Climate Informatics - Conferences, Workshops and
Related Journals
Below are some workshops and conferences related to climate
informatics.
If you know of other meetings in this area,
please let us know so that we can include them!
The meetings below are grouped into two categories, self-contained
meetings and meetings that are part of a larger (parent) conference.
Self-contained meetings
1)
Climate Informatics Workshops
Upcoming / Most recent event:
Climate
Informatics 2014 -- The Fourth International Workshop
on Climate Informatics (Sept 25-26, 2014, NCAR, Boulder, CO)
Wiki and past events:
Climate
Informatics 2013 -- The Third International Workshop
on Climate Informatics (Sept 26-27, 2013, NCAR, Boulder, CO)
Climate
Informatics 2012 -- The Second International Workshop on Climate
Informatics (Sept 2012, NCAR, Boulder,
CO)
Climate
Informatics 2011 -- The First International Workshop on
Climate Informatics (Aug 2011, New York, NY)
Climate
Informatics Wiki
2) Expeditions in Computing: Understanding Climate Change -
A Data Driven Approach (University of Minnesota)
Upcoming / Most recent event:
Fourth
Workshop on Understanding Climate Change from Data
(Jun 30-July 2, 2014, NCAR, Boulder, CO)
Past events:
Third
Workshop on Understanding Climate Change from Data
(August 2013, University of Minnesota)
Annual
workshop (2011, 2012)
(University of Minnesota)
3) Workshop on
Econometric Applications in Climatology
Upcoming / Most recent event:
1st
International Workshop on Econometric Applications in
Climatology (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, June
5-7, 2013)
Past events: none
4) Conference on
Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU)
Upcoming
/ Most recent event:
Conference
on Intelligent Data Understanding 2012 (CIDU)
(Oct 2012, NCAR, Boulder, CO)
Past events:
WikiCFP
- CIDU: Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding
Topics covered: Applications in Earth & Environmental
Systems, Space Science, and Aerospace & Engineering Systems
5) SAMSI/NCAR
Workshop on Massive Datasets in Environment and Climate
Most
recent event:
SAMSI/NCAR
Workshop on Massive Datasets in Environment and
Climate (Feb 13-15, 2013, NCAR, Boulder,
CO)
Past events: none
6) Climate 2013 -
The next generation of climate models and knowledge
discoveries through the extreme high-performance simulations
and big data
Most
recent event:
Climate 2013
(Mar 20-22, 2013, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, by
invitation only)
Past events: none
Meetings
that are part of a parent conference
1) Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Climate
Data (ClimKD)
Parent Conference: IEEE International Conference on
Data Mining (ICDM)
Assocation: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers)
Upcoming / Most recent events: No events found since
2011. Discontinued?
Past events:
First IEEE
ICDM Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Climate Data
(ClimKD 2009 -- Dec 2009)
Second
IEEE ICDM Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Climate Data
(ClimKD 2010 -- Dec 2010)
Third IEEE
ICDM Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Climate Data
(ClimKD 2011 -- Dec 2011)
2) Climate Knowledge Discovery Workshop
Parent conference: Supercomputing Conference and various
European meetings
Upcoming / Most recent event: (No event found
since 2012. Discontinued?)
Climate
Knowledge Discovery Session -- European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2013 (Apr 7-12, 2013, Vienna, Austria) -- WITHDRAWN !
4th
Climate Knowledge Discovery Workshop at Supercomputing '12
(November 2012, Salt Lake City)
Community
project + past events:
Climate
Knowledge Discovery community project page
This series of meetings tends to have two meetings per years,
alternating between Europe and the US (see community project page
above for more info):
1st Workshop: March 2011, Hamburg, Germany
2nd Workshop: at Supercomputing '11, November 2011, Seattle, USA
3rd Workshop: Complex networks: Theory and methods applied
to geophysical systems - at EGU General Assembly, Vienna,
Austria, April 2012
4th Workshop: at Supercomputing '11, November 2012, Salt
Lake City, USA
3) Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence
and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Parent Conference: Annual AMS meeting
Association: AMS (American Meteorological Society)
Upcoming / Most recent events:
12th
Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence
and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
(Feb 2014, Atlanta, GA)
11th
Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence
and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
(Jan 2013, Austin, TX)
4) Workshop on
Data Mining in Earth System Science
Parent conference: International Conference on Computational
Science (ICCS)
Upcoming / Most recent event:
Fifth
Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS
2014) (Cairns, Australia, June 10-12, 2014)
Past events:
Fourth
Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS
2013) (Barcelona, Spain, June 5-7, 2013)
Previous
Workshops on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMES)
Previous workshops were in Lousiana, USA (2009), Singapore (2011)
and Omaha, USA (2012)
5) Workshop on
Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (SensorKDD)
Parent conference: ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining
Assocation: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
Upcoming / Most recent event:
No event in 2013. No details known yet for 2014.
Past events:
6th
International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data
(SensorKDD 2012) (August 2012, Beijing, China)
Workshop
on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data - all previous
events
6) Knowledge
Discovery from Earth Observation Data
Parent conference: 8th
Conference on IMAGE INFORMATION MINING
Focus of 2012 conference: Knowledge Discovery from Earth
Observation Data
Most recent event: No event found since 2012.
Image
Information Mining Conference: Knowledge Discovery from Earth
Observation Data (ESA-EUSC 2012) (Oct
2012,
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany)
7) Special Track
on Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence
Parent conference: Annual AAAI
conference
Association: AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence)
Upcoming event:
Special
Track on Computational Sustainability and Artificial
Intelligence, AAAI-2013, Bellevue, Washington USA, July
14–18, 2013.
Abstracts due: Jan 19, 2013 Papers
due: Jan 22, 2013
Past event:
Special
track at AAAI-2012
8) Special Theme
"AI and Computational Sustainability"
Parent conference:
IJCAI 2013 - 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence
Upcoming event:
IJCAI 2013,
(Beijing, China, August 3-9, 2013)
9) PolarCube:
Advancing Science at the Poles Through the Integration of
Cyber-Infrastucture and Polar Research
Parent conference: AGU Annual Meeting
Assocation: AGU (American Geophysical Union)
Upcoming event:
PolarCube:
Advancing Science at the Poles Through the Integration of
Cyber-Infrastucture and Polar Research (Dec 6, 2012,
12.00-13.30)
10)
Machine learning in Geoscience applications - special
session at
IAMG 2013
Parent conference:
IAMG Annual Meeting
Assocation: IAMG (
International Association for Mathematical Geosciences)
Upcoming event:
Session
5 - Machine learning in Geoscience applications at IAMG 2013
(Madrid, Spain, Sept 2-6, 2013, Madrid)
Abstracts due: Feb 1, 2013
Past events: none
Related
Journals and Special Issues
1) Call for Papers - Earth Science Informatics Challenges
Journal: Earthzine.org
(2014 Quarterly Theme Issue 1)
Publisher: IEEE-sponsored online
scientific journal
Submission: Submissions will be accepted until March
1, 2014.
Website
Call
for papers (pdf-file)
2) New journal: Journal of complex
networks
Journal: Journal of complex networks
Publisher: Oxford University
Press
Comment: May be relevant for researchers in
climate networks
3) Inaugural topical issue: Frontiers
in Computational Physics: "Modeling the Earth System"
Journal: Elsevier - The
Journal of Computational Physics
Call
for papers to the inaugural topical issue on "Frontiers in
Computational Physics: Modeling the Earth System''
Submission deadline for inaugural issue:
May 20, 2013 (closed)
Submission: open for other issues.
4) Special Issue Applications
of Information Theory in the Geosciences
Journal: Entropy —
Open Access Journal
About the journal: Entropy, an
international and interdisciplinary open access journal of entropy
and information studies, is published by MDPI online monthly.
Impact factor:
1.183 (2011)
Submission deadline: January
21, 2013 (closed)
Clearly, the list of journals is
fairly incomplete - just started it. Please send me your
suggestions for journals to include.