Multiple Meeting Announcements

Date

12 August 2015

Call for Registration and Abstracts
Mathematics of Sea Ice Conference
24-26 September 2015
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
DEADLINE EXTENDED
Call for Abstracts and Registration
1st Central European Polar Meeting
10-13 November 2015
Vienna, Austria
Two Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
Ocean Sciences Meeting
21-26 February 2016
New Orleans, Louisiana

Call for Registration and Abstracts
Mathematics of Sea Ice Conference
24-26 September 2015
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Organizers announce a call for registration and abstract submissions to
the "Mathematics of Sea Ice" conference, which will convene 24-26
September 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Intended to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion and inquiry, this
conference will bring together scientists and mathematicians working on
theoretical aspects of sea ice research. Abstracts of poster or oral
presentations are invited (maximum 200 words, in English language). The
organizing committee will be responsible for the selection of
presentations from the submitted abstracts.

Abstract submission and travel funding request deadline:
Friday, 21 August 2015.

For information on how to submit abstracts, travel funding requests,
and registration; and more about the conference, go to:
https://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/150924-cmsi.

This meeting is part of a conference series run and partially supported
by the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) at the
University of British Columbia. For further information, go to:
https://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/150924-cmsi.

For questions, contact:
Ken Golden
Email: golden [at] math.utah.edu
Phone: 801-581-6851

DEADLINE EXTENDED
Call for Abstracts and Registration
1st Central European Polar Meeting
10-13 November 2015
Vienna, Austria

Organizers announce an extended deadline for the call for abstract
submissions to the 1st Central European Polar Meeting, which will
convene 10-13 November 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

EXTENDED DEADLINE for abstract submissions: Monday, 17 August 2015.

The meeting is jointly organized by the Committee on Polar Research of
the Polish Academy of Sciences; the Centre for Polar Ecology, Czech
Republic; and the Austrian Polar Research Institute in cooperation with
the National Committee for Global Change of the Austrian Academy of
Sciences. It is one of the first international activities of the newly
established Central European Polar Partnership, which aims at increasing
the visibility and coordinating polar research in and among the
participating countries.

Scientific sessions and keynote speakers:

Climate Change and Impact on the Polar Cryosphere, Konrad Steffen
(WSL, Switzerland)
Polar Ecology, Skip Walker (Alaska Geobotany Center, USA) and Jakub
Zarsky (University of Prague, Czech Republic)
Permafrost under Climate Change, Hugues Lantuit (Alfred Wegener
Institute, Germany)
History of Polar Research, Susan Barr (Directorate for Cultural
Heritage and International Arctic Science Committee)
Arctic Social and Human Sciences, Gertrude Saxinger (Austrian Polar
Research Institute, Austria) and Michal Luszczuk (Maria Curie Sklodowska
University in Lublin, Poland)

EXTENDED DEADLINE for abstract submissions: Monday, 17 August 2015.

Early registration deadline: Friday, 18 September.

To register and submit abstracts, go to:
http://www.polarresearch.at/conference/registration.

For more information, go to: http://www.polarresearch.at/conference.

For questions, contact:
Marion Rothmueller
Email: office [at] polarresearch.at

Two Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
Ocean Sciences Meeting
21-26 February 2016
New Orleans, Louisiana

Abstracts are currently being accepted for sessions during 2016 Ocean
Sciences Meeting. The meeting will be held 21-26 February 2016 in New
Orleans, Louisiana.

Specific criteria and instructions for submitting abstracts is available
online at: http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions.

Abstract submission deadline for all sessions:
23 September 2015 at 11:59 p.m. (EDT).

Conveners of the following two sessions invite abstract submissions:

Session 7526:
Dynamics of the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice System in a Changing Climate
Session Chairs: Torge Martin, Benjamin Rabe, and Pal Erik Isachsen
Session Description: Major sea ice loss and Arctic air temperatures
rising faster than the global mean are precursors of significant change
that the Arctic Ocean is already beginning to experience. The retreat of
sea ice greatly affects the Arctic system, allowing the direct exchange
of heat, momentum, and fresh water between ocean and atmosphere with
implications for the ecosystem as well. Recently, novel and innovative
year-round observational programs provide insight on this transition,
however a correct interpretation of the changes inevitably requires an
improved understanding of the actual processes at play. In the context
of a changing Arctic, this session invites observational and modeling
studies describing and quantifying dynamical processes, feedbacks, and
the role of fluxes across the air-ice-ocean interface. Particular
attention will be paid to topics such as momentum transfer into the
ocean, the transfer of energy across scales, connections between the
surface and the deep ocean (e.g. internal waves and mixing), and links
to changes in stratification and large-scale circulation. Submissions on
both physical and multi-disciplinary aspects are welcome.

For questions about this session, contact Torge Martin
(torge.martin [at] gmail.com).

For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session7526.

Session 9352:
High Latitude Air-Sea-Ice Interactions in a Changing Climate
Session Chairs: Kent Moore, John Cassano, Robin Muench, and Bob Pickart
Session Description: Exchanges of heat, mass, and momentum across the
air-sea interface impact the ocean and atmosphere and their interactions
within the coupled climate system. These exchanges, significantly
enhanced in polar regions by large air-sea temperature differences and
high wind speeds, contribute to water mass modification and ventilation
that in turn impacts biochemical and physical conditions throughout the
world oceans. Sea ice modulates these processes and results in
complexity that, combined with a sparsity of data in polar regions,
contributes to uncertainty regarding their spatial and temporal
variability and large scale impacts. This session provides a venue for
the exchange of new information on all aspects of high latitude
air-sea-ice interaction, including processes at the interface and
investigations of their impacts on local ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice
processes as well as the larger coupled climate system.

For questions about this session, contact Kent Moore
(gwk.moore [at] utoronto.ca).

For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9352.

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