Mountain Research Initiative, University of Bern, Switzerland
GEO Mountains seeks a temporary Technical Assistant (40-50% FTE) to help us develop our inventories of in situ observational infrastructure and other datasets, tools, and resources related to various disciplines and mountainous regions globally.
Application deadline 1 September 2021.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Future Earth have partnered to facilitate the development and uptake of Earth observation data by Future Earth’s research networks.
There is seed funding to support research activities on the use of satellite data to provide empirical evidence of environmental and ecosystem change, and the risk these pose to society. Proposals are particularly welcomed on the themes of biodiversity, climate impacts on human health, or climate tipping elements, to better understand feedbacks, interactions and instabilities, but note that the call is not exclusive to these themes. This is an open call to the Global Research Networks (GRPs and KANs) of the Future Earth community. The activities should address pressing research questions that are a priority for the networks.
Submission deadline 30 September 2021.
The Adaptation at Altitude Solutions Portal allows users to access and explore comprehensive knowledge on tried and tested climate change adaptation solutions for mountain regions, see where they have been implemented, and by who.
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
The University of Lausanne Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM), the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) and the Institute of Geography and Sustainability (IGD) are inviting applications for a PhD in public administration. CIRM also seeks to fill a position of First Assistant (Post-doc) on Monitoring of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems.
Application deadline 23 August 2021.
The Forum Carpaticum 2021 Virtual Symposium took place online from 21-25 June. During the Symposium, GEO Mountains hosted a workshop on Inter- and Transdisciplinary Mountain Data in the Carpathians: Identifying User Requirements and Access Preferences.
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) 2021 Virtual Symposium took place virtually from 21-24 June. GEO Mountains organised a session focused on the symposium theme Strengthening inclusive partnerships across the GEO Work Programme.
The newly formed Global Network for Geoscience and Society (GNGS) seeks the mountain research community's input.
The GNGS will address aspects of science-policy while also highlighting non-policy-related opportunities for civic-minded geoscientists to address societal challenges related to natural resource exploitation, environmental contamination, natural hazards, and climate change.
The European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2021 took place virtually from 19-30 April, 2021. GEO Mountains Scientific Project Officer James Thornton hosted a splinter meeting focused on mountain observations and presented recent progress toward defining Essential Mountain Climate Variables (EMCVs).
The GEO-Microsoft Planetary Computer Programme invites the GEO community to be among the early adopters of Microsoft's Planetary Computer. This is a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Recipients will be able to take advantage of open data and analytical tools, and help shape the development of the platform in its early stages.
The deadline to submit initial proposals is 15 June 2021, and the deadline to submit final proposals is 25 June 2021.
