Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Workshop Report Available
    Responding to Arctic Environmental Change: Translating Our Growing
    Understanding into a Research Agenda for Action
    International Study of Arctic Change

  2. Call for Papers
    Special Issue: Remote Sensing

  3. Dataset Available
    World Glacier Inventory
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

  4. SCAR Newsletter: Issue 28, April 2012
    Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

  5. Newsletter Available
    IDPO Ice Bits, Spring 2012
    Ice Drilling Program Office

  1. Workshop Report Available
    Responding to Arctic Environmental Change: Translating Our Growing
    Understanding into a Research Agenda for Action
    International Study of Arctic Change

The first International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) Responding to
Arctic Environmental Change workshop was held 30 January - 1 February
2012 at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. The complete workshop
report can be downloaded from the International Study of Arctic Change
homepage at: http://www.arcticchange.org.

Participants from eight countries and a variety of scientific
disciplines and stakeholder groups considered key issues for responding
to arctic environmental change, including four priorities established at
public planning meetings during 2009 and 2012. These priorities were:

- Establishing a mutually agreed upon definition of

responding to arctic
environmental change.
- Identifying research questions that align with stakeholder needs for
information, including those which are tractable in the short term and
those which need to be addressed over the longer term.
- Assessing how well established arctic observing initiatives
align with
stakeholder needs for information and identifying ways this alignment
may be improved.
- Identifying tools to advance science/stakeholder partnerships, and to
improve communication between the diverse communities with interest in
the Arctic.

Comments on the report are welcome and can be directed to the ISAC Science
Steering Group at the following address: murray [at] arcticchange.org. It is
intended that this first Responding to Change workshop will lead to a series
of follow-up activities, and wide community input is sought on the phase of
implementation.

To download the report, please go to:
http://www.arcticchange.org.

  1. Call for Papers
    Special Issue: Remote Sensing

Organizers announce a call for papers for a special issue of 'Remote
Sensing,' which will focus on innovative technology used in remote sensing
of the terrestrial or land surface.

The Earth Observation Technology Cluster is an initiative to promote
development and communication in this field
(http://www.eotechcluster.org.uk). The observation or measurement of some
property of the land surface is central to a wide range of scientific
investigations conducted in many different disciplines, and in practice
there is much consistency in the instruments used for observation and the
techniques used to map and model the environmental phenomena of interest.
Using remote sensing technology as a unifying theme, this initiative
provides an opportunity for presentation of novel developments from, and
cross-fertilization of ideas between, the many and diverse members of the
terrestrial remote sensing community.

The scope of the special issue covers the full range of remote sensing
operation, from new platform and sensor development, through image retrieval
and analysis, to data applications and environmental modeling. Example
topics include novel remote sensing platforms such as unmanned aerial
vehicles; emerging instrumentation such as fourier transform infrared
spectroscopy and terrestrial LiDAR; modern image retrieval and storage
techniques such as networked data transmission and distributed computing;
new image analysis and modeling approaches such as hypertemporal
observation; and contemporary and significant application areas such as
circumpolar and cryospheric remote sensing. Research papers and innovative
review papers are invited on any topic under the broad theme of
technological developments in remote sensing of the land surface.

Submission deadline: Deadline for submission is Thursday, 31 May 2012.

To express interest in submitting a paper, please email:
- ap556 [at] cam.ac.uk;
- alison.marsh [at] nottingham.ac.uk; and
- paul.aplin [at] nottingham.ac.uk.

For more information, please go to:
http://tinyurl.com/RemoteSensingJournal.

  1. Dataset Available
    World Glacier Inventory
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

A World Glacier Inventory (WGI) is available through the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at the National Snow and Ice Data
Center (NSIDC). The dataset can be accessed at:
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g01130_glacier_inventory/.

Since 1999, NOAA at NSIDC has worked with the World Glacier Monitoring
Service (WGMS) to make its WGI available online. While the WGI cannot claim
to have all of the world's glaciers, it now has records for over 130,000.
The NOAA at NSIDC team worked with an intern from the WGMS to check and
update the documentation of existing records, and add over 25,000 new ones.

The WGI is a reference resource for the world's glaciologists and one of
NSIDC's most popular datasets. The 50 fields included with each record
contain parameters such as orientation, ablation area, and accumulation
area, which glaciologists use to assess the condition of the glacier at the
time of the inventory record, and to compare with later assessments. The
WGI is an essential part of the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers
(GTN-G), in turn part of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) under
the auspices of World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

To access the dataset, please go to:
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g01130_glacier_inventory/.

  1. SCAR Newsletter: Issue 28, April 2012
    Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) announces that Issue
28 (April 2012) of the SCAR Newsletter is available at:
http://tinyurl.com/April2012-SCARNewsletter. This issue of the newsletter
includes:

- SCAR focus on the Biodiversity Data Paper concept;
- News and Announcements from SCAR;
- Antarctic Science News;
- Polar and APECS News; and
- Forthcoming Events

To view the newsletter, please go to:
http://tinyurl.com/April2012-SCARNewsletter.

  1. Newsletter Available
    IDPO Ice Bits, Spring 2012
    Ice Drilling Program Office

The Spring 2012 issue of the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO)
newsletter Ice Bits is available online. Ice Bits, an update of IDPO and
Ice Drilling Design and Operations activities, is published quarterly in
electronic format and can be accessed as a PDF file, at:
http://icedrill.org/news/icebits.shtml.

Selected items in this issue include:

- 2011-2012 Antarctic Field Season Successfully Completed
- DISC Drill Replicate Coring Test
- Badger-Eclipse Drill Utilized for Driller Training
- New Hand Auger Prototype Tested
- Rapid Access Drill Feasibility
- Science Advisory Board Working Groups
- Educational Outreach
- Drilling Support to Science Projects
- U.S. Ice Drilling Program Media Guide
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support

To download the newsletter, please go to:
http://www.icedrill.org/news/icebits.shtml.

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http://www.icedrill.org/.

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