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 about upcoming events. Events should include a substantial component related to global change research (see list of specific research areas in left column). |
29 Jun – 5 Jul 2008
Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 2008
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Tromsø, Norway |
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International Ozone Commission
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Tromsø Event AS
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Conference topics include ozone depletion in a historical perspective, new developments in observational techniques, ozone depleting substances, ultraviolet changes, tropospheric ozone, climate-ozone interactions, new processes and uncertainties, and ozone recovery.
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6 - 11 Jul 2008
2008 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium
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Boston, Massachusetts |
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Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
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Along with a wide array of remote sensing topics, four new themes will be highlighted at this conference: Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and Radiance Data Assimilation, Ocean Synoptics and Weather, Baseline Climate Identification and Global Change, and Environmental and Human Health. |
Atmospheric Composition • Climate Variability and Change • Ecosystems • Global Water Cycle • Human Contributions and Responses • Land Use and Land Cover Change • NASA • Permalink
7 - 11 Jul 2008
15th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation
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Cancun, Mexico |
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Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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ICCP2008 Secretariat
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The goal of the conference is to provide a venue for the presentation of scientific research in the area of clouds and precipitation and to encourage the exchange of ideas within the international community. |
7 - 11 Jul 2008
11th International Coral Reef Symposium
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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International Society for Reef Studies
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Contact |
11th ICRS Secretariat
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The overall theme for the symposium is Reefs for the Future. The goals of the symposium include providing a scientific basis for coral reef ecosystem management by articulating the state of the science with respect to current and emerging stressors; improving the understanding of reef condition, function, and productivity; and expanding the field of coral reef ecosystem science and encouraging multidisciplinary research by facilitating the exchange of ideas. |
Climate Variability and Change • Ecosystems • Human Contributions and Responses • DOC - NOAA • DOI - USGS • Permalink
8 - 11 July 2008
Polar Research - Arctic and Antarctic Perspectives in the International Polar Year
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St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Contact |
Julia Raiskaja
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The conference will cover a broad range of polar research topics. |
July 21-24, 2008
Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry Summer Science Workshop
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Woods Hole, MA |
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Mary Zawoysky, |
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The focus of this year’s workshop is on the following interdisciplinary themes: Climate sensitivity of ecosystem structure and associated impacts on biogeochemical cycles Implications of climate variability and climate change for ocean biogeochemistry and benthic and pelagic ecosystems covering all trophic levels. Carbon uptake and storage Recent observational and modeling findings quantifying the magnitude and trends in ocean carbon fluxes and carbon storage. Temporal trends in ecosystem variability Application of ocean time-series data to characterize ecosystem response to varying climatic and biogeochemical boundary conditions. The session will include both modern and paleo-time-series in order to place the trends over the past century and future trends in a broader temporal context. Each day we will focus on one theme, which will include a morning plenary session, followed by afternoon breakout sessions on more detailed sub-topics within that theme, and then a late afternoon poster session. The purpose of the breakouts is to facilitate more detailed discussions on research priorities and opportunities within each theme. A set of near- and long-term objectives will be developed, from which the OCB research community could begin to formulate ideas for single or multi-PI projects to advance the field. |
20 - 23 July 2008
Planning for Climate Change: Weathering Uncertainty
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Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada |
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City of Iqaluit
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Contact |
Debbie Nielsen, Symposium Coordinator
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This groundbreaking symposium on planning for climate change mitigation and adaptation will consist of leading-edge thinkers, researchers and practitioners on an interdisciplinary journey of discovery and mutual learning. What planning strategies are communities implementing to mitigate climate change and deal with its impacts? What can planners learn from scientists to help them prepare for changes to our land, air, and sea? How do communities plan for the next 100 years? Focused debates, workshops and spontaneous discussions on these and other issues will create a legacy for northern and southern communities alike. |
July 23-25, 2008
NASA ASCENDS Science Definition and Planning Workshop
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Ann Arbor, MI |
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NASA
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Ken Jucks
Bill Emanuel
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NASA is convening a community workshop July 23-25, 2008 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan to refine the ASCENDS mission, particularly in terms of its scientific goals, objectives, and requirements.
* Discuss and refine the science goals for active CO2 measurements from space,
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29 July - 1 August 2008
2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting
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Cairns, Australia |
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American Geophysical Union
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AGU Meetings Department
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The Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM) provides an opportunity for AGU members, and members of the sponsoring societies in the western Pacific region, to attend a meeting that serves the needs of geophysicists interested in studies in the western Pacific region. Papers on all related aspects of geophysical sciences are encouraged. Abstract deadline is 16 April 2008. |
Atmospheric Composition • Climate Variability and Change • Global Carbon Cycle • Global Water Cycle • Permalink
3 - 8 Aug 2008
International Radiation Symposium 2008
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Foz do Iguacu, Brazil |
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International Radiation Commission
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Contact |
Prof. Marcia Yamasoe
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The International Radiation Symposium is organized every four years by the International Radiation Commission, part of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS). The goal of the symposium is to provide a venue to present current results about problems in atmospheric radiation and to encourage the exchange of ideas within the international community. The meeting welcomes scientific contributions on all aspects of atmospheric radiation, considering experimental or theoretical approaches organized in sessions such as: radiative transfer theory and modeling, molecular radiative properties, particle radiative properties, general remote sensing, satellite measurements, surface measurements and field experiments, radiation budget and forcing, weather and climate applications, and biosphere-atmosphere interactions influencing the radiation budget.
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Atmospheric Composition • Climate Variability and Change • Global Water Cycle • Human Contributions and Responses • Land Use and Land Cover Change • Permalink
6 - 8 Aug 2008
Energy Security and Climate Change: Issues, Strategies and Options Conference
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Bangkok, Thailand |
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Energy Field of Studies, Asian Institute of Technology
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Contact |
Maria Kathrina B. Gratuito
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This conference will cover the technical, economic, social, and political dimensions of energy security and climate change. It will provide an intellectual exchange between members of academia, industrial sectors, research institutions, multilateral and bilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations, government institutions, and policy makers from all over the world. |
11 - 13 August 2008
2008 AMS Summer Community Meeting: The Intersection of Weather and Climate
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Boulder, Colorado |
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American Meteorological Society
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Contact |
Judith M Ziemnik
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Objectives of the meeting are to better define the roles of Weather and Climate Enterprise sectors, reach agreement on plans to move Enterprise priorities forward, and increase public and political awareness of the critical contributions to national and economic security provided by the Enterprise.
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11 - 14 Aug 2008
17th Conference on Applied Climatology
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Whistler, British Columbia, Canada |
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American Meteorological Society (AMS) |
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Brenda Ward
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The conference is being held in conjunction with the AMS 13th Conference on Mountain Meteorology. The focus of the conference is to foster communication among research and outreach/education communities, provide a forum for interaction between mountain meteorology and climatology communities, and highlight climate observation networks.
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17-22 August 2008
Gordon Research Conference on CO2 Assimilation in Plants: Genome to Biome
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Biddeford, ME |
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Gordon Research Conferences |
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Chair contacts are listed at http://www.grc.org/chairs.aspx?id=8054 |
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"Formerly entitled “CO2 Fixation and Metabolism in Green Plants”, this long-standing Gordon Research Conference has been held on a triennial basis since 1976. In 1990 the participants decided to alternate between sites in the U.S. and outside the U.S. The 2005 conference was held in Europe at the Centre Paul Langevin in Aussois, France, so the 2008 conference returns to a U.S. site - the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. The 2008 conference covers basic plant research related to photosynthesis and the subsequent regulation and engineering of carbon assimilation. Approaches that range from post-genomic technologies and systems biology, through to fundamental biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology are integrated within ecological and agronomic contexts. As such, the meeting provides the rare opportunity of a single venue for discussing all aspects of the “carbon-side” of photosynthesis - from genome to biome. The 2008 conference will include an emphasis on the central role of carbon assimilation by plants for developing new sources of bioenergy and for achieving a carbon-neutral planet. A special characteristic of this conference is its “intimacy” with approximately 110 conferees, ranging from beginning graduate students and postdoctoral associates to leading senior plant scientists, engaged in open and forward-thinking discussions in an informal, friendly setting. With extended time devoted to discussion, and the encouragement to challenge dogma, it is unlike other meetings in the U.S. or abroad. Another novel feature of the conference is a session devoted to the latest “hot off the press” findings by both established and early career scientists, picked from the abstracts. Together with an expanded poster discussion in the evening sessions, this session provides an opportunity for early career scientists to present interesting new data and to “test drive” hypotheses in a collegial atmosphere.” |
17 - 22 August 2008
International Symposium on Dynamics in Glaciology
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Limerick, Ireland |
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International Glaciological Society
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International Glaciological Society
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This conference will focus on the interplay between novel glaciological observations, and the models which are necessary to explain such observations. It will focus on the study of phenomena in glaciology which are dynamic in nature, involving variation in time and/or space. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together field scientists and experimentalists who have intriguing observations to report with theoreticians and modellers who have been studying such phenomena. A particular encouragement will be to enable a workshop atmosphere in which open problems and observations will be discussed. |
