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 27416: Explore and Communicate Through Data-driven Collaborations Across Art, Design, and Geoscience
Conveners: Allen Pope, Saskia M. van Manen, and Marco Tedesco.
Once considered the realm of scientists, these days artists, designers, journalists, and others are using new data technologies, architectures, and tools as part of exploring “big data” and other data-driven initiatives that build on the recent advances in computing. Yet there is wide scope beyond simple one-way informing for collaborations between these disciplines. New ways to visualize, explore, and understand data can lead to novel ways to inform, communicate, and promote scientific or practice-based insights. Ultimately, this will help transfer understanding and insight from one realm to the other, with the overall benefit of improved understanding and communication. In this session, organizers invite contributions from scientists, educators, artists, designers, and other professionals whose focus is on cross-disciplinary collaboration. Organizers particularly welcome contributions from colleagues with expertise on big data or data-driven expertise as well as those who have measured, assessed, and demonstrated the impact (or lack thereof) of their activities.
Possible alternate format: If this session is allocated an oral session, the convener can choose to have lightning style presentations that are quicker and more focused than a traditional session.
Information about this type of session format is available at:
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/alternate-session-formats/
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session27416
For questions, contact:
Allen Pope
Email: allen.pope [at] iasc.info
Saskia van Manen
Email: studiosassiko [at] gmail.com
Marco Tedesco
Email: mtedesco [at] ldeo.columbia.edu
- SESSION 22423: Extratropical and High-latitude Storms, Teleconnections, Extreme Weather, and the Changing Polar Climate
Conveners: Xiangdong Zhang, Kent Moore, and James E. Overland.
Synoptic storms and large-scale teleconnections are prominent features characterizing daily-to-decadal climate variability in the extratropics and high-latitudes. Storms often bring extreme weather, including high-wind events, large ocean waves and surges, coastal flooding, and erosion, as well as rapid temperature changes. Teleconnection patterns play modulating roles in storm activity, linking polar and midlatitude climate. In addition, the tropics has been recognized as an important source for triggering teleconnections, and may also be subject to impacts of polar climate changes. Storms and teleconnections have demonstrated systematic variations, leading to alterations of feedback processes and, in turn, contributing to climate variability and change. This session will provide a venue to present progress and new ideas on extratropical and high-latitude storm activity, tropical or extratropical teleconnections with the polar regions, and associated physical feedback processes in the context of the changing polar climate, as well as resulting extreme weather events, ecosystem-, and societal impacts.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session22423
- TWO JOINT SESSIONS:
SESSION 26442: Relations Among Recent Arctic Environmental Changes and Global Changes
SESSION 26747: Union Session on Relations Among Recent Arctic Environmental Changes and Global Changes
Conveners: James Morison, Ron Kwok, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, and Renellys C. Perez.
In recent decades the Arctic Ocean circulation, salinity, and temperature have changed and sea ice mass and extent have declined alarmingly. Mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet has accelerated. Now, 2016-2017 has seen record warm winter atmospheric temperatures, a record minimum amount of multiyear sea ice, and record minimum winter sea ice extent, setting the stage in summer 2017 for record minimum sea ice extent. These changes are partly forced by global-scale ocean/atmosphere changes. Conversely, Arctic changes affect global climate by modifying the radiative heat balance, the strength of the global overturning circulation, and the interaction between the ocean and Greenland ice sheet. This special U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR) session will explore recent Arctic environmental changes and specifically their connections to global changes. The session will end with a panel discussion on ongoing and planned science initiative, such as CLIVAR, the Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Science Network (GRISO), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ocean Melting Greenland (NASA OMG).
Note: Abstract submissions to Union sessions (Session 26747) are by invitation only.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session26747 or
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session26442
For questions, contact:
Jamie Morison
Email: morison [at] apl.washington.edu
Ron Kwok
Email: ron.kwok [at] jpl.nasa.gov
Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Email: edl [at] gatech.edu
Renellys Perez
Email: renellys.c.perez [at] noaa.gov