Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to a session that we are organizing during the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco from Dec 9-13, 2013 on Observations and model requirements for understanding drivers of disturbance processes in Arctic and Boreal terrestrial ecosystems as detailed below. We hope you will consider submitting an abstract to this session if you are working on this research domain.
Session B052: Observations and model requirements for understanding drivers of disturbance processes in Arctic and Boreal terrestrial ecosystems
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
David McGuire (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Peter Thornton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Guido Grosse (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Daniel Thomson (Natural Resources Canada)
Description:
Current-generation Earth System Models do not well-represent key ecosystem processes in Arctic and Boreal ecosystems. A range of disturbance processes across the press (e.g. permafrost thaw) to pulse (e.g. fire, insects, and thermokarst) spectrum are causing widespread changes to ecosystem function in these ecosystems. Organizing existing and new data collections within a synthesis framework will facilitate incorporating these processes and their feedbacks in modeling applications and for understanding disturbance for land management. Our session invites papers involving observational, experimental, remote sensing and modeling studies characterizing these disturbance processes and their impacts on the key components of Arctic-Boreal system.
Abstract submission deadline is August 6, 2013.
We hope to see you in San Francisco.
Sincerely,
Conveners:
Liza Jenkins, Michigan Tech Research Institute
Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Lab
Nancy French, Michigan Tech Research Institute
Eric Kasischke, University of Maryland
Santonu Goswami, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI)
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box: 2008, MS 6301
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301
Phone: 865-241-1296
Fax: 865-241-9910
http://santonu.googlepages.com
