Internationale News 2011
Dezember 2011
GEIA invites the scientific, regulatory, and operational emission communities to join in a discussion of our capabilities to produce better emission information in support of science and policy. The purpose of this GEIA conference is to demonstrate the potential of improving emission inventories through the combined used of different methodologies. The capability of improving the accuracy of emission data is considerably enhanced at present by the possibility of using inverse modeling techniques and near-real-time observations. For more information click
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Land use and land cover change (LULCC) is a central topic in global change research. It is a high priority to improve the fundamental understanding of LULCC interactions with human, bio-geochemical, and bio-geophysical dynamics, and of LULCC impacts on the regional and planetary climate system, as well as on the functioning of our socio-economic system. This special issue aims to synthesize existing research, new findings, and to provide a roadmap for future research.
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The new initiative arises from the convergence between the Visioning process, established by ICSU in cooperation with ISSC and concluded in February 2011, and the Belmont Forum effort to mobilize international resources to deliver the environmental science-derived solutions that society needs. Starting in June 2011, a Transition Team has been guiding the design phase and the early implementation of the Initiative until a new governing body is appointed by the end of 2012. The Initiative will be announced in two stages in 2012—at the Planet Under Pressure conference in March and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June.
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The goal of UGEC Viewpoints, in particular, is to communicate and facilitate the development of new directions in research and practice on urbanization and global environmental change, fostering international collaborations across disciplines and scholars/practitioners. To achieve this article click
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It is a special report of working group I and working group II of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. This Summary for Policymakers presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The SREX approaches the topic by assessing the scientific literature on issues that range from the relationship between climate change and extreme weather and climate events ("climate extremes") to the implications of these events for society and sustainable development. To read the Summary click
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The NCCR Climate, Switzerland's Centre of Excellence in Climate and Climate Impact Research, invites young scientists to join leading climate researchers in a scenic southern Swiss Alpine setting for keynote lectures, workshops and poster sessions on the occasion of the 11th NCCR Climate Summer School 2012. The 11th International NCCR Climate Summer School is focusing on the theme "the water cycle in a changing climate". This theme has been chosen due to its paramount importance in terms of both scientific challenges and pressing societal concerns.
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The aim of the Mediating Climate Change in the City workshop is to provide a focal point for dialogue and collaboration for early career researchers working in the broad area of urban responses to climate change and to develop capacity for advancing scholarship in this field. Through a mixture of research presentations, debate, collaborative small group work and an exhibition, the workshop will focus on three core issues:
- What form are urban responses to climate change taking?
- What roles are different actors and institutions playing in these governance responses?
- What are the implications and consequences of urban climate change responses?
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The IHDP Scientific Committee has formally accepted the Knowledge, Learning and Societal Change (KLSC) initiative as an alliance of IHDP. After a presentation of the KLSC project proposal during the IHDP Scientific Committee meeting in Nanjing in October, it was agreed that the issues covered by KLSC are pertinent to IHDP’s research area and that the initiative should therefore become an official part of IHDP.
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The primary function of the Director, ICPO is provide scientific guidance and programmatic leadership to ensure, that the ICPO provides an effective executive arm of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) and its panels and working groups and contributes to meeting the overall mission and strategy of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). For more details click
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The briefs specifically target policy-makers in the Rio+20 process, aiming to give them access to the latest scientific thinking on sustainable development issues. Each brief tackles an issue of importance to the Rio+20 conference. Each policy briefs deals with an topic about "Green Economy" and the exact issues are: Interconnected risks and solutions for a planet under pressure, Biodiversity and ecosystems for a planet under pressure, Transforming governance and institutions for a planet under pressure,Food security for a planet under pressure and Water security for a planet under pressure . The briefs are currently available
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The International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy (ISEA) is an event organized approximately every three to four years and is a major event in the field of upper atmospheric and ionospheric science, gathering of around 150 scientists from all over the world which are interested in studying the low latitude atmosphere and ionosphere and the coupling with other latitudinal and altitudinal regions. The ISEA represents an opportunity for scientists to share their most recent research results and progress as well as discuss possibilities for future campaigns and experiments. Its objective is to bring together the leaders in the field of equatorial, low-, and mid-latitude aeronomy to advance our knowledge about these regions of the Earth´s atmosphere.
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The Congress is hosted by the University of Cumbria's National School of Forestry and marks the 10th anniversary of the formation of the SCB-Europe. The theme of the congress will be "Conservation on the Edge" and hopefully the Congress attracts participants from the conservation policy, practice and education arenas as well as academics and researchers. For ECCB2012 we have moved to the "edge" of Europe and in addition to the terrestrial themes which have been well represented at previous ECCB we hope to develop the participation of those involved in marine and coastal conservation. Interaction and effective communication between researchers, policy makers, conservation practitioners and resource users is fundamental to the success of conservation endeavours.
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The purpose of the conference is to provide a solutions-based forum and to exchange information regarding research activities and plans for studying the relationship between climate and environment changes and human activities with specific focuse on water related matters. Attendees will include scientists, engineers, managers, legislators, NGO representatives and policy makers involved in water, climate and environment related matters. BALWOIS 2012 is a platform for creating partnerships in solving water scarcity problems, floods, droughts, environmental degradation and risk affecting different regions by facilitating the sharing of experiences through the presentation of scientific and technical papers and posters on planning research and development activities.
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IS.Rivers is an international conference organized by the GRAIE and ZABR. This international conference that focuses on rivers will allow scientists, environment managers and operational actors from Europe and from all over the world to:
- Learn about the complexity and diversity of the rivers; and
- Share their experiences in terms of research and actions, implementation of local politics of watershed districts in particular for European examples.
The objective is to promote exchanges on rivers between scientists and environment managers.
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The main components of One Health are: Human Health, Animal Health, Environmental Health, Food Safety & Security and Agriculture. So in this conference there will gather the opinion of experts, opinion leaders, practitioners and One Health pioneers it will also provide vast opportunity for networking, knowledge and experience exchange and first-hand information. The target is to develop a new plan for a better integrative work in future.
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The Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Scientific Steering Committee invites you to participate in this conference to learn about new research, present your new findings, share you knowledge and develop future research directions and collaborations. The conference will highlight global research advances contributing to the SOLAS Midterm Strategy themes from the sea ice biogeochemistry of the polar regions to air sea gas fluxes in the topics. For more information klick
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The 11th International NCCR Climate Summer School is focusing on the theme "the water cycle in a changing climate". This theme has been chosen due to its paramount importance in terms of both scientific challenges and pressing societal concerns. The Summer School invites young researchers from all fields of climate research. The courses cover a broad spectrum of climate and climate impact research issues and foster cross-disciplinary links. Each topic includes keynote plenary lectures and workshops with in-depth discussion in smaller groups. The summer school is open to young researchers (PhD students and Post-Docs) worldwide.
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The IEPEC is an annual professional conference for energy program implementers, evaluators of those programs, local, state, national and international representatives, and academic researchers actively working in the field of evaluation. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation, critique and discussion of objective evaluations of energy programs. Another theme which will be discussed at the conference is: International interest in evaluating energy efficiency energy policies and energy services is growing as fast as the investment that is being made in it—but is the investment being made in the most effective manner?
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The Science for the Carpathians (S4C) initiative invites scientists, representatives from policy, economy, and management interested in the Carpathian mountains to the forum. The 1st FC2010 identified the need for better information on data generation, availability, and accessibility in the Carpathians, especially related to pan-Carpathian datasets. FC2012 will address this need by covering the whole Data-Knowledge-Action cycle, i.e. focusing on how data are generated and transformed into useful knowledge, how the knowledge is transferred to policy and practice, and how it can feed back to research planning. Apart from identifying the recent state of the art, the FC2012 wants to discuss and propose measures to improve the Data-Knowledge-Action cycle. The conference programme will offer plenary and parallel sessions, workshops, and poster presentations.
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RC33 is the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Logic and Methodology in Sociology. Its conference is the major international forum for current and fundamental issues in social science methodology. The focus of the conference is on innovations and current best practice in all aspects of social science research methodology. It provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary methods, as applied in a range of settings and disciplinary contexts, to hear about emerging methods, tools, techniques and technologies, and to discover what resources are available to social science researchers and users of research. The aim of the conference is to disseminate knowledge and promote methodological debate with the goal of contributing to the scientific development of social science research, particularly by building the evidence base to evaluate the efficacy, efficiency and rigour of the methods and techniques of social science research.
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The objective of this workshop is to investigate the ecological, societal and economic costs and benefits of terrestrial land use change for bioenergy production, and to develop interdisciplinary approaches to quantify and integrate those.
Participants of the workshop are invited to select regions where bioenergy crops are likely to be produced in the near future. These regions will then been used as “case studies”, to which different modelling approaches can be applied. This way, the performance of the different models can be assessed, model/simulation outputs compared, and uncertainties in predictions be evaluated. In addition, we envisage the preparation of a joint synthesis paper that 1) reviews current stand of knowledge, 2) identifies knowledge gaps and 3) proposes a way forward for future research.
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The Earth System Governance Project’s Science Plan is organized around five analytical problems. The Lund Conference on Earth System Governance will address all of these five analytical problems. The conference will particularly focus on research on accountability and legitimacy, and on allocation and access and will critically examine questions of justice, democracy, legitimacy and accountability in research and practice. Furthermore this conference deals with topics about sustainable development.
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Coastal protection is a worldwide issue that asks for huge investments to sustain safety, economy and ecology in low lying rural Delta areas under climate change. Productivity of rural deltas has always been the basis for a rich nature and for human food production. So the subject of the conference, Dynamic Deltas: safety and sustainability in rural delta regions, will be introduced in a series of thematic sessions. International keynote speakers and co-referees will open the debate and introduce the parallel sessions and on-site visits and round tables. The thematic sessions will address the following subjects: Drowning Deltas, Ecosystem Goods and Services and Coastal Management, Designing Deltas, Building with Nature, Economic Cases.
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The main objective of the scientific program and structure of the Congress is to provide an interactive forum of exchange of ideas by bringing together and establishing durable and strict relationships among older and younger soil scientists and researchers, technical and professional operators, industry and administrative representatives, policy makers and regulators operating in the field of Soil Sciences. The scientific program of EUROSOIL 2012 is structured in 13 general topics that include 86 symposia and 16 workshops focused on the variety and complexity of Soil Science disciplines.
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The conference aims at providing a platform to present the applicability of the developed tools and approaches. The focus will be on a science-policy interface with specific sessions for in-depth scientific presentations and hands-on sessions for end users. The conference will summarize the project outcome and targets both scientists and practitioners in river basin and water management. In 16 presentations, project partners and invited keynote speakers will show new bioassessment methods and management schemes to achieve the goal of the Water Framework Directive. Click
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The Biodiversity 2012 is bringing together scientists, industrial leaders and decision makers from all over the world in a great range of subjects through cluster conferences, expositions, excellent lectures, tech tours and training programs. In intimate, informal advanced technology workshops you can get practical solutions to your research problems. Furthermore the congress conduces to exchange knowledge and intelligence to ensure conservation of bioresources and ecosystem protection for sustainable development.
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This meeting is centered around the current understanding of the global nitrogen cycle and the extent to which it has been modified by human activities. It will consider processes regulating the sources, transformation in and removal from the atmosphere and their effects on climate, terrestrial and marine ecosystems and human health, and likely trends through this century.
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EuroGEOSS will build an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. So the main topic of this Conference focuses on multidisciplinary interoperability and the aim is to put EuroGEOSS developments in a broader context including INSPIRE; GEOSS in Europe projects and GMES. The dialogue will also provide attendees with perspectives on incorporating the EuroGEOSS developments into their own projects.
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This joint ESA-SOLAS-EGU conference aims at bringing together the Earth observation (EO) and the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) communities, as well as scientific institutions and space agencies involved in the observation, characterization and forecasting of ocean-atmosphere interactions and their impacts. The exact themes the conference deals with are for example: EO geo-information products and related uncertainties for ocean-atmosphere interactions, Sea-ice biogeochemistry and atmospheric interactions and Wave effects and sea-state impacts on ocean-atmosphere interactions.
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EcoSummit 2012 will bring together the world's most respected minds in ecological science to discuss restoring the planet's ecosystems. This international conference will explore innovative science-based strategies that are socially and culturally acceptable to create, manage, and restore ecosystems like rivers, grasslands, forests and some more.
The aim of this conference is to provide a high-profile platform for dialogue among researchers, planners and decision-makers to develop a better understanding of the complex nature of ecological systems and the means to protect and enhance their services.
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The COHIBA project will identify the sources of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea and develop measures to reduce these substances. In this conference the latest results of the COHIBA project will be presented and discussed. The discussion will also be used to develop methods to avoid further contamination. A final programme will be published by 10 September 2011.
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Young scholars are invited to take a part in a scientific writing contest. The articles should belong to the human dimensions of the Green Economy.
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The GMES Masters will reward on an annual basis the best projects and business ideas for a GMES commercial service, with the aim to support the development of GMES related entrepreneurship in Europe. To join these challenge just upload a proposal of your existing service or idea.
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The conference will provide a comprehensive update of the pressure Earth is under. The conference will discuss solutions at scales to move societies on to a sustainable pathway. It will provide scientific leadership towards the 2012 UN conference on Sustainable Development - Rio +20.
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The International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference “From Knowledge to Action” draws international attention to the Polar Regions, global change, and related environmental, social and economic issues. Abstracts will be accepted for both oral presentations and posters to sessions such as “Science Highlights and - Synthesis and Integration”, “From Knowledge to Action, Public Engagement” and “Education and Outreach”.
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The IHDP Core Project Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) is looking for candidates for its Scientific Steering Committee with mandates beginning January 2012. LOICZ is recruiting Scientific Steering Committee members who can address the ICSU “Grand Challenges” in the coastal zone.
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The seminar is designed to understand human and environment systems, to integrate science perspectives, to reflect the recognition of the interrelationship between human activities the earth system and to facilitate work on land and natural resource issues by communicating recent findings and to link research findings and practical lessons learnt to policy and implementation.
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The topics of conference mainly center on ocean acidification and its multifaceted implications.
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The International Council for Science (ICSU) is seeking to recruit a suitably qualified and experienced candidate to the important post of Executive Director of the organization.
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This meeting showcases current scientific theory focused on discoveries that will benefit humanity and ensure a sustainable future for our planet.
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The five-day OSM will provide a focus for the integration and synthesis of IMBER research activities with the goal of providing new understanding of the interactions between biogeochemical cycling, marine food webs, and human responses that will lead to predictive capabilities and informed policy and management frameworks for responding to global change.
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IHDP’s first scientific writing contest for a new magazine, to be launched in late fall 2011, is open to young scholars from all over the world (graduate students, PhD students or postdocs). The Secretariat will select five winners to be awarded a cash prize - and will publish their work in its magazine’s first issue.
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IGBP's magazine highlights the high-quality research arising from its core projects and projects that it co-sponsors.
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The ESSP is looking for reviewers for the fifth report of the Global Environmental Outlook series (GEO-5) of the United Nations Environment Programme. GEO-5 contains a global and regional assessment of issues and challenges associated with the environment-development nexus, policy responses to them, as well as a forward looking analysis of challenges for the future.
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The PAGES PHAROS (Past Human-Climate - Ecosystem Interactions) workshop, organized by the LUCIFS (Land Use and Climate Impacts on Fluvial Systems) Working Group, provides a platform to discuss research results and ideas on sediment and associated carbon fluxes in all terrestrial environments.
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The objective of an upcoming DIVERSITAS / ESSP workshop is to investigate the ecological, societal and economic costs and benefits of terrestrial land use change for bioenergy production, and to develop interdisciplinary approaches to quantify and integrate these aspects.
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The Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences has launched its new webpage and recently published Newsletter No.2 2011.
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This workshop will encompass seminars on the following topics: governance, technology, economics and equity. It will consist of lectures, discussions and group work. Participants, under supervision of trainers, will work on writing policy briefs or research proposals to be submitted to APN for consideration in 2012.
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The workshop will focus on urban responses, including mitigation and adaptation strategies to climate change in Asian cities. The goal of the workshop is to collect the studies from different countries and integrate them into synthesis or research papers in hopes of providing valuable references for drafting IPCC AR5.
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This joint SOLAS/IMBER/IOCCP Carbon synthesis meeting aims to bring together the scientists working on global ocean carbon synthesis projects, such as CARINA, PACIFICA, GLODAP2, SOCAT, etc, but is open to all other scientists who are interested in developing an integrated view of how the ocean carbon cycle has changed in the recent decades.
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The Transition Team, which will guide the design phase and the early implementation of the Initiative until a new governing body is appointed, has been established. It comprises seventeen members from a wide range of disciplines and countries, including ex-officio members representing the main partners. The first meeting is planned for 22-23 June.
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The conference aims at providing an opportunity to receive opinions, comments and suggestions from scientific communities and other international data systems to establish the active plan of WDS.
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The objective of the congress is to bring together global institutions involved in biodiversity conservation with expert groups familiar with the specific issues of the particular region. The aim is to share, network and develop future strategies and alliances for biodiversity conservation, in particular to meet the emerging challenges from climate change.
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The Memorandum formulates a new vision for sustainable development and prosperity, along with mechanisms for achieving this vision.
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The 2010 IGBP annual report highlights, among other things, a recently constructed record of South American palaeoclimate, forest and grassland response to European heat waves, a review on marine food webs, and sources of Arctic pollutants.
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The workshop provides lectures and laboratory classes on: The use and uncertainty of the main observational datasets available from remote sensing to drive impacts models; The use and uncertainty of short-range to seasonal forecast products and climate model data from major numerical weather prediction and climate centres; Impacts modelling in the three target sectors of agriculture, water and health;
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PAGES offers meeting support for three categories of workshops that are relevant to PAGES Foci and Cross Cutting Themes. The former comprise PAGES Working Group Meetings, Educational Meetings and Open Call Meetings.
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This workshop, organized by the UGEC Project and the Global Land Project will bring together key researchers from both communities with the aim of developing re-conceptualizations and analytical frameworks for the study of land that incorporates urban and urban-rural dynamics explicitly.
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The theme of the conference is "Disaster Risk: Integrating Science and Practice", focusing on the following topics: Characterization of hazards, vulnerability, and risk ; understanding decision-making in complex and changing risk contexts; reducing risk and curbing losses through knowledge-based actions.
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The aim of the conference on “Coastal Systems, Global Change and Sustainability” is to bring together the international research community working on land-ocean issues, show-case the width and scope of ongoing research, help to build a community in this highly interdisciplinary field and to inspire new research, theory building and applied science.
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PAGES is looking for nominations to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), responsible for overseeing PAGES activities for a period of 3 years. Successful candidates are supposed join in 2012.
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The International Geosphere Biosphere Programme is looking for an experienced Science-policy project manager for a one-year contract. The successful candidate will play a lead role in organizing a major international science conference and developing products and links to the UN's Rio+20 Summit.
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The aim of the conference is to promote our understanding of changes in all components of the geosphere-biosphere system and to assess the causes and consequences of these changes for ecosystems and humans.
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Earthzine.org is soliciting articles of 800-3,000 words for its 3rd Quarter Theme Issue on Urban Monitoring. Specific areas of focus include topics such as implications of urbanization for climate change and vice versa, current capacity and projected need for urban monitoring…
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The report brings together recent research on Arctic coasts. It focuses on the physical state, ecosystem state and the current state of socio-economic conditions in Arctic coastal regions.
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The workshop will focus on open debates, round-table discussions and exchange of ideas on a wide range of topics related to the Regional Climate Dynamics during the Pleistocene and Holocene in the mountain environments of the Carpathian and Balkan ranges.
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Researchers estimate the costs stemming from nitrogen pollution by farms, vehicles, industry and waste treatment for the EU up to 320bn euros a year. Moreover reactive nitrogen is deemed to contribute to air pollution, to fuel climate change and to shorten the life of the average resident by six months.
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The issue contains a selection of articles that provide an overview of the diversity of research presented and discussed at the recent 2010 UGEC Conference.
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The aim is to give natural scientists, social scientists and engineers the opportunity to prepare joint positions and concerted inputs for the Rio+20 Regional Intergovernmental Preparatory Meetings that will be held in the later part of 2011 as part of the official Rio+20 intergovernmental preparatory process.
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This training program offers the opportunity to enhance soft skills as well as to learn about drivers and pressures on coastal systems. It provides the participants with knowledge and practical skills that can be applied in their own country and an opportunity to interact and network with their peers.
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This meeting aims at bringing together the Earth Observation and SOLAS communities, as well as scientific institutions and space agencies involved in the observation, characterisation and forecasting of ocean-atmosphere interactions and their impacts.
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The aim of the conference on “Coastal Systems, Global Change and Sustainability” is to bring together the international research community working on land-ocean issues, show-case the width and scope of ongoing research, help to build a community in this highly interdisciplinary field and to inspire new research, theory building and applied science.
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The theme of the conference is "Disaster Risk: Integrating Science and Practice", focusing on the following topics: Characterization of hazards, vulnerability, and risk ; understanding decision-making in complex and changing risk contexts; reducing risk and curbing losses through knowledge-based actions.
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This newsletter issue compiles the latest information on climate and impacts during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) at global and regional scales. It also provides information on recently held meetings and upcoming events.
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The Scientific Committee of IHDP is looking for three new members. The candidates have a scientific background in either anthropology, behavioural sciences/economics or sociology, and should be willing to start in fall 2011.
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The conference, initiated within ACCENT, will continue within the new ACCENT-Plus Project. The goals of the meetings are to promote the integration and collaboration of the relevant scientific communities and to establish a constructive interaction with policy-makers. A close link with the most important international projects will ensure exchange with the international scientific community.
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CLIVAR is looking for qualified individuals to serve on its Panels and Working Groups. The latter formulate goals and required strategies, catalyze and coordinate activities, and work with agencies and other international partners to advance the progress of the climate research community, particularly with regard to addressing relevant goals of WCRP.
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WCRP and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) invite applications for the position of Director of the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) International Project Office (CIPO). The CIPO is hosted by the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø, Norway.
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This workshop will dedicate considerable time to microscope sessions and taxonomic problems to help guide the research and training of the next generation of polar diatomists. This workshop is also timely for the direct and hands-on transfer of results from the successful ANDRILL and IODP results to students and researchers in the field.
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This training program offers the opportunity to enhance soft skills as well as to learn about drivers and pressures on coastal systems. It provides the participants with knowledge and practical skills that can be applied in their own country and an opportunity to interact and network with their peers.
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The article provides evidence that the increasing concentration of greenhouse-gases led to the intensification of heavy precipitation events in the Northern Hemisphere during the latter half of the 20th century.
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The program includes an advanced treatment of theoretical and methodological issues related to environmental change and health risks, advanced upgrading in skills as well as capacity building and international networking linked to related programmes and goals of the Health Advisory Committee of IHDP and the ESSP Joint Project GECHH.
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The seminar will focus on possible future “hotspots”, where climate change is likely to make food insecurity more severe – i.e. increase vulnerability. Moreover research results from mapping locations, where climate change impacts and food insecurity are projected to increase severely by 2050, will be presented.
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Most studies that reconstruct the climatic conditions of the past centuries to millennia tend to focus on the northern hemisphere. But now an intriguing multicentennial record of temperature and precipitation in southern South America is available. Raphael Neukom and Jürg Luterbacher elaborate on its significance in the latest issue of the IGBP Global Change Magazine.
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The Earth System Sciences Research School (ESSRES), funded by the German Helmholtz Association, offers 9 PhD-positions for internal scholarship as well as 15 additional unfunded positions in the second phase of ESSReS for outstanding young scientists in the topical field of earth system science, starting October 2011.
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The paper links the latest climate change projections with demographic trends in the context of food security and is the product of a short term project commissioned by UK Defra, undertaken by GECAFS and written by Rebecca White, Beth Stewart and Patricia O’Neill of the University of Oxford.
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The symposium will highlight recent advances in global environmental change research, focusing on challenges posed by mounting pressure from global change on marine, terrestrial and human systems.
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Climate data are dramatically increasing in volume and complexity, just as the users of these data in the scientific community and the public are rapidly increasing in number. A new paradigm of more open, user-friendly data access is needed to ensure that society can reduce vulnerability to climate variability and change, while at the same time exploiting opportunities that will occur.
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This article summarizes the science programme of the Earth System Governance Project, prioritizing the analytical problems architecture, agency, adaptiveness, accountability, allocation & access, besides selecting the crosscutting research themes scale, norms, power and knowledge, in order to provide a starting point for advancing and integrating different strands and disciplines of research.
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The conference aims at bringing together the Earth Observation and SOLAS communities, as well as scientific institutions and space agencies involved in the observation, characterisation and forecasting of ocean-atmosphere interactions and their impacts.
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The 12th GCET will provide an international platform for representatives from various disciplines including economics, accounting, environmental management, law and public administration to discuss and share the current scientific research and application on the topic of Market Instruments and Sustainable Economy.
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As governments prepare for endorsing the new global body to assess biodiversity and ecosystem services, IPBES, scientists involved in its creation argue for a radical transformation of the relationship between science and society. Their key messages: Bring the social sciences into the environmental discussion; cut down on the hypothetical scenario-building of past initiatives; and concentrate on practical, policy-oriented science.
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The article is based on the paper “21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe” which has been recently published by scientists of Diversitas. The latter mainly deals with climate change and its consequences for Europe´s mountain flora. The conclusion that some regions are likely to suffer more loss than others is derived from employing botanical survey data additionally to a regional climate model.
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Scholars are invited to give feedback on their role in GEC. Results will be used to illustrate incentives and disincentives for engaging in this field and to frame the global sustainability research program from a social sciences perspective. To take the on-line survey, please click on this link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IHDPSurveyLink
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Questions about the links between global change, human health, and the environment have become critical to the well-being of mankind. It has become increasingly apparent that the IHDP community has a key role to play in addressing health as a cross-cutting issue. This update brings together contributions from GECHH project researchers and the wider IHDP community.
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The conference is intended as opportunity to link global-change science with decision-makers in policy, development, resource management, industry and other non-government organizations. Engineering and technology are also important target sectors. Sessions proposed from any of the latter viewpoints are welcomed, particularly with interactions among them. Proposals can be submitted online.
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The aim of the conference on “Coastal Systems, Global Change and Sustainability” is to bring together the international research community working on land-ocean issues, show-case the width and scope of ongoing research, help to build a community in this highly interdisciplinary field and to inspire new research, theory building and applied science. Session proposals which address the OSC themes are especially welcome.
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The summary, which has been commissioned by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and prepared with the assistance SOLAS, considers the practicalities, opportunities and threats associated with large-scale ocean fertilization.
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Main topics covered by the conference are mitigation, adaptation, technological change, trade regulations and unilateral climate policies. Contributions from a broad spectrum of climate economics and law research issues and from the two key topics, in particular, are welcome. Overall, the conference aims to foster cross-disciplinary links.
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The CSRP aims are to improve the understanding and prediction of African climate on monthly, seasonal and decadal timescales and to strengthen climate science capacity in Africa. Three types of fellowship are available: Postgraduate Research Fellowships, Postdoctoral Research.
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The report contains information about climate variability and climate changes (both past and recent), future climate projections and projected variations in the frequency and intensity of extreme events in the Iberian Peninsula, which is a region that is particularly vulnerable to climate changes.
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The aim of the conference on “Coastal Systems, Global Change and Sustainability” is to bring together the international research community working on land-ocean issues, show-case the width and scope of ongoing research, help to build a community in this highly interdisciplinary field and to inspire new research, theory building and applied science. Abstracts can be submitted until 1 May 2011.
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The WCRP OSC with the theme of “Climate Research in Service to Society” will be held in order to identify key scientific challenges and opportunities to advance understanding and prediction of variability and change of Earth’s climate system on all space and time scales. Individuals who wish to present their work at the WCRP Open Science Conference are encouraged to start submitting an abstract online until 30 April 2011.
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The SSC represents a broad spectrum of disciplines and nationalities, and includes both mid-level and senior scientists. This call for nominations is for SSC membership starting January 2012, whereas applications received after 18 March 2011 will be considered for SSC replacements starting in January 2013.
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Within the theme "Moving Toward a Sustainable Future: Opportunities and Challenges" the conference will explore whether the aspirations of global society to continued growth can be harmonized with the existing limits imposed by earth's resource base including mineral reserves, capacity for renewable resources and ecosystems. Moreover new ways of translating progress in the field of sustainable development into political action will be discussed.
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Conference themes will include land ecosystem-atmosphere observation, land ecosystem-atmosphere modelling, innovative methods, ideas and challenges in ecosystem-atmosphere interactions as well as human drivers and impacts of ecosystem-atmosphere interactions. The latter involve both modellers and observational researchers working at multiple spatial and temporal scales, with multiple observations, integration of observations into model development and evaluation.
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The conference, which is part of the ongoing multi-year effort titled “Cities at Risk” (CAR), aims at reducing risks and vulnerabilities of Asian coastal cities brought on by climate change and urban growth. Moreover a network of a researchers, policy makers and institutions in the region is supposed to be consolidated in addition to identifying future priorities.
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