Date

Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting
21-26 February 2016
New Orleans, Louisiana

Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Wednesday, 23 September 2015

For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions


Abstracts are currently being accepted for sessions during 2016 Ocean
Sciences Meeting. The meeting will be held 21-26 February 2016 in New
Orleans, Louisiana.

Abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time Wednesday, 23 September 2015. Specific criteria and
instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at
http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions.

Conveners of the following three sessions invite abstract submissions:

  1. Session 9492: "Macroecological Approaches to the Arctic Ocean System:
    Changes and Implications on Biogeochemical Cycles"
    Session Chairs: Ilka Peeken, Patricia Matrai, Eddy Carmack, and Maria
    Vernet
    Session Description: Macroecology advocates the collection of large
    amounts of some "easily" measured data at large spatial scales in order
    to examine relations between organisms and their environment. Focus is
    given to pattern, scale, regionality, and seasonality. In the Arctic
    Ocean, the most striking physical changes are associated with
    diminishing sea ice extent and thickness, resulting in a loss of an
    important interface between the ocean and the atmosphere. Understanding
    the response of biogeochemical cycles and the marine ecosystems to these
    changes requires the integration of physical, biological, and chemical
    oceanographic studies across a range of temporal and spatial scales.
    We encourage submissions ranging from the micron scale (e.g.,
    phytoplankton, ice algae, and bacteria) to the km scale (e.g., satellite
    pixels-from-space; spring and fall blooms) and from turbulent bursting
    phenomena to decadal and longer time scales. We seek interdisciplinary
    data and synthesis products that elucidate the current status of the
    physical (i.e., ocean, sea ice, atmosphere) and biogeochemical
    processes, how feedbacks and controls could change Arctic marine
    systems, as well as research on complex systems and thresholds. We
    especially invite advances linking the hard-to-measure biological
    distributions to the easier-to-measure physical conditions at large
    spatial and long temporal scales.

For questions about this session, contact Ilka Peeken
(ilka.peeken [at] awi.de).

For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9492.html.

  1. Session 9311: "Heat Transport Processes in the Arctic Ocean's
    Atlantic and Pacific Water Layers"
    Session Chairs: Mary-Louise Timmermans and Jeff Carpenter
    Session Description: One of the most significant contemporary changes to
    occur in the Arctic Ocean has been a warming of the Atlantic and Pacific
    water layers. This warming impacts sea-ice cover only where the ocean
    heat is transported to the surface. However, over much of the Arctic
    Ocean the strong halocline stratification insulates the surface ocean
    and sea-ice cover from the underlying Atlantic and Pacific waters.
    Therefore, in order to predict and model Arctic sea-ice it is crucial to
    understand processes that are able to flux this heat vertically to the
    ocean surface. A whole host of processes are expected to play a role in
    this transport, such as double-diffusive convection, lateral intrusions,
    wind and internal wave driven mixing, as well as coastal upwelling and
    mesoscale eddies. This session invites submissions that investigate the
    vertical and lateral transport of heat from the Atlantic and Pacific
    layers. We invite studies that focus on the range of important heat
    transport processes, and encourage studies that encompass observational,
    theoretical and numerical approaches, to understand ocean heat transport
    in a changing Arctic system.

For questions about this session, contact Mary-Louise Timmermans
(mary-louise.timmermans [at] yale.edu).

For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9311.html.

  1. Session 9352: "High Latitude Air-Sea-Ice Interactions in a Changing
    Climate"
    Session Chairs: Kent Moore, Robert Pickart, John Cassano, and Robin
    Muench
    Session Description: Exchanges of heat, mass, and momentum across the
    air-sea interface impact the ocean and atmosphere and their interactions
    within the coupled climate system. These exchanges, significantly
    enhanced in polar regions by large air-sea temperature differences and
    high wind speeds, contribute to water mass modification and ventilation
    that in turn impacts biochemical and physical conditions throughout the
    world oceans. Sea ice modulates these processes and results in
    complexity that, combined with a sparsity of data in polar regions,
    contributes to uncertainty regarding their spatial and temporal
    variability and large scale impacts. This session provides a venue for
    the exchange of new information on all aspects of high latitude
    air-sea-ice interaction, including processes at the interface and
    investigations of their impacts on local ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice
    processes as well as the larger coupled climate system.

For questions about this session, contact Kent Moore
(gwk.moore [at] utoronto.ca)

For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9352.html.


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