Session Announcement and Call for Papers
Physical, Biological, and Biogeochemical Processes Associated
with Young Sea Ice Types
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
14-18 December 2009
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 3 September 2009
For further information, please search for session C06 at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php
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Organizers of Session C06, "Physical, Biological, and Biogeochemical
Processes Associated With Young Sea Ice Types" 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.
Session Description:
Young forms of sea ice are becoming more prevalent both spatially and
temporally and as such the processes associated with these brine rich
sea ice types are becoming more important regionally and
hemispherically. Young ice dominates energy and mass fluxes and they
play a strong role in sequestration of various contaminants. Formation
of frost flowers is thought to be a key driver in ozone, gaseous
elemental mercury, and bromine related geochemical processes. This
session seeks oral and poster presentations which examine aspects of the
detection of young sea ice types and associated frost flowers (through
remote sensing, modeling, or in situ measurements) and studies of the
commensurate processes which govern physical, biological, and or
biogeochemical processes operating across this
ocean-young-sea-ice-atmosphere interface.
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. To submit an abstract, please go to:
http://agu-fm09.abstractcentral.com/.
Or contact the session conveners:
David G. Barber
Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba
476 Wallace Building
Fort Gary Campus
Winnipeg, MB, CAN R3T 2N2
204-510-6981
dbarber [at] cc.umanitoba.ca
Son V. Nghiem
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
MS 300-227
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA, USA 91109
818-354-2982
Son.V.Nghiem [at] jpl.nasa.gov