International Conference on Permafrost seeks abstract submissions

 

International Conference on Permafrost seeks abstract submissions

Submitted by Carla Browning
Phone: (907) 474-7778
08/01/07

Abstract submissions for the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost are being accepted online until Sept. 1, 2007. The conference will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska from June 29-July 3, 2008. The conference website is available at: http://www.nicop.org/, and has been updated with information on sessions and field trip registration.

Abstracts are welcome according to the topics listed below, but also can report on other topics related to seasonally and perennial frozen ground. The following are suggested science and engineering themes for contributed sessions:

  • contemporary climate change and paleoclimatic reconstruction in permafrost regions
  • cold-regions infrastructures and transportation
  • natural and technological hazards in mountainous and high-latitude permafrost regions
  • remote sensing and geophysics in terrestrial and planetary sciences
  • modeling and scaling of permafrost distribution and changes
  • long-term monitoring program to assess changes, thermal state of permafrost, active layer
  • permafrost and the global carbon balance, including greenhouse gases and gas hydrates
  • impacts of permafrost degradation on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
  • vegetation and responses to natural and human-induced disturbances
  • permafrost controls on surface waters, groundwater and heat flux processes
  • subsea permafrost, sea level changes, and dynamics of coastal permafrost
  • advances in exobiology and life in extreme terrestrial environments
  • frost-affected soils and soil carbon storage
  • advances in artificial ground freezing and waste disposal
  • periglacial geomorphology, permafrost mapping, and cryostratigraphy
  • differentiating between paleoseismic and cryogenic structures
  • cryospheric interactions and global connections
  • community development, risk assessment, and planning in permafrost regions
  • initial results from the IPY: toward a systems understanding of permafrost changes
  • history of permafrost research and IPY
  • engineered structures: design, evaluation and economics
  • human response to permafrost change
  • paleoecology, archaeology and indigenous knowledge of permafrost regions
  • economics, subsistence and land use change
  • subglacial permafrost
  • gas hydrates and permafrost
  • data management
  • greening of the Arctic
  • soil mechanics
  • chilled gas pipeline and frost heave
  • geophysical methods in frozen ground
  • remote sensing in permafrost regions

Abstracts should be submitted to http://www.nicop.org/ no later than Sept. 1, 2007.

For further information, please visit http://www.nicop.org/ or contact Elizabeth Lilly at elilly@nicop.org.