Dear colleagues and friends,
The abstract submission deadline for this year's Goldschmidt conference
on 30th March is fast approaching! The conference will take place in
Boston 12-17 August 2018. For all conference information, see here:
https://goldschmidt.info/2018/index.
Along with Johan Faust (University of Leeds), Silke Severmann (Rutgers
University) and Bob Aller (Stonybrook), I would like to invite you to
submit your abstracts to session 07m: Sedimentary biogeochemical cycling
along continental margins: role of climate, tectonic setting, and
oceanographic regimes.
Session description:
Continental margins are regions of intense diagenetic cycling,
sediment-water fluxes, and burial of biogenic and lithogenic debris.
Margins are generally characterized by high biological productivity and
sediment accumulation rates. However, specific modes of benthic
elemental cycling, authigenic mineral formation, and storage are strong
functions of depositional environment, including physical dynamics and
sediment sources. The effects of climate change, such as decreasing
sea-ice in the higher latitudes or changing precipitation patterns in
drainage basins, have the potential to greatly alter benthic cycling and
the exchange between sediments and the water column. This session will
explore and contrast benthic biogeochemical cycling along continental
margins from a range of climatic and weathering regimes (e.g., drainage
basin weathering, organic carbon reactivity), tectonic setting (active,
passive margins), sediment types (permeable, impermeable), coastal
processes (deltaic, non-deltaic), and oceanographic conditions (e.g.,
upwelling, ice cover, ventilation - oxygenation, tidal range). We
particularly welcome contributions that focus on the origin, processing,
fate, and characterization of organic and inorganic carbon, nutrients
and metals within the context of modern climate, oceanographic and
ecosystem change from tropical to polar systems.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts and meeting you in Boston!
With best wishes,
Sian, Johan, Silke and Bob
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Dr Sian Henley
NERC Independent Research Fellow
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
