Earth and Planetary Surface Processes



Aeolian Processes on Earth and Other Planetary Bodies
Primary Convener:  Claire E Newman, Aeolis Research, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Christy Swann, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Ryan Ewing, Texas A&M, Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States and Jordan M Bretzfelder, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claire E Newman, Aeolis Research, Tucson, AZ, United States


Applications of Ecosystem Restoration and Natural or Nature-based Features as Green Infrastructure for Vulnerable Aquatic Systems
Primary Convener:  David Cannon, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States
Convener:  Kelly Maren Kibler, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  David Cannon, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States


Biophysical Interactions in Rivers: Processes, Feedbacks, and Restoration
Primary Convener:  Alan Kasprak, Fort Lewis College, Department of Geosciences, Durango, CO, United States
Conveners:  Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Greeley, CO, United States, Katherine B Lininger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography, Boulder, CO, United States and Derek M Schook, National Park Service, Water Resources Division, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alan Kasprak, Fort Lewis College, Department of Geosciences, Durango, CO, United States


Channel-floodplain coupling and mass fluxes in modern and ancient systems
Primary Convener:  Kelly Marie Sanks, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
Conveners:  Marisa Nicole Repasch, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Livermore, CA, United States, Rob Duller, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Elizabeth A Hajek, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States and Kyle M Straub, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kelly Marie Sanks, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States


Coastal Cliff and Bluff Morphodynamics: Observations, Monitoring, and Modelling
Primary Convener:  Phillipe Alan Wernette, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ann Gibbs, USGS Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Ethan J Theuerkauf, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Matt C. Strzelecki, University of Wroclaw, Geomorphology, Wroclaw, Poland
Primary Liaison:  Phillipe Alan Wernette, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States


Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics
Primary Convener:  Katherine Anarde, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Conveners:  Muriel Zazie Madeleine Brückner, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Uwe Best, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands; Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands and Brandee Carlson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine Anarde, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States


Cohesive sedimentary systems: dynamics and deposits
Primary Convener:  Andrew James Manning, University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom; HR Wallingford Ltd, Coasts & Oceans Group, Wallingford, United Kingdom and Professor Andy Manning
Conveners:  Leiping Ye, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus), School of Marine Sciences, Guangdong, China, Claire Chassagne, TUDelft, Delft, Netherlands, Daniel R Parsons, University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, HU6, United Kingdom and Professor Andy Manning
Primary Liaison:  Andrew James Manning, University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom and Professor Andy Manning


Earth and Planetary Surface Processes General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Rose Palermo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Conveners:  Claire C Masteller, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, Mackenzie D Day, University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States and Brooke Hunter, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rose Palermo, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States


Earth Surface Processes and the Global Carbon Cycle
Primary Convener:  Gen Li, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Emily Burt, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Nicole M Fernandez, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Preston Cosslett Kemeny, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gen Li, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


Ecohydraulics and Ecomorphodynamics: Biophysical Interactions Across Scales in Natural and Engineered Aquatic Systems.
Primary Convener:  Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Desiree D Tullos, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Mengzhen Xu, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Gregory B Pasternack, University of California Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rafael O Tinoco, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States


Fluvio-deltaic processes in cold regions and drylands
Primary Convener:  Roberto Fernández, University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Brandee Carlson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, Alvise Finotello, University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, Venice, Italy and Lina E Polvi, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Primary Liaison:  Roberto Fernández, University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom


From Cores to Code: Data-Model Integration to Improve Reconstructions and Forecasts of Coastal Change
Primary Convener:  Matthew Brain, Durham University, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Jessica Pilarczyk, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada and Christopher J Hein, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Matthew Brain, Durham University, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom


Geomorphic variability from source to sink: Unraveling the legacy of variability in surface processes and the sedimentary record
Primary Convener:  William Struble, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Danica L Roth, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Vamsi Ganti, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Tyler Doane, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  William Struble, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States


Geomorphological Evolution of Carbonate Systems through Time
Primary Convener:  Abdulah Eljalafi, University of Texas, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States; The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Scarlette Hsia1, Shawn Fullmer1, Roger Creel2 and Abdulah Eljalafi3,4, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States(2)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States(3)University of Texas, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States(4)The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scarlette Hsia, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States


Grains to Satellites: Sediment and Hydrological Processes Across Scales
Primary Convener:  Colin B Phillips, Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States
Conveners:  Sarah A Schanz, Colorado College, Geology, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, John R. Gardner, University of Pittsburgh, Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, NC, United States and Anya Leenman, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Colin B Phillips, Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States


Granular and fluid physics in geomorphology
Primary Convener:  Nakul Deshpande, University of Pennsylvania, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Gunn, Stanford University, Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford, PA, United States, Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Philippe Frey, University Genoble Alpes, INRAE, Grenoble, France
Primary Liaison:  Nakul Deshpande, University of Pennsylvania, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States


How to Build a Landscape: Deconvolving Surface and Subsurface Processes Related to Volcanic Terrain Formation and Evolution
Primary Convener:  Daniel O'Hara, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Geography, Ixelles, Belgium
Conveners:  Leif Karlstrom, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, Kristin Sweeney, University of Portland, Portland, OR, United States and Brian J Yanites, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel O'Hara, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Geography, Ixelles, Belgium


Hydrodynamics of meandering rivers: The role of simulation
Primary Convener:  Trung Le, North Dakota State University Main Campus, Fargo, ND, United States
Convener:  Ali Khosronejad, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Seokkoo Kang, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)


Interactions of flow, sediment, and wood in river ecosystems: observations and modeling
Primary Convener:  Isabella Schalko, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth Follett, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Heidi Margaret Nepf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Isabella Schalko, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States


Landscape and soilscape modelling: Past, present and future
Primary Convener:  Greg R Hancock, The University of Newcastle, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
Conveners:  Sagy Cohen, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Tom J Coulthard, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom and Nicole M Gasparini, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Greg R Hancock, The University of Newcastle, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Callaghan, NSW, Australia


Linking nearshore and onshore sediment transport processes and geomorphic responses: Insights from observational and modeling studies
Primary Convener:  Ethan J Theuerkauf, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Phillipe Alan Wernette, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Chelsea Volpano, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Katherine Serafin, University of Florida, Department of Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Patrick Barnard, USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ethan J Theuerkauf, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States


Novel applications and technique advances of cosmogenic nuclides
Primary Convener:  Gerald Raab, University of Zurich, Geography, Zurich, Switzerland; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Conveners:  Claire E Lukens, University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, United States and Jamey Stutz, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
Primary Liaison:  Gerald Raab, University of Zurich, Geography, Zurich, Switzerland


Physical Landscape Signatures of Contemporary Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Amy E East, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Conveners:  Stuart N Lane, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland and Irina Overeem, University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amy E East, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States


Planform Change of River Networks and Their Drainage Basins
Primary Convener:  Helen Willemien Beeson, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Convener:  Maya F. F. Stokes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Helen Willemien Beeson, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland


Polar Geothermal Heat Flow: Estimation and Ice Sheet Interactions
Primary Convener:  Mareen Loesing, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Conveners:  Tobias Staal, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Alex Burton-Johnson, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Nanna B. Karlsson, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Mareen Loesing, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany


Predicting the fate of river deltas and coastal wetlands: remote sensing, numerical modeling and field advances
Primary Convener:  Alexandra Christensen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Talib Oliver-Cabrera, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Olivier Gourgue, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Gerard Salter, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gerard Salter, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States


Proven AI/ML applications in the Earth Sciences
Primary Convener:  Orhun Aydin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Emily Law, CalTech JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Jens F Klump, CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Jens F Klump, CSIRO, Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA, Australia


Quantifying Impacts of Near Channel Dynamics on Water Quality
Primary Convener:  Christy Dolph, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Conveners:  Se Jong Cho, U.S. Geological Survey, Baltimore, United States, Amy Hansen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Jacques C Finlay, University of Minnesota, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christy Dolph, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States


Quantifying the drivers of landscape evolution across spatial and temporal scales
Primary Convener:  Victoria Milanez Milanez Fernandes, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Gaia Stucky de Quay, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Beatrix Muriel Heller, University Paris Sud, GEOPS, Orsay, France
Primary Liaison:  Victoria Milanez Milanez Fernandes, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom


Real Rivers; defining the natural
Primary Convener:  Neil Steven Entwistle, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom and George Heritage
Conveners:  George Leonard Heritage, Director, Dynamic Rivers Ltd., Southport, United Kingdom, Hamish J. Moir, cbec eco-engineering UK Ltd, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom, David Hetherington, ARUP, London, W1T, United Kingdom, Gregory B Pasternack, University of California Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States and George Heritage
Primary Liaison:  Neil Steven Entwistle, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom and George Heritage


Reconstructing mountain belts tectonics and climate
Primary Convener:  Xiaoping Yuan, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Conveners:  Charles Shobe, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States, Jing Liu-Zeng, Tianjin University, School of Earth System Sciences, Tianjin, China and Jean Braun, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Xiaoping Yuan, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China


Responding to the present and preparing for the future: transformative approaches in Critical Zone science
Primary Convener:  Julia N Perdrial, University of Vermont, Department of Geology, Burlington, VT, United States
Conveners:  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Lixin Jin, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States and Jerad Bales, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Julia N Perdrial, University of Vermont, Department of Geology, Burlington, VT, United States


River Deltas: Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Sedimentology
Primary Convener:  Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Conveners:  Lisanne Braat, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States and Alejandro Tejedor, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Primary Liaison:  Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands


Rivers & Floodplains, Estuaries & Tidal Flats
Primary Convener:  Ton Hoitink, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands
Conveners:  Molly Keogh, Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States, Anastasia Piliouras, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Deon Hanley Knights, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ton Hoitink, Wageningen University, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands


Surface Processes on Extraterrestrial Rocky Bodies
Primary Convener:  Alexander M Morgan, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Marisa C Palucis, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, Samuel Birch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Orkan M Umurhan, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexander M Morgan, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States


The Influence of Landslides on Sediment Dynamics from Source to Sink
Primary Convener:  Benjamin Campforts, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Charles Shobe, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States, Annette Patton, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States and Alison R Duvall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Campforts, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States


The Mississippi River Delta: How a “Tamed” Megadelta can Still be Wild
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey Obelcz, US Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Conveners:  Jason D Chaytor, USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Doug Jones, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management New Orleans, Marine Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, United States and Karina Khazmutdinova, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Gulf Research Program), Washington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeffrey Obelcz, US Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States


The Role and Relevance of Thresholds and Variability Across Landscapes
Primary Convener:  Claire C Masteller, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
Conveners:  Julia C. Carr, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Kimberly Huppert, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Benjamin Campforts, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claire C Masteller, UC-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States


The Science of Restoration: Advances in Applied Watershed Science
Primary Convener:  Pollyanna Lind, Inter-Fluve, Hood River, OR, United States
Convener:  Sarah M Yarnell, University of California Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah M Yarnell, University of California Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences, Davis, CA, United States


Top-down and Bottom-up Controls on Critical Zone Structure, Processes, and Resilience
Primary Convener:  Russell Patrick Callahan, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Conveners:  Mark Swenson1, Clifford S Riebe2 and Emma L Aronson1, (1)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States(2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Russell Patrick Callahan, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States


Trapped charge chronometry beyond sediment dating
Primary Convener:  Reza Sohbati, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Physics, Roskilde, Denmark
Conveners:  Edward Rhodes, University of Sheffield, Department of Geography, Sheffield, S10, United Kingdom, Sumiko Tsukamoto, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany, Andre O Sawakuchi, University of São Paulo, Institute of Geosciences, São Paulo, Brazil and Harrison J Gray, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mayank Jain, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Physics, Roskilde, Denmark


Tropical Coasts: Land-Ocean Environments at Low-Latitudes
Primary Convener:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, Universidad EAFIT, Department of Earth Sciences, Hydrology of Northern Andes Group, Medellin, Colombia
Conveners:  Isamar Cortes, Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States; Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences (GeoLatinas), Newark, United States and Oscar Andrés Alvarez-Silva, Universidad del Norte, Department of Physics and Geosciences, Puerto Colombia, Colombia
Primary Liaison:  Juan Felipe Paniagua-Arroyave, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, United States


Understanding bedforms across a range of scales and environments
Primary Convener:  Anne Baar, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Anne Baar, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom and Julia Cisneros, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anne Baar, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom


Understanding Continental‐Scale Landscape Evolution from a Process-Based Perspective
Primary Convener:  Sara Morón, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Conveners:  Elizabeth A Hajek, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Michael D Blum, The University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States and Michael Gurnis, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sara Morón, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Camperdown, NSW, Australia


Where Earth Systems Collide: Bridging the Gap between Physical, Chemical, and Biological Processes in the Critical Zone
Primary Convener:  Jennifer Aldred, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, United States
Conveners:  Monica Rasmussen, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States and Odeta Qafoku, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Aldred, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, United States


Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Aerial Systems
Primary Convener:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gijs de Boer, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States and Beat Schmid, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Primary Convener:  Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Shane Mayor, California State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Chico, United States, Ying Pan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States and Scott Salesky, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States


Deep Space Earth Observations
Primary Convener:  Alexander Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Convener:  Adam Szabo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jay Herman, UMBC, Greenbelt, United States


Dust in a changing climate: from small‐scale insights to large‐scale understanding
Primary Convener:  Chun Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Conveners:  Adeyemi Adebiyi, University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, Martina Klose, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe, Germany and Cassandra Gaston, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adeyemi Adebiyi, University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States


Extreme weather and climate in urban areas, their social impacts, and mitigation
Primary Convener:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Conveners:  Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Fei Chen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan


Process-based Testing and Evaluation of Weather and Climate Models
Primary Convener:  Weiwei Li, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Michael B Ek, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, United States, Lulin Xue, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Stan Benjamin, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Weiwei Li, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States


The past and future of fire
Primary Convener:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
Convener:  Pengfei Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States