Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010
2-7 May 2010
Vienna, Austria
Abstract Submission Deadline for all Sessions: Monday, 18 January 2009
CR8.1 - Himalaya Glaciers - Changing Climate and Changing Hydrology
GI7 - Instrumentation for Polar Regions
CR5.3 - Marine-Based Ice Sheets
OS6 - Changes in Arctic sea ice and ocean: observations, models
and perspectivesBG2.17 - Biogeochemistry of Arctic land-ocean interface
- CR8.1 - Himalaya Glaciers - Changing Climate and Changing Hydrology
Organizers of Session CR8.1, "Himalaya Glaciers - Changing Climate and
Changing Hydrology," announce a call for abstracts.
Glaciers of the Himalayas cover an area of about 30,000 square
kilometers, one of the largest concentrations of glacier ice outside the
polar regions. Changing climate is already having an impact on most of
these glaciers, resulting in increased melting, increased glacial lake
development, and an increase in the risk and frequency of outburst
flooding. Less well understood is the impact that continuing climate
change will have on the flow of some of Asia's largest rivers, including
the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Salween, all originated from glacier
sources. This session will examine the changing behavior of Himalayan
glaciers and their relationship to the region's hydrology.
To submit an abstract, you will need to create an account at:
https://administrator.copernicus.org/authentication.php.
For further information, please go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/1888.
Or contact:
Yves Arnaud
Email: yves.arnaud [at] ird.fr
Adina Racoviteanu
Email: racovite [at] colorado.edu
- GI7 - Instrumentation for Polar Regions
Organizers of Session GI7, "Instrumentation for Polar Regions," announce
a call for abstracts.
This session is focused on instrumentation and technologies that deliver
science in polar regions. This includes sensors, instruments, power
systems, experiment set-up, and experiment coordination as well as
practical aspects of operating in polar regions.
The session is meant to encourage presentations and discussions that
span a versatile set of measurement approaches and scientific
disciplines.
To submit an abstract, you will need to create an account at:
https://administrator.copernicus.org/authentication.php.
For further information, please go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/1952.
Or contact:
Mike Rose
Email: m.rose [at] bas.ac.uk
- CR5.3 - Marine-Based Ice Sheets
Organizers of Session CR5.3, "Marine-Based Ice Sheets," announce a call
for abstracts.
There is currently considerable concern over the stability of the
marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its potential contribution to
future sea level changes. To improve predictions of its response,
research focused on improving understanding of how such ice sheets
operate, and the processes which initiate and control their retreat is a
priority. Areas of particular interest are the stability of marine-based
ice streams, subglacial processes and sediments, numerical ice sheet
modeling and grounding line modeling. We invite submissions relating to
observations and modeling of present-day marine-based ice sheets,
reconstructions and modeling of former marine-based ice sheets and
observations and modeling of submarine-grounded sectors on non-marine
ice sheets with reverse bed slopes.
To submit an abstract, you will need to create an account at:
https://administrator.copernicus.org/authentication.php.
For further information, please go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2421.
Or contact:
Karin Andreassen
Email: karin.andreassen [at] uit.no
Alun Hubbard
Email: abh [at] aber.ac.uk
- OS6 - Changes in Arctic sea ice and ocean: observations, models
and perspectives
Organizers of Session OS6, "Changes in Arctic sea ice and ocean:
observations, models and perspectives," announce a call for abstracts.
The arctic summer sea ice keeps reducing at a fast pace which evokes
predictions and speculations about its end. The past decade also showed
extraordinarily high ocean temperatures due to very warm inflow from the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The intriguing coincidence of both
evolutions raises the question of interactions or common causes.
Possible reasons for current changes are seen in large-scale circulation
changes with partly unclear connections to ongoing global warming.
The efforts of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 and
international programs such as DAMOCLES, SEARCH, and others have
enhanced the data flow from ice and ocean observations and improved
modeling abilities from local to regional and global scales. This leads
to improving our understanding of the arctic system.
Organizers encourage presentations on observed and simulated changes in
the Arctic Ocean, atmosphere, and ice, based on their mutual interaction
and on the interaction of global processes. They are interested in
studies concerning decadal scale as well as in short time scale.
Discussions of future scenarios for the arctic system are welcome.
To submit an abstract, you will need to create an account at:
https://administrator.copernicus.org/authentication.php.
For further information, please go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2453.
Or contact:
Ursula Schauer
Email: ursula.schauer [at] awi.de
- BG2.17 - Biogeochemistry of Arctic land-ocean interface
Organizers of Session BG2.17, "Biogeochemistry of Arctic land-ocean
interface," announce a call for abstracts.
The pan-arctic coastal region hosts large reservoirs of potentially
vulnerable pools of organic matter in soil/peat permafrost, coastal
ice-complex, and subsea permafrost. The International Polar Year (IPY)
offered an opportunity for enhanced studies of processes affecting the
biogeochemical fate of carbon and other elements in these vast and
frequently understudied systems.
This session offers a forum for biogeochemical studies in the arctic
land-shelf region that characterize organic matter, nutrients, major and
trace elements, and greenhouse gases from riverine discharge, coastal
erosion, and ocean sediments. Studies that quantitatively address the
sources, distribution, transport, and degradation of substances in the
coastal water column and in surface sediments are particularly
encouraged.
To submit an abstract, you will need to create an account at:
https://administrator.copernicus.org/authentication.php.
For further information, please go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/3108.
Or contact:
Orjan Gustafsson
Email: orjan.gustafsson [at] itm.su.se
Natalia Shakhova
Email: nshakhov [at] iarc.uaf.edu