September 2001

Atmospheric Science Symposium

3RD ANNOUNCEMENT - NOVEMBER 9 2001 ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM.
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 1, 2001.


You are invited to participate in the Fall 2001 Atmospheric Science Symposium sponsored by the UC Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center (BASC).

The goal of the Symposium is to stimulate interaction among the community of atmospheric science researchers and students from UC Berkeley and the surrounding institutions. We invite participants from around the San Franciso Bay Area including (but not limited to) UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford, NASA-AMES, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, SRI, USGS, and the California Air Resources Board.

This symposium will be a full day event including keynote seminars, poster sessions, dinner and discussion.

DATE: Friday November 9, 2001
LOCATION: The Faculty Club, UC Berkeley

Keynote Speakers will each present hour-long seminars:

• Ed Brook (Washington) - The Ice core record of greenhouse gases and
  climate
  
• Daniel Jacob (Harvard) - Tropospheric Chemistry: from air pollution to
  global change and back
  
• Alan Plumb (MIT) - Atmospheric Dynamics
  
• Pieter Tans (NOAA/CMDL) - Monitoring of greenhouse gases for elucidating
  global budgets and surface processes

Call for Abstracts and Participation

Workshop on Access and Participatory Approaches in Using Geographic Information
Spoleto Italy, December 5 - 9, 2001
Jointly initiated by the University Consortium for Geographic
Information Science (UCGIS)
and the Association for Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE)

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2001
Travel Funds: provided

The National Science Foundation and the European Science Foundation are cooperatively funding a workshop on two highly active research areas within the general domain of "GIS and Society" research: (1) accessibility and access to geographic information and (2)
participatory processes involving geographic information technologies or data.

Under the topic of access, the workshop will place a particular
emphasis on (a) exploring the concept of accessibility within the
mileau of physical space and virtual space interactions and (b)
exploring alternative models for providing access to public and
private geographic information (or information generally) including
the social, legal, economic, government policy, and technical issues
affecting and affected by each model. Under the topic of
participatory processes, the workshop will place a special emphasis
on use and access to geographic technologies in local level
decision-making, including participatory models for involving
local-level advocacy groups, businesses, local governments,
scientists, and combinations of near and distant interested parties.

Approximately fifteen U.S. research scholars will be funded to attend the workshop which will be hosted by the European Steering Committee in Spoleto, Italy from December 5-9, 2001. Participants will be selected based on their ability to contribute substantively to one or more of the major focus areas of the workshop. At least five of the scholars will be in the first five years of receiving their PhDs or be active current PhD students. The workshop will be structured as a series of plenary presentations, breakout small group discussions,
and plenary discussions. Findings will be issued in a workshop
report and several print and electronic means will be exploited to
distribute additional workshop results.

SUBMISSION INVITATION

Please provide (a) a two-page statement (1000 words or less) that
describes your interests and/or past contributions in addressing one or more of the workshop topics, and (b) a short biographical sketch
(1000 words or less) with content and format similar to that required for NSF proposals. [See Grant Proposal Guide at www.nsf.gov and address items a through d on page 13]

Submit the interest statement and biographical sketch on or before
October 1, 2001 in MS-Word or pdf format to onsrud@spatial.maine.edu

A copy of the full workshop proposal may be found at
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~onsrud/NSFESFWorkshop.html

Individuals selected will be notified on or before October 15. If
selected, participants will be expected to fully participate in the
entire workshop and will be requested to provide a short position
statement in response to one or more workshop keynote papers that will be posted on the web well in advance of the workshop.

EXPENSES

Participants will be reimbursed for actual and reasonable expenses in conjunction with attending the workshop up to a specified maximum; an amount that should reasonably cover your expenses assuming you reserve your flight soon after acceptance.

U.S. Steering Committee
Gregory Elmes, Geography, West Virginia University
Michael Goodchild, Geography, University of California - Santa Barbara
Susan Hanson, Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
Nancy Obermeyer, Geography, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
Harlan Onsrud, Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine

European Steering Committee
Massimo Craglia, University of Sheffield, UK
Ian Masser, ITC, Netherlands
Mauro Salvemini, Universita' La Sapienza, Italy
Anders Ostman, University of Ulea, Sweden

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