From K.Heywood at uea.ac.uk Mon Jan 4 15:27:34 2010 From: K.Heywood at uea.ac.uk (Karen Heywood) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:27:34 +0000 Subject: [AO announcement] Call for abstracts for IPY Oslo Science Conference, Theme 1, T1-1 Polar oceans and their importance for global ocean circulation Message-ID: <91FB90CA-7C2B-4D6B-AA9A-27E3BE1E09F2@uea.ac.uk> Dear friends and colleagues, Happy New Year! Please consider submitting an abstract for the International Polar Year open science conference in Oslo, Norway, 8th-12th June 2010 (full info http://www.ipy-osc.no/). The deadline for abstracts is 20th January and there are already a healthy number of abstracts submitted. I would be most grateful if you could circulate this call to colleagues. We have a session, detailed below, on the links between the polar oceans and global climate. I look forward to seeing you in Oslo! Best wishes, Karen T1-1 Polar oceans and their importance for global ocean circulation The polar and sub-polar oceans play a vital role in climate, transforming warm, salty water into colder, fresher water that is exported equatorward in both bottom and intermediate layers. This session will discuss the processes by which water masses are changed through interaction with the atmosphere and with ice shelves, through sea ice melting and freezing, and through diapycnal and isopycnal mixing. The session is inspired by the efforts that have been made during the IPY and are still ongoing. An important issue is likely to be the documenting and understanding of changes observed in high- latitude water masses in recent decades. We particularly encourage young scientists and those from nations relatively new to polar ocean science to present their results. We will welcome abstracts on recent observational campaigns, synthesis efforts, analyses of historical or remotely sensed data, laboratory experiments, theory or numerical ocean/climate modelling. Professor Karen J. Heywood Physical Oceanographer School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ -44-1603-592555 k.heywood at uea.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From K.Heywood at uea.ac.uk Tue Aug 17 14:24:46 2010 From: K.Heywood at uea.ac.uk (Heywood Karen Prof (ENV)) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:24:46 +0100 Subject: [AO announcement] postdoc in physical oceanography at UEA Message-ID: Dear friends and colleagues, Please circulate this to any suitable applicants. Researcher in Physical Oceanography I am seeking a postdoctoral researcher (contract up to 3 years) to study physical oceanographic processes in the Antarctic using Seagliders. This is a NERC-funded project led by UEA together with colleagues at British Antarctic Survey, University of Cambridge and National Oceanography Centre Southampton. Applicants should have (or be soon to receive) a PhD in Physical Oceanography, or another numerate/dynamical field together with some knowledge of physical oceanography, and have demonstrable experience of scientific research in physical oceanography or a closely related field. The deadline for receipt of applications is the end of September. The start date is flexible. Details and an application form are available at http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs/ra/ra690.htm. Informal queries may be sent to me. Many thanks, Karen Professor Karen J. Heywood Physical Oceanographer School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ -44-1603-592555 k.heywood at uea.ac.uk IMPORTANT NOTICE - This email is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain privileged and confidential information. 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IMAGE Director of the International Center for Hydrology University of Padova via Loredan 20 - I 35131 Padova ITALY phone: +39 049 8275449 fax: +39 049 8275446 Skype: marco.marani66 Web www.image.unipd.it/m.marani/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 4ddf9aa.jpg Type: application/octet-stream Size: 473178 bytes Desc: not available URL: From marani at idra.unipd.it Sat Aug 28 21:33:34 2010 From: marani at idra.unipd.it (Marco Marani) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:33:34 -0000 Subject: [AO announcement] 2010 AGU fall meeting Sessions Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, this is an invitation to submit to the following sessions at the upcoming AGU fall meeting (Deadline: 2 September. Submissions: http://agu-fm10.abstractcentral.com/index.jsp): B27: BIOGEODYNAMICS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES The Earth System is characterized by complex non-linear dynamics in which coupled biotic and abiotic processes shape the physical environment and the associated ecosystems and evolutionary pressures. Climate is also heavily affected by biological processes, such that biospheric feedbacks cannot be neglected. We invite contributions on observational, theoretical, and/or modelling studies of the dynamical interactions between the biosphere and the physical, chemical, atmospheric and geophysical processes that shape the Earth System, from the joint evolution of the planet and the life forms living on it, to the response of microbes, plants, and animals to climate change, to the two-way interaction of climate and biosphere. Invited Speakers: Tanja Bosak (MIT), Paolo D'Odorico (University of Virginia) Conveners: Marco Marani (University of Padova), John Albertson (Duke University), Antonello Provenzale (CNR, Turin), Daniel Rothman (MIT) NG09: PATTERN FORMATION IN EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES Many surface and subsurface processes lead to complex patterns in the Earth Sciences, such as river, subsurface, and fracture networks, bio-hydrodynamic structures, vegetation patterns, gravity fingers during infiltration. The geometry of the emerging patterns largely determines macroscopic quantities, such as fluxes, travel times, and related ecosystem services and vulnerability. Despite relatively recent and fundamental advances in the field, the selection principle and the observed morphology of many pattern-forming geophysical processes remain to be understood. We invite contributions on the observation of new pattern-forming processes, experiments offering new insight, and theoretical and modeling interpretations of the observed patterns. Invited speakers: Brad Murray (Duke University), Taylor Perron (Harvard), Johan van de Koppel (NIOO - The Netherlands) Conveners: Marco Marani (University of Padova), Ruben Juanes, MIT (juanes at mit.edu), Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, MIT, (lcueto at mit.edu), Andrea D'Alpaos (University of Padova) I hope to see you in S. Francisco! Marco Marani Prof. Marco Marani Dept. IMAGE Director of the International Center for Hydrology University of Padova via Loredan 20 - I 35131 Padova ITALY phone: +39 049 8275449 fax: +39 049 8275446 Skype: marco.marani66 Web www.image.unipd.it/m.marani/