The Alfred Wegener Institute has teamed up with UP Transfer GmbH and the University of Potsdam to organize a great conference for you, permafrost researchers. The conference aims at covering all relevant aspects of permafrost research, engineering and outreach on a global and regional level.
The conference website, containing all relevant information, is now online: www.icop2016.org and will be updated on a regular basis.
If you wish to get all conference updates, please subscribe to the newsletter on the website. The newsletter will replace circulars.
Each session will be organized by up to three conveners (i.e. those that submit the session proposal). We encourage a high degree of internationality for the convener boards. At least one convener should be a member of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN).
PYRN conveners are students or young researchers within six years after completion of their doctoral thesis, however, they must not be students or formally under the supervision of the senior conveners of the according session. PYRN will find a suitable candidate, if a session was proposed without involvement of PYRN conveners. The conveners will be responsible for the selection of abstracts and for the organization of oral or poster presentations.
The following themes denote the diversity of research to be presented at the conference, but are by no means restrictive:
1. Lowland permafrost
2. Mountain permafrost
3. Planetary permafrost
4. Subsea permafrost and gas hydrates
5. Periglacial geomorphology
6. Periglacial paleoenvironments
7. Permafrost and climate change
8. Permafrost in the water cycle
9. Ecology, microbiology, biogeochemistry, and gas fluxes
10. Natural hazards: assessment, adaptation, and mitigation
11. Foundation engineering and architecture
12. Infrastructure on permafrost
13. In-situ and remote observation techniques and programs
14. Modeling
15. Socioeconomic and cultural dynamics
16. History of permafrost engineering and research
17. Education and outreach
If key fields are not represented in the submitted list of session proposals, the ICOP Local Organizing Committee (LOC) and the International Scientific Committee (ISC) will suggest special sessions to cover all relevant topics.
Abstracts
The call for abstracts for the accepted sessions will be open until 15 December 2015. After that date, depending on number of abstracts being submitted to each session, the LOC and the ISC may propose session joining or canceling.