Three Calls for Session Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
11-15 December 2017
New Orleans, Louisiana
Early abstract deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Abstract submission deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 2 August 2017
For further information about the meeting and abstract submission, go to: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2017 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 11-15 December 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Conveners of the following three sessions invite abstract submissions:
- SESSION 25522: Societal Impacts of Global Cryosphere Change and Associated Mitigation and Adaptation Policies
Conveners: Ian Wesley Bolliger, S. McKenzie Skiles, Lora Koenig, and Shad O’Neel.
Melting sea ice, retreating glaciers and ice sheets, thawing permafrost, and diminishing seasonal snowpacks are realities of the next century. Although the impacts of these changes on water quantity/quality, human welfare, and the economy are not well characterized, physical modeling and monitoring of these processes has improved in the past decade, and adaptive policy measures are being developed to mitigate and adapt to these changes. For example, coastal infrastructure projects are being developed around the globe to cope with rising sea levels as global ice retreats, and water management systems are developing new methods for measuring and adapting to change as seasonal snowmelt advances and becomes more variable. This session invites contributions to (a) measuring and understanding the societal impacts of cryosphere changes, (b) exploring policy options for mitigating or adapting to these changes, and (c) facilitating the translation of scientific results in the cryosphere sciences to relevant decision-makers.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session25522
- SESSION 26143: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate at the Western Arctic Margins: Pacific-Arctic and Land-Ocean Interactions and Sea-Ice Changes
Conveners: Leonid Polyak, Masanobu Yamamoto, Seung-Il Nam, and Christof Pearce.
One of the most striking expressions of climate change in the Arctic is the retreat of summer sea ice in the western Arctic Ocean, attributed largely to the impact of Pacific waters and atmospheric circulation in addition to greenhouse warming. The long-term history of this oceanic/atmospheric system and its interactions with Arctic sea-ice conditions can be addressed by tapping sedimentary records from continental margins and adjacent deep-sea areas of the Arctic Ocean north of the Bering Strait, as well as respective terrestrial paleoclimatic archives. Organizers invite contributions exploring the history of Pacific-Arctic water inflow and atmospheric circulation and the linkages to changes in Arctic environments using marine, terrestrial, and ice-core proxy records. High-resolution studies addressing recent (Holocene) climatic variability on submillennial time scales are encouraged, as well as investigations of longer stratigraphic records providing insights into warm environments of the more distant past (Early Pleistocene to Pliocene).
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session26143
For questions, contact:
Leonid Polyak
Email: polyak.1 [at] osu.edu
- SESSION 24546: Glacier Monitoring from In-Situ and Remotely Sensed Observations
Conveners: Bruce H. Raup, Richard L. Armstrong, Michael Zemp, and Jeffrey S. Kargel.
Glaciers and their changes provide valuable information related to climate, and can be important for water resources and potential hazards to humans. Understanding glacial processes is key to assessing the sensitivity of glacier systems to changing climate. Large scale assessments of glacier health hinge upon comprehensive glacier inventories. Glaciers are monitored on different spatio-temporal scales, from extensive seasonal mass balance studies at selected glaciers to multi-decadal repeat inventories over entire mountain ranges or larger regions. Internationally coordinated glacier monitoring aims at combining in-situ measurement with remotely sensed data, and local process understanding with global coverage. Bringing together studies from the tropics to polar regions as well as from different disciplines, this session includes presentations on both in-situ and remotely sensed monitoring of glaciers, and related uncertainty assessments.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24546
For questions, contact:
Bruce Raup
Email: braup [at] nsidc.org