Colleagues, On behalf of my colleagues from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the US EPA Office of Research and Development, I invite you to submit an abstract to the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting Biosciences section session "Western Siberian Peatlands: Sources, Sinks, and Processes Affecting Carbon Effluxes". The session is described thusly:
Peatlands cover approximately 36% of the western Siberian landscape and are significantly influenced by manifestations of global climate change affecting carbon effluxes. These climatological alterations influence changes in process rates and fluxes of CO2, CH4, and other gases, as well as presage hydrological and structural changes potentially amplifying feedback loops. This session provides a forum to present advances in peatland science in a changing world, with a particular focus on how climate change is affecting the western Siberian peatland landscape, the world's most extensive peatland system. While interested in site-specific studies, we further encourage studies on peatland biogeochemical, physical, and hydrological processes at larger scales and the emergence of cross-scale patterns. Additional information may be found here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session1965.html Invited speakers include: 1) Sergey Kirpotin, Tomsk State University, http://www.cfsfr.org/cfs_en/layout/set/print/Recherche2/Participants-aux-projets/Pr.-Dr.-Sergey-Kirpotin 2) Laurence Smith, UCLA, http://www.geog.ucla.edu/lsmith&; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K3hy1E8AAAAJ&hl=en 3) Jeff Chanton, Florida State University, http://eoas.fsu.edu/people/faculty/dr-jeff-chanton&; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tZxd5DsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 4) Johanna Karlsson, Stockholm University, http://www.ink.su.se/english/research/our-researchers/m-o/m%C3%A5rd-karlsson-johanna Note that abstracts are due by 06 August. We appreciate your consideration, and please pass this along to interested colleagues. With regards, Charles Lane Senior Scientist US EPA Office of Research and Development on behalf of session co-conveners - Evgeny Gordov, Director, Siberian Center for Environmental Research and Training; Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Russian Academy of Sciences - Egor Dyukarev, Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Russian Academy of Sciences - Brad Autrey, JD, US EPA Office of Research and Development
