Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Seafloor Mapping of the Arctic Ocean, Continental Shelves, and Margins
Arctic Change 2008
Quebec City, Canada
9-12 December 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 26 September 2008
For further information about the conference please go to:
http://www.arcticchange2008.com
For further information about this session please contact the session
conveners:
Rob Macab
ron.macnab [at] ns.sympatico.ca
John Hughes-Clarke
jhc [at] omg.unb.ca
Steve Blasco
SBlasco [at] NRCan.gc.ca
Abstracts are invited for session T34 "Seafloor Mapping of the Arctic
Ocean, Continental Shelves and Margins," being convened at the Arctic
Change 2008 Conference, to be held 9-12 December 2008, in Quebec City,
Canada.
Session Description:
Accelerated interest in polar regions research extends to the seafloor.
High resolution seabed mapping is being driven by a wide range of issues
including sovereignty, navigation, resource development, biodiversity
assessments, and IPY initiatives. Seafloor mapping has been greatly
facilitated by the development and application of digital sonar and
optical technologies including sidescan and multibeam systems and LIDAR,
which not only generate detailed charts of seabed bathymetry and maps of
seabed morphology, but provide acoustic classification maps of the
composition of the seabed. Integration of acoustic and optical data with
groundtruth from photographic imagery, sediment-, bottom feature-, and
benthic community-sampling, is resulting in a much clearer understanding
of seabed processes both spatially and temporally.
The seabed of the polar regions is much more dynamic than previously
realized. Application of seabed mapping technologies is leading to the
observation and identification of ecologically and biologically
significant benthic communities, seabed scouring by the keels of
pressure ridges, icebergs and glacial ice streams, submarine slumping,
faulting, mud volcanism, fluid venting, and sediment mobility. This
session provides a unique forum for polar scientists actively involved
in seabed mapping research to present and discuss state-of-the-art
technology, research results and opportunities for future collaboration.
The abstract submission deadline is Friday, 26 September 2008. To submit
an abstract, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=13010.
For further information about this session please contact the session
conveners:
Rob Macab
Canadian Polar Commission
ron.macnab [at] ns.sympatico.ca
John Hughes-Clarke
University of New Brunswick
jhc [at] omg.unb.ca
Steve Blasco
Geological Survey of Canada
SBlasco [at] NRCan.gc.ca
For further information about the conference please go to:
http://www.arcticchange2008.com