Dear Colleagues and Friends, Sorry to add to your Inbox burden but we would like to call your attention to a session to be held at the Fall AGU in San Francisco, 14-18
Inland Waters as Dynamic Foci in Climate Systems: Hydrodynamic and Biophysical Controls on Variability, We hope to bring together researchers taking a broad range of approaches in our attempts to understand the basic process level relationships between energy and mass fluxes in inland waters. Please join us and lend your voice and work to the conversation. Remember, abstract submission deadline is August 05, 2015: http://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8013 We are looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco Thank you, David, Sam, Sally and Patrick David Reed University of Wisconsin Madison Sam Dunn Colorado State University, Fort Collins Sally MacIntyre University of California - Santa Barbara Patrick Crill Stockholm University Session ID: 8013 B041: Inland Waters as Dynamic Foci in Climate Systems: Hydrodynamic and Biophysical Controls on Variability Session abstract Inland waters – such as lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, rivers, and streams – act as important components of carbon, water and energy exchanges in the climate system and the connections between land and associated surface waters are becoming more apparent. However, it remains challenging to quantify and scale over-water rates and mechanisms of greenhouse gas production and consumption, surface energy budgets, linkages between terrestrial-aquatic processes, and the influences of anthropogenic disturbances. These processes are regulated by many interacting biogeochemical factors (substrate quantity/quality, nutrient availability, redox chemistry, microbial community composition and physiology, etc.). This session solicits contributions that advance our understanding of physical, biological, chemical, and limnological processes that influence vertical and lateral transports of carbon, over-water surface energy fluxes, hydrologic cycling, aquatic and terrestrial water-carbon coupling, using novel approaches such as overwater eddy covariance, cross aquatic-terrestrial boundary observation, incorporation of aquatic ecosystems in earth system models, and cross-site data synthesis and scaling.
