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AGU Fall Meeting Session - "International Collaboration to Build Understanding of Climate Change in Polar Regions"
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to consider, and submit abstracts to, the AGU Fall Meeting session C29: "International Collaboration to Build Understanding of Climate Change in Polar Regions".
We believe your participation in this session would be particularly appropriate. Deadline for online abstract submissions is 10 September 2008. http://submissions3.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp We hope you plan to attend AGU this year.
Description: We review the state of the art in current and planned international projects investigating climatic and wider environmental changes in polar regions. This reflects the very widely documented range of environmental changes that have occurred in polar terrestrial and marine regions over the past 10-100 years, and also those that are predicted for the next 100 years. Such changes include the areal coverage and mass balance of terrestrial ice and snow cover, vegetation and land-cover change, changes in hydrology (e.g. river flow and permafrost), ocean circulation and sea-ice dynamics, storm frequency and intensity, forest fires, human and ecological variations, and the possible causes of variation (natural climatic change/global warming). To what extent are these changes affected by recent and ongoing changes in climate, and how do they affect climate? Are ongoing climatic trends producing consequent impacts to ecosystems, social structures, geomorphology or other physical or biological processes? How will understanding be improved through observations and modelling? In many respects, the Arctic and Antarctic respond as systems, as physical, biological and social structures display a complicated interdependence. In order to build our understanding of the relationships and feedbacks among processes, it is important to take stock of current key national and international research efforts, as such stocktaking will help further synergise and stimulate future polar science research. This session therefore aims to bring together a wide range of international researchers, including some of the leading workers, to discuss this pressing issue.
Conveners: Edward Hanna
University of Sheffield
Winter Street
Department of Geography
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, GBR S10 2TN
00(44) 114 222 7965
ehanna@sheffield.ac.uk
Larry Hinzman
International Arctic Research Center
P.O. Box 757340
930 Koyukuk Drive, 423 Akasofu Building
Fairbanks Alaska 99775-7340
Fairbanks, AK, USA Alaska 997
1 907-474-7331
ffldh@uaf.edu
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=219
We look forward to seeing many of you in San Francisco!
Best wishes,
Edward Hanna and Larry Hinzman