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Como vengo reservando los miércoles para gacetillas, les presento hoy la información que me envía mi colega la Dra Helen Roberts, desde el Reino Unido, aunque no deben confundirse: el evento se realizará en Estados Unidos.

No me gasto en traducirles la gacetilla, porque todo el evento se realizará en inglés, y en ese idioma deben presentarse los trabajos. Si no pueden leer la información de más abajo, ni intenten participar del congreso porque estarían más perdido que pingüino en Copacabana, ¿no les parece?

Loess 2.0 - Milestones and Recent Advances in the Study of Loess, Dust, and Other Aeolian Sediment Archives on AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14-18, 2009

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[Printer friendly Loess 2.0 session flyer:

http://www.nakula.de/AGU2009/loess20.pdf]

Dear Colleagues:

We encourage submission of abstracts to the Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology session PP03 ++ Loess 2.0 ++ for the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , California , USA to be held December 14-18, 2009. 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.

Submissions by students and young scientists are particularly encouraged!

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 03 September, 2009, 2359 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Abstract Submissions is open.

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/index.php

Session Announcement:

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 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, paleoenvironmental assessments; 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. Submissions by students and young scientists are particularly encouraged!

Conveners:  ZhongPing Lai, Bjoern Machalett, Rick Oches, Helen Roberts

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

AGU’s new abstract submission software

Please note AGU’s new abstract submission software and procedure and first author policy: “First Authors can have a maximum of 1 contributed and 1 invited abstracts, or 2 invited abstracts.”

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/index.php#software

Student Travel Grants

Limited number of grants for partial funding for students who are first authors and presenters of a poster or oral presentation are available.

Please note the requirements:

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/outreach/student_travel.php

“Low Income Countries”

Special discounts on the registrations rates are available to those from low income countries.

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/registration/rates.php

There is no abstract submissions fee for persons from qualifying low-income countries.

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/registration/low-income-countries.php

Loess 2.0 session information:

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=48

We look forward to seeing many of you in San Francisco ! If you have any questions please contact one of the conveners.

Best wishes,

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

ZhongPing Lai

QingHai Institute of Salt Lakes , XiNing

Chinese Academy of Sciences,

zplai@isl.ac.cn

Bjoern Machalett

Humboldt University of Berlin

Department of Geography,

b.machalett@nakula.de

Rick Oches

Department of Natural & Applied Sciences Bentley University , Waltham , roches@bentley.edu

Helen Roberts

Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University , hmr@aber.ac.uk

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Dr. Helen M. Roberts
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Aberystwyth University ,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion,
Wales , SY23 3DB.
U.K.

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622604
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622659

e-mail: hmr@aber.ac.uk      or      Helen.Roberts@aber.ac.uk