Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
14-18 December 2015
San Francisco, California
Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2015/abstract-submissions
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract
submissions for the 2015 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 14-18
December 2015 in San Francisco, California.
Abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time on Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Specific criteria and
instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2015/abstract-submissions.
Conveners of the following seven sessions invite presentations from the
Arctic community:
Session 8473: Responding to Rapid Environmental Change at the Poles
Conveners: Lauren Everett, Julie Brigham-Grette, and Waleed Abdalati
Invited Speakers: Marcia McNutt, Phil Rasch, and Riley Duren
Session Description: The Earth's polar regions are undergoing rapid
transformation with destabilization of the major ice sheets, loss of
glaciers, and (in the Arctic) loss of sea ice, snow cover, and
permafrost. Because these changes can have profound consequences for
global society, some people feel the scientific community must not only
study current trends and refine projections of future change, but also
must consider how to effectively communicate about and respond to such
changes. Building on the recent NRC reports on Climate Intervention,
this session will address questions such as: Will the polar regions
simply "unravel" or are there in fact any feasible interventions that
could slow, stop, or reverse any of the changes taking place? What would
be needed in terms of emissions reductions? Atmospheric carbon removal?
Other response strategies? If not, what recommendations might scientists
communicate to the public?
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8473.htmlSession 8477: Global Eyes on the New Arctic: Impacts of Rapid Warming
on Ecosystems, Society, and Policy
Conveners: Lauren Everett, Jennifer Francis, Hajo Eicken,
and Henry Huntington
Invited Speakers: Julie Gourley, Andy Revkin, Brendan Kelly,
and Larry Hamilton
Session Description: Once considered a frozen and desolate region,
irrelevant to all except those who live and/or work there, the Arctic
has recently become a literal and figurative "hot spot" of interest to
the world. Rapid disintegration of sea- and land-ice is hampering
indigenous ways of life and disrupting natural systems while also
creating new opportunities for commerce and other human activities.
This session will illuminate our rapidly evolving understanding of the
effects of system-wide Arctic change on physical, ecological, societal,
and political domains well beyond traditional Arctic boundaries and
vice-versa.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8477.htmlSession 8827: Looking to the Future of Antarctic and Southern Ocean
Research
Conveners: Terry Wilson, Robin Bell, Mahlon C. Kennicutt,
and Laurie Geller
Session Description: Antarctic and Southern Ocean research is advancing
science on many frontiers, from climate change to astrophysics to
biology. The continent is the coldest, driest, highest, windiest, and
most remote continent on Earth, and it offers an unparalleled platform
for making profound scientific discoveries about our planet and about
the universe beyond. But conducting research in this harsh environment
is hugely challenging and requires substantial resources to establish
and maintain infrastructure for housing, transportation, and research
support. The science community has been working both at national and
international levels to develop strategic plans for the future of
Antarctic science. This session will explore ideas about the future of
the Antarctic research enterprise and of the infrastructure to support
this research. We will discuss outcomes of recent community-driven
advisory efforts and current developments.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8827.htmlSession 8314: Advancing Science of the Arctic System: Exploring the
Past and Present to Predict the Future
Conveners: Wieslaw Maslowski, Scott Harper, Philip Jones, and Renu Joseph
Session Description: While some of the largest impacts arising from
climate change are expected to occur in the Arctic, there remain many
gaps in our understanding and representation of critical processes in
models of the Arctic system. The IARPC Science Plan identifies some
necessary steps for model improvements that may lead to improved
projections of variability in sea ice, snow cover, ocean, atmosphere and
land states. An integrated and coordinated effort is required to improve
the fidelity of Arctic system models, their capability to project future
changes, and to enable informed use of those projections. The conveners
solicit papers that advance understanding of the Arctic system through
simulation and comparison of global and regional climate models with
observations of the past and present behavior of the Arctic system. We
also solicit presentations that identify and evaluate individual
parameterizations, model components, and coupled feedbacks that control
variability and affect uncertainty in Arctic climate predictions.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8314.htmlSession 8012: Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions: Process Studies
Conveners: Ellyn M Enderlin, Patrick Heimbach, Daniel McGrath,
and Tom Ralph Cowton
Session Description: Spatio-temporal variations in glacier ice-ocean
interactions are likely the primary driver of the rapid and global
changes in glacier dynamics observed over the past few decades, yet the
processes that occur at or near the ice-ocean interface remain poorly
understood. This session focuses on the processes that govern
interactions at the ice-ocean interface or modulate the coupling between
the cryosphere and oceans. The conveners invite contributions from
process-focused observational, laboratory, and modeling studies on
glacier calving, submarine melting of floating ice tongues, grounded
termini, and icebergs/melange, subglacial plumes, iceberg over-turning
and break-up, melange motion, etc. Given the coupled nature of the
glacier-ocean system, the conveners encourage submissions from both the
Cryosphere and Ocean Sciences communities. Studies focused on data
synthesis should be submitted to the companion session (Glacier
Ice-Ocean Interactions: Synthesis Studies).
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8012.htmlSession 8030: Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions: Synthesis Studies
Conveners: Twila A Moon, Dave Sutherland, Faezeh M Nick,
and Laurence Padman
Session Description: Ice mass loss from marine-terminating glaciers,
either directly or via ice shelves, is a significant contributor to
global sea level rise, yet a mechanistic understanding of glacier-ocean
interactions is limited. This session focuses on synthesis studies of
contemporary variability in coupled glacier-ocean systems worldwide,
from small tidewater glaciers to large ice shelves, and their
interactions with the ocean and climate. The conveners invite, for
example, contributions that bring together modeling, observations and
theoretical research; projects that compare diverse data sets to
identify the common behavior and variability of coupled ice-ocean
systems; detailed studies of complete ice-ocean systems; and research
that ties glaciology and physical oceanography with additional
disciplines. Process-focused studies should be submitted to the
companion session (Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions: Process Studies).
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8030.htmlSession 9110: Arctic Climate Change: Paleoclimate and Paleohydrologic
Perspectives
Conveners: Nicholas Balascio, Raymond Bradley, Melissa Berke,
and Lori Ziolkowski
Session Description: Future climate change in the Arctic is expected to
involve increased surface temperatures as well as changes in the amount
and seasonality of precipitation. Since the Arctic contains large
quantities of stored carbon, understanding the response to past changes
will help us predict the future and whether permafrost regions become a
carbon source or sink. Many proxy records from the Arctic have been used
to infer past temperature, while fewer have been used to reconstruct
hydroclimate, despite the fact that hydroclimatological changes are an
extremely important aspect of arctic climate variability. This session
will bring together researchers working to reconstruct Arctic
paleoclimate on a variety of timescales. The convers are particularly
interested in research that addresses hydroclimate changes but welcome
contributions from researchers generating a variety of paleoclimate data
from studies on land or in the coastal ocean, synthesizing and
calibrating existing datasets, and working to model impacts of climate
changes.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9110
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