Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Recent Advances in Coupled Physical / Bio-Geochemical
Modeling in Polar Seas
Arctic Change 2008
Quebec City, Canada
9-12 December 2008
Abstract submission deadline: 26 September 2008
For further information about the conference, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=11010
Or contact the session conveners:
Vincent Le Fouest
Email: Vincent.lefouest [at] sams.ac.uk
Bruno Zakardjian
Email: Bruno.Zakardjian [at] lseet.univ-tln.fr
Abstracts are invited for session T36: "Recent Advances in Coupled
Physical/Bio-Geochemical Modeling in Polar Seas," being convened at the
Arctic Change 2008 Conference, to be held 9-12 December 2008, in Quebec
City, Canada.
Session description:
Understanding of the deep changes occurring in polar seas is severely
impeded by the lack of long-term time series and synoptic field
observations, mainly due to harsh weather conditions and cost of
sampling in remote northern regions. By recognizing this urgent need,
the International Polar Year (IPY) has favored the setup of major
observation and monitoring programs to gain new critical observations
about the major oceanographic processes in the Arctic and its ancillary
seas.
Given the complexity of the marine ecosystem, including multiple food
webs associated with heterogeneous physical regimes, a better
understanding and predictive capacity of marine ecological processes and
associated geochemical fluxes in the Arctic should combine remote
sensing, real-time monitoring, and 3D physical-biological-geochemical
modeling, the latter being in this context a critical integrative tool.
Numerical modeling systematically accounts for the basic interactions
among physical, biological, and geochemical variables and the full range
of oceanic variability at various spatial and temporal scales, filling
gaps where key bio-geochemical and ecological processes occur but data
are lacking.
The goal of this session is to discuss recent advances in the field of
coupled physical-bio-geochemical modeling in polar seas and the links
with monitoring and field observations. Spatial and temporal timescales
should range from local to pan-Arctic and from paleo-environmental
studies to climate prediction models.
Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
1) Interactions between sympagic and pelagic ecosystems;
2) Carbon and nutrient cycling and budgets;
3) Effects of freshwater runoff;
4) Fate of terrestrial DOC; and
5) Pelagic / benthic coupling.
To submit an abstract, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=13010
For further information about the conference, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=11010
Or contact the session conveners:
Vincent Le Fouest
Scottish Association for Marine Science (Scotland)
Email: Vincent.lefouest [at] sams.ac.uk
Bruno Zakardjian
Laboratoire de Sondages Electromagnetiques de l'Environnement Terrestre
(France)
Email: Bruno.Zakardjian [at] lseet.univ-tln.fr