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I am pleased to announce that the *Summer Course on Critical Zone and Ecosystem Dynamics* will held on Ceresole Reale, Gran Paradiso National Park, Piedmont, Italy from 8 to 17 July 2019
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2019
Find out how to apply at http://www.to.isac.cnr.it/gpss/frame_interno_applic.htm
The Critical Zone (CZ) is the support system for all terrestrial ecosystems, extending from unweathered rock to the top of any vegetation canopy. In the CZ, physical, biological, geological and hydrological processes interact at multiple temporal and spatial scales, creating complex ecosystem dynamics and providing essential services such as soil water retention, weathering and erosion control, carbon sequestration, and regulation of water, energy and biogeochemical cycles, to name a few.
This 9-day- long summer course intends to provide basic knowledge about the functioning of the Critical Zone and its relationships with ecosystem dynamics, focusing on aspects related to hydrology, soil geochemistry and weathering, vegetation dynamics and distribution, microbiota, biodiversity,
ecosystem processes, CZ-relevant geological processes and the role of the CZ for achieving sustainable development goals. The course will consider in-situ data, long-term ecosystem research, chemical and isotopic laboratory analyses, remote sensing observations and numerical modeling, and it will include three days of field lectures, experimentation and excursions to study sites and CZ observatories in the Italian Alps.
The course is intended for Doctoral students, post-docs and researchers who are working or intend to work on Critical Zone processes and ecosystem dynamics. Lectures will be held in the main lecture hall of the Grand Hotel of Ceresole Reale in the Gran Paradiso National Park. Find a list of lectures, seminars, and tutorials among more information at http://www.to.isac.cnr.it/gpss/.
The international Gran Paradiso Summer School on "Fundamental Processes in Earth System Dynamics" is organized by the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources and by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council, in collaboration with the Gran Paradiso National Park.
Best Regards
Ilaria Baneschi
I would like to bring to your attention the internationally focused conference "Drought and Water Scarcity: addressing current and future challenges", which will be held at Pembroke College, Oxford University, on 20 and 21 March 2019.
More info and booking can be found here: http://aboutdrought.info/conference/
Why not send an abstract for spoken and poster presentations for one of the following themes:
* Climatology and hydrology of droughts: past, present and future
* Drought impacts for example on the environment, agriculture, energy production and other areas
* Drought planning and drought management
* Drought and communities
* Drought risk perception and communication
Please submit your abstract at: https://goo.gl/forms/L3qmteWgZCeommnE3
All the best,<br>
Stephen Turner<br>
Project Officer<br>
RCUK Drought & Water Scarcity Programme +
ICAR is an international conference dedicated to aeolian erosion and transport phenomena. Its 10th edition is to be held in Bordeaux from the 25th to the 29th of June, 2018. This cycle of conferences is sponsored by the International Society of Aeolian Research (ISAR), a non-profit association promoting research on aeolian processes, landforms and modelling, and editing the journal `Aeolian Research' (www.aeolianresearch.org).
Aeolian erosion and aeolian transport involve complex physical processes and interactions between the atmosphere and continental surfaces at various scales of space and time : from the movement of a sand grain, to the formation of sand ripples and dunes up to the transport of continental dust storms. The ICAR community is thus a multidisciplinary community at the interface between several disciplines (Physics, geomorphology, geochemistry, atmospheric dynamics, climate, geology, ecology, ..). The objective is to study and understand the involved processes but also to evaluate their impacts and to reduce the possible nuisances. Aeolian erosion of soils in arid and semi-arid regions by sand and dust storms has major environmental impacts from the local to the global scale. It contributes to soil degradation by loss of soil and to the loss of fertility especially in regions where soil are already poor. The presence and displacement of sand dunes can represent a nuisance in inhabited regions. Understanding the formation and movement of sand is a prerequisite for a sustainable management of sand accumulation and displacement phenomenon. Dust storms have direct socio-economic impacts by reducing the visibility and limiting road and aerial transport. Mineral dust can be long-range transported and have a strong impact of the Earth radiative budget and on biogeochemical cycle of key nutrients (Iron, Phosphorus ..). Aeolian phenomenon are encountered on many other planets than the Earth and fundamentally contributes to the geomorphology of such environments.
ICAR is an international conference dedicated to Aeolian erosion and transport phenomenon. The conference that will be held in 2018 will be the Xth edition of a cycle that started in 1985 in Aarhus (Denmark). The ICAR conferences are run by the International Society of Aeolian Research (ISAR), a non-profit association promoting the research on Aeolian Erosion and the interactions in the community working on Aeolian phenomenon, and diffusing the knowledge on this phenomenon by editing the journal « Aeolian Research ». +
III NATIONAL HYDROLOGICAL CONGRESS will be organized by Association of Polish Hydrologists, the member of NETWORK of NATIONAL AND REGIONAL HYDROLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS of IAHS in Warsaw, Poland on September 19-21, 2018.
The event is a continuation of high-level meetings of researchers and practitioners within the framework of the Association of Polish Hydrologists. The previous Congresses: in 2010 and 2014 gathered about 150 participants each and became the most important discussion forum for scientists, water administration and water companies. The patronage over the congresses was always held by the Secretary of State of the Polish Ministry of Environment. The scope of the Congress topics:
* climate change,
* floods and droughts ,
* rural and urban hydrology,
* soil erosion and sediment transport,
* surface water quality (monitoring and modelling).
The Congress languages: parallel sessions in both Polish and English. +
ISESS, the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, was initiated in 1995 as a forum to present and discuss research fundamentals and state-of-the-art applications in environmental informatics. Over the years, it has also evolved into an important networking event for academics and industry experts, specializing in software engineering, data science and environmental sciences.
The 13th International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS 2020) theme is Data Science in Action. It aims to serve as a forum to present primary research in data science and applications in the environmental and green life sciences.
ISESS 2020 is organised by the Wageningen Data Competence Centre (https://www.wur.nl/en/Value-Creation-Cooperation/WDCC.htm) and will be hosted at Wageningen University & Research campus, in Wageningen, Netherlands.
'''About ISESS'''
ISESS brings together researchers dealing with environmental challenges and trying to provide solutions using forward-looking and leading-edge IT technology. The conference connects acadamia and industry to overcome a manifold of technology changes and dynamics by using their best knowledge to improve our environment, and therefore the wellbeing of our society.
ISESS is a conference series organized on behalf of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Working Group 5.11 “Computers and Environment” (http://www.ifip.org/). +
In 2016, the International Commission on Stratigraphy will decide on whether or not the Geologic Time Table will designate a new Anthropocene Epoch, and where in time to drive the Golden Spike. This decision is apt to shine the spotlight on the Quaternarist, who surely will be challenged and motivated to discriminate how geological and ecological rates and processes in the Anthropocene deviate from the Holocene and other times past. The 24th AMQUA Biennial Meeting will address the theme, “Retooling the Quaternary to Manage the Anthropocene,” and kickoff on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 with three exciting, all-day fieldtrips addressing ongoing research on Geology and Paleohydrology of the Jemez Mountains; Vegetation, Fire, and Alluvial Histories in the Jemez Mountains; and Paleoindian Geoarcheology in Middle Rio Grande Basin. Our meeting’s keynote speaker is the award-winning science writer Andrew Revkin, author of the New York Times blog DotEarth and himself a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the Subcommittee on Quaternary Stratigraphy. Over two and a half days, our 25 invited plenary speakers (see program) will address different aspects of the “Retooling” challenges. The remaining presentations will be contributed posters, which will remain up for the entirety of the meeting. All posters will be featured in one-minute lightning talks (1-2 slides) at strategic times during the technical program. The posters will remain up in for the entirety of meeting, with 3-hour poster sessions each afternoon. After the meeting adjourns at noon on July 1, we are offering a guided tour to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque and an all-day Neotoma/Tilia/Bacon workshop at the University of New Mexico on July 2. We recognize the educational value of the meeting and strongly encourage students to register and apply for AMQUA Student Travel Grants on our meeting registration page. The 24th Biennial AMQUA meeting is sponsored by the University of New Mexico, USGS and other organizations. For more information, please visit our website at www.amqua2016santafe.com.
In February 2014, ASLO, TOS, and AGU will convene the biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Scientists from around the world will converge on this beautiful city to exchange knowledge and discuss issues covering the broad spectrum of marine science disciplines, including physical, biological, chemical and geological oceanography, technology and multidisciplinary topics.
The Scientific Planning Committee is developing a program that will cover a wide range of topics in aquatic sciences. Please continue to check the conference web site for up-to-date information. +
In September 1988, the First International Conference on Asian Marine Geology was held in Shanghai. Since then Asia has witnessed its unprecedentedly rapid growth of economy, accompanied by remarkable enhancement of offshore researches in the region. Now you are kindly invited to join the 9th ICAMG to be held in October 2018 again in Shanghai to review the progress of Asian marine geology over the past 30 years, to exchange ideas on new frontier research, and to discuss the perspectives of future development of marine geology. +
In the context of the XXXVI National Conference in Hydraulic and Hydraulic Construction that will held in Ancona in September 12-14 2018, we would like to invite you to the section: "New experiences on open source computing, open data, and virtual laboratories".
The section includes short oral presentations, poster presentations and possibility to show software applications.
Further information is available on the website:
http://www.convegno-idra.it/modelli-misure/#laboratori
The deadline for abstracts submission is January 29, 2018.
The conveners:
* Giuseppe Formetta, Centre for ecology and hydrology CEH- Wallingford
* Marialaura Bancheri, Universita’ di Trento
* Alberto Viglione, Vienna University of Technology
* Attilio Castellarin, Universita di Bologna
* Margherita Di Leo, European Commission – JRC
* Riccardo Rigon, Universita’ di Trento +
In the workshop we will discuss topics that deal with modelling mixed-sediment fluvial processes, covering a wide range of scales:
Day 1
* sediment supply to the river system (through surface run-off, landslides, bank erosion, tributaries, bed degradation, …)
* bedrock incision and mixed-sediment processes
* downstream fining, river profile concavity, and gravel-sand transitions
* particle abrasion
Day 2
* bend sorting, mobile and static armor, bedform sorting, and their relation to river morphodynamics
* grainsize-selective and partial transport, hiding, and equal mobility
* interaction between wash load and river morphodynamics
Day 3
* advances in mathematical modelling of mixed-sediment morphodynamics
* river measures dealing with mixed-sediment issues (e.g. sediment augmentation and dredging)
* advances in measurement techniques of mixed-sediment processes (lab & field)
In setting up the workshop program we will focus on enhancing discussion. To this end we will schedule a limited number of presentations and plenty time for discussion and poster sessions. We will conduct a/some joint laboratory experiment(s) that will be led by graduate students and postdocs. The focus of the laboratory experiment(s) will be discussed before the workshop. Graduate students and whoever is interested will work with the data and we will discuss the experimental results the last day of the workshop. The workshop is connected to the Sediment Experimentalists Network (SEN, https://www.earthcube.org/group/sen). Links to the workshop’s experimental results, documentation, and pdfs of the talks and poster presentations will be provided to the community through the SEN website.
Please let us know if you are interested in the workshop and wish to receive next circulars.
Organizers:<br>
Astrid Blom (Delft University of Technology, astrid.blom@tudelft.nl)<br>
Enrica Viparelli (University of South Carolina, viparell@cec.sc.edu) +
In this human-influenced era, we need to rethink drought propagation to include the human role in mitigating and enhancing drought. One major challenge is the quantification of impacts of drought on society, i.e. finding the relation between physical drought characteristics and wildfires, crop yields, electricity production, navigation, etc. This is a basic prerequisite for the prediction of changes in risk and vulnerability in the future. This workshop will provide a venue to share recent research results, exchange ideas, network with potential collaborators, and develop a proposal to fund future working group activities. This workshop will focus on cascading impacts of drought but welcomes all working at the intersection of drought and human systems. +
In this symposium international speakers will review how organisms not only respond to the Earth’s surface, but also directly modify and control it to promote their own persistence. Plants and animals can directly control the fluxes of energy and matter that underlie biogeochemical cycles, gas fluxes, sediment transport and form new habitats. Recent recognition of biotic interactions with Earth surface processes has led to a new Geoscience paradigm: The Earth’s surface is not only the product of tectonic forces (mountain building) and climate (destroying relief by weathering and erosion), but also through biotic processes that are active over micro- to macroscopic scales. Biota moderates tectonic and climate controls on surface processes and is an equally important player in shaping the Earth.
This symposium will review the findings that triggered this paradigm shift, for example that 1) the activity of biota extends to great depth (the “deep biosphere”); 2) soil development is related to plant diversity and burrowing animals; 3) plants diverge the flow and evaporation of water; 4) higher plants can induce the uptake of mineral nutrients that vastly exceeds the rock weathering of these elements; 5) vegetation moderates soil erosion; 6) large river floodplains are stabilized by plants.
The symposium will combine geoscience, soil, ecology, hydrology, and geobiology research to discuss how new developments in each of these fields should be employed to quantify the entire chain of Earth surface processes influenced by biotic activities, and how these developments can be used to form predictions of global change. +
Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) is an international, interdisciplinary project. Its primary objective is to investigate the sensitivity of marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems to global change, on time scales ranging from years to decades.
Marine ecosystems are essential to life as we know it, yet the oceans are undergoing fundamental change. Humans are both a driver and a recipient of this change and it has become increasingly critical to understand, at multiple scales from the local to the global, how biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems, governments and people, might respond to these changes and threats.
The objective of this third conference in the IMBIZO series is to explore the linkages and interactions between humans and ecological and biogeochemical systems in the continental margins and open ocean in order to further our understanding of human-ocean-human interactions with respect to global change. +
International Society for Geomorphometry (ISG) is an international association of researchers and experts open for free exchange of knowledge and opinions about various aspects of DEM processing and digital relief analysis.<br><br>
'''Conference themes and publications'''<br>
Themes include but are not limited to:
* Use of Digital Elevation, Terrain and Surface Models and Canopy Heigh Models in hydrological modeling and biogeography
* Acquisition and processing of high resolution elevation data collected with LIDAR and photogrammetry (structure from motion)
* Mapping and analyzing Earth surface at ultra-high resolutions using sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial Systems)
* New algorithms and software for automated interpretation of digital elevation data
* Modeling extreme processes and natural hazards on the Earth surface
* Modeling and analyzing urban topography (3D cities) using lidar or photogrammetry data
* Multi-scale automated mapping of Earth surface changes
* Acquisition and analysis of bathymetry data
* Working with continental-scale high resolution data
* Simulating changes of the Earth surface relief
* 3D and 4D dynamics of Earth surface
Important dates:
* EasyChair system opens for submissions: 1 December 2017
* Extended 4 page abstracts due to EasyChair:1 March 2018
* Workshop proposals due: 1 March 2018
* Notification of acceptance and required revisions: 20 March 2018
* Registration opens: 1 April 2018
* Schedule finalized: 1 April 2018
* Final camera-ready digital manuscripts due: 15 May 2018
* Early registration deadline: 15 July 2018
* Conference: August 13-17 2018 +
It aims to provide a forum for discussion of the latest findings and technologies in different fields of Earth Sciences and give opportunities for future collaborations. We hope it will be an appreciated platform for sharing knowledge and experiences in the fields of Earth Sciences given below.
Tectonics & Structural Geology, Engineering Geology, Geotechnics, Hydrological Sciences, Environmental Geology, Natural Hazards, Geomorphology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Palaeontology, Geophysics & Seismology, Geodesy, Photogrammetry & Cartography, Informatics, Geoinformatics & Remote Sensing, Mining Engineering, Blasting& New Technologies, Natural Resources Energy, Resources & the Environment, Biogeosciences, Geological Heritage & Geoparks, Urban Planning, Atmospheric Sciences, Climate, Medical Geology, Occupational Safety and Health. +
It is my pleasure to send you the program for the 9th Berkeley Catchment Science Symposium, which will be held December 14th (the Sunday before AGU) on the Berkeley campus. We have a great roster of invited talks:
Hjalmar Laudon (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Fifty shades of brown: From hotspots and episodes to integrated perspectives of dissolved organic carbon in catchment biogeochemistry
Ying Fan Reinfelder (Rutgers University)
Groundwater in the critical zone: from hillslope to planet
Rina Schumer (Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada)
Real and apparent changes in erosion and deposition rates through time
Jill Baron (Colorado State University and U.S. Geological Survey)
Global change influences on nitrogen cycling in mountain catchments
Plus, as always, pop-ups!
Registration is now open. To register, go to:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/908807
Our group is now getting big enough that there is a chance we will run out of space. Registering early guarantees you a spot!
For the full schedule, as well as information on how to find the venue, please see the attached program. If for some reason the program is no longer attached, you can also find it at http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~kirchner/Berkeley_symposium_2014.pdf . For further queries you can contact me or our coordinator, Sang Oum <soum@berkeley.edu>, who has done a fantastic job arranging the logistics.
Please feel free to forward this program to others who might be interested. And if there's someone who you think should be on the catchment symposium mailing list but isn't, please feel free to send their address to me.
All the best,<br>
- Jim Kirchner<br>
James Kirchner<br>
Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science<br>
Senior Advisor, Central Sierra Field Research Stations<br>
University of California, Berkeley<br>
kirchner@berkeley.edu<br>
Professor of the Physics of Environmental Systems, ETH Zürich<br>
ETH Zentrum, CHN F50.3, CH-8092 Zürich<br>
Phone +41 44 632 8018<br>
kirchner@ethz.ch<br>
It is our pleasure to invite you to the spring school "Principles of catchment scale hydrological models".<br>The course will be held on 15-19 April 2019 at the University of Padova (Italy), in the historical building "Corte Benedettina" in Legnaro (province of Padova).
The course is designed for PhD / Master students and postdocs interested in the fundamentals of hydrological model building, model evaluation and hypothesis testing. The course combines theory and practical exercises, and includes a 1-day fieldtrip in the Posina experimental catchment, in the Italian pre-Alps.
The course is sponsored by EGU, which allows us to offer it at a competitive rate. In addition, in special circumstances we are able to provide partial or full fee waivers for students with financial constraints.
Lecturers include Fabrizio Fenicia (Eawag, Switzerland), Dmitri Kavetski (University of Adelaide, Australia), Daniele Penna (University of Florence, Italy), Giulia Zuecco (University of Padova, Italy), and others.
The course fee is EUR 240 and the deadline for course registration is 22 February 2019.
More info about the course can be found here (https://www.tesaf.unipd.it/en/courses/summer-and-winter-schools/spring-school-principles-catchment-scale-hydrological-models). For other upcoming events, including short courses on complementary topics in Bayesian methods, please see here (https://www.predictorx.org/).
In case of further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please send an email directly to the course organizers (giulia.zuecco@unipd.it).
We would appreciate if you could circulate this announcement to any other interested colleagues.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Kind regards,
Fabrizio Fenicia and Giulia Zuecco +
It is widely accepted that environmental sustainability is a critical for human life (especially for future generations). The practice of environmental sustainability attempts to provide solutions for rapidly depleting renewable/unrenewable resources and protecting the environment long-term. Modeling and simulation is continues to be an effective approach for better characterizing the real world and thus supporting practical policy-formulating and decision-making needs. Due to the complexity of Earth’s environmental system, which includes massive dynamic chemical, biological, and physical processes and complicated human activities, it is impossible to develop an all-inclusive models which represent all local and global environmental interactions. Therefore, it is essential to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines when modeling Earth’s environmental system. The methods, theories, and practices of interdisciplinary modeling (such as integrated environmental modeling, collaborative modeling, and participatory modeling) require continual improvement to meet these challenges. Studies about Future Earth (FE), Virtual Geographic Environment (VGE), E-Science and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based modeling are all important and effective approaches for exploring the environment’s past, present and future; these studies have also promoted trends towards sharing, reusing and integrating models, data and other modeling-related resources in an open web environment, which can support researchers’ communication and collaborative work. Moreover, the study of modeling for environmental sustainability needs to take the social barriers into consideration as well.
Asia, which is the largest and most populous continent in the world – including nearly 50 developed/developing countries – is now challenged by environmental sustainability as its biggest problem. Discussion of modeling for environmental sustainability in Asia can provide potential solutions for solving environmental problems not only in Asia but also worldwide. This iEMSs Regional Conference aims to discuss and explore related theories, methods and potential practices, facilitating communication between experts from multidisciplinary domains, encouraging extensive discussion regarding the potential directions of the field, and promoting further research for a bright future.
I’d like to let you know that the program of the international workshop “Sediment management in channel networks: from measurements to best practices” has been finalized.
You can check it at https://sedimentmanagement.events.unibz.it/home/programme.
The workshop will take place in Bozen/Bolzano (Italy) on November 8-9, 2018.
The first day (in English, with translation into Italian and German) will be dedicated to international experiences in monitoring and managing fluvial sediments, with a special focus on mountain basins.
The second day (in Italian) will be dedicated on the Italian rivers context (final program coming out soon). Alternatively, a field trip to sediment monitoring stations near Bolzano is offered for the international participants.
The deadline for registration is October 31st , but availability for posters and field trip is limited, so please register asap !
For more information on the event, please visit the website: https://sedimentmanagement.events.unibz.it/
For any further question, please email us at: sediment@unibz.it
Thanks and regards
Francesco Comiti
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano +
