Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
"Remote Sensing of Arctic Marine Ecosystems"
Arctic Change 2008
Quebec City, Canada
9-12 December 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 26 September 2008
For further information please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=11010
Or contact:
Pierre Larouche
Email: Pierre.Larouche [at] dfo-mpo.gc.ca
David Barber
Email: dbarber [at] cc.umanitoba.ca
Abstracts are invited for session T31: "Remote Sensing of Arctic Marine
Ecosystems" being convened at the Arctic Change 2008 Conference, to be
held 9-12 December 2008, in Quebec City, Canada.
Session Description:
In the context of a forecasted disappearance of the summer arctic ice
cover, it is crucial to improve our understanding of how this polar
marine ecosystem will evolve towards a new equilibrium and how northern
societies can develop adaptation strategies to face such change.
However, despite major efforts from the research community over the last
10 years (e.g., SHEBA, NOW, CASES, ArcticNet, CFL, DAMOCLES, SEARCH,
etc.), the arctic marine ecosystem is still under-sampled compared to
other oceanic basins. For many applications (e.g. ice, surface
temperatures, winds, ocean currents), remote sensing is now a fully
matured research tool that can be used not only for ecosystem monitoring
but also to acquire an in-depth knowledge of major physical and
biological processes.
In this session, organizers seek papers that examine how remote sensing
can be used to examine physical and/or biological processes associated
with variability and change in the arctic system (marine and
terrestrial). Integration of field observations, scaling issues and
multiplatform sensor data are encouraged.
The abstract submission deadline is Friday, 26 September 2008.
To submit an abstract, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=13010
For further information about the conference, please go to:
http://www.arctic-change2008.com/index.php?url=11010
Or contact the session conveners:
Pierre Larouche
Email: Pierre.Larouche [at] dfo-mpo.gc.ca
David Barber
Email: dbarber [at] cc.umanitoba.ca