Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract to Public Affairs session (PA012) titled "Communicating Freshwater Health through a Social-Ecological Lens: Models, Indicators, Apps and Engagement" that will be held at the 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in Washington D.C., 10-14 December.
The full description of the session is below. As a ‘Public Affairs’ session, please note that authors are allowed an additional contribution besides the maximum two stipulated by AGU’s first author rule. The deadline for abstract submission is 1st August 2018, 11:59 P.M. EDT. First authors are required to be members of the AGU. Here is the link to abstract submission: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/ ----------------------------- Full Session Description: ----------------------------- Session: PA012 Session Title: Communicating Freshwater Health through a Social-Ecological Lens: Models, Indicators, Apps and Engagement Session Description: Freshwater is a local and cross-sectoral issue shaped by the hydrologic system and aquatic ecosystems, influenced by societal forces and governance. Both the direct and indirect services, such as water availability, fisheries and other biomass, hazard mitigation, water quality, disease and sediment regulation, and recreation as well as cultural value, are derived from it. Ensuring resilient development around freshwater social-ecological systems requires avoiding fragmentation of the information relevant to these complex systems while developing effective models, indicators and methods to engage a wide-variety of actors in this space of decision making. We welcome studies that attempt to combine perspectives from freshwater ecology, water resource management and governance with special emphasis on lessons learnt while engaging stakeholders and integrative cross-sectoral work Conveners: Kashif Shaad, Conservation International (USA/Singapore); Helen Regan, University of California Riverside (USA); Raymond Yu Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University (China) and Lina Serrano, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Mexico) ----------------------------- Regards, Kashif Shaad On behalf of the conveners Dr Helen Regan Professor and Chair Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology Department University of California Riverside, CA 92521 USA email: [email protected] <https://post.ucr.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=xIn4H8m_QrfXvaCKJvfhKfAepNF5_m_lQzLbY2jR2JEQ_GZU0uDTCA..&URL=mailto%3ahelen.regan%40ucr.edu> phone (faculty office, no voicemail): +1-951-827-3961 phone (Chair's office, voicemail): +1-951-827-5901 fax: +1-951-827-4286 office #: Speith 3358 (faculty/office hours) office #: Life Sciences 2745 (Chair's office) Web: www.eeob.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Regan.html <https://post.ucr.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=7AzaOqDtJD23HjNm4V19vQJEkqNc-AmgXsDAoRL000EQ_GZU0uDTCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.biology.ucr.edu%2fpeople%2ffaculty%2fRegan.html>
