Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
5-9 December 2011
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline for all Sessions:
Thursday, 4 August 2011
C11 - Earth and Planetary Catastrophic Ice-Fluid Interactions
PP05 - Cenozoic History and Climate of the Arctic Ocean
PP14 - Arctic Climate and Environmental Change Through the
Holocene
- C11 - Earth and Planetary Catastrophic Ice-Fluid Interactions
Organizers of Session C11, "Earth and Planetary Catastrophic Ice-Fluid
Interactions," announce a call for abstracts. The session will be
convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 5-9
December 2011 in San Francisco, California.
This session explores possible connections between mechanical failure in
disordered particulate systems and catastrophic ice-fluid interactions,
which occur during the break-up of river and sea ice, in
ice-melange-filled fjords, ice shelf collapse, and possibly the
formation of the chaos terrains on Europa. Whenever glaciological flows
involve rapid acceleration, the mechanical resistance can be dominated
by contribution from the surface debris layer, and can be modeled as a
two-dimensional assembly of densely-packed particles. In ice collapse
and disruption events, fluid-ice interactions can produce debris, such
as chaos terrain matrix. Organizers invite contributions that examine
both idealized systems and examples from nature.
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Thursday, 4 August 2011 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To submit
an abstract, you must enter the first author's current AGU member ID and
password at: http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com/.
For further information, please contact:
Jason Amundson
Email: amundson [at] uchicago.edu
Dorian Abbot
Email: abbot [at] uchicago.edu
Britney Schmidt
Email: britneys [at] ucla.edu
Wendy Zhang
Email: wzhang [at] uchicago.edu
- PP05 - Cenozoic History and Climate of the Arctic Ocean
Organizers of Session PP05, "Cenozoic History and Climate of the Arctic
Ocean," announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at
the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 5-9 December 2011 in
San Francisco, California.
Knowledge of the Cenozoic history of the arctic landscape and climate,
along with its natural resources and environmental vulnerability, has
been developed through exhaustive efforts by the scientific and industry
research communities. However, important gaps in knowledge still exist
and major research efforts are underway or being planned, notably
through the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).
The objective of this session is to gather scientists from all
disciplines and communities to update the collective state of knowledge
on land- and ocean-based studies of arctic stratigraphy, paleogeography,
and paleoenvironments. Organizers welcome abstracts dealing with a wide
range of topics and time frames, from the Cretaceous warm-house to
Quaternary glacial and interglacial environments.
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Thursday, 4 August 2011 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To submit
an abstract, you must enter the first author's current AGU member ID and
password at: http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com/.
For further information, please contact:
Claude Hillaire-Marcel
Email: hillaire-marcel.claude [at] uqam.ca
Martin Jakobsson
Email: martin.jakobsson [at] geo.su.se
Thomas Cronin
Email: tcronin [at] usgs.gov
Alberto Reyes
Email: avreyes2 [at] wisc.edu
- PP14 - Arctic Climate and Environmental Change Through the
Holocene
Organizers of Session PP14, "Arctic Climate and Environmental Change
Through the Holocene," announce a call for abstracts. The session will
be convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 5-9
December 2011 in San Francisco, California.
Holocene paleoclimate studies from the Arctic allow us to examine the
mechanisms driving natural climate changes and their regional impacts
with relatively high temporal resolution. New collaborative research
efforts have emerged that target networks of arctic paleoclimate records
to synthesize climate changes over the last 2,000-8,000 years.
Organizers invite contributions from all researchers generating Holocene
paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the Arctic and
Subarctic, developing or refining relevant proxy methods, or
synthesizing records from multiple sites.
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Thursday, 4 August 2011 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To submit
an abstract, you must enter the first author's current AGU member ID and
password at: http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com/.
For further information, please contact:
Pierre Francus
Email: pfrancus [at] ete.inrs.ca
Nicholas Balascio
Email: balascio [at] geo.umass.edu
Yarrow Axford
Email: yarrow [at] earth.northwestern.edu
William D'Andrea
Email: dandrea [at] geo.umass.edu