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EGU2020 CCS Coastal Sessions Share Online
The EGU General Assembly 2020 online activities "Sharing Geoscience Online" kick off from Monday, 04 May 2020. Please see https://egu2020.eu/, for a quick overview of what is on during the coming week. Please find Sharing Geoscience Online in a nutshell at:
https://egu2020.eu/sharing_geoscience_online/sharing_geoscience_online.html
and the full programme here:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/meetingprogramme.
The Commission on Coastal Systems (CCS) of the International Geographical Union (IGU) has sponsored two EGU2020 coastal sessions that will be conducted by EGU sharing live chat, the chat is open Friday 8 May:
Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s
An aerial view of the icebergs near Kulusuk Island, off the southeastern coastline of Greenland, a region that is exhibiting an accelerated rate of ice loss.
Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Observations from 11 satellite missions monitoring the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have revealed that the regions are losing ice six times faster than they were in the 1990s. If the current melting trend continues, the regions will be on track to match the "worst-case" scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of an extra 6.7 inches (17 centimeters) of sea level rise by 2100.
Read more: Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s
POSTPONEMENT OF 34th IGC 2020 ISTANBUL
Following the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and its current trajectory, it has become clear that it will not be possible to hold the 34th International Geographical Congress in İstanbul in August this year as originally planned. The Local Organising Committee and the IGU Executive Committee have taken the decision that the IGU Congress in Istanbul is postponed for one year. The 34th IGC will be held at the same venue between 16-20 August 2021. Due to the postponement, the organisers have also rescheduled the important dates of the conference.
You may find the details below:
Deadline for abstract papers and posters submission – 11 January 2021
Notification of acceptance (new abstracts) – 08 February 2021
Authors’ registration deadline – 05 April 2021
Early bird registration – 05 April 2021
Regular registration – 06 April – 21 June 2021
Late & On-site registration – 22 June – 20 August 2021
Gary Griggs: Coastal armoring and disappearing beaches
An important study, focused on the effect of coastal armoring on beaches was published on Coastal Care by Gary Griggs, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Director Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.
Read more: Gary Griggs: Coastal armoring and disappearing beaches