UK Arctic Conference September 2011

Dear UKPN members,

 

The UK Arctic Science conference is a great opportunity for those of you who work in the Arctic or on Arctic related topics to showcase your work.  Details are below and there is a prize for the best student poster!!  Hope to see some of you in Leeds in September.

 

All the best,

Aisling

 

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UK Arctic Conference 2011 (University of Leeds)

 

Online registration is open for the 2011 UK Arctic Conference to be held at the University of Leeds from the 14^th to the 16^th September.

To register please go to: http://www.ukarcticscience.org/registration/

 

The registration deadline is 1^st August, 2011 and there is no fee for registering.

 

This three-day conference aims to bring together UK Arctic scientists of all natural science disciplines: atmosphere, biology, ecology, geology, marine and terrestrial cryosphere, modern climate and palaeoclimate, oceans; their various interactions; observations and modelling; and relevant engineering research and development.

The conference will comprise talks, posters and guest speakers. The conference will run from the afternoon of Wednesday 14 September, all through Thursday 15 September, and close at lunchtime on Friday 16 September. There will be an icebreaker reception on the Wednesday evening, and posters with drinks on the Thursday afternoon. There will be a prize for the best student poster.

Since this conference is targeted specifically at UK Arctic scientists, we regret that we cannot accept requests for attendance from non-UK scientists. Attendance / participation by non-UK scientists is by invitation only.

If you would like any further information please visit: http://www.ukarcticscience.org or email: arcticinfo@leeds.ac.uk

On behalf of the Arctic Science Conference Organising Committee

 

 

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Aisling M. Dolan

PhD Student in Palaeoclimatology

 

School of Earth & Environment

University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JT

UK

 

Tel: +44 (0)113 343 9085

E-mail: a.m.dolan08@leeds.ac.uk

Homepage: http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~eeamd/

 

Arctic Science Conference: http://www.ukarcticscience.org/

UK Polar Network: http://www.polarnetwork.org/new/

 

 

 

International Glaciological Society - British Branch Meeting

Hello UKPN members,

The UK Polar Network is pleased to announce a Career Mentoring Panel at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge during the International Glaciological Society - British Branch Meeting (7-8th September). In addition to the scientific program, the panel will be a great opportunity for early career researchers to ask expert scientists questions about taking the next steps in their careers. This is open to all early career scientists registered at the meeting:

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/events/igs2011/index.php

The IGS-British Branch Annual Meeting is an informal two-day meeting at which presentations are welcome on all aspects of ice and snow research. Postgraduate students in particular are welcome to attend and present their work. The meeting will consist of both oral and poster presentation sessions.

Registration closes on Wednesday 6th July (abstract deadline 22nd July).

For further information, please contact:

Jenny Gales

British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
T: 01223 221245
E: jenles@bas.ac.uk
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Reminder: UKPN Network Day , June 7th 2011, Plymouth

I would like to remind people of the upcoming UKPN Network Day!

UKPN Network Day
June 7th 2011, 13 ­ 19hr,
Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club,
Plymouth, UK

Pleae RSVP to the emails below asap.

The UK Polar Network <http://www.polarnetwork.org/new/> is going to hold
another of its fun and successful Networking Days in Plymouth on June 7th at
the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club.

This Networking Day is taking place in connection with the big Scott
Centenary weekend commemorating the centenary of the British Antarctic
(Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910-13, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott.

So join us for an exciting day with a slight ³historical² touch for
presentations and discussions around the scientific legacy of the
expedition, the wealth of archives available for polar scientists in the UK,
discover the work of UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, and last but not least,
meet lots of other interesting early career scientists working in all areas
of polar sciences.

We are very fortunate to have Douglas Russell from the Natural History
Museum as key note speaker, and Ellen Bazeley-White the Archives Manager
from the British Antarctic Survey, and Anna Malaos from the UK Antarctic
Heritage Trust to tell us about their work and the resources it opens up for
scientists.

Bring along a poster about your current research for the poster session, and
be prepared for some fun when we are playing Polar Bingo!
As we have been informed the Polar Science Conference on June 6th has now
been cancelled but for those who are already in Plymouth in the morning we
will arrange a trip to the National Marine Aquarium.

For more information and to register your interest in attending:
please contact a.jungblut_at_nhm.ac.uk or amelie.kirchgaessner_at_bas.ac.uk

Hope to see many of you there!

Thanks,
Anne D. Jungblut

FW: Antarctic ice shelf images on "Glacier Online"

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Hi everyone,

 

The email below has just been posted to Cryolist.  But for those of you not on it – Glaciers Online looks like a really interesting and potentially useful web resource. See:

 

http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/antarctic/mcmurdo_ice_shelf/index-en.html

 

There are some great photos on there!

 

Aisling

 

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Aisling M. Dolan

PhD Student in Palaeoclimatology

 

 

From: cryolist-bounces@lists.cryolist.org [mailto:cryolist-bounces@lists.cryolist.org] On Behalf Of Michael John Hambrey [mjh]
Sent: 02 June 2011 13:47
To: cryolist@lists.cryolist.org
Subject: [CRYOLIST] Antarctic ice shelf images on "Glacier Online"

 

Dear colleagues,

 

We would like to draw your attention to the first instalment of glaciological photographs from Antarctica on our website "Glaciers online". Here you will find a few hundred images from the McMurdo Ice Shelf, focusing mainly on ice features, hydrological characteristics and glacial sedimentology, as well as 'human interest' activity. Please see:

 

http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/antarctic/mcmurdo_ice_shelf/index-en.html

 

We hope you find these images interesting and useful.

 

Best wishes,

 

Juerg Alean and Mike Hambrey

 

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Centre for Glaciology,

Institute of Geography & Earth   Sciences,

Aberystwyth University,

Aberystwyth,

Ceredigion, 

SY23 3DB
U.K.

 

Yr Athro Michael J. Hambrey,

Canolfan Rhewlifeg,

Sefydliad Daearyddiaeth a Gwyddorau Daear,

Prifysgol Aberystwyth,

Aberystwyth,

Ceredigion, 

SY23 3DB

Phone / Ffon: +44 (0)1970 621860/622606
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E-mail / E-bost: mjh@aber.ac.uk

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CUTEC's 8th Annual Technology Ventures Conference - 9 June 2011

A conference in Cambridge that may be of interest to UKPN members:

 

CUTEC's 8th Annual Technology Ventures Conference - 9 June 2011

There are only a few weeks to go until this year’s Technology Ventures Conference (TVC, http://tvc2011.cutec.org) which will address the importance of the Ideas Economy and its impact on high-tech clusters.

The conference will be held on 9th June 2011 at the Cambridge Union Society and we are delighted to have an impressive range of speakers confirmed, including the CEO of Virgin Galactic (George Whitesides), Global Business Development at P&G (Mike Addison) and the BBC Technology Correspondent (Rory Cellan-Jones). A full line up of speakers is listed below. The TVC has recently been featured in the Business Weekly news. (http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/hi-tech/11717-cambridge-s...)

In addition, there will be a:
• Cambridge Diamond Exhibition - which includes well-established companies such as ARM, MedImmune, Redgate, Plastic Logic
• Technology start-up showcase & competition - an exhibition of technology start-ups, where selected finalists will get the opportunity to pitch to an Investors' Panel.

• Ideas Economy Workshops - Healthcare workshop organised by GSK, Open Innovation by Mozilla and Cleantech by Shell Springboard. (For further details see the article on TVC workshops)
• An interactive smart phone application along with on-line streaming, which will enhance interactions and networking for the pre and post conference.

Registration is now open. Please register at: http://tvc2011.eventbrite.com/

We look forward to seeing you there!

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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

George Whitesides (CEO of Virgin Galactic)
Dick Powell (Co-founder of Seymourpowell)
Pamela Hartigan (Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford)
Roland Harwood (Co-Founder and Networks Partner at 100%Open)
Ted Shelton (CEO of Open-First)
Mike Addison (Global Business Development, Procter and Gamble)
Peter Boyd (COO, Carbon War Room)
Walter De Brouwer (CEO, One Laptop Per Child Europe)
Darren Westlake (DIrector, Crowdcube)
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen (CEO, Vestergaard Frandsen)
Vinay Gupta and Tom Wright (Founders, Whipcar)

MODERATORS:
David Rowan (Editor, WIRED magazine)
Rory Cellan-Jones (Technology Correspondent, BBC)

WORKSHOPS:
Shell Springboard (Cleantech)
Mozilla (Open Innovation)
Healthcare (GSK)

 

APECS Virtual Poster Session on Marine Biology - Thursday 19 May at 19:00 GMT

Hi UKPN - Here's an online session for you if Marine Biology is your
thing...or even if it isn't!

Best,
Allen
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APECS Virtual Poster Session on Marine Biology

Thursday 19 May at 19:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the May Virtual Poster Session with two
early career scientists presenting on:

1) Anne Helene Tandberg: "A 'teenage family' in a crowded mussel?"
Extended parental care in Metopa glacialis associated with Musculus
discors?

2) Marta Acosta Plata: "Whale watching: a key platform to study male
sperm whales in Norway and the North Atlantic"

To join the call / chat room, you will need to go to:
http://connect.canterbury.ac.nz/apecs/vps_may2011/. Login in as guest
and provide your name in the name box.

To reserve a spot, please send an email to Claudia Maturana
(apecs.chile@googlemail.com) or Tosca Ballerini
(info.apecs.italy@gmail.com). Remaining spots will be available on a
first come, first serve basis.

The session will be conducted through an online meeting system (Adobe
Acrobat Connect) hosted by the University of Canterbury. There is a
great and easy to understand tutorial video showing you how to join
one of these calls if you haven't before:
http://apecs.is/virtual-poster-session/live-sessions. In case any
questions remain on how to join the call etc – anything, please
contact us: apecs.chile@googlemail.com (Claudia),
info.apecs.italy@gmail.com (Tosca), kimjochum@gmx.de (Kim).

For those not familiar with the APECS Virtual Poster Session - this
effort focuses on bringing the concept of the poster presentation
beyond the four walls of the conference hall and creates an online
database of polar research poster publications. This project allows
members with similar goals and interests to exchange information and
assures a platform for the exchange of Arctic, Antarctic and
Cryospheric research, policy, and education activities that are
Shaping the Future of Polar Research - and our calls let you share
your research *LIVE* with people around the world!

For more information on the VPS – please go to:
http://www.apecs.is/virtual-poster-session

-The APECS Virtual Poster Session Working Group & Marine Biology
Discipline Coordinators

Fwd: "Open Nottingham" bursaries for OSGIS 2011

Hi All,

Some info about the OpenSource GIS meeting in Nottingham that may be of interest

Best,

Allen

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 Dear all,

As part of CGS's collaboration with "Open Nottingham" initiative, we are
pleased to announce 10 "Open Nottingham" bursaries for excellent
students to participate in OSGIS 2011. This is part of CGS strong
commitment to actively support, widen and promote Open Nottingham
initiative . More details of Open Nottingham at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/open/opennottingham.aspx

The "Open Nottingham" bursaries will cover the cost of registration fees
to participate in OSGIS 2011 and are open for students from any UK
universities (both postgraduate and undergraduate) . Applicants should
email their one page CV and brief statement of their open source
work/interest to Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk
<mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk> with subject header "Open
Nottingham bursary application". The deadline for application is 30 May
2011. The winners will be notified on 3rd June 2011.

This year's OSGIS Keynote presentations are:

*"Open Nottingham- Knowledge without borders"* - Professor Christine
Ennew (Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Nottingham) & Prof. Wyn Morgan
(University of Nottingham)

*"The impact of open data, open source software and open standards on
the evolution of National SDIs"* -Professor Mike Jackson, Director,
Centre for Geospatial Science

OSGIS 2011 Keynote address - Professor Thierry Badard (Laval University,
Canada)

*OGC-OSGeo Interoperability Day* (Organised by Tyler Mitchell, Executive
Director, Open Source Geospatial Foundation)

*OSGIS 2011 Workshops include*

# One Geology Workshop - (British Geological Survey)

# Geoserver Workshop - (GeoSolutions, Italy)

# Consuming and Publishing Ordnance Survey Open Data with Open Source
software Workshop - (Astun Technology, UK)

# WMS/QGIS Workshop - (Faunalia,UK)

# Open Gov Workshop - (Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of
Nottingham and Creative Commons)

# gvSIG Technology Sessions- gvSIG Association, Spain [As part of gvSIG
Day on 22nd June 2011]

More details at http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html

We look forward to welcoming you for joining us in our vision and
mission on further building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open data
research.

Best wishes,

Suchith Anand

Dr Suchith Anand//

Centre for Geospatial Science
The Nottingham Geospatial Building

University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU
Tel: (0)115 82 32750

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lgzwww/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm
http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/
http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca/

Mission - Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research
for bridging the digital divide