Hello Sonia,
You probably know that Ali and I are co-chairing this
special session on coastal processes and human health at the AGU Joint Assembly
in Mexico.
The session topics are directly inline with our center activities and I was
wondering if you can help spread the word around, especially to our OHH
colleagues, beach managers, and scientists at local and state agencies who you
know may be interested. We did send e-mails out to as many individuals as we
know but I feel that your office may be able to cast a wider net – we really
appreciate it! Last but not least is the fact that Acapulco is a great place to be this coming
summer!
Here is a link to the session:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=90
Abstracts are due by March 1 (midnite GMT). They can be
submitted online using the following link:
http://submissions5.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp
I will talk to you soon. Please feel free to contact me if
you have any questions.
Phani
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From Genomes to
Plumes: Linking Coastal Processes to Human and Ecosystem Health (Session OS04)
Thirty eight percent
of the world's population resides along the coast and eight of the world's ten
largest urban centers are coastal.
Anthropogenic pressures on
coastal waters are growing straining natural resources. Pollutants including
nutrients, sediment, persistent organic compounds, and pathogens are delivered
to coastal waters via terrestrial runoff, groundwater discharge, and waste
streams. The impact pollutants ultimately have on human and ecosystem health is
controlled by complicated fate and transport processes that act over a wide
range of spatiotemporal scales - from turbulence, eddies and fronts to
large-scale motions and from genomes to plumes.
To manage coastal resources
effectively, multidisciplinary studies examining the linkages between physical,
chemical and biological processes across multiple scales are needed as are
tools and approaches that allow us to quantify the outcomes of natural and
human alterations of the environment.
We are seeking contributions
that fall under the general theme of coastal water quality. Abstracts focused
on human health are particularly encouraged. The topics may include (but are
not limited
to) microbial pollution,
novel techniques for rapid detection of pollutants, source tracking,
monitoring, modeling, assessment, and analysis of existing or new datasets.
Contributions that examine the interplay between science and the economics,
law, and policy of coastal pollution are encouraged.
Mantha S Phanikumar
Michigan
State University
Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering
A130 Engineering Reserach
Complex East Lansing, MI, USA
48824
(517) 432-0851
phani@msu.edu
Alexandria
B Boehm
Stanford
University
Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering Stanford,
CA, USA
94305
(650) 724-9128
aboehm@stanford.edu