[margins-list] Special Session: Ocean Sciences

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The following Ocean Sciences Special Session invites abstract submissions,
and is especially relevant to Source to Sink studies:

 

GO04 Sediment processes I: transport and deposition in lakes, estuaries,
coastal bays, and continental shelves
The physical characteristics of lakes, estuaries, coastal bays, and
continental shelves - relatively small volumes of water, shallow depths,
long coastlines, and high loadings from both external and internal sources -
make them particularly susceptible to environmental degradation associated
with growing human populations. Stratigraphically, they are interesting
because their sediment record responds to both terrestrial and marine
processes. The importance of sediment transport and deposition in these
systems has become increasingly recognized since not only are many nutrients
and pollutants transported by sediments, but turbidity also may limit light
availability. Recent advances in theory, observations, and numerical models
have increased understanding of the roles of sediment transport and
depositional processes in these systems. This session will focus on physical
aspects and associated environmental impacts of new sediment inputs,
resuspension, transport and deposition in lakes, estuaries, coastal bays,
and continental shelves, and invites contributions describing field
observations, laboratory experiments, and modeling studies.
Conveners: Nathan Hawley, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory,
4840 S. State Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 USA, Tel: 734-741-2273, Fax:
734-741-2055, email: nathan.hawley at noaa.gov, and Larry Sanford, Horn Point
Environmental Laboratory, USA, email: lsanford at hpl.umces.edu, and Courtney
Harris, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, PO Box 1346, Gloucester Point,
VA 23062 USA, email: ckharris at vims.edu

The deadline for abstract submission is October 15; see
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/

 

Meeting dates / venue: February 22 - 26, Portland, Oregon

 

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Courtney K Harris

Associate Professor

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

 

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