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).

Location

St. Petersburg, Florida

Web Site

http://www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=23613

Sponsors

USGS Florida Integrated Science Center
College of Marine Science of the University of South Florida
National Science Foundation

Contact

Paula G. Coble
Assoc. Professor of Chemical Oceanography
College of Marine Science
University of South Florida
140 Seventh Ave. South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Tel: 727-553-1631
Fax: 727-553-1189
email:

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The goal of the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Scoping Workshop on Terrestrial and Coastal Carbon Fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico is to bring together researchers to
discuss potential integrated research projects relating to carbon fluxes and exchange in the Gulf of Mexico.

Location

Boulder, Colorado

Web Site

http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/workshops/2008/arctic_system_model_08/

Sponsors

National Science Foundation
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Contact

C. Lace
Arctic System Model Workshop Coordinator
International Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks
P.O. Box 757340
Fairbanks, AK
99775-7340
email:

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The aim of the workshop is to discuss viable approaches for development of an international community Arctic System Model. Applications are invited from researchers developing and coupling regional ocean-ice, atmospheric, terrestrial, ecosystem, glacier and social-dimension models and others who are keenly interested in contributing to development of a coupled regional arctic model. It is anticipated that the ensuing Community Arctic System Model will capitalize on developments in software to interface clusters of component models, enabling modeling groups to apply their own work and removing the limitation of selecting single ocean, atmospheric or other component models for the project.

Location

Gijón, Spain

Web Site

http://www.pices.int/meetings/international_symposia/2008_symposia/Climate_change/climate_background_3.aspx

Sponsors

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC), International Council for Science Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR), World Climate Research Program (WCRP)

Contact

Symposium Convenors

Luis Valdés - ICES
William Peterson - PICES
John Church - IOC

Scientific Steering Committee

Richard Feely (U.S.A.)
Michael Foreman (Canada)
Roger Harris (U.K.)
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (Australia)
Harald Loeng (Norway)
Liana McManus (U.S.A./Philippines)
Jorge Sarmiento (U.S.A.)
Martin Visbeck (Germany)
Akihiko Yatsu (Japan)

Details

Deadlines:

Abstracts: January 15, 2008
Financial support: January 15, 2008
Registration reduced fee: February 15, 2008

Background:

Climate change is the most important threat to the Earth. Even if we stabilize CO2 concentrations, the 2007 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Assessment confirms that warming will continue for decades and sea level will continue to rise for centuries. Some direct effects of climate change in the marine environment are already visible, but others need to be defined by enhanced observations, analysis and modelling. We have a rudimentary understanding of the sensitivity and adaptability of natural and managed ecosystems to climate change. An assessment of the consequences of climate change on the World’s Oceans has a high scientific and social relevance and is urgently needed.

Although we are beginning to document the local effects and consequences of climate change on the functioning of marine ecosystems, there is no comprehensive vision at the global scale, and only limited ability to forecast the effects of climate change. To close this gap, the Symposium will focus on the major issues of climate change that affect the oceans: oceanic circulation, climate modelling, cycling of carbon and other elements, acidification, oligotrophy, changes in species distributions and migratory routes, sea-level rise, coastal erosion, etc. The Symposium will bring together results from observations, analyses and model simulations, at a global scale, and will include discussion of the climate change scenarios and the possibilities for mitigating and protecting the marine environment and living marine resources. 

Location

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Web Site

http://www.cmos2008.ca/

Sponsors

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Campbell Scientific
The Weather Network

Contact

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Email:

Details

The Congress theme is “Water, Weather, and Climate: Science Informing Decisions.” The Congress will feature plenary presentations by leading researchers and science sessions that highlight top Canadian and international research contributions to climate, meteorology, oceanography, and hydrology, as well as the policy implications of research in these fields.

Location

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Web Site

http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja08/

Sponsors

American Geophysical Union
related unions throughout North America

Contact

AGU Meetings Department
2000 Florida Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009 USA
Phone: 800-966-2481 or 202-777-7333
Fax: 202-328-0566
E-mail: (subject: 2008 Joint Assembly)

Details

The Program Committee is developing a Union-wide science program that will cover topics in all areas of geophysical sciences. 

Location

Washington, DC

Web Site

http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/programs.php#CCSSG

Sponsors

Contact

Emily Therese Cloyd,

Details

Location

New York, NY

Web Site

http://www.environmental-finance.com/conferences/2008/CFNA08/intro.htm

Sponsors

Environmental Finance Conferences

Contact

Matt Colvan, Sales Director
Tel: +44 (0)20 7251 9151
Mobile: +44 (0)7718 904109
Fax: +44 (0)20 7251 9161
Email:

Valerie Jones.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7251 9151
Email:

Details

This topical conference, the ninth in a highly successful series, will provide an invaluable update on all the major developments shaping the fast-moving markets in carbon credits and allowances.

By attending Carbon Finance America 2008, you will hear from top-level specialists across the US who will cover topics such as:

* Ensuring the integrity of carbon offsets
* Update on regional US emission reduction programs
* Investment opportunities in the carbon markets
* Recent developments in US climate change legislation
* CDM opportunities in the Americas
* Outlook for post-2012 global climate action
* Update on climate change policy in Canada
* Trading and hedging instruments in the carbon markets

PLUS:

* Be able to take advantage of many opportunities to network with other delegates and speakers throughout the conference especially at the drinks reception after Day One
* Be able to take the opportunity to attend the one-day Carbon Markets Workshop after the conference at a lower rate.

Location

St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Web Site

http://www.aslo.org/meetings/stjohns2008/

Sponsors

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Society of Canadian Limnologists
North American Benthological Society

Contact

Tel: 254-399-9635
email:

Details

The meeting’s theme, “Interactions on the Edge,” reflects the history, geographical location and geomorphology of the host town. The meeting will highlight interactions between scientists, between disciplines and approaches, and between ecosystems and environments. Topics include advances in aquatic photochemistry, interactions between physical limnology and ecology, the fate of sediment organic carbon in lakes, and global change effects on aquatic ecosystems.

Location

The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG

Web Site

http://web.pml.ac.uk/casix/

Sponsors

Contact

Julia Crocker, PML ()

Details

Recent research has highlighted how the ocean’s ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere may be changing. For the past five years the NERC Centre for observation of Air-Sea Interactions and Fluxes (CASIX) has been investigating ocean processes responsible for the air-sea exchange of CO2 to reduce uncertainties in our understanding. This meeting will present the latest results to those with an interest in Earth system & climate science, climate and energy policy and carbon mitigation strategies. Speakers will include:

* Prof. Andy Watson (UEA): A variable and decreasing sink for atmospheric CO2 in the North Atlantic.
* Prof. Jim Aiken (PML): Changes in global phytoplankton community structure from satellite observations
* Rosa Barciela (Met Office): Modelling short-term and long-term variability in air-sea CO2 exchange
* Jason Holt (POL): High-resolution modelling of CO2 exchange in European shelf waters

This event has been timed to coincide with the “The Breathing Ocean” exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, organised by the UK Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (UK-SOLAS), CASIX and CarboOcean.

Location

Woods Hole, MA

Web Site

http://www.whoi.edu/sites/ocbworkshop2008

Sponsors

Contact

Mary Zawoysky,

Details

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.

Location

Cairns, Australia

Web Site

http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp08/

Sponsors

American Geophysical Union

Contact

AGU Meetings Department
2000 Florida Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel: 800-966-2481, ext. 333 or 202-777-7333
Fax: 202-328-0566
E-mail: (Subject: 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting)

Details

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.

Location

Biddeford, ME

Web Site

http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=co2

Sponsors

Gordon Research Conferences

Contact

Chair contacts are listed at http://www.grc.org/chairs.aspx?id=8054

Details

"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.”

Location

Anchorage, AK

Web Site

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/nrf/

Sponsors

Northern Research Forum

Contact

Cheryl Wright,

Details

Monday - 22 September Pre-Conference Day

• Steering Committee Meeting—UAA Library 302
• Lunch at the UAA Cuddy Center Dining Room
• Steering Committee Meeting—UAA Library 302
• Steering Committee/Host Committee Dinner at the Double Musky, Girdwood, Alaska

Tuesday - 23 September Pre-Conference Day

• Optional tours for conference participants
• Steering Committee Meeting—UAA Library 302
• Young Researchers Career Development—UAA Library 307 (1/2 day session)
• Dinner with President Grímsson, Chancellor Fran Ulmer and Steering Committee Members, UAA Library 307
o Charge from Dr. Lassi Heinenen
o Introduction of Young Researchers—share who you are, your research interest and why you are here
o Team-building/Native traditional talking circles led by Patricia Cochran and/or Larry Merculieff

Wednesday – 24 September
Location: Anchorage Museum Auditorium

• Late registration—Location: Museum Lobby
o Welcome/Opening by dignitaries
o Blessing/dancing by Native groups
o Keynote/charge to the group
• Plenary Session I: The New Geography of a Warming North
• Free time for lunch—Options include: Museum, Federal Building, 5th Avenue Mall, and many other downtown locations. A complete list of dining options, maps and addresses will be included in final conference packet.
• Afternoon roundtable facilitated discussion/breakout sessions (six breakout groups each answering a question— each group will be facilitated by a Steering Committee Member, a Young Researcher, and an Anchorage Host Committee member)—Location: Museum galleries
• Break
• 60-minute film break while Young Researchers compile their findings and prepare to report back to the conference attendees—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Breakout Summaries presented by Young Researchers—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Evening Reception—Location: Anchorage Museum of History and Art Atrium

Thursday – 25 September
Location: Anchorage Museum

• Plenary Session II: The Future of Northern Cooperation—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Morning roundtable facilitated discussion/breakout sessions (six breakout groups each answering a question—each group will be facilitated by a Steering Committee Member, a Young Researcher, and an Anchorage Host Committee member)—Location: Museum galleries
• 45-minute film break while Young Researchers compile their findings and prepare to report back to the conference attendees—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Lunch—Museum, Federal Building, 5th Avenue Mall, etc. Options, maps and addresses will be included in conference materials (perhaps allow 90 minutes to accommodate walking time to various locations)
• Breakout Summaries presented by Young Researchers—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Plenary Session III: The Accessible Arctic: Linking the North Within and Without, in the Global Economy—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Afternoon roundtable facilitated discussion/breakout sessions (six breakout groups each answering a question— each group will be facilitated by a Steering Committee Member, a Young Researcher, and an Anchorage Host Committee member)—Location: Museum galleries
• 45-minute break while Young Researchers compile their findings and prepare to report back to the conference attendees—Location: Museum Atrium/Auditorium
• Breakout Summaries presented by Young Researchers—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Free evening: explore Anchorage; dine at locations of your choice

Friday – 26 September
Location: Chickaloon

• Opening welcome and presentation of day’s events in Palmer at 9:30 AM by Chief Gary Harrison (please wear casual clothing and walking shoes or boots)
• Busses will rotate between locations:
o Chickaloon Greenhouse
o Transportation Center
o GIS and Mapping/Restoration Projects
o School
• Return to Palmer Depot for lunch
• Return to Anchorage
• Plenary IV: Leadership Under the Conditions of Uncertainty: How do we sustain and build a healthy Northern Community?—Location: Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Tour of Alaska Native Heritage Center with guides—hors d’ oeuvres and beverages will be available.
• Dinner buffet—Location: Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Evening: Native dances—Location: Alaska Native Heritage Center

Saturday – 27 September
Location: Anchorage Museum

• Breakout groups to discuss Friday’s Plenary Session
• Breakout Summaries presented by Young Researchers—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Summary Session—Location: Museum Auditorium
• Young Researchers Work Session (1/2 day)—Location: Clarion Business Centre
• Closing Reception
• Saturday evening film festival at the Museum (the Anchorage community will be invited to attend).

Location

San Francisco, California

Web Site

www.agu.org/meetings

Sponsors

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Contact

AGU Meetings Department
2000 Florida Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20009 USA
Phone: +1-202-777-7335
Fax: +1-202-328-0566
E-mail:

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