Call for Late-Breaking Session Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
11-15 December 2017
New Orleans, Louisiana
Abstract submission deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 31 October 2017
For further information about the meeting and abstract submission, go to:
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for a late-breaking session at the 2017 Fall Meeting, which will be held 11-15 December 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
NOTE: The first-author rule is relaxed for the late-breaking sessions; authors may submit another abstract to the late-breaking sessions even if they also submitted an abstract for the August deadline.
Conveners of the following late-breaking session invite abstract submissions:
SESSION: Late-Breaking Session on Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
Session Chairs: Guido Cervone, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Courtney Thompson, and Lesley Wyborn.
This session, potentially organized as multiple sessions, seeks a wide breadth of contributions focusing on the events of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, including crowdsourced data and social media in disaster response; policy implications; high resolution remote sensing; flooding and infrastructure damage; impacts on the environment and human health; changing coastal landscapes; oceanographic, atmospheric, and climatic factors contributing to the storm; data access and assimilation; high-performance (HPC) and cloud computing for real-time analysis.
More information will be added to the session description as more details about the impacts of Hurricane Irma emerge.
Instructions for submitting an abstract to this session:
- Click the link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/gateway.cgi,
- Log in using AGU member credentials,
- Select "Late Breaking Session" tab,
- Select session title "Late-Breaking Research Related to Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma", and
- Proceed with full abstract submission process.