2-5 October 2001.  Bend, Oregon.  Regional Haze and Global Radiation Balance - Aerosol Measurements and Models: Closure, Reconciliation and Evaluation.  Sponsor: The American Geophysical Union.  Contact: AGU Meetings Department, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 USA.  Tel. 1 800 966 2481 or +1 202 462 6900.  Fax: +1 202 328 0566.  E-mail: meetinginfo@agu.org.  (link posted 17 April 2001)

10-11 October 2001.  Silver Spring, Maryland.  NOAA Water Cycle Workshop. Sponsor: NOAA.  Contacts:  Dr. Jin Huang (Jin.Huang@noaa.gov) or Rick Lawford (lawford@ogp.noaa.gov).

14-18 October 2001.  Potomac, Maryland.  Second International Nitrogen Conference: Optimizing Nitrogen Management in Food and Energy Production and Environmental Protection.   Contact: Rhonda Kranz.  Ecological Society of America, 1708 H. Street, NW Suite 400.  Washington, DC 20006.  Tel: +1 202 833 8773 est. 212.  Fax +1 202 833 8775.  E-mail: n2001@esa.org.   (link posted 17 April 2001)

15-19 October 2001.  Colombo, Sri Lanka.  13th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol. Contact: : Executive Secretary, The Secretariat for the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol (Ozone Secretariat), PO Box 30552, Nairobi, Kenya.  Tel: +254 2 62 1234. Fax: +254 2 62 3601. E-mail: ozoneinfo@unep.org.  (link posted 17 April 2001)

16-17 October 2001.  Washington, DC.  A Policy Forum: Weather, Climate and Energy.  Sponsors: The American Meteorological Society (AMS) in association with the University of Oklahoma.  According to the AMS Newsletter:

Richard Greenfield, senior policy fellow of the APP in Washington, said the forum “will deal with the application of weather and climate information and the production and distribution of energy as a national priority. That information is a vital asset as national energy policy becomes even more critical in the face of a continuing decline in the state of the economy.

“The Forum will explore how weather and climate information produced by the public and private sectors can be used to effectively match energy supply and demand while reducing costs and increasing reliability. --

Energy producers, distributors, traders and users; public and private providers of weather information and services; academic leaders, and government energy policy makers will make presentations, Greenfield said. Additionally, a series of panel discussions will address such questions as: How is the energy sector changing and how can it improve its use of weather and climate information? What advances are needed in weather and climate science and services? What special requirements do emerging risk management techniques place on weather and climate services? And what public policies are needed to foster development of weather and climate services and their use by the energy sector?

At the conclusion of the forum, Greenfield noted, a report will be published summarizing the discussions, findings and recommendations and distributed to the public, the Congress, the Executive Branch, and the private sector.

Contact: AMS, Meetings Department, 45 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108-3693.  Tel: +1 617 227 2425.  Fax: +1 617 742 8718.  E-mail: amsinfo@ametsoc.org.  Web:  http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/meet/

19 October 2001.  Silver Spring, MD.  How Do Instrument Changes Affect the Climate Record of Radiosonde Temperatures?. Seminar with Dr. John Lanzante, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.  Sponsor: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Air Resources Laboratory. 

21-25 October 2001.  Charlotte, NC.  Sustaining Earth and Its People: Translating Science into Practice.  2001 Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, and Crop Science Society of America. Contact: David M. Kral.  Tel: +1 608 273 8090 ext. 303.  E-mail: dkral@agronomy.org.  (link posted 17 April 2001)

29 October- 9 November 2001.  Marrakech, Morocco.  Seventh Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.  Contact:  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, PO Box 260124, D-53153 Bonn, Germany. Tel: +49 228 815 1000. Fax: +49 228 815 1999. E-mail: secretariat@unfccc.int.  (link posted 17 April 2001)