SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022: Register Now to Receive the Early Bird Rate

SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022: Register Now to Receive the Early Bird Rate

SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022: Register Now to Receive the Early Bird Rate

The 8th SOLAS OSC will be held from 25 to 29 September 2022 online and on-site in Cape Town, South Africa. With its first OSC in Africa, SOLAS offers scientists a platform to learn and exchange about cutting edge research in the field, present their own findings, and connect with colleagues from all over the world. SOLAS has organised a series of highly successful Open Science Conferences (OSCs), which are unique regularly occurring events that bring together the global oceanographic and atmospheric science communities. The deadline to submit an abstract (talk or poster), discussion session proposal, or apply for travel support is 10 June 2022. The deadline for early bird registration is 31 July 2022, and 19 September for late registration. Once registered, apply for the Early Career Scientist (ECS) Day here by 25 July 2022. View keynote speakers here. For more details about the conference and information about registration, please visit the conference website.

PAGES Agadir 2022: Learning from the past for a sustainable future

PAGES Agadir 2022: Learning from the past for a sustainable future

PAGES Agadir 2022: Learning from the past for a sustainable future

PAGES held their 6th Open Science Meeting entitled “Learning from the past for a sustainable future” on 16-20 May 2022 in Agadir, Morocco. The Open Science Meeting (OSM) is one of the premier scientific events of Past Global Changes (PAGES), which is a Global Research Project of Future Earth and a scientific partner of the World Climate Research Programme and World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. AIMES contributed to a lightning talk on Thu 19 May 2022:

Past, present and future societal risk arising from global change: a collaborative approach

Michael Neil Evans 1, Felix Riede 2, Blas Valero-Garcés 3, Cornelia B Krug 4, Markus Reichstein 5, Marie-France Loutre 6

University of Maryland, United States of America1, Aarhus University, Denmark2, Spanish National Research Council, Spain3, University of Zurich, Switzerland4, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany5, Past Global Changes, Switzerland6

As global change accelerates, the risk of low probability but extreme cost/benefit events may be changing. At the same time, growing at-risk infrastructure and population are exacerbating the threat they pose to lives and livelihoods. Research on past climate and environmental change has produced a rich spectrum of data and model results that provide a multivariate and long-term perspective needed to understand climate variability and its varied impacts on past human societies and the environment. While it is clear that this picture has relevance to understanding future risk, information from (paleo)environmental research is not often integrated into risk modeling used on a practical level by insurers or municipalities, and (paleo)climate and -environmental research is not often designed with this aim in mind. We here envision a partnership between natural scientists, social scientists, risk modelers, and managers to improve the estimates of risks associated with climate change by incorporating insights from earth system observations, modeling of natural and social systems, risk modeling and management, and risk exposure reduction practice. This work is necessary to address the impacts of changes in the probabilities of extreme storm, fire, drought, flood and ecosystem stress events, and tipping points between mean states. These impact assessments might in turn inform financial exposure estimates and municipal planning, and explore ways in which people and organizations might modify their behavior in response to changes in risk perception, not least across temporal horizons beyond electoral cycles and prevalent medium-term scenarios (i.e. beyond 2100). We illustrate a collaborative framework for doing so, using an idealized but nonlinear and coupled natural, socioeconomic and risk model.

The conference schedule consisted of oral and plenary sessions, as well as lightning talk and eposter sessions. 

AIMES Lightning Talk Contribution 19 May 2022 | Past, present and future societal risk arising from global change: a collaborative approach

AIMES Lightning Talk Contribution 19 May 2022 | Past, present and future societal risk arising from global change: a collaborative approach

Michael Neil Evans 1, Felix Riede 2, Blas Valero-Garcés 3, Cornelia B Krug 4, Markus Reichstein 5, Marie-France Loutre 6

University of Maryland, United States of America1, Aarhus University, Denmark2, Spanish National Research Council, Spain3, University of Zurich, Switzerland4, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany5, Past Global Changes, Switzerland6

As global change accelerates, the risk of low probability but extreme cost/benefit events may be changing. At the same time, growing at-risk infrastructure and population are exacerbating the threat they pose to lives and livelihoods. Research on past climate and environmental change has produced a rich spectrum of data and model results that provide a multivariate and long-term perspective needed to understand climate variability and its varied impacts on past human societies and the environment. While it is clear that this picture has relevance to understanding future risk, information from (paleo)environmental research is not often integrated into risk modeling used on a practical level by insurers or municipalities, and (paleo)climate and -environmental research is not often designed with this aim in mind. We here envision a partnership between natural scientists, social scientists, risk modelers, and managers to improve the estimates of risks associated with climate change by incorporating insights from earth system observations, modeling of natural and social systems, risk modeling and management, and risk exposure reduction practice. This work is necessary to address the impacts of changes in the probabilities of extreme storm, fire, drought, flood and ecosystem stress events, and tipping points between mean states. These impact assessments might in turn inform financial exposure estimates and municipal planning, and explore ways in which people and organizations might modify their behavior in response to changes in risk perception, not least across temporal horizons beyond electoral cycles and prevalent medium-term scenarios (i.e. beyond 2100). We illustrate a collaborative framework for doing so, using an idealized but nonlinear and coupled natural, socioeconomic and risk model.

AIMES Session at SRI 2022 | Nature-Based Solutions: Exploring the challenges and potential

AIMES Session at SRI 2022 | Nature-Based Solutions: Exploring the challenges and potential

AIMES Session at SRI 2022 | Nature-Based Solutions: Exploring the challenges and potential

When: Monday 20 June 2022, 7:30AM – 9:00AM EDT (Virtual)

Speakers: Pete Smith (University of Aberdeen), Jianwu Tang (University of Chicago), Dimitri Syrris (Baotree), Susan Cook-Patton (The Nature Conservancy)

 

Save the Date: iLEAPS OzFlux Joint Conference

Save the Date: iLEAPS OzFlux Joint Conference

Save the Date: iLEAPS – OzFlux Joint Conference

The iLEAPS – OzFlux hybrid conference will be held on Tuesday 31 January – Friday 03 February 2023. The topic is Biosphere – Atmosphere Interactions and Global Change from Microbial to Planetary Scales. The original date of the iLEAPS – OzFlux Joint Conference was February 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference has moved to 2023. The conference will be delivered in a hybrid context, that being a mix of physical and virtual attendance. Further details of how this will run will be announced during the year. ESC workshops and pre-conference tours will be held on Monday 30 January, and post-conference tours will be held on Saturday 04 February.

Covid-19

From Sunday 01 May 2022, at 11:59pm, the New Zealand border re-opens to travellers from visa waiver countries. For more information on this and travelling to New Zealand, please visit our Conference Venue page.


The research platform ‘iLEAPS’ (Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Studies) is one of several Future Earth research initiatives, with the critical goal of bringing together researchers from a variety of fields related to land-atmosphere exchange processes.

This includes, but is not limited to carbon, water and trace gas exchange, land use change, atmospheric composition, and the societal and related environmental issues.

AUT is proud to host the 6th iLEAPS Science Conference in 2023, in the vibrant city of Auckland and online, in conjunction with the yearly conference of the Australian/New Zealand Network for eddy covariance measurements (OzFlux).

 

SRI Program Is Now Available!

SRI Program Is Now Available!

SRI Program Is Now Available!

The program for the 2022 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI2022) is now available. 

SRI2022, the second edition of the world’s largest gathering dedicated to transdisciplinary research and innovation in sustainability, will feature workshops, innovation demonstrations, networking and special events, plenaries, an idea market, and much more. The program of SRI2022 will double from the inaugural Congress with nearly 200 sessions showcasing the newest advances in sustainability science and demonstrating groundbreaking work to translate knowledge to action. 

Explore the SRI2022 program and speakers, and start creating your schedule to network with more than 2000 experts leading sustainability research and innovation. 

You still have time to register for the Congress. Join us at SRI2022 held in Pretoria, South Africa, or online, June 20-24, 2022. Read more here.