Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
12-16 December 2016
San Francisco, California
Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Wednesday, 3 August 2016.
For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract
submissions for the 2016 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 12-16
December 2016 in San Francisco, California.
Abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time on Wednesday, 3 August 2016. Specific criteria and
instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/.
Conveners of the following three sessions invite presentations from the
Arctic community:
- Session 13059: Scenario Approaches to Understand Arctic Futures
Conveners: Robert Rich, Helen Wiggins, Brit Myers, and Caspar Ammann.
Consideration of alternative scenarios for the medium-long term future
of the Arctic region can be a powerful approach to synthesis of
disparate trends in support of enhanced understanding of the
possibilities. Scenario approaches use a variety of scales of analysis
to understand the social-ecological systems of a region (or
sub-regions), bringing together geoscience, biological science, and
interactions of these natural systems with regional and global
populations.
This session will feature presentations from pioneering research groups
involved in Arctic scenario analysis. The audience will learn how these
different approaches were developed and structured, and what insights
they have produced about possible and likely Arctic futures.
Arctic scenarios development is often informed by inputs from global and
regional models of climate, atmosphere, marine, and terrestrial change.
As a focus, session participants will also be asked to consider how such
physical models might be improved to better inform and support more
robust scenarios.
For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13059.
- Session 13826: Scale-dependent ecological dynamics in a rapidly
changing Arctic
Conveners: Jeffrey Kerby, Isla Myers-Smith, Andrew Cunliffe, and Howard
Epstein.
The Arctic is rapidly changing as the climate warms, yet how this change
is altering ecological dynamics across scales is poorly understood.
Decades of plot- and satellite-based studies underpin our understanding
of change in Arctic systems, but linking patterns and processes across
levels of ecological organization has traditionally been hampered by a
lack of moderate-scale data.
The application of emerging methods - including the integration of
unmanned aerial systems (UAS), time-lapse photography, multi-platform
satellite observations and cross site ecological data synthesis * are
filling a long-standing gap in our understanding of how scale affects
observed and predicted ecological change.
This session will provide a forum for researchers from the fields of
tundra remote sensing, phenology, population- and ecosystem- ecology to
address concepts of scale-dependent ecological dynamics in high-latitude
ecosystems. Each presentation will address how working across scales
can improve our understanding of the ecological processes reshaping the
rapidly changing Arctic.
For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13826.
- Session 13217: Biogeochemical cycling in the cryosphere
Conveners: Jon Hawkings, Marek Stibal, Robert G Spencer, and James W
McClelland.
The cryosphere is home to Earth's frozen systems including glaciers, ice
sheets, seasonal snow cover, permafrost, and sea ice. It is an integral
part of the global climate system and is wasting at a rapid rate due to
warming. The cryosphere has been identified as an important component of
biogeochemical cycles at local to global scales, and understanding how
cryospheric changes are impacting biogeochemical cycles is critical for
anticipating future trajectories. Here we focus on micro- to macro-
scale cryosphere-biogeochemical linkages in the past, present and
future. We particularly encourage contributions focusing on carbon and
nutrient cycling responses and feedbacks. This highly multidisciplinary
session brings together a diverse range of scientists with interests
spanning microbiology, biogeochemistry, glaciology, hydrology and
oceanography of the coldest places on Earth to debate our current
understanding and recent advances.
For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13217.
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