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2nd Call for Papers for the Coastal Transitions Conference: Blue Economy

2^nd Call for Papers for the Coastal Transitions Conference: Blue Economy, 4-8 November 2020, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Abstracts due: 1^st of March 2020

Theme: Coastal Transitions: Blue Economy
Venue:  New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Dates:   Wednesday 4^th – Sunday 8^th, Nov 2020

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The January 2020 Newsletter of the IGU CCS has been released and ready to read!

ARCTIC ICE MELT IS CHANGING OCEAN CURRENTS

By NASA:

A major ocean current in the Arctic is faster and more turbulent as a result of rapid sea ice melt, a new study from NASA shows. The current is part of a delicate Arctic environment that is now flooded with fresh water, an effect of human-caused climate change.

Using 12 years of satellite data, scientists have measured how this circular current, called the Beaufort Gyre, has precariously balanced an influx of unprecedented amounts of cold, fresh water - a change that could alter the currents in the Atlantic Ocean and cool the climate of Western Europe.

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SUSTAINING COASTAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

The Commission on Coastal Systems (CCS) of the International Geographical Union is pleased to invite submissions to the Session "SUSTAINING COASTAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE" organised at the 34^th INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS with a theme "Geography: bridging the continents", that will take place on 17-21 August, 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey, information on which please find below: https://www.igc2020.org/en/COASTAL%20SYSTEMS.html

Chair: Colin Woodroffe
Co-chair: Margarita Stancheva

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