[CRYOLIST] Call for AWS data (DoG project)

Dear collegues,

We call for data from automatic weather stations situated in the vicinity of mountain glaciers all over the world, to be included in the recently launched DoG project "Atmospheric Downscaling for Glaciated mountain environments" (http://acinn.uibk.ac.at/research/atmospheric-dynamics-ice-and-climate/projects/dog).

Data series considered by the DoG project include

-          all variables required for process-based glacier mass modeling, in particular air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, precipitation, and global radiation,

-          at daily and preferably higher time resolutions,

-          and of minimum 2 years record length.

Removal of unreliable data should ideally appear as gaps in the data series, especially if this concerns larger parts of the data.

The DoG project aims at the systematic development of multisite and multivariable statistical and simplified physics-based downscaling tools with a focus on the challenges encountered for data-sparse, glaciated mountain environments. These challenges include, for example, the general availability of only short and/or patchy observation series (typically few years records), and the considerable discrepancies between atmospheric numerical model and true topographies in mountain regions. The final targets of the DoG project are (i) a quantification of the skill of reanalysis data for glaciated mountain environments in different climates and geo-environmental settings, and (ii) to test and further develop suitable downscaling tools for systematically generating high-resolution, multisite and multivariable data series.

Glaciologists and climate scientists from around the world with interest in including their study site in the DoG experiment are invited to get in contact with Marlis.Hofer@uibk.ac.at or Johanna.Nemec@uibk.ac.at.

Regards,

Marlis Hofer and Johanna Nemec

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Dr Marlis Hofer
Innrain 52f, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
phone 0043-512-507-5465
Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences
University of Innsbruck

[CRYOLIST] "Home Base Permafrost" Session at the ICOP 2016

Dear colleagues,

 

We would like to announce our session "Home Base Permafrost: Human livelihoods and interactions with permafrost landscape dynamics" at the 11th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP) 2016 in Potsdam, Germany, 20-24 June 2016.

This session is organized by the International Permafrost Association (IPA) Action Group "Permafrost and Culture" (PaC) and aims to integrate two hitherto disconnected scholarly approaches: on the one hand, geoscientific and environmental research on permafrost dynamics and hydrological processes, notably those on thermokarst processes and permafrost degradation in the light of global warming; on the other hand, social-scientific research on northern livelihoods, land use in permafrost regions, and local perceptions of environmental change.

For more information, please go to:

http://icop2016.org/index.php/program

and find our session under No.36

 

Conveners:

 

Mathias Ulrich

Leipzig University, Institute for Geography, Germany (Mathias.Ulrich@uni-leipzig.de)

 

J. Otto Habeck

Hamburg University, Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany (otto.habeck@uni-hamburg.de)

 

Alexander N. Fedorov

Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Russia (fedorov@mpi.ysn.ru)

 

Important deadlines:

- The deadline for receipt of abstracts is on Tuesday, 01 December 2015. For submitting an abstract to our session, you need to register on the webpage first following the link: http://icop2016.org/index.php/abstracts

- For young scientist: Applications for conference and workshop stipends (see http://icop2016.org/index.php/program/young-researcher-activities) must be submitted together with abstract submission until Tuesday, 01 December 2015.

 

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and to meeting you in Potsdam! Please feel free to contact any of the conveners for more information.

Best regards

Mathias Ulrich, J. Otto Habeck, Alexander N. Fedorov

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Session abstract

Home Base Permafrost: Human livelihoods and interactions with permafrost landscape dynamics

Session Description:

Permafrost is a key factor of changing human-environment interactions in Arctic, Subarctic and high-altitude regions. Investigating permafrost processes clarifies not only the development of circumpolar biogeophysical systems but also local and regional socio-cultural dynamics. We propose to integrate two hitherto disconnected scholarly approaches: on the one hand, geoscientific and environmental research on permafrost dynamics and hydrological processes, notably those on thermokarst processes and permafrost degradation in the light of global warming; on the other hand, social-scientific research on northern livelihoods, land use in permafrost regions, and local perceptions of environmental change. We thus hope to develop a better understanding of sustained human involvement in permafrost landscapes – at different time scales and throughout the circumpolar region and Inner Asia.

We welcome contributions from all fields of science, covering diverse methodological approaches such as interviewing and participant observation, field-process studies, monitoring programs, remote-sensing analysis, and modelling. We also hope to include outlines of existing and planned interdisciplinary collaborations, outreach programs, and participatory research on land use in permafrost regions. Ultimately, this session seeks to enlarge the thematic scope and local embeddedness of future research in diverse permafrost landscapes.

The session is organized by the International Permafrost Association (IPA) Action Group "Permafrost and Culture" (PaC).

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[CRYOLIST] Call for Abstracts for the SCAR 2016 Open Science Conference

Salutations Cryolist Community, 

We would like to announce the Call for Abstracts for the SCAR 2016 Open Science Conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 22-26 August 2016. This conference will focus on Antarctica in the Global Earth System: From the Poles to the Tropics and how the changes that we are currently seeing in Antarctica will affect the rest of the world. The conference programme, including sessions and descriptions, is now available on the conference website: http://www.scar.org/scarmeetings/conferences/2016-osc-home/session-descriptions.

The submission of abstracts is open until 14 February 2016. We encourage those participating in Antarctic expeditions to submit abstracts early. Early bird registration ends on 5 May

CryoScientists, you can submit your Abstracts to the session that you consider better fits your work: 

S4. Past Antarctic ice sheet dynamics A: the paleoceanographic and ice-distal record

S5. Past Antarctic ice sheet dynamics B: from glacial and ice-proximal records to models

S6. Glaciers and ice sheet mass balance

S7. Antarctic oldest ice challenge

S8. Solid earth responses and influences on cryospheric evolution

S9. Status and trends in Antarctic sea ice and ice shelves

S10. Subglacial aquatic environments

S11. Antarctic permafrost, periglacial processes and soil development

S12. Snow and ice in Antarctica

S18. Subglacial geology and significant events in the geological evolution of Antarctica

S26. Effects of sea-ice changes and ocean warming on marine ecosystem structure, functioning and services

Cheers, 

Berna

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Bernabé Moreno
Polar Ecologist & Underwater Cameraman
Marine Biology Laboratory 
Científica del Sur University
Lima, Peru

[CRYOLIST] PhD opportunity at the University of British Columbia

The glaciology group at the University of British Columbia seeks to fill
a PhD position focused on iceberg calving and its role in ice sheet
dynamics. The successful candidate will develop new modelling approaches
to calving based on viscoelastic fracture mechanics, and/or develop new
ice melange rheology models by drawing on models for sea ice dynamics.
The ultimate goal of the project is to include these processes
self-consistently into large scale models of ice sheet and outlet
glacier dynamics, and to assess the role played by calving and ice
melange in determining stable configurations of a marine-terminating ice
sheet.

A background in physics, geophysics, engineering or applied mathematics
is ideal for the project. An MSc or equivalent is necessary for direct
admission to the PhD program. The project is part of ArcTrain
<http://www.arctrain.ca/index.php/en/>, a graduate training program
funded by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of
Canada.<http://www.arctrain.ca/index.php/en/> The successful candidate
will be expected to participate in all ArcTrain training activities
<http://www.arctrain.ca/index.php/en/trainin> and will spend research
time at the home institution of a co-supervisor either in Germany or
Canada. A project description can be found on the ArcTrain website at
http://www.arctrain.ca/index.php/en/joining-arctrain/phd-projects.

The glaciology group in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric
Sciences <www.eos.ubc.ca> at UBC conducts research in a wide variety of
topics, ranging from surface mass balance and regional glaciation
modelling to subglacial processes, and modelling to field observations.
We are currently three faculty members, four graduate students and two
visiting students, working in a broad, interdisciplinary Earth Sciences
department. Mathematically-inclined students may also choose to join the
Institute of Applied Mathematics <http://www.iam.ubc.ca/>.

For further information, please contact Christian Schoof
(cschoof@eos.ubc.ca)

UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity.
All qualified persons are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome
applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal
persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual
orientations and gender identities and others with the skills and
knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. Canadians and
permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.

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Christian Schoof
Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
University of British Columbia
2020-2207 Main Mall
Vancouver BC
V6T 1Z4
1-604-822-6482

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