2005 AGU Fall Meeting Session OS065: High-Latitude Ocean Dynamics and Biogeochemistry

2005 AGU Fall Meeting Session OS065: High-Latitude Ocean Dynamics and Biogeochemistry

We encourage submissions for this special session at the 20-24 February 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting (www.agu.org) in Honolulu. The online Abstract Submission deadline is 20 October 2005, please see http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/ for details. Please excuse multiple postings.

session OS065:  High-Latitude Ocean Dynamics and Biogeochemistry
CONVENERS:
Irina Marinov (MIT) imarinov@mit.edu
Mick Follows (MIT) mick@ocean.mit.edu
Arnold Gordon (Lamont-Doherty/Columbia) agordon@ldeo.columbia.edu

DESCRIPTION:
        The global carbon cycle is strongly regulated by the large reservoirs of carbon and nutrients in the ocean's deep waters. However, observational constraints and the low resolution of global carbon cycle models leave us without a clear understanding of the physical-biogeochemical interactions which set the deep water properties such as pre-formed nutrients and the disequilibrium carbon pump at the point of deepwater formation and shortly thereafter.

        We seek to bring together physical and biogeochemical oceanographers to address the dynamics of high latitude processes and their implications for regional and global ocean biogeochemical cycling. We encourage contributions from both observational and theoretical perspectives concerning the physical and biogeochemical dynamics of high latitudes waters, observations of the physical and biogeochemical properties of the oceans deep waters, interpretation of the implications for atmospheric carbon dioxide and relevance for climate change.

Irina Marinov
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 office (617)452-2977 cell
(617)230-9923