[Aqualist] EGU fire session

[Micha C]

Hi everyone,


If you're thinking of going to the EGU next year, and of presenting some
fire research, please see session details below!


Cheers,

Micha

*EGU Abstract Submission OPEN*

The EGU 2024 Abstract submissions are now open. If your work involved
paleo-wildfire reconstructions or proxy development, please consider
submitting an abstract to session:



*CL1.2.12/BG5.4 Exploring the Link Between Wildfires and Hydroclimate
Throughout the Quaternary*



As the Earth's climate continues to change, rising temperatures and
prolonged dry conditions are impacting wildfire behavior. Recent decades
have witnessed an increase in the intensity, extent, and frequency of
wildfires in fire-adapted regions. Moreover, areas historically less prone
to fires are now experiencing such events, a trend projected to become more
widespread. These changing fire regimes are imposing significant stress on
both natural ecosystems and human communities. Our current understanding of
global-to-local fire dynamics is primarily limited to the past few decades,
with qualitative to semi-quantitative records extending into the early 20th
century. While model-based projections offer insights into how climate
variability will influence future wildfire behavior over sub-annual to
decadal scales, paleoclimate research provides a unique perspective on the
historical relationship between hydroclimate and wildfires, predating
widespread human fire management, at regional to global scales and across
multiple climate states. In recent years, a growing body of work has
connected multi-proxy environmental data from diverse terrestrial archives,
such as trees, sedimentary cores, ice cores, and speleothems, to
fire-related markers found within these archives, including fire scars,
charcoal, pyrogenic organic compounds, ash, SOx and NOx concentrations, and
more.



This session focuses on research that investigates the historical link
between wildfires and climate. It encompasses the development and
application of innovative proxies and archives, as well as the use of
earth-system models. Submissions are encouraged to target sub-millennial
temporal resolutions, with an emphasis on sub-decadal (e.g., prolonged
droughts) to seasonal (e.g., extended dry seasons, hotter and drier
summers) time scales. We also welcome contributions related to technical
and analytical advancements in organic and inorganic geochemical analyses,
statistical improvements, in-situ calibration studies, proxy system
modeling, fire reconstruction models, and paleodata-model comparisons.
Special attention is given to research that has unique potential to inform
future fire mitigation strategies and land-management policies.



 https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/49382



Conveners: Yuval Burstyn, Cameron de Wet, Zhao Wang, Micheline Campbell and
Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach



*The deadline for abstract submission is the 10th of January, however, ECRs
that wish to apply for EGU travel funding must submit their abstract by the
10th of December.*