SEDIBUD 2008

SEDIBUD workshop, September 9 - 13, 2008

Date: September 9 to 13, 2008
Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Host: INSTAAR, Mountain research station, CO

Organizers:
<properties> Achim A. Beylich:=Achim.Beylich@ngu.no Scott F. Lamoureux:=lamoureu@post.queensu.ca Armelle Decaulne:=armelle.sedibud@gmail.com Nel Caine: =Cainen@colorado.edu Irina Overeem: =Irina.Overeem@colorado.edu </properties>

Website:
http://www.geomorph.org/wg/wgsb.html

Sponsors:
International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG)
Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)

Goals:

1. Climate change affects all Earth surface systems but with the arguably greatest impact in high-latitude and high-altitude cold environments. In these areas, climate change shapes earth surface processes not just by altering vegetation cover and human activities but also through its impact on frost penetration and duration within the ground surface layers. All of these factors influence patterns of erosion, transport and deposition of sediments and related fluxes (e.g., nutrients, solutes, carbon). It is a challenge to develop a better understanding of how these factors combine to affect sedimentary transfer processes and sediment budgets in cold environments. Our baseline knowledge on the erosion, sedimentary transfer and depositional processes operating within Holocene and present-day climates and as landscape systems evolved and under given vegetation covers, forms our basis for predicting the consequences of predicted future climate change and related vegetation cover changes. However, much of this information is limited in terms of spatial and temporal coverage and needs to be extended and consolidated. Only when we have these reliable models response to landscape and climate change we will have fuller understanding of probable future changes to these regions.
2. Central issues will be the further discussion of relevant science questions to be addressed within the SEDIBUD programme, the presentation and further discussion of the SEDIFLUX Manual (Revised Version), the presentation of SEDIBUD key test sites (catchments), the development of the SEDIBUD metadata database, and the development of further ideas to continue and to extend the scientific activities within SEDIBUD.
   

Program and Abstract Volume:
The final program and abstract volume pdf (July, 2008)

Talks:

Presented by	Title	Download

James Syvitski	CSDMS introduction	pdf
Armelle Decaulne	Debris Flows in Iceland	pdf
Thorsteinn Saemundsson	2007 Morsarjokull Rockfall	pdf
Achim Beylich	Erdalen Sediment Budget	pdf
Irina Overeem	Arctic River Budgets	pdf
Katja Laute	Erdalen braidplain budget	pdf
Jeff Warburton	Peaty Rivers and Carbon budgets	pdf
Richard Johnson	Landslide budgets over time	pdf
Jukka Kayhko	Changing Catchments in Finland	pdf
Ted Lewis	Sediment transport and disturbances	pdf
Helgi Jonnson	Rockslides in Iceland	pdf
Colin Thorn	New dating techniques for Paleosols	pdf
John Dixon	Geochemical budgets in Cold Climates	pdf
Ole Saether	Natural Organic Matter in Subalpine Catchments	pdf