Two Calls for Abstracts
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018
8-13 April 2018
Vienna, Austria
Abstract submission deadline: 1:00 p.m. Central European Time, 10 January 2018
Abstract submission with travel support request deadline: 1 December 2017
For more information about the EGU General Assembly 2018, to go:
https://www.egu2018.eu/
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for the EGU General Assembly 2018. This meeting will be held 8-13 April 2018 in Vienna, Austria.
Conveners of the following two session invite abstract submissions:
SESSION AS2.3: Boundary Layers in High Latitudes
Conveners: Gunther Heinemann, Stefania Argentini, Thorsten Bartels-Rausch, Christopher Cox, Anna Jones, William Neff, Jennie Thomas, Michael Tjernstrom, and Thomas Spengler.
This session is intended to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together researchers working in the area of boundary layer processes and high-latitude weather and climate, including snow physics, air/snow chemistry, and oceanography. Cryosphere and Atmospheric Chemistry (CATCH), the focus of the emerging International Global Atmospheric Chemistry activity, processes are highly relevant to this session.
Conveners invite contributions in the following areas:
- Observations and research on the energy balance, physical and chemical exchange processes, and atmosphere-ocean-ice (AOI) interactions including particle sources;
- Results from high-elevation sites where similar processes occur over snow and ice;
- Field programs, laboratory studies, and observational studies (including remote sensing);
- Model studies and reanalyses;
- Advances in observing technology;
- External controls on the boundary layer such as clouds, aerosols, and radiation; and
- Teleconnections between the polar regions and mid-latitudes resulting in effects related to atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions, as well as insights provided by monitoring of water vapor isotopes that shed light on air mass origins.
For more information or submit an abstract to this session, go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/27831
SESSION CL1.33: Polar continental margins and fjords - climate, oceanography, tectonics and geohazards
Conveners: Kelly Hogan, Matthias Forwick, Jan Sverre Laberg, Berit Oline Hjelstuen, Michele Rebesco, H. Christian Hass, and Gerhard Kuhn.
During the last decade significant advances in our understanding of the development of polar continental margins during the Cenozoic have been made. These include more detailed reconstructions of the climatic, oceanographic, and tectonic evolution of high northern and southern latitudes over various time scales, as well as reconstructions of past ice-sheet dynamics and studies of marine geohazards. Results have been obtained from conventional 2D and high-resolution 2D and 3D seismic surveying, as well as from short sediment cores and longer drill cores (e.g., IODP, MeBo).
Fjords are regarded as "small oceans" that incise high latitude coastlines and link continental margins with the interiors of landmasses. Fjord settings allow the study of a variety of geological processes similar to those that have occurred on glaciated continental margins, but typically at smaller scales. The contribution of several sediment sources (e.g., glacial, fluvioglacial, fluvial, biological) to fjord basins along with relatively high sedimentation rates also provides the potential for high-resolution palaeoclimatic and palaeooceanographic records on decadal to centennial timescales.
The aim of this multi-disciplinary session is to follow on from the success of previous years by bringing together researchers working on northern and southern high-latitude continental margins and fjords, investigating the dynamics of past ice sheets, climate, tectonics, sedimentary processes, physical oceanography, and palaeo-biology/ecology.
The session has two confirmed keynote speakers, one from each hemisphere:
- Monica Winsborrow, University of Tromso (UiT): Ice sheet-gas hydrate interactions: examples from the Barents Sea
- Laura de Santis, National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS): Late Cenozoic ocean-ice sheet interactions and West Antarctic Ice Sheet vulnerability: Initial results from International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 374 in the Ross Sea continental margin
For more information or submit an abstract to this session, go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26414
For questions, contact:
Kelly Hogan
Email: kelgan [at] bas.ac.uk