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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.
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 34th 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
Read more: SUSTAINING COASTAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
The January 2020 Newsletter of the IGU CCS has been released and ready to read!
The January 2020 CCS Newsletter can be read also here!
EGU 2019 General Assembly programme is now online!
The meeting programme for the EGU General Assembly 2019 (7–12 April, Vienna) was published. With more than 1000 scientific sessions, debates, short courses and side events, and close to 17,000 abstracts, it promises to be a varied and exciting meeting.
Follow our EGU2019 GM11.5 Session: Coastal zones under natural and human-induced pressure (sponsored by CCS - IGU), Convener: Margarita Stancheva | Co-conveners: Jasper Leuven, Andreas Baas, Giorgio Anfuso, Lisa Harrison, Hannes Tõnisson, Wout van Dijk, Guillaume Brunier.
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/orals/32836
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/posters/32836
Solicited talk: Tourism oriented coastal interventions. Intentions and side effects, by one of the CCMS AC members George Alexandrakis and Nikolaos Rempis.