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meetings and workshops in 2003
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2nd South American Dendroecological Fieldweek
The weeklong workshop will provide the opportunity to experience collaborative field work and undergo practical training with a team that includes the most highly qualified researchers in dendrochronology and dendroecology in South America as well as scholars and students from other disciplines.
3 - 12 January 2003 San Pablo de Tregua, Valdivia, Chile
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Inaugural meeting of the International Biogeography Society
4 - 8 January 2003 Mesquite, Nevada
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OCEANS: Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Analysis
International Open Science Conference
7 - 10 January 10 2003 Paris, France
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IV Southern Connection Congress
Southern temperate ecosystem and biota: contributions towards a global synthesis
13 - 17 January 2003 Bariloche, Argentina
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Symposium "Global Change: Toward a Systemic View"
This symposium will focus on physical and socio-economic issues in different ecosystems, with emphasis in findings of scientific research involving Latin America, in the context of Global Change.
23 - 25 January 2003 Punta Arenas, Chile
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EILQUEC & POLTRAIN 2003
Workshop (Emerging Issues in Late Quaternary Environment Change – EILQUEC 2003) focusing on data and model inter-comparison and multi-proxy approaches in the reconstruction of past environments since the last glacial epoch.
online registration: click here
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10 - 15 February 2003 Pondicherry, India
International symposium "Environmental Change in Central Asia: Climate, Geodynamics, Evolution, Human Impact"
Symposium on Mass Balance of Andean Glaciers
The Symposium on Mass Balance of Andean Glaciers is being organized by the Working Group on Andean Glaciers of ICSI with the goal of presenting advances and current understanding related to mass balance and glacier changes of Andean glaciers of South America.
12 - 23 March 2003 Valdivia, Chile
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4th Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science
The Changing Polar Oceans: Impacts of a Changing Climate on Physical, Chemical, Biological and Coupled Systems
16 - 21 March 2003 Ventura, CA, USA
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Climate Change at the very end of a warmstage
The DEKLIM-EEM Project is a group proposal from eight Universities and Research Institutes, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, to study the natural climate variability at the end of past warm stages and to predict the climate evolution at the end of the ongoing warmstage.
24 - 27 March 2003 Heidelberg, Germany
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3rd International Limnogeology Congress (ILIC 3)
29 March - 2 April 2003 Tucson, USA
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Seminario DARE e ARCHISS
DARE, DAta REscue, and ARCHISS, Archival Climate History Survey; Seminar at the new International Centre of El Nino research (CIIEL) in Guayaquil, Equateur.
The goal of this meeting is to support communication between Latino-American scientists working on climate history based on meteorological data.
Contact: Alain Gioda
31 March - 2 April 2003 Guayaquil, Ecuador
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International Symposium on Climate Change (ISCC)
The aim of this meeting is to present and exchange state of the art advances in the studies on climate change, to facilitate the worldwide cooperation within the community of climate change studies.
31 March - 3 April 2003 Beijing, China
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33rd Annual International Arctic Workshop
This workshop has grown out of a series of informal annual meetings sponsored by INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and other academic institutions worldwide.
2 - 4 April 2003 Tromsoe, Norway
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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly
CL11.08: Climate of the last millennium: reconstructions, analyses and explanation of regional and seasonal changes
Convener: Mann, M.
Co-Convener(s): Dullo, W.; Jouzel, J.; Jones, P.
6 - 11 April 2003 Nice, France
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Climate Change: the Karst Record
The Karst Record is the third Symposium dedicated to Paloeoclimate reconstructions from karst records such speleothems and other cave deposits.
11 - 14 May 2003 Monpellier, France
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Dying and Dead Seas
35th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics and Advanced Research Workshop.
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5 - 10 May 2003 Liège, France
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Rapid Transgressions into semi-enclosed Basins
'Abrupt sea-level changes in semi-enclosed basins' is the main topic of the meeting and case histories will be presented by researchers working on the Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Gulf of Carpentaria (Australia).____download the first circular
8 - 10 May 2003 Gdansk, Poland
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International Congress on Water Resources and Environment
Striking a Balance : The challenge is to bring the actors in water resources and environmental management together to achieve more effective negotiation and consensus building.
Get more information: http://www2.mozcom.com/~wre-cong/
28 - 31 May 2003 Cebu City, Philippines
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INQUA Loess Commission / INQUA Carbon Commission: Joint Workshop Meeting, Loess and Paleoenvironment
The primary purposes of the scientific meeting are to review the stratigraphy, lithology, and paleogeography of loess in different areas of continents, where loess formation is widespread.
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26 May - 1 June 2003 Moscow, Russia
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Tucson Tree-Ring Summer School, 2003
Come to the historic Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, for three weeks of intensive introduction to the application of dendrochronology to archeology or climatology, from the design and execution of field sampling to the building of chronologies and their use.
19 May - 7 June 2003 Tucson, Arizona, USA
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ICCS'03 (International Conference on Computing Science)
The meeting will be held simultaneously in St Petersburg and Melbourne.
"Computational approaches for the simulation of extreme climatic events" is one of the conference sessions.
2 - 4 June 2003 St Petersburg, Russia/Melbourne, Australia
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International Conference on Karst Hydrology and Ecosystems
The meeting's purpose is to foster communication between the four primary international groups that seek to understand the nature of karst systems.
3 - 6 June 2003 Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
NESDIS Data Users' Workshop
NESDIS is the National Environmental, Satellite, Data and Information Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration.
The goals for the workshop include:
Solicit users' opinions on current NESDIS data and information products and services (e.g., How can we improve?), inform users of future capabilities, plans, and data sets, Review and update user needs, assess users' needs and societal benefits, improve communications and rapport with users.
11 June - 12 June 2003 Boulder, Colorado
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Holocene Climate Session at IUGG in Sapporo
MC12: The Climate of the Holocene - The post-glacial climate of the last 10,000 years has been an important determinant of how civilization developed. Although the instrumental climate record goes back only roughly 150 years, many types of proxy records are providing a basis for reconstructing the climate back over time...
30 June - 11 July 2003 Sapporo, Japan
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XVIth INQUA Congress
23 - 31 July 2003 Reno, Nevada USA
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Peripheral Communities. Crisis, Continuity and Long-Term Survival
The conference will explore the historical and contemporary conditions of peripheral communities from a broad multidisciplinary perspective.
14 - 17 August 2003 Ängersjö (Härjedalen), Sweden
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9th International Paleolimnology symposium
The four-day conference will provide a unique forum for professionals and young scientists to learn about, and share knowledge of work currently being carried out in the vast field of paleolimnology.
24 - 28 August 2003 Otaniemi Espoo, Finland
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7th International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology
PAGES Discussion
PAGES is seeking feedback, particularly from young scientists, on both its existing activities and what is needed for the future.
29 August 2003 Bern, Switzerland
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2nd International Swiss NCCR Climate Summer School
'Climate Change: Impacts of Terrestrial Ecosystems'
30 August - 6 September 2003 Grindelwald, Switzerland
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18th International Radiocarbon Conference
4th Karthaus course on "Ice Sheets and Glaciers in the Climate System"
The course will provide a basic introduction to the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets with a focus on ice-climate interactions. The course is meant for Ph.D. students that work on (or will soon start working on) a glaciology-related climate project. Some places are available for junior scientists.
info: j.oerlemans@phys.uu.nl
9 - 20 September 2003 Karthaus, Schnalstal, Italy
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International Workshop "Geosciences for Urban Development and Environmental Planning"
This International Workshop is being jointly organised by two of COGEOENVIRONMENT's International Working Groups: the Working Group on Urban Geology; and the Working Group on International Borders - Geoenvironmental Concerns. The Workshop will also serve as the venue for the COGEOENVIRONMENT Annual Meeting for 2003 which will be held on 12-13 September, 2003, prior to the main Workshop activities.
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13 - 19 September 2003 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Conference on Tropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests
The aim of the conference of to bring together people working on aspects of biodiversity, environmental change and the impacts of development in seasonally dry forests.
14 - 20 September 2003 Edinburgh, Great Britain
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International Conference on Earth System Modelling
The conference addresses global, regional and reduced complexity modelling. It will provide an opportunity to present new results in this field and to discuss recent developments and plans for the future.
dowload the official announcement download the registration form
15 - 19 September 2003 Hamburg, Germany
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World System History and Global Environmental Change
International symposium focusing on the role of long-distance trade and export production in transforming the natural environment and landscapes of peripheral sectors of the world economy in a long-term, historical perspective.
19 - 22 September 2003 Lund, Sweden
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"UTMARK" - as industry and ideology in the Iron Age and Middle Ages”
An international, interdiscidisciplinary conference on the theme “Utmark” “(Outfield/wasteland) as industry and ideology in the Iron Age and Middle Ages”.
The outfield/wasteland represents a complex, diverse, but also a neglected field of research.
25 - 28 September 2003 Bergen, Norway
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Open Science Conference of the Global Water System Project
The key goals of this Open Science Conference are to:
- Quantify the importance of anthropogenic influence in the global water system;
- Review the technology permitting us to assess global-scale water resources;
- Improve the contemporary benchmark of the state of the terrestrial water system needed to gauge the rate and intensity of future change; and
- Explore the adequacy of current institutions to deal with future change
7 - 9 October 2003 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
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EURESCO CONFERENCE: Achieving Climate Predictability Using Paleoclimate Data
This conference is the second of a series with the goal to bring closer together two communities working on problems of climate dynamics.
11 - 16 October 2003 San Feliu de Guixols, Spain
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IX ABEQUA / II CQPLI
First SEARCH Open Science Meeting
The primary goal of the Open Science Meeting (OSM) is to provide an international forum for discussion of research that addresses the basic premise of SEARCH-that there exists a complex of interrelated pan-Arctic changes occurring across terrestrial, oceanic, atmospheric and human systems.
27 - 30 October 2003 Seattle, USA
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2003 GSA Annual Meeting
Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS) Final Conference
To celebrate ten years of progress in World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) research on the Arctic climate system and its role in global climate, ACSYS will hold its final scientific conference. The conference will draw together advances in our understanding of the Arctic climate system made over the last decade and examine the challenges for future research.
11 - 14 November 2003 St. Petersburg, Russia
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First International Young Scientists Global Change Conference
The Young Scientists’ Global Change Conference offers a prestigious platform for young scientists to present their research findings to leading scientists in the field. It is intended to stimulate competition, encourage excellence, reward outstanding performance, and encourage the development of personal and institutional networks.
PAGES representatives from the IPO will attend the meeting.
16 - 19 November 2003 Trieste, Italy
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Drought Implications Workshop
A CLIVAR/PAGES/IPCC Workshop:
A multi-millennia perspective on drought and implications for the future.
18 - 21 November 2003 Tucson AZ, USA
4th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry
The 4th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry (EMEC4) will be held in Plymouth from 10-13th December 2003. The meeting is being hosted by the University of Plymouth on behalf of the Association of Chemistry and the Environment, and will facilitate the communication of research from a range of exciting areas of environmental chemistry. Plymouth, with its strong tradition of excellence in this field, is the perfect setting for such an event.
Information regarding the Conference as well as the Call for Papers is available from the Conference Website www.emec4.org.uk
10 - 13 December 2003 Plymouth, UK
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