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Climate and Ocean -
Variability, Predictability, and Change

The Website for the Climate Symposium 2014 has gone live. This is an important milestone as it opens the registration and the call for papers.

Meeting dates: 13 - 17th October 2014
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15th April 2014
Website: www.theclimatesymposium2014.com

Satellite observations are a key element in an integrated and sustained climate observing system and have been critically important for monitoring and understanding the Earth’s climate system during the past several decades.

CLIVAR has published a brochure providing an overview of the new CLIVAR organisation, including the Research Foci and the new structure that will be adopted as CLIVAR moves into its new phase of operation. To access the brochure click here.

Alternatively pick up a copy at Fall AGU, San Francisco 2013, or Ocean Sciences, Hawaii 2014.

Do you use Earth Observation data for teaching?  Or do you use EO data as part of your work and have an idea for a training package?

The European Space Agency is funding a competition with prizes of €5000, €3000 and €2000 as part of the LearnEO! Project.

The closing date for registration is  5 January 2014 and for competition entries is 31 January 2014.

€5,000 first prize for writing a remote sensing lesson.

46th International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics

5 -9 May 2014

Low oxygen environments in marine, estuarine and fresh waters

Web site:http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/colloquium/ "> http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/colloquium/

Deadline for abstract submissions: 14th January

In order to contribute to the new CLIVAR research foci on Consistency between Planetary Heat Balance and Ocean Heat Storage, investigating the role of the ocean in energy uptake related to climate change, the European Space Agency (ESA) is planning an Ocean Heat Flux activity within the framework of the Support To Science Element (STSE).

The International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) co-chairs have been working in conjunction with a graphics design team over the last few months to redesign the CLIVAR logo. The new CLIVAR logo has now been designed and approved, and will be first utilised in a new CLIVAR brochure. The brochure will be circulated online and at Fall AGU, at the US-CLIVAR townhall meeting in December. The new logo will be officially rolled out online, when the new website goes live in January.

US CLIVAR is hosting a town hall meeting at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco (9-13Dec 2013). The session will be held on Monday 9th December at 12.30-13.30.

The townhall meeting will provide the opportunity for U.S. CLIVAR's (Climate Variability and Predictability) SSC to present an overview of the program's new 15-yr Science Plan with an outline of the Plan's Fundamental Science Questions, Goals and Research Challenges: Decadal Variability and Predictability, Climate Extremes, Polar Climate Changes, and Climate and Marine Carbon/Biogeochemistry.

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is organizing, in collaboration with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), a Summer School on the Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events
Dates: 21 July - 1 August 2014
Location: ICTP, Triete, Italy
Deadline for applications: 31st January 2014

The UK's Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery was officially named at the beginning of October, by HRH The Princess Royal. The naming ceremony took place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and was attended by around 200 guests.