Call for Papers
Session I02: A Year in the Life of the Arctic Ocean Shelf: the Canadian
Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES)
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society, Canadian
Geophysical Union, and American Meteorological Society
28 May-1 June 2007
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 15 February 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.cmos2007.ca
or contact:
Josee Michaud
Quebec-Ocean
E-mail: Josee.Michaud [at] giroq.ulaval.ca
Papers are now being accepted for the following session at the joint
meeting of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society,
Canadian Geophysical Union, and American Meteorological Society
(CMOS-CGU-AMS) being held on 28 May-1 June 2007, in St. John's,
Newfoundland, Canada:
Session I02: A Year in the Life of the Arctic Ocean Shelf: the Canadian
Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES)
Session description:
By any standard, the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES)
represents one of the most ambitious, multidisciplinary international
efforts so far to understand the biogeochemical and ecological impacts
of the present decline in arctic sea ice cover. The Arctic Ocean in
general and the Canadian sector of the Beaufort Sea in particular have
been warming and losing sea ice rapidly in the last 30 years. CASES has
logged over 15,500 scientist-days in the Beaufort Sea, including the
one-year expedition of the research icebreaker Amundsen during which 225
scientists from 8 countries studied all aspects of the ecosystem. The
central hypothesis of the study was that sea ice dictates the nature and
magnitude of carbon and contaminant fluxes on and at the edge of the
Mackenzie Shelf in the Beaufort Sea. The resulting synthesis of
observations will lay the groundwork for future modeling studies
coupling sea ice dynamics, biology, and biogeochemistry, and will
provide background for several publications expected to result from
CASES in the coming years. Session presentations will illustrate the
integration of the biological and physical disciplines into a
comprehensive set of studies that will identify the processes dictating
the response of the Mackenzie Shelf ecosystem to atmospheric and ice
regimes.
Session conveners:
Louis Fortier, Universite Laval
Savithri Narayanan, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Abstracts must be submitted by Thursday, 15 February 2007, at the
CMOS-CGU-AMS website, which is available at:
http://www.cmos2007.ca