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AGU Fall Meeting 2015: Submit abstracts to sessions co-sponsored by IGBP

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IGBP is co-sponsoring over 60 scientific sessions as part of its package of activities at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. We strongly encourage global-change researchers and practitioners to submit abstracts to these sessions by the 5 August deadline.

IGBP is holding a Landmark Synthesis Event at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 14-18 December, 2015. This will provide an occasion to celebrate our scientific and institutional legacy and hand over the baton of global-change research to Future Earth.


As part of this event IGBP is co-sponsoring over 60 scientific sessions covering a range of topics. We invite researchers and practitioners from our core projects and the broader global-change research community to submit abstracts by 5 August.

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