PP026
The Ross Sea: Past, Present and Future
The Ross Sea: Past, Present and Future
Session ID#: 158429
Session Description:
The Ross Sea, bounded by the East and West Antarctic Ice Sheets and the Southern Ocean, plays an important role in the global climate system, impacting ice sheet dynamics, large-scale ocean circulation and the Southern Ocean biosphere. Active topics of research in this region range over a variety of timescales and include understanding the role of the Ross Sea during the onset of Southern Hemisphere glaciation, how past and present primary productivity influence the global carbon cycle, the use of this unique environment as an analogue for extraterrestrial ocean worlds and determining how its physical, chemical and biological oceanography will be altered due to climate change. In this session, we invite work from the Ross Sea region and adjacent geographical locations including geological records of its past climate and ecosystem change, studies of its modern environmental conditions and projections of changes to regional ice sheet dynamics and ocean circulation.
Index Terms:
0456 Life in extreme environments [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
4845 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4912 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Primary Convener: Jeanine L Ash, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners: Molly O'Rourke Patterson, Binghamton University, Department of Geological Sciences, Binghamton, NY, United States, Denise K Kulhanek, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Brian Romans, Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States
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