Date

Multiple Meeting Announcements

  1. Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    Reconstructing Arctic Glaciers and Ice Sheets:
    Chronology, Geomorphology, and Climate Records
    Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
    1-4 November 2015
    Baltimore, Maryland

  2. Call for Abstracts
    U.S. CLIVAR Workshop
    Translating Process Understanding to Improve Climate Models
    15-16 October 2015
    Princeton, New Jersey

  3. Meeting Announcement
    The Alaskan Arctic: A Summit on Shipping and Ports
    23-25 August 2015
    Anchorage, Alaska

  1. Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    Reconstructing Arctic Glaciers and Ice Sheets:
    Chronology, Geomorphology, and Climate Records
    Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
    1-4 November 2015
    Baltimore, Maryland

Organizers of a session entitled "Reconstructing Arctic Glaciers and Ice
Sheets: Chronology, Geomorphology, and Climate Records" announce a call
for abstracts. The session will be convened at the 2015 Geological
Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, scheduled for 1-4 November 2015
in Baltimore Maryland.

The session, number T191, focuses on reconstructions of glaciers and ice
sheets in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Abstracts of studies ranging from
the Pleistocene to the Holocene and include new glacial chronologies,
glacial geomorphology, glacier sediment records, and modeling are
encouraged. This session is sponsored by the GSA Quaternary Geology and
Geomorphology Division and coordinated by Sarah Principato, Nicolas
Young, and Jason Briner.

Abstract submission deadline: 11 August 2015.

For further information on the GSA Annual Meeting, or to submit an
abstract, please go to:
http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2015/sessions/topical.asp.

Or contact:
Jason Briner
Email: jbriner [at] buffalo.edu

  1. Call for Abstracts
    U.S. CLIVAR Workshop
    Translating Process Understanding to Improve Climate Models
    15-16 October 2015
    Princeton, New Jersey

Organizers of a U.S. CLIVAR Workshop entitled, "Translating Process
Understanding to Improve Climate Models" announce a call for abstracts.
The workshop will convene 15-16 October 2015 at the NOAA Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.

The purpose of the workshop is to assess the current understanding of
physical processes, which could lead to significant climate and weather
prediction model improvements on a five-year timescale.

This workshop aims to promote interaction and communication among
modeling centers and the broader community (i.e., observationalists,
theorists, and process modelers) to identify priority model improvement
needs and opportunities.

Possible workshop topics will include:

  • Scale-aware parameterizations of sub-grid scale processes;
  • Ice-ocean interactions and sea-ice dynamics;
  • Air-sea interactions;
  • Shallow and deep convection in the atmosphere;
  • Cloud macro- and micro-physics, and aerosol processes in the atmosphere;
  • Coastal/marginal sea processes, such as estuarine mixing and coastal upwelling;
  • Vertical transports and surface processes in the ocean;
  • Land surface physics parameterizations;
  • Processes influencing polar feedbacks; and
  • Diurnal-to-annual surface processes for both land and ocean.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 3 August 2015.

Early Registration Deadline: 3 August 2015.

For further information about the workshop, please click on the
"Translating Process Understanding to Improve Climate Models" link found
at: http://usclivar.org/meetings-and-workshops.

Or, contact:
Kristan Uhlenbrock
Email: kuhlenbrock [at] usclivar.org
Phone: 202-787-1682

  1. Meeting Announcement
    The Alaskan Arctic: A Summit on Shipping and Ports
    23-25 August 2015
    Anchorage, Alaska

Organizers announce a meeting entitled 'The Alaskan Arctic: A Summit on
Shipping and Ports.' The event will be held 23-25 August 2015 at the
Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska.

This gathering builds on the success of the Arctic Imperative Summits
convened in Alaska in 2011 and 2012 and the Arctic Circle Assemblies in
Iceland in 2013 and 2014. It will be convened under the umbrella of the
Arctic Circle as the first in a series of issues-based forums held
around the world.

The purpose of the meeting is to build partnerships to develop safe and
reliable shipping through the Alaskan Arctic. These partnerships will be
necessary to finance needed ports of refuge, search and rescue
equipment, transshipment facilities and icebreakers. At the same time,
the interests of local and indigenous residents must be an integral part
of any development planning. The following topics will be discussed:

- Developing safe and reliable shipping practices to protect the
hunting and fishing activities of Arctic residents and the
environment;
- Exploring public-private cooperation models to produce the
necessary infrastructure investments; and
- Establishing a task force to offer global shippers a regular,
safe, and reliable shipping system.

The summit is being hosted by Olafur Ragnar Grimsson (President of
Iceland), Mead Treadwell (President of Pt Capital, LLC) and Alice Rogoff
(Publisher of Alaska Dispatch News). Online registration will open in
the coming weeks.

For further information, please email:
info [at] alaskasummit.com.

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