Jobs
CU Boulder Assistant Professor of Coupled Human-Natural Systems Modeling and Analysis
Learn more about the position here: https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=177092166&utm_source=09_15_19&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JobAgentEmail
CU Boulder Assistant Professor of GIS
Focus on social/environmental spatial data https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=20553
CU Denver Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Interactions
Read about the position here: https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl
Assistant Professor in Hydrology & Water Sustainability
The Department of Geology and Environmental Science at the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) seeks to expand its expertise related to hydrology and water sustainability and invites applications for a [...]
Funding
SESYNC 2020 RFP call for our Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
SESYNC is excited to announce the 2020 RFP call for our Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Summary: The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), located in Annapolis, Maryland, invites applications from early-career scholars (б≤ [...]
National Geographic Society Grants For Extreme Environments-Himalayan Climate Change
'The initial target of this RFP is on the greater Himalayan mountain system, where miles-high peaks are home to an extraordinary range of biological and cultural diversity; where snowpack and [...]
AAC Research Grants
AAC Research Grants support scientific endeavors in mountains and crags around the world. We fund projects that contribute vital knowledge of our climbing environment, enrich our understanding of global climber impacts [...]
The M. Estellie Smith Memorial Fund Award
The M. Estellie Smith Memorial Fund provides graduate student awardees small grants specifically to supplement dissertation fieldwork expenses (typically, $2000) and subsequent travel money to present their findings at the [...]
Research
Abstracts Accepted for the World Biodiversity Forum
Submit Abstract to the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos Switzerland, Feb 22-28, 2020. Abstracts are due November 10, 2019. Session 101S “Understanding cultural, ecosystem and environmental diversity across the world's [...]
Dieback on Drought-prone Forest Ecosystems
The open access journal Forests(SCI IF 2.116,17/67 in ‘Forestry’, Scorpus 20/139 in 'Forestry') (ISSN 1999-4907) is currently running a special issue entitled "Dieback on Drought-prone Forest Ecosystems". As we are acting as guest [...]
MRI Mountain Governance Survey
We would like to invite you to participate in a short online survey on governance in mountain environments. We are interested in gaining understanding of the major challenges for governance, and what is [...]
Call for Papers of Special Issue on “Mountain landscapes: protected areas, ecosystem services and future challenges”
Background A significant proportion of the global population depends on crucial goods and services provided by mountain and boreal regions, including fresh water (for domestic use, irrigation and hydropower), raw [...]
Conferences
High Mountain Summit
21-31 October 2019. Geneva, Switzerland. WMO. https://highmountainsummit.wmo.int/en Mountain regions cover about a quarter of the Earth’s land surface and are home to a quarter of the world’s population. They are [...]
International Conference On Regional Climate – CORDEX 2019
14-18 October, Beijing, China The abstract submission, financial support applications and registration is now open For more info on abstract submission click here For more info on registration click here For more [...]
Students in Polar and Alpine research conference 2019
4-6 April 2019 Brno, Czech Republic The fifth Students in Polar and Alpine Research Conference (SPARC) will be held at the Department of Geography, Masaryk University in Brno 4-6 April 2019. [...]
Snow 2019 – Iceland
An International Symposium on Mitigation Measures against Snow Avalanches and Other Rapid Gravity Mass Flows will be held in Siglufjörður, north Iceland, from April 3rd to April 5th, 2019, by [...]
Other
Introduction to Social and Ecological Network Analysis Course
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) will host this new course co-taught by myself (Lorien Jasny) and Phillip Staniczenko (http://staniczenkoresearch.net/). The application due to April 2nd. Course Summary: This 5-day short [...]
IPROMO 2019 Summer School: Landscape approach for enhancing mountain resilience
Call for applications for the twelfth IPROMO Course - the training programme on sustainable mountain development - jointly organized by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at FAO, the University of Turin, Italy, and [...]