From May 30 - June 3 the American Geophysical Union will hold its Spring
2000 meeting in Washington, DC. This message is a special note from the
conveners of the session U04 Ice Cores.
A complete listing of special sessions at the Spring meeting can be found
at: http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm00spss.html.
Dear Colleagues,
Contributions are welcomed for the following Spring AGU Special
Session. Please note that the abstract deadline for paper submissions
is March 2 and for electronic submissions is March 9.
U04 Ice Cores:
Glaciology and Environmental Change Variations in the physical, chemical,
and isotopic content through layered snow and ice can provide substantial
insight into past environmental conditions and climate variability.
Retrieval and analysis of these signals have also led to significant
advances in understanding the role of the cryosphere in global climate. In
this session, we encourage submission of studies that pursue understanding
of dynamic glaciologic problems as well as detectable natural and
anthropogenic changes in climate conditions. We encourage submissions that
link these studies to glaciologic modeling, oceanography, hydrology, and
atmospheric science as this will facilitate the development of a broad
earth system context. The spring meeting offers a new venue for this
area of research that will facilitate rapid dissemination of recent
activities in Antarctica such as US ITASE. Both oral and poster
presentations are welcome.
Thanks,
The Conveners:
Christopher A. Shuman
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-2424 USA
301-405-8291
301-405-8468 fax
shuman [at] buggam.umd.edu
Eric J. Steig
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
251 Hayden Hall
240 S. 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316 USA
215-573-5978
215-898-0964 fax
esteig [at] sas.upenn.edu
James W. C. White
INSTAAR
University of Colorado
Campus Box 450
Boulder, CO 80309 USA
303-492-5494
james.white [at] colorado.edu