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Global Carbon Cycle
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 or send an email to webmaster@climatescience.gov about upcoming events. Events should include a substantial component related to global change research (see list of specific research areas in left column). |
November 6-8, 2008
The European Forest-Based Sector: Bio-Responses to Address New Climate and Energy Challenges?
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Nancy, France |
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Government of France (as a part of the French Presidency of the European Union) |
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Why? During its presidency of the European Union (second semester 2008), France wishes to contribute to the debate on the roles of forests and their products in a post-2012 climate regime.
What? The roles of the forest-based sector and perspectives for the future will be discussed under three main headings:
How? Invited keynote speakers in plenary sessions, voluntary contributions in parallel sessions or poster sessions. Where? Nancy (Palais des congrès), city in the East of France (1 1/2 hour from Paris by TGV - High Speed Train) When? 6, 7 and 8 November 2008. Who? 350 participants - Scientists from research centres and universities, Professionals from the European forest-based sector, Delegates from European member States and the European Commission, Delegates from other national or international bodies, Students, Journalists. |
17 - 20 November 2008
Coastal Cities Summit: Values & Vulnerabilities
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St. Petersburg, Florida |
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International Ocean Institute
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Rebecca Harris - Managing Conference Chair
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Approximately 2.7 billion people - over 40% of the world’s total population - currently live in coastal cities. In 1995 alone, an estimated 50 million people migrated to the coastal zones of the United States. Combined with increasing birth rate and life expectancy, as well as future climate change, the escalating strain on public resources means that coastal city managers face unprecedented challenges. The IOI Coastal Cities Summit aims to bring together coastal city leaders, managers, and academics to discuss environmental, social, economic, and public policy challenges and viable solutions. Deadline for abstract submissions is 15 May 2008. |
15 – 19 December 2008
2008 AGU Fall Meeting
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San Francisco, California |
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American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
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AGU Meetings Department
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Atmospheric Composition • Climate Variability and Change • Ecosystems • Global Carbon Cycle • Global Water Cycle • Human Contributions and Responses • Land Use and Land Cover Change • Permalink
11 - 15 January 2009
American Meteorological Society 89th Annual Meeting
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Phoenix, Arizona |
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American Meteorological Society |
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AMS
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The theme for the 2009 AMS Annual Meeting is “Urban Weather and Climate: Now and the Future.” The meeting aims to highlight advances and challenges in urban-related science, applications, observations, modeling and operations. The specialty conferences, symposia and special sessions that comprise the annual meeting will focus attention on six cross-cutting urban themes: (a) measurement systems and networks; (b) modeling and forecasting; (c) observations and studies of high-impact weather; (d) geographic influences on urban weather and climate; (e) human and environmental impacts; and (f) implications of climate change and population growth. “High-impact” weather is considered in its broadest sense, and includes severe weather, high wind events, precipitation, floods, icing, lightning, poor visibility, adverse air quality, and temperature extremes.
Concurrent conferences include the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 8th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 7th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts, the 5th Annual Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems-NPOESS and GOES-R, the 4th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications, a Joint Special Symposium on Biogeochemical Cycling of Trace Gases and Aerosols, and the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, among others.
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Atmospheric Composition • Climate Variability and Change • Global Carbon Cycle • Global Water Cycle • Human Contributions and Responses • Permalink
February 17-20, 2009
North American Carbon Program All-Investigators' Meeting
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San Diego, CA |
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North American Carbon Program of the US Carbon Cycle Science Program |
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NACP Coordinator
Dr. Peter Griffith
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February 22-24, 2009
Unknown knowns and known unknowns: Chemical oceanography in a changing world
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Savannah, GA |
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william savidge, |
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Skidaway Institute of Oceanography will be hosting a Symposium entitled “Unknown knowns and known unknowns: Chemical oceanography in a changing world” on February 22-24, 2009, in Savannah, GA. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together marine scientists to reassess our current understanding of carbon cycles in the ocean (i.e., the “unknown knowns” |
and identify critical gaps in our understanding or our measurements (the “known unknowns”March 2-6, 2009
11th Pacific Science Inter-Congress
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Tahiti, French Polynesia |
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PSI 2009 Secretariat
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10 - 12 March 2009
Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions
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Copenhagen, Denmark |
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University of Copenhagen
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Climate Office
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The purpose of the conference is to try and capture some of the enormous research energy currently being devoted to the elucidation, mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Thus, the focus of the conference is on providing a picture of the “big issues” that the scientific community feels it is necessary that policy makers are aware of in order to make enlightened decisions with respect to the balancing of adaptation and mitigation in the societal response to climate change.
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Climate Variability and Change • Global Carbon Cycle • Human Contributions and Responses • Permalink
September 13-19, 2009
8th International Carbon Dioxide Conference
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Jena, Germany |
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Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
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Conference Chair
Conference Organisation
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About ICDC8 Background Since the beginning of direct high-precision atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements on Mauna Loa and the South Pole more than 50 years ago, scientific interest into the study of the global carbon cycle and its perturbations by man and climate has increased almost exponentially. The recognition by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of carbon dioxide as a major driver behind the current and future warming of the world climate and the subsequent establishment of international initiatives to curb carbon dioxide emissions, such as the Kyoto protocol, has further greatly intensified global carbon cycle research. Since 1981 the worldwide scientific community meets every four years at an international conference for an exchange of the latest knowledge and to gain a better understanding on the multitude of interdisciplinary aspects of the global carbon cycle. After the previous conferences held in Bern, Switzerland (1981), Kandersteg, Switzerland (1985), Hinterzarten, Germany (1989), Carqueiranne, France (1993), Cairns, Australia (1997), Sendai, Japan (2001), Broomfield, USA (2005), the 8th International Carbon Dioxide Conference will take place in Jena, Germany, September 13-19, 2009. Conference format The format of the conference will consist of a main line of invited and selected plenary presentations covering all fields of global carbon cycle research. Several extended poster sessions and a few parallel sessions on specific topics will complement the plenary. Participants will be asked to submit an extended abstract, which will be compiled into an electronic abstract volume prior to the conference and made available to all participants. Proceedings will be published as refereed papers in a special volume of Tellus after the conference. All non-copyrighted conference presentations and discussions will be broadcast live over broadband internet. Participation by newcomers and young scientists from all over the world is especially encouraged. |
