May 17-20, 2012 | Environmental Pollution and Public Health | Shanghai - China

The International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Public Health (EPPH2012), which is a special track within iCBBE 2012, will be held from May 17th to 20th, 2012 in Shanghai, China.

Papers are invited for all areas of environmental pollutions and related health problems. Submission Deadline is: Dec 9

Main topics include: Water Quality and Public Health, Air Pollution and Public Health, & Other Related Issues.

For more information visit the event website here.

May 23-25, 2012 | Programs that bring together Geoscience and Sustainability | Palo Alto, CA

Building a sustainable future encompasses many challenges related to energy, natural resources, and the environment. This workshop will bring together program leaders from across the disciplines to share challenges and successful strategies for integrating sustainability perspectives and the geosciences. Applicants from the geosciences, other sciences, social sciences, economics, and humanities are encouraged to participate.

The workshop will allow participants to learn from one another about the strengths, opportunities and challenges provided by a range of program models. We will work together to brainstorm new opportunities and goals for such programs looking explicitly at career trajectories envisioned for the next decades.

This workshop is open to 30 people (by application) and there is no charge to attend.

Application deadline: March 5, 2012

For more information, please check the website.

May 27 - Jun 1, 2012 | 21st Century Watershed Technology Conference and Workshops | Bari - Italy

Improving Water Quality and the Environment, Bari, Italy. The Conference will provide a forum for water resource professionals to exchange information on science, applications and developments in the use of watershed science and technology. It will cover a wide array of topics.  ... more. 

Abstract submission deadline: Dec 15 

June 2 - 6, 2012 | Teaching Environmental Geology Workshop | Bozeman, MT

This workshop is designed specifically for instructors of Environmental Geology. Session topics focus on exploring ways to effectively teach this topic in undergraduate Earth science courses. Each participant will submit and participate in the review of teaching activities. One of the important results of the workshop will be contributions of teaching materials, insights on teaching methodology, and the development of classroom resources that take advantage of cutting edge technology.

Note: We have also developed a set of online resources for folks who are teaching Environmental Geology. You do not have to attend the workshop to view these pages.

Workshop Conveners:
Dave Mogk, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University
Katryn Wiese, Department of Earth Sciences, City College of San Francisco
Devin Castendyk, Department of Earth Sciences, SUNY Oneonta

Application deadline - March 1, 2012.

Limited stipends are available to help defray workshop costs; the stipend application deadline - March 12, 2012.

For more information, please check the website.

June 10 - 15, 2012 | Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career | Williamsburg, VA

Join us for a multi-day workshop in a stimulating and resource-rich environment where you will participate in sessions on topics including effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research program in a new setting, working with research students, balancing professional and personal responsibilities, and time management.

Participants must have a full-time faculty position at a two-year or four-year college or a university at the time of the workshop and must be in their first four years of full-time teaching or starting a full-time position in the fall.

For more information, please check the website.

June 21-22, 2012 | Risk and Response: Sea Level Rise Summit, The Future of Florida and the Coasts | Fort Lauderdale, FL

Save the Date! FCI is a co-sponsor in the Risk and Response: Sea Level Rise Summit to be held in Boca Raton, Florida June 21^st and 22^nd.

Registration and agenda are now available. Please visit: http://www.ces.fau.edu/SLR2012 for more information.

"Forty percent of the nation's sea level rise risk is in Florida," Ben Strauss, Climate Central. Projections even for the short-range future, suggest a steadily growing threat to Florida’s infrastructure and ecological treasures. Florida deals with hurricanes, floods, and droughts. Understanding, anticipating, and adapting to these threats is part of the DNA of the region. Now a more insidious threat promises to make Florida one of the world’s most vulnerable areas. Sea level rise will continue to damage Florida’s coastal ecosystems and its inland water systems. Salt water intrusion into coastal aquifers, failure of vital drainage canals, and periodic flooding at high tides are already newspaper headlines.

Jul 13-14, 2012 | 4th International Conference on Climate Change | Seattle, WA

Overall Theme: Climate Change and its Global Implications for people, ethics and equity. The Fourth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. In 2012, the conference will be held in The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA from 13-14 July 2012.

The Climate Change Conference is for any person with an interest in, and concern for, scientific, policy and strategic perspectives in climate change. It will address a range of critically important themes relating to the vexing question of climate change. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the fields of climatology and environmental science, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners.

For up-dated information visit the organizers website here.

July 24 - 26, 2012 | Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences | Northfield, MN

Sustainability is emerging as a central theme for teaching about the environment, whether it be from the perspective of science, economics, or society. This workshop is for undergraduate faculty from all disciplines who are interested in a stronger integration of geoscience and other perspectives in teaching sustainability. We encourage applicants from the geosciences, other sciences, social sciences, economics, and humanities.

The workshop will include a combination of plenary talks, panelist presentations, discussions and time for networking and collaboration. Workshop participants will share successful strategies and materials for teaching sustainability. An important outcome from this workshop will be to identify opportunities where new curricular materials will have a major impact on integrating geosciences into the teaching of sustainability.

This workshop is open to 30 people and there is no registration fee to attend.

Application deadline: April 20, 2012

For more information, please check the website.

Oct 13-20, 2012 | DISCCRS VII Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium | Colorado Springs, CO

DISCCRS VII -Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Symposium

October 13-20, 2012, La Foret Conference and Retreat Center, Colorado Springs, CO

Application Deadline: February 29, 2012, Participation limited to 30 early-career Ph.D. scholars
Airfare and on-site expenses are supported through grants from NSF and NASA.

Every year the DISsertations initiative for the advancement of Climate Change ReSearch (DISCCRS, pronounced discourse) hosts a symposium for early-career climate change researchers. Our goal is to catalyze international, interdisciplinary collaboration while laying the foundation for dynamic, communicative collegial networks that are better-equipped to understand and respond to the myriad challenges posed by climate change.

During the week-long symposium, the 30 invited DISCCRS Scholars will have the opportunity to present their research, hone interdisciplinary communication and teambuilding skills, and discuss emerging research and trends. Scholars will also have the chance to talk about the societal and professional challenges involved in climate change research, with each other and with established researchers invited to serve as mentors.

For more information and application visit here.

Oct. 21 - 24, 2012 | ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings | Cincinnati, Ohio

Early abstract deadline is fast approaching for the upcoming ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings on Oct. 21 – 24, 2012 in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Deadlines are given at https://www.acsmeetings.org/. We hope that you are making plans to attend the meeting. As you are involved in evapotranspiration (ET) research, I invite you to consider submitting an abstract to the symposium titled "Evapotranspiration: Monitoring, Modeling and Mapping At Point, Field, and Regional Scales" sponsored by the ET Remote Sensing Community under the Climatology & Modeling Section of ASA.

The main goal of this symposium is to report on advances in development and applications of ground-based measuring instruments/sensors (Lysimeter, neutron probes, Eddy covariance, Bowen ratio, scintillometer, ET gauges, etc.) as well as remote sensing techniques for mapping evapotranspiration/crop water use at plot, field, landscape and regional scales. Contributions may include evaluation of existing/new instruments for their ability to measure ET/surface energy fluxes accurately in different agrometeorological conditions, limitation and challenges, footprint analysis, use of IRTs and other sensors used for ET estimation, application of ET maps in precision farming research, application and evaluation of energy balance based ET methods, soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer models, applicability of existing crop coefficients on new crop varieties entering the market, and effect of biofuel crops on regional water demand.

We feel that ET measurement is not only important in water management or hydrology, but is key to crop management, breeding (e.g., for developing drought tolerance), and modeling.  So please feel free to forward this email to anyone who may be interested in ET measurement and its applications at various scales, even to those outside our traditional circles of contacts.

Abstract submission deadlines:
Early abstract deadline: April 19, 6:00 PM ET
Final abstract deadline: May 1, 6:00 PM ET
Abstract editing deadline: July 27, 6:00 PM ET

You can submit an abstract at the following link: http://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2012am/choosesession.cgi

We look forward to receiving many excellent abstracts for the symposium.

For more information, please contact the leaders of the ET remote sensing community:

• Prasanna Gowda, Chair ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or
• Allan Andales, Vice-Chair ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

December 9-12, 2012 | SRA 2012 Annual Meeting | San Francisco, California

Risk Analysis, including risk perception, risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication, represents an interdisciplinary field that is the foundation of decision making across a myriad of disciplines. The annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) brings together nearly 1,000 international scientists and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines who share an interest in risk analysis. Representing academia, government, industry, NGOs, private firms, and themselves, SRA members recognize the value of diverse perspectives and a shared commitment to high quality risk analysis methodology and practice.

For the full event details, please visit the Society for Risk Analysis.

Feb 10 - 12, 2013 | Impact of the Southeast in the World's Renewable Energy Future | Atlanta, GA

Pre-Announcement: Inaugural SEC Academic Consortium “Academic Conference.” The first event, led by the University of Georgia and entitled Impact of the Southeast in the World’s Renewable Energy Future, has been confirmed for February 10-12, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.

Contact: Torie A. Johnson, Executive Director,  SEC Academic Consortium via e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .