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35th International Geographical Congress

August 2430, 2024
Dublin, Ireland

The IGC 2024 will continue the tradition of previous congresses in recognising that our world faces many common natural and societal challenges that can only be dealt with through global action, understanding and sharing. Geography as a discipline, its skills, attributes and the geographic mindset has much to offer other disciplines, policymakers, officials, politicians, and our wider communities. The theme of our congress is ‘Celebrating a World of Difference’ and we are strongly focused through our academic and fieldwork programme on supporting intercultural awareness and understanding; promoting intellectual diversity as a strength; bringing geographic research and thinking beyond the congress walls; and grappling with the complex interconnections between people, place and the natural world. In an increasingly contested, fragmented and troubled world, celebrating difference as a strength and acknowledging our common humanity is essential.

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20th International days on thermal science and energy

October 2931, 2024
Paris, France

The conference International Days on Thermal Science and Energy, formerly better known as Journées internationales de thermique, celebrates 40 years of existence. The 20th Edition, JITH 2024, is now launched.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting

December 913, 2024
Washington D.C., United States

Non-exhaustive list of urban-climate related sessions:

  • GC161 – Urban Areas and Global Change

Both physical and socio-economic dimensions of urbanization play pivotal roles in influencing Earth system processes and human society. Understanding these impacts from local to global scales requires methods and expertise from various scientific fields. This session invites observational and modeling studies of biogeochemical, biophysical, and socio-ecological interactions within human-land-atmosphere systems in and in relation to urban areas. We also welcome studies examining socio-institutional and technological pathways affecting spatiotemporal patterns of urban carbon emissions and energy demand.

Potential topics include:

  • Urban water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles of the past, present, and future.
  • Greenhouse gas emissions and energy demand due to urbanization.
  • Urban impacts on landscapes, climate, and air quality across scales.
  • Influence of socio-economic dynamics and socio-political conditions, and their implications, on policy and urban planning.

Perspectives from various researchers and practitioners, from natural and social scientists to engineers and planners, who develop/deploy new measurement and scaling tools, are encouraged.

Link to session and submission: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/225635

  • GC025 – Advancing Representation of Urban Processes and Dynamics in Models Across Scales

 Cities are important drivers of climate change, hotspots of climate impacts, and fundamental foci of climate solutions. Due to the dearth of urban observations and the importance of understanding future changes, models are critical for simulating urban processes and their complex interactions with background climate across scales. However, urban representations in models are fraught with uncertainties and crude assumptions. This session invites submissions of modeling efforts including new parameterizations, new datasets, model improvements, and evaluation to advance the representation of coupled human-urban-Earth dynamics across scales: i.e., from large-eddy simulators to mesoscale models to Earth system models. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: advancements in representation of urban biophysical, and biogeochemical processes, urban vegetation, building and transportation energy use and emissions, urban morphology and surface heterogeneity, air pollution, dynamic urbanization, infrastructure systems, and socioeconomic processes. We encourage submissions on not only process-based modeling, but also data-driven machine learning models.

Link to session and submission: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/225944

 

ICUC12 – 12th International Conference on Urban Climate

July 711, 2025
World Trade Center, Rotterdam, The NEtherlands

The International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) warmly invites you to the 12th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC12) to be held from July 7 to 11, 2025, in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). The call for ICUC12 (Special) Sessions and Workshops is OPEN! Read the call here and submit a proposal for (special) session or workshop if interested.

The call for ICUC12 (Special) Sessions and Workshops is OPEN! Read the call here and submit a proposal for (special) session or workshop if interested. The (special) session template can be downloaded from here; the workshop template can be downloaded from here. Send the (special) session and workshop proposals to gert-jan.steeneveld@wur.nl and m.m.e.vanesch@tudelft.nl until August 15th 2024.

The call for abstracts will open likely on October 1st! Stay tuned!

The ICUC12 aims to bring together scientists, practitioners, lecturers and innovators from all over the globe to present, discuss and advance the scientific, societal, and educational forefronts in the field of urban climate in its broadest definition.

The conference will develop a series of oral and poster sessions to convey science messages, keynote lectures, but also an early career scientist event, and discussion platforms. The theme will be “Heritage as urban climate challenge”. We define Heritage in the broadest sense; not only historical and/or listed buildings and sites, but the totality of the existing built environment we inherit as a society. Furthermore, we also open the door to you as community working in the field of urban climate to actively shape the conference.

Past events

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 21st Annual meeting

June 2328, 2024
Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, South Korea

The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) was established in 2003 to promote geosciences and its application for the benefit of humanity, specifically in Asia and Oceania and with an overarching approach to global issues. The Asia Oceania region is particularly vulnerable to natural hazards, accounting for almost 80% human lives lost globally. AOGS is deeply involved in addressing hazard related issues through improving our understanding of the genesis of hazards through scientific, social and technical approaches. AOGS holds annual conventions providing a unique opportunity of exchanging scientific knowledge and discussion to address important geo-scientific issues among academia, research institution and public. Some urban -climate related sessions (check program for more):

  • IG14 on “Asian Urban Growth and Its Impact on Urban Climate”
  • AS91 on “Cities and Weather/Climate Extremes”

European Geosciences Union (EGU) – General Assembly

April 1419, 2024
Vienna, Austria

The EGU General Assembly 2024 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience, include a large number of urban-climate related sessions, eg.:

Deadline for abstract submission: January 10, 2024.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) – Fall meeting

December 1115, 2023
San Francisco, USA

For more than 100 years AGU has been opening science—opening pathways to discovery, opening greater awareness to address climate change, opening greater collaborations to lead to solutions and opening the fields and professions of science to a whole new age of justice equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.

This year, as we convene >25,000 attendees from 100+ countries in San Francisco for AGU23, our theme is: Wide. Open. Science. 2023 might be the official year of Open Science but we also see it as an opportunity to affirm AGU’s overarching values and beliefs. It is a message for all of us to carry as we come together to share, inspire, collaborate, engage and most of all rededicate ourselves as a united community grounded in wide open science.

6th International conference on counter-measures to urban heat islands

December 47, 2023
RMIT University Melbourne, Australia

The 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (6th IC2UHI), will be hosted in Melbourne, Australia and will be devoted to the science, design, engineering and public policies in relation to the interdisciplinary nature of effectively addressing urban heat island effects in our cities.

Scientists, academics, engineers, builders, architects, policy makers and government officials are invited to participate in 6th IC2UHI Conference to share their knowledge about activities that have been or will be undertaken to address urban heat islands.

The diverse range of themes in this conference will broaden the scope and knowledge on new approaches, findings and evidence around countermeasures to urban heat islands.

ENCAC23

October 31November 1, 2023
São Paulo, Brazil

17th National meeting of environmental comfort in the built environment and 13th latin america meeting of environmental comfort in the built environment.

ENCAC is a biennial meeting aimed at teachers, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, builders, designers, consultants, public agency technicians and professionals working in the areas of civil construction, architecture, housing and other topics related to Environmental Comfort in the Built Environment. This year it will be hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie.

Palm Model Conference

September 1112, 2023
Offenbach, Germany

The PALM model system has grown into a complex but powerful modeling system for high-resolution numerical simulations. Currently, the model is transitioning to a community model to guarantee further development, as well as build an accessible, flexible, and robust user community in the future.

The PMC will bring developers and users of the PALM Model system together. The goal is to provide a forum for the PALM model community to discuss and advance model development, validation, data generation, and recent PALM-based research. There will be not only plenary sessions with scientific and technical presentations, but also working group and internal project meetings, and other discussion groups of the community model consortium.

ICUC11 – 11th International Conference on Urban Climate

August 28September 1, 2023
UNSW Sydney, Australia

The International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) warmly invite you to the joint 11th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC11) to be held in Sydney, Australia, from August 28th to September 1st, 2023.

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 20th annual meeting

July 304, 2023
Singapore

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) was established in 2003 to promote geosciences and its application for the benefit of humanity, specifically in Asia and Oceania and with an overarching approach to global issues. Asia Oceania region is particularly vulnerable to natural hazards, accounting for almost 80% human lives lost globally. AOGS is deeply involved in addressing hazard related issues through improving our understanding of the genesis of hazards through scientific, social and technical approaches. AOGS holds annual conventions providing a unique opportunity of exchanging scientific knowledge and discussion to address important geo-scientific issues among academia, research institution and public. Recognizing the need of global collaboration, AOGS has developed good co-operation with other international geo-science societies and unions such as the European Geosciences Union (EGU), American Geophysical Union (AGU), International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Japan Geo-science Union (JpGU), and Science Council of Asia (SCA).

FAIRNESS Summer School

July 37, 2023
Ghent, Belgium

This summer school addresses the analys of urban microclimate data (“from sensor to science”), where participants will go through all the necessary steps to analyse their own microclimatological dataset (with a focus on urban temperature time series). Next to the hands-on exercises with the dataset provided by the participant, the program also includes lectures, an urban climate walk in the city of Ghent and an excursion to the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium in Brussels. The participation is open for PhD students, post-docs and early career scientists from COST member countries and will be reimbursed by the COST action. Interested candidates can apply by sending their CV, including basic skills as well as a motivation letter till 14/04/2023 to the summer school scientific coordinator Prof. Steven Caluwaerts.

Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

May 1719, 2023
Heraklion, Crete, Greece

The Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) is a forum of excellence where researchers, practitioners and students present, share, and discuss their latest findings and results. A very dynamic version of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) will take place in May 2023, organized by the Remote Sensing Lab of FORTH in Heraklion Crete, Greece. This event is committed to introduce innovative methodologies and technological resources recently employed to investigate the manifold aspects of the urban environment through orbital and airborne remote sensing data.

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