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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

Location

Tahiti, French Polynesia

Web Site

http://www.psi2009.pf/

Sponsors

Contact

PSI 2009 Secretariat
c/o Délégation Régionale à la Recherche et à la Technologie
BP 115 – 98713 Papeete – TAHITI, Polynésie française
Tel. : (689) 50 60 69 – Fax : (689) 50 60 68
Email :

Details

10 - 12 March 2009

Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Web Site

http://climatecongress.ku.dk/

Sponsors

University of Copenhagen
International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU)
and others

Contact

Climate Office
Jane Søgård Hansen
University of Copenhagen
Noerregade 10, P. O. Box 2177
1017 Copenhagen K
Tel: +45 35324251
Email:

Details

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. 

March 17, 2009

10th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture: The Once and Future Ocean

Location

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Baird Auditorium, Washington, DC

Web Site

http://dels.nas.edu/osb

Sponsors

National Academies Ocean Studies Board, National Science Foundation, NASA, NOAA, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Office of Naval Research, USGS, National Sciences Resource Center

Contact

Pamela Lewis ()

Details

Paul G. Falkowski
Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Department of Earth and Planetary Science

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.

March 22-25, 2009

First International Greenhouse Gas Measurement Symposium

Location

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, 1333 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010

Web Site

http://www.awma.org/events/view_event.html?typeid=1&id=115

Sponsors

Contact

Alison Lizzi, , 412.904.6003

Details

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

Location

Norman, Oklahoma

Web Site

http://climate.ok.gov/cpasw/

Sponsors

National Weather Service Climate Services Division
Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) at the University of Oklahoma
and others

Contact

James Hocker, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
Tel: 405.325.2541
Email:

Details

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

Location

Anchorage, Alaska

Web Site

http://www.awra.org/meetings/Anchorage2009/index.html

Sponsors

American Water Resources Association

Contact

Conference Chair
Michael Lilly
Tel: 907-479-8891
Email:

Details

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

Location

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Web Site

http://www.cctc2009.ca/en/index.html

Sponsors

Engineering Institute of Canada

Contact

Dr. John Plant
Conference Secretary
Engineering Institute of Canada
1295 Hwy 2 East
Kingston, ON K7L 4V1
Tel: 613 547 5989
Fax: 613 547 0195

Details

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.

8 - 12 June 2009

17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere

Location

Stowe, Vermont

Web Site

http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/fainst/200917fluid15middle.html

Sponsors

American Meteorological Society

Contact

AMS
45 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108-3693
Tel: 617-227-2425
Fax: 617-742-8718
Email:

Details

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

Location

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Web Site

http://iamas-iapso-iacs-2009-montreal.ca/e/99-home_e.shtml

Sponsors

International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO)
International Association for the Cryospheric Sciences (IACS)
and others

Contact

Michèle Bourgeois-Doyle
MOCA-09: IAMAS-IAPSO-IACS Joint Assembly Management Office
Tel: +1(613) 993-9495
Email:

Details

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.

September 13-19, 2009

8th International Carbon Dioxide Conference

Location

Jena, Germany

Web Site

http://www.icdc8.org/

Sponsors

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
World Meteorological Organization

Contact

Conference Chair
Prof. Dr. Martin Heimann
Director Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie
Hans-Knöll-Straße 10
07745 Jena (Germany)
Email

Conference Organisation
Conventus Congressmanagement & Marketing GmbH
Mr Felix Angermüller
Markt 8
07743 Jena (Germany)
Telephone +49 (0)3641 3 53 32 26
Facsimile +49 (0)3641 35 33 21
Email

Details

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. 


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