Dear Colleagues, I would like to call your attention to and encourage your submission of abstracts for the session entitled "Big Oceans, Big Data: Tracking vessels to monitor ocean processes and human impacts" at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (December 12-16; https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/) in San Francisco. This session will focus on data platforms and analytical techniques being developed to explore the impacts of maritime activity on the ocean through remote sensing, including: determining the extent of sound permeation caused by maritime traffic; overlap of industrial activities (e.g., seismic exploration) with migratory marine megafauna corridors and critical habitat; estimating global real-time commercial fishing effort; quantifying fishing effort relative to biophysical global frontal boundaries; and identifying “dark fleets” with radar and imagery. Combining vessel observations with other biophysical observations of the ocean are also welcomed. You can submit abstracts to this session here (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13495). Abstracts are due by August 3. Big Oceans, Big Data: Tracking vessels to monitor ocean processes and human impacts Session ID#: 13495 Best, Samantha
