FYI (Marcia McNutt a CDR expert - who knew?) - Greg From: <Dunlea>, Edward <edun...@nas.edu<mailto:edun...@nas.edu>> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 8:30 AM To: "Dunlea, Edward" <edun...@nas.edu<mailto:edun...@nas.edu>> Subject: call for abstracts for AGU sessions
Dear Colleagues, We would like to call your attention to two sessions at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union related to climate engineering. Please consider submitting an abstract and/or sharing this announcement with others who might be interested. Removing Carbon Dioxide from Earth's Atmosphere<https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session3272.html> Conveners: Marcia McNutt, Jennifer Wilcox, Edward Dunlea Human activities over the past centuries--mostly fossil fuel burning and deforestation--have resulted in the release of nearly two trillion tons of carbon dioxide, significantly increasing concentrations in the atmosphere. Today, scientists, engineers, and policy makers are working together to discover, validate, and implement strategies to reduce CO2 emissions. However, given the pace of emissions reductions, efforts to remove anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester them may be necessary within the portfolio of solutions to reduce negative climate-change impacts. This session provides a venue to discuss various carbon dioxide removal techniques, including bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration, land management (afforestation, reforestation, etc.), and ocean iron fertilization. Abstracts that consider carbon reservoir properties and carbon disposal are also invited. Geoengineering the Climate through (Solar) Radiation Modification<https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/Session1795.html> Conveners: Piers Forster, Ben Kravitz, Hauke Schmidt, and Simone Tilmes Engineering ideas to reduce the impact of climate change have been proposed that involve (e.g.) injection of aerosol particles, modification of clouds and/or surface albedo. This session solicits papers that examine processes associated with these techniques and studies where such techniques have been implemented in either high resolution and/or global climate models. Case studies are welcome. Geoengineering research has significantly moved on from the first simple climate model experiments. Papers could give key insights into the effectiveness and side effects from different techniques, and how detectable these will be with the limitations of our observing system and climate variability. They could also provide insights into the engineering challenges and give unique tests for climate models, for example, identifying robust patterns of climate change caused by rapid adjustment to radiative perturbations. The abstract submission deadline is Tuesday, 6 August 2014. Please go to: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/scientific-program/ for more information. This email has been sent to multiple email lists; apologies if you receive multiple copies. ----- Edward Dunlea, Ph.D. Senior Program Officer Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate The National Academy of Sciences 202-334-1334 edun...@nas.edu<mailto:edun...@nas.edu> Subscribe to newsletter: http://dels.nas.edu/subscribe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
