Date

Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
12-16 December 2016
San Francisco, California

Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Wednesday, 3 August 2016.

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


The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract
submissions for the 2016 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 12-16
December 2016 in San Francisco, California.

Abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time on Wednesday, 3 August 2016. Specific criteria and
instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/.

Conveners of the following four sessions invite presentations from the
Arctic community:

  1. Session 13660: Arctic Science Knowledge Transfer: Improving Decision
    Making for a Sustainable North
    Conveners: Maribeth Murray, Peter Schlosser, and Gabriela Ibarguchi.
    This session presents results from the existing integrated Arctic
    Environmental Change research programs, as well as from individual
    projects addressing this topic. The goal is to highlight research that
    integrates stakeholders in both the research and knowledge transfer and
    application processes. Arctic environmental change is certain to
    challenge humankind in many new ways and solution-oriented science for
    society and sustainability is increasingly critical. We invite
    contributions focused on response strategies for mitigation of and
    adaptation to these changes, real-world application of Arctic science to
    the development of solutions (including improved observations) to local,
    regional and global problems, and case studies focused on stakeholder
    engagement in knowledge transfer for decision making. Contributions are
    welcome from any area of Arctic research.

For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13660.

  1. Session 13418: Sustained observations of rapid Arctic change:
    Scientific and technological advances, observing system design and
    implementation, findings from long-term observations
    Conveners: Hajo Eicken, Julie Brigham-Grette, Craig Lee, and Peter
    Schlosser.
    A rapidly changing Arctic challenges our ability to predict and
    effectively respond to major environmental and socio-economic
    transformations underway in the North and reverberating throughout the
    global system. Sustained observations of key variables and processes
    that capture variability, long-term trends and regime shifts, including
    high resolution paleoclimate records, are central to furthering
    understanding of the drivers and impacts of change, the development of
    prediction systems from sub-seasonal to decadal timescales and to the
    implementation of adaptation and mitigation measures. This session
    welcomes presentations that describe major findings and lessons learned
    from existing observing efforts at high and mid latitudes, as well as
    those that address the full range of scientific issues underlying
    development and implementation of Arctic observing systems, such as
    advances in the science and technology of sustained observations
    (including autonomous sensor systems), observing system design and
    implementation.

For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13418.

  1. Session 13419: Towards more effective decision maker-scientist
    engagement
    Conveners: Julie Vano, David Behar, Philip Mote, and Daniel Ferguson.
    Climate extremes, variability, and change and how these impact
    hydrological and ecological systems pose serious risks to society, risks
    that require critical decisions be made now to avoid future system
    failures. Scientists often see their responsibility as understanding
    what future changes will be, and then decision makers are responsible
    for using this information to take action. Unfortunately, rarely is it
    that simple. Too often there is a disconnect between the information
    generated by scientists and decisions being made. This session will
    explore how these gaps can be overcome. What do bridges between climate
    science and applications look like? How are these bridges built? We seek
    experiences that reveal the nature of actionable science and demonstrate
    ways knowledge can be co-produced to address climate change. We
    especially welcome concrete examples of processes or products that
    demonstrate better practices, or practices to avoid, when including
    climate science in decision making.

For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13419.

  1. Session 12520: Links between Arctic Low Clouds and their Environment:
    Current Gaps and Future Directions.
    Conveners: Patrick Taylor, Lauren Zamora, Linette Boisvert.
    By affecting radiative energy flows, low clouds exert a significant
    influence on Arctic sea and land ice, ocean biogeochemistry, and
    large-scale atmospheric dynamics. Despite significant advances in
    understanding Arctic low clouds over recent years, the sensitivity of
    these clouds to environmental factors is a leading uncertainty in
    projections of Arctic climate change.In this session, we invite
    studies that link Arctic low clouds with their environment, including
    air-sea-land exchanges of aerosols, energy, and moisture as well as
    interactions between clouds and marine ecological and biogeochemical
    processes. We welcome contributions that employ a wide range of
    methodologies, including numerical models and satellite, ground-based,
    and field campaign measurements. Speakers are encouraged to not only to
    discuss their recent findings, but to present a slide on the
    uncertainties that they consider to be key to understanding Arctic low
    cloud sensitivities and predictions.

For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12520.


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