Dear Colleagues:
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We invite you to contribute your abstract to special session focusing on
phenology at the AGU Fall Meeting, December 10-14, 2007! =20
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B17: Observing, Analyzing, and Modeling Phenologies at Multiple Scales.
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The abstract deadline looms (06 September @ 23:59 UTC =3D 19:59 EDT; =
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CDT; 17:59 MDT; 16:59 PDT)!=20
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Our invited speakers have confirmed:=20
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Jake Weltzin, USA National Phenology Network
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Kirsten de Beurs, Virginia Tech
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Andrew Richardson, University of New Hampshire
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Session description:=20
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Phenology is the study of the timing of recurring biological and
ecological events and the biotic and abiotic forces that influence the
timing. Phenology is, in the words of Aldo Leopold, a "horizontal
science" that cuts across and binds together multiple biological
disciplines. It is a far-reaching but poorly understood and
underutilized aspect of the environmental sciences. Phenologies come in
many forms - the appearance of migratory species, the stages of crop
development, and the onset of spring across the vegetated land surface,
leaf fall in deciduous species, or growth and development of indicator
species. The methods used to observe, analyze, and model these
phenologies are diverse. With the advent of the National Phenology
Network, the United States has for the first time a federal program
designed to coordinate, collect, analyze, and disseminate phenological
observations at multiple scales and across scientific and social
disciplines. This centralized resource enables the integration of
spatially-extensive phenological data and models with both short and
long-term climatic forecasts to be used as a powerful agent for human
adaptation to ongoing and future climate change. This session provides a
meeting place for a multiplicity of approaches to phenological study to
exchange data and information. We encourage researchers across
disciplines and across the planet to contribute to this
multidisciplinary session.
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The session is sponsored by the Biogeosciences section and
co-sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences, Global Environmental Change,
and Hydrology sections. This year marks the fourth in a series of
phenology special sessions at the AGU Fall Meetings, and it promises to
be an exciting forum to share knowledge as well as to learn about the
newly emerging USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN). =20
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To submit your abstract, go to=20
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http://submissions3.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp
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and select Biogeosciences session B17
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In case you are not familiar with the AGU way, there is no guarantee
at this stage that this special session will be allocated one or more
oral sessions. Most of the presentations at AGU are posters and oral
sessions are allocated proportionally to the number of abstracts
submitted directly to that session. However, the track record for
phenology sessions is good: one oral session in 2004; two oral sessions
both in 2005 and 2006.
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If you have questions or you are not an AGU member and need to have
your abstract submission sponsored by a member, please do not hesitate
to contact us! =20
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We look forward to receiving your abstract and your participation in
this session!
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Geoff Henebry ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Andy Bunn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mark Losleben ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
