[Aqualist] Loess/Dust session on AGU 2011 UPDATE - Deadlines are rapidly approaching in 8 days (August 4)

[Bjoern Machalett]

Loess 2.0 - Loess, Dust, and Other Aeolian Sediment Archives on AGU Fall
Meeting 2011 (UPDATE)

*** Deadline is rapidly approaching (NEXT Thursday, August 4th) ***
*** UPDATE on invited authors ***

Dear Colleagues,
(1) The deadline for submission of abstracts is 04 August, 2011, 2359
EDT (Eastern Daylight Time): http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/

Full details on the Dust & Loess session 2011 can be found on the AGU
website. A printer friendly Loess 2.0 session flyer is available at:
http://www.aeoliandust.org/AGU2011/loess20.pdf

(2) We are honored to have four invited authors committed to present
their work and we are looking forward to enter an interesting discussion
on aeolian dust and abrupt climate oscillations:

Richard Alley,
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences

Duane Froese,
University of Alberta, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Eddie Haam,
Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

William C. Johnson,
University of Kansas, Department of Geography

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!Please note!: The First Author must be an AGU member, or sponsored by
an AGU member. Non-members may submit an abstract as a First Author, but
an AGU sponsor is required. In case you and none of your co-authors are
an AGU member or you don’t have a sponsoring AGU member, please don’t
hesitate to contact us.

Submissions by students and young scientists are particularly
encouraged! Limited number of grants for partial funding for students
who are first authors and presenters of a poster or an oral presentation
are available. Application Deadline: 4 August 2011!
http://www.agu.org/education/grants/travel.shtml


If you have any questions or would like to discuss anything informally,
then please don't hesitate to contact us (contact details can be found
below).

We look forward to seeing many of you in San Francisco!

Bjoern Machalett, Rick Oches, Zhongping Lai, and Helen Roberts

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Session description:

In recent years, rapid advances in the application of highly resolved
sedimentological and geochemical studies, in combination with various
geochronometric techniques and chronostratigraphic tools, have opened up
new vistas in the investigation of paleo-records of atmospheric dust
loading using aeolian sediment deposits. As these sediments are
widespread on the continents, novel multi-proxy investigations enhance
our understanding of long-term aeolian dust dynamics and climate
variability, linking intra to inter-hemispheric climates on time scales
ranging from glacial-interglacial to (sub)millennial.
Innovative contributions are welcome on the application of new and
established methodological approaches; results on stratigraphy,
geochronology, paleoclimatology, paleoenvironmental assessment; 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.

AGU Index terms: 4914, 4904, 0429, 1100, 1500


Bjoern Machalett
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Geography,
Germany
b.machalett at nakula.de

Eric A. Oches
Department of Natural & Applied Sciences
Bentley University, Waltham, US
roches at bentley.edu

ZhongPing Lai
QingHai Institute of Salt Lakes, XiNing
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
zplai at isl.ac.cn

Helen Roberts
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Aberystwyth University, UK
hmr at aber.ac.uk