Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
12-16 December 2016
San Francisco, California
Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Wednesday, 3 August 2016.
For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract
submissions for the 2016 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 12-16
December 2016 in San Francisco, California.
Abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time on Wednesday, 3 August 2016. Specific criteria and
instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/.
Conveners of the following four sessions invite presentations from the
Arctic community:
- Session 13660: Arctic Science Knowledge Transfer: Improving Decision
Making for a Sustainable North
Conveners: Maribeth Murray, Peter Schlosser, and Gabriela Ibarguchi.
This session presents results from the existing integrated Arctic
Environmental Change research programs, as well as from individual
projects addressing this topic. The goal is to highlight research that
integrates stakeholders in both the research and knowledge transfer and
application processes. Arctic environmental change is certain to
challenge humankind in many new ways and solution-oriented science for
society and sustainability is increasingly critical. We invite
contributions focused on response strategies for mitigation of and
adaptation to these changes, real-world application of Arctic science to
the development of solutions (including improved observations) to local,
regional and global problems, and case studies focused on stakeholder
engagement in knowledge transfer for decision making. Contributions are
welcome from any area of Arctic research.
For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13660.
- Session 13418: Sustained observations of rapid Arctic change:
Scientific and technological advances, observing system design and
implementation, findings from long-term observations
Conveners: Hajo Eicken, Julie Brigham-Grette, Craig Lee, and Peter
Schlosser.
A rapidly changing Arctic challenges our ability to predict and
effectively respond to major environmental and socio-economic
transformations underway in the North and reverberating throughout the
global system. Sustained observations of key variables and processes
that capture variability, long-term trends and regime shifts, including
high resolution paleoclimate records, are central to furthering
understanding of the drivers and impacts of change, the development of
prediction systems from sub-seasonal to decadal timescales and to the
implementation of adaptation and mitigation measures. This session
welcomes presentations that describe major findings and lessons learned
from existing observing efforts at high and mid latitudes, as well as
those that address the full range of scientific issues underlying
development and implementation of Arctic observing systems, such as
advances in the science and technology of sustained observations
(including autonomous sensor systems), observing system design and
implementation.
For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13418.
- Session 13419: Towards more effective decision maker-scientist
engagement
Conveners: Julie Vano, David Behar, Philip Mote, and Daniel Ferguson.
Climate extremes, variability, and change and how these impact
hydrological and ecological systems pose serious risks to society, risks
that require critical decisions be made now to avoid future system
failures. Scientists often see their responsibility as understanding
what future changes will be, and then decision makers are responsible
for using this information to take action. Unfortunately, rarely is it
that simple. Too often there is a disconnect between the information
generated by scientists and decisions being made. This session will
explore how these gaps can be overcome. What do bridges between climate
science and applications look like? How are these bridges built? We seek
experiences that reveal the nature of actionable science and demonstrate
ways knowledge can be co-produced to address climate change. We
especially welcome concrete examples of processes or products that
demonstrate better practices, or practices to avoid, when including
climate science in decision making.
For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13419.
- Session 12520: Links between Arctic Low Clouds and their Environment:
Current Gaps and Future Directions.
Conveners: Patrick Taylor, Lauren Zamora, Linette Boisvert.
By affecting radiative energy flows, low clouds exert a significant
influence on Arctic sea and land ice, ocean biogeochemistry, and
large-scale atmospheric dynamics. Despite significant advances in
understanding Arctic low clouds over recent years, the sensitivity of
these clouds to environmental factors is a leading uncertainty in
projections of Arctic climate change.In this session, we invite
studies that link Arctic low clouds with their environment, including
air-sea-land exchanges of aerosols, energy, and moisture as well as
interactions between clouds and marine ecological and biogeochemical
processes. We welcome contributions that employ a wide range of
methodologies, including numerical models and satellite, ground-based,
and field campaign measurements. Speakers are encouraged to not only to
discuss their recent findings, but to present a slide on the
uncertainties that they consider to be key to understanding Arctic low
cloud sensitivities and predictions.
For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12520.
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