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glacier 530050 640Held in Dunhuang, China, 31 July to 1 August, this workshop will focus on existing capabilities to model and assess cryospheric changes, mitigation and adaptability strategies in a rapidly changing cryosphere, eco-social sustainability, and the role of the cryosphere in the Earth’s future.

The cryosphere plays an important role in regulating the climate and earth systems, especially through feedback impacting water, energy, and material flows. As a result, issues related to cryospheric changes have received increasing attention in recent years, leading to more research, including the effects of interactions among earth system components and the role of the cryosphere in constraining sustainable pathways of adaptation to change. 

clouds 3030063 1920This small grants program from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research aims to link science and policy to achieve social-ecological sustainability and human welfare goals.

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), an intergovernmental organization composed of 19 Parties in the Americas, identifies adaptation to the impacts of global change as an issue of the highest relevance - and one which the region should address through scientific collaboration and transdisciplinary research.

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Are you a student interested in a career addressing climate and environmental changes in mountain regions? Then a Student Internship at GRID-Arendal could be an excellent opportunity.

For its internship programme in autumn 2018 and spring 2019, GRID-Arendal is looking for students with a range of interest areas, including climate change vulnerability and adaptation in polar and mountain environments. The full-time programme lasts from three to six months, and offers undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to work in a multi-cultural international organization, gaining practical work experience and developing skills under the guidance of experts.

Announcement Conference GLOMOS

Eurac Research and the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security are organizing a workshop through their new joint program, Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS). The workshop, 'Global Mountain Safeguard: Emerging Risks and Future Challenges for Mountain Regions Worldwide,' will take place in Italy this autumn. 

The workshop will serve as a platform for communication and exchange on issues surrounding disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and emergency response preparedness in mountain regions.

IPCC SROCC participation callRelevant peer-reviewed literature and expert reviewers are sought for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). 

As part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment cycle, the IPCC SROCC is currently being written and is to be completed and published by the end of 2019. The report assesses the relevant literature on this topic, with a focus on literature published since the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), and includes both the physical and human aspects.

MIRENpaperThis paper by MIREN, published in Global Ecology and Biogeography is the first species patterns analysis on a global scale that includes native and non-native species. 

The authors investigated patterns of species richness and community dissimilarity along elevation gradients using globally replicated, standardized surveys of vascular plants. They asked how these patterns of diversity are influenced by anthropogenic pressures (road construction and non-native species).

colorado 113761 1280The European Meteorological Society will hold its annual meeting 3-7 September 2018 in Budapest, Hungary. The OPCC (Pyrenees Climate Change Observatory), as co-conveners of the session 'Climate Change in Mountain Areas,' invites you to present an abstract of your work on this topic.

This session welcomes contributions in connection with mountain climate, climate change, changing climate-extreme events, natural disasters, and other climate-related socioeconomic impacts. Adaptation actions and best practices are also welcomed. The abstract submission deadline is 13 Apr 2018.

crocus 3175454 640This study forms part of a UK NERC-funded fellowship at Lancaster University, entitled ‘The resistance and resilience of mountain soils in the face of change’.

The primary focus of this call is to make the first global assessment of the response of alpine soil microbial communities to perturbations associated with climate extremes, and to use proximate controls (e.g. microhabitat, microbial community structure, soil organic matter quality, vegetation structure) as well as broader-scale controls (e.g. bioclimatic zone, geological attributes) to explain variance.

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