Managing wildfires in a changing world
Wildfires are a global phenomenon responsible for tremendous environmental, social, and economic losses. Wildfires are also becoming a persistent threat. An increase in fire because of a warmer and drier climate demands novel tools for integrated post-fire land management and impact mitigation from the scientific community. Researchers, stakeholders, and decision-makers all over the world need to work together since wildfire impacts on soils and ecosystems also severely affects ecosystem services supplies, such as raw material and water provisioning, carbon storage, erosion and flood control, and habitat support, which are essential for human life. This session invites all who study the effects of wildfires on ecosystems, from wildfire prevention to post-fire mitigation by means of laboratory, field experiments, and/or numerical modeling.
SSS9.6: 13:30–17:00
Under cover: The Southern Ocean’s connection to sea ice and ice shelves
In recent years the interaction between the ocean and the cryosphere in the Southern Ocean has become a major focus in climate research. Antarctic climate change has captured public attention, which has spawned many research questions. Recent advances in observational technology, data coverage, and modeling provide scientists with a better understanding of the mechanisms involving ice-ocean interactions in the far South. This session presents studies on physical and biogeochemical interactions between ice shelves, sea ice, and the ocean, including cross-disciplinary topics involving physical and biological oceanography, glaciology and biogeochemistry.
OS1.7: 9:00–10:30
Future missions and instrumentation
Scientists from around the world, along with private industry partners, are advancing exploration with a number of anticipated missions to the Moon, Mars, and other solar system bodies. Each mission has unique goals that call for strategically selected instruments to accommodate a diverse set of platforms, including rovers, orbiters, and human explorers. This session presents research on future planetary missions and instruments, including those in development, to share latest progress, discuss preflight scientific results, and increase awareness for potential cooperation.
PS6.2: 9:00–10:30
Exploring the Art-Science Interface & meeting vEGU21 Artist (not!) in Residence Kelly Stanford
In addition to the latest Earth, planetary, and space science research, vEGU21 is also featuring the contributions of four talented artists, who are sharing their artwork via social media (using the hashtag #EGUart). Kelly Stanford (@TheLabArtist) is a Manchester, UK-based science communicator and geography MSc student from the University of Hull’s Energy and Environment Institute who uses the visual arts to help scientists around the world communicate their work to the wider public. Her thesis is investigating how art and tabletop games can be used to enhance public understanding of flood risk, resilience, and climate-change topics. Kelly is creating a series of “Sci-portraits” (portraits that fuse the scientists with their research) of geoscientists participating in the meeting. She’s also helping to convene the hybrid research/art EOS session Exploring the Art-Science Interface, which aims to showcase research and art collaboration alongside one another.
EOS7.4: 9:00–12:30
Late-breaking Session: Hazard cascades from source to sink – the Elliot Creek and Chamoli events
Two significant flow hazard cascades have been captured with unprecedented detail, with events in Elliot Creek and Bute Inlet (Canada) and the Chamoli and Uttarakhand (India) both occurring recently. These events have a suite of background observations and baseline datasets on which to contextually place and explore these flows in a depth and breadth of detail that is unprecedented, potentially unlocking new understanding of hazard cascades from source to sink. We include papers that are observational, analytical or modelling based in their approach, across a variety of temporal and spatial scales.
GM1.5: 13:30–15:00
Modelling and measuring snow processes across scales
Snow cover is continuously evolving over a wide range of scales due to meteorological conditions, such as precipitation, wind, and radiation. Most processes occurring within the snow cover are primarily controlled by the microstructure of snow (e.g., density, specific surface area). In turn, snow metamorphism changes the microstructure, leading to feedback loops that affect snow hydrology, weather forecasting, climate modelling, and avalanche hazard forecasting or remote sensing of snow. This session is devoted to modelling and measuring snow processes in sessional and perennial snowpacks across a variety of scales.
CR5.1: 13:30–17:00
The short- and long-term variation of the Earth’s magnetic field: new data and models
Constraining the past geomagnetic field variation is fundamental for several geoscience disciplines. Despite recent efforts to improve both spatial and temporal coverages of palaeomagnetic data, records and palaeointensity, data are biased toward the last 10 ka and the northern latitudes. More data are still needed from underrepresented geographical areas and temporal intervals. This session will feature methodological advances, new directional and palaeointensity data, especially respecting the FAIR data management, as well as new palaeomagnetic reconstructions at local or global scales to better understand the past behaviour of the Earth’s magnetic field.
EMRP3.6: 13:30–14:15
EGU Geoscience Games Night!
Join us for an evening playing games and socialising! There will be games of all kinds, such as card, board, roleplay, and video, and each game will have at least some link to the geosciences! This will also be your chance to play the games showcased in the Games for Geoscience science session. You are also welcome to bring your own game to play and share.
NET1: 17:30–19:00