Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to send out a reminder via the cryolist.
Subject: Deadline for abstract submission for permafrost coasts session at ASLO
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Dear colleagues,
This is a friendly reminder that we welcome abstracts to our session 081 “Thawing permafrost and the nearshore zone of the Arctic Ocean - The impact of eroding coasts and river discharge on marine chemistry and ecosystems under a changing climate” until this Friday (14 October, 23:59 U.S. Central Time). You can find the session description below. The session is part of the upcoming meeting of the Association for the Science of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO).
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii (USA)
Duration: 26 February - 3 March 2017
Abstracts can be submitted until: 14 October 2016 (23:59 U.S. Central Time)
Early registration deadline: 14 October 2016
Website: https://www.sgmeet.com/aslo/honolulu2017/
There will be travel grants available for young researchers and early career scientists.
We look forward to seeing your abstracts and we hope to see many of you on Hawaii in February! Please contact Michael.Fritz@awi.de or George.Tanski@awi.de for any further information.
Best wishes from the session organizers,
Michael Fritz, George Tanski, Kristina Brown, Hugues Lantuit
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Session description
The Arctic is a highly sensitive environment that will be affected by global climate change more than other regions on Earth. Longer open water season, more frequent storms, and rising sea level will have major implications for the Arctic Ocean in the near future. With higher temperatures, permafrost will continue to thaw and thus alter organic matter transport mechanisms between terrestrial and marine environments. In particular, additional ancient organic matter will be transported within the fluvial systems that drain Arctic watersheds. The characteristics of discharge, organic matter fluxes, and sediment loads of Arctic rivers will change and bring additional material into the ocean. Besides rivers, Arctic coasts are a key-interface of land and ocean interactions. They account for 34% of the Earth’s coasts and are projected to erode more drastically in the future, leading to the transport of additional sediments and organic matter to the nearshore zone of the ocean. The implications of these changes to terrestrial organic matter transfer on marine chemistry and ecosystems, as well as their impacts on Arctic coastal communities, however, remain unclear. Ultimately, coastal retreat leads to a loss of natural habitat for flora and fauna and threatens cultural heritage from indigenous people and early explorers along the coasts. In this session, we invite contributions that investigate the impact of terrestrial organic matter transfer to coastal environments, not limited to permafrost systems, and encourage participation from aquatic specialists and oceanographers to foster interdisciplinary exchange on these topics.
