Meeting

Attached is the agenda for the September 9-10 Worldwide Universities Network meeting at Penn State

Collected Call for Abstracts for 2009 Fall AGU

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EP05: Processes in the Critical Zone: Interaction of Rock, Water, and Life

Joshua West and Bastian Georg are organizing the following session at the 2009 AGU meeting, focused on the human impact on surface processes, and would welcome contributions from interested researchers across the Earth Sciences.

The session aims to facilitate discussion of developing research into the primary and secondary effects of anthropogenic change on Earth’s surface environment, e.g. direct impact of human activity on material cycles, as well as the indirect consequences for environmental and human health. A more detailed description of the session is given below.

Ron Amundson, Sarah Aciego and Anthony Dosseto are chairing a session at the AGU Fall meeting entitled “The Imprint of Quaternary Climate Change on Landscapes” (session EP08). They would be very pleased if you would consider submitting an abstract to this session. Although the description sounds centered on climate, it is open to any studies looking at the effect of climatic, tectonic or anthropogenic processes on landscape evolution during the Quaternary.

Invited speakers are:
David Montgomery
Oliver Chadwick
Suzanne Anderson and
Kevin Burton

Here are two additional Critical Zone focused sessions at the upcoming AGU meeting:

EP05: Processes in the Critical Zone: Interaction of Rock, Water, and Life

“WUN Workshop on Critical Zone Research,” sponsored by the Worldwide Universities Network, will be hosted at Penn State on Sept. 9 and 10.

Day 1 will introduce participants to recent advances in Critical Zone research in the U.S. and Europe through talks by Penn State researchers active at the NSF-funded Susquehanna Shale Hills Observatory followed by a visit to that field site.

Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit an abstract to our session at AGU on Terrestrial Biotic Influences on Silicate Weathering and the Long-Term Carbon Cycle. We intend for this session to encompass many facets of biological silicate weathering and hope to encourage discussion among a wide range of disciplines.