Apologies to all for cross posting. Well it is that time of year again! I would like to alert everyone to the special session Jim Kaste, Greg Okin, and I are organizing for the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting (14-18 December 2009; San Francisco, California).
Please consider submitting an abstract by September 3rd. We are very interested in presentations that study interactions between at least two of the three types of forcing listed in the title. Both modeling and observation-focused studies are encouraged. If you have any questions, please talk to any one of the three of us! (details and contact info below) Best regards, Andrew Elmore, Jim Kaste, and Greg Okin EP09: Landscape Evolution: Quantifying Interactions Between Biological, Physical, and Anthropogenic Forcings. Sponsor: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Description: Landscape evolution has historically been described using the interactions of biological and physical processes. However, chronic anthropogenic impacts from low-intensity land use and climate change complicate these interactions and in some cases lead to significant shifts in the rate and trajectory of geomorphologic change. Additionally, we lack quantitative methods for describing certain natural processes across a range of timescales and how they might be impacted by human activities. A quantitative understanding of biological, physical, and anthropogenic forcings is required to manage coupled earth systems for sustainable natural resource use. This session solicits papers that describe the relative roles of physical, biological and anthropogenic mechanisms in landscape evolution, and how these roles might shift over time. We encourage interdisciplinary studies that utilize novel methods and/or long-term environmental records to identify and quantify the major earth systems processes (including human activities) and their interactions that control landscape evolution. Website: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=283 Convener Information: Dr. Andrew J. Elmore Appalachian Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (301) 689-7124 Dr. James M. Kaste Department of Geology College of William and Mary E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (757) 221-2951 Dr. Gregory S. Okin Department of Geography University of California, Los Angeles E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (310) 825-1071
