Code:
SE01

Title:
Physical limnology

Description:
The research of physical limnology has been scarce compared with biochemical and ecological studies in several Mexican lakes.

The main purpose is to bring together diverse studies, from research projects as preliminary and published, focused on studies (water quality and biota) related to physical processes (wind driven currents, thermal structure, internal waves, mixing processes, transport, etc.) in lakes.

In this session we are happy to cordially invite all scientist and students to participate in the conference and share the latest interdisciplinary issues, observational data, experimental, theory and numerical modeling, in different world lakes.

Conveners:
Tzitlali Gasca tzitlali.gasca@umich.mx
Diego Pantoja diego.pantoja@academicos.udg.mx
Jorge Montes jorge.montes@academicos.udg.mx

Code:
SE02

Title:
Recent advances in numerical, experimental, or statistical modeling for wind power and marine renewables

Description:
The general focus of this special session is numerical modeling and data analysis in the area of ​​offshore wind and renewable energy. Talks on numerical, experimental, or statistical models of the design of renewable energy devices are also welcome.

This year the session will focus in particular on recent advances in microscale and mesoscale models, as well as their coupling, that improves the characterization of energy resources. The session not only seeks the presentation of works on numerical results, but also the development of remote sensing methods and in-situ measurements, which allow both evaluating numerical simulations and defining better boundary or initial conditions for numerical meteorological prediction models, hydrodynamics, or computational fluid dynamics models. We also invite contributions on numerical or data science algorithms to reduce uncertainty in energy resource assessments. We invite individual contributions or contributions in a “session within the session” format, which focus on specific research, development, and technological innovation projects (such as, for example, the “MEWA” project or the “Mexican Wind Atlas - AEM ”), From the development of resource atlases to numerical and technological innovations, and from local to regional scales. We also accept other works in frontier science or applied science, both in the wind and marine energy and in other renewable energies or energy storage and transport systems, which may have an impact on methodologies for characterizing energy resources.

Conveners:
Markus Gross mgross@cicese.mx
Vanesa Magar vmagar@cicese.edu.mx
Osvaldo Rodríguez Hernández osroh@ier.unam.mx
Alfredo Peña aldi@dtu.dk

Code:
SE03

Title:
Chihuahua: Land of challenges and mine tales

Description:
Chihuahua, like the rest of the north of the country, began its systematic mining activities from very early times during the colony. Along with such activities, the first populations developed and together with them the abnormal concentrations of some mineral species that, when exposed to the weathering in the dumps, came to constitute some kind of pollution plumes. Some of these plumes have already been diluted, while others are still current as real challenges for the development of Chihuahua.

Conveners:
Ignacio Alfonso Reyes Cortés ireyes@uach.mx
Miguel Franco Rubio mfranco@uach.mx
Angélica Oviedo García aoviedo@uach.mx

Code:
SE04

Title:
OLLIN-IGCP669 Central Mexico: Seismic hazards in the Transmexican Volcanic Belt: Advances in neotectonics, paleoseismology, historical and instrumental seismicity

Description:
Although most of the destructive earthquakes that have affected Mexico are generated in the Pacific subduction zone, there is evidence of other historical earthquakes (e.g. 12/27/1568, 19/06/1858, 11/02/1875, 19/11/1912, 4/01/1920, with magnitudes Mw > 6), which serve as a reminder that the Transmexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB) also represents a major seismic hazard. This is particularly important, as more than half of the population of Mexico is concentrated in this area.

Several studies carried out in the last few decades in the area have been dedicated to the seismicity monitoring, identification of the faults responsible for major historical and prehistoric earthquakes, and the characterization of potentially active faults, thereby helping to increase our knowledge of the seismic hazard in the TMVB.

The purpose of this session is to enable researchers to present advances on the understanding of seismogenic sources in the TMVB in an interdisciplinary manner and with different time scales, including Neotectonics, Quantitative Geomorphology, Paleoseismology and historical and instrumental seismicity studies. We’ll specially focus, but not exclusively, in the integration of these data into seismic hazard analyses, within the frame of the fault2SHA initiative. The session is open to anyone working on the subject and will encourage to integrate the participants of the OLLIN-IGCP669 network (Unesco-IUGS), which has as its ultimate objective the implementation of fault2SHA tools to regions around the most populated areas in Latin America.

Conveners:
Pierre Lacan placan@geociencias.unam.mx
Rodrigo Alejandro León Loya r.leon.loya@gmail.com
María Ortuño maria.ortuno@ub.edu
Gerardo Suárez gerardo@geofisica.unam.mx

Code:
SE05

Title:
Regional climate modeling and CORDEX

Description:
Regional models are a powerful tool to improve the knowledge of the physical, chemical and dynamical processes that regulate the weather and climate and their possible changes. Computational growth has favoured the development of a large number of global and regional models. Multi-institutional projects for regional climate model simulations such as CORDEX (Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment) have produce regional climate models outputs at 50 and 25 km for several domains in the world, and in Europe at 10 km; CORDEX is currently developing the protocol for simulations at even finer spatial resolution forced with global models for a historical period and for future emission scenarios. The CORDEX information is available to the scientific community and it is relevant for regional process studies, for the evaluation of the possible impacts of climate change in different regions, and for decision-making and adaptation.

In this session, we are soliciting topics on:

1) Evaluation of regional models (dynamical or statistical) for different physical processes and impacts in various regions of the world including the CORDEX domains.
2) Studies of different physical processes relevant at regional scale under current and future conditions using regional models (dynamical, statistical, or hybrid downscaling).
3) Studies at local scale using convective permitting models.
4) VIA (vulnerability, impacts and adaptation) studies under climate change conditions.

Conveners:
Tereza Cavazos tcavazos@cicese.mx
Rosa Beatriz Luna Niño rluna@cicese.edu.mx
María Laura Bettolli bettolli@at.fcen.uba.ar
Matías Méndez Pérez jumendez@uv.mx

Code:
SE06

Title:
Research and professional placements 2020 and 2021: Reports of activities and experiences

Description:
We propose this special session as a space for interaction between undergraduate and graduate students who carried out research or professional placements in 2019 or 2020, with or without academic or industrial sponsorship. The placements could have been undertaken either in person or remotely. Please discuss the methodological adaptations that had to be implemented due to the pandemic. The accepted abstracts will all be presented in poster format, and all students are requested to send a recording of the presentation of their poster with a maximum length of three minutes. A space of discussion and interaction of 15 minutes will be timetabled at the end of the show of presentations so that students and moderators can interact with each other.

Conveners:
Vanesa Magar vmagar@cicese.edu.mx
Jonás de Dios de Basabe Delgado jonas@cicese.mx
Mary Carmen Ruiz de la Torre mary.ruiz@uabc.edu.mx
Eloísa García Canseco eloisa.garcia@uabc.edu.mx

Code:
SE07

Title:
Seismotectonics in the Mexicali-Imperial Valley, Mexico-USA border region

Description:
The Mexicali-Imperial Valley, located on both sides of the US-Mexico international border, is traversed by a network of active faults that involves the southern sector of the San Andreas Fault, the Imperial, Cerro Prieto, and Indiviso faults, as well as the southern part of the San Jacinto fault system, and which together accommodate most of the relative motion between the North American and Pacific plates at this latitude. Notwithstanding the above, active faults in the region are little known. In this area, for example, important tremors of greater magnitude have occurred, including the one of May 18, 1940 (M6.9) known as the Imperial Valley earthquake, which generated an average slip of 2 m and a rupture of ~ 60 km and more recently that of El Mayor-Cucapah (Mw7.2) of April 4, 2010, an earthquake that caused a surface rupture of around 120 km in length, along various fault structures, with displacements greater than 4 m. Each of these tremors showed the existence of large, hitherto unknown faults. The first made it possible to document the Imperial Fault; the second, the Indiviso Fault. Everything indicates that these faults already existed but were buried by sediments, which made their identification difficult.

On the other hand, recent studies have reported structures buried by sediments in different areas of the Mexicali-Imperial Valley. Another situation that exists is that the hazard models (UCERF3) assign ~ 35 mm / year in the border sector of the Imperial Fault, which differs with geological slip rates of ~ 15 mm / year, so it is considered that the missing slip is due to other faults in the international border region, south of the San Jacinto fault zone. Even though CICESE has been recording seismicity locally in the region for almost 50 years (including a network in the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field) and Caltech since 1973 has been expanding the southern California seismic network in the Imperial Valley, it is evident that there are still structures in the region that have not been documented and represent a seismic/geological risk, which may have not only scientific implications but also an impact on the communities of the region, making their identification imperative.

Conveners:
Mario González Escobar mgonzale@cicese.mx
Joann M. Stock jstock@gps.caltech.edu
J. Javier González García javier@cicese.mx

Code:
SE08

Title:
Philosophy, logic, methodology and epistemology in Earth sciences

Description:
Philosophy, Logic, Methodology and Epistemology are inherent to all sciences, which is why a special session is proposed at this UGM Meeting that has inclusivity as its theme with the aim of presenting works that relate the disciplines mentioned with Geophysics in particular and in general with Earth Sciences.

Conveners:
Octavio Lázaro Mancilla olazaro@uabc.edu.mx
Eduardo Juayek Sotelo ejuayek@gmail.com

Code:
SE09

Title:
Diversity, ethics, equity, and inclusivity (DEEI) - best practices in academia and in geoscience-led organizations

Description:
This transdisciplinary session of convened and invited presentations by academics, researchers, and officers of the UGM and partner societies with Earth and Space Science Sections (SEG, AGU, EAGE, IUGG, JpGU, MexSIAM, IOP, etc.) will focus on theoretical or practical approaches, policy-driven frameworks, and case studies showcasing best praxis in the Geosciences that contextualize and aim to achieve diversity, ethics, equity, and inclusivity. Examples can be driven by the geosciences or conducted in partnership with broader stakeholder groups outside of science. We also invite contributions of studies that have assessed the history and current status of any aspect of DEEI in Academia or in Geoscience-led organizations. Officers from the partner societies will be invited to present implemented policies or working group reports addressing these issues:

• Diversity – What types of diversity (ability, career stage, ethnicity, gender, institutional, racial) have been measured and how? How is success defined?
• Ethics - How well is the geoscience community responsibly upholding the standards of scientific conduct and displaying ethical behaviours?
• Equity - How has the geoscience community increased access and success for people in marginalized groups?
• Inclusion – How inclusive and welcoming are the geosciences (i.e., international participation, outside geoscience expertise, non-scientists etc.)? Examples of best practices adopted at different levels, from individual projects (researcher or community-led) to institutions (institutional policies), to national policies.
• For all questions above -- What is the current status and what do we aspire to achieve in 5 to 10 years into the future?

Conveners:
Vanesa Magar vmagar@cicese.edu.mx
Jonás de Dios de Basabe Delgado jonas@cicese.edu.mx
Mark Shimamoto mshimamoto@agu.org

Code:
SE10

Title:
Coastal resilience

Description:
Coastal Resilience is the capacity of any socio-ecological system (SES) to recover or reach a new equilibrium, at different rates and scales, following the impact of environmental or socio-economic stressors or shocks, while maintaining its functionality and services. Its study is highly complex given that SES are sensible to anthropogenic activities (land use changes, pollution, exploitation and economic activities), the effects of climate change (sea level rise and increased temperature), as well as the occurrence of extreme meteorological and seismic events. In this session we invite the submission of abstracts related to coastal resilience and any aspects that make its evaluation possible (stressors, shocks, thresholds, interactions, tendencies,...). The presentations can be theoretical, experimental, numerical, or based on field data, from uni-, multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary approaches.

Conveners:
Paulo Salles Afonso de Almeida psallesa@iingen.unam.mx
Alec Torres Freyermuth atorresf@iingen.unam.mx
Elsa Noreña Barroso enorena@yahoo.com
Gema Hidalgo Rodríguez gema.hidalgo@ccgs.mx

Code:
SE11

Title:
3rd Meeting of the Mexican Society of Western Archaeometry "Archeometric techniques in Mexico and Latin America in the XXI century"

Description:
This is the third session of the Mexican society of archeometry. On this occasion, we will do a general review of the new techniques used in Mexico, including a general panorama in Latin America with special guests and current projects.

Conveners:
Rodrigo Esparza resparza@colmich.edu.mx
Blanca Maldonado bem171@gmail.com
Avto Gogichaishvili avto@igeofisica.unam.mx
Francisco Sánchez arqueosantor@hotmail.com

Code:
SE12

Title:
Technologies applied to soil science

Description:
For many years, the properties of soils have been evaluated mainly qualitatively or semi-quantitatively. Recently the use of modern technologies, such as data pattern analysis software with machine learning methods, color measurement systems, image analysis software with computer vision techniques, 3D scanner and printers, have allowed the development of new methods for the determination of the properties of soils that offer a more quantitative and exact approach.

On the other hand, the modernization of soil science has also led to the creation of software tools that a) allow the processing and evaluation of soil information to know their environmental functions; and b) evaluate the quality of irrigation water from hundreds of water wells in seconds.

In this sense, the session "Technologies applied to soil sciences" will present the advances of these new tools and methods developed in Mexico, which place us in a relevant position within the new soil science, that of the 21st century.

Conveners:
Ángeles Gallegos angelesgallegostavera@gmail.com
Francisco Bautista leptosol@ciga.unam.mx

Code:
SE13

Title:
Heavy metals in urban soils and dusts

Description:
Pollution of urban soils and dust is a serious environmental problem today, both for society and for the government, since it affects the health of the urban system and the population. In fact, it is estimated that by 2030, 60% of the world's population will live in urban areas. Therefore, the characterization, evaluation and remediation of a contaminated soil is one of the current environmental challenges that we must address.

All researchers who have studied heavy metal pollution in urban environments are invited to discuss their progress and findings. This session will allow us to share knowledge and experiences learned on the subject, as well as to identify future lines of research that should be followed.

Conveners:
Anahi Aguilera aaguilera@cieco.unam.mx
Francisco Bautista leptosol@ciga.unam.mx
Avto Goguitchaichvili avto@geofisica.unam.mx

Code:
SE14

Title:
Static characterization of oil fields and its implications in decision-making

Description:
Like all operational activity in wells, it is very important to take into account geological-geophysical models, which can impact the success or failure of an intervention, operation or development plan of an oil field.

The session aims to show the qualitative - quantitative analysis that is obtained during the process of a static characterization of a reservoir, which allows early identification of opportunities, critical variables of subsoil risks and resources, which impact on the technical-economic results and feasibility of an Upstream project, highlighting the following topics:

- Sedimentary and stratigraphic model
- Petrophysical models
- Seismic models
- Geomechanics
- Spatial distribution of properties
- Probabilistic and deterministic estimation of reserves
- Wells
- Risks
- Development plans
- New technologies

Conveners:
Julio César González Hernández julio.gonzalezhdz@correo.buap.mx
Erick Osorio Santiago eosorios01@pemex.com

Code:
SE15

Title:
Application of remote sensing to societally important regions: estuarine, coastal, tropical and polar waters

Description:
Remote sensing from satellites, suborbital, and ground platforms provides valuable data for managing regions with great socio-economic importance, including coastal, estuarine, tropical, and polar waters. There has been tremendous growth in the availability of sub-kilometer resolution data with active and passive observations spanning UV to microwave, resulting from new sensors and advances in scientific data and information processing techniques (e.g., artificial intelligence/machine learning).

In addition to current remote sensing applications in these critical regions, the session seeks contributions that demonstrate and prototype evolving and emerging capabilities to support improved understanding and applications within these high-priority regions. Our particular focus is on satellite remote sensing to characterize (sub)-mesoscale processes and features as they relate to coastal waters for fisheries, hazards, inclusive of multiple remote sensing data sets and field observations. As well as coupled modeling and data assimilations approaches to better resolve and track this scale of features in space (local to EEZs) and over-time scales ranging from hourly to interannual. Thus, this includes satellite time series (e.g., ocean color, synthetic aperture radar), allowing for a more holistic spatially explicit study of these regions and their impact on long-term ecological changes.

Likewise, transboundary (e.g., land-sea interface) and trans-disciplinary (e.g., physical and biological/biogeochemical; environmental & social science data) approaches are greatly encouraged, and studies highlight potential technology transfer from developed to developing regions. Stakeholders of interest include researchers and application developers and managers, and decision-makers within these regions of interest to help assess and better address their data user needs and requirements.

Conveners:
José Gómez-Valdés jgomez@cicese.mx
Jorge Vázquez-Cuervo Jorge.Vazquez@jpl.nasa.gov