Date

Multiple Meeting Announcements

  1. Call for Abstracts
    Interdisciplinary Polar Studies in Svalbard (IPSiS)
    18-24 September 2015
    Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

  2. Registration Available
    1st Central European Polar Meeting
    10 November 2015
    Vienna, Austria

  3. Registration Available
    21st Integrating Arctic Plant and Microbial Ecology (ITEX) Meeting
    16-18 September 2015
    Uppsala, Sweden

  4. Registration Available
    30th Wakefield Fisheries Symposium
    12-15 May 2015
    Anchorage, Alaska

  1. Call for Abstracts
    Interdisciplinary Polar Studies in Svalbard (IPSiS)
    18-24 September 2015
    Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

Organizers of the Interdisciplinary Polar Studies in Svalbard (IPSiS)
meeting announce a call for abstracts. The conference will take place in
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway on 20-21 September 2015 and will be
accompanied by field workshops for young researchers in the Longyearbyen
area (18-19 September 2015) and in Hornsund (22-24 September 2015).

The IPSiS main goal is to facilitate international and interdisciplinary
cooperation in studies on the interactive effects of climate change on
Arctic nature and societies. The meeting has a special focus on young
scientists and PhD students in particular, and is meant to enable them
to share ideas and acquire new skills and experiences in Arctic
research, mainly by participating in the field workshops. The conference
part of IPSiS will provide a venue where scientists, authorities,
entrepreneurs and local inhabitants will have an opportunity to meet,
exchange experience and discuss monitoring the current climate change
and its effects in the Arctic. The plenary sessions of the conference
will be open to general audience including Longyearbyen citizens,
authorities and entrepreneurs.

Abstracts of oral presentations and posters are welcomed for submission.
A booklet of abstracts will be prepared and available as a PDF file.

Workshop application deadline: 15 May 2015.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2015.
Early registration deadline: 30 June 2015.

For abstract submission and registration, please go to:
http://www.polarknow.us.edu.pl/ipsis-meeting/.

For further information, please contact:
Maja Lisowska
Email: maja.lisowska [at] us.edu.pl

  1. Registration Available
    1st Central European Polar Meeting
    10 November 2015
    Vienna, Austria

Organizers of the 1st Central European Polar Meeting announce the
availability of registration. The meeting will be held 10 November 2015
in Vienna, Austria.

In 2015 the 100th anniversary of the death of Austrian polar explorer
Julius Payer takes place. To commemorate Payer's achievements in
international polar sciences, this meeting is being organized to bring
together polar researchers from Central European countries and beyond.
It will include distinguished senior scientists, but also early career
scientists and the next generation of polar researchers.

Besides presentation of newest results from ongoing research activities,
the conference is one of the first international activities of the newly
established Central European Polar Partnership, which aims at increasing
the visibility and coordinating polar research in and between the
participating countries.

Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2015.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.polarresearch.at/conference.

For questions, please contact:
Marion Rothmuller
Email: office [at] polarresearch.at

  1. Registration Available
    21st Integrating Arctic Plant and Microbial Ecology (ITEX) Meeting
    16-18 September 2015
    Uppsala, Sweden

Organizers announce that registration is currently available for the
21st Integrating Arctic Plant and Microbial Ecology (ITEX) Meeting. It
will be convened 16-18 September 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden.

The conference is open to all scientists and students with an interest
in Arctic and alpine ecology. All areas of ecological research in both
terrestrial and aquatic environments in alpine or polar regions are
welcome. A special focus at this meeting is linking above and
belowground processes under climate change.

Registration and session proposal deadline: 1 June 2015.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.slu.se/en/departments/microbiology/itex-2015-uppsala.

  1. Registration Available
    30th Wakefield Fisheries Symposium
    12-15 May 2015
    Anchorage, Alaska

Organizers of the 30th Wakefield Fisheries Symposium, entitled 'Tools
and Strategies for Assessment and Management of Data-Limited Fish
Stocks,' announce that early registration is available through 13 April
2015. The symposium will be held 12-15 May 2015 at the Hotel Captain
Cook in Anchorage, Alaska.

The goal of the symposium is to encourage development of new tools and
strategies for assessment and management of data-limited commercial and
recreational fisheries in marine and freshwater areas. Keynote
presentations will be given by Doug Butterworth (University of Cape
Town) and John Hoenig (Virginia Institute of Marine Science).

Early registration deadline: 13 April 2015.

For further information, please go to:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2015/wakefield-data-limited.

For questions, please contact:
Sue Keller
Email: Sue.keller [at] alaska.edu

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