Date

Multiple Meeting Announcements

  1. Call for Abstracts
    27th Lowell Wakefield International Fisheries Symposium
    14-17 September 2011
    Anchorage, Alaska

  2. Deadline Extended
    Shaping the Future of AMAP
    3 May 2011
    Copenhagen, Denmark

  3. Workshop Announcement
    Ice Drilling Science Community Planning Workshop
    15-16 April 2011
    Herndon, Virginia

  1. Call for Abstracts
    27th Lowell Wakefield International Fisheries Symposium
    14-17 September 2011
    Anchorage, Alaska

Organizers of the 27th Lowell Wakefield International Fisheries
Symposium, entitled "Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies,
and Management Responding to Change," announce a call for abstracts. The
symposium will be held 14-17 September 2011 in Anchorage, Alaska.

This international symposium will provide a forum for scholars, fishery
managers, fishing families, and others to explore the human dimensions
of fishery systems and the growing need to include social science
research in policy processes.

The themes for the symposium are as follows:

- Human/Environment Relationships
- Fishing Communities in Transition
- Indigenous and Rural Knowledge and Communities
- Governance and Management Issues in the North
- Celebrating the Lives of Fishing Peoples

Detailed descriptions for each theme are available online, at:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2011/wakefield-people/call.php.
Relevant abstracts (250 words max) can be submitted via an online form:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2011/wakefield-people/abstract.php.

Submission deadline: Monday, 4 April 2011.

For further information, please go to:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2011/wakefield-people/index.php.

  1. Application Deadline Extended
    Shaping the Future of AMAP
    3 May 2011
    Copenhagen, Denmark

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) has extended
the call for applications to its early career research (ECR) workshop in
conjunction with the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP),
entitled "Shaping the Future of AMAP." The one-day workshop will be held
on 3 May 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark, prior to "The Arctic as a
Messenger for Global Processes - Climate Change and Pollution"
conference.

AMAP is an international organization established in 1991 to implement
components of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS). Now a
program group of the Arctic Council, AMAP's current objective is
"providing reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and
threats to, the arctic environment; and providing scientific advice on
actions to be taken in order to support arctic governments."

The workshop will help those interested in arctic environments learn
about how science and policy work together in this area. It will
introduce early career researchers to AMAP as an organization that
communicates science to policy makers and others. ECR and AMAP mentors
will discuss the different fields of science AMAP is interested in, and
ECR will work together to formulate a message of their concerns for
future directions of study in AMAP. All workshop participants are
encouraged to take part in both the workshop and the "Arctic as a
Messenger" conference (4-6 May 2011).

Limited travel funds will be available for early career researchers on a
competitive basis, with priority for those who have submitted an
abstract to the meeting (please submit to amap [at] amap.no). To apply for
the workshop and funding, please fill in the application form at:
http://apecs.is/workshops/amap-2011/2607-apply.

The application deadline has been extended to Tuesday, 15 March 2011.
Interested applicants are asked to apply as soon as possible

Further information is available on the APECS website:
http://apecs.is/workshops/amap-2011.

For questions, please contact:
Jennifer Provencher
Email: ipy-outreach [at] apecs.is

  1. Workshop Announcement
    Ice Drilling Science Community Planning Workshop
    15-16 April 2011
    Herndon, Virginia

The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces a planning workshop,
scheduled for 15-16 April 2011. The workshop will be held at the
Washington Dulles Marriott Suites Hotel in Herndon, Virginia.

Scientific discoveries achieved from, within, and beneath the arctic and
Antarctic ice sheets and temperate glaciers are critical to society
today, but they are not achieved without significant advance planning.
This interdisciplinary ice community workshop will identify future
arctic and Antarctic drilling/coring sites, the ice drilling technology
that will be needed, and the timeline over the coming decade for
conducting scientific endeavors important for advancing science on many
frontiers.

Registration for the meeting will be open through 7 April 2011, at:
http://icedrill.org/science-planning-workshop-2011/. All are invited to
participate. Individuals registering for the workshop will receive
additional details regarding the meeting logistics and agenda.

Results from the workshop will be reflected in updates in the science
descriptions, timeline, and planning matrices in the Long Range Science
Plan and Long Range Drilling Technology Plan, to ensure that the
drilling technology will be ready when needed by science. Background
details are available on the workshop website:
http://icedrill.org/science-planning-workshop-2011/overview.shtml.

For further information, please go to:
http://icedrill.org/science-planning-workshop-2011/.

For questions, please contact:
Mary Albert
Email: Mary.Albert [at] Dartmouth.edu