“Earth System Science: Climate, Global Change and People” - The AIMES Open Science Conference on Earth System Science
Location: Edinburgh, UK, 10-13 May 2010
Start date: May 10, 2010
End date: May 13, 2010
Short Description:
The AIMES Open Science Conference is co-sponsored by QUEST (Quantifying and
Understanding the Earth System), a flagship research programme funded by the UK Natural
Environment Research Council (NERC) during 2003-2010. The conference will address Earth
System questions in the context of past, present and future global environmental changes.
Building on the exceptional growth of cross-cutting research over the past 15 years, it will
emphasize interdisciplinary synthesis and linkages: between observations and models,
biodiversity and climate, social and natural sciences, policy and research. The broad themes to
be addressed at the conference will be:
• Earth system modelling: from observations and process understanding to prediction
and risk assessment.
• Dynamics of biogeochemical cycles and climate: transitions, instabilities and
feedbacks.
• People and resources—perspectives on the relations among environment, ecosystems
and human needs.
The conference will include a small number of invited keynote presentations, providing stateof-
the art overviews of major topics, and a somewhat larger number of presentations selected
from responses to the Call for Abstracts, which will be issued in September 2009. The poster
sessions will form an integral, and important, part of the conference programme. Registration,
travel and accommodation information will be available through the conference website,
which will be made available together with the Call for Abstracts.
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