Climate Informatics 2012 - The Second International Workshop on Climate Informatics

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...
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...
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.informatics.workshop-AT-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.informatics.workshop-AT-gmail.com.