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Three Calls for Session Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
11-15 December 2017
New Orleans, Louisiana
Early abstract deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Abstract submission deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 2 August 2017
For further information about the meeting and abstract submission, go to: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2017 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 11-15 December 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The early abstract deadline is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 26 July 2017.
The final abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, 2 August 2017. Specific criteria and instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/abstract-submissions/.
Conveners of the following three sessions invite abstract submissions:
- SESSION 24277: Arctic Coastal Dynamics: processes, rates, and spatial variability
Conveners: Louise Melanie Farquharson, Ann Gibbs, Nicole Kinsman, and Aart Kroon.
Arctic coasts are increasingly vulnerable to coastal erosion, storm-surge flooding, sea-level rise, and potential oil spills. This leads to negative impacts on wildlife habitat, subsistence hunting grounds, and coastal communities. The threats are likely to intensify in the future as temperatures warm and declining sea-ice extent leaves coastlines exposed for longer periods of time. A better understanding of coastal processes, their rates and their geographic variability is needed to assess the vulnerability of Arctic coasts and accurately project future change. We invite contributions from studies that improve our knowledge of Arctic coastal dynamics through remote sensing, time series analysis, field surveys, and modelling. This includes studies that inform our baseline understanding of Arctic coastal systems or focus on new technologies and method development. We also welcome studies which demonstrate linkages to climate change, sea-ice decline, coastal hazards, ecosystem management, and oil-spill response.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24277.
For questions, contact:
Louise Farquharson
Email: lmfarquharson [at] alaska.edu
- SESSION 23492: Modeling of the Cryosphere: Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Conveners: Stephen F. Price, Matthew J. Hoffman, Sophie Nowicki, and Mauro A. Werder.
Invited speakers: Helene Seroussi (NASA JPL) and Marianne Haseloff (Princton/GFDL).
This session focuses on process-based modeling of glaciers and ice sheets that improves the understanding of ice dynamics or enhances the capabilities of current models. Organizers invite contributions from a broad range of theoretical, numerical, or experimental studies that explore new or improved representations of physical processes relevant to ice flow. The range of topics that is encouraged includes, but is not limited to: basal processes such as glacial hydrology, erosion, surging, and the onset of ice streams; mechanical and thermodynamic processes such as constitutive relationships, material behavior, and ice fracturing; and ice-ocean interactions, such as calving, and grounding line dynamics.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23492.html.
For questions, contact:
Stephen Price
Email: sprice [at] lanl.gov
- SESSION 24294: Integrating Observations and Models to Better Understand a Changing Arctic Sea Ice Cover
Conveners: Don Perovich and Marika Holland
This session welcomes presentations that integrate in situ observations and remote sensing data with sea ice modeling studies. Examples of this integration range from improving the treatment of individual processes to advances in coupled earth system models to using models to inform observational network design. The Arctic sea ice cover is in decline, with a reduction in summer ice extent and a transformation from primarily perennial ice to seasonal ice. There is a significant need to understand the ongoing changes in the Arctic sea ice cover and to predict future changes. Models play a fundamental role in these tasks by synthesizing the elements of the Arctic sea ice system. However, progress in model development suffers from a disconnect with the discoveries being made within the observational community. Observational activities could make better use of model guidance regarding the relative importance of various processes, and spatial and temporal sampling strategies.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24294.html.
For questions, contact:
Marika Holland
Email: mholland [at] ucar.edu