Dear colleagues,
We are excited to invite you to submit abstracts to the Cryospheric Hazards session that we are excited to host at AGU this year. The session is co-organized between Cryosphere and Natural Hazards, see description below.
Session details:
Session ID: 102098
Session Title: Cryospheric Hazards
Section: Natural Hazards (NH012)
View Session Details: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/102098
Session Title: Cryospheric Hazards
Section: Natural Hazards (NH012)
View Session Details: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/102098
Conveners: Mylene Jacquemart (CU Boulder), Martin Truffer (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), Michele Koppes (University of British Columbia)
Invited Speakers: Florence Magnin (Université Savoie Mont Blanc), tbd
Around the globe, rapid climate change is resulting in widespread changes to the cryosphere. The world's cold regions are becoming more dynamic, and the resultant geomorphic processes are accelerating landscape changes that will be ongoing for centuries. In this session, we invite contributions that investigate the impacts of a changing cryosphere on the physical processes and hazards they pose to those living in high mountain and high latitude regions. We include all cryospheric hazards, notably from – but not limited to – debris-flows, supraglacial and paraglacial landslides, lahars, outburst floods from glacier- and moraine-dammed lakes, permafrost thaw, coastal erosion due to reduced sea ice coverage and thawing of ice-rich bluffs, and cascading processes of landscape change. We welcome studies using field observations, remote sensing, and/or numerical modelling to improve our process understanding, assessments, early warning systems, and impacts of cryospheric hazards both in high mountains and at high latitudes.
The abstract submission site is now open and abstracts can be submitted until Wednesday, 29 July.
Note that AGU will be mostly virtual, so this year is a great opportunity to attend without the inhibitive cost of travel (a (lower than usual) registration fee is still required)! What the session format will look like exactly is still somewhat unclear, so bear with us as AGU figures it all out. The number of abstracts is important for determining the session format, and we therefore recommend that you select "oral/poster" when you submit your abstract, since apparently only those abstracts really count.
We look forward to seeing you online!
Best regards,
for the conveners,
Mylène Jacquemart
Mylène Jacquemart
pronouns: she/her/hers
PhD Candidate
Earth Science and Observation Center (ESOC)
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder
