Call for Abstracts
"Climate and Cryosphere"
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
5-9 April 2005
Denver, Colorado
Abstract Submission Deadline: 14 October 2004
For further information, please go to:
http://www.aag.org
Earth's cold environments have received unprecedented attention in
recent decades as development pressures have intensified and the
challenges of climate change become increasingly apparent. The World
Climate Research Programme's new "Climate and Cryosphere" (CliC) project
is a global program aimed at improving understanding of the cryosphere,
its interactions with the climate system, and use of cryospheric
phenomena to detect and monitor climate change. CliC's principal goals
are to assess the impacts of climatic variability and change on the
cryosphere and climate system, and to determine the stability of the
cryosphere.
"Climate and Cryosphere" will be the most general of the
cryosphere-oriented sessions at the Denver AAG meeting, and is intended
to correspond broadly with CliC's four main project areas:
(1) Interactions between the atmosphere and snow and ice on the land
surface
(2) Interactions between glaciers, ice sheets, and sea level
(3) Interactions between sea ice, oceans, and the atmosphere
(4) Cryosphere-climate interactions over a range of temporal and spatial
scales
Contributions are welcome on any aspect of cold-regions research,
including snow, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost and seasonally frozen
ground, geomorphic processes, sea-, lake- and river-ice, human impacts,
and interactions between these phenomena and climate. The session will
feature a lecture by Professor Roger Barry (University of Colorado)
about CliC's status and plans.
To contribute to this session, you will first register for the meeting
and submit your abstract online at the Association of American
Geographers' web site:
http://www.aag.org
When this process is complete you will receive a Presenter
Identification Number (PIN). Please e-mail your abstract and PIN to
Jerry Brown (jerrybrown [at] igc.org) or Fritz Nelson (fnelson [at] udel.edu). For
general information about registration fees, abstract instructions, and
other items please consult the AAG website.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 14 October 2004
Co-Sponsors: AAG Cryosphere, Climate, Geomorphology, and Mountain
Geography Specialty Groups
Organizers: J. Brown, R.G. Barry, and F.E. Nelson