Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
11th International Conference on Permafrost
20-24 June 2016
Potsdam, Germany
Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, 1 December 2015
For further information, go to: http://www.icop2016.org
Abstracts are currently being accepted for sessions during the 11th
International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2016). The conference aims
at covering all relevant aspects of permafrost research, engineering, and
outreach on a global and regional level. It will be held 20-24 June 2016
in Potsdam, Germany.
Abstract submission deadline for all sessions: Tuesday, 1 December 2015.
Abstracts should be submitted online via the external conference
registration system ConfToolhttps://www.conftool.pro/icop2016/.
Please note that a maximum of two abstracts can be submitted per first
author, out of which only one can be a submission for oral presentation.
Early-career researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts.
Authors will be informed about the decision on submitted abstracts by 1
February 2016. Depending on the number of accepted abstracts, sessions
may be subject to cancellation or combination with other sessions. The
final conference program will be released 15 April 2016.
A complete list of sessions and their descriptions is available at:
http://www.icop2016.org/index.php/program/overview.
For further information, including hotel reservations, please see the
conference website: http://www.icop2016.org/.
Conveners of the following three sessions invite abstract submissions:
- "Integrating field and remotely sensed measurements of thaw-driven
landscape change in permafrost regions"
Session Conveners: Benjamin M. Jones, Gerald Frost, and Daniel J. Hayes
Session Description: Thaw-driven landscape change in
permafrost-influenced terrain has been widely documented in recent
decades. These changes have significant implications for ecosystem
function in Arctic and Boreal regions, particularly for hydrology,
vegetation and soil structure, and biogeochemical cycling including
carbon storage and fluxes. However, a key uncertainty in predicting how
permafrost will respond to a projected warmer climate is identifying
where and at what rates thaw-induced landscape change will occur.
Permafrost degradation and thermokarst development occur across a
variety of spatial and temporal scales and no one tool or method can
adequately characterize these changes. Permafrost monitoring studies
typically rely on field-level surveying, but this information needs
spatial and temporal upscaling across large, remote, and inaccessible
high latitude regions. While field observations provide essential data
for such upscaling efforts, remote sensing offers a complementary,
cost-effective foundation from which to build spatially comprehensive
and temporally consistent observation frameworks for mapping permafrost
disturbance and associated landscape change. Recent remote sensing
applications capitalizing on various sensors (e.g., optical, , LiDAR,
inSAR, hyperspectral, geophysical, etc.) from multi-scale platforms
(i.e. ground, aircraft and satellites) have provided new insights into
landscape change patterns, rates, and scales.
This session aims to highlight new and emerging research efforts focused
on thaw-driven landscape change through the linkage of existing
field-based research and monitoring with observations and data products
from remote sensing. Of particular interest are studies focused on
landscape change-detection for lakes, wetlands, vegetation, surface and
subsurface hydrogeology, geomorphology, thermokarst, and subsidence
processes, particularly where there are impacts to landscape structure,
ecosystem services, and/or the carbon cycle. Organizers invite
contributions providing comments on the opportunities and challenges in
using remote sensing information from various sensors and platforms to
observe and quantify ecosystem dynamics in permafrost regions, and offer
an improved understanding of the drivers and consequences of landscape
change.
- "Permafrost Education and Outreach: Students, Communities, and the
World"
Session Conveners: Anna Klene, Inga Beck, Ylva Sjoberg
Session Description: Education and Outreach are an integral part of
modern science and the necessity for such activities continues to grow.
The International Permafrost Association (IPA) has been very active in
developing a series of products and initiatives to meet this need. The
International University Courses on Permafrost (IUCP) database and the
Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) are good examples of the
IPA's recent efforts. The IPA established a Standing Committee on
Education and Outreach in 2010 to systematically support and help to
coordinate activities supporting permafrost education and outreach.
This session will provide a forum for the exchange of information and
ideas for past and future permafrost Education and Outreach activities.
Contributions will focus on outreach materials designed for distribution
through websites targeted to the general public. Others may describe
classroom-based lessons or well-established national programs of
permafrost educations within the K-12 school system. Yet others will
describe successful field courses allowing undergraduate and graduate
students to participate in the full scientific process from making their
own permafrost field observations, through analysis, modeling, and
presentation. Organizers encourage contributions that are targeted to a
wide range of ages including K-12, undergraduate and graduate students,
the general public, and elders. Participation in this session is not
limited to permafrost scientists but organizers invite contributions
from individuals from polar and educational organizations such as local
schools, communities, APECS, UArctic, etc.
- "The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) Program: Assessment,
Inventory, and Prospects"
Session Conveners: Anna Klene, Dmitry A. Streletskiy, and Dmitry Kaverin
Session Description: The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM)
program marks its 25th anniversary in 2016. The program is a realization
of the International Permafrost Association's 1988 vision for the
collection, preservation, and sharing of long-term data records. CALM is
concerned with observing the response of the active layer and
near-surface permafrost to climate change at multi-decade time scales.
CALM and its companion borehole temperature program, Thermal State of
Permafrost (TSP), are closely coordinated international observational
networks devoted to permafrost. Together, they comprise the Global
Terrestrial Network-Permafrost (GTN-P). The present active-layer network
represents the only coordinated and standardized program of observations
designed to observe and detect decadal changes in the dynamics of
seasonal thawing and freezing in high-latitude soils. In recent years
substantial effort has been made to develop CALM in the permafrost areas
of the Southern Hemisphere (CALM-S). Active-layer observations and
auxiliary information from the CALM network provide a circumpolar
database, which has been used extensively by the broader scientific
community in biogeochemical, ecological, geomorphologic, hydrologic, and
climate-change research.
This session provides a forum for discussing, assessing, and planning
CALM's observational activities in both hemispheres, as well as the
program's approach to data preservation, dissemination, and use.
Organizers invite presentations addressing: (1) site-specific long-term
active layer, ground temperature, and thaw settlement measurements; (2)
integration of data for comprehensive regional assessments of changes in
active-layer and near-surface permafrost; (3) use of CALM data for
validating and developing modeling strategies involving climate change,
ecology, hydrology, and permafrost science; (4) remote sensing
applications; and (5) collaboration of CALM with other related
monitoring programs. Organizers seek contributions from scientists
directly involved in CALM, as well as representatives from the broader
research community who are using CALM data.
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