Call for Papers: History of Cryosphere Studies
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)
14-19 March 2004
Philadelphia, PA
For more information please see: http://www.aag.org/
Dear Arctic Info Subscriber,
The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) is
holding its Centennial meeting March 14-19, 2004, in Philadelphia PA. To
mark this event, several AAG Specialty Groups will hold a series of
sessions devoted to the history of physical geography. As Chair of the
AAG Cryosphere Specialty Group, I hope that there will a substantial
number of contributions from scientists with cold-climate interests, and
encourage you to contribute to this effort by submitting an abstract.
Contributions treating snow, ice, permafrost, periglacial and glacial
geomorphology, mountain and polar climatology, and cold-regions ecology
and biogeography are all welcome. We would be very pleased to receive
contributions on the scientific aspects of polar exploration.
Papers can be delivered orally, as posters, or as "illustrated papers"
(posters accompanied by a brief oral presentation). A more complete
description of the proposed session(s) is attached below. General
information about the AAG Centennial Meeting and procedures for
submitting abstracts can be found on the AAG's web site:
http://www.aag.org/
We look forward to hearing from many of you. The AAG Centennial Meeting
should be a very interesting event.
Fritz Nelson
University of Delaware
fnelson [at] udel.edu
Call for Papers: Celebrating A Century of Physical Geography
AAG Centennial Meeting in Philadelphia, March 2004
The Centennial Meeting of the Association of American Geographers will
provide an excellent opportunity to take stock of geography's
accomplishments (and the people involved in them) over the past century.
To mark this occasion, the Biogeography, Climate, Cryosphere, and
Geomorphology Specialty Groups are proposing one or more sessions
devoted to historical aspects of physical geography. "Historical
aspects" is interpreted broadly, and will encompass both biographically
and topically oriented contributions relating to physical geography and
its subdisciplines. Contributions are not restricted to the 1904-2004
period, or to the United States.
The theme is intentionally broad in order to attract a large number of
presentations. If the response is sufficiently large, the need for
several sessions may arise, and these could be subdivided topically or
by some other criterion. Our present intent is to have the papers
presented orally, but if there is sufficient interest, poster or
illustrated paper sessions could be included. At this relatively early
stage we are attempting to determine the number of people interested in
contributing to such a session or sessions at the Philadelphia meeting.
If there is sufficient interest, a special issue of the journal Physical
Geography may be organized to publish papers arising from the session(s).
If you are interested, please email (a) a tentative title; (b) preferred
mode of presentation (oral, poster, illustrated paper); (c) authors'
names; and (d) contact information (lead author only) to the organizer
representing the physical geography discipline closest to your topic at
your earliest convenience, but no later than September 1, 2003. Formal
abstracts will be due no later than September 25 in order to meet the
AAG's deadline of October 09 for submission of organized sessions.
Please consider this opportunity to participate in this examination of
geography's development. We want to maximize participation in these
activities and have submitted this call to several email distribution
lists.
Fritz Nelson
Chair, AAG Cryosphere Specialty Group
fnelson [at] udel.edu
Dorothy Sack
Chair, AAG Geomorphology Specialty Group
sack [at] ohio.edu
Andrew Comrie
Chair, AAG Climate Specialty Group
comrie [at] climate.geog.arizona.edu
John Kupfer
Chair, AAG Biogeography Specialty Group
kupfer [at] email.arizona.edu