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AIMES Open Science Conference: Earth System Science 2010
Global Change, Climate and People
Edinburgh, 10-13 May 2010
**Registration and abstract submission now open**
The published version of the ICSU-IGFA review of IGBP is now available (PDF only - February 2009). To download this report please go to the page on the [ICSU website]
Welcome to IGBP
Major global-change conference focusing on solutions announced
The UK has successfully bid to host a major international science conference in 2012. The London conference, Planet Under Pressure: new knowledge, new solutions, aims to attract 2500 of the world's leading thinkers on global-change research.
The four-day conference is sponsored by the International Council for Science's (ICSU) global environmental change research programmes. It will bring together natural, physical and social scientists, together with economists. It will also involve engineers, health specialists and many others disciplines, plus with national and international policymakers, industry representatives, technologists, NGOs and development experts.
Storm surge risk and management congress
Storm Surges Congress
Risk and Management of current and future Storm Surges, Hamburg, Germany
13-17 September 2010
Marine meeting deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2010
The IGBP marine project IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research) is holding an imbizo - the Zulu word for gathering - in Crete, Greece, 10-14 October 2010. See Imbizo
Call for bids to host the third symposium on the ocean in a high-CO2 world
The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, and International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme are planning a third symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World, to take place in 2012. The three-day symposium will focus on ocean acidification and its impacts on marine organisms, ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. It will also cover socio-economic consequences of ocean acidification, including policy and management implications.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change call for nominations for authors of Fifth Assessment Report
Deadline: 12 March 2010
For more information see: IPCC
Earth System Science: Climate, Global Change and People Open Science Conference
The IGBP project Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System (AIMES) holds its Open Science Conference 10-13 May 2010 in Edinburgh, UK.