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Snow remote sensing has been a 40-year effort, with some successes, but some big challenges remaining. This is not because of lack of effort, but rather because snow remote sensing is hard to do, and because what society needs to know ranges from assessing regional and hemispheric climate impacts of snow to specific basin runoff forecasts for water management. But there are new technologies, and innovative ways of working with older technologies, that are showing great promise today. In addition, data assimilation methods and modeling snow stochastically and physically have come a long way. The time is ripe to galvanize the community, provide a blueprint for action to stakeholders and agencies that is inclusive, comprehensive, and addresses multiple needs, and which can help accelerate the pace of delivering practical snow remote sensing products to a wide range of users. Please think about attending the NASA Snow Remote Sensing Workshop in Boulder CO August 14-16, a key step in achieving these goals. +
Soil erosion from hillslopes in hydrological watersheds, one of the most serious problems of today's world, consists of motion of soil particles detached by factors such as rainfall, runoff, wind and transported within flow to finally be deposited either at a downstream section of the river with a lower topographical slope or in a downstream river reservoir. The dead storage volume of river reservoirs is of great importance in the design work. It is such a volume that accomodates the sediment trapped by and accumulated in the reservoir. Neither underestimation nor overestimation of this volume is desired as the underestimation shortens the economical project life of the reservoir and the overestimation results in unneccessary costs.
Numerous methods are available to quantify that amount of sediment. This might be either by analysing a time series; correlating the collection of available data; employing empirical approaches and traditional equations; monitoring, sampling, surveying; or remote sensing and using geographical information systems. Additionally, process-based hydrological watershed models accomodate erosion and sediment transport modules in which sediment, eroded by rainfall or flow, and transported, over the hillslope and through the existing river channel, to the reservoir can be predicted. Also soft computational techniques such as artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and wavelet functions were found useful in establishing a model for forecasting or simulation purposes.
The general topic deals with the modeling of sediment transport in hydrological watersheds, knowing that erosion / sediment transport is a major problem in the Mediterranean countries. This is a widely studied area, but the modeling sediment transport is a domain with less specific and largely used knowledge. Thus the general objective of this meeting is to gather not only regional but also worldwide researchers and practitioners working on this topic at different scales of time and space, in order to identify and compare tools and methodologies applied in the region and other parts in the world, and to edit the main contributions as a set of papers to give future studies a good overview.
Sub-themes include:
# Processes: Sediment yield and sediment transport, Incised rivers, Alluvial rivers, Deltas, estuaries, bays, Responses of river and estuaries to floods and storms, Environmental and ecological aspects of morphological processes
# Field investigations, experiments, and simulations : Impacts of catastrophic events on morphological processes, Landslides and Debris flows, Turbulent flow in rivers and coastal areas, Modeling of catchment and fluvial processes
# Man-nature interaction: Impacts of large hydraulic structures on catchment, fluvial and coastal processes, Disturbance of stream-lake systems and its environmental and ecological impacts, Sedimentation processes in large reservoirs, River engineering and restoration, habitat protection, environmental flows
# Focuses: River confluences, tributaries and distributaries, Bedforms, bars and braiding, River bends and meandering, scouring and bank erosion, Turbidity currents and submarine morphodynamics, Tidal flats, costal and shelf bedforms. +
Supporting evidence-based decision making: the role of modelling and simulation.
More than ever, decision makers, solution providers and MODSIM professionals have a need to innovate, adapt and evolve to respond to changing environments. With its newly enhanced format, MODSIM World connects individuals to the MODSIM community and problems to solutions across disciplines and industries.
* The only industry centric conference with broad coverage of the MODSIM field
* Exposition floor includes a Technology Showcase where leaders in the industry will be demonstrating the latest in MODSIM technologies.
* A unique opportunity to capture lessons learned and new technologies across diverse domains, including: Defense, Health & Medicine, * Manufacturing, Homeland Security, Education and others
* Interdisciplinary event opens doors to new markets
* Cutting edge simulation based solutions to new complex problems
* Networking opportunities with leading MODSIM professionals from industry, government and academia
MODSIM World features a robust agenda of papers and panels, industry workshops and competition events, as well as an exhibit floor featuring a variety of companies and organizations showcasing new advances in Modeling & Simulation. +
THEME: "ARCTIC'S NEW NORMAL - shifting environmental baselines over decades to millennia and comparisons with the Antarctic." Although not required, we encourage participants to tie their talk to changing environmental conditions in the Arctic. Contributions documenting changes in and around Antarctica and comparisons of responses between the two polar regions are also encouraged.
TOPICS: The Arctic Workshop is open to all interested in high latitude environments, including those of the past, present, and future. Previous Workshops have included presentations on Arctic and Antarctic climate, atmospheric chemistry, environmental geochemistry, paleoenvironment, archeology, geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology, soils, ecology, oceanography, Quaternary history and more. +
TOPICS<br>
The Arctic Workshop is open to all interested in high latitude environments, including those of the past, present, and future. Talks and posters on all aspects of Arctic science, social science, and engineering are invited, including Arctic and Antarctic climate, anthropology, atmospheric chemistry, engineering and infrastructure, environmental geochemistry, paleoenvironment, sociology, archeology, geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology, soils, ecology, oceanography, Quaternary history and more. If you are studying the Arctic, this is the conference for you.
THEME<br>
The Arctic’s New Normal: Shifting environmental baselines over decades to millennia and comparisons with Antarctica. Please consider contributing to the optional workshop theme by tying your talk or poster to changing conditions in the Arctic. Also encouraged are documenting changes in the land around Antarctica and comparing responses between the two Polar Regions. The program will be organized in sessions developed from the submitted abstracts.
SCHEDULE<br>
Reception and registration: Friday evening, April 1 from 5-8pm.<br>
Main Program: Saturday and Sunday April 2-3, meeting will end by 4pm (the exact time will be posted after abstract deadline)
REGISTRATION<br>
* $25 Students presenting talk or poster
* $50 Arctic Indigenous Resident
* $100 Students not presenting
* $150 Professionals
* $200 Late Registrant
All registrations include lunch Saturday and Sunday as well as snacks and drinks during the breaks.
LODGING<br>
Organizers have arranged a block of rooms at the Best Western Plus Boulder Inn<br>
Deadline for hotel special rate is 01 March, 2016 http://instaar.colorado.edu/meetings/AW2016/travel_info/lodging.html
EMAIL CONTACT<br>
ArcticWS@colorado.edu +
Teaching online is growing in acceptance and its accessibility creates an opportunity to reach students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. There is a need to develop best practices for teaching about Earth online, as new technological topics, pedagogical approaches, and teaching materials that incorporate active learning and data emerge. This workshop will focus on best practices, collecting resources, and developing materials that can be widely disseminated. It is open to all faculty who have the opportunity to teach Earth Sciences using online education. +
Technologies such as lidar, multibeam sonar, structure from motion photogrammetry, and synthetic aperture radar have transformed the acquisition of high resolution terrain, bathymetry, and vegetation structure data. Petabytes of data have been collected, but their full scientific utilization is still limited. This A2 HRT Workshop is organized through an NSF-funded EarthCube Research Coordination Network (RCN) to bring together the Earth science community to discuss technical challenges and cyberinfrastructure requirements to answer scientific questions, coordinate research activities, and share best practices and resources. The first part of the workshop will be comprised of talks, pop-ups, and discussion sessions. Tutorials on advanced methods for HRT analysis will be offered in the second part of the workshop. Participants are expected to attend the workshop for the full duration. Funding is available for partial support of participants. Space is limited.
Topics of talks, participant pop-ups, and brainstorming sessions:
# New Technologies for Data Acquisition and Tools
# Integration across Disciplines
# Using high resolution data in numerical models
Tutorial:
# Principles of topographic change detection (all participants)
# Hands-on introduction to two techniques/tools for implementing advanced change detection
Additional activities of the workshop:
# Preparation of whitepapers on workshop themes
# Identification of future needs for software, cyberinfrastructure, and other resources to support the HRT community
# Networking to enhance community development of high resolution topography +
Terrestrial water resources are coupled hydrosystems with compartments reaching from the atmosphere to aquifers. Their sustainable management requires predictive models simulating all relevant hydrological and (biogeo)chemical processes. The related processes are uncertain; they are affected by heterogeneity, and undergo change.
The Research Training Group “Integrated Hydrosystem Modelling” of the Universities of Tübingen, Hohenheim, and Stuttgart targets multi-disciplinary, cross-comparti-mental modelling of flow and reactive transport under uncertainty.
16 internationally renowned specialists in various aspects of integrated hydrosystem modelling will give keynote lectures on recent issues in modelling coupled systems.
All other participants will present posters in one of the two extensive poster sessions, facilitating in-depth exchange of ideas and expanding the discussions started in the keynote-lecture debates.
We particularly encourage young researchers to attend the conference and discuss their work with distinguished specialists and peers. +
The 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics under the auspices of IAHR, River Flow 2020, will be held in Delft, Netherlands, from 7 to 10 July 2020. +
The 111th annual meeting of GSA’s Cordilleran Section will be held on the University of Alaska–Anchorage campus, in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest and most diverse city. Situated at the base of the Chugach Mountains, Anchorage is built on glacial deposits associated with the last major ice age. The waters of Cook Inlet, a major marine embayment, surround the city on its north, west and south sides. Turnagin Arm to the south experiences the second highest tides in North America. To the west of Anchorage, across Cook Inlet, are the Tordrillo Mountains and Mount Spurr Volcano, the closest active volcano to Anchorage. To the north are the high peaks of the Alaska Range, including Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. Because of its location, Anchorage is a key international air hub in the North Pacific region as well as one of the primary gateways to the Alaskan wilderness.
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The 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2014) will be held on June 30-July 3, 2014, in Guimaraes, Portugal.
ICCSA 2014 will be the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), previously held in Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam (2013), Salvador de Bahia - Brazil (2012), Santander - Spain (2011), Fukuoka - Japan (2010), Suwon - Korea (2009), Perugia - Italy (2008), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2007), Glasgow - UK (2006), Singapore - Singapore (2005), Assisi - Italy (2004), Montreal - Canada (2003), and (as ICCS) Amsterdam - The Netherlands (2002) and San Francisco - USA (2001).
Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in exploiting Information and Communication Technologies as innovative technologies.
The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in Computational Science.
Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (edited by Springer) and Conference Publishing Services (CPS). +
The 2015 CWEMF Annual Meeting will be held at the Lake Natoma Inn in Folsom, California March 9 - 11, 2015. The Meeting Agenda and registration materials will be posted by in December at http://cwemf.org/index.htm +
The 2016 version of the European little cousin of the Gilbert Club Meeting (one extra day of geomorphology after the xGU conference).
There will be space to hang the posters you presented earlier in the week and discuss them more over coffee and lunch. We will finish the day with a general discussion/pop-ups when you will have the opportunity to share thoughts and observations and briefly present a couple of slides.
Talks:
Josh West (University of Southern California):
"The imprint of erosion on chemical weathering, and its relevance for the long-term carbon cycle and climate"
Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College London):
"Reconstructing ancient landscapes on Mars: Curiositys exploration of Gale crater"
Michele Koppes (University of British Columbia)
"When do glaciers shape mountains?" +
The 2018 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition is returning to the Midwest in Indianapolis after a superb meeting in the Pacific Northwest in Seattle. Indianapolis provides a great location to host a geoscience meeting with a vibrant downtown and an outstanding convention center. The vast majority of the hotels are within easy walking distance to the Indiana Convention Center, with most connected to the center via skywalks. Additionally, the Indiana State Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum, and Children’s Museum of Indianapolis are nearby, as are many excellent cafés, bistros, and restaurants. An added bonus on Saturday is the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon (also half-marathon and 5K), so if you are a runner this is an additional opportunity to enjoy the city.
The scientific meeting will be highlighted by 184 Technical Sessions and four Pardee Keynote Symposia and a comprehensive list of discipline sessions. The Technical Program Committee, GSA staff, and Division and Associated Society representatives have put together a program that will be of interest to everybody. The Technical Sessions highlight all aspects of earth sciences from geoarchaeology to volcanology with a touch of Midwest and Hoosier flair, with numerous sessions on paleontology, geomorphology, karst, hydrogeology, and sedimentology. The highlight of the meeting will be the Pardee Keynote Symposia on a variety of impressive topics:
Earth as a Big Data puzzle, which will have a similar format as the Speed Dating Pardee Symposium in Seattle with lightning talks and then booths demonstrating the various techniques in advancing data information;
Women rising: Removing barriers and achieving parity in the geosciences;
Plate tectonics 50 years after the seminal work of Morgan, McKenzie, and Le Pichon; and
Human evolution and environmental history of Africa: 25 years of transformative research.
In addition, there will be lunchtime speakers on a variety of topics in the Feed Your Brain, Presidential Address, and Halbouty Lecture series.
Of course the GSA Annual Meeting is not all about the scientific sessions. There will be 26 one- to three-day field trips highlighting the geology of Indiana and the surrounding regions, including the investigation of sedimentary sequences, geomorphology, industrial minerals, karst systems, environmental aspects, and geologic history of the region. There will also be one- and two-day short courses on a variety of topics, including geoscience education, geochemistry, structural geology, energy, and geophysics. So, this year make a trip to Indianapolis to enjoy the Hoosier hospitality and discover the latest geoscience news. We look forward to seeing you in Indianapolis.
The 2018 International Workshop on Big Geospatial Data and Data Science (BGDDS 2018) will be held in Wuhan, China on September 22-23. This conference is co-organized by Wuhan University, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Earth Science Informatics Technical Committee (ESI TC) and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) China Forum, and hosted by School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University as well as Hubei Province Engineering Center for Intelligent Geoprocessing.
Over the past decade, the Earth observing data managed and processed by information systems have increased from the terabyte level to the petabyte and exabyte levels. The rapid development of sensor and cyberinfrastructure technologies makes Earth observing (EO) data, which are generated by global and local sensor systems/networks measuring the state of Earth, an important part of Big Data. The data are not only bigger than before, but also have increased complexity due to their very special characteristics of volume, variety, velocity, value, veracity, and variability. The big EO data means that capabilities of traditional data systems and computational methods are inadequate to deal with these characteristics. Today, in addition to analysis of EO data only, Earth scientists are also using social and economic data to complement EO data to gain a better understanding of the social-economic-environmental systems. Infrastructure-based researches are being leveraged to enable fast analysis of the data.
The trends on big EO data lead to some questions that the Earth science community needs to address. Are we experiencing a paradigm shift in Earth science research now? How can we better utilize the explosion of technology maturation to create new forms of Earth observing data processing? Can we summarize the existing methodologies and technologies scaling to big EO data as a new field named "Earth Data Science"? Big data technologies are being widely practiced in Earth sciences and remote sensing communities to support EO data access, processing, and knowledge discovery. The data-intensive scientific discovery, named as the fourth paradigm, leads to the data science in the big data era. According to the definition by U.S. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), the data science paradigm is the "extraction of actionable knowledge directly from data through a process of discovery, hypothesis, and hypothesis testing". The Earth Data Science is the art and science of applying data science paradigm to Earth observing data.
This workshop intends to identify significant trends and technological approaches in computing/storage/modelling infrastructures, data lifecycle management, and big data analytics, along with the development of relevant standards that enable Earth Data Science. The technical content will cover not only a variety of data models, computing methods, data storage solutions, and integrated modelling strategies, but also the increasing number of Earth data analytic methodologies borrowed from transfer learning, Mathematics, artificial neural networks and deep learning. The emphasis will be how those technologies change the way geospatial activities including geospatial data management, data processing, data analytics, and applications are being conducted.
The topics of the conference include but are not limited to:
* Geospatial big data management - curation, discovery and access,
* Big data analytics - methods, tools, and best practices,
* Web and Cloud-based processing of geospatial big data - standards, interoperability, geospatial workflows, and provenance,
* Hyper-dimensional geospatial data visualization - methods, tools, and applications,
* Social aspects of geospatial big data - collaboration, crowdsourcing, and volunteer geographic information,
* Directions and trends of geospatial big data science - AI, cognitive computing and beyond,
* Geospatial big data applications - agriculture, natural resources, disasters, and environment.
For further information regarding BGDDS 2018, please visit http://geos.whu.edu.cn/bigdataconf/call-for-papers.html
The 2018 Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS) meeting will be held October 15-19, 2018 in Galveston, TX, with a social mixer the evening of Sunday, October 14. The meeting will end at noon on Friday, October 19 to accommodate flights out that evening.
'''Important dates:'''
* May 15, 2018: Abstracts due; details here.
* August 1, 2018 Earlybird registration ends. Registration will open soon.
The meeting will be held at the Tremont House, near the historic ‘Strand’ in Galveston. You can book your room now using this link.
Initial plans were to hold the meeting at UTMSI in Port Aransas, TX. However, Port Aransas was devistated by Hurricane Harvey, the same hurricane that caused massive flooding in Houston, TX. Recovery has been slow along the south Texas coast. The facilities are still under repair, and it is anticipated the meeting rooms would not be ready until late 2018. Because of the delay associated with relocation, we will not be asking for extended abstracts this year.
Hope to see you all in Galveston! From the 2018 PECS organizing committee,
Rob Hetland, Julie Pietrzak, and Dave Ralston +
The 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2015) will be held at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia from Sunday 29 November to Friday 4 December 2015.
ASOR will be joining us again, for the 23rd National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research as will the DSTO led Defence Operations Research Symposium (DORS 2015).
The theme for this event will be Partnering with industry and the community for innovation and impact through modelling.
Delegates are responsible for booking their own accommodation and should book early to avoid disappointment.
Expressions of interest are now open. Note that you must submit a title and 250-500 word summary by 10 April if you intend to submit a full Paper or Extended Abstract for presentation at the conference. Log in or create a new account at the top right of the screen. See the sessions available.
Awards MSSANZ will continue to develop its strong Student Awards for MODSIM2015!
Awards for Biennial Medals, Fellows and Early Career Research Excellence will be presented at the Gala Dinner.
Congress convenors<br>
Mr Tony Weber, BMT WBM, Brisbane, Australia<br>
Dr Malcolm McPhee, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia +
The 26th Goldschmidt Conference will be in Yokohama, Japan on 26th June to the 1st of July. We welcome scientists from all around the world to join us for what will be an exciting conference covering all aspects of geochemistry and related fields. Yokohama is easily accessible: it is just 30 minutes from Tokyo by train. Both Haneda and Narita airports have frequent and convenient public transport links to Yokohama making it simple to reach from any major international airport. An international program committee will ensure that the key advances in all our disciplines will be presented. We hope you will join us in 2016. +
The 27th IUGG General Assembly will be held July 8-18, 2019 at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, Québec, Canada. This is a special opportunity for participants from Canada and from around the world to come together and share their science and culture. 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of IUGG; we will look back on the accomplishments of the previous century of Earth and space science research, and forward to the next century of scientific advancement. Join us for a host of scientific activities, including special public lectures, keynote Union lectures and a wide variety of themed sessions.
During your stay, you will have the opportunity to explore the city of Montréal, widely renowned across North America and around the world for its vibrant cultural, social and culinary scene. July is a particularly good time to profit from warm weather, outdoor dining and the many festivals taking place across the city.
In conjunction with the IUGG General Assembly, a number of scientific workshops and cultural events are planned. We will also be offering the chance to explore the geological treasures of our region through a number of field trips ranging from half-day to multi-day excursions. +
