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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear Friends and Colleagues,</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>We ask you to consider submitting to our Cryosphere session entitled, <b>“Collaborative research to address changes in the climate, hydrology and cryosphere of High Mountain Asia.”</b> The session goal is to emphasize the collaborative nature of the research required to tackle complex science questions across High Mountain Asia, whether that includes teams that cross two or more disciplines and/or the integration of multiple types of tools and information. Please see the session description below. We’d appreciate your help in forwarding this to your own networks. Follow <a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Home/0">this</a> link to the Abstract Submission site and <a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/54341">this</a> link to visit the session details.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>Session Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>High Mountain Asia holds the world’s largest reservoir of perennial glaciers and snow outside of Earth’s polar regions, providing a reliable source of water for hundreds of millions of people.</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>Changes in the region’s glaciers, snow, permafrost, climate and precipitation patterns have altered this water supply, while also transforming regional ecology, hydropower production systems, land utilization, and the hazards associated with landslides, ice avalanches and glacial-lake-outburst floods. Addressing these challenges requires data sharing, collaboration and research integration across multiple disciplines and agencies. We invite scientists and regional stakeholders to participate in an interactive discussion aimed at enhancing research coordination and advancing knowledge of the High Asian cryosphere. This session welcomes studies that combine field and remote sensing observations with climate and land surface models to provide decision support and inform hazard mitigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>Primary Section/Focus Group: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>Cryosphere<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>SWIRL Theme: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black'>Climate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Anthony Arendt, Umesh Haritashya, and Sasha Richey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>