please forward: Second call for participation - Climate Informatics 2012: The Second International Workshop on Climate Informatics

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Second call for participation and poster abstract submission:

Climate Informatics 2012: The Second International Workshop on Climate Informatics

September 20-21, 2012, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado

Official website has been launched: http://www2.image.ucar.edu/event/ci2012

Climate Informatics wiki: http://sites.google.com/site/1stclimateinformatics/climate-informatics-2012

We invite contributed posters on topics related to Climate Informatics for presentation at the workshop. Abstracts are due July 13th, 2012. This year we are very pleased to be offering TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS. Anyone who submits a poster abstract is eligible; fellowships will be awarded competitively upon review of the submitted abstracts. Please indicate with your submission whether you wish to be considered for a travel fellowship.

Overview: 

The threat of climate change is one of the greatest challenges currently facing society. Given the profound impact machine learning has made on the natural sciences to which it has been applied, such as the field of bioinformatics, we are forging and encouraging collaborations between machine learning (as well as data mining and statistics) and climate science, in order to accelerate progress in answering pressing questions in climate science. The goal of this workshop is to incubate this new field, Climate Informatics. Recent progress on Climate Informatics reveals that collaborations with climate scientists also open interesting new problems for machine learning. There are a myriad of collaborations possible at the intersection of these two fields. We hope that every workshop attendee leaves with a new collaboration in Climate Informatics. The format of the workshop will emphasize communication among the various fields, with a strong emphasis on brainstorming and break-out sessions, and panel discussions Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Kim Cobb, Georgia Tech

Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto

Jim Hurrell, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota

Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma

Call for Poster Abstracts:

We encourage submissions on topics anywhere at the interface of climate science and machine learning, data mining, statistics, or related fields.  Position papers, and works in progress, are also encouraged. The workshop does not have archival proceedings, therefore previously published work, or work in parallel submission, is also allowed.  Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Machine learning, data mining, or statistics applied to climate science

• Management and processing of large climate datasets

• Long and short-term climate prediction

• Ensemble characterization of climate model projections

• Past (paleo) climate reconstruction

• Uncertainty quantification

• Spatio-temporal methods applied to climate data

• Time series methods applied to climate data

• Methods for modeling, detecting and predicting climate extremes

• Climate change attribution

• Dependence and causality among climate variables

• Detection and characterization of climate teleconnections

• Data assimilation

• Climate model parameterizations

• Hybrid methods

Important dates:

Friday, July 13, 2012 ______________________  Poster abstracts due

Friday, August 3, 2012 _____________________ Author notification

Friday, August 3, 2012 _____________________ Travel fellowship notification

Friday, August 31, 2012_____________________ Revised abstracts due

Thursday-Friday, September 20-21, 2012 ______ Workshop takes place at NCAR, in Boulder, CO

Submission instructions:

Please submit a short (1-2 page) abstract, using the template and guidelines provided at: http://sites.google.com/site/1stclimateinformatics/call-for-abstracts

Tables and color figures are welcome but must satisfy margin and length requirements.  Submissions should be made in pdf format to the following email address, listing "submission 2012" in the subject line: climate.inform...@gmail.com. Please include author names and affiliations as indicated in the provided template. Please indicate with your submission whether you wish to be considered for a travel fellowship. The deadline for submission is July 13, 2012.  Authors will receive feedback on their abstract submissions by August 3rd, after which time revised abstracts may be submitted with a final deadline of August 31, 2012

Organizers:

Co-Chairs:

Claire Monteleoni, George Washington University

Karsten Steinhaeuser, University of Minnesota

Advisor:

Gavin Schmidt, NASA and Columbia University

Local Chairs:

Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Steve Sain, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Program Chairs:

Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota

Jason Smerdon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Breakouts Chair:

Jim Gattiker, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Communications Chair:

Evan Kodra, Northeastern University

Sponsors:

• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• Information Science and Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Cray Inc.

Contact: For more information, to get involved, or to sign up to receive announcements, please contact us here: climate.inform...@gmail.com.

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