Call for Papers
Ninth International Conference on Permafrost
29 June-3 July 2008
Fairbanks, Alaska
Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 September 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nicop.org/
or contact:
Elizabeth Lilly
E-mail: elilly [at] nicop.org
Abstract submissions for the Ninth International Conference on
Permafrost are being accepted online until 1 September 2007. The
conference will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska on 29 June-3 July 2008. The
conference website is available at: http://www.nicop.org/, and has been
updated with information on sessions and field trip registration.
Abstracts are welcome according to the topics listed below, but also can
report on other topics related to seasonally and perennial frozen
ground. The following are suggested science and engineering themes for
contributed sessions:
- contemporary climate change and paleoclimatic reconstruction in
permafrost regions;
- cold-regions infrastructures and transportation;
- natural and technological hazards in mountainous and high-latitude
permafrost regions;
- remote sensing and geophysics in terrestrial and planetary sciences;
- modeling and scaling of permafrost distribution and changes;
- long-term monitoring program to assess changes, thermal state of
permafrost, active layer;
- permafrost and the global carbon balance, including greenhouse gases
and gas hydrates;
- impacts of permafrost degradation on terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems;
- vegetation and responses to natural and human-induced disturbances;
- permafrost controls on surface waters, groundwater and heat flux
processes;
- subsea permafrost, sea level changes, and dynamics of coastal
permafrost;
- advances in exobiology and life in extreme terrestrial environments;
- frost-affected soils and soil carbon storage;
- advances in artificial ground freezing and waste disposal;
- periglacial geomorphology, permafrost mapping, and cryostratigraphy;
- differentiating between paleoseismic and cryogenic structures;
- cryospheric interactions and global connections;
- community development, risk assessment, and planning in permafrost
regions;
- initial results from the IPY: toward a systems understanding of
permafrost changes;
- history of permafrost research and IPY;
- engineered structures: design, evaluation and economics;
- human response to permafrost change;
- paleoecology, archaeology and indigenous knowledge of permafrost
regions;
- economics, subsistence and land use change;
- subglacial permafrost;
- gas hydrates and permafrost;
- data management;
- greening of the Arctic;
- soil mechanics;
- chilled gas pipeline and frost heave;
- geophysical methods in frozen ground; and
- remote sensing in permafrost regions.
Abstracts should be submitted no later than 1 September 2007 at:
http://www.nicop.org/