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3rd SEDIBUD (Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments) Workshop
Conference Announcement 3rd SEDIBUD (Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments) Workshop 9-13 September 2008 Boulder, Colorado Pre-registration Deadline: 15 March 2008 Final Registration and Abstract Deadline: 15 May 2008
Conference Announcement
3rd SEDIBUD (Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments) Workshop
9-13 September 2008
Boulder, Colorado
Pre-registration Deadline: 15 March 2008
Final Registration and Abstract Deadline: 15 May 2008
For further information, please go to:
http://www.geomorph.org/wg/wgsb.html
or contact:
Armelle Decaulne
E-mail: armelle@nnv.is
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The 3rd SEDIBUD (Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments) Workshop will be held on 9-13 September 2008, at the Mountain Research Station in Boulder, Colorado.
Climate change affects all Earth surface systems but with the arguably greatest impact in high-latitude and high-altitude cold environments. In these areas, climate change shapes Earth surface processes not just by altering vegetation cover and human activities but also through its impact on frost penetration and duration within the ground surface
layers. All of these factors influence patterns of erosion, transport, and deposition of sediments and related fluxes (e.g., nutrients, solutes, carbon). It is a challenge to develop a better understanding of how these factors combine to affect sedimentary transfer processes and sediment budgets in cold environments. Baseline knowledge on the erosion, sedimentary transfer, and depositional processes operating within Holocene and present-day climates and as landscape systems evolved and under given vegetation covers forms our basis for predicting the consequences of predicted future climate change and related vegetation cover changes. Much of this information, however, is limited in terms of spatial and temporal coverage and needs to be extended and consolidated. Only with these reliable models responding to landscape
and climate change will there be a fuller understanding of probable future changes to these regions.
Central issues of relevant science questions will be addressed within the SEDIBUD program, presentation and further discussion of the SEDIFLUX Manual (Revised Version), presentation of SEDIBUD key test sites (catchments), development of the SEDIBUD metadata database, and development of further ideas to continue and extend the scientific activities within SEDIBUD.
SEDIBUD is a working group of the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG)/Association Internationale des Geomorphologues (AIG), and further information is available at: http://www.geomorph.org/wg/wgsb.html
To register and submit an abstract for the workshop, please contact:
Armelle Decaulne
E-mail: armelle@nnv.is