****************************************************************************** dorismail 07-Aug-2008 08:39:36 Message No 0547 ****************************************************************************** Author: "Matt King" Subject: AGU session on Recent Advances in Observation and Modelling of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) Author: Matt King, Erik Ivins and Bert Vermeersen ================================================================== 2008 Fall AGU Session Call for Papers: "G08: Recent Advances in Observation and Modelling of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA)" =================================================================== We encourage geodesy colleagues working on observation of glacial isostatic adjustment to consider submitting an abstract to Session G08 at the Fall AGU in San Francisco, 15-19 December, 2008. Session Description: Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) has recently received renewed attention since associated mass transportation is seen as a contaminating signal in Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) estimates of ice sheet mass balance. This session welcomes reports on advances in both the modelling of GIA, including earth and ice sheet models, and its measurement using geodetic and other techniques, including GRACE, GPS, DORIS, absolute gravity, sea-level indicators and geologic and geomorphologic approaches. A particular focus is on GIA processes under the major present-day ice sheets. Therefore, studies that explore present-day errors/uncertainties/deficiencies in GIA models in Antarctica and Greenland, as relevant to GRACE-based ice mass balance studies, will be of wide interest. Large-scale comparisons of the effects of GIA on satellite altimetry, GPS and GRACE data are particularly welcome. Applications of new GIA models - especially those that can deal with more realistic (full 3-D) earth structures and rheologies - to estimates of ice sheet mass balance are further encouraged. Further details may be found at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=282 Matt King Reader in Polar Geodesy & NERC Fellow School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences Email: m.a.king@ncl.ac.uk Cassie Building Ph: 0191 222 7833 Int: + 44 191 222 7833 Newcastle University Fax: 0191 222 6502 Int: + 44 191 222 6502 Newcastle upon Tyne Web: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/m.a.king/ United Kingdom, NE1 7RU http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/profiles2/m.a.king Please do not reply directly to this message, but send comments and suggestions to IDS.central.bureau@cls.fr