Dear Colleagues,
this is an invitation to submit to the following sessions at the upcoming AGU fall meeting (Deadline: 2 September. Submissions: http://agu-fm10.abstractcentral.com/index.jsp): B27: BIOGEODYNAMICS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES The Earth System is characterized by complex non-linear dynamics in which coupled biotic and abiotic processes shape the physical environment and the associated ecosystems and evolutionary pressures. Climate is also heavily affected by biological processes, such that biospheric feedbacks cannot be neglected. We invite contributions on observational, theoretical, and/or modelling studies of the dynamical interactions between the biosphere and the physical, chemical, atmospheric and geophysical processes that shape the Earth System, from the joint evolution of the planet and the life forms living on it, to the response of microbes, plants, and animals to climate change, to the two-way interaction of climate and biosphere. Invited Speakers: Tanja Bosak (MIT), Paolo D'Odorico (University of Virginia) Conveners: Marco Marani (University of Padova), John Albertson (Duke University), Antonello Provenzale (CNR, Turin), Daniel Rothman (MIT) NG09: PATTERN FORMATION IN EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES Many surface and subsurface processes lead to complex patterns in the Earth Sciences, such as river, subsurface, and fracture networks, bio-hydrodynamic structures, vegetation patterns, gravity fingers during infiltration. The geometry of the emerging patterns largely determines macroscopic quantities, such as fluxes, travel times, and related ecosystem services and vulnerability. Despite relatively recent and fundamental advances in the field, the selection principle and the observed morphology of many pattern-forming geophysical processes remain to be understood. We invite contributions on the observation of new pattern-forming processes, experiments offering new insight, and theoretical and modeling interpretations of the observed patterns. Invited speakers: Brad Murray (Duke University), Taylor Perron (Harvard), Johan van de Koppel (NIOO - The Netherlands) Conveners: Marco Marani (University of Padova), Ruben Juanes, MIT (jua...@mit.edu), Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, MIT, (lcu...@mit.edu), Andrea D'Alpaos (University of Padova) I hope to see you in S. Francisco! Marco Marani Prof. Marco Marani Dept. IMAGE Director of the International Center for Hydrology University of Padova via Loredan 20 - I 35131 Padova ITALY phone: +39 049 8275449 fax: +39 049 8275446 Skype: marco.marani66 Web www.image.unipd.it/m.marani/ _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce@atmosocean.org http://www.atmosocean.org/mailman/listinfo/announce