Friday, October 5, 2012

LinkSCEEM-2 FP7 workshop Registration deadline: 9th of October 2012



Date: 11-15 November 2012

Location: American University in Cairo, and Faculty of Computers and Information - Cairo University, Egypt

The LinkSCEEM-2 FP7 project in collaboration with the American University of Cairo (AUC) and the Faculty of Computers and Information - Cairo University (FCI-CU) are jointly organizing a five day 2-workshop training event between the 11th and 15th November 2012.
  • Lectures on the 11th and 12th November will be held at Cairo University and will include introductory courses and hands-on training on parallel computing.
  • On the 13th-15th November the LinkSCEEM 3-day Cross Sectional HPC Workshop will be held at the American University in Cairo. Lectures will include four parallel training sessions in selected scientific fields targeted towards participants’ interests. The four parallel sessions will be the following:
    1. Structural and Computational Biophysics (featured software: NAMD2)
    2. Real-Time Density Functional Theory (DFT) based Simulation (featured software: Octopus)
    3. Scientific Simulation and Analysis (featured software: Geant4 & Root)
    4. Computational Nanoscience (featured software: TBD)
The LinkSCEEM-2 FP7 project would like to announce fellowship opportunities for advanced High Performance Computing (HPC) training during the Third LinkSCEEM Cross Sectional HPC Workshop from 13-15 November 2012 at the American University in Cairo.
The workshop targets young researchers from the region and will address programming training needs of current and prospective HPC users from various computational scientific fields.
Access to LinkSCEEM HPC infrastructure will be provided for training purposes. Hands-on guidance in preparing projects for HPC usage will be given during the workshop.
A number of competitive funded LinkSCEEM fellowships are available for this workshop. 20 fellowships will cover the workshop attendance fee cost and will also provide financial contribution to flights and accommodation costs (3 nights single room accommodation or 5 nights for shared room accommodation). Further fellowships will only cover the workshop attendance fee cost.
Fellowships will be awarded to candidates who:
  1. Are experienced and are involved in Computational Science/HPC research projects or studies.
  2. Identify how attending the workshop can help them in their future work.
LinkSCEEM workshop participants are encouraged to attend the introductory workshop to be held on the 11th and 12th of November.
Special hotel rates can be made available for LinkSCEEM participants who will accept shared rooms - where the cost of 5 nights shared accommodation will be equivalent to 3 nights single room accommodation.
Important Dates:
  • Registration opens: 20th of September 2012
  • Registration deadline: 9th of October 2012
  • Notification of acceptance: 12th of October 2012
Registration:
Applicants should fill in the following online form to express their interest in attending the Third LinkSCEEM Cross Sectional workshop.
More Information:
More information about the program of the workshop can be found in the following LinkSCEEM webpage:
http://www.linksceem.eu/ls2/news-and-activities/events/events/event/19-third-linksceem-cross-sectional-hpc-workshop.html
Please keep in mind that the above webpage may be regularly updated.
For more information please contact: Thekla Loizou.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Extended deadline to Sunday, October 7 for the SEG/AGU Cryosphere Geophysics workshop



The deadline for submitting an abstract to the SEG/AGU Cryosphere Geophysics workshop has been extended.  The deadline is now Sunday, October 7.  Confirmed invited speakers are listed below.

Organizing committee:
John Bradford, Chairman (Boise State University), Steven Arcone (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab), Hajo Eicken (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Hans-Peter Marshall (Boise State University)

SEG-AGU 2013
Cryosphere Geophysics: Understanding a Changing Climate with Subsurface Imaging
6-8 January 2013
Boise, Idaho, USA

Invited Speakers

George Tsoflias, University of Kansas, U.S.
"Internal Ice Layer and Bed Mapping of the Jakobshavn Glacier Catchment Using Airborne Radar: Insights to a Fast Flowing Outlet Glacier"

Bernd Kulessa, Swansea University, U.K.
"Seismic Detection and Characterization of Unlithified Subglacial Sediments beneath the West Greenland Ice Sheet"

Seth Campbell, University of Maine, U.S.
"Preliminary Winter Accumulation Rates for Mass Balance Estimates of the Juneau Icefield, Alaska using 400 MHz Ground-Penetrating Radar"

Christian Haas, University of Alberta, Canada "Advances in airborne and surface-based electromagnetic sounding of sea ice thickness and ice properties"

Lasse Rabenstein, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, "Porosity of a Sea-ice Pressure Ridge Keel Estimated on the Basis of Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements"

Mike Demuth, Geological Survey of Canada - Cryosphere Geoscience Section, Natural Resources Canada "Inter-annual and regime-shift variations of firn architecture derived from neutron snow density probe and ground-penetrating radar measurements, Devon Ice Cap, Nunavut, Canada"

REMINDER: Open Access Special Issue



Open Access Special Issue, Polar Research and Earth System Science Data

Submission deadline: 31 January 2013.


Links:
http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar
http://www.earth-system-science-data.net/index.html


Contact:
Helle Goldman <Helle.Goldman@npolar.no> for Polar Research
Dave Carlson <ipy.djc@gmail.com> for ESSD

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Mountains under Watch 2013 Call for papers: 1 October 2012

Observing climate change effects in the Alps, February 20-21, 2013, Aosta Valley, Italy
MUW13 is an interdisciplinary conference that aims at bringing together scientists and experts working in the diverse fields of climate change studies in mountain areas around the world. The specific goal of the conference is to share experiences, methods and strategies for long term observations and monitoring of the effects of climate change on different alpine environments, ranging from the cryosphere to the biosphere.
The conference will run over two days:
20 February 2013: keynote speakers will give lectures aiming to give a broad overview on different topics related to climate change observations in the mountains such as snow and hydrology, glacier and permafrost, alpine plant ecology, long-term ecological monitoring. Keynote speakers will be Martin Beniston (University of Geneva), Wilfried Haeberli (University of Zurich), Georg Wohlfahrt (University of Innsbruck) and Mark W. Williams (University of Colorado).
21 February 2013: cryosphere and biosphere sessions with oral and poster presentations.

MUW13 will be held in Aosta Valley in the monumental fortress Forte di Bard

For more information visit: www.muw2013.it

Deadline 12th October IGS Nordic Branch meeting, prizes for students

The next International Glaciological Society Nordic Branch meeting will be hosted by Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University and The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, on 25th-27th October 2012. The venue will be split between the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Geosciences building at Stockholm University.
  • The deadline for registration and abstract submission is 12th October.
  • For students there is the added bonus of the newly-introduced prizes for best student presentation and poster.
More information, including accommodation and travel suggestions, is available on the meeting website: http://inkglaciologygroup.blogspot.se/p/igs-nordic-branch-meeting-2012_28.html

Submit abstract and register for the meeting by using the following link: http://www.easyresearch.se/s.asp?WID=871424&Pwd=77959923 or by navigating to ‘registration and abstract submission’ on the meeting webpage: http://inkglaciologygroup.blogspot.se/p/registration-and-abstract-submission.html


New CReSIS data web/ftp site

The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) has launched a new data web/ftp site in the past year and finished converting many datasets to a common format including all of the grids. The new site is: http://data.cresis.ku.edu.

The CReSIS radar depth sounder datasets that are available span nearly every season from 1993 to 2011.

There are numerous ways to search for data including a web portal, geographic search, etc. You can also request data by sending a bounding box to cresis_data@cresis.ku.edu.