Jobs
Lecturer in Environmental Conservation & Sustainability
The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire invites applications for a full-time (0.88 FTE, academic year – nine month) teaching position. The position [...]
Assistant Professors in Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment
The Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ( www.landfood.ubc.ca ) is seeking outstanding candidates for three full-time, tenure-track positions in Plant or [...]
Assistant Research Scientist – Data Science
Assistant Research Scientist - Data Science - National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center Deadline: Jan 14, 2019 The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) seeks applications for an Assistant Research Scientist to lead [...]
PhD graduate students – Energy, Environment and Society
PhD graduate students – Energy, Environment and Society | Boise State University The Human-Environment Systems research group at Boise State University will be accepting a cohort of four PhD students for a [...]
Funding
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 [...]
Alpine Convention Young Academics Award 2018
This edition of the Alpine Convention Young Academics Award focuses on the issue of "Sustainable water management in the Alps" Students are welcome to submit their Master's theses on the [...]
Research
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 [...]
Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate – Registration
Register by Jan 4 to submit comments on the IPCC Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere: https://www.ipcc.ch/apps/comments/srocc/sod/register.php Relevant chapters for mountain cryosphere in a changing climate (glaciers, permafrost, snow) include [...]
American Geophysical Union Fall 2018 Conference Session GC083: Sustainability Science and Globalized Human-Environment Systems
Abstracts due August 1. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/46017
Conferences
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 [...]
Past plant diversity, climate change and mountain conservation
March 11-15, 2019 - University of Cuenca, ECUADOR This international conference aims to evaluate the impact of climate change on mountain species including analyses of montane systems globally and at [...]
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 [...]