstract, please visit https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/qra-annual-discussion-meeting-2018, and follow us on Twitter @QRA2018. 

If you have any enquiries 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] M.Sc. and Ph.D. position in permafrost and climate science at the University of Lethbridge

M.Sc. and Ph.D. positions in the department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge in climate and permafrost modelling.

 

I am currently in search of candidates to fill positions in my lab studying mountainous microclimate and permafrost variability in the Yukon and Northwest Territories of western Canada. The successful candidates will join a growing lab and research program focused on the spatial impact of climate change on the terrestrial cryosphere in the Department of Geography at the University of Lethbridge. Located in southwestern Alberta between prairie and mountain ecosystems the University of Lethbridge has both growing undergraduate and graduate programs with scholarship and graduate teaching assistantship opportunities. I am seeking students who will jointly apply for funding to support their research activities through NSERC (http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/index_eng.asp). As a result, priority will be given to Canadian students with completive qualifications. Positions to be filled include an M.Sc. (Analysis of near-surface inversions in the North American Arctic) and a Ph.D. (Analysis of the topo-temperature field redistribution and the impacts on the spatial distribution of projected permafrost thaw in complex terrain). Position are set to begin in September 2018 however, funding applications must be submitted by October 2017 (Ph.D.) and December 2017 (M.Sc.). The ideal candidate (M.Sc.) would hold a B.Sc. or B.A. in physical geography, environmental science or computer science with a strong background in geomatics (GIS and remote sensing), programming in R and Python, statistics and a keen interest in climatology and geomorphology. The ideal candidate (Ph.D.) would hold or be currently completing an M.Sc. in physical geography or environmental science with skills in geomatics (GIS and remote sensing). The research portion of the Ph.D. degree will involve both modelling and field work in the Yukon/NWT and will focus on the generation of air temperature and permafrost distribution models over complex topography. If you are interested in one of these positions, please contact Philip Bonnaventure (Philip.bonnaventure@uleth.ca) by September 10^th for more information. Information on graduate studies at the University of Lethbridge can be found using the below website.  

 

http://www.uleth.ca/graduate-studies/award-opportunities   

 

 

Dr. Philip P. Bonnaventure

Assistant Professor of Physical Geography

 

Department of Geography

University of Lethbridge

4401 University Drive

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4

 

Office: Alberta Water & Environmental Science

Building, Room WE2052

Phone: +1.403.317.5028

Email: philip.bonnaventure@uleth.ca