Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting
21-26 February 2016
New Orleans, Louisiana
Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions
Abstracts are currently being accepted for sessions during 2016 Ocean
Sciences Meeting. The meeting will be held 21-26 February 2016 in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time Wednesday, 23 September 2015. Specific criteria and
instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at
http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions.
Conveners of the following three sessions invite abstract submissions:
- Session 9492: "Macroecological Approaches to the Arctic Ocean System:
Changes and Implications on Biogeochemical Cycles"
Session Chairs: Ilka Peeken, Patricia Matrai, Eddy Carmack, and Maria
Vernet
Session Description: Macroecology advocates the collection of large
amounts of some "easily" measured data at large spatial scales in order
to examine relations between organisms and their environment. Focus is
given to pattern, scale, regionality, and seasonality. In the Arctic
Ocean, the most striking physical changes are associated with
diminishing sea ice extent and thickness, resulting in a loss of an
important interface between the ocean and the atmosphere. Understanding
the response of biogeochemical cycles and the marine ecosystems to these
changes requires the integration of physical, biological, and chemical
oceanographic studies across a range of temporal and spatial scales.
We encourage submissions ranging from the micron scale (e.g.,
phytoplankton, ice algae, and bacteria) to the km scale (e.g., satellite
pixels-from-space; spring and fall blooms) and from turbulent bursting
phenomena to decadal and longer time scales. We seek interdisciplinary
data and synthesis products that elucidate the current status of the
physical (i.e., ocean, sea ice, atmosphere) and biogeochemical
processes, how feedbacks and controls could change Arctic marine
systems, as well as research on complex systems and thresholds. We
especially invite advances linking the hard-to-measure biological
distributions to the easier-to-measure physical conditions at large
spatial and long temporal scales.
For questions about this session, contact Ilka Peeken
(ilka.peeken [at] awi.de).
For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9492.html.
- Session 9311: "Heat Transport Processes in the Arctic Ocean's
Atlantic and Pacific Water Layers"
Session Chairs: Mary-Louise Timmermans and Jeff Carpenter
Session Description: One of the most significant contemporary changes to
occur in the Arctic Ocean has been a warming of the Atlantic and Pacific
water layers. This warming impacts sea-ice cover only where the ocean
heat is transported to the surface. However, over much of the Arctic
Ocean the strong halocline stratification insulates the surface ocean
and sea-ice cover from the underlying Atlantic and Pacific waters.
Therefore, in order to predict and model Arctic sea-ice it is crucial to
understand processes that are able to flux this heat vertically to the
ocean surface. A whole host of processes are expected to play a role in
this transport, such as double-diffusive convection, lateral intrusions,
wind and internal wave driven mixing, as well as coastal upwelling and
mesoscale eddies. This session invites submissions that investigate the
vertical and lateral transport of heat from the Atlantic and Pacific
layers. We invite studies that focus on the range of important heat
transport processes, and encourage studies that encompass observational,
theoretical and numerical approaches, to understand ocean heat transport
in a changing Arctic system.
For questions about this session, contact Mary-Louise Timmermans
(mary-louise.timmermans [at] yale.edu).
For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9311.html.
- Session 9352: "High Latitude Air-Sea-Ice Interactions in a Changing
Climate"
Session Chairs: Kent Moore, Robert Pickart, John Cassano, and Robin
Muench
Session Description: Exchanges of heat, mass, and momentum across the
air-sea interface impact the ocean and atmosphere and their interactions
within the coupled climate system. These exchanges, significantly
enhanced in polar regions by large air-sea temperature differences and
high wind speeds, contribute to water mass modification and ventilation
that in turn impacts biochemical and physical conditions throughout the
world oceans. Sea ice modulates these processes and results in
complexity that, combined with a sparsity of data in polar regions,
contributes to uncertainty regarding their spatial and temporal
variability and large scale impacts. This session provides a venue for
the exchange of new information on all aspects of high latitude
air-sea-ice interaction, including processes at the interface and
investigations of their impacts on local ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice
processes as well as the larger coupled climate system.
For questions about this session, contact Kent Moore
(gwk.moore [at] utoronto.ca)
For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9352.html.
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