Newsflash from the Mountain Research Initiative, August 2011
MRI Europe
- Read the August Newsflash of MRI Europe:http://mri.scnatweb.ch/dmdocuments/MRI_Europe_Flash_August2011.pdf
S4C, Science for the Carpathians
- Read the August Newsflash of S4C:http://mri.scnatweb.ch/dmdocuments/S4C_Newsflash_August2011.pdf
SEEmore, the Southern European Mountain Research Network
- Read the August Newsflash of SEEmore (available ca. 20 September): http://mri.scnatweb.ch/dmdocuments/SEEmore_NewsFlash_August2011.pdf
The Americas Cordillera Transect (ACT)
- MRI is updating its ACT Network pages as part of a pending website redesign. For contact details, to relay ACT-related information to MRI or to contribute to the next ACT Newsflash, visit http://mri.scnatweb.ch/mri-americas-cordillera/more-information-to-the-mri-americas-cordillera
Global Change Research Network (GCRN) Africa
- African updates, along with the announcement of a new MRI Africa Coordinator, are soon to appear as well. http://mri.scnatweb.ch/mri-africa/
mountain.TRIP, Transforming Research Into Practice
- mountain.TRIP final conference, Looking Up, Reaching Out—New Horizons in Communicating Mountain Research: How to make research results available to practitioners, or how to get a better return on investment in mountain research? A day of inputs, insights, discussions, and a multi-media fair on these topics. 17 November 2011, Scotland House, Brussels. http://www.mountaintrip.eu/articles/final-conference.html
- mountain.TRIP communication products show how research results can be communicated. Prototypes have undergone testing with practitioners in Romania, Poland, Austria, and Spain, and are now being revised by the mountain.TRIP team. http://www.mountaintrip.eu/articles/mountaintrip-communication-products.html
Follow mountain.TRIP on Facebook, Twitter, or via the mountain.TRIP email update to stay up to date on the development of communication products:
- https://www.facebook.com/pages/mountainTRIP/231938542784
- http://twitter.com/ - !/mTeurope
- mountain.TRIP email update: subscribe at http://www.mountaintrip.eu
- Claudia Drexler, the Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland: drexler@giub.unibe.ch
SELECTION OF NEWS WORLDWIDE
The first impact factor for Landscape and Ecological Engineering—the journal of the International Consortium of Landscape and Ecological Engineering—has been announced: 0.722 for the year 2010.
FLUXPYR has announced a new micrometeorological station that is operational in the Spanish Pyrenees. The station is located in a mountain grassland grazed between June and October, at an altitude of 1900 m ca. 3 km northeast of the small town of Castellar de n'Hug on the edge of the Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park. The station will soon be equipped with an internet connection to remotely download data and manage the equipment. Fabrice Gouriveau, FLUXPYR Project Manager, Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona, Spain http://www.fluxpyr.eu
MRI Director’s Blog Read Greg Greenwood’s most recent observations about a busy fall and much more on his blog. Dr. Greenwood warmly encourages your comments and questions. http://mri-dir.xanga.com/
UPCOMING EVENTS
ALPSTAR: Towards Carbon Neutral Alps—Make Best Practice Minimum Standard
The initial international conference of the Alpine Space Project will discuss the policy requirements for energy, transport, and the economy to reach climate neutrality in the Alps. Attendance is free of charge and presentations will be translated simultaneously into German, French, Slovenian, and Italian. Chambéry, France, 27–28 October 2011. http://www.alpenstaedte.org/en/projects/alpstar/initial-conference
The Third Pole Environment invites 2011 AGU attendees to a multi-disciplinary session C02, A Paleo-Perspective of the Third Pole Environment (TPE): Past, Present and Future, convened by Tandong Yao, Lonnie Thompson, Volker Mosbrugger and Dieter Scherer. http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/scientific-program/session-search/167
Whose Alps Are These? Governance, Ownerships and Belongings in Contemporary Alpine Regions, Agordo, Italy, 22–24 September 2011. http://www.geogr.unipd.it/
Innovation in Mountains, the 4th European Biennial Event of Highland Regions, will take place in Gérardmer, France, 13–14 October 2011. http://www.euro-event-mountain.eu
PUBLICATIONS
The two-day National Science Foundation Workshop on Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Innovative Science and Engineering Fields, November 2010, has published its report on the problems and promise of interdisciplinarity. http://csid.unt.edu/nsf/nsf-workshop-report.pdf
Understanding Earth's Deep Past: Lessons for Our Climate Future provides an assessment of both the demonstrated and underdeveloped potential of the deep-time geologic record to inform the dynamics of the global climate system. The National Academies Press, 2011, ISBN-13: 978-0-309-20915-1, and available online via
Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, V.P. Singh, P. Singh, U.K. Haritashya, eds. 2011. Springer, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, ISBN 978-90-481-2643-9. http://springer.com/978-90-481-2643-9
Variations in precipitation amounts, atmosphere circulation, and relative humidity in high mountainous parts of Bulgaria for the period 1947–2008, Peter Nojarov. Published online in Theoretical and Applied Climatology.
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/meteorology+%26+climatology/journal/704
Dust inputs and bacteria influence dissolved organic matter in clear alpine lakes, N. Mladenov, R. Sommaruga, R. Morales-Baquero, I. Laurion, L. Camarero, M.C. Diéguez, A. Camacho, A. Delgado, O. Torres, Z. Chen, M. Felip, I. Reche. Nature Communications 2, 405 (2011) doi: 10.1038/ncomms1411.
Open access: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n7/full/ncomms1411.html
Seasonal Pattern of Regional Carbon Balance in the Central Rocky Mountains from Surface and Airborne Measurements
Ankur R. Desai, David J.P. Moore, William K. M. Ahue, Phillip T.V. Wilkes, Stephan F.J. De Wekker, Bjorn G. Brooks, Teresa L. Campos, Britton B. Stephens, Russell K. Monson, Sean P. Burns, Tristan Quaife, Steven M. Aulenbach, David S. Schimel. JGR–Biogeosciences (in press).
Agriculture in Climate Change, a new CIPRA background report, is available as a free download at
http://www.cipra.org/en/alpmedia/dossiers/21/
Научные сети по исследованию глобальных изменений в горных регионах: дополнительная ценность или потеря времени? Устойчивое развитие горных территорий [Science Networks for Global Change Research in Mountain Regions: Added value or waste of time? Astrid Björnsen Gurung, Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories, 2011, 1(7), 118-121]
A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy, by Marco Armiero. White Horse Press, 2011, ISBN 9781-874267-645. http://www.whpress.co.uk/RN.html
The Third Dimension: A Comparative History of Mountains in the Modern Era, by Jon Mathieu, translated by Katherine Brun. White Horse Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-874267-676. http://www.whpress.co.uk/Mathieu.html
The distributed hydrological model GEOtop announces the release of a new version, 1.45, and a draft version of the users manual that is ready for download.
http://www.geotop.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi
CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
The International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic, INTERACT, which offers access to 18 research stations in Northernmost Europe and the Russian Federation, has extended its deadline for transnational access proposals for winter season 2011/2012. The call also includes summer season 2012 for stations located in the Russian Federation. The on-line application system is open until 7th September 2011 at 16:00 (+3GMT) on the INTERACT website: http://www.eu-interact.org/
Ecological Processes, a new open access journal from SprinterOpen that will be devoted to research on all aspects of biological, chemical, physical, and hydrological processes of ecosystem and landscape dynamics across spatial and temporal scales is accepting submissions. http://www.ecologicalprocesses.com/
The Uplands Program at Hohenheim University is organizing an international scientific conference, Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas at Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany, 6–18 April 2012. Abstracts may be submitted via the conference website until 1 November 2011: https://uplands2012.uni-hohenheim.de
In a focus issue devoted to Green Economy and Livelihoods in Mountains, Mountain Research and Development will examine the contested likelihood of green economy contributing to livelihoods in mountains and explore the potential and challenges of green economy for enhancing livelihoods and alleviating poverty in mountains. The due date for submission of abstracts has passed; full papers are due by 31 October 2011.
http://www.mrd-journal.org/pdf/MRD_Call_Green_economy_and_livelihoods.pdf
POSITIONS
As the managing authority for a project of the Alpine Space Programme 2007–2013 on strategy development, Land Salzburg is looking for an experienced project manager. The application deadline is 16 September.
ClimateWorks Foundation, a worldwide network of philanthropic and non-governmental organizations with the mission of supporting public policies that prevent dangerous climate change, seeks a Director of Research to lead a four-person team in the design and management of complex, data-driven research projects. The Director will work on projects of both country-specific and international scope translating academic and quantitative analyses into business and policy solutions.
http://www.ceaconsulting.com/what/position_details.aspx?client=CEA&jobId=163
MAJOR SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES, 2011-2012
The following is a short list of major conferences scheduled through the end of 2012 at which research on global change in mountains will or ought to be presented. The list soon will be installed and regularly updated on MRI’s web site. In anticipation of that, here it is in the Newsflash.
The MRI community should make a strong effort to propose mountain-centric sessions and present mountain-centric papers at these conferences, as well as take advantage of meeting-associated MRI Key Contacts Workshops, which are networking opportunities that bring together mountain researchers to discuss and critique their research programs. Conferences listed here are hyperlinked to their meeting websites, where key dates for session proposals, and abstract and paper submission may be found.
n.b. MRI conducts Key Contacts Workshops at the yearly AGU and EGU meetings, and will do so at others among those listed here as well.
1) European Ecological Federation 12th Congress, 25-29 September 2011, Avila Spain
MRI Key Contacts Workshop, 25 September 2011
2) International Conference on East African Mountains, 14–16 November 2011, Mbale, Uganda (please note the corrected dates)
3) Managing Alpine Futures II, 21-23 November 2011, Innsbruck, Austria
4) American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 5-9 December 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA
MRI Key Contacts Workshop, 4 December 2011, UC Berkeley Faculty Club
5) American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, 24-28 February 2012, New York, NY, USA. An MRI Key Contacts Workshop is under development.
6) Planet Under Pressure: New Knowledge Towards New Solutions, jointly organised by ESSP, DIVERSITAS, IGBP, IHDP and WCRP, 26-29 March 2012, London, UK. Abstract deadline extended to 16 September 2011. MRI Global Commission meeting, 24-25 March 2011.
7) European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 22-27 April 2012, Vienna, Austria
MRI Key Contacts Workshop, 21 April 2012
8) The Tenth International Conference on Permafrost (TICOP), 25–29 June 2012, Yamal-Nenets autonomous District, Salekhard, Russia.
9) Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
MRI Key Contacts Workshop, 4 August 2012
10) International Geographical Congress, 26-30 August 2012, Cologne, Germany. The call for papers is open until 15 December 2011. MRI Key Contacts Workshop: 25 August 2012
11) EcoSummit 2012, Ecological Sustainability: Restoring the Planet’s Ecosystem Services 30 September–5 October, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Abstract submission deadline, 20 January 2012.
12) International Conference on Mountain Environment and Development, 15-19 October 2012, Chengdu, China
13) American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2012, San Francisco, CA, USA
An MRI Key Contacts Workshop is planned.
Please post contributions for inclusion in the September 2011 MRI Newsflash to MRI by Monday, 19 September to Chris Ritter.
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