[CRYOLIST] eLightning session at AGU

Hello all - 

With abstract deadlines rapidly approaching, please consider a submitting to our eLightning session. 

These sessions are a great way to showcase your dynamic research and data using interactive graphics, video and/or audio. eLightning provides presenters the ability to expand beyond a static poster or a linear slide deck.

The Cryosphere Sections's eLightning session - Visualizing the Dynamic Cryosphere - provides researchers at all career stages the opportunity present their research orally and digitally at the AGU Fall Meeting.

(https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/85486)

Thanks and have a great week.

- Eric Sproles

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Eric A. Sproles, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

[CRYOLIST] Postdoc opportunity - modelling meltwater-ice sheet interactions

Dear colleagues,

We have an exciting opportunity for a postdoctoral research position at the University of Oxford to work on modelling subglacial hydrology and its effect on ice dynamics.  The 2-year post is funded by NERC as part of the project 'Meltwater-Ice sheet Interactions and the Changing Climate of Greenland', with collaborators at the University of Lancaster and University of Edinburgh.

More details are available here, https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=141969.  Closing date for applications is Friday 13 Sept.

Ian

Ian Hewitt

Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG

Tel: +44(0) 1865 270518 Office: S3.29

http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/hewitt/

[CRYOLIST] LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (Deadline 31 July): AGU-H100 - Multi-source Remote Sensing of Rivers, Lakes, Reservoirs and Wetlands

Dear Colleagues,

let us let us remind you of the following AGU 2019 Fall Meeting session in San Francisco, 09-13 December 2019:

H100 - Multi-source Remote Sensing of Rivers, Lakes, Reservoirs and Wetlands

Session ID#: 85504

Session Description:

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

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

(sent also to the Cryolist mailing list to cover the Arctic Rivers as well!)

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/85504

https://www2.agu.org/en/Fall-Meeting

Please submit abstracts before Wednesday, 31 July

Looking forward to seeing you at this session,

Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency/ESA-ESRIN, Italy
Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University, USA
Ben DeVries, University of Maryland, USA
Peirong Lin, Princeton University, USA
Ethan J Shavers, USGS Geological Survey, USA

--    Dr. Jérôme Benveniste     Senior Advisor - European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN)   Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes   EO Science, Applications and Future Technologies Dpt   Largo Galileo Galilei, 1,  Frascati (Roma), I-00044, Italy   E-mail: Jerome.Benveniste@esa.int   Tel : (+39) 06 941 80 553 ; Fax: (+39) 06 941 80 552      ~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~~ ~~_/)~ ~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ 0 ~~~    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ _/) _/) ~~~ ~ ~_/) ~ ~ ~~ ~~  ~~ `~~ ~~~ ~~ ~~  ~~ O ~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~~ ~~ ~ ~ _/)~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~ ~    

[CRYOLIST] LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (Deadline 31 July): AGU-OS005 - Coastal Altimetry from the Shelf to Estuaries and Deltas: Retrieval, Applications and Assimilation in Models

Dear Colleagues,

let us remind you of the following AGU 2019 Fall Meeting session in San Francisco, 09-13 December 2019:

OS005 - Coastal Altimetry from the Shelf to Estuaries and Deltas: Retrieval, Applications and Assimilation in Models

Session ID#: 76597

Session Description:

Satellite radar altimetry provides a unique and consistent data set of water level that extends more than 25 years back in time and has almost global coverage. Recent technological advances (SAR, SARin and Ka-band) and novel retrieval processing show improved water level observations over the coast and boundary inland water areas, filling an important gap. We invite contributions highlighting how satellite altimetry data are processed in those challenging domains (new technologies, novel algorithms) and used (in combination/synergy with in situ and/or models) to contribute to the research and monitoring of coastal ocean and ocean-land transition areas. We encourage studies in permafrost-affected coastal plains as well as novel investigations concerning "€œcoastal hydrology€"  (e.g., coastal river flooding). Case-studies are also welcome, for different geographical situations (e.g., megacities, islands, low-lands), highlighting the integration of in situ/altimetry/modelling in the coastal zone, using processing platforms providing data access, processing algorithms and data assimilation techniques.

(sent also to the Cryolist mailing list to cover the Arctic Ocean Coastal Zone as well!)

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/76597

https://www2.agu.org/en/Fall-Meeting

Please submit abstracts before Wednesday, 31 July

Invited Keynote speakers:  Anny Cazenave (LEGOS, FR), Christopher Piecuch (WHOI, MA, USA)

Looking forward to seeing you at this session,

Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency/ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Villy Kourafalou, U. Miami, RSMAS, Miami, United States
Cheinway Hwang, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Stefano Vignudelli, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerca, Pisa, Italy

--    Dr. Jérôme Benveniste     Senior Advisor - European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN)   Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes   EO Science, Applications and Future Technologies Dpt   Largo Galileo Galilei, 1,  Frascati (Roma), I-00044, Italy   E-mail: Jerome.Benveniste@esa.int   Tel : (+39) 06 941 80 553 ; Fax: (+39) 06 941 80 552      ~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~~ ~~_/)~ ~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ 0 ~~~    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ _/) _/) ~~~ ~ ~_/) ~ ~ ~~ ~~  ~~ `~~ ~~~ ~~ ~~  ~~ O ~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~~ ~~ ~ ~ _/)~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~ ~    

[CRYOLIST] Physical Oceanographer at Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government. AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals. 

Physical Oceanographer (m/f/d)

Background

The section Physical Oceanography of the Polar Seas invites applications for the position of a Physical Oceanographer (m/f/d) in the framework of the HGF infrastructure Program "FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring: The FRAM Ocean Observing System". The position addresses the management and scientific integration of data from this and related programs.

The FRAM ocean observing system is a marine infrastructure to enable year-round time series observations in the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas. FRAM contributes to international efforts towards comprehensive global Earth observations. The main purpose of the FRAM infrastructure is permanent presence at sea, covering the ocean from the sea surface to the sea floor, for the provision of near real-time data for the study of ocean dynamics, climate variability and ecosystem change. The infrastructure will provide ocean data from a range of measurements platforms and sensors that will be made available to a multitude of users.

Tasks
You will

• manage the mooring and hydrography program of FRAM with a particular focus on the mooring array that has been monitoring the inflow conditions to the Arctic Ocean in the West Spitsbergen Current in the eastern part of Fram Strait since 1997. 
• improve the measurement strategy according to the scientific questions of the FRAM users.
• join expeditions and will be responsible for the acquisition and high quality processing of mooring data.
• both compute derived quantities (e.g. self-consistent volume transport time-series of the flow in the WSC from 1997 to 2018) from the mooring data and publish those as derived data products.
• conduct scientific analyses based on this data set and publish them in the scientific literature.
• work in close cooperation with FRAM scientists ranging from physical oceanographers to modelers and marine biologists as well as with engineers and technicians.

Requirements

• Master degree in physical oceanography or related fields
• An extensive experience in both the operation of marine equipment (particularly in high-latitude and ice-covered oceans) and the analysis of sensor-based environmental (preferably marine) data.
• Strong background in high-level programming (preferably MATLAB) is required.
• Willingness to participate in research expeditions.
• Very good communication skills in English - both written and oral – are mandatory.

Desirable skills and knowledge

• You should have practical knowledge in the application of statistical methods to be used for the analyses of time series and spatial patterns is desirable.
  
• You should be open to interact with an interdisciplinary and international science community.

Further Information

For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow (torsten.kanzow@awi.de; +49(471)4831-2913) 

The full-time position is limited to 21 months. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes (TVöD Bund), up to salary level 13. The place of employment will be Bremerhaven.

This characterizes us

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

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

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

We look forward to your application!

Please forward your application by August 17th, 2019 exclusively online.
Reference number 79/G/Kli-b

https://recruitingapp-5442.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/405/Description/2

[CRYOLIST] AGU 2019: Multi-decadal to centennial variability in ice sheets and sea level - Abstract submission reminder

Hi all

 

In the spirit of this being AGU’s *centennial* year, I’d like to highlight the following session for your consideration. We are delighted to announce confirmed guest speaker Dr. Alexander Robel (Georgia Tech, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)

Session ID: 76741
Session Title: Multi-decadal to centennial variability in ice sheets and sea level
Section: Cryosphere
Abstract: Understanding the drivers behind multi-decadal to centennial-scale variability in ice sheets and sea level is crucial when planning for a warming world.  However, the magnitude and timing of the response of ice sheets to past climatic changes remains poorly understood. This makes attribution of the causes of episodic and secular changes in mass balance, and their associated contribution to sea level change, challenging.

We invite abstracts that present observational investigations and/or modelling studies to advance understanding of the periodicity of ice sheet/stream/shelf response to past, present or future climate forcing. Submissions may also include studies of multi-decadal to centennial-scale variability in sea level and attribution of its drivers.

 

Thanks!

Leanne Wake, on behalf of Sarah Woodroffe, Kristian Kjeldsen, Dan Golderg, Edward Hanna

 

 

Dr. Leanne Wake

Senior Lecturer

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/s/leanne-mary-wake

Cold and Palaeoenvironment Research Group CAPE: www.northumbria.ac.uk/cape 

T:  +44 (0)191 243 7814

E:  leanne.wake@northumbria.ac.uk

Room EBA 205, Northumbria University, Newcastle City Campus, 2 Ellison Place,Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, United Kingdom

 

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[CRYOLIST] new job opportunity at Aberdeen

Dear colleagues,

The School of Geosciences in Aberdeen (UK), which comprises Archaeology, Geography and Geology, is looking for a new Head of School, to be appointed as a full time, permanent (tenured) SL/Reader/Chair (Associate/Full Professor) . I attach the job description, a summary of which is also copied below. I would be happy to answer any informal questions about the post.

The deadline is at the end of August.

Best,

Matteo

 

 

 

Founded in 1495, Aberdeen is Scotland’s third oldest University and the fifth oldest in the UK. Ranked within the world top 160 in the Times Higher Education Rankings 2019 and named Scottish University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019, Aberdeen’s founding purpose is to be ‘open to all and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in the service of others’.

The School of Geosciences at the University of Aberdeen is one of the top academic units of its type in the UK. The School includes 45 academic staff and 15 research fellows who work within three departments (Archaeology, Geography and Geology) covering areas as diverse as earth resources, the northern Picts and sustainable rural communities. As we transition to a greener future the School is well positioned to lead research that builds on our world-leading petroleum geology expertise to pursue new research in, for example, energy, water resources and the green economy.

The School has a vibrant community of approximately 120 PhD students and runs 10 taught Masters programmes. The number of students taking our MSc programmes has doubled in the last seven years. The Geology undergraduate degree is ranked #1 in Scotland and 12^th in the UK, while Geography is also ranked in the top 20 in the UK in Complete University Guide 2020. The School has a very healthy annual research income (over £3.45 million in financial year 2017-18) of which over 20% was from UK research councils. The remainder came from other sources including industry, government departments and charities. Our submissions to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework Assessment were very highly ranked.

The University wishes to recruit a Head of School who will provide scholarly and intellectual leadership, fostering collegiality and further developing the School’s strong research, teaching and learning environment. Applicants will be responsible for developing and delivering the School’s strategic plan and leading the School’s contribution to the University’s strategic ambitions. Therefore, excellent interpersonal skills together with a proven record of strategic vision, revenue generation, financial accountability and effective team management are essential. We welcome applicants with a background in any of the School’s discipline areas.

Applications from women and individuals from protected characteristic groups currently under-represented in University senior leadership positions who would further enhance its diversity are particularly welcome.

Online application forms are available at www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 30 August 2019

Should you wish to make an informal enquiry please contact:

Professor Karl Leydecker, Senior Vice-Principal (Tel: 01224 272017 or E-mail: karl.leydecker@abdn.ac.uk) or Professor David Jolley, current Head of School (Tel: 01224 272894 or E-mail: d.jolley@abdn.ac.uk).

Please do not send application forms or CVs to Professor Leydecker or Professor Jolley.

Please quote reference HoS Geosciences on all correspondence

The University pursues a policy of equal opportunities in the appointment and promotion of staff.

 

The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.

[CRYOLIST] Call For Input by 31 July - Survey on Interdisciplinary Arctic Research Networking

Call for Input   Arctic Research Interdisciplinary/Transdisciplinary Networking Hub Survey   Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS)     SURVEY DEADLINE: 31 July 2019     For more information and to participate in the survey, go to:   Survey homepage: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y8NBMTZ    -------------------------    The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS [2]) is currently  conducting a brief community survey to inform a potential new effort that  will help individuals interested in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary  Arctic research opportunities to connect more easily.     After the December 2018 ARCUS Annual Members Meeting, a task force was  convened to review community needs and challenges identified by Annual  Meeting participants and to propose a handful of new ARCUS project ideas to  help the community respond. One idea put forward by the task force was the  development of a "community hub" dedicated to interdisciplinary research  networking. The function of the hub would be to connect researchers, local  experts, and other community members interested in developing  interdisciplinary collaborative research initiatives to explore  Arctic-related topics or themes. The proposed hub might include an online  component, as well as other supporting activities and events hosted by  ARCUS such as social or professional networking meet-ups, issue-focused  workshops, or trainings designed to help expand the Arctic research  community's skill and capacity for collaborative and interdisciplinary  research.     This goal of this survey is to seek additional input from potential hub  participants to ensure the effort is well-aligned with user needs. The  survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.     All questions are optional and participants may remain anonymous. Two  survey participants will be randomly selected to win a free Arctic ocean  map umbrella.     SURVEY DEADLINE: 31 July 2019     For more information and to participate in the survey, go to:   Survey homepage: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y8NBMTZ    For questions, contact:   Brit Myers   Email: brit@arcus.org   Phone: 206-697-2822 

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

Follow ARCUS on Twitter: @ArcticResearch

Become an ARCUS Member: https://www.arcus.org/arcus/member-information 

[CRYOLIST] Seligman Crystal ceremony for Doug MacAyeal

Dear Cryolist members

 

APOLOGIES, I got the year wrong. The Durham symposium is of course next year, in 2020.

 

As you are aware of the IGS has awarded the Seligman Crystal to Doug MacAyeal. Several people have contacted us asking when the ceremony will take place.

 

It has now been decided that the award ceremony will be at the IGS symposium on 'Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers' to be held at Durham University 19–24 July 2020. The exact time of the ceremony has not yet been set.

 

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

 

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] Seligman Crystal ceremony for Doug MacAyeal

Dear Cryolist members

 

As you are aware of the IGS has awarded the Seligman Crystal to Doug MacAyeal. Several people have contacted us asking when the ceremony will take place.

 

It has now been decided that the award ceremony will be at the IGS symposium on 'Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers' to be held at Durham University 19–24 July 2019. The exact time of the ceremony has not yet been set.

 

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

 

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] PostDoc position in VAW's Glaciology section at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Dear cryolisters,

please note the open PostDoc position in the Glaciology section of the
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), at ETH Zurich,
Switzerland:
https://apply.refline.ch/845721/7310/pub/1/index.html

We are looking for a young, eager PostDoc to join and strengthen our
group in the domain of ice flow modelling, glacier drainage, and/or
glacier-related hazards.
For further details, refer to the above link.

Best regards
Daniel Farinotti

P.S. Did you know? You can follow us on twitter: @VAW_glaciology
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[CRYOLIST] IACS-IGS Graham Cogley Award

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that the first recipients of the newly established IACS-IGS Graham Cogley Award are Carolina Aubry-Wake, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Eric Keenan, University of Boulder, USA, in recognition of their presentations at the IUGG General Assembly in July 2019.

The new IACS-IGS Graham Cogley Award was established in memory of Graham Cogley (Trent University, Canada) who passed away in October 2018. 
https://cryosphericsciences.org/members/obituaries/
https://www.igsoc.org/news/grahamcogley/

The award was initiated and is generously sponsored by the Cogley family, for a period of 20 years. The award recognizes Graham's substantial and outstanding contributions to glaciology, in particular studies of glacier mass balance, his sustained service to scientific organizations and the broader glaciological community, and his collegiality, kindness and extraordinary work ethic. The award is given annually to recognize excellence in cryospheric research by Early-Career Scientists. 

Every other year beginning in 2019 the award is given by the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) to two students to recognize an oral and a poster presentation of exceptional quality at an IACS Assembly (held every two years). 

In every other year beginning in 2020 the award is given by the International Glaciological Society (IGS) to two early career scientists who have published a paper of exceptional quality in the Journal of Glaciology or the Annals of Glaciology published by the IGS.

The shared IACS-IGS Award recognizes Graham's outstanding service in both IACS and the IGS. For example, Graham chaired several working groups within IACS, and he served as Chief Editor of the IGS' journals.

The awardees receive a certificate by IACS or IGS and a cash prize of CAD 500 each due to the generous support from the Cogley family.

https://cryosphericsciences.org/awards/graham-cogley-award/
https://cryosphericsciences.org/

Best wishes
Regine Hock (President of IACS)
Francisco Navarro (President of IGS)

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Regine Hock
Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska
2156 Koyukuk Drive
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7320
ph: 907 - 474 7691
fax: 907 - 474 5882
rehock@alaska.edu
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[CRYOLIST] AGU 2019 session reminder: Cryosphere geophysics

Dear colleagues,

We would like to remind you about an AGU Fall Meeting 2019 session "Geophysical
Advances in Cryospheric Processes, Structure, and Environmental Change."

Our invited speakers are:

Emma Smith (Alfred Wegener Institute)

David Rey (Colorado School of Mines)

Please submit your abstract from here:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/74729

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

Stephanie James [USGS]
Dan McGrath [Colorado State University]
Atsuhiro Muto [Temple University]
Andy Parsekian [University of Wyoming]

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Session ID: 74729
Session Title: [NS006] Geophysical Advances in Cryospheric Processes,
Structure, and Environmental Change
Session Description: The cold regions of our planet are undergoing
unprecedented changes; however, many details of cryospheric processes and
subsurface characteristics are inaccessible beneath or within frozen Earth
materials and thus remain unknown. Geophysical observations are essential
to studies of high-elevation and high-latitude cold regions, and through
ongoing advancements in instrumentation, computing power, and new
measurement strategies, geophysical methods are well positioned to address
many open cryospheric research questions. In this session, we seek
submissions describing advancements, insights, and opportunities provided
by geophysical observations in the study of glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice,
snow, permafrost, and seasonally frozen ground. We welcome submissions
using ground and airborne geophysical methods (e.g. ground penetrating
radar, electrical resistivity, nuclear magnetic resonance, electromagnetic,
seismic, gravity etc.) applied to solve cryospheric problems including
characterization, detection, and/or monitoring of cold-region environments.
Studies exploring innovative methods, multidisciplinary approaches, and the
vulnerability of the cryosphere to future changes are particularly
encouraged.

[CRYOLIST] AGU Fall Meeting 2019: C014 - Geological Signatures of Ice Shelves Past and Present

Dear colleagues,

Another AGU reminder, but please consider submitting abstracts to our session at Fall Meeting 2019: 

C014 - Geological Signatures of Ice Shelves Past and Present

"Floating ice shelves restrain the upstream flow of continental ice and, thus, changes within them can lead to glacier acceleration with direct impacts on global sea level. However, the signatures of ice shelves, including possible past collapses, are complex. As a consequence, their role in influencing past ice-sheet dynamics is often poorly resolved. Similarly, present-day geological environments and ice-ocean processes near to ice shelves remain difficult to characterise especially in inaccessible sub-ice shelf settings. We welcome submissions exploiting observational, modelling, or theoretical methods to study the signatures, processes, and dynamics of ice shelves past and present. Topics may include: sedimentary and/or geomorphic proxies for ice-shelf geometries and configurations; ice-ocean and geological processes operating at and under ice shelves; reconstructions of ice-shelf changes; studies of sub-ice shelf bathymetry; and studies exploring the rates and processes of ice-shelf collapse including links to and debates surrounding the role of marine ice-cliff instability." 

We hope to attract a diverse range of work that will showcase current understanding of ice-shelf systems from an Earth Science perspective. Still plenty of time to get those abstracts written. 

We look forward to seeing your contributions. 

Alastair GC Graham, University of Exeter, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, 

James A Smith, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 

Anna Ruth W Halberstadt, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and 

Brad E Rosenheim, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States

[CRYOLIST] Cosmogenic nuclide-focused session at AGU 2019

Dear friends and colleagues,

If you use cosmogenic nuclides to study any aspect of earth surface change, please consider submitting an abstract to AGU session EP007 - Catching Cosmic Rays: Advances in Using Cosmogenic Nuclides to Quantify Earth Surface Processes. The session description is provided below, and other details can be found here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/77207.

We have two confirmed invited speakers:

John Gosse (Dalhousie University)

Emma Harris (UC San Diego)

Session description:

Over the past 40 years, cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) geochemistry has transformed the study of Earth surface processes, making it possible to date the incision of the world's deepest canyons, derive basin-wide erosion rates from the world's largest catchments, reconstruct the history of glaciers at high latitudes, and quantify weathering rates on rapidly eroding hillslopes. Novel CRN approaches have the potential to provide new insights into the varied processes that shape Earth's surface, ranging in scale from local to global. In this session, we invite contributions that advance the application of CRN for quantifying Earth surface processes, including, but not limited to: paleoclimate reconstruction, quantification of sediment storage dynamics, rapid or long-term landscape change, applications and/or cross-calibration of multiple nuclide and/or multiple mineral systems, production rate calibration, and improved laboratory or measurement techniques.

The abstract submission deadline is July 31. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

Thank you from the session conveners,

Alia Lesnek (University at Buffalo)

Simon Pendleton (CU Boulder)

Marisa Repasch (GFZ Potsdam)

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Alia Lesnek, PhD
Department of Geology
University at Buffalo

126 Cooke Hall

Buffalo, NY 14260

Re: [CRYOLIST] *Last Reminder* AGU Session C033 - RS of Freshwater Ice

Dear Colleagues,

 

Please consider submitting your 2019 AGU abstracts to this session focusing on freshwater ice – probably the first freshwater ice- specific session at AGU!. This session aims to bring together studies including remote sensing analysis of frozen rivers, ponds, lakes, or any waterbody of interest. Abstracts are due July 31^st.

 

C033 – Remote Sensing of Freshwater Ice

 

Frozen freshwater lakes and rivers are integral components of biological, chemical and hydrological systems in Arctic and subarctic regions, covering 2% of Earth’s land surface. The presence of freshwater ice has numerous implications, including economic (ice road transportation, hydroelectric power generation), climatic (landscape-scale atmosphere heat inputs), and habitat (fish overwintering). The thickness and timing of ice development and melt can be a proxy for observing changes in climate. Use of optical, thermal, and microwave remote sensing has improved the ability to monitor ice properties absent of (or in combination with) manual observations. This session aims to share recent research on the observation and quantification of freshwater ice properties on rivers and lakes using a range of remote sensing datasets and techniques. The session will bring together presentations detailing how remote sensing can advance understanding of frozen fresh waterbodies, with methods including polarimetry, interferometry, time series analysis, machine learning, and/or algorithm development.

 

Thank you!

 

Grant Gunn Michigan State University/ Claude Duguay – University of Waterloo/ Samuel Tuttle – Mount Holyoke College/ Dorothy Hall – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

 

 

Grant Gunn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences

Michigan State University

673 Auditorium Rd, Rm 212

 

 

Grant Gunn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences

Michigan State University

673 Auditorium Rd, Rm 212

 

[CRYOLIST] UK Sea Ice Group Meeting - 19-20th September 2019

Dear All,

The UK Sea Ice Group Meeting 2019 will be hosted by the Met Office in Exeter in the afternoon of Thursday 19th and the morning of Friday 20th September 2019.
Lunch will be provided on both days as well as tea and coffee breaks. Refreshments have been part-funded by the Challenger Society as part of the Sea Ice Special Interest Group.

The format will be much the same as previous years with an informal feel and oral/poster presentations available to all.

If you would like to attend then please complete following online questionnaire to let us know the relevant information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJa1MpGv1aySyWDCH0HWZKlg5SMzqrA9hxHCAfI_nawz4u7A/viewform

Hope to see you at the Met Office in September.

Ed


Regards,
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Lead Scientist, Polar Climate Group
Met Office Hadley Centre
FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB UK
+44(0)1392 88 6083 : www.metoffice.gov.uk

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[CRYOLIST] Climate Emergency Declared by scientists - Please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

of interest for many readers of the cryolist.

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De: scientistswarning <scientistswarning@oregonstate.edu>

Objet: [Scientists-warning] Climate Emergency Declared by scientists-please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

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Dear Alliance of World Scientist member, Thank you for signing the 2017 Scientists’ Warning to Humanity as this started a movement with traction. I now ask if you could read and sign our new urgent letter on climate change which is in-press with BioScience Magazine. Because of the need to get many signatures, I would very much appreciate it if you would pass this invitation for scientists to sign this new climate emergency letter to  your network of scientists and on social media. There are climate photos attached for social media. Thanks much, Bill

 

Dear Colleague,

We are inviting you and all scientists to sign our new in-press BioScience paper "World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency" which we want to present to world leaders.

The article is short and can be read in fewer than eight minutes. Just go to http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/ to read and sign the paper (you can also read a condensed version of the article below).

Please forward this email to other scientists within your network or use social media as suggested below. We want to get signatories from scientists in a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

Feel free to use the attached images on social media.

Thanks, Bill      William J. Ripple, Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Oregon State University

To promote the initiative on social media (Facebook and Twitter), please consider using the following text:

The #ScientistsWarningToHumanity is speaking out about the climate emergency. If you are a scientist you can support this new initiative by sharing this and adding your signature here:http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/ 

Or

Scientists can support the #ScientistsWarningToHumanity climate emergency initiative by sharing this and adding your signature here: http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/

Or

I just signed the #ScientistsWarningToHumanity climate emergency initiative. If you are a scientist you can support this new initiative by sharing this and adding your signature here:http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/

 

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency (Condensed Version) 

William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, xxxx scientist signatories from xxx countries 

We scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any great existential threat. In this paper, we present a suite of graphical vital signs of climate change over the last 40 years. Results show greenhouse gas emissions are still rising, with increasingly damaging effects. With few exceptions, we are largely failing to address this predicament. The climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than many scientists expected. It is more severe than anticipated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of humanity. We suggest six critical and interrelated steps that governments and the rest of humanity can take to lessen the worst effects of climate change, covering 1) Energy, 2) Short-lived pollutants, 3) Nature, 4) Food, 5) Economy, and 6) Population. Mitigating and adapting to climate change entails transformations in the ways we govern, manage, feed, and fulfill material and energy requirements. We are encouraged by a recent global surge of concern. Governmental bodies are making climate emergency declarations. The Pope issued an encyclical on climate change. Schoolchildren are striking. Ecocide lawsuits are proceeding in the courts. Grassroots citizen movements are demanding change. As scientists, we urge widespread use of our vital signs and anticipate that graphical indicators will better allow policymakers and the public to understand the magnitude of this crisis, track progress, and realign priorities to alleviate climate change. The good news is that such transformative change, with social and ecological justice, promises greater human wellbeing in the long-run than business as usual. We believe that prospects will be greatest if policy makers and the rest of humanity promptly respond to our warning and declaration of a climate emergency, and act to sustain life on planet Earth, our only home.

 

 

 

William J. Ripple email: scientistswarning@oregonstate.edu

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[CRYOLIST] AGU 2019 session: Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

 

We encourage you to submit an abstract to the following AGU 2019 session:

 

B128 - Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change

Permafrost carbon (C) remains one of the most important C cycle feedbacks to climate, with implications for global society. Permafrost region soils contain 1440-1600 billion tons of C; release of just a fraction of this pool as carbon dioxide and methane can accelerate climate change. Permafrost degradation can change ecosystem C storage by enhancing microbial activity and ecosystem respiration, but can also stimulate plant growth and increase C stored in vegetation and surface soil. This session invites papers that examine factors causing losses and gains in permafrost C that contribute to current observations and future projections of changing permafrost C through time. Papers may address any aspect of this topic from microbial communities to the global scale, using a range of field or laboratory measurements or modeling to detect and forecast permafrost thaw and the influence on the C cycle and future climate.

 

Abstract submission deadline:  July 31, 2019

 

We look forward to hosting another exciting session at AGU:

 

Conveners:

Christina Schaedel,

Elaine Pegoraro

 

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Christina Schaedel

Co-PI Permafrost Carbon Network

Northern Arizona University

 

[CRYOLIST] AGU session: Arctic and Antarctic subglacial environments

Dear Cryolist,

Since we are in the final throes of AGU abstract submission, please consider submitting an abstract to our AGU Fall meeting session C006: Arctic and Antarctic subglacial environments: Bridging the gap between modern observations and paleoclimate records. We encourage abstracts that highlight how modern observational and modeling efforts and paleoclimate records can be united to generate a more holistic understanding of ice sheet processes. 

We are particularly excited about our invited talks from two dynamic early-career researchers, Emily Stevenson (University of Cambridge) and Benjamin Keisling (University of Massachusetts-Amherst).

Thank you,
Ryan Venturelli, University of South Florida
Chloe Gustafson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alex Michaud, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Matt Siegfried, Colorado School of Mines

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Session ID: 77589
Section: Cryosphere
Description: Interconnected physical and geobiological systems in the subglacial environment modulate modern ice-sheet processes and leave an imprint on the sedimentary archive of paleo-ice-sheet behavior. A holistic view of the extent, magnitude, and timescale of glaciological, geochemical, geomorphic, hydrological, and geobiological processes can help refine our quantification of past, present, and future ice-sheet state. This session aims to bring together studies from a variety of fields to explore how modern observations and models of sub-ice systems can improve our interpretation of paleoclimate records and how inferences from paleoclimate records can help contextualize the relevance and magnitude of modern sub-ice processes. We encourage contributions that cover a wide-range of methods, including direct borehole sampling, in situ and remote geophysical observation, laboratory experiments, sedimentological analysis, biogeochemical studies, geochronological surveys, and modeling studies, in order to improve our collective process-to-paleo perspective.

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Ryan Venturelli (she, her, hers)
PhD Candidate
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science
www.marine.usf.edu