Multiple Meeting Announcements
Preliminary Program and Registration Available
3rd Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing
6-9 June 2011
Lisbon, PortugalSession Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Arctic Coasts: Physical, Ecological, and Socio-economic Perspectives
2011 LOICZ Open Science Conference
12-15 September 2011
Yantai, China
- Preliminary Program and Registration Available
3rd Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing
6-9 June 2011
Lisbon, Portugal
Organizers of the 3rd Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal
Processing - Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS 2011) announce the
availability of registration and a preliminary program. The workshop
will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from 6-9 June 2011.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together people involved in
hyperspectral data processing. Early registration rates are available
through Sunday, 1 May 2011. The registration fee includes access to all
technical sessions, three lunches, and a banquet dinner. A preliminary
program is available on the conference website, at:
http://www.ieee-whispers.com.
Early Registration Deadline: Sunday, 1 May 2011.
For further information, please visit the conference website:
http://www.ieee-whispers.com/.
Or email:
info [at] ieee-whispers.com
- Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Arctic Coasts: Physical, Ecological, and Socio-economic Perspectives
2011 LOICZ Open Science Conference
12-15 September 2011
Yantai, China
Organizers of session A2, entitled "Arctic Coasts: Physical, Ecological,
and Socio-economic Perspectives," announce a call for abstracts. The
session will be convened at the 2011 LOICZ Open Science Conference,
scheduled for 12-15 September 2011 in Yantai, China.
The coastal zone is the interface through which land-ocean exchanges in
the Arctic are mediated and it is the site of most of the human
settlements and activity that occurs at high latitudes. Arctic coasts
are highly variable and their dynamics are a function of interactions
between environmental forcing, coastal geology, coastal biology, and
human activity. Thus, at the arctic coastal margin, perhaps more than
anywhere else, numerous and varied physical, ecological, and
socio-economic processes and states exist within a web of
interrelationships.
The objective of this session is to discuss these interrelationships in
terms of the viability of coastal communities, their vulnerability, and
policies and strategies for adaptation to local and global change.
Organizers are soliciting contributions both on physical processes,
ecological perspectives, and ecosystem services and on social, economic,
and governance aspects, including the following topics:
- Physical perspectives: High-frequency environmental forcing
(atmospheric and oceanographic), sea-level changes, on/offshore
permafrost dynamics and gas hydrate stability, sea-ice dynamics,
biogeochemical transformations, sediment dynamics, etc.;
- Ecological perspectives: Ecosystem services and biodiversity,
including coastal ecosystems, habitats, species, etc.;
- Socio-economic perspectives: Socio-economic transformations,
including market and non-market sectors; economic wellbeing and
local economic impacts; fisheries, hydrocarbon exploitation, marine
shipping, and related risks and prospects for coastal communities;
community vulnerability and adaptation; governance and institutions,
etc.
Confirmed keynote speakers for the session are Mikhail Grigoriev,
Permafrost Institute RAS, Yakutsk, Russia; and Rasmus Ole Rasmussen,
NordRegion, Stockholm, Sweden. The session will serve as the launch
venue for Arctic Coasts as the new LOICZ research hotspot.
To submit an abstract, please go to:
http://www.loicz-osc2011.org/submission/guide.asp.
Abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2011.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.loicz-osc2011.org/index.asp.
Or contact the session conveners:
Joan Nymand Larsen
Email: jnl [at] unak.is
Volker Rachold
Email: volker.rachold [at] iasc.info