Dear Colleagues, We invite you to consider participating in the following session for the 2012 annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. We are broadly interested in abstracts addressing the biogeochemistry of urban ecosystems across terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Urban Biogeochemical Cycles B068 Half of the world's population lives in urban settlements, and managing urban biogeochemical cycles will become more critical with future development. Urban ecosystems are usually hot spots for thermal, sediment, carbon, nutrient and other pollutions. There are many questions regarding transport and transformation of hydrologic, geochemical, and biogeochemical fluxes in urban ecosystems. An improved understanding is needed for managing variability in these fluxes in response to human disturbances and/or watershed scale restoration efforts. We solicit contributions that consider the sources, fluxes, and flowpaths of water, energy, and elements across urban ecosystems, and potential interactions with global climate change and watershed and landscape management. Kind Regards, Sujay Kaushal and Shuiwang Duan ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sujay Kaushal Assistant Professor Department of Geology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center University of Maryland 5825 University Research Court, Room #4048 College Park, Maryland 20740-3823 Office Phone #: (301) 405-7048 Cell Phone #: (862) 485-6455 E-mail: [email protected] -----------------------------------------------------
