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Upcoming Meetings of Interest to ISAR Members
International Conference on Aeolian Research (ICAR VII), Santa Rosa, Argentina, 5-9 July 2010The ICAR conferences attract aeolian geomorphologists, physical scientists, soil scientists, and erosion specialists from around the world to discuss the latest challenges and discoveries of aeolian research. Previous meetings have been held in Aarhus, Denmark (1985), Sandbjerg, Denmark (1990), Zyzxx, CA, USA (1994), Oxford, U.K. (1998), Lubbock, US (2002), and Guelph, Canada (2006). For more information contact Conference Organizer: ********************************************************************************************************************** 18th International Sedimentological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, 26 September - 1 October, 2010Sedimentology at the foot of the AndesFirst convened in Belgium 60 years ago, the next International Sedimentological Congress will be held in the Argentinean city of Mendoza and for the second time in South America, after the 14th ISC in Recife (Brazil) in 1994. The 18th ISC will be the result of a close cooperation among the members of the South American sedimentological community, who will make every effort to provide an excellent environment for a stimulating and enjoyable scientific congress. Among the many technical sessions there is one specifically adressing Aeolian sedimentology: TS1-3: Aeolian systems The convenors of this technical session, Gonzalo D. Veiga and Haim Tsoar, invite submissions of papers for oral and poster presentations in two major categories: 1. Aeolian sand and sand dunes. 2. Dust and loess deposits. Deadlines: More information in the second circular: ********************************************************************************************************************** A one-day meeting at the Royal Geographical Society, 18 October 2010Global Sand Seas: past, present, futureA one-day meeting for earth and planetary scientists interested in sand seas in hot and cold deserts to include geomorphologists and those studying and researching climate and surface interactions in sand seas in the Quaternary, today and in the future. The meeting will be held at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR, UK. Keynote Speakers: Andrew Goudie (Oxford University, UK) Paul Hesse (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Nicholas Lancaster (Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA) Other international speakers have been invited to contribute to a full day of talks. If you would like to present a poster at the workshop, please submit an abstract via the website before the deadline of 30 July 2010. To register or submit a poster abstract go to www.rgs.org/Sandseas. Further information about the meeting including a draft programme will be available at this website. You can also contact the RGS by email (sandseas@rgs.org) or phone (0207 591 3022). The meeting is convened by the RGS-IBG/BSG Working Group on Sand Seas and Dune Fields. For more information about the group, contact Ian Livingstone (ian.livingstone@northampton.ac.uk) ********************************************************************************************************************** Recent Meetings of Interest to ISAR MembersAnnual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, 14-18 April 2010During the annual meeting of the Association of the American Geographers two specialty group sessions with an aeolian research focus will be held: Aeolian Processes and landformsThis session is organized by Jean Ellis (University of South Carolina) and Bailiang Li (Texas A&M University), and co-sponsored by the Coastal and Marine and the Geomorphology Speciality Groups. Aeolian processes and landform studies are gaining significance in Earth system research. Investigations of aeolian processes and landforms spanning all temporal and spatial scales are invited in this series of oral presentations. We encourage innovative research discussing arid landforms, dune morphology and migration, and grain-scale sand transport. Recent advances comparing laboratory- and field-based data sets and modeling studies are encouraged. We also seek papers that relate multiple temporal and/or spatial scales. We hope the papers will show the diversity of methods employed to understand aeolian processes and landforms, including laboratory experiments, long- and short-term field deployments, modeling, and satellite observations. Coastal Geomorphology and ManagementThis session is organized by Jean Ellis (University of South Carolina) and Chris Houser (Texas A&M University), and is co-sponsored by the Coastal and Marine and the Geomorphology Specialty Groups The coastal zone is a dynamic environment where biophysical and anthropogenic processes interact, and often clash. Global climate change, and its associated impacts, contributes to additional and significant pressure on the coastal zone. The environmental impacts are exacerbated with the increasing population in these regions. To effectively respond to these changes, knowledge of the fundamental processes and the interaction between these processes and humans is required. This multiple oral paper series, therefore, seeks presentations exploring recent advances in coastal geomorphology and management. We invite presentations on all aspects of coastal geomorphology and management, including, but not limited to: surf zone processes and landforms; beach-dune interactions; lagoon, estuary, mud-flat, and marsh dynamics; modeling; remote sensing of coastal waters and terrestrial landscapes; and rocky coast evolution. We also encourage presentations that broadly relate coastal geomorphology to coastal management, and research benefiting environmental managers and planners. If you are interested in participating, please let the organizers know. Abstracts are due 28 October 2009; the call for papers is found at: http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm#sessions All questions should be directed to Jean Ellis (jtellis@mailbox.sc.edu). After submitting your paper to AAG, please send your paper title and abstract to Jean and she and Chris Houser will ensure your paper’s place in these special sessions. **********************************************************************************************************************
European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010The following sessions at the upcoming EGU might be of interest to scientists working in aeolian research: AS4.7 Aeolian dust: initiator, player, and recorder of environmental changeConvener: Peter Knippertz; Co-Convener: Jan-Berend Stuut The effects of aerosols on climate and weather are among the large uncertainties of current atmospheric research. Mineral dust is an important natural source of aerosol with significant implications on 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. This session is open to contributions dealing with (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 depostion, (7) any study using dust as a climate indicator including investigations of Loess, ice cores, lake and ocean sediments and dunes. HS3.3/GM10.1 Coasts and estuariesConvener: Andreas Baas; Co-Conveners: Hubert H.G. Savenije , Andrea Rinaldo , Marco Toffolon Coasts and estuaries are dynamic environments of multi-scale interactions between land and water that are of great human and economic interest. Estuaries form the support system for ecosystems that are among the richest and most productive on Earth. This open session invites presentations on all aspects at the interface between subaquaeous and subaerial systems, including: surf zone and wave shoaling, swash zone dynamics, beach morphology and sediments, berm development, back-beach environments, coastal dune systems, lagoons, estuaries, bays, barrier island systems, mud-flats and coastal marsh lands, deltas, rock-platforms, cliff erosion processes, and other coastal and estuarine landforms and processes. The session covers sedimentary and erosional systems, the full range of temporal and spatial scales, experimental results and theoretical models, and also considers the impacts of climate change and sea-level rise. SSS18 Experimental methods on soil erosion researchConvener: Manuel Seeger; Co-Conveners: John Quinton, Nikolaus J. Kuhn, Johannes Ries Soil erosion processes are the result of the interaction of rainfall, runoff, wind and human activities with soil properties. After some decades of investigations, there is still a lack of knowledge on the process interactions and intensities at different scales. On the other hand, the advances in knowledge on erosion have raised new questions, like selective erosion processes, and for this the selective transport of nutrients and other soil constituents. Experiments are supposed to deliver data to elucidate these processes. For this, different methods have been developed for monitoring or simulating soil erosion in the field or in the laboratory. They may not only give hints about detachment, transport and deposition of solids, but also on the hydrology of runoff generation and a detailed view on flow routing on the soils surface. Within this session, we want to gather the results of different methodologies for experimental soil erosion research and their interpretation towards the parametrisation of soil erosion models or the understanding of complex soil erosion processes at different scales. We invite contributions concerning: (1) The development of measurement techniques; (2) field and laboratory application of experimental methods experiments concerning water erosion, wind erosion, and mass movements; (3) concepts for bringing together the results from experiments with the behaviour of natural systems; (4) experiments for parameterization or the development of soil erosion models GM3.6/HS13.10 Stochastic sediment transport: from measurements to morphogenesisConvener: Clement Narteau; Co-Conveners: Eric Lajeunesse , Jens Turowski Understanding more deeply the motion of sediment is of fundamental importance in hydraulic engineering, fluvial geomorphology and in attempting to estimate future landscape evolution over the next decades and centuries. The recent advent of long, high-quality field and experimental data series makes rigorous statistical analysis possible. This session invites contributions from scientists who try to explore the variability of sediment transport based on observations and a full hierarchy of approaches including experimental studies, partial differential equations, fractal, stochastic and cellular automaton models. One of our focus is on the transfer from numerical geosciences, statistical physics and applied mathematics to geomorphology, helping to tackle the physics of sediment transport as well as the evolution of bed forms and channel morphology. Contributions dealing with bedload transport in mountainous streams, sediment transport in river, coastal and aeolian environment are as welcome and heartily invited. ********************************************************************************************************************** Prairie Summit 2010, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 1-5, 2010The Canadian Geomorphology Research Group (CGRG) will hold its Annual General Meeting and sessions jointly with the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), the Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) and the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS) at the Prairie Summit 2010. As the first joint meeting of these groups, the summit promises to be a unique event hosted in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, June 1-5, 2010. Sessions include: Eolian Processes in the Mid- to High Latitudes Conveners: Stephen Wolfe and Duane Froese Special session on eolian processes in the mid-to high latitudes. We invite presentations and posters under this theme, including for example: modern and ancient dune fields in cold-climates and in high latitudes, production and accumulation of mineral dust in Cordilleran and Great Plain settings, extracting paleoclimatic information from the eolian record in high latitudes, coastal and inland dune systems in temperate to cold-climate settings. Please send abstracts to Stephen or Duane and also submit at the conference web site http://uregina.ca/prairies/ ********************************************************************************************************************** American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, 14- 18 December 2009We would like to announce the following session to be held at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, 14- 18 December. We hope to see many of you there, and look forward to receiving your abstracts. Session EP18: "Aeolian Surface Processes: Atmospheric Mineral Dust"Conveners: John-Andrew Ballantine (andy.ballantine@uconn.edu) Description: Aeolian sediment processes that include the production, For more information about the session itself, please contact the organizers. For more information about the meeting and how to submit abstracts, visit the AGU Fall Meeting page at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/index.php Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology session PP03 - LOESS 2.0Milestones and Recent Advances in the Study of Loess, Dust, and Other Aeolian Sediment ArchivesWe encourage submission of abstracts to the Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology session PP03 ++ Loess 2.0 ++ for the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA to be held December 14-18, 2009. This session aims to provide a lively forum to review fundamental scientific steps in the study of aeolian sediment archives and discuss new innovative approaches that enhance our understanding of those records. [Printer friendly Loess 2.0 session flyer: The deadline for submission of abstracts is 03 September, 2009, 2359 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Abstract Submissions is open. Session Announcement: Innovative contributions are welcome on the application of new and established methodological approaches; results on stratigraphy, geochronology, paleoenvironmental assessments; and geoarchaeology of aeolian deposits in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. We especially encourage papers that either (a) utilize high-resolution loess & dust records to reconstruct the timing and dynamics of past synoptic atmospheric circulation patterns on regional and inter-hemispheric scales; (b) establish precise correlations and define atmospheric mechanisms that link continental loess/dust records with aeolian records in ice cores and/or the oceans; or (c) address the challenging effort to incorporate the dust proxies of past atmospheric processes into climate models. This session aims to provide a lively forum to review fundamental scientific steps in the study of aeolian sediment archives and discuss new innovative approaches that enhance our understanding of those records. Submissions by students and young scientists are particularly encouraged! Conveners: ZhongPing Lai, Bjoern Machalett, Rick Oches, Helen Roberts AGU Index terms: 4914, 4904, 0429, 1100, 1500 ZhongPing Lai, QingHai Institute of Salt Lakes, XiNing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, zplai@isl.ac.cn Bjoern Machalett, Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Geography, b.machalett@nakula.de Rick Oches, Department of Natural & Applied Sciences Bentley University, Waltham, roches@bentley.edu Helen Roberts, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, hmr@aber.ac.uk ********************************************************************************************************************** CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum
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