Date

Multiple Meeting Announcements

  1. Workshop Announcement
    Chukchi-Beaufort Seas High Resolution Meteorological Modeling Study
    and Atmospheric Reanalysis
    25 January 2013, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
    Anchorage, Alaska

  2. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Papers
    Arctic Ocean Acidification International Conference
    6-8 May 2013
    Bergen, Norway

  3. Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    Protecting the Sacred
    11-13 September 2013
    Rovaniemi and Pyha, Finland

  4. Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    Emotion, Space, and Indigenous Populations
    4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional
    Geographies
    1-3 July 2013
    University of Groningen, Netherlands

  1. Workshop Announcement
    Chukchi-Beaufort Seas High Resolution Meteorological Modeling Study
    and Atmospheric Reanalysis
    25 January 2013, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
    Anchorage, Alaska

Organizers announce that a workshop on Chukchi-Beaufort Seas High
Resolution Meteorological Modeling Study and Atmospheric Reanalysis
(CBHAR) will be held in conjunction with the Alaska Marine Science
Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska. The workshop will convene 8:00 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. Friday, 25 January 2013, in the Whitby room at the Hotel
Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska.

The major objective of this workshop is to introduce a recently
developed CBHAR data from 1979-2009, and disseminate scientific findings
through model simulations and CBHAR data analysis. The Chukchi-Beaufort
Seas have experienced drastic climate changes during past decades,
including increased surface wind and decreased sea ice cover. The
changed climate may also increase the threat to both national energy
security and the environment, due to potential infrastructure
destruction and resultant oil spills.

This workshop will bring together colleagues from the project team,
broader scientific and societal communities, government, and industry to
better understand weather and climate changes in the Beaufort and
Chukchi Seas. Usage and application of this high-resolution data product
for various purposes (such as ocean modeling, oil spill dispersion, or
air pollution dispersion) and policymaking processes will be introduced
and discussed. The workshop is open to anyone interested in attending,
including the public.

For further information, please contact:
Xiangdong Zhang
Email: xdz [at] iarc.uaf.edu

  1. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Papers
    Arctic Ocean Acidification International Conference
    6-8 May 2013
    Bergen, Norway

The abstract deadline for the Arctic Ocean Acidification International
Conference has been extended to Friday, 25 January 2013. The conference
will be held 6-8 May 2013 in Bergen, Norway. Topics to be addressed at
the conference include:

- Response of Arctic Ocean to increasing CO2 and related changes in
the global carbon cycle;
- Social and policy challenges;
- Arctic Ocean acidification and ecological and biogeochemical
coupling;
- Implications of changing Arctic Ocean acidification for northern
(commercial and subsistence) fisheries; and
- Future developments.

Participants are invited to submit abstracts on relevant subjects,
including results from observational, experimental, and modeling studies
of past, present, and future ocean acidification; responses of marine
organisms and ecosystem structure, functioning, and biodiversity;
perturbations to biogeochemical cycling and feedbacks to the climate
system; and the economic, social, and policy challenges of ocean
acidification. Abstracts for proposed oral and poster presentation (750
words, maximum) should be emailed to the conference organizers
(amap [at] amap.no) by 25 January 2013.

Extended abstract submission deadline: Friday, 25 January 2013.

The conference website, including registration and detailed program
information, will be available soon, at:
http://www.amap.no/conferences/aoa2013.

For questions, please email:
amap [at] amap.no.

  1. Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    Protecting the Sacred
    11-13 September 2013
    Rovaniemi and Pyha, Finland

Organizers of a conference entitled 'Protecting the Sacred: Recognition
of Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples for Sustaining Nature and Culture
in Northern and Arctic Regions' announce a call for abstracts. This
international conference will be held 11-13 September 2013 in Rovaniemi
and Pyha, Finland.

The conference is organized by the Artic Centre at the University of
Lapland in Rovaniemi, the Department of Geography at the University of
Montreal, and the Thematic Network on Arctic Law at the University of
the Arctic. It will bring together scientists, sacred natural sites
custodians, Indigenous peoples' organizations, policymakers, and
conservation and civil society leaders. The intent is to evaluate
options for international and national law, policy, and practice in
order to better recognize, safeguard, conserve, and manage sacred
natural sites of Indigenous peoples in northern and arctic regions.

Abstract submission deadline: Thursday, 28 February 2013.

For further information, including the conference flyer, is available at:
http://www.arcticcentre.org/sacredsites2013.

For questions, please contact:
Leena Heinamaki:
Email: leena.heinamaki [at] ulapland.fi

Thora Herrmann:
Email: thora.martina.herrmann [at] umontreal.ca

  1. Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    Emotion, Space, and Indigenous Populations
    4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional
    Geographies
    1-3 July 2013
    University of Groningen, Netherlands

Organizers of a session entitled "Emotion, Space, and Indigenous
Populations" announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened
at the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional
Geographies, scheduled for 1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen
in the Netherlands.

Many interpretations of the term 'postcolonial' neglect the fact that
before the arrival of Europeans, there were preexistent
traditions/cultures in former colonies such as Canada, Australia, and
South Africa. In many cases, the word postcolonial thus primarily serves
to reinforce the legacy of colonization. As an alternative, native
Canadian novelist Thomas King proposes a non-centered method to include
locally identified and marginal voices by presenting new descriptors
that avoid privileging one culture over another.

In this session, new vantage points are explored to study not only
literary but also cultural, anthropological, geographical, social, and
other landscapes in which Indigenous communities are living today. Land
and/or territory are not only crucial for the survival of Indigenous
peoples, but they also have a symbolic meaning for many communities that
do not live on their ancestral land. In order to discuss the emotional
effects of recent developments such as migration and urbanization of
Indigenous peoples, it is essential to reflect on representations of
space and on the relationship between identity and physical and social
environment.

Organizers welcome papers that discuss spatial knowledge of Indigenous
communities and their culturally distinct understanding of landscape
through the concept of participatory mapping, that identify and explore
Indigenous heritage places, that examine geopolitical issues and
Indigenous governance, that focus on land boundaries and border
crossings from a wide range of perspectives and within a variety of
domains such as arctic studies, anthropology, cultural and social
geography, literary and minority studies.

Anyone interested in presenting during this session should please send
an abstract of approximately 300 words to Jeanette den Toonder
(j.m.l.den.toonder [at] rug.nl).

Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, 15 January 2013.

For questions, please contact:
Jeanette den Toonder
Email: j.m.l.den.toonder [at] rug.nl