Session Announcement and Call for Papers
The Modern and Recent Arctic Environment
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
10-14 December 2007
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: 6 September 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=697
Papers are invited for Session U19: "The Modern and Recent Arctic
Environment" being convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall
Meeting on 10-14 December 2007 in San Francisco, California.
Session Description:
The arctic environment has undergone significant changes in ocean
conditions, sea ice cover, fresh water systems, permafrost, and the
atmosphere, changes that can profoundly impact the ecosystems. The
International Polar Year (March 2007 to March 2009) has recently begun
and involves thousands of scientists from over 60 nations examining a
wide range of physical, biological, and social research topics. Thus, at
this point, a review of the current state of the Arctic and its recent
past is timely. Talks are solicited that focus on causes, attribution,
and/or impacts of changes in the arctic freshwater system at local to
global scales; the characterization of high-latitude climatic,
cryospheric, and ecological variability over at least the last thousand
years; and the components of the physical environment derived from
observations and models providing insights on the current and future
state of the Arctic and related regional and global impacts.
Conveners:
Son Nghiem
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
E-mail: Son.V.Nghiem [at] jpl.nasa.gov
Jamie Morison
University of Washington
E-mail: morison [at] apl.washington.edu
Dennis Lettenmaier
University of Washington
E-mail: dennisl [at] u.washington.edu
Charles Vorosmarty
University of New Hampshire
E-mail: charles.vorosmarty [at] unh.edu
Further information and abstract submission procedures are available at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/