Two Calls for Session Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
11-15 December 2017
New Orleans, Louisiana
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.
Conveners of the following two sessions invite abstract submissions:
- SESSION 29346: Advances in Land Ice-Ocean Interactions: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Synthesis
Conveners: Thomas Armitage, Carlos F. Moffat, Anna Hogg, and Dorthe Dahl-Jensen.
Ice mass loss from marine-terminating glaciers and terrestrial ice sheets, with or without floating ice shelves, is a major contributor to global sea level rise. Our understanding of the physical processes controlling glacier-ocean interactions, however, is limited. Conveners welcome submissions from across glaciological and oceanographic disciplines that exploit observational, modeling, or theoretical methods to study land ice-ocean interactions. Particularly encouraged are submissions that exploit advances in satellite remote sensing capabilities (e.g., Sentinel's, Landsat-8, CryoSat-2, and ICESat). Example topics include: ocean circulation at ice sheet margins, ice velocity and elevation changes in response to oceanic forcing, ice melt beneath ice shelves and at tidewater glacier margins, icebergs and ice melange, bathymetry and glacier observations, climate sensitivity of physical processes controlling ice-ocean interactions, and development of coupled ice-ocean numerical models.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session29346
For questions, contact:
Tom Armitage
Email: Tom.W.Armitage [at] jpl.nasa.gov
- SESSION 25505: Translating Arctic Ocean Science to Policy: Exploring the value of Ocean Observations for Policy and Decision Making
Conveners: Monique Baskin and Henry Huntington.
Scientists can offer value to the world of policy through information that can support effective policy and decision making, but there is often a disconnect between this potential and its realization. Policy is traditionally understood as actions or ideas that are proposed to solve a particular problem and passes through a legislative process. Decision making differs because it is specific and operational in nature. There is a need to further explore ways in which science informs policy and decision making, looking at areas of rapid change and urgent need in the Arctic: maritime domain awareness, and food security and safety with outcome goals of exploring guidelines that govern activities in the North. The symposium will highlight community-based and standard scientific observations that inform policy at all levels, and how scientists and policy makers work together to overcome the disconnect between science and policy.
This session has been selected by the Program Committee to be an official panel. Panelists will be invited authors designated by the conveners.
Information about this type of session format is available through the AGU website.
View Session Formats (https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/alternate-session-formats/)
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session25505
For questions, contact:
Monique Baskin
Email: monique.baskin [at] noaa.gov
Phone: 301-427-2423