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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,22,22)">Dear colleagues, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,22,22)">We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to
our session </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">in this year's AGU Fall Meeting (11-15 Dec, 2017) </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,22,22)">in New Orleans,
Louisiana</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">,
entitled</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,22,22)"> "H006.
Advances in ecohydrology of water-stressed environments." We will have
invited speakers for this session including Dr. Alexandra Konings
(Stanford University) and Dr. Pierre Gentine (Columbia University). You
can submit abstracts at the following</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)"> link: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> <a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23392"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23392</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">Please note the deadline for abstract submission is Aug 2, 2017</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)"> and early submission is highly preferred</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">. For more information, please refer to
the </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,22,22)">abstract
and session information below.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(16,16,16)">Thank you for your attention and we look
forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you in </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,22,22)">New Orleans!</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,22,22)"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(22,22,22)">H006. Advances in
ecohydrology of water-stressed environments.</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">Session Description:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">Water-stressed environments include drylands and any
drought-prone ecosystems where vegetation productivity is water-limited during
at least part of the year. These seasonally or perennially dry ecosystems make
up about 40% of the terrestrial land surface. Both anthropogenic activities
(e.g., land use changes and overgrazing) and global environmental changes
(e.g., CO2 enrichment, drought and warming) affect dryland vegetation and water
dynamics, with important impacts on ecohydrological and geochemical processes,
regional climate feedback, and the provision of ecosystem services such as
water resource supply, livestock grazing, sheltering of the soil surface, and
flood control. These potential consequences on ecosystem function and services
highlight the importance of advancing our understanding of ecohydrological
processes in water-stressed environments. We welcome submissions focusing on
the ecohydrological processes/feedbacks in water-stressed environments and
their implications on a broad range of issues, including vegetation water use
and ecosystem change, carbon sequestration, water resources, desertification,
and the food-energy-water nexus.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">Primary Convener: </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">Kailiang Yu</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">Conveners: </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">Lixin Wang</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29)">, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Earth
Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, United States, <b>Kelly K Caylor</b>, University of
California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and <b>Xue Feng</b>,
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering,
Minneapolis, MN, United States</span><span></span></p>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Sincerely,<br>Kailiang Yu<br>Department of Biology</div>
<div>University of Utah<br><span>257 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112</span><br></div>
<div>Office: 205C (Bill Anderegg's lab)<br></div>
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