Call for Session Abstracts
Arctic Change 2014
8-12 December 2014
Ottawa, Canada
Submission deadline: Friday, 3 October 2014
For further information, please go to:
http://www.arcticnetmeetings.ca/ac2014/call_abstracts.php
Organizers announce calls for abstract submissions for the following
sessions to be convened during the Arctic Change 2014 conference being
held 8-12 December 2014 Ottawa, Canada.
Special Session on Arctic Coastal Change and Adaptation
- Session Title: Pathways to Northern Coastal Sustainability:
Understanding and Responding to Environmental and Social Change on the
Pan-Arctic Coast.
- Session Organizers: Donald L. Forbes, Paul Overduin, and Trevor Bell.
- Session Overview:
The coastal zone is the interface through which land-ocean exchanges in
the Arctic are mediated and where decisions involving combined social
and environmental issues affect the lives, health, and livelihoods of
many northern residents. The coastal margin is the locus of complex
interactions of marine, terrestrial, and atmospheric processes that are
sensitive to projected climate change and anthropogenic stressors. A
better understanding of current and expected circumpolar coastal change
is urgently required, given that the region provides essential ecosystem
services, supports indigenous economies and lifestyles, hosts a wealth
of natural resources, and is a zone of expanding infrastructure
investment and growing security concerns. Remote and community-based
observations of social and environmental conditions and change can
provide baseline data, help to identify gaps in knowledge, and
contribute to informing risk assessment, resource management, adaptation
planning, policy development, and evidence-based decision-making. This
session welcomes contributions that address the current status and
present or anticipated trends in natural and social conditions affecting
human settlements, infrastructure, and valued cultural or natural
resources along the circumpolar Arctic coast. Presentations reporting on
multi- and transdisciplinary approaches involving diverse stakeholders
in co-design and co-production of knowledge to support effective
adaptation and sustainable development are particularly encouraged.
The Circumpolar Arctic Coastal Communities Observatory Network (CACCON),
which is sponsoring this session, will convene a separate project side
meeting the afternoon of Tuesday 9 December. Further details will be
available.
For questions, please contact:
Don Forbes
Email: dlforbes [at] mun.ca
Session on Arctic Ocean Acidification (T05)
- Session Title: Monitoring, Modeling, and Predicting Circumpolar and
Regional Arctic Systems.
- Session Organizers: Richard Bellerby, Jeremy Mathis, Jan Rene Larsen.
- Session Overview:
In concert with the rising atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide
(CO2), the ocean inorganic carbon inventory is increasing due to a net
air-sea flux of CO2 at the surface. Atmospheric CO2 levels are the
highest for at least 800 000 years and, generally, global ocean surface
CO2 increases are following the atmospheric change. Consequently, the pH
of the ocean is going down and the relative speciation of inorganic
carbon is changing at a rate likely to have been unsurpassed over the
past 55 million years. This process has been termed ocean acidification;
following the increase in the concentration of hydrogen ions in
seawater. The Arctic is inherently susceptible to ocean acidification as
it has a low buffer capacity and as such will exhibit greater changes in
ocean acidification per unit CO2 increase. As in most of the world
oceans, the major driver of ocean acidification in the Arctic Ocean is
directly attributable to the increasing atmospheric carbon load
following the combustion of fossil fuels and land use changes. However,
rapid ocean warming and ice melt are accelerating ocean acidification
over most of the Arctic.
This session will include information on work of the Arctic Monitoring
and Assessment Programme (AMAP) and discuss related questions including:
- What are the chemical changes in the Arctic marine environment?
- What are the biological responses and feedbacks?
- What are the economic and social consequences due to effects on marine
harvesting today and tomorrow?
For questions, please contact:
Jan Rene Larsen
Email: jan.rene.larsen [at] amap.no
The submission deadline for all abstracts is Friday, 3 October 2014.
For further information about the Arctic Change 2014 meeting, abstract
guidelines, and to submit abstracts online, please go to:
http://www.arcticnetmeetings.ca/ac2014/call_abstracts.php.
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