Multiple Meeting Announcements

Date

4 January 2016

Call for Abstracts
SCAR Open Science Conference
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
20-30 August 2016
Workshop Announcement
Subglacial Access Drilling: IDPO Science Planning
21-23 January 2016
Herndon, Virginia
Call for Abstracts
Remote Controlled and Autonomous Measurement
5-6 April 2016
Tromso, Norway

Call for Abstracts
SCAR Open Science Conference
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
20-30 August 2016

Organizers of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open
Science Conference announce a call for abstracts. The meeting will be
held 20-30 August 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This conference will focus on "Antarctica in the Global Earth System:
From the Poles to the Tropics" and how the changes that we are currently
seeing in Antarctica will affect the rest of the world. The conference
program, including sessions and descriptions, is available at:
http://scar2016.com/symposia-session.php.

Abstracts for poster or oral presentations are invited. More than one
abstract may be submitted by one person, however abstracts cannot be
submitted to more than one session.

Abstract submission deadline: 14 February 2016

For further information, please go to:
http://scar2016.com/index.php

Workshop Announcement
Subglacial Access Drilling: IDPO Science Planning
21-23 January 2016
Herndon, Virginia

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that a workshop
entitled 'Subglacial Access Drilling: IDPO Science Planning' will be
held 21-23 January 2016 in Herndon, Virginia.

Scientific discoveries achieved from, within, and beneath the Greenland
and Antarctic ice sheets, ice caps, and valley glaciers are critical to
society today, but large group endeavors are not achieved without
significant advance planning. What is your vision for future subglacial
science? Sponsored by IDPO, this event is an interdisciplinary science
community planning workshop intended to identify the science drivers,
targets, and timelines of subglacial access drilling for the coming
decade.

The goal of this workshop is to form consensus within the U.S. science
community on scientific goals, potential drilling targets, and proposed
dates and timelines for major science projects that will require
subglacial access drilling over the coming decade, possibly in joint
endeavors with international partners. This information will be used in
the 2016-2026 update of the IDPO Long Range Science Plan, which is the
foundation for identifying and developing appropriate drilling
technologies for use in larger projects defined by the U.S. science
community.

All interested scientists who will be seeking science funding from a
U.S. agency are encouraged to participate, including, but not limited
to, those from the fields of glaciology, paleoclimatology, glacial
geology, biology, and earth science. Scientists should come to the
meeting prepared to summarize scientific research questions to be
addressed by subglacial drilling in the coming decade, and to identify
likely target areas, technologies needed, and timelines for completion
of projects that they are likely to propose in the near-term or
long-term future.

For further information, or to register, please go to:
http://icedrill.org/2016-subglacial-planning-workshop

Call for Abstracts
Remote Controlled and Autonomous Measurement
5-6 April 2016
Tromso, Norway

Organizers of the "Remote Controlled and Autonomous Measurement
Platforms Flagship (ReCAMP) Workshop" announce a call for abstracts. The
event will be held 5-6 April 2016 in Tromso, Norway.

The objectives of ReCAMP are to:

- Present the ReCAMP Flagship objectives, and present and future
activities; 
- Provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for
scientists, researchers, operators, and students to exchange
experience and knowledge on Remote Controlled and Autonomous
Measurement Platforms (RAMPs) technology; and
- Discuss the main challenges when operating RAMPs in the Arctic,
including communication, platform navigation, platform robustness,
cross platform opportunities, sensor inter-comparison, platform
independency, and remote power solutions.

The Programme Committee particularly invites contributions that include
good application, promising results, and discussion on challenges and
issues that currently limit the use or benefit of the technology. In
this way, the sessions will be a balance of experiences, challenges, and
new solutions. Abstracts are invited to the following seven sessions:

- Communication
- Platform navigation
- Platform robustness
- Cross platform opportunities
- Sensor inter comparison
- Platform independency
- Remote power solutions

Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2016

Further information, including details on the sessions and abstract
submission instructions, can be found at: http://www.asuf.no/recamp

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