Dear GLIMS colleagues,As usual, Fall AGU (15-19 December 2014, San Francisco) will have a rich variety of cryosphere sessions. I want to encourage you to submit abstracts in time for the submission deadline of August 6. I, along with Michael Bishop and Umesh Haritashya, will be convening a session on Climate and the Cryosphere of High Asia, including many associated aspects besides glacier remote sensing. Descriptions of my session and one led by Bruce Raup and others-- both very GLIMS-related-- follow. Besides these sessions, many other GLIMS-relevant sessions are being offered on remote sensing of the cryosphere, glacier monitoring from in situ and remote sensing, modeling of glaciers and ice sheets, black carbon in the cryosphere, changing ecosystems related to the polar cryosphere, cryosphere and sea level, and so on. Session ID#: 2725Session Description:High Asia (including the Himalaya, Karakoram, Tian Shan, Altai, the Tibetan Plateau, and other glacierized areas of Asia) are undergoing rapid changes related to climate change. Glaciers are mainly undergoing net melting, but not so everywhere. Glacier lakes are primarily growing, permafrost is thawing, and other changes are taking place in the physical Earth system of High Asia, and these changes are impacting people and development potential. We solicit papers on any significant physical forcings, responses, associated processes, and human or ecological impacts of the dynamical physical Earth system in High Asia and in areas directly downstream. This can include, for example, studies of glacier dynamics; mass movements; land surface utilization for agriculture, habitation, and infrastructure; and climate change linked to these Earth surface dynamics.Co-Sponsor(s):EP - Earth and Planetary Surface ProcessesGC - Global Environmental ChangeNH - Natural HazardsSI - Societal Impacts and Policy SciencesIndex Terms: 0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE] 0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE] 0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE] 4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]Primary Convener: Jeffrey S Kargel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United StatesCo-conveners: Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States and Michael Peter Bishop, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Session ID#: 2035Session Description:Understanding glacial processes is key to assessing the sensitivity of glacier systems to changing climate. An important basis for large scale assessments is a comprehensive glacier inventory. Glaciers are monitored on different spatio-temporal scales, from extensive seasonal mass balance studies at selected glaciers to multi-decadal repeat inventories over entire mountain ranges. Internationally coordinated glacier monitoring aims at combining in-situ measurement with remotely sensed data, and local process understanding with global coverage. Bringing together studies from the tropics to polar regions as well as from different disciplines, this session includes presentations on both in-situ and remotely sensed monitoring of glaciers, and on related uncertainty assessments.Co-Sponsor(s):A - Atmospheric SciencesGC - Global Environmental ChangeH - HydrologyNH - Natural HazardsIndex Terms: 0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE] 0738 Ice [CRYOSPHERE] 0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE] 0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]Primary Convener: Bruce H Raup, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United StatesCo-conveners: Richard L Armstrong1, Michael Zemp2 and Tobias Bolch2, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States(2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Jeffrey S. KargelDepartment of Hydrology & Water ResourcesUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZ 85742 USAEmail(1) jeffreyskargel@hotmail.comEmail(2) kargel@hwr.arizona.eduMobile phone: 520-780-7759www.glims.org