Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts

Date

23 August 2010

Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
13-17 December 2010
San Francisco, California

Abstract Submission Deadline for all Sessions:
Thursday, 2 September 2010

GC20 - Past and Present Dynamics of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice
Cap System
ED14 - Lessons Learned from IPY: Building Effective Education,
Outreach, and Communication (EOC) Programs
A32 - Arctic Supercooled Clouds as Buffered Systems
A47 - Mechanisms of High Latitude Climate Change
C27 - The Last Arctic Sea Ice Refuge
C24 - Physical and Biogeochemical Processes Associated With Sea
Ice-Ocean System

GC20 - Past and Present Dynamics of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice
Cap System

Organizers of Session GC20, "Past and Present Dynamics of the Antarctic
Peninsula Ice Cap System," announce a call for abstracts. The session
will be convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting,
13-17 December 2010 in San Francisco, California.

The volume of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Cap (APIC) is decreasing due
to the retreat and disintegration of fringing ice shelves. The loss of
ice-shelf buttressing has lead to the accelerated discharge of ice from
the interior of the APIC, increasing the rate of global sea-level rise.
In turn, these processes are affecting the regional biological,
oceanographic, and geologic environments through lowered salinity,
changing sedimentation rates, and the creation of new ice-free bays and
fjords. This session solicits multidisciplinary contributions that
examine the past and present dynamics of the APIC system and its role in
modulating regional environmental change along the Antarctic Peninsula.

The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Thursday, 2 September 2010 at 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time. To submit
an abstract, you must enter the first author's current AGU member ID and
password at: http://agu-fm10.abstractcentral.com/index.jsp.

For further information, please contact:
Stefanie Brachfeld
Email: brachfelds [at] mail.montclair.edu

Erin Pettit
Email: pettit [at] gi.alaska.edu

ED14 - Lessons Learned from IPY: Building Effective Education,
Outreach, and Communication (EOC) Programs

Organizers of Session ED14, "Lessons Learned from IPY: Building
Effective Education, Outreach, and Communication (EOC) Programs,"
announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2010 in
San Francisco, California.

Just 'doing' science is no longer enough. Effective communication of
science research and its results is essential at all levels including
policymakers, funding organizations, voters, and to encourage future
scientists to train and enter the field. Education, Outreach and
Communication (EOC) was fundamentally integrated into all International
Polar Year (IPY) Projects. The 2010 AGU meeting in San Francisco
provides an opportunity for these projects to reflect on the successes
of their EOC programs, and to share how these will evolve into the
future and how they relate to other fields of science.

Session Description:
Many IPY EOC projects grew into successful science communication models
for research projects that can be applied to any field. This session
invites groups and individuals to share their best practices and the
adaptations that will lead to continued and better communication with
non-technical audiences from school children to media and policymakers.
This includes: How are networks built, nurtured and motivated? What are
the most effective strategies to reach the next generation of
scientists? How are you bringing diversity to research and education?
What models for EOC have been successful and which have failed? What
'tips and tricks' can you offer other scientists for communicating
science?

For further information, please contact:
Louise Huffman
Email: lhuffman [at] andrill.org

Jenny Baeseman
Email: jbaeseman [at] gmail.com

A32 - Arctic Supercooled Clouds as Buffered Systems

Organizers of Session A32, "Arctic Supercooled Clouds as Buffered
Systems," announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at
the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2010
in San Francisco, California.

Low-level, supercooled clouds occur commonly in the Arctic and therefore
are a key component of arctic climate. These clouds can either be
composed primarily of supercooled liquid, or may be mixed-phase with
intermittent or continuous ice precipitation. These systems are
routinely observed to persist for hours or even days in the face of
dissipating processes such as ice growth and precipitation, suggesting
that physical processes act in combination to help buffer the system and
maintain the clouds.

This session will explore our current knowledge of supercooled cloud
processes from those internal to the clouds (microphysical, radiative,
and dynamical) to larger scales (mesoscale and synoptic), with an
emphasis on how these processes interact to organize and buffer the
system. Papers for this session are sought on components of supercooled
cloud systems (e.g. microphysics, radiation, turbulence, cloud-scale and
larger-scale dynamics) and how they operate physically, from modeling,
observational, and/or theoretical perspectives. Papers that attempt to
synthesize knowledge of arctic supercooled cloud systems are
particularly encouraged.

For further information, please contact:
Jerry Y. Harrington
Email: harring [at] mail.meteo.psu.edu

Hugh Morrison
Email: morrison [at] ucar.edu

Graham Feingold
Email: graham.feingold [at] noaa.gov

Kara Sulia
Email: kjs5066 [at] psu.edu

A47 - Mechanisms of High Latitude Climate Change

Organizers of Session A47, "Mechanisms of High Latitude Climate Change,"
announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2010 in
San Francisco, California.

The high latitudes have warmed significantly during recent decades and
are projected to warm the most in response to greenhouse gas increases
during the coming century. This session solicits presentations that
enhance our understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological
dynamics governing high-latitude climate change. Organizers invite
contributions that apply theory, models of varying complexity, and
observations to explore climate-relevant high-latitude atmosphere, ice,
terrestrial, and ocean processes.

For further information, please contact:
Mark Flanner
Email: flanner [at] umich.edu

Ian Eisenman
Email: ian [at] gps.caltech.edu

Jennifer Kay
Email: jenkay [at] ucar.edu

C27 - The Last Arctic Sea Ice Refuge

Organizers of Session C27, "The Last Arctic Sea Ice Refuge," announce a
call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2010 in San
Francisco, California.

Summer sea ice may persist along the northern flank of Canada and
Greenland for decades longer than the rest of the Arctic. Observations
and models indicate that winds and ocean currents transport ice to this
area, raising the possibility of a naturally formed refugium for
ice-associated species.

Organizers hope to include presentations from a diverse suite of
perspectives in this special session focusing on the likely duration and
extent of the sea ice refuge, the characteristics of the 'ice shed'
contributing ice to the refuge, its potential physical and biological
characteristics, and possible policy, governance, and development
issues. Abstracts are solicited on projections of sea ice
characteristics and dynamics; relevant ice-associated species and their
habitats; paleo evidence for past sea ice duration; potential stressors
including transportation, tourism, resource extraction, and
contamination; potential economic and ecological outcomes; and
management strategies including policies and governance that could
maintain the viability of the refuge.

For further information, please contact:
Stephanie Pfirman
Email: spfirman [at] barnard.edu

Bruno Tremblay
Email: bruno.tremblay [at] mcgill.ca

Robert Newton
Email: bnewton [at] ldeo.columbia.edu

C24 - Physical and Biogeochemical Processes Associated With Sea
Ice-Ocean System

Organizers of Session C24, "Physical and Biogeochemical Processes
Associated With Sea Ice-Ocean System," announce a call for abstracts.
The session will be convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2010 in San Francisco, California.

Sea ice cover can affect ocean mixing, circulation, timing and magnitude
of primary production, carbon, DMS and nutrients cycling etc. through
processes such as light extenuation, heat and salt flux etc. This
session is intended for physical and biogeochemical process studies
associated with sea ice-ocean system. Examples are (heat, salt,
biogeochemical tracer) fluxes in sea ice, ocean and between them,
ecosystems in the sea ice, ocean and their interaction, and ocean mixing
processes related to sea ice cover and high spatial variability in
ice-ocean brine exchange. Both observations and modeling studies from
regional to global scales are welcome.

For further information, please contact:
Meibing Jin
Email: mjin [at] alaska.edu

Jennifer Hutchings
Email: jenny [at] iarc.uaf.edu

Marika Holland
Email: mholland [at] ucar.edu