Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention and request to consider submitting an abstract to the following session at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting. TITLE: Forest Hydrology within the Context of Global Change and Forest Health (GC021) Session Description: Widespread threats to forests under climate change prompt re-thinking priorities for water management on forest lands. Despite the widely held view that forest management should emphasize providing water for downstream uses, maintaining forest health in the future may require conserving water on forest lands. This session focuses on this novel and underexplored shift in priorities for forests, emphasizing: (i) complex interactions underlying relations between forests and water at various scales; (ii) new approaches for prediction, modeling, and analysis to capture and conserve water on the landscape; (iii) climate variability and forest health; and (iv) tradeoffs and implications of retaining water on landscapes for vegetation.
Convened by: Mohammad Safeeq, Oregon State University Gordon Grant, U. S. Forest Service Jessica Lundquist, University of Washington Thank you for your time and apologies for cross posting, feel free to help spread the word. ************************************* Mohammad Safeeq Post Doctoral Research Scholar College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences | Oregon State University http://www.fsl.orst.edu/wpg/ Ph: 541-750-7345 *************************************
