Dear colleagues, We enthusiastically request contributions for a session titled "Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape", to be held at the next EGU conference in Vienna, April 13-18, 2008. This session will compliment a conference on the same theme (and title) to be held in New Orleans in May 2008 (see myres.org for details of this conference). Our EGU session in Vienna will explore potential two-way interactions between the landscape and ecosystem (at any scale). We are pleased to announce that Professor Bill Dietrich (Berkeley, Geomorphology) and Professor Mary Power (Berkeley, Integrative Biology) have accepted invitations to speak at this EGU session. The landscape in which we live is a complex entity arising from both biological and physical processes that are often modified by human activity. Until recently these processes and information have been assumed to flow one way. However, current research efforts have begun focusing on potential two-way interactions between 'life and landscape', be it human or otherwise. This session aims to help create a research framework for investigating feedback loops between physical and biological processes. We will promote discussion on urgent societal issues such environmental degradation by agriculture and deforestation, climate change and flooding/land loss - all which require an integration of concepts from various disciplines. We particularly encourage cross-disciplinary contributions from the ecological and geomorphological communities. The deadline for abstracts is January 14th 2008. See Meeting website (http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/) for further information. Full session details can be found here: http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/sessions/information.php?p_id=304&s_id=5523
Best wishes, Jane Willenbring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(Leibniz University of Hannover)and Liam Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (University of Exeter)
