Call for Papers
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2005 Fall Meeting
Session H 09: Exploring the Response of High-latitude Landscapes and Processes
to Global Change
5-9 December 2005
San Francisco, California
For further information on the AGU 2005 Fall Meeting, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/
We are pleased to draw your attention to a special session at the AGU
2005 Fall Meeting:
H 09: Exploring the Response of High-latitude Landscapes and Processes
to Global Change
This special session is focused on efforts to better understand the
temporal and spatial response of high-latitude surficial systems
dominated by glacial and periglacial processes to perturbations driven
by climate or tectonic changes. Such climate perturbations could include
a range of time scales: Quaternary Milankovitch cycles, millennial-scale
Dansgaard-Oeschger events, anthropogenically forced climate change,
ENSO, etc. Tectonic forcing may encompass processes from orogeny to
surface rupture/co-seismic disturbance. Questions of particular interest
include: what high-latitude systems are likely to show the fastest
response and what are the characteristics of those responses? How fast
are they? Decades, millennia, or longer?
Contributions are sought from diverse fields and will represent a
variety of approaches. Examples range from modeling studies of
climate-surface process-tectonic interactions, to field research on
rates and mechanisms of glacial and periglacial erosion and
sedimentation, to studies of marine and lacustrine sediment archives of
landscape evolution in dynamic high latitude systems.
Conveners:
Bernard Hallet
University of Washington
Quaternary Research Center
Box 351360
Seattle, WA 98195-1360
Phone: 206-685-2409
E-mail: hallet [at] u.washington.edu
John Jaeger
University of Florida
Geological Sciences
241 Williamson Hall
P.O. Box 112120
Gainesville, FL 32611-2120
Phone: 352-846-1381
E-mail: jaeger [at] geology.ufl.edu
CoSponsors: Hydrology, Ocean Sciences, Paleoceanography and
Paleoclimatology, Tectonophysics, Cryosphere