Multiple Meeting Announcements

Date

26 January 2015

Call for Presentations
2015 Arctic Energy Summit
28-30 September 2015
Fairbanks, Alaska
REMINDER: Call for Abstracts
30th Wakefield Fisheries Symposium
12-15 May 2015
Anchorage, Alaska
Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
M01 - Clouds, Precipitation, and Aerosols and their Influence on
Climate at High Latitudes
26th IUGG General Assembly
22 June - 2 July 2015
Prague, Czech Republic
Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
C15 - Cryosphere, Atmosphere and Climate: Evaluation of the
Cryosphere in CMIP5 Models
26th IUGG General Assembly
22 June - 2 July 2015
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Presentations
2015 Arctic Energy Summit
28-30 September 2015
Fairbanks, Alaska

Organizers of the 2015 Arctic Energy Summit announce a call for
presentations. The meeting will be held 28-30 September 2015 in
Fairbanks, Alaska.

The Arctic Energy Summit is a multi-disciplinary event expected to draw
hundreds of industry officials, researchers, policy makers, energy
professionals and community leaders together. The 2015 meeting will
build on its legacy efforts to address energy as a fundamental element
of the sustainable development of the Arctic. The Summit's themes of
Security and Affordability frame this appropriately, and build on the
2013 Summit's proposition of Resilience. Organizers invite subject
matter experts to submit abstracts for technical presentations,
workshops, or moderated panel discussions within these themes:

- Oil and Gas Exploration and Production
- Business of Clean Energy
- Remote Community Heat and Power

Abstract submission deadline: 27 February 2015.

Further information, including more specific details regarding the call
for presentations, are available on the summit website, at:
http://arcticenergysummit.institutenorth.org/2015-arctic-energy-summit/.

REMINDER: Call for Abstracts
30th Wakefield Fisheries Symposium
12-15 May 2015
Anchorage, Alaska

Organizers of the 30th Wakefield Fisheries Symposium announce a call for
abstracts. The theme for the 2015 symposium is "Tools and Strategies for
Assessment and Management of Data-Limited Fish Stocks." It will be held
12-15 May 2015 in Anchorage, Alaska.

The symposium will bring together fishery and social scientists,
managers, fishermen, and others from around the world. Organizers invite
abstract submissions in the following topic areas:

- Potential new types of data for assessment and management
- Alternative stock assessment methods
- Methods to incorporate uncertainty in assessment and management
- Integration of social and economic considerations into management
- Strategies for the management of mixed commercial, recreational,
and/or subsistence fisheries
- Methods for determining catch limits and alternative management
measures

To contribute an oral or poster presentation, submit an abstract using
the submission form on the symposium website. Abstracts must include:

- Type of presentation preferred (oral or poster).
- Topic area from the above list, or suggest a topic.
- Title, 10 words or fewer.
- Author names, affiliation, city, country, and email.
- Name of presenter and contact person.
- Text of abstract in 250 words or less; please do not include any
headings, tables, figures

Submission deadline: Friday, 30 January 2015.

For more information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2015/wakefield-data-limited.

Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
M01 - Clouds, Precipitation, and Aerosols and their Influence on
Climate at High Latitudes
26th IUGG General Assembly
22 June - 2 July 2015
Prague, Czech Republic

Organizers of session M01, entitled "Clouds, Precipitation, and Aerosols
and their Influence on Climate at High Latitudes," announce a call for
abstracts. The session will be convened at the 26th International Union
of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly, scheduled for 22 June
- 2 July 2015 I Prague, Czech Republic.

High latitude oceans and land areas play critical roles in the global
climate system and represent unique pristine environments, yet there
have been sparse observations of clouds, aerosols, radiation and the
air-sea interface in these regions. Consequently, much is unknown about
atmospheric and oceanographic processes and their linkage, which when
combined with uncertainties in representations of aerosols, cloud
condensation nuclei and ice/mixed-phase processes leads to uncertainties
in predictions of cloud feedbacks and precipitation. Studies that
present the state of knowledge of clouds, aerosols and air-sea
interaction over high latitudes including the Southern Oceans, remote
sensing and modeling studies are solicited for this symposium.
Presentations describing strategies for reducing uncertainties in the
representation of clouds, aerosols and air-sea interaction processes and
better determining the role of such processes in the climate system are
also solicited.

Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2015.

For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://iugg2015prague.com/abstract-submission.htm.

Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
C15 - Cryosphere, Atmosphere and Climate: Evaluation of the
Cryosphere in CMIP5 Models
26th IUGG General Assembly
22 June - 2 July 2015
Prague, Czech Republic

Organizers of session C15, entitled "Cryosphere, Atmosphere and Climate:
Evaluation of the Cryosphere in CMIP5 Models," announce a call for
abstracts. The session will be convened at the 26th International Union
of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly, scheduled for 22 June
- 2 July 2015 I Prague, Czech Republic.

The Fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) provides a large
multi-model ensemble of historical simulations, idealized experiments,
and future projections that were used extensively in the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment
Report. Although some initial evaluation of the ability of the CMIP5
models to simulate aspects of the cryosphere was undertaken in Chapter 9
of the IPCC report, more in-depth evaluation remains to be done. This
symposium invites contributions in which cryosphere components (sea-ice,
snow, ice sheets, permafrost, etc) in CMIP5 models are evaluated by
comparison to a range of in-situ and remotely-sensed data. Novel
evaluation approaches, in which important physical processes (if
possible, coupled) are identified and probed, are particularly welcome,
as are contributions to understanding the link between model quality (as
evaluated by comparison to historical observations) and confidence in
model predictions on seasonal to interannual time scales, and in model
projections of longer-term future climate. Careful evaluation of model
biases and shortcomings also helps guide ongoing model development
through the identification of processes or feedbacks that are not well
represented. Therefore, this symposium also invites contributions in
which model evaluation is applied to understanding shortcomings in the
representation of cryospheric processes and linking these to
improvements that have or could be made.

Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2015.

For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://iugg2015prague.com/abstract-submission.htm.

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