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Updated June 25, 2011
2011 Fall Meeting Abstract Submission Site is Now Open
Submission Deadline -- August 4, 2011
Welcome to the web pages of AGU´s Cryosphere Focus Group. Cryospheric science studies the portion of the Earth's surface where water is in a solid form, usually snow or ice. This includes ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, freshwater ice, snow, and frozen ground (or permafrost).
The Cryosphere Focus Group acts as a liaison between the cryospheric science research community and AGU administration. It is a vehicle to promote and strengthen cryospheric science within AGU, as well as ensure that our needs as a scientific community are met through AGU Meetings and Publications.
We were renamed "Cryosphere Focus Group" in 2002, replacing the former Snow, Ice and Permafrost Technical Committee. We have gown in strength since this change, reflected in a significant increase in contributions at the AGU Fall Meeting: from 120 abstracts in 5 sessions in 2002 to 687 abstracts in 54 sessions in 2010. In 2010, there are 1015 AGU members who chose Cryosphere as their primary affiliation.
The AGU Cryosphere Focus group has grown significantly in the last decade and there have been suggestions from the community that we should start to move to a session structure that is more formally organized at the session proposal stage. While this has not happened yet (largely due to the new much earlier deadline), this year there are 4 broad Cryosphere-wide sessions as a first step towards possibly moving in that direction:
> C15: In-situ and Field-based Measurements of the Cryosphere
> C20: Modeling of the Cryosphere
> C32: Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
> C34: Snow and Ice Data Assimilation
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Please consider submitting to these sessions - we hope they will be well attended with a large number of submissions.
The Focus Group is managed by an Executive Committee, who are in regular communication over email and meet once per year during the Fall meeting.
The goal of this web site is to make relevant and timely information available to the cryospheric science community. The site is updated regularly and you will find highlights of AGU developments of interest to cryospheric scientists as well as opportunities to give your input into AGU and Cryosphere Sciences Focus Group activities.
If you need to contact us, please phone or e-mail your questions or comments to the Cryosphere Sciences Focus Group Chair, Anne Nolin (e-mail: nolina@science.oregonstate.edu, Phone: (541) 737-8051). Any AGU-related concerns should be forwarded to AGU's Education and Career Services Manager, Jill Karsten (phone: (202) 777-7508, e-mail: jkarsten@agu.org).