Climate Informatics 2013 - First Call for poster abstracts

[Imme Ebert-Uphoff]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

FIRST CALL FOR POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE INFORMATICS

September 26 - 27, 2013
Hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Website: https://www2.image.ucar.edu/event/ci2013

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
The amount of observational and model-simulated data within the climate
sciences has grown at an accelerating rate since the early 1980s. The
increasing amount of available data creates many opportunities for
researchers in machine learning and statistics to partner with climate
scientists in the development of new methods for interdisciplinary
knowledge discovery.

Climate informatics broadly refers to any research combining climate
science with approaches from statistics, machine learning and data
mining. The Climate Informatics workshop series, now in its third year,
seeks to bring together researchers from all of these areas. We aim to
stimulate the discussion of new ideas, foster new collaborations, grow
the climate informatics community, and thus accelerate discovery across
disciplinary boundaries.

The format of the workshop seeks to overcome cross-disciplinary language
barriers and to emphasize communication between participants by
featuring tutorials, invited talks, panel discussions, posters and
break-out sessions. The programs of previous workshops can be found here
(CI 2012, CI 2011). We invite all researchers interested in learning
about critical issues and opportunities in the field of climate
informatics to join us, whether established in the field or just
starting out.

TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS
This year we are very pleased to again be offering travel fellowships .
Anyone who submits a poster abstract is eligible; fellowships will be
awarded competitively upon review of the submitted abstracts. Preference
will be given to students. Please indicate with your submission whether
you wish to be considered for a travel fellowship.

POSTER ABSTRACTS
We encourage submissions on topics anywhere at the interface of climate
science and machine learning, statistics, data mining, or related
fields. Reviews, 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, statistics, or data mining, 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:
Monday, July 8, 2013 ______________________ Poster abstracts due
Friday, August 2, 2013 _____________________ Author notification
Friday, August 2, 2013 _____________________ Travel fellowship notification
Friday, August 30, 2013_____________________ Revised abstracts due
Thursday-Friday, September 26-27, 2013 ______ Workshop takes place at
NCAR, in Boulder, CO


Please submit a short (1-2 page) abstract, using the template and
guidelines provided at
https://www2.image.ucar.edu/event/ci2013/submissions


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Chairs
Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Colorado State University
Jason Smerdon, Columbia University

Steering Committee
Claire Monteleoni, George Washington University
Gavin Schmidt, NASA and Columbia University
Karsten Steinhaeuser, University of Minnesota

Local Chair
Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Publicity Chairs
Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma
Bo Li, Purdue University

Communications Chair
Emilie Dassie, Columbia University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Chairs
Yan Liu, University of Southern California
Seth McGinnis, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Committee Members
Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota
Shyam Boriah, University of Minnesota
Barbara Brown, NCAR
Auroop Ganguly, Northeastern University
Sara Graves, University of Alabama at Huntsville
Hongfei Li, IBM Research
Femi Omitaomu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rachel McCrary, NCAR
Tao Shi, Ohio State University
Susan Tolwinski-Ward, NCAR
John Williams, NCAR
May Yuan, University of Oklahoma

Administrative Support
Silvia Gentile, NCAR
Carolyn Mueller, NCAR

SPONSORS:
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
CRAY, Inc. (The Supercomputer Company)

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