Date

Multiple Meeting Announcements

  1. Updates Available
    ISMASS Workshop and SCAR Open Science Conference
    14, 16-19 July 2012
    Portland, Oregon

  2. Meeting Announcement
    Holocene Climate Change
    4-5 April 2013
    London, United Kingdom

  3. Conference Announcement
    Third International EcoPechora Conference
    10-11 October 2012
    Naryan-Mar, Russia

  1. Updates Available
    ISMASS Workshop and SCAR Open Science Conference
    14, 16-19 July 2012
    Portland, Oregon

The Ice-Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level (ISMASS) Workshop will be held 14
July2012, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open
Science Conference will be held 16-19 2012. Both events will be convened in
Portland, Oregon.

The ISMASS 2012 Workshop is free to all registered participants;
registration must be completed by Thursday, 31 May 2012. Further
information, including a registration page, workshop goals, and the recently
released agenda, is available online, at:
http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/en/events/2012/ISMASS/Home.html.

The SCAR Open Science Conference, entitled "Antarctic Science and Policy
Advice in a Changing World," will focus on SCAR's dual role of science and
advice to policymakers. In a change to previous conferences, the first time
slots of the last three days will be in plenary, with a focus on the
following high level overarching themes:

- Antarctic Conservation Challenges in a Century of Change
- Past, Present and Future Climate Evolution
- Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica

The conference website contains considerable information including the
program, registration and venue information, and further details on the
goals of the event. Please go to: http://scar2012.geol.pdx.edu/themes.php.

For further information on ISMAA or SCAR 2012, please contact:
Rosemary Nash
Email: rn283 [at] cam.ac.uk

  1. Meeting Announcement
    Holocene Climate Change
    4-5 April 2013
    London, United Kingdom

Organizers announce that a 'Holocene Climate Change' conference will be
convened 4-5 April 2013 in London, United Kingdom. Conference paper and
poster contributions are welcome. Abstracts should be 150 words, and must be
submitted to Steve Whalley (steve.whalley [at] geolsoc.org.uk) no later than 12
October 2012.

The main theme of the conference is the examination of high frequency
climate changes reflected in the geological record, and the pacings of
change and their geological consequences, during the Holocene (the past
11,700 years). The meeting will be divided into sessions on ocean change,
sea-level variability, terrestrial change, ice core change, the modeling of
any or all of these, and the interaction between climate and humans.
Provisional keynote speakers include Graeme Barker, Ian Hall, Anthony Long,
Rosalind Rickaby, Bo Vinther, and Heinz Wanner.

For further information about the conference or to submit an abstract,
please contact:
Steve Whalley
Email: steve.whalley [at] geolsoc.org.uk

  1. Conference Announcement
    Third International EcoPechora Conference
    10-11 October 2012
    Naryan-Mar, Russia

Organizers of the third international EcoPechora conference, "Environmental
Status of the Pechora Sea Region," announce that the conference will be held
10-11 October 2012 in Naryan-Mar, Russia.

The Pechora Sea region in the European North-East is an area where the
oil-and-gas industry is actively developed both offshore and onshore. At the
same time, it is also a territory of unique tundra ecosystems, valuable
coastal and marine regions, Indigenous cultures, and protected natural
areas. The conference aims to evaluate the present-day environmental status
of the Nenets Autonomous District territory and adjacent Pechora Sea, and
search for ways of decreasing environmental risks.

Conference tasks are as follows:

- To provide an arena for sharing experience, knowledge, research
results, and future plans for carrying out environmental activities and
studies in the region.
- To get competent opinions and expert assessments of environmental
status in the Pechora Sea region and possible challenges of industrial
exploitation of nature resources.
- To propose the mechanisms for solving environmental protection
problems.
- To attract the attention of state institutes and public to the Nenets
Autonomous District as a pilot region for exploration of the offshore
Arctic.

Conference topics include:

- Environmental risks related to the industrial activities in the
region;
- Monitoring the environmental status of the region and the challenges
of its conduct;
- Development of the state environmental protection management system;
- Protection, reproduction, and rational use of nature resources;
- Traditional nature use and prospects of its development; and
- Safety of oil-and-gas marine transportation.

Representatives of federal, regional and municipal level authorities,
Russian and foreign scientific institutes, nature protection organizations,
indigenous peoples, and oil-and-gas companies working in the region.

For further information and the registration form, please go to:
http://www.ecopechora.ru.

For questions, please email:
inter [at] uis.nao83.ru.

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