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The International Permafrost Association is proud to introduce the “IPA Lifetime Achievement Award”. The goal of this award is to acknowledge the lifetime contribution of individuals for outstanding permafrost science and engineering research. and/or for exceptional contributions to the international permafrost research community.The first of these awards will be made during the European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP III) in June 2010. The rules are that the award should not be given posthumously…

Dr. Larry Hinzman, director of the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska will be giving the 2009 Nye Lecture on December 15 2009 at 5 pm at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Since the formation of AGU's Cryosphere Focus Group in 2002, Cryosphere has had an increasing presence at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. One of the highlights of the Cryosphere Focus Group's program has been the Nye Lecture, traditionally held as close as possible to the Cryosphere Reception. It is …

Dr. Larry Hinzman, director of the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska will be giving the 2009 Nye Lecture on December 15 2009 at 5 pm at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Since the formation of AGU's Cryosphere Focus Group in 2002, Cryosphere has had an increasing presence at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. One of the highlights of the Cryosphere Focus Group's program has been the Nye Lecture, traditionally held as close as possible to the Cryosphere Reception. It is …

The latest issue of Permafrost and Periglacial Process has just come out and features a special issue organized by the Permafrost Young Researchers Network. You can look at the contents of that issue here. As part of this issue, the bi-annual report from the International Permafrost Association provides a summary of the history and achievements of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN). You can access this report freely at the following link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/12319169…

The 2nd Circular and Call for Abstracts for the IPY Oslo Science Conference is now available at: http://www.ipy-osc.no/. The IPY Oslo Science Conference is a timely and auspicious gathering of the full polar community to celebrate the accomplishments of this IPY, to display and explore the richness of IPY data, and to chart future directions for polar and global science. It will be held from June 8th to June 12th, 2010 in Oslo. The deadline for abstract submission is 20th of January 2010.A session on P…

The project permalp.at (2008-2011, University of Salzburg) focuses on the identification and simulation of permafrost in the region of the “Hohe Tauern”, Austrian Alps. An important outcome of the research will be a permafrost distribution map which shows permafrost probability distribution. This map is based on a validated model including a new index approach and results from extensive field studies (geophysics, ground temperature measurements, geomorphological mapping). A preliminary permafrost d…

The organizers of the Third European Conference on Permafrost are proud to announce the release of the first circular for the conference The circular is available here: http://www.eucop2010.no/circular/FirstCircular.pdfThe conference will focus on both arctic and alpine permafrost research, and recent achievements like the permafrost related IPY campaigns. Issues related to CO2-storage in permafrost areas will also be covered. A preliminary list of the planned topics can be seen here. The conference wi…

A symposium that celebrated Professor Charles Harris’ contributions to permafrost and periglacial research was held on 25th September 2009 at UMR Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) 6143 "M2C" / University of Caen, France. The outputs of the symposium as well as photo and video material from Charles Harris' research are now available at: http://ipa.arcticportal.org/files/charles_harris/index.htmlCharles retired in August 2008, after a long and distinguished career of periglacial and p…

The Economist published a story on permafrost in its early August issue, focusing on a large project taking place in Alaska. You can read more about it at the following address: http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14119825

The International Permafrost Association Task Force on Remote Sensing of Permafrost has published its first newsletter that you can now read here: http://ipa.arcticportal.org/images/documents/1st newsletter 2009-07-20.pdf Content: European Space Agency Permafrost Project funded ASTER Global DEM released Open Access remote sensing journal launched Remote sensing activities in the Arctic Circumpolar Coastal Observatory Network AGU Fall Meeting sessions on remote sensing of the cryosphere Remote Sensing o…