Calendar of Antarctic - Related Events

 

2008

 

March

-March 13, IPY International Polar Science Day: Changing Earth, Past and Present
http://www.ipy.org/
 

Contact Rhian Salmon ipy.ras@gmail.com

-March 17-19, Miami, Florida:  IAATO special meeting on Antarctic Tourism


-March 20-21, Principality of Monaco:  International seminar, Towards a new governance of high seas biodiversity
http://www.seas-at-risk.org/1mages/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Announcement%20International%20Seminar%20on%20High%20Seas%20Governance.pdf

-March 27-29, Buffalo, New York: The Geological Society of America Northeastern Meeting - "Antarctic
Climate Evolution"

http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/northe/08mtg/techprog.htm

-March 31-April 4, London, England (Horticultural Halls): International Maritime Organization Marine
Environmental Protection Committee
http://www.imo.org/

 

 

April

-April 7-9, Bremen, Germany: International Census of Marine Microbes International Workshop on
Ribosomal RNA Technology

http://www.arb-silva.de/rrna-workshop

-April 13-18, Vienna, Austria: General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU),
Session on "Cenozoic Antarctic Glacial History"

http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/index.html
 

-April 16-18, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA: Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) programme - first model development workshop “Integrating Climate and Ecosystem” focused on Southern Ocean food web models.
Contact Rachel Cavanagh at RCAV@bas.ac.uk

 

May

-May 4-11, Colorado Springs, Colorado, New Generation of Polar Researchers (NGPR) Symposium
http://www.disccrs.org/ngpr/

-May 5-9, Cape Town, South Africa: 4th IGBP Congress
http://www.igbp2008.co.za/index.php?id=6

-May 22-28, Seoul, Korea (Korea Green Foundation): 5th Green Film Festival
http://www.greenfestival.or.kr/

 

June

-June 1-13, Santiago, Chile:  International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee Meeting. 
http://www.iwcoffice.org/meetings/meeting2008.htm

-June 2-13, Kiev, Ukraine: XXXI Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, XI Meeting of the
Committee for Environmental Protection
http://www.ats.aq/

-June 6, Plymouth Museum, United Kingdom: A Celebration Of R.F. Scott's 140th BIRTHDAY,
lunchtime talk on Captain Scott by Dr. David Wilson, and a formal dinner sponsored by the Devon
and Cornwall Polar Buffs will be held at (tentatively) on the HMS Drake
http://www.antarctic-circle.org/events.htm

-June 16-20, Hobart, Australia: CCAMLR WG-EMM Predator Survey Workshop
http://www.ccamlr.org/

-June 18th, International Polar Year Day:  Land Plants and Animals/Land and Life
http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/international_polar_days/

-June 23-27, Santiago, Chile:  International Whaling Commission, 60th Annual Meeting.
http://www.iwcoffice.org/meetings/meeting2008.htm

-June 23-26, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom: Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling
Research Symposium
http://www.amemr.info/default.asp?page=2008symposium

-June 26-27, Oamaru, New Zealand:  6th Oamaru Penguin SymposiumThe meeting will focus on the penguins of New Zealand, Australia and their Sub-Antarctic Islands.
http://www.penguin.net.nz/oamaru/

-dates not set, Hobart, Australia: CCAMLR Performance Review


July

-July 5-7, St Petersburg, Russia: XXX SCAR Science Week with business meetings and workshops
of SCAR's Standing Scientific Groups
http://www.scar.org/

-July 8, St. Petersburg, Russia: SCAR/IASC Accessing and Preserving Data as an IPY Legacy
Contact
bruin@nioz.nl
 

-July 14-August 1, Moscow, Russia: CCAMLR WG-SAM and WG-EMM
http://www.ccamlr.org/

-July 8-11, St Petersburg, Russia:  Joint SCAR-IASC Open Science Conference
http://www.scar.org/circular.pdf
http://www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org/

-July 14-16, Moscow, Russia:  XXX SCAR Delegates' Meeting 
http://www.scar.org/

 

August

-August 6-14, Oslo, Norway: 33rd International Geological Congress, 'Cenozoic Antarctic glacial history'
http://www.33igc.org


-August 11–15, Cape Town, South Africa: 4th International Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
http://iapc4.adu.org.za/

-August 11-15. Hobart, Australia, Joint CCAMLR-IWC Workshop.
http://www.iwcoffice.org/_documents/sci_com/workshops/SC-59-EM1.pdf

-August 12-15, Tunis, Tunisia: 31st International Geographical Congress http://www.igu-net.org/uk/news_and_events/tunisia2008.html

-August 18-26, Cape Town, South Africa: ACAP Working Groups and 4th Advisory Group Meeting (August 22-25)
http://www.acap.aq/

-August 26-28, Santa Barbara, California: SCAR - 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth
Sciences (ISAES X)
http://isaes2007.geol.ucsb.edu/

-August 27-28, Bergen, Norway: International Antarctic Zone Program (iAnZone) 10th biennial meeting,
Contact peter.haugan@gfi.uib.no

 

September

-September 4-10, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand: I
magining Antarctica
http://www.engl.canterbury.ac.nz/extra/imagining_antarctica.shtml

-September 10-17, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland: British Ecological Society 2007 Annual
Meeting: Life in Extreme Aquatic Environments
http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/meetings/current/

 

October

-October 3-5, Buenos Aires, Argentina: IHO Hydrographic Committee Antarctica (HCA) meeting http://www.iho.shom.fr/REG_HYD_COM/HCA/HCA.htm

-October 5-14, Barcelona, Spain: IUCN 4th World Conservation Congress
www.iucn.org/congress

-October 6-10, London, England: International Maritime Organization, Marine
Environmental Protection Committee's 58th meeting
http://www.imo.org/

-October 6-8, Monaco: 2nd Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World Contact
m.hood@unesco.org

-October 13-24, Hobart, Australia:  CCAMLR WG-FSA and ad hoc WG-IMAF
http://www.ccamlr.org

-October 27-November 7, CCAMLR-XXVII and SC-CAMLR-XXVII
http://www.ccamlr.org/

 
November

-November 11-15, Valencia, Spain: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity
http://www.marbef.org/worldconference/

-November 12-18, Auckland, New Zealand: Census of Marine Life (CoML) - All Programmes Meeting
http://www.coml.org/

 
December

-December 12, 80 Degrees South at the foot of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica: Fourth Antarctic
Ice Marathon
http://www.icemarathon.com/live/145.html

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