Multiple Meeting Announcements

Date

10 February 2014

Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Session 47: Antarctic Education, Outreach and Training
SCAR Open Science Conference
25-28 August 2014
Auckland, New Zealand
Workshop Announcement
Community-Based Monitoring: Observing Alaska's Coasts and Oceans
1-2 April 2014
Anchorage, Alaska
Call for Papers
Energy Law Conference
25-26 September 2014
Tromso, Norway
Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Pollen and Plant Macrofossil Records from Arctic Landscapes
9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference
26-31 August 2014
Padova, Italy

Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Session 47: Antarctic Education, Outreach and Training
SCAR Open Science Conference
25-28 August 2014
Auckland, New Zealand

Organizers announce a call for abstracts for session 47, "Antarctic
Education, Outreach, and Training," which will be held during the
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science
Conference. The meeting is scheduled for 25-28 August 2014 in Auckland,
New Zealand.

Many researchers understand how important communicating their science
is, and spend countless hours of their spare time making great
educational things happen. This session draws researchers' attention to
an opportunity to share their communication projects, and receive
professional credit for their efforts.

With the increased attention on the changing polar regions, effective
science education, outreach. and communication need to be higher
priorities within the scientific and policy communities. To help
increase the effectiveness of outreach and to help stimulate new efforts
among Antarctic researchers, SCAR programs and groups, and partner
organizations, this session will bring together examples of capacity
building, education, outreach and communication efforts of researchers,
educators, communicators, and others involved with Antarctic knowledge
transfer and dissemination. Organizers particularly encourage
presentations that not only share experiences, but also include the
lessons learned and advice for others interested in developing similar
activities.

Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 14 February 2014.

For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://www.scar2014.com/.

For questions, please contact session organizer:
Jenny Baeseman
Email: jbaeseman [at] gmail.com

Workshop Announcement
Community-Based Monitoring: Observing Alaska's Coasts and Oceans
1-2 April 2014
Anchorage, Alaska

Organizers announce that a workshop entitled "Community-Based
Monitoring: Observing Alaska's Coasts and Oceans" will be held 1-2 April
2014. The meeting will take place in Anchorage, Alaska at the Hotel
Captain Cook.

This workshop is part of an Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS)--Alaska
Sea Grant initiative to develop guidance in (1) identifying and
supporting community participation in data collection and observing
networks, and (2) the use of high-quality scientific data in resource
management and policy.

The workshop is free, but registration is required by 14 March. Travel
assistance will be available to selected participants; applications must
be received by 9 March.

Additional information is available at:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2014/community-based-monitoring.

For questions, please contact:
Ellen Tyler
Email: tyler [at] aoos.org

Call for Papers
Energy Law Conference
25-26 September 2014
Tromso, Norway

Organizers of the Energy Law Conference announce a call for papers. The
theme of the meeting is "The legal issues associated with the
development and use of energy resources in the Arctic." It will be held
25-26 September 2014 in Tromso, Norway.

Papers addressing the conference theme, broadly construed, are welcome.
Without intending to be prescriptive, examples of topics that would fall
within the scope of the conference include legal issues (domestic and
international law) related to any of the following in an Arctic context:
the role of strategic and project-specific environmental assessments;
energy markets; energy security in an Arctic context; energy relations
between the EU and Russia; the energy relations of Nordic States; energy
relations between the EU and Arctic states; the role of renewables in
the Arctic including wind, geothermal, tidal; non-conventional energy
resources such as gas hydrates; regional governance issues (e.g. the
role of the Arctic Council, OSPAR etc); and many more.

Proposals will be considered by the conference conveners on the basis of
academic merit, policy significance, and fit with the conference theme.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via email
(maria.m.neves [at] uit.no) by 30 April 2014. Organizers anticipate
(depending on numbers) being able to cover the costs of hotel
accommodation and meals for those selected to present papers.

Abstract submission deadline: 30 April 2014.

For more information on the conference, please go to:
http://www.uit.no/lawofthesea

For questions, please email:
christin.skjervold [at] uit.no.

Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Pollen and Plant Macrofossil Records from Arctic Landscapes
9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference
26-31 August 2014
Padova, Italy

Organizers of a session entitled "Quaternary Pollen and Plant
Macrofossil Records from Arctic Landscapes" announce a call for
abstracts. The session will be convened at the 9th European Palaeobotany
and Palynology Conference, scheduled for 26-31 August 2014 in Padova,
Italy.

Arctic landscapes are predicted to change dramatically in the near
future. Some of that change is already visible, but its effects are
still unknown. Multidisciplinary palaeoenvironmental studies help with
understanding those changes and their effects on biota and the global
climate system. Organizers invite abstracts that deal with changes in
vegetation communities, treeline, palaeoclimate, geomorphology, and
permafrost in Arctic landscapes during the Quaternary as inferred from
pollen and plant macrofossil records.

Organizers understand that the use of multi-proxy approaches greatly
enhance palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Therefore, they encourage
abstracts of multi-proxy studies including the analysis of diatoms,
coleoptera, ostracods, mammals, stable isotopes, molecular biomarkers,
sedimentology, biogeochemistry and other proxies.

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 April 2014.

For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://www.geoscienze.unipd.it/eppc2014/index.html

For questions, please contact:
Juliane Wolter
Email: Juliane.Wolter [at] awi.de

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