Hello everyone - I would like to remind you all that Tim Kruger, Mike MacCracken, and I are hosting a session on geoengineering at the IUGG meeting in Prague this coming June. Our session (JP2: http://www.iugg2015prague.com/joint-inter-asociation-symposia.htm#JP) is open to both oral and poster contributions. You can find a description below my email signature. The abstract submission deadline is January 31, so please submit as soon as possible!
Best wishes, Ben ______________________________________________________ Ben Kravitz Postdoctoral Research Associate Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division Pacific Northwest National Laboratory P.O. Box 999, MSIN K9-24 Richland, WA 99352 Tel: (509) 372-6846 Fax: (509) 375-6448 [email protected] With the pace of climate change increasing and the array and magnitude of climate impacts intensifying, increasing attention is being paid to the potential for offsetting the effects of anthropogenic climate change through large-scale technical means, often called geoengineering. Possible approaches include carbon engineering (e.g., enhancing terrestrial or oceanic carbon uptake) and deliberately altering the Earth's radiation balance (often called climate engineering, or solar radiation management). Research is beginning to provide insights into the potential for taking actions over and above mitigation and adaptation to slow or even offset the changes in climate and the environment being induced by human activities. Issues of technological feasibility are also largely unexplored. Papers are invited that describe and address the potential effectiveness and scientific and technical problems associated with geoengineering. Possible examples include the potential for enhancement of carbon sinks, modeling studies of the climatic impacts of proposed schemes for altering the absorption of solar radiation; studies of unintended environmental consequences; and evaluations of technological feasibility issues. This symposium is a follow-up to the Union symposium U7<http://www.iugg2015prague.com/union-symposia.htm#U7> with the same title. The symposium is open to general (oral/poster) contributions. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
