[From nobody Thu Jul 30 12:04:00 2009 Return-Path: <owner-quaternary@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA> Received: from mailrelay.williams.edu (EHLO mailrelay.williams.edu) ([137.165.4.207]) by miram5000a.williams.edu (MOS 3.10.4-GA FastPath queued) with ESMTP id AFZ20716; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:07:36 -0400 (EDT) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvYBABsOcUqGmegqmWdsb2JhbACaDAEBAQgLCgcTtxiEEQWBSQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,294,1246852800"; d="scan'208";a="92881074" Received: from cliffy.ucs.mun.ca ([134.153.232.42]) by mailgate.williams.edu with ESMTP; 30 Jul 2009 06:07:37 -0400 Received: from cliffy.ucs.mun.ca (cliffy.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.232.42]) by cliffy.ucs.mun.ca (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n6TK340U003789; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:31:18 -0230 Received: by CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.3) with spool id 26967606 for QUATERNARY@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:30:58 -0230 Received: from fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.232.57]) by cliffy.ucs.mun.ca (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n6UA0vmv015044 for <QUATERNARY@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA>; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:30:57 -0230 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id n6U9whWN014155 for <QUATERNARY@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA>; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:28:44 -0230 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2009 09:58:37 -0000 Received: from p54B857C8.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.2.100]) [84.184.87.200] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 30 Jul 2009 11:58:37 +0200 X-Authenticated: #16937815 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+vDMMZ0AqvMCNAxnSMMmO69U06Hz1FbHL4EB0xm6 2PkrbFPjlY74nS User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.45 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.001005 (2006-08-29) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=WITHREC version=3.1.5 X-Spam-Report: 0.2 WITHREC Suspicious header X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.153.232.57 Message-ID: <4A716EC7.8020107@nakula.de> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:58:31 +0200 Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bj=F6rn_Machalett?= <b.machalett@NAKULA.DE> Sender: Research in Quaternary Science <QUATERNARY@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA> From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bj=F6rn_Machalett?= <b.machalett@NAKULA.DE> Subject: Loess 2.0 - Call for Papers! - Loess, Dust, and Other Aeolian Sediment Archives on AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2009 To: QUATERNARY@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA Precedence: list *********************************************************************** 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 *********************************************************************** [Printer friendly Loess 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 will be open by 30 July. 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. 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 ]