June 28-July 7, 2011
Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
Melbourne, Australia
Cost and Registration: $1,110 before June 24, open until filled
This workshop covers a wide variety of geodesy and geophysics themes with a focus on recent Pacific Rim disasters and climate change. Topics include sea level rise, earthquake prediction, solar influence on climate change, and volcanism and global sustainability.
June 27-28, 2011
National EMS Culture of Safety Conference
American College of Emergency Physicians
Washington, D.C.
Cost and Registration: Free, open until filled
This conference will provide participants with an opportunity to share their concerns about Emergency Medical Services safety, including threats from combative patients and bystanders, transportation issues, and threats to patients posed by EMS decisions. As part of an initiative to create a culture of EMS safety, conference proceedings will be used to formulate a national EMS safety strategy by June 2012.
July 5-8, 2011
Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg
Centre for Geoinformatics and the Institute for GIScience
Salzburg, Austria
Cost and Registration: $446, closes June 25
This forum will provide an opportunity for the international GIS community to exchange knowledge across various applications, disciplines, and international boundaries. Topics include impediments to using GIS in schools, the impacts of refugee camps on the environment, Web mapping architecture, and using GIS images for societal good. A workshop on the spatial assessment and analysis of vulnerability to hazards and climate change will be held before the forum.
July 17-21, 2011
Coastal Zone 2011
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and others
Chicago, Illinois
Cost and Registration: $595 before July 11, open until filled
This conference will examine the challenges of managing coastlines in the face of climate change, invasive species, coastal development, and manmade hazards. Topics include restoring the Great Lakes, green infrastructure for coastal resilience, coastal inundation mapping, social science and marine protected areas, and offshore wind farms.
July 19-21, 2011
Indigenous People, Marginalized Populations, and Climate Change
United Nations University, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations Development Programme, and others
Mexico City, Mexico
Cost and Registration: Not listed
This workshop is the first of a two-part series of events that will identify and integrate indigenous knowledge on climate change into our current understanding of climate impacts, adaptation, and mitigation. With a focus on vulnerability, adaptation, and traditional knowledge, the first workshop will create an international network of indigenous people, climate scientists, and policy makers and compile data and literature on the topic into a global database.
July 21-22, 2011
Third International Conference on Climate Change
Common Ground Publishing and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Cost and Registration: $550, open until filled
The conference examines natural and human causes of climate change, as well as technological, social, and political responses to it. Session topics include risk assessment and urban development, drought and climate change, building climate change resilience, climate change communication, migration in response to climate change, and carbon trading facts and fallacies.