Call for AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021
13-17 December 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana and Online
For more information about the meeting, go to:
https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is accepting abstracts for their Fall Meeting. This conference will take place 13-17 December 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana and online.
The following sessions invite abstracts:
C001: A Blue Arctic Ocean: Future U.S. Arctic Research and Marine Infrastructure Needs
Conveners: Laurie Geller, Ted A. Scambos, Lawson W. Brigham, and Nagruk Harcharek
Current infrastructure within the U.S. maritime Arctic is not in a state to support increased research or maritime activity as profound changes ongoing in the Arctic Ocean continue to unfold. Expanding the development of critical research infrastructure in this region is needed to provide information and analyses regarding this rapidly evolving environment. Expanding marine infrastructure can provide the required marine safety and environmental protection regimes to meet new demands from increasing human activities in this region. This session will explore specific research infrastructure and broad marine infrastructure needs such as: more accurate and timely marine weather and sea ice forecasting; increased oceanographic in-situ data; more accurate and complete hydrography and charting; a deep-draft Arctic port to support maritime and logistics activities; research and coastal icebreaking assets; communications and search and rescue infrastructure; and an understanding of species migration routes to safely guide vessel traffic and avoid conflicts with subsistence hunting.
To submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/prelim.cgi/Session/124100
B074: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change
Conveners: Peter C. Griffith, Michelle C. Mack, Abhishek Chatterjee, and Natalie Boelman
Climate change is unfolding faster in the high northern latitudes than anywhere else on Earth. These changes are impacting ecological processes directly, through warmer temperatures and changing precipitation, and indirectly, though increasing frequency of climate-driven disturbances such as wildfire, outbreaks of pests and pathogens, and permafrost thaw. Although some ecosystems are resistant or resilient to these changes, many are shifting to new states, altering the function of the Arctic-boreal region. This session invites contributions in terrestrial ecology and carbon cycle science that provide conceptual, regional, or global insights into the resilience and vulnerability of the Arctic-boreal region, including its wildlife and ecosystem services, to changing climate. Contributions may address any geographic area of this region. Conveners welcome studies that use in situ, airborne, and satellite remote sensing observations, and models, or some combination thereof, to conceptualize, detect, predict, or forecast the changing function of this region in the earth system.
To submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/prelim.cgi/Session/117940