Date

Multiple IPY Oslo Science Conference Announcements
Norges Varemesse
Oslo, Norway
8-12 June 2010

Abstract Deadline for all Sessions: Wednesday, 20 January 2010

For further information on the conference, please go to:
http://www.ipy-osc.no/.

For details on abstract submission for any session, please go to:
http://www.ipy-osc.no/section/1257865053.48.

In this announcement:

  1. 1.4 - Polar climate feedbacks, amplification, and teleconnections,
    including impacts on mid-latitudes

  2. 1.6 - Arctic and Antarctic marine chemistry: The role of the polar
    oceans in global carbon cycling and acidification

  3. 2.4 - Permafrost on a warming planet

  4. 5.4 - Data and other cross-cutting issues for future polar
    research

  1. 1.4 - Polar climate feedbacks, amplification, and teleconnections,
    including impacts on mid-latitudes

Organizers of Session 1.4, "Polar climate feedbacks, amplification, and
teleconnections, including impacts on mid-latitudes," announce a call
for abstracts.

Through a combination of an emerging global warming signal, natural
variability, and especially one-way non-linear feedbacks such as loss of
sea ice and land changes, the Arctic and the Antarctic Peninsula are
showing large climate changes which are occurring earlier than
anticipated from anthropogenic contributions alone. These changes are
beginning to impact mid-latitude ocean, land, and atmospheric
circulation and climate, and these impacts are expected to increase over
the next decades.

Organizers solicit papers on all aspects of these changes, e.g.: natural
and anthropogenic forcing of arctic change; mediation by albedo, ocean
heat storage, snow, permafrost and ground cover, clouds, and sea-ice
changes; causes for polar amplification of temperatures; and
mid-latitude impacts induced by late summer sea ice loss,
teleconnections, and other polar changes.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.polararet.no/conference/esc/article/2009/1252495087.34.

Or contact:
James Overland
Email: James.E.Overland [at] noaa.gov

Meiji Honda
Email: meiji [at] env.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp

Rune Graversen
Email: graversen [at] knmi.nl

  1. 1.6 - Arctic and Antarctic marine chemistry: The role of the polar
    oceans in global carbon cycling and acidification

Organizers of Session 1.6, "Arctic and Antarctic marine chemistry: The
role of the polar oceans in global carbon cycling and acidification,"
announce a call for abstracts.

The polar oceans are believed to play a critical role in the global
uptake and transport of carbon dioxide (CO2), and are currently
experiencing significant climate change. Recent acceleration in the
loss of arctic sea ice has been shown to boost marine primary production
and increase the Arctic Ocean sink for atmospheric CO2. Meanwhile, an
increase in the intensity of the southern hemisphere mid-latitude
westerly winds has been linked to a weakening of the Southern Ocean CO2
sink. Furthermore, anthropogenic ocean acidification and climate-related
changes have lowered the aragonite saturation state in polar oceans and
are likely to create conditions detrimental to high-latitude ecosystems
over the next century. It is critical to understand how the polar oceans
are responding to climate change and to predict how their carbon
chemistry will evolve under increased greenhouse gas forcing.

This session will provide a venue to present and discuss recent advances
and discoveries in the carbon cycling of polar oceans, the impact of
climate change on carbon uptake and transport in these regions, and the
implications of these findings for marine calcifying organisms.
Organizers welcome studies on all aspects of carbon cycling and
acidification in the polar oceans and seas.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.polararet.no/conference/esc/article/2009/1252495303.05.

Or contact:
Nick Bates
Email: bates [at] bios.edu

Nikki Lovenduski
Email: nicole.lovenduski [at] colorado.edu

  1. 2.4 - Permafrost on a warming planet

Organizers of Session 2.4, "Permafrost on a warming planet," announce a
call for abstracts.

Permafrost regions occupy approximately 22% of the planet's land
surface. Warming of permafrost lands and subsequent degradation of
ice-rich terrains are of scientific, engineering, and related societal
concerns. During the IPY intensive regional and site-specific campaigns
were initiated to document the current status of permafrost, active
layer, and associated processes in both hemispheres and included the
status and fate of soil carbon and erosion of ice-rich coastlines.
Papers and posters in this session are invited on regional syntheses and
site-specific research of the IPY projects with emphasis on thermal
state of permafrost and active layer dynamics. Results of modeling and
mapping approaches are invited. Over 50 individual permafrost projects
as well as national and multi-national programs were proposed for the
IPY, and organizers encourage those researchers, including members of
the Permafrost Young Researchers Network, to contribute. Travel grants
for young researchers will be available, so submit an abstract now in
anticipation of support.

Theme 2.4 papers and posters will help build the permafrost legacy that
consists of a robust and sustainable database, the establishment of
permafrost observatories, and the development of a new generation of
permafrost researchers. Permafrost researchers who are en route to
Svalbard for the Third European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP III) are
encouraged to contribute to this IPY theme.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.ipy-osc.no/article/2009/1258453098.05.

Or contact:
Jerry Brown
Email: jerrybrown [at] igc.apc.org

Baisheng Ye
Email: yebs [at] lzb.ac.cn

Matt. C. Strzelecki
Email: m.c.strzelecki [at] durham.ac.uk

Andrey Abramov
Email: pro-forest [at] mail.ru

  1. 5.4 - Data and other cross-cutting issues for future polar
    research

Organizers of Session 5.4, "Data and other cross-cutting issues for
future polar research," announce a call for abstracts.

Research into the fundamental character of polar regions and the ongoing
changes that are occurring requires novel methods of observation and
innovative mechanisms to synthesize, store, and disseminate the wealth
of data gathered. Often these data are sourced from new and advanced
observing systems. Moreover, researchers are now engaging in activities
which increasingly span across traditional disciplinary bounds, and this
of itself presents rewards and challenges for both established and early
career scientists alike.

This session will highlight the strategies and methods being used by
polar scientists to access, share, integrate, and manage data; focus on
the often multi-disciplinary nature of polar research; and show links
that exist between the physical and social sciences. Presentations are
sought on new and emerging systems for data integration, management,
access, and retrieval that have the capacity to improve our future
understanding of the polar environment and on activities and issues
related to interdisciplinary research, particularly those that cross the
social and physical divide.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.ipy-osc.no/article/2009/1256483011.4.

Or contact:
Michael Rawlins
Email: michael.a.rawlins [at] dartmouth.edu

Kim Finney
Email: kim.finney [at] aad.gov.au