Dear PYRN members,

For those of you attending the AGU conference, to be held in San Francisco in a
month from now (Dec. 15-19), the U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA,
http://uspermafrost.org/) has generously offered to sponsor two awards, $200
each, to PYRN members for the best presentation (oral or poster) on permafrost.
All attendees of the AGU Fall Meeting are free to register to compete for this
award by sending an email to awards@pyrn.org specifying:

1. authors
2. title of the talk/poster
3. time and location of the presentation

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) will provide travel grants for early career scientists (less than 5 years after completion of PhD) presenting papers to the ASSW 2009 Science Symposium held in Bergen (Norway), 24-26 March 2009. The maximum travel support will be 2000 EUR per person. Some of the travel grants are specially allocated to Russian early career scientists. Several of the sessions are related to permafrost.

Applications should be sent to the

IASC Secretariat
P.O. Box 50003
?104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-6739613
E-mail: iasc@iasc.se

Dear PYRN members,

Dear PYRN members, PYRN is now the partner of this upcoming workshop, which is a follow-up to last year's IMPETUS workshop on permafrost in Saint-Petersburg.
There will be at least one presentation on permafrost, featuring methods and techniques used to look at submarine permafrost.
IMPETUS 2008: Techniques in Polar Ocean Observation and Monitoring
St. Petersburg, Russia
19-22 November, 2008
For those who already applied: if you did not receive an email confirming your registration, please contact: impetus2008@ifm-geomar.de

Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Remote sensing of changes in terrestrial permafrost
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
15-19 December 2008
San Francisco, California

Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 September 2008

For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=185
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Papers are invited for Session C10: " Remote sensing of changes in terrestrial permafrost" being convened at the AGU Fall Meeting on
15-19 December 2008 in San Francisco, California.

Session description:

Dear PYRN members,
As most of you know, PYRN was created in 2005 and progressively increased its membership to reach 545 members as of today. PYRN has been managed by a steering group of three young researchers (Hugues Lantuit, Margareta Johansson and Oliver Frauenfeld) and developed a series of services and activities that are all featured on the PYRN website.

The Permafrost Young Researchers Network hosted its third annual outstanding presentation award series at the recent Ninth International Conference on Permafrost (NICOP) in Fairbanks, USA. Initiated at the regional Asian Conference on Permafrost in Lanzhou, China in 2006, this annual award series recognizes outstanding oral and poster presentations by young scientists and engineers on the general topic of permafrost. Held during each year's primary permafrost conference, the competition is aimed exclusively at the PYRN community.

This announcement can also be read at http://pyrn.ways.org/newsletter/pyrn-announcements

Dear PYRN members, we are all excited to welcome you at the upcoming Ninth International Conference on Permafrost. Please read attentively the following paragraphs to make the most of your NICOP experience:

1. PYRN Awards

As the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost (NICOP) will be the first ICOP during PYRN's short but already very successful tenure, we have a number of exciting events planned. NICOP will take place from June 29-July 3 in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a majority of our PYRN events will happen on Tuesday, July 1.

Dear PYRN members, we are all excited to welcome you at the upcoming Ninth International Conference on Permafrost. Please read attentively the following paragraphs to make the most of your NICOP experience:

1. PYRN Awards