Special Session on "Life in Ice" at The American Society of Limnology
and Oceanography (ASLO) upcoming meeting
Salt Lake City, Utah
February 9-14, 2003
For more information visit:
http://www.aslo.org/slc2003
Abstract Submission deadline is October 1, 2002
Dear Colleagues,
A special session on "life in Ice" is being organized for the upcoming
ASLO meeting in Salt Lake City next Feb 9-14, 2003. Please consider
submitting an abstract to this session and joining us for some lively
presentations and discussion. Pass the word to your Antarctic
colleagues! Information on the overall meeting and the special session
is included below, along with the website for additional details.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in Salt Lake City!
Best regards, Jody
Jody Deming
School of Oceanography
Box 357940
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 USA
jdeming [at] u.washington.edu
General information:
The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography invites the
submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations for the 2003
Aquatic Sciences Meeting.
The Earth's Eyes: Aquatic Sciences Through Space and Time
February 9-14, 2003
Salt Palace Convention Center
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, the site of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games!
Abstract submissions and registrations are now being accepted through
the conference web site (http://www.aslo.org/slc2003). In order to have
your abstract considered for acceptance, you must submit before the
abstract deadline of October 1, 2002.
The scientific program for the 2003 meeting will include plenary
lectures, special and contributed sessions for oral presentations and
poster sessions. Sessions will be organized around the four meeting
sub-themes, and the plenary lectures will address each of the sub-themes:
Historical Studies in Aquatic Sciences
Paleo Studies In Aquatic Sciences
Spatial Patterns In Aquatic Systems
Extreme Environments On Earth and Beyond
A new addition for 2003! The program begins on Sunday, February 9,
2003, at 5:30 p.m. with an exciting opening address by Dave DesMarais of
the Exobiology Branch of NASA's Ames Research Center. His talk will be
prior to the opening reception at 6:30 p.m.
Plans for optional workshops, field trips, and additional activities are
being finalized. Make plans to participate in the meeting in Salt Lake!
For more information, please visit the web site:
http://www.aslo.org/slc2003
or send an email to business [at] aslo.org.
Meeting Co-Chairs:
Samantha 'Mandy' Joye
University of Georgia
mjoye [at] arches.uga.edu
James 'Jim' Cotner
University of Minnesota
cotne002 [at] umn.edu
Special Session description:
SS4.08 Life in Ice
Organizer: Jody W. Deming (jdeming [at] u.washington.edu)
Although sea ice and other forms of natural frozen environments have
been the subject of biological studies for decades, new motivations and
techniques for examining relationships between the ice and its
inhabitants have arisen in recent years. Rapidly changing environmental
conditions in polar regions portend reductions in the sea-ice cover,
such that some forms of life dependent on the ice may face extinction.
Activities of communities within ice forms, including sea ice, lake and
glacial ice, permafrost and even methane clathrates, are increasingly
recognized for their significant contributions to and reflections of
large-scale biogeochemical cycles, with connections between land, sea
and atmosphere. Evidence for an ice-covered ocean on the Jovian moon
Europa, as well as for liquid water associated with the frozen surfaces
of Mars, have propelled ice studies into center stage for astrobiology.
This session welcomes contributions that address recent advances in the
understanding of life in ice, the various strategies evolved to survive
at the coldest temperatures on Earth, and the implications for
biogeochemical cycles and life elsewhere.