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The 16th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium will take place at the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 14-18 September 2020. The theme of the 16th ICRSS is Convergence at the Poles – Addressing urgent research questions and management needs through remote sensing in the Arctic and Antarctic.
The call for papers is now open, with a deadline on 01 May 2020.
Submission instructions and other additional information can be found on the Symposium website HERE.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate Analysis and Physical Ocean Modelling, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University.
Assistant Professor Eric Oliver (http://ecjoliver.weebly.com) is looking to fill a postdoctoral position on downscaling future oceanography projections in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, as part of a project funded by the Ocean Frontier Institute. The position will last 1.5 years and is expected to start as soon as possible.
The global ocean is an enormous reservoir of carbon and heat that regulates the Earth’s climate. The Northwest Atlantic, including the Labrador Sea, supports enormous spring blooms of plankton and important fisheries, and plays a critical role in climate regulation. There is evidence that climate warming is influencing ocean circulation and the ocean carbon cycle.
The postdoc will work within a team with the overall aim of performing future projections for the NWA, using downscaled global climate simulations, to address the pressing questions about potential changes in circulation and marine climate. These questions include how ocean warming, freshening and changes in the Labrador Current/Gulf Stream circulation system will affect stratification as well as vertical exchanges and lateral supply pathways of freshwater and essential nutrients. Simulations will be carried out for a range of future climate states from global IPCC projections, and look at changes in the mean as well as variability and extremes. The postdoc will be primarily responsible for analysing global and regional climate model output for the region.
The postdoc will be based in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University under Dr. Oliver’s supervision, and will also have the opportunity to interact with collaborators at Dalhousie as well as partners outside academia.
If interested please send a statement of interest and CV including references to
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The 57th issue of SEVENSEAS Marine Conservation & Travel Magazine for the month of February 2020 is out now.
This month you can find some really interesting pieces from traveling to Afghanistan, the economic impact of sea level rise, threats to leatherback turtles, some cool art, and much more.
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The deadline for abstract submission for the WDS co-convened Second Latin America and the Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop has been extended to Sunday, 16 February 2020.
We are also pleased to announce that online registration is now open. The process is managed by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), who officially invite you here to join us in São Paulo.
The WDS co-convened Second Latin America and the Caribbean Scientific Data Management Workshop will be held on 14–15 April 2020 in São Paulo, Brazil, collaborated with the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, FAPESP, and the Research Data Alliance.
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The Canadian Studies Center and Center for Human Rights, housed at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, invite you to join us for the following event:
Roundtable Lecture/Conversation: The “Lost Canadians” with Don Chapman
Wednesday, February 12, 3:30 p.m., Thomson Hall Room 317
RSVP by Monday, February 10, 2020 to
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What does it mean to be Canadian? The history of Canadian citizenship is complicated and, since Confederation, was denied to many as a result of archaic and obscure legislation. The legislation was particularly discriminatory against women, children, Asian and Indo-Canadians, as well as Indigenous peoples. Those whose citizenship was revoked or denied as a result are known as “Lost Canadians.” Today, over half a million of them reside in the U.S., probably unaware that they are now Canadian citizens.
Don Chapman, a University of Washington alumnus and former United Airlines pilot, discovered his own revoked citizenship status; thus began his fight to restore citizenship rights to himself and others. Chapman has been the inspiration and force behind seven Parliamentary bills to amend the Citizenship Act, with the result that Canadian status has been granted to somewhere between one and two million people, retroactively. Are you one of them? The answer might surprise you.
It turns out Seattle is a hot-bed of “Lost Canadians.”
Join Don Chapman for an engaging discussion centered around his 2015 book, The Lost Canadians: A Struggle for Citizenship Rights, Equality, and Identity. He will talk about citizenship as a basic human right, what it means to be rendered stateless, present-day discrimination, and his own experiences as a private individual changing federal legislation in Canada.