Upcoming Events

Information on individual items is subject to change.  Please consult each event's web site or contact for the most accurate and current information.  If you spot an error or wish to suggest a change, please contact us using the information at the bottom of this page.   We also encourage you to let us know of events that should be listed.  Please use this form to submit information about upcoming events. Events should include a substantial component related to global change research (see list of specific research areas in left column).

Location

Brasov, Romania

Web Site

http://www.geomorph.org/main.html

Sponsors

International Association of Geomorphologists
Romanian Association of Geomorphology
Carpatho-Balkan Geomorphological Commission
and others

Contact

Conference Secretariat
Marta Jurchescu
Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy
12, Dimitrie Racovita Street
Bucharest, 023993
Romania
Tel: +004 021 313 59 90
Fax: +004 021 311 12 42
Email:

Details

The conference will promote exchange of studies and methods for the investigation of landslides, floods and associated geomorphic processes in connection with different effects of global environmental changes.

Location

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Web Site

http://www.oceans08mtsieeequebec.org/

Sponsors

Marine Technology Society
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Oceanic Engineering Society

Contact

Email:

Details

At a time when the Northern Hemisphere is poised to shift to a new climate, our theme ‘Oceans, Poles and Climate: Technological Challenges’ will enable scientists and engineers from all over the world to discuss and debate the technological challenges raised by the study of the on-going transformation of Polar and non-polar oceans. From the decline of the Arctic sea-ice cover to the acidification of the surface ocean, from the exploration of new resources to the preservation of ocean biodiversity, a series of plenary, keynote and technical papers will focus on the technological challenges of exploring and preserving our changing oceans.

Location

Portland, Oregon

Web Site

http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/cfp_2008.htm

Sponsors

Association of State Wetland Managers
Oregon Department of State Lands
Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Highway Administration
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Contact

Laura Burchill
Association of State Wetland Managers
2 Basin Road
Windham, ME 04062
Tel: 207-892-3399
Fax: 207-892-3089
Email:

Details

The overall goal of this conference is to help wetland professionals in the public and private sectors 1) gain a better understanding of the challenges created by climate change and 2) identify discrete activities and actions to take to reduce and mitigate impacts on wetlands and water resources as well as communities. The conference will also address ongoing changes and challenges in wetlands and water resources management.

Location

Portland, Oregon

Web Site

http://www.uscid.org/08gcc.html

Sponsors

U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage
Bureau of Reclamation
Climate Impacts Group
Idaho Water Users Association
Oregon Water Resources Congress
U.S. Society on Dams
Washington State Water Resources Association

Contact

USCID
1616 Seventeenth Street, #483
Denver, CO 80202
Tel: 303-628-5430
Fax: 303-628-5431
E-mail:

Details

Global climate changes are modifying the way water is managed in the American West. Some of the resulting impacts of climate change, such as increased crop water demands, are only beginning to be felt, while others, such as earlier melting of mountain snowpacks, are already well advanced. Water managers will increasingly be confronted with decision situations where old rules and old expectations no longer apply, and new design practices, new operating rules and new management practices — indeed, even new legislation altering water management policies and water rights — will be required. This conference is designed to help prepare water managers for these changes. The conference will acquaint managers with the methods used by scientists to project the coming water environment, the nature of the impacts on water to be expected, and the ways in which global and regional changes affect Western irrigation, drainage and flood control. It will also allow managers to share the initial responses their agencies and districts have made to the changing environment and compare those responses with ones made by others.

Location

Exeter, United Kingdon

Web Site

http://www.ex.ac.uk/climatechange/conference/events.php

Sponsors

University of Exeter
Met Office

Contact

Maggie Smith
Tel: +01392 725504
email:

Details

The Conference will discuss the evolving impacts of climate change and the issues of adaptation in a time of ongoing change. The Conference will be divided into 8 themes, which include:
- Improving predictions of climate change
- Climate change impacts on ecosystem services
- Applying earth observation to detect climate change impacts
- Technology for adaptation and mitigation
- Climate change impacts on human and animal health
- Policy responses and behavioural change
- Socio-economic scenarios and public understanding
- Coupled human-environment system

Location

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Web Site

http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2008/index.asp

Sponsors

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Bedford Institute of Oceanography

Contact

ICES Secretariat
Attention: Görel Kjeldsen
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 44–46
DK-1553 Copenhagen
Denmark
Tel: +45 33 38 67 00
Fax: +45 33 93 42 15

Details

The meeting will feature 18 science theme sessions on topics including comparative ecosystem studies, ecosystem health, climate and ocean change and signals from the ecosystem at different levels, modelling and new technologies, conservation issues and new concepts of valuing nature and ecosystem structure. The meeting will also address some of the most challenging issues of today’s science needed for a better management of our seas tomorrow.

Location

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Web Site

http://www.iawfonline.org/yellowstone/index.php

Sponsors

International Association of Wildland Fire
National Park Service
and others

Contact

Conference IC (Chair):
Paul Woodard, PhD, RPF
780-492-2924

Details

Discussions, presentations, and special sessions will focus on the following themes: fire behavior, weather and fuels, including crown fire modeling, long range fire behavior, weather forecasting, fuels, and fuels management; fire ecology, including wildlife, water, aquatic systems, landscape ecology and fire history; fire management and policy, including fire suppression, operations, safety, and planning; global trends including carbon, invasive species, and climate change; and cultural and social perceptions of fire and the human interaction.

Location

Anchorage, AK

Web Site

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/nrf/

Sponsors

Northern Research Forum

Contact

Cheryl Wright,

Details

Monday - 22 September Pre-Conference Day

• Steering Committee Meeting—UAA Library 302
• Lunch at the UAA Cuddy Center Dining Room
• Steering Committee Meeting—UAA Library 302
• Steering Committee/Host Committee Dinner at the Double Musky, Girdwood, Alaska

Tuesday - 23 September Pre-Conference Day

• Optional tours for conference participants
• Steering Committee Meeting—UAA Library 302
• Young Researchers Career Development—UAA Library 307 (1/2 day session)
• Dinner with President Grímsson, Chancellor Fran Ulmer and Steering Committee Members, UAA Library 307
o Charge from Dr. Lassi Heinenen
o Introduction of Young Researchers—share who you are, your research interest and why you are here
o Team-building/Native traditional talking circles led by Patricia Cochran and/or Larry Merculieff

Wednesday – 24 September
Location: Anchorage Museum Auditorium

• Late registration—Location: Museum Lobby
o Welcome/Opening by dignitaries
o Blessing/dancing by Native groups
o Keynote/charge to the group
• Plenary Session I: The New Geography of a Warming North
• Free time for lunch—Options include: Museum, Federal Building, 5th Avenue Mall, and many other downtown locations. A complete list of dining options, maps and addresses will be included in final conference packet.
• Afternoon roundtable facilitated discussion/breakout sessions (six breakout groups each answering a question— each group will be facilitated by a Steering Committee Member, a Young Researcher, and an Anchorage Host Committee member)—Location: Museum galleries
• Break
• 60-minute film break while Young Researchers compile their findings and prepare to report back to the conference attendees—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Breakout Summaries presented by Young Researchers—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Evening Reception—Location: Anchorage Museum of History and Art Atrium

Thursday – 25 September
Location: Anchorage Museum

• Plenary Session II: The Future of Northern Cooperation—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Morning roundtable facilitated discussion/breakout sessions (six breakout groups each answering a question—each group will be facilitated by a Steering Committee Member, a Young Researcher, and an Anchorage Host Committee member)—Location: Museum galleries
• 45-minute film break while Young Researchers compile their findings and prepare to report back to the conference attendees—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Lunch—Museum, Federal Building, 5th Avenue Mall, etc. Options, maps and addresses will be included in conference materials (perhaps allow 90 minutes to accommodate walking time to various locations)
• Breakout Summaries presented by Young Researchers—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Plenary Session III: The Accessible Arctic: Linking the North Within and Without, in the Global Economy—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Afternoon roundtable facilitated discussion/breakout sessions (six breakout groups each answering a question— each group will be facilitated by a Steering Committee Member, a Young Researcher, and an Anchorage Host Committee member)—Location: Museum galleries
• 45-minute break while Young Researchers compile their findings and prepare to report back to the conference attendees—Location: Museum Atrium/Auditorium
• Breakout Summaries presented by Young Researchers—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Free evening: explore Anchorage; dine at locations of your choice

Friday – 26 September
Location: Chickaloon

• Opening welcome and presentation of day’s events in Palmer at 9:30 AM by Chief Gary Harrison (please wear casual clothing and walking shoes or boots)
• Busses will rotate between locations:
o Chickaloon Greenhouse
o Transportation Center
o GIS and Mapping/Restoration Projects
o School
• Return to Palmer Depot for lunch
• Return to Anchorage
• Plenary IV: Leadership Under the Conditions of Uncertainty: How do we sustain and build a healthy Northern Community?—Location: Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Tour of Alaska Native Heritage Center with guides—hors d’ oeuvres and beverages will be available.
• Dinner buffet—Location: Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Evening: Native dances—Location: Alaska Native Heritage Center

Saturday – 27 September
Location: Anchorage Museum

• Breakout groups to discuss Friday’s Plenary Session
• Breakout Summaries presented by Young Researchers—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Summary Session—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Young Researchers Work Session (1/2 day)—Location: Clarion Business Centre
• Closing Reception
• Saturday evening film festival at the Museum (the Anchorage community will be invited to attend).

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Web Site

http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2008/

Sponsors

European Meteorological Society
American Meterological Society
European Environment Agency
and others

Contact

Copernicus Meetings
Max-Planck-Strasse 13
37191 Katlenburg-Lindau
Germany
Phone: +49-5556-99555-20
Fax: +49-5556-99555-70

Details

The underpinning theme of the European Conference on Applied Climatology, organised under the auspices of the ECSN, is the adaptation to climate change and the ECAC will serve as a platform where experts and scientists of the European meteorological and atmospheric community meet private and public stakeholders to communicate about applications for understanding of and adaptation to today’s and tomorrow’s climate. The EMS Annual Meeting programme aims to strengthen and widen scientific exchange within the European context, to explain the specific characteristics of the science of meteorology, to address the challenges of interpreting the results, and to communicate them to society at large. It includes the application of meteorology for the benefit of society, providing a platform for the meteorological community to discuss demands and aims for now and the future, thus creating synergies with the ECAC programme on adaptation.

Location

St. Petersburg, Russia

Web Site

http://www.rosleshoz.gov.ru/english/media/actions/conference/forest_and_climate/

Sponsors

Federal Forestry Agency of Russia
World Bank Group
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
and others

Contact

Tatyana Nanaeva
Federal Forestry Agency of Russia
Email:

Details

The goal of the conference is to enhance the role of the forest sector in implementation of national and international programs on climate change mitigation and adaptation through innovative / financial mechanisms and investment partnerships. Conference objectives include summarizing results of the latest research on the multi-functional role of forests in climate stabilization, including its non-carbon aspects; promoting traditional and innovative technologies of forest management and forest use that can generate climate stabilization benefits (including a needs assessment for long-term investments and human resource capacity building); mobilizing intellectual, financial, and institutional resources through public-private partnerships for training in and implementation of ‘win-win’ forest–climate projects and programs for enhancing climate-regulating benefits of forests; and developing methodological and practical recommendations for priority areas of international cooperation on forests and climate, including as related to applicable international negotiation processes and implementation of investment projects and programs.

Location

Houston, Texas

Web Site

https://www.acsmeetings.org/2008/

Sponsors

Geological Society of America (GSA)
Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
American Society of Agronomy (ASA)
Crop Science Society of America (CSSA)
Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (GCAGS)
Houston Geological Society (HGS)
US Geological Survey
and others

Contact

The Geological Society of America
3300 Penrose Place; PO Box 9140
Boulder, CO 80301

Details

This is a joint meeting between The Geological Society of America (GSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (GCAGS), hosted by the Houston Geological Society (HGS). The vision is to highlight and stimulate discussions in areas of common interest across the diversity of disciplines and organizations represented. Shared involvement in Energy, Water Resources, Education, and Earth Systems, to name a few, will foster a program comprised of thousands of scientific papers, hundreds of exhibits, and a myriad of distinguished lectures and special events, to engage students and professionals across the earth sciences and in every employment sector. The Joint Session Categories encompass the 10 broad, societally relevant and multidisciplinary themes declared by The International Year of Planet Earth (health, climate, groundwater, ocean, soils, deep Earth, megacities, hazards, resources, and life). The International Year of Planet Earth aims to ensure greater and more effective use by society of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000 Earth scientists to build safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe.

Location

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

Web Site

http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/2008/icall/

Sponsors

American Geophysical Union & The U.K. Natural Environment Research Council Knowledge Transfer Network ‘Fluorescence for the Water Sciences (NERC ‘Fluoronet’

Contact

For information about the conference:
For information about the scientific program: Paula Coble () or Andy Baker ()

Details

The purpose of the conference is to provide a focused forum for scientists from different research communities interested in organic matter fluorescence, to develop research ideas, define methodologies, and disseminate results. The conveners anticipate that the final outcome will include a timely, focused publication on the conference topics, including summaries of working group discussions. Plans include an instrument exhibit session for vendors to display and demonstrate products. Vendors will be invited participants as well, so users and manufacturers can benefit from discussions.

The conference will gather this diverse community to participate in knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer providing the first-ever forum to discuss community practices for sampling, measurement, and data analysis of fluorescence substances in water. The conference will specifically address the following topics:

Learning From Different Disciplines: Inter Calibration, Standards, and Sample Handling: Session Leaders: George Aiken, Jennifer Boehme

Environmental Influences on Organic Matter Fluorescence: Session Leads: Robert Spencer, Andy Baker

Data Analysis: Session Lead: Colin A. Stedmon

What’s Next? Future Directions and Novel Applications: Session Lead: Darren Reynolds

Location

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Web Site

http://www.swcs.org/en/conferences/farming_with_grass/

Sponsors

Soil and Water Conservation Society

Contact

Soil and Water Conservation Society
945 SW Ankeny Road
Ankeny, Iowa 50023-9723
Tel: 515-289-2331
Fax: 515-289-1227

Details

The overall goal of the conference is to address the changing economic, societal, and environmental background facing grassland agriculture today and in the future, including climate variability and change, energy costs and sources, market prices for commodity crops, demographics, the emerging bioenergy industry, and evolving markets for local foods.

Location

Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Web Site

http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/2008/ecall/

Sponsors

American Geophysical Union

Contact

AGU Meetings Department
Tel: +1-202-777-7329
E-mail:

Details

The main purpose of this meeting is to bring key groups together: those familiar with (or in the process of developing) new water vapor observing systems, those studying how atmospheric cloud, convective, and/or dynamical processes interact with water vapor, and those interested in the role of water vapor in climate change including paleoclimates, to discuss recent developments and future directions. A Chapman conference is uniquely suited to fruitful discussion of new observing system needs and possibilities, and of crosscutting science issues: a group of manageable size that includes experimental and theoretical expertise across disciplines rarely occurs in any other venue.

Location

Lincoln, Nebraska

Web Site

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outreach/CDPW33.shtml

Sponsors

National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction / NOAA
U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability (US CLIVAR) Program.

Contact

NOAA/ National Weather Service
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Climate Prediction Center
5200 Auth Road
Camp Springs, Maryland 20746

Details

The workshop will focus on the status and prospects for advancing climate monitoring, assessment and prediction, with major emphasis on drought. This includes three major themes: (i) improving climate predictions / predictability, (ii) understanding and attribution of drought and its impacts, and (iii) incorporating climate predictions / projections in the development and delivery of drought products. In a departure from past years, the 2008 CDPW will address drought across multiple time scales (weekly through decadal to centennial and longer) and for multiple regions (North America, South America, Africa, Asia, etc.).