Registration Available
NASA Scoping Study Arctic-COLORS Open Community Workshop
28-29 July 2016
Woods Hole, MassachusettsSession Announcement
World Conservation Congress
1-10 September 2016
Honolulu, HawaiiCall for Abstracts
14th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
22-26 January 2017
Seattle, Washington
- Registration Available
NASA Scoping Study Arctic-COLORS Open Community Workshop
28-29 July 2016
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Organizers announce that registration is available for the NASA Scoping
Study Arctic-COLORS (Arctic-COastal Land Ocean inteRactions) Open
Community Workshop, which will be held from 28-29 July 2016 in Woods
Hole, Massachusetts.
Arctic-COLORS is a Field Campaign Scoping Study supported by NASA's
Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB) Program that aims to quantify
present and future impacts of changing land and ice on marine net
ecosystem productivity in the fastest warming environment on the planet:
the Arctic. A Science Plan is under development that describes and
justifies the design of an integrative, interdisciplinary oceanographic
field campaign and modeling program that addresses high priority science
questions related to land-sea-ice interactions in the nearshore Arctic,
and assesses the impacts of natural and anthropogenic changes on coastal
ocean ecology and biogeochemistry.
The panel convened by NASA OBB to review a preliminary version of the
Arctic-COLORS Science Plan wasvery supportive of Arctic-COLORS and
recommended revisions and re-submission of the report for further
consideration by NASA.
To view the science plan, go to:
http://arctic-colors.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ArcticCOLORS_Final.pdf.
The one and a half day open community workshop at Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute will engage interested scientists in a dialog
about the proposed field campaign and obtain broad community input on
these revisions. During this workshop participants will focus the top
level science questions, discuss potential de-scoping scenarios, and
narrow the study domain.
Registration Deadline: 15 June 2016.
To register, go to: http://web.whoi.edu/ocb-workshop/.
For questions, please contact:
Antonio Mannino
Email: antonio.mannino-1 [at] nasa.gov
- Session Announcement
World Conservation Congress
1-10 September 2016
Honolulu, Hawaii
Organizers of World Conservation Congress session 9685, entitled "Global
Environmental Change Threats to Heritage and Long Term Observing
Networks of the Past: The Arctic Case and Beyond" announce a call for
abstracts and participants. The session will be convened at the World
Conservation Congress meeting scheduled for 1-10 September 2016 in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
The workshop will bring together members of the cultural and natural
heritage communities, to raise awareness and build partnerships, so
better long-term sustainable management of socio-natural systems
outcomes can be achieved. The session will involve several short (5
minute) presentations to provide a common knowledge base, then will move
to a workshop format.
Critical ecological data exists in archaeological sites (the results of
completed experiments in human adaptation). Natural resource
conservation has made limited use of it to date. Archaeologists may not
be funded to maximize collection of such data, since it addresses
primarily non-social science questions.
This issue is of imminent concern in the Arctic, due to deleterious
global environmental change effects on these irreplaceable data
repositories. We are truly at a crossroads, where choices made in the
next decade will determine whether we have hard data on the effects
global change has had on Arctic ecosystems, including their human
components, over the past millennia, or whether we will be essentially
flying blind in our efforts to adapt and conserve.
The organizers are seeking both natural and social scientists. Please
contact the organizer (contact information below) as soon as possible if
interested, since they will be in the field for most of July and August.
For more information on the session, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/participants-sought-workshop.
For questions or to confirm interest, please contact:
Anne Jensen
Email: amjuics [at] gmail.com
- Call for Abstracts
14th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
22-26 January 2017
Seattle, Washington
Organizers announce a call for abstracts for the 14th Conference on
Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, held as part of the 97th Annual
Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) from 22-26 January
2017 in Seattle, WA.
Submissions on all aspects of polar weather, climate, and oceanography
are being solicited. The conference will include invited and contributed
oral and poster presentations, joint sessions between other relevant AMS
conferences, as well as activities for early career polar scientists on
behalf of the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).
Participation from students is especially encouraged, as we will be
awarding first and second place prizes for both oral and poster
presentations given by students, as well as four student travel awards
to partially offset registration and travel expenses.
Abstract submission deadline: 1 August 2016.
For further information and to submit an abstract, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/hxgx9ur.
For questions, please contact:
Ryan Fogt
Email: fogt [at] ohio.edu
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