Newsletter n. 20 – 25/05/2007 – NICOP deadlines and other news
PYRN –Permafrost Young Researchers Network
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PYRN - Newsletter n. 20 – 25/05/2007 – NICOP deadlines and other news
- Abstract deadlines for NICOP
- PYRN award 2007
- APECS
- Permafrost press review
- Permafrost pictures and wallpapers
- IPA activities and other networks
- Events
- Abstract deadlines for NICOP announced!!
The
abstract submission and registration dates have been published on the
Ninth International Conference on Permafrost (NICOP) website. NICOP will take place between June 29th and July 3rd in
- PYRN award 2007
The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) is pleased to feature the second
IPA-PYRN award to be granted during the International Conference "Cryogenic
processes of polar regions" (conference website).
The PYRN award is awarded annually at permafrost conferences and is funded in part
by the International Permafrost Association and in part by the conference organizers
when funds are available. To date, the IPA and the local organizers have committed
600$ for three awards. If you are planning on attending the conference, please take
time to check the details on the award on: http://www.awi-potsdam.de/pyrn/pyrn_award.htm
- The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
PYRN is a partner of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
(APECS), which aims at raising the profile of polar science by bringing
together early career scientists and engineers and involving them in
the decision-making process during the IPY and beyond. You can register
with APECS here: http://www.kent.edu/polar
- Permafrost press review
This month, a nice article in Nature on the uncertainties on the future of Arctic permafrost: “A world melting from the top down” and an article in the VECO newsletter here
A number of other contributions spread in the news:
- Drilling permafrost on Mars
- Microbiology in Antarctic permafrost soils
- Climbers face more risks as Alps crumble
- Permafrost thaw study gives good prognosis
- Permafrost pictures and wallpapers
If you are a gifted photographer and have good pictures of permafrost
features or fieldwork in permafrost terrain, please send them to us. We
want to select the best permafrost pictures to change the pictures on
the PYRN homepage and create wallpapers to distribute to our members
and to other research communities. The pictures that we’ll publish will
be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
2.0 (check here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) and we will acknowledge your name on the wallpapers. Please send high resolution pictures only to pyrn@awi-potsdam.de
- IPA activities and other networks
- The Norwegian component of the International Polar Year project of
the International Permafrost Association: “Thermal State of Permafrost”
has now its own website: http://www.tspnorway.com/
- The IPA project “Arctic Coastal Dynamics” has released its 7th newsletter. You can find it here
- The SCANNET newsletter is also available online with a beautiful
picture taken during the PYRN workshop in Abisko on the cover.
(available here)
- Events
Two events in September and October related to permafrost:
a. The international workshop “Arctic coastal zones at risk” jointly organized by the International Permafrost Association, LOICZ, IASC, AMAP and IHDP which focuses on the impacts of climate change on permafrost coasts, will be held in Tromso, Norway from 1st to the 3rd of October 2007
b. The second SEDIBUD Workshop
(Working Group on Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments): High-Latitude
and High-Altitude Cold Environments will be held in Abisko, Sweden,
from the 15th to the 19th of September 2007. More info on the project website: http://www.geomorph.org/wg/wgsb.html
All of these items plus jobs, events, fellowships, etc. available on the website
(www.pyrn.org)
The PYRN core group
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