Date

Multiple Meeting Announcements

  1. Conference Announcement
    Understanding Circumpolar Ecosystems in a Changing World:
    Outcomes of the International Polar Year
    3-6 November 2010
    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  2. Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium
    20-24 September 2010
    Cambridge, United Kingdom

  3. Call for Abstracts
    Polar Worlds Conference - Environmental and Social Sciences to
    Understand Observed Changes
    26-28 January 2011
    Paris, France

  1. Conference Announcement
    Understanding Circumpolar Ecosystems in a Changing World:
    Outcomes of the International Polar Year
    3-6 November 2010
    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Organizers announce a conference entitled "Understanding Circumpolar
Ecosystems in a Changing World: Outcomes of the International Polar
Year," which will be held 3-6 November 2010 at the University of Alberta
Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Northern ecosystems are increasingly becoming a high-profile topic on
the political agenda. Most of the circumpolar regions are seen as
pristine landscapes, which have experienced radical changes in climate,
vegetation, and animals. Air temperature rises during the last 30 years
have been associated with warming and disappearing permafrost, changes
in growth rates of dominant trees, natural and anthropogenic
disturbances, and changes in vertebrate populations. The causal links
among these changes and their implications for the functioning of the
circumpolar region and the people who live there are not completely
understood. To understand the current and future structure, diversity,
and functioning of the circumpolar region, it is important to understand
how climate and disturbance interact and the implications of these
interactions for ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability of
the circumpolar region. The conference will include sessions on these
and related topics in terrestrial environments (not oceans).

Conference objectives:
- To present and discuss the current scientific understanding of
climate-disturbance interactions in the circumpolar region;
- To discuss the unique ecological, economic, and social conditions
that are influenced by disturbance, climate change impacts, and
adaptation to climate change in the circumpolar region;
- To bring a circumpolar perspective to research initiatives; and
- To foster cooperation and an exchange of ideas among countries in
the circumpolar regions.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.eas.ualberta.ca/ipy/index.html.

Or contact:
G. Peter Kershaw
Email: peter.kershaw [at] ualberta.ca

  1. Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium
    20-24 September 2010
    Cambridge, United Kingdom

The Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium will be held 20-24 September
2010 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. This year's venue for the symposium
will be the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

The symposium will deal specifically with remote sensing applications in
the polar environments, both arctic and Antarctic. It will provide an
international forum for the discussion of work currently being carried
out in the circumpolar regions.

Abstracts are invited for both oral presentations and posters. Potential
discussion topics include remote sensing of the arctic, subarctic, and
Antarctic regions. Abstracts must be submitted electronically
(ap556 [at] cam.ac.uk) no later than Monday, 31 May 2010. The complete call
for submissions is available at:
http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/geography/CRSS2010/dates.html.

Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, 31 May 2010.

For additional details please go to:
http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/geography/CRSS2010/index.html.

  1. Call for Abstracts
    Polar Worlds Conference - Environmental and Social Sciences to
    Understand Observed Changes
    26-28 January 2011
    Paris, France

Organizers of the 'Polar Worlds Conference: Environmental and Social
Sciences to Understand Observed Changes' announce a call for
abstracts. The conference will be convened 26-28 January 2011 in
Paris, France.

The main focus of the Polar Worlds Conference is to account for
observed changes with a joint environmental and social perspective.
It seeks to give an overview of certainties and uncertainties in
current mutations.

A unique feature of this event will be to put different scientific
communities (e.g. - anthropology, linguistics, history, archaeology,
geography, geomorphology, hydrology, climatology, health) into common
work sessions. In order to encourage interdisciplinary interactions,
plenary sessions will be preferred, with a few specialized workshops.
This multidisciplinary approach is based on the experience of the
conference organizing group: the "Polar Mutations: Environment and
Societies" research group (CNRS, France), which has been promoting
interdisciplinarity in arctic studies for 30 years.

Main Conference themes:
1 - Environmental and social changes: certainties and uncertainties
e.g. - climate, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere,
ecosystems, languages, cynegetic activities (hunting, herding,
fishing, etc.) and travelling techniques, social organization,
public health.
2 - Responses to current mutations
e.g. - political organiations; local authorities, partnerships,
co-management; knowledge transmission; technological innovations;
field observation methods; circulation of goods, people and
information.
3 - Propositions and prospective approaches: Resources, policies,
challenges and land management
e.g. - renewable and non-renewable natural resources exploitation,
risks, politics and land management, geopolitics, maritime routes,
tourism.

Abstracts are invited in English or French. Abstracts must be submitted
electronically (polarworlds-2011 [at] univ-fcomte.fr) and use the style sheet
available on the conference website at:
http://thema.univ-fcomte.fr/polarworlds-2011/resume_en.html.

Additional details on the call for papers and the abstract submission
process are available at:
http://thema.univ-fcomte.fr/polarworlds-2011/appel_en.html.

Abstract Submission Deadline: Saturday, 15 May 2010.

For further information on the conference, please go to:
http://thema.univ-fcomte.fr/polarworlds-2011/accueil_en.html.