The Petroleum History Institute and the Lafayette Geological Society are now calling for abstracts for their 2010 Oil History Symposium in Lafayette, Louisiana. The 2010 Oil History Symposium, April 29th-May 1st 2010, will explore the theme “Migration to the Gulf Coast and Beyond.”
For more information visit www.petroleumhistory.org.
The National Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programs (NAAMLP) is issuing a call for papers to be presented at their 32nd annual conference. The conference theme this year, “Their Legacy, Our Heritage, Everyone’s Future,” will highlight the nation’s rich mining heritage and accomplishments and discuss goals for the future.
The conference is scheduled for September 19-22, 2010 at the Hilton Hotel and COnverence Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania. For more information contact Eric Cavazz at 814 472-1844 or ecavazza@state.pa.us or visit the conference website: http://www.NAAMLP2010.com.
NAAMLP is a non-profit organizationwith members consisting of the 31 states and Indian Tribes conducting abandoned mine reclamation programs under the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) is inviting abstract submissions for their 2010 Summer Research Workshop: “Subsalt Exploration and Development: Four years later, what’s new in acquisition, imaging, andinterpretation?”  This event is scheduled for July 26-29, 2010, at Squaw Valley Resort in Olympic Valley, California, USA. The submission deadline is April 20, 2010.
Check out the event website for more details.
The International Council for Science (ICSU) global biodiversity programme DIVERSITAS is working with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to obtain views from the scientific community on a proposal for a new Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Find out more and submit your views on the IPBES proposal by completing an online questionnaire at www.IUCN.org/IPBES. The submission deadline is 12 September 2009.
A National Research Council study committee on “Challenges and
Opportunities in Earth Surface Processes” is seeking your input. The committee’s report will have the greatest impact on future research if it has strong input from a broad spectrum of the interested community. For this reason, your input is very important.
The National Science Foundation has requested that the National Research Council conduct a study which will assess (1) the state-of-the-art of the multi-disciplinary field of earth surface processes, (2) the challenges and opportunities for making advances in the field, and (3) the technical and intellectual needs to meet those challenges and opportunities.
The study committee is addressing the task by considering research on the dynamic biological, chemical, physical, and human processes, interactions, and feedback mechanisms that affect the shape of Earth’s surface across a range of spatial and temporal scales. During its four or five scheduled study meetings, the committee cannot hear from all of the many interested individuals who have important input to this topic, so the committee seeks your help in the form of written contributions on the following set of questions:
The committee expects some variety in answers to these questions, and is interested in learning about different viewpoints. We wish to gauge the nature of the variety of views that might exist within the broad field of earth surface processes.
To submit responses to these questions, please go to:
http://dels.nas.edu/besr/ESP_questionnaire.cgi.
For more information about the study please go to:
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=48867
Comments received by June 15, 2008, will be considered at the
committee’s next meeting (June 24-26, 2008). However, the committee welcomes input until August 2008. The final report will be released in February 2009.
Second International Conference on Accelerated Carbonation for Environmental and Materials Engineering
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion of the latest advances in the field of theoretical and applied research on accelerated carbonation of various types of natural materials and industrial residues. Assessing the conditions and limits for applicability of the accelerated carbonation process as a CO2 capture and storage technique at demonstration and full scale will be one major focuses of the conference. The effects of accelerated carbonation on the engineering and environmental properties of such materials and the possibility of upgrading the quality of biogas will also be specific matters of concern.
Conference Topics will include:
Authors are encouraged to present their work for oral or poster presentation by January 31st 2008. Abstracts must be sent to the conference secretariat in Word format by e-mail (aceme08@uniroma1.it) and prepared according to the abstract model provided in the conference website.
Abstracts will be evaluated and selected by the Scientific Committee. The acceptance and destination of papers will be notified to the leading authors by March 30th 2008.
For more specific and updated information on the conference please visit the webpage http://w3.uniroma1.it/ACEME
Palynology publishes high-standard scientific research of interest on all aspects of organic microfossils (i.e., palynomorphs: spores, pollen, dinocysts, acritarchs, fungal spores, chitinozoans, etc.). We encourage submissions not only in the traditional areas of stratigraphic biostratigraphy and paleoecology/paleoenvironments, but also those utilizing palynomorphs together with the collateral disciplines of sequence stratigraphy, geochemistry, geoarcheology, organic petrology, etc. Short notes on preparation methods, taxonomy, storage problems, etc., are welcomed. If increased numbers of high quality submissions are received, AASP (a volunteer-based non-profit society) would consider publishing two issues per year.
Palynology is a premiere, peer-reviewed journal for the palynological sciences published annually by the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP). It is listed in the Thomson Scientific’s Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) abstracting service, and is available through Geoscience World (GSW), BioOne, and JSTOR. Visit our web site for further information about submitting to Palynology and other AASP publications (www.palynology.org).
Call for Papers and Student Paper Prize 2007
The International Ocean Institute’s major publication is the Ocean Yearbook, published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (an imprint of Brill) in cooperation with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie Law School. The Ocean Yearbook editors now invite submissions for Volume 22. Articles on one or more of the following topics will be considered for publication:
Issues and Prospects; Ocean Governance; Living Resources of the Ocean; Non-living Ocean Resources; Transportation and communications; Environment and Coastal Management; Maritime Security; Military Activities; Regional Developments; Training and Education; and Polar Issues.
The deadline for submission for Volume 22 is March 31, 2007. Further details are available online at: http://www.dal.ca/law/melaw/oyb
Student Paper Prize 2007
The Ocean Yearbook has initiated an annual competition for students writing research papers on marine affairs subjects. Further details are available online at the link above.
Geoscientists are encouraged to consider contributing to a special session at the Fall AGU meeting, Dec. 11-15, in San Francisco. The session, Communicating Broadly: Perspectives and Tools for Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Scientists (OS28), is intended to stimulate discussion among scientists about communication with audiences outside of academia.
A primary goal of the session is to inspire more scientists to communicate about their research – with many types of people, for many different reasons. We’d like to highlight the activities and approaches of those who communicate well, and also get the word out about resources that may help scientists communicate with the public more effectively. Personal-yet-analytical perspectives may be particularly engaging, and so we encourage presenters who have the inclination to experiment with style as well as content.
Some of the foci we’re encouraging presenters to consider are:
Abstracts are due at AGU by September 7th (http://www.agu.org/ meetings/fm06/).
Have you ever received a phone call from a reporter? Met with government officials or representatives of a philanthropic foundation? Written a lay-audience overview of your research for a funding agency or a scientific professional society? Presented to teachers, students or the public? Struck up a conversation about your work with the person sitting beside you on an airplane? Spoken with industry representatives about technology development relevant to your research? If so, and your professional focus includes some aspect of ocean, Earth or atmospheric science, we invite you to share your experiences and learn from colleagues about effective communication.
Across the geosciences, opportunities abound for researchers to communicate with people who have distinct and sometimes divergent interests – journalists, resource managers, environmentalists, policy makers, philanthropists, educators, and industry leaders, to name just a few. In this session, we invite scientists and others within the academic community to reflect on their experiences with such communication. Presenters may discuss their motivation for seeking or responding to opportunities to communicate with audiences outside of academia, share strategies for effective communication, and examine the relationship between communication techniques and outcomes. Presentations that describe resources for building scientists’ communication skills – for example, organizations, programs, workshops, courses and publications – are also highly encouraged.
http://www.earthportal.net/about/eoe/
The world’s experts on the environment of earth, and the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the earth, are forming to produce a single comprehensive and definitive electronic encyclopedia about the earth. The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) will be free to the public and free of advertising.
We seek all qualified editors and authors to collaboratively develop:
Editors: Professor Cutler J. Cleveland of Boston University, Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Science), is the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. A distinguished International Advisory Board provides editorial oversight (see below).
Publisher: The Encyclopedia is one component of the Earth Portal(http://earthportal.net/), the world’s first comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the Earth and environmental change. It is published by the Environmental Information
Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment
(http://www.ncseonline.org).
Scope: The scope of the Encyclopedia is the environment of the earth broadly defined, with particular emphasis on the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the earth. See the taxonomy and topic areas at http://earthportal.net/about/eoe/eoetopics/.
Join the Effort: If you are interested and want more information, please send an email to eoe@earthportal.net, or visit http://earthportal.net/about/steward/).
International Advisory Board
Rita Colwell, Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., former Director of the National Science Foundation, USA
Robert W. Corell, Chair of the Steering Committee for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Robert Costanza, Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, USA
Mohamed H. A. Hassan, President, African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University College, Canada
Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan, USA
Steve Hubbell, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia, USA
Simon A. Levin, Moffett Professor of Biology, Director, Center for Biocomplexity, Princeton University, USA
Bonnie J. McCay, Distinguished Professor of Human Ecology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
David W. Orr, Chairman, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, India
F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, University of California - Irvine, USA
B. L. Turner, Director, School of Geography, Clark University, USA