Call for Abstracts
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2022
3-8 April 2022
Vienna, Austria and Virtual
Abstract submission deadline: 14 January 2022, 1:00 p.m. Central European Time
For more information, go to:
https://www.egu22.eu/
Organizers invite abstracts for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022. This event will take place 3-8 April 2022 virtually and in-person in Vienna, Austria.
Conveners of the following session invite abstracts:
SESSION CL1.1.2: Polar Regions – Climate, Oceanography, Tectonics, and Geohazards
Conveners: Kelly Hogan, Andrew Christ, Johann Philipp Klages, Michele Rebesco, and Matthias Forwick
Session Abstract:
Significant advances in our understanding of the Meso- and Cenozoic development of polar regions have been made over the last two decades by studying continental shelf, slope, or deep-sea sediment sequences. These include 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. Data have been obtained from conventional and high-resolution 2D and 3D seismic surveying, from a growing number of short sediment cores, and from targeted high-latitude deep drilling expeditions (e.g., IODP, MeBo). The same techniques have also been applied in fjords, which link the continental margins with the interiors of landmasses and act as “miniature ocean basins.” Fjord settings allow us to study similar geological processes to those that acted on glaciated continental margins but at smaller scales. The variety of sediment inputs (e.g. glacial, fluvioglacial, fluvial, biological) to fjord basins along with relatively high sedimentation rates provides the potential for high-resolution palaeoclimatic and palaeooceanographic records on decadal to centennial timescales.
The aim of this session is to bring together researchers working on both northern and southern high latitudes processes spanning various spatio-temporal scales from fjords to the deep sea, to provide a multi-disciplinary picture of polar regions. Conveners welcome submissions focusing on (but not limited to) records of past climatic change, tectonics, oceanography and ecosystems, and the associated links with ice sheets, and glacier behavior, ice-ocean interactions, and glacial-marine sedimentary processes. Studies that integrate different datasets, data types, or that marry observations with numerical modelling are also encouraged.
To submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/42597
For questions about this session, contact:
Kelly Hogan
Email: kelgan [at] bas.ac.uk
Phone: +44 1223 221617