International Association for Urban Climate

Tenure track job: “Urban carbon dynamics” at American University (Washington, DC)

July 12, 2018 in Newsletter

The Department of Environmental Science in the College of Arts and Science at American University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 1, 2019. Applicants should have a PhD or an anticipated PhD completion by August 2018 in geology, environmental science, earth science or related field.

Candidates must be strongly committed to excellence in scholarly research and should be effective teachers. We welcome applications from candidates engaged in high-quality scholarship in areas including quantitative ecosystem analysis with possible emphases on terrestrial and/or urban carbon dynamics. In addition to scholarship and teaching, responsibilities will include participation in department, school and university activities.

Salary and benefits are competitive. Review of applications will begin September 26, 2018, subject to on-going budgetary approval. Please submit applications via: http://apply.interfolio.com/51079. Include a letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of recommendation, recent teaching evaluations (when possible), and copies of recent published papers or working papers. Please contact Stephen MacAvoy, Department Chair, 202-885-3003 or macavoy@american.edu if you have any questions.

American University is a private institution within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts located within the nation’s capital. For more information about American University, visit www.american.edu.

Established in 2008, the Department of Environmental Science offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Learn more about our program at www.american.edu/cas/environmental.

American University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution that operates in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Women and underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply. The university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, personal appearance, gender identity and expression, family responsibilities, political affiliation, source of income, veteran status, an individual’s genetic information or any other bases under federal or local laws (collectively “Protected Bases”) in its programs and activities. American University is a tobacco and smoke free campus.

For further information, please contact:

Mike Alonzo
Asst Professor | Dept of Environmental Science
American University | 202-885-1770

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by James Voogt

Urban Areas and Global Change Session at AGU Fall Meeting 2018

June 25, 2018 in Meetings

We invite you to join the “Urban Areas and Global Change” session at the AGU Fall Meeting 2018 in Washington, D.C. There is usually a strong representation from the urban climate community in this session, and we welcome abstracts broadly on urban climate measurements and modeling, fluxes, remote sensing, and related urbanization policy fields.

FINAL DEADLINE: 1 August 2018 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT.

Submit an abstract at the following link: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/

AGU Fall Meeting Washington, D.C., 10-14 December 2018

Session GC095: Urban Areas and Global Change

Urban areas have important feedbacks to Earth system processes from local to global scales. Understanding these feedbacks requires a combination of expertise from different scientific fields. This session invites submissions of new results based on observational, modeling, or data-driven studies of biogeochemical, biophysical, or ecological interactions of human-land-atmosphere systems in urban areas; and of socio-institutional and technological components affecting the spatial and temporal patterns of carbon emissions. We encourage submissions from researchers, who develop and deploy new measurement techniques and scaling methods in complex urban environments and from social scientists, engineers and modeling groups that incorporate urban processes in models. Potential topics of this session include, but are not limited to: energy budgets and greenhouse gases in urban areas; effects of urbanization on regional climate, air quality, and biogeochemical cycles; influence of demographic dynamics, affluence, and socio-political conditions; and implications of these interactions for public policy and urban planning.

Sponsored by Global Environmental Change section

Organizers: Galina Churkina, Yale University, Joe McFadden, University of California, Santa Barbara Erin Wetherley, University of California, Santa Barbara Lei Zhao, Princeton University

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by James Voogt

Call for papers: Special Issue “Remote Sensing of Urban Energy and CO2 Fluxes”

June 6, 2018 in Journal Special Issue

Dear Colleagues,

Prof. Eberhard Parlow and I are serving as Guest Editors for a Special Issue entitled “Remote Sensing of Urban Energy and CO2 Fluxes” for the Remote Sensing journal. We would like to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue.

For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/urban_energy

The submission deadline is 30 June 2019. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.

Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (remotesensing@mdpi.com), if possible.

Remote Sensing is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. The Article Processing Charges (APC) for accepted papers are CHF 1800. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap.

For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/instructions).

Best regards,

Dr. Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Director of Research at FORTH / IACM

100 N. Plastira Str., Vassilika Vouton, GR 70013

Heraklion, Greece

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by James Voogt

PhD opportunity: “Latent heat balance dynamics and heatwaves in cities” UNSW

June 6, 2018 in Student_Positions

Climate change strongly impacts the climate of cities, especially during heatwaves where there are synergies between synoptic conditions and local climate. Lack of understanding of the dynamics of evapotranspiration by vegetation and turbulent latent heat balance before heatwaves often leads to under-prediction of such events. This project will connect plant water use and stomatal conductance models differentiated by vegetation-soil systems with land surface models to provide new insight into the impacts of the built environment on moisture fluxes that influence heatwave intensity. Then it will investigate the climate impacts of the dynamic response of greenery in extreme heat conditions.

The ideal candidate has a strong cross-disciplinary scientific background, with solid bases in physics, maths, and especially in heat transfer and climate science. She/he has confidence in numerical simulation and data analysis. Programming skills and knowledge of fundamentals of statistics and probabilistic and possibilistic methods are an asset.

The successful candidate will work with both the Faculty of Built Environment and the Climate Change Research Centre in the Faculty of Science. The student will be supervised by Dr Riccardo Paolini (Built Environment), Dr Melissa Hart (Climate Change Research Centre) and Professor Mattheos Santamouris (Built Environment).

UNSW Scientia PhD scholars are awarded a prestigious scholarship package of $50,000 per annum, comprising a tax-free living allowance of $40,000 per annum for 4 years, and a support package of up to $10,000 per annum to provide financial support for career development activities.

The candidate will also become part of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, an international research consortium of five Australian universities (The University of New South Wales, Monash University, The University of Melbourne, The University of Tasmania and The Australian National University) and a suite of outstanding national and international Partner Organizations. The Centre provides excellent opportunities for travel and graduate student development.

Further details about the Scientia PhD scholarships can be found at https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply and summarised in the FAQ (https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/unsw-scientia-phd-scholarships-faqs).

Interested students should in the first instance send a CV, statement of research interests, and copies of academic transcripts to r.paolini@unsw.edu.au and melissa.hart@unsw.edu.au

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by James Voogt

Bucharest Urban Climate Summer School

May 30, 2018 in Meetings, Student_Positions

The Bucharest Urban Climate Summer School (BUCSS) 2018 aims to provide structured information and skill-building capabilities related to urban climate monitoring, modelling and bio-meteorology, and it is tailored towards hands-on experiences on:
(1) Modelling tools used in urban meteorology and climatology
(2) Exploring critical linkages among environmental factors and emerging and chronic health threats and health disparities

The summer school is primarily intended for doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers who already have basic knowledge and interest for urban climate issues. Basic skills in climate studies, climate modelling, programming and statistics is required.

You may apply to attend BUCSS 2018 by e-mailing to the address svmp@icub.unibuc.ro the following: a) 2-page CV; b) 1-page letter of motivation; c) names, affiliation, e-mails and phone numbers of two professors or senior researchers who could provide references.

The summer school takes place from 27 to 31 August 2018, in Bucharest (Romania) and it is jointly organised by Research Institute of University of Bucharest (ICUB), Urban Climate Research Center at Arizona State University (ASU), Ghent University (Belgium), National Meteorological Administration (Meteo Romania), and Interdisciplinary Center of Advanced Research on Territorial Dynamics, University of Bucharest (CICADIT).

The deadline for submitting your application is 31 May 2018, yet may be extended until all places are filled. More information and details can be found at http://conferences.unibuc.ro/bucss2018.
In case of questions, do not hesitate to contact us (email on website).

Best regards,

Matthias Demuzere, on behalf of the Organizing Team

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by James Voogt

Special Issue on “Remote Sensing of Urban Energy and CO2 Fluxes”

May 30, 2018 in Journal Special Issue

Prof. Eberhard Parlow and Dr Nektarios Chrysoulakis are serving as Guest Editors for a Special Issue entitled “Remote Sensing of Urban Energy and CO2 Fluxes” for the Remote Sensing journal. They invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue.

For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at:

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/urban_energy

The submission deadline is 30 June 2019. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.

For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website

(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/instructions).

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by David Sailor

Call for nominations: Luke Howard Award

April 13, 2018 in Awards

Luke Howard Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Urban Climatology

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations to the ‘Luke Howard Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Urban Climatology.’ The Luke Howard Award may be given annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of urban climatology in a combination of research, teaching, and/or service to the international community of urban climatologists.

IAUC members are requested to nominate suitable candidates for the Luke Howard Award. The person making the nomination will act as the coordinator to put together a nomination package (including a CV of the nominee and three letters of recommendation). Self-nominations are not permitted and current Awards Committee members cannot be evaluated. Submit complete nomination packets (single electronic submission) to the Awards Committee Chair, Dr. Nigel Tapper: nigel.tapper@monash.edu

Luke Howard Award Nomination Process

Inform the Chair of the IAUC Awards Committee of the intent to nominate an individual. The intent to nominate should be communicated via email to the Awards Committee Chair by 30 April, 2018.
Nomination materials should be collected by a nomination coordinator (i.e. the person notifying the Chair of the IAUC Awards Committee that a particular person will be nominated);
The coordinator should collect the following documentation:
a) a five page candidate CV
b) three letters of recommendation from IAUC members from at least two different countries which are two pages in length.
Complete packages should reach the Chair by 30 May, 2018.

Nominations will be active for three years, and updated information may be submitted for consideration in the second and third years.

The IAUC Awards committee will recommend the name of a recipient for consideration and approval by the IAUC Board.

Previous winners include:

2016 Dr. Walter Dabberdt, Vaisala Group, USA
2015 Prof. Emeritus Anthony Brazel, Arizona State University, USA
2014 Prof. Manabu Kanda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
2013 Professor Emeritus Yair Goldreich, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
2010 Professor John Arnfield, The Ohio State University, USA
2009 Professor Sue Grimmond, King’s College, UK
2008 Professor Bob Bornstein, San José State University, USA
2007 Professor (Emeritus) Masatoshi Yoshino, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2006 Professor Arieh Bitan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2005 Professor Ernesto Jauregui, UNAM, Mexico
2004 Professor Tim Oke, UBC, Canada

Nominations should reach the Awards Committee Chair (Dr. Nigel Tapper, email above) by 30 May, 2018.

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