Dear Colleagues,
I would like to invite researchers interested in the use of satellite,
aircraft, or land-based methods for the study of arctic rivers and
wetlands to consider submitting an abstract to the following Special
Session of the Fall AGU Meeting, 10-14 December 2001, San Francisco (see
description, appended below). Please feel free to contact me if you have
any questions about this session or the abstract submission process.
Best,
Larry Smith
Laurence C. Smith, Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
1255 Bunche Hall, Box 951524
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
Phone: 310/825-3154
Fax: 310/206-5976
Email: lsmith [at] geog.ucla.edu
http://lena.sscnet.ucla.edu
For more information on the Fall AGU Meeting, see the AGU web site at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/meetings.html
Session H17: Remote observation of rivers and wetlands
(Joint with Biogeosciences [B], Geodesy [G], Ocean Sciences [OS])
Emerging satellite, aircraft, and land-based technologies offer new ways
to observe and model dynamic hydrologic, climatic, geomorphic, and
biological processes in floodplain and wetland environments. Examples
include radar-based estimates of water level and surface velocity,
incorporation of satellite-derived precipitation fields into distributed
watershed models, radar imaging of river and lake ice, mapping of
phytoplankton and riparian vegetation, detection of cold pools, and
lidar measurements of water surface velocity and floodplain topography.
We particularly encourage abstracts that:
(1) use remote observation to provide new understanding of hydrologic,
climatic, geomorphic, or biogeochemical processes;
(2) develop or refine new satellite, aircraft, and land-based methods
for remote observation of rivers and wetlands;
(3) incorporate remote observations into hydrologic, geomorphic, or
biogeochemical models; or
(4) identify mission requirements or limitations for a hydrology-based
satellite mission.
Conveners: Larry Smith, Department of Geography, 1255 Bunche Hall, UCLA,
Los Angeles CA 90095-1524, Phone: 310/825-3154, Email:
lsmith [at] geog.ucla.edu; Doug Alsdorf, Department of Geography, 1255 Bunche
Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 90095-1524, Phone: 310/794-4987, Email:
alsdorf [at] geog.ucla.edu - Fax: 310/206-5976