Events
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 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). |
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
March 17, 2009
10th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture: The Once and Future Ocean
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Baird Auditorium, Washington, DC |
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National Academies Ocean Studies Board, National Science Foundation, NASA, NOAA, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Office of Naval Research, USGS, National Sciences Resource Center |
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Pamela Lewis () |
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Paul G. Falkowski
Microbial life in the ocean transformed our home planet’s environment and made possible the evolution of higher life forms, including humans. We have to begin viewing the ocean as a key component of the Earth system – one that we cannot live without. |
Ecosystems • Global Water Cycle • Human Contributions and Responses • DOC - NOAA • DOD • DOI - USGS • NASA • NSF • Smithsonian • Permalink
March 22-25, 2009
First International Greenhouse Gas Measurement Symposium
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Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, 1333 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010 |
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Alison Lizzi, , 412.904.6003 |
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Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to alleviate harmful effects of climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Join the Air & Waste Management Association and industry experts for the First International Greenhouse Gas Measurement Symposium to discuss GHG measurement and monitoring, and technological needs for accurate, local, regional, national, and international monitoring systems! This symposium will provide a forum for participants to begin defining the technical problem of monitoring GHG emissions at multiple spatial scales, and to discuss how to perform these measurements. |
24 - 27 March 2009
7th Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop
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Norman, Oklahoma |
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National Weather Service Climate Services Division
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James Hocker, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
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The CPAS workshop brings together a diverse group of climate applications researchers, climate product producers, and users to share developments in research and applications related to the use of climate predictions in societal decision-making. The meeting goals include identifying new climate prediction applications research, “building community” by promoting interactions between integrated climate-sensitive research and service communities, assessing impacts of climate forecasts on environmental-societal interactions, and providing feedback to producers of climate products on user requirements. |
4 - 6 May 2009
Managing Water Resources and Development in a Changing Climate
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Anchorage, Alaska |
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American Water Resources Association |
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Conference Chair
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Meeting topics will include meeting future water-supply needs, drought and flood co-management, ecosystem impacts, and water-management challenges. Additionally, since the Arctic is a place where change is expected to occur sooner and with greater effect, Alaska will be an ideal place to examine the many changes that are happening locally and effects on meeting the young state’s development interests and the nation’s energy needs. Interested water-resource professionals are encouraged to submit abstracts on these and other related topics of national and international interest. |
12 - 15 May 2009
2nd Climate Change Technology Conference
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
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Engineering Institute of Canada |
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Dr. John Plant
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The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009) is a Canadian / international forum for engineers, scientists, policy advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation of and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change. The Conference theme, Climate Change ... Deal with It!, emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and administrative responses to address issues associated with the impacts of climate change and global warming.
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8 - 12 June 2009
17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
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Stowe, Vermont |
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American Meteorological Society |
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AMS
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The 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (AOFD), organized by the AMS Committee on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics will be held in conjunction with the 15th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere (MA). Papers are solicited in all areas of atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics spanning theory, observations, and modeling. Joint sessions with MA will include (1) dynamics of the coupled troposphere-stratosphere including annular modes and the tropical upper troposphere/lower stratosphere, and (2) internal gravity waves: observations, generation, and parameterization. For the 15th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere, papers are solicited in all areas of middle atmosphere science (from the upper troposphere to the lower thermosphere). We seek a balanced program of modeling, observations, and analyses. Focused sessions have been proposed on results from the START-08, TC4, SCOUT-O3, and appropriate ARCTAS and International Polar Year (IPY) campaigns, investigations of troposphere to stratosphere exchange of water vapor, findings from the EOS Aura, ENVISAT, TIMED, ACE, ODIN, and AIM satellite experiments, and studies with chemistry/climate models related to the changes that are occurring in and are expected in the coming decades for the middle atmosphere. |
19 - 29 July 2009
MOCA-09: Our Warming Planet
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
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Michèle Bourgeois-Doyle
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IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS invite the international atmospheric, oceanographic and cryospheric research communities to their 2009 Joint Assembly. The theme of the Assembly is Our Warming Planet. In addition to Association-specific symposia, the National Organizing Committee (NOC) is pleased to announce that a series of joint symposia will be held to explore convergent points of interest between disciplines.
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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 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. |
