Upcoming Meetings of Interest to ISAR Members
European Geosciences Union - General Assembly 2012, 22 – 27 April 2011 at Vienna, Austria
GM5.1 Aeolian Processes and Landforms
Convener: J.M. Nield;
Co-Convener: J. King
Aeolian geomorphology covers a wide spectrum of research from the small scale study of processes in the field or laboratory to modelling projects predicting long-term dune field evolution. This session aims to bring together a diverse group of researchers that study wind-blown sediment (both sand and dust) and associated bedforms in a range of environments, from coastal and semi-arid regions, to hyper arid deserts. Contributions that use novel instrumentation in field studies, remote sensing at the landscape scale or innovative numerical modelling methods, are encouraged, particularly those which attempt to elucidate feedback between surface properties and sediment transport.
Website: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9783
ERE3.2 Dust from mineral extraction: impacts, monitoring and mitigation
Convener: B. Marker
Dust from minerals operations causes strong public objections to new operations but also has impacts on other economic activities and, sometimes, on health. Various regulatory regimes contribute to the control of dust and its impacts but these are only fully effective if there is sound baseline and operational monitoring information and good modelling of dust dispersion. This session will review impacts of dust emissions from mineral workings and examine the “state of the art” for control, monitoring and modelling of these emissions.
Website: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/10395
34th International Geological Congress 5 - 10 August 2012 at Brisbane, Australia
Session 36.2 Dust from geological sources: impacts on the economy, environment and society [IUGS – Commission on Geoscience for Environmental Management (GEM) Working Group on Dust]
Conveners: B. Marker (UK) and J. Centeno (USA)
This Symposium will examine the nature, origins and distribution of problems associated with geological dust; patterns and mechanisms of transportation and deposition; monitoring and analysis; impacts and associated costs; likely effects of climatic trends; and approaches to dealing with problems. We invite abstracts on a wide range of examples, not least on soil erosion and mining dust in Australia and volcanic dust in south-east Asia, and would encourage authors to comment on approaches to management, monitoring and mitigation of dust impacts in their contributions.
Keynote speaker: John Leys (AUSTRALIA)
Website: http://www.34igc.org/scientific-themes-symposia.php
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Recent Meetings of Interest to ISAR Members
31 October - 3 November 2011 Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen, Germany
Conveners: Jan-Berend Stuut, Ute Merkel, Denis-Didier Rousseau
We cordially invite you to join us from Monday evening 31 October to Thursday 3 November 2011 for a workshop that we are organising at the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen, Germany. The workshop is partly replacing the ADOM2 workshop (organised by Denis-Didier Rousseau in February 2011, but cancelled due to turmoil in Tunisia), and is a joint effort of the PAGES working group ADOM (Atmospheric Dust during the last glacial cycle: Observations and Modeling) and of MARUM-Bremen and is sponsored by MARUM, PAGES, and INQUA. In this workshop we intend to bring together leading international scientists in mineral-dust studies, from the marine and terrestrial realms, synoptic meteorology, ice cores, and climate modelling. Recent developments in the understanding of the role of mineral dust in the earth system shall be discussed. In addition, recommendations for future research towards a better understanding of processes that play an active role in dust emission, transport, and deposition, and approaches to study the role of mineral dust in global climate will be worked out. Please check the website for more information: http://www.marum.de/dust-workshop2011.html
23-28 October 2011 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat Campus, Israel
Minerva Gentner Symposium on Aeolian Processes
Conveners: Haim Tsoar, Klaus Kroy
Over the past few decades, aeolian processes have become an important scientific field that appeals to geologists, geomorphologists, planetary scientists, ecologists and physicists. The aim of this symposium is to bring together scientists from these diverse disciplines that focus on the effect of wind power on the environment. The symposium will deal with dust and dust deposits (loess), sand and sand dunes, ecology of dune sand, and aeolian processes (dust and sand) on extraterrestrial planets. This is the first multi-disciplinary symposium on aeolian processes and will give an opportunity to scientists from various areas to learn the work of others. This symposium will create a wide scope for collaboration on specific aspects of aeolian processes and allow cooperation between scientists from different disciplines.
Website: http://web.bgu.ac.il/Eng/humsos/departments/geog/AProc/default.htm
XVIII. INQUA-Congress Quaternary sciences – the view from the mountains, 20-27 July 2011 in Bern, Switzerland
Session: Mineral Dust: a product and agent of Quaternary climate change
Conveners: Paul Vallelonga, Malin Kylander, Gisela Winckler
Mineral dust is an active climate system component that may significantly influence the radiative balance of the atmosphere as well as biogeochemical cycles. The production, transport and deposition of mineral dust has implications for radiation, cloud microphysics, atmospheric chemistry and the carbon cycle via the fertilization of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. In addition deposition of dust in sediments and ice cores are important climate indicators. However, the role and significance of dust in the climate cycle is still poorly constrained. In order to improve our understanding of the complex linkages between dust-generating processes and climate change in the Quaternary, we invite a broad range of contributions addressing (1) measurements of all aspects of the dust cycle (emission, transport, deposition, size distribution, particle characteristics) with in situ and remote sensing techniques, (2) numerical simulations of dust on global and regional scales, (3) meteorological conditions for dust storms and dust transport, (4) interactions of dust with clouds and radiation, (5) influence of dust on atmospheric chemistry, (6) fertilization of ecosystems through dust deposition, (7) the application of dust or dust components as a climate indicator including investigations of loess, ice cores, lake and ocean sediments and dunes.
Website: http://www.inqua2011.ch/?a=programme&subnavi=sessions&id=5
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International Symposium on Erosion and Landscape Evolution, Anchorage, Alaska, September 18-21, 2011
Soil erosion caused by water and/or wind is a continuing problem throughout the world that threatens the capacity of the Earth to produce food, fiber, and renewable sources of energy for an ever-increasing population. Additionally, eroded sediment is a major air and water pollutant, causing many detrimental off-site impacts. Erosion by wind and/or water processes continually impacts the evolution of landscapes. With global climate change, erosion and landscape evolution may be accelerated, particularly in regions such as Alaska, where increases in air temperature of just a few degrees may shift large landscape areas from frozen to thawing and more erodible conditions. This symposium provides a forum for participants to discuss the current status and the future of soil erosion research.
TOPIC AREAS: • Erosion Processes (Detachment, Transport, Deposition) • Prevention and Control of Upland and In-Stream Erosion • Highly Disturbed, Urban Areas, and Arid Lands • Erosion Processes in Wetlands, Coastal, and Glacial Areas • Aeolian Erosion and Fugitive Dust Emission • Impacts of Global Change on Erosion Processes and Landscape Evolution
website: http://twosweet.bse.vt.edu/ISELE2011/index.html
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