PYRN –Permafrost Young Researchers Network
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PYRN - Newsletter n. 21– 26/06/2007 – Awards, travel money and other things

1. NICOP events for young researchers
2. Results of the PYRN award 2007
3. Travel fellowships to the NGPR sumposium
4. Travel fellowships for young researchers to the conference “Global Environmental
5. Change: The Role of the Arctic Region”
6. Cryosphere Young Investigator Award
7. Permafrost on the radio
8. A PYRN member gets the Ralph Stockman Tarr Award!
9. Special issue on permafrost in JGR-Earth Surface
10. Permafrost pictures and wallpapers

1. NICOP events for young researchers
   The NICOP organizing committee and the PYRN USA representatives have
   established a small committee led by Andrew Balser to organize young
   researchers activities at NICOP. We’ll let you know soon of the
   expected highlights of this program. In the mean time, we encourage you
   to register for the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost on its
   webpage: http://www.nicop.org.
2. PYRN award 2007
   The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) awarded the second IPA-
   PYRN award at the International Conference "Cryogenic processes of
   polar regions". The PYRN award was funded by the IPA and the Academy of
   science of the Gubernskaya district. Three awards, consisting of 200$
   and a PYRN T-shirt each were granted to the following authors:
   - Irina Khomenko, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
   - Viacheslav Stakhov, Institute of physical, chemical and biological problems in soil science, RAS, Pushchino, Russia
   - Przemystaw Zubel, Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń, Poland
   We congratulate warmly the winners and are already announcing that the
   Third PYRN award will be granted at the Ninth International Conference
   on Permafrost in Fairbanks. More details on the award recipients will
   be soon available on the PYRN website

3. Travel fellowships to the NGPR symposium
   The New Generation Polar Research (NGPR) Symposium, will be held on
   4-11 May 2008, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The symposium will
   provide a venue where young researchers can learn from each other and
   from veteran polar scientists and forge collegial relationships with
   their peers. Advanced students and PhD graduates who completed or plan
   to complete their degree between 1 January 2002 and 31 March 2009 are
   eligible to apply for full travel fellowships. More information on: http://ccar.colorado.edu/ngpr/.
4. Travel fellowships for young researchers to the conference “Global
   Environmental Change: The Role of the Arctic Region” to be held on
   13-17 October 2007 in Nynäshamn, Sweden. Some grants are available for
   young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the
   travel costs. Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 30th, 2007.
   More info on the conference website: http://www.esf.org/conferences/07240

5. Cryosphere Young Investigator Award
   The Cryosphere Focus Group of the American Geophysical Union seeks
   nominations for the Cryosphere Young Investigator Award for 2007. A
   nominee should be within five years of receiving their PhD. The award
   will consist of a $500 stipend to support travel of the awardee to the
   AGU Fall 2007 Meeting in San Francisco. More info here:
   http://www.awi-potsdam.de/pyrn/cryosphere_award.html

6. Permafrost on the radio
   The “Science Friday” show featured a panel discussion with several
   scientists involved in permafrost research in Alaska. The show is
   available as podcast on this website: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Jun/hour1_060807.html

7. A PYRN member gets the Ralph Stockman Tarr Award!
   Dmitry Streletsky from the University of Delaware, USA, was granted the
   Raplh Stockman Tarr Award for best student paper in cryospheric
   studies. Check it out here: link

8. Special issue on permafrost in JGR-Earth Surface
   the JGR-Earth Surface journal released a special issue called
   "Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground Under a Changing Climate" You
   can look at the abstract list and access the articles here:
   http://www.agu.org/contents/sc/ViewCollection.do?collectionCode=PFROST1

9. Permafrost pictures and wallpapers
   We now made three wallpapers available on the website (http://www.pyrn.org)
   , thanks to Tim Haltigin. We are now looking for pictures of polygons,
   mud boils, retrogressive thaw slumps, solifluction lobes, ice complex,
   massive ice bodies, etc.. Don’t hesitate to send us your high
   resolution pictures.

All of these items plus jobs, events, fellowships, etc. available on the website
(www.pyrn.org)
The PYRN core group