ESM Events 2014 05 October 2014 - 11 October 2014 IUFRO World Congress: Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research The 2014 International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress will highlight how forest science is helping address significant environmental, social, and economic challenges facing our world. More 03 October 2014 Workshop on Advances in Forest Management and Forest Protection IIASA's ESM program in collaboration with the Russian Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry will organize the second workshop on Advances in Forest management and Forest Protection. More 23 September 2014 Role of Volunteered Geographic Information in Advancing Science: Effective Utilization The VGI workshop, in which Steffen Fritz is one of the organizers of, is in conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science hosted by Vienna University of Technology, Austria. More 16 September 2014 - 19 September 2014 International Conference on "Forest Biogeocenoses of the Boreal Zone: Geography, Structure, Functions and Dynamics". All-Russian scientific conference with international participation dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS). More 23 August 2014 - 28 August 2014 South-South Community based MRV training workshop The training workshop is being organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in collaboration with the SilvaCarbon Program More 14 July 2014 - 17 July 2014 Creating a Geospatial Knowledge World The Centre for GeoInformatics at University of St Andrews is running a GEOCROWD supported “Creating a Geospatial Knowledge World” summer school in July 2014. This summer school is concerned with any aspect of geospatial information science and is focused on any aspect of user-contributed geospatial data. More 07 July 2014 - 09 July 2014 Workshop to Develop a Global Database of Urban Form and Function IIASA is co-organizing a workshop to initiate the development of a World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT). This detailed characterization of cities around the world will allow researchers to compare cities globally but also improve the way that urban areas are represented in many different models and applications from a local to a global scale. More 12 June 2014 - 13 June 2014 GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-8) The 8th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-8) is hosted by the Greek GEO Office - National Observatory of Athens and co-organized by the Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences. More 06 June 2014 Mapping and the Citizen Sensor Management Committee Meeting This meeting, coordinated by the COST affiliated member Marco Painho, is scheduled in parallel to the AGILE 2014 conference. More 03 June 2014 - 06 June 2014 Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place The 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science focus is on the role of Geographic Information Science and Technology and how it can connect European universities, research centres, industry, government and citizen in the digital information age. More 03 June 2014 Digital Earth: What the hack? An AGILE workshop on advancing co-creation in smart cities. For more than five years, hackathons, hack days, hackfests and the like revolutionise software development all across our planet. More 19 March 2014 - 21 March 2014 Global Land Project meeting Seven researchers from the Ecosystem Services and Management program (ESM) will present their work at the second Global Land Project (GLP) Open Science Meeting in Berlin More 20 February 2014 - 22 February 2014 Geo-Wiki at the Citizen Cyberscience Summit The 3rd Citizen CyberScience Summit will bring together researchers working on citizen science for 3 days of talks, sharing of experiences, creating new projects through the Hack Day and ThinkCamp, and showcasing examples to the general public. More 17 February 2014 - 18 February 2014 IIASA’s Tropical Futures Initiative - Kick-off Meeting in Indonesia The first meeting of IIASA’s Tropical Futures Initiative brings together project partners and high-level stakeholders to launch IIASA’s new major project on forests and sustainable land use in the tropics. More 13 January 2014 - 15 January 2014 Future Forests II Workshop This was the first FF2 meeting where IIASA is participating as official partner, and provided a series of presentations on how we will participate in the project with the ESM Modeling Cluster. Florian Kraxner introduced the group to the SSP framework and chaired a workshop on scenario development on the topics: Climate, Industry, Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services. More 03 December 2013 - 05 December 2013 The 3rd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food & Nutrition Security & Climate Change The 3rd Global Conference in South Africa will provide the platform for global leaders; practitioners; scientists; farmers; organized agriculture; civil society; the private sector; and NGOs to discuss and share experiences on successes, and to deliberate the challenges and threats to food and nutrition security under the impact of climate change. More 16 November 2013 - 17 November 2013 Global Landscapes Forum IIASA researchers from the Ecosystems Services and Management Program will participate in the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), where they will host a session on REDD-PAC and tropical research. More 12 November 2013 - 13 November 2013 International conference on balancing renewable energy and nature in the Alps IIASA researchers will participate in an international conference on balancing renewable energy and nature in the Alps. The conference is part of the recharge.green project, in which IIASA is one partner. More 05 November 2013 - 07 November 2013 SE Asian Socio-economic Scenarios for Climate Change & Food Security Workshop The meeting in Halong is the first of two workshops and will provide an innovative platform for policy makers, researchers and practitioners to develop possible scenarios on the linkages between food security and climate change not only for the country of Vietnam but also for the South-East Asian region, including Cambodia and Laos. More 24 October 2013 - 25 October 2013 EnerGEO Final Conference The EnerGEO Final conference will present the latest results of the joint research over the last 4 years in the field of renewable energies, a topic that will gain more and more importance in the near future. More 07 October 2013 - 10 October 2013 The 16th International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) Conference Anatoly Shvidenko (IBFRA Vice President) and Florian Kraxner (Deputy ESM Leader) are both presenting at IBFRA 2013 and both sit on the steering committee of the conference. More 16 September 2013 - 18 September 2013 GHG Europe - Open Science Conference: Greenhouse Gas Management in European Land Use Systems Almost the entire European land cover is used to produce crops and wood. In view of the changing climate it is especially important to know how much of the greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere or fixed in biomass and soil by forest, farming, and meat production. These would be either sources or sinks of greenhouse gases. More 10 September 2013 - 11 September 2013 EU Climate Policy Roadshow (Clima East): Azerbaijan National Workshop The overall objective of Clima East is to support the ENP East countries (i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) and the Russian Federation so that they are better equipped for greenhouse-gas emission reductions and better prepared to deal with climate change impacts. More 24 August 2013 The 2nd Workshop on Bioenergy, CCS and BECCS Following up on the success of the First Workshop in 21-23 September 2012, this workshop aims to identify and discuss the efforts from academic research to implementation, in promoting bioenergy, CCS and BECCS in Indonesia’s context. More 22 August 2013 Tropical Futures Initiative Preparation Meeting Project partners and potential supporters for the new IIASA Tropical Futures Initiative meet this week to discuss the new IIASA initiative. More 29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013 Global and Regional Advances in Studying the Water-Food Nexus IIASA is hosting a workshop to discuss global and regional advances in studying the water-food nexus, with a special focus on an ongoing China-IIASA project “Grey Water Footprint and Water Scarcity Assessment”. More 13 June 2013 - 14 June 2013 Bio-energy and CCS (BECCS): Options for Brazil The world needs ever increasing energy supplies for sustainable economic growth and development. But energy resources are under pressure and CO2 emissions from today’s energy use already threaten our climate. More 10 June 2013 - 12 June 2013 REDD-PAC (REDD+ Policy Assessment Center): project meeting in Cambridge, UK Researchers from IIASA’s ESM program are attending a REDD-PAC project meeting gathering partners from Brazil, the Congo Basin, and the UK on 10-12 June, 2013. More 27 May 2013 - 29 May 2013 Future of Global Forests Workshop The Workshop entitled “Future of Global Forests” is the third meeting of the Global Forest Carbon Working Group which includes well-known scientists from 15 countries. The Workshop aims at: (1) estimation of the current state of the world’s forests and forest management; (2) understanding the effects of main driving forces at a regional scale; and (3) defining a way to make credible projections starting from the recent global forest inventory and other sources. More 15 May 2013 - 17 May 2013 Deforestation trends in the Congo Basin Researchers from IIASA’s ESM program are presenting results of the World Bank study “Deforestation trends in the Congo Basin: Reconciling economic growth and forest protection,” to local policymakers in the Congo Basin region. More 25 March 2013 Consultative Meeting on Post 2015 Development Agenda On 25 March, IIASA, UKP4, INCASA and UNORCID will co host a High-Level Panel academia stakeholders consultative event on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. IIASA Deputy Director Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Ecosystem Services and Management Program Leader Michael Obersteiner, and World Population Program Project Leader Samir KC will all make presentations on identifying and addressing future challenges. More 20 March 2013 Climate Smart Agriculture On March 20, IIASA's Michael Obersteiner will give a keynote presentation at the Climate Smart Agriculture Conference at the University of California, Davis. More 05 December 2012 - 06 December 2012 EP4SM User Requirement Workshop During the User Requirements Workshop system designers will collaborate with key stakeholders from ESA, TU Wien, AWST and IIASA to gather, discuss and prioritize the users' needs and expectations regarding a cloud computing software for the Soil Moisture domain. The workshop will be the main source of information for the Requirements Baseline. More 26 November 2012 - 07 December 2012 IIASA at COP18 IIASA energy and climate experts participated in the annual UNFCC Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar. More 19 November 2012 - 20 November 2012 ENERGEO The progress meeting of the EnerGEO consortium will take place at IIASA November, 19th and 20th. Programs involved are ESM, MAG and ENE. More 05 November 2012 - 09 November 2012 REDD-PAC Training Session: GAMS for GLOBIOM for REDD-PAC ESM is hosting the first session of the REDD-PAC school. It is targeted to the scientists who will participate in the modeling tasks in the REDD-PAC project using IIASA’s GLOBIOM model. More 29 October 2012 - 31 October 2012 REDD-PAC (REDD+ Policy Assessment Center) - 2012 Annual Meeting The 2012 Annual Meeting is the first opportunity for REDD-PAC project partners to meet all together. ESM is hosting the event and will welcome guests from UNEP-WCMC (UK), INPE (Brazil) and COMIFAC (Cameroon). More 04 October 2012 - 05 October 2012 REDD-PAC Workshop in the Congo Basin ESM researchers Michael Obersteiner, Géraldine Bocquého and Aline Mosnier will participate in this REDD-PAC workshop, which is a follow-up on the official kick-off meeting organized in Brazil in May 2012. More 21 September 2012 - 24 September 2012 Bioenergy, CCS and BECCS: Options for Indonesia ESM researchers Michael Obersteiner, Florian Kraxner and Sabine Fuss participated in this high-level workshop, which is a follow-up on an expert’s meeting on BECCS held jointly by the IEA and IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria in November 2011. More 14 September 2012 - 16 September 2012 Data Cleanup of Geo-Wiki Crowd-Sourced Data in Ethiopia: Stopping Land Cropping and Improving Food Security We have collected a plethora of land cover validation points across the globe. In particular in Ethiopia we currently have large disagreements among our validation points and a data cleanup crowd-sourcing exercise would help us tremendously to make a major step forward in being able to understand in which areas land acquisitions might lead to the displacement of the local population. More 12 September 2012 - 14 September 2012 Land Use/Land-Use Change Vision Workshop INVITATION and CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - 2nd Circular More 10 August 2012 - 15 September 2012 Geo-Wiki Competition The latest Geo-Wiki competition ends September 15. Join IIASA researchers online to help classify land cover for climate change, land use, and food security research. More IMPACT2C General Assembly The third meeting of the IMPACT2C consortium will take place at IIASA from November, 12th until November 16th, including a stakeholder consultation on November, 13th. More IMPACT2C More - 2014