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The International Snow Science Workshop will be held September 16-21, 2012 at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The setting for this year’s symposium is the urban environment of Alaska’s largest city surrounded by several mountain ranges within view of the conference center including: the

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (EVOS) Trustee Council will meet on Friday, 14 September 2012 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. AKST at the Glenn Olds Hall, 4210 University Drive in Anchorage, Alaska.

Meeting materials, including a tentative agenda, are available at: http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/Events

The event is intended for the UK-based science community engaged in any natural science discipline applied to studies of Antarctica, especially in an Earth system science context. With keynote speakers, presentations on behalf of leading projects, and opportunities to build new networks, the purpose

This international conference is organized under the general theme “Moving plates and melting icecaps - Processes and forcing factors in geology” to celebrate the centenary of the first paper on the concept of moving continents published by Alfred Wegener (Wegener 1912) who died at the age of 50

The course provides a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. Topics include: continuum mechanics, kinematics, ice rheology, sliding and hydraulics, numerical modelling, polar meteorology, ice-ocean interaction, ice cores, interaction

The deadline for application to the "Climate Change in the Marine Realm" summer course has been extended to Tuesday, 10 April 2012. The course will be held 10-24 September 2012. It will be convened in two locations, the first week at the Wadden Sea Station in List/Sylt, and the second week at the

St. Petersburg State University invites you to participate in the forthcoming International Conference on “Geomorphology and Quaternary Palaeogeography of Polar regions” conducted jointly with the International Field Workshop of INQUA (the International Union for Quaternary Research) Peribaltic

Poul Jensen, a doctoral candidate in Space Physics at the Geophysical Institute, created the film after capturing aurora photographs from a number of locales in the Interior. “Aurora Sensations” is a compilation of many of those images set to music in a 30-minute production.

In addition to Jensen

The theme for this symposium is open. It covers a wide variety of topics relating to the Arctic and the Antarctic. These include:

* Human rights issues, such as autonomy and self-government vs. self-determination, the rights of indigenous peoples to land and natural resources and cultural rights

Research presentations are welcome on all aspects of snow and ice research. We particularly encourage international colleagues who may be planning to visit the UK around this time to join us in Aberdeen and present their work. We will advertise a website nearer the time with all relevant information