Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Understanding and Responding to Pan-Arctic Environmental Change
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
14-18 December 2009
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 3 September 2009
For further information, please contact:
Jean-Claude Gascard
Email: gascard [at] locean-ipsl.upmc.fr
Maribeth Murray
Email: ffmsm [at] uaf.edu
Organizers of Session GC14: 'Understanding and Responding to Pan-Arctic
Environmental Change' announce a call for abstracts. The session will be
convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 14-18
December 2009, in San Francisco, California.
For about a decade now it has been recognized that the arctic system is
undergoing unprecedented change. This change is an amplified response to
global change and expresses itself across all domains: physical,
biogeochemical, ecological, and human. Rapid and urgent response from
the scientific community is required to determine the rate of change, to
understand its causes and for future projection, as well as for an
optimal design of response strategies, including mitigation and
adaptation.
This session presents results from integrated Arctic Environmental
Change programs as well as from individual projects addressing this
challenge. Topics deal with observing, understanding, and responding to
Arctic Environmental Change across physical, biogeochemical, and human
domains. The goal is to highlight the need for close collaboration
across domains in research and the approaches required to describe and
understand the nature of Arctic Environmental Change, as well as to
project future changes. Contributions with emphasis on observing system
design, novel utilization of data from the Arctic Observing System,
results from synthesis/modeling studies of Arctic System change, and
results from the International Polar Year are especially encouraged.
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Thursday, 3 September 2009, at 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time. To submit
an abstract, you must enter the first author's current AGU member ID and
password at: http://agu-fm09.abstractcentral.com/.
For further information, please contact:
Jean-Claude Gascard
Email: gascard [at] locean-ipsl.upmc.fr
Maribeth Murray
Email: ffmsm [at] uaf.edu
Michael Tjernstrom
Email: michaelt [at] misu.su.se
Peter Schlosser
Email: schlosser [at] ldeo.columbia.edu