Note: We often hear of events that might interest our users.  We list these here as promptly as we can.  We may subsequently revise an entry.  To let you know the vintage of each entry, we note the date on which it was amended or posted.  For each posting, we also seek verification from the meeting contact.  We indicate whether or not the information was verified and the date of verification.  Despite our efforts, some entries will be incorrect.  For current & correct information on a meeting, please reach the meeting contact we list for each entry.

1-12 February 2002.  Webcast taking place in the Montevderde Cloud Forest of Costa Rica.  Mercury Rising: Bearing Witness to Climate Change.  See press release.   Sponsor: One World Journeys.  Contact: FusionSpark Media, Inc, Whidbey Island, P.O. Box 160, Clinton, Washington, 98236-0160.   Tel: +1 360 341 2020. Fax: +1 360 341 2070.  Email:
feedback@oneworldjourneys.com

5-7 February 2002. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.  VAMOS/CLIVAR Conference on South American low-level jet.  Sponsor: Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR), Variability of American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS) program.  Contact: Carolina Vera or Michael Douglas. 

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? No

7-9 Feb 2002.  Honolulu, Hawaii.  CLIVAR Pacific Implementation Panel Meeting. By invitation only.  Sponsor: Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) program.  Contact:   Contact: International CLIVAR Project Office, 256/20 Southampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, SOUTHAMPTON SO14 3ZH, UK.  Tel: +44-2380 596777.  Fax: +44-2380 596204.  Email: icpo@soc.soton.ac.uk

Date posted or amended: 15 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 15 January 2002.

8 February 2002.   Wellington, New Zealand.  Climate Change: Integrating Human and Natural Dimensions.  Sponsors: New Zealand Climate Committee and the International Geosphere-Biosphere-Programme Committee of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the National Science Strategy Committee for Climate Change, the New Zealand National Committee for UNESCO, the International Global Change Institute, and NIWA. Contact: Mrs. Gill Sutherland.  Tel:  (04) 4705784.

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 14 January 2002.

8-17 Feb 2002.  Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.  VAMOS/CLIVAR Workshop on South American Low-Level Jets (SALLJ).  By invitation only.  Sponsor: Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR), Variability of American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS) program. Contact:  Michael Douglas. Email: michael.douglas@nssl.noaa.gov

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? No

11-15 February 2002.  Honolulu, Hawaii.  2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting.  Sponsors: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and American Geophysical Union (AGU).  Contact: AGU Meetings Department, 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009.  Tel:  +1-202-462-6900 (in D.C. or outside North America) or  800-966-2481 (toll-free in North America).  Fax:  +1-202-328-0566.  E-Mail:  meetinginfo@agu.org 

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? No

14-19 February 2002.  Boston, Massachusetts.  AAAS Annual Meeting.  Sponsor: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Contact: AAAS Meetings Office, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005.  Tel: +1 202 325 6450.  Fax: +1 202 289 4021.  Email: confinfo@aaas.org.

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? No

22 February 2002 (noon).  Washington, DC.  Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Baird Auditorium).  Historical Perspectives on the Rapid and Recent Degradation of Coral Reefs. Lecture by Dr. John Pandolfi, Museum paleobiologist. "Ancient coral reef...show thousands of years of coral reef community persistence. Recently, this persistence has been interrupted by massive degradation that may well be human-induced."

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? No

24-27 February 2002.  San Diego, California.  Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference 2002.  Sponsors: Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers; Coastal Zone Foundation; and others.  Contact: Lesley Ewing, California Coastal Commission, 45 Fremont Street, Suite 2000, San Francisco, CA 94105.Tel: +1  415 904-5291. Fax: +1 415 904 5400. E-mail: lewing@coastal.ca.gov.  Or contact: Louise Wallendorf, Hydromechanics Laboratory, U.S. Naval Academy, 590 Holloway Road, Annapolis, MD 21402-5042.  Tel: +1 410 293 5108.  Fax: +1 410 293-5848.  E-mail: lou@usna.edu.  Web: www.asce.org/conferences/cd2002/index.html.

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 14 January 2002.

25 February - 4 March 2002.  Wellington, New Zealand.  UNEP Environmental Effects Assessment Panel Meeting. Sponsor: United Nations Environment Programme, Ozone Secretariat.  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 62 360.  Email: ozoneinfo@unep.org . 

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 15 January 2002.

26 - 28 February, 2002. Greenbelt, MD.   From Data to Knowledge: Delivering Data to the End User.  Sponsor: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.  Contact: Mike Seablom.  Tel: +1 301 286 2406.

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? No

28 Feb -2 Mar 2002.  Niamey, Niger.  Variability of the African Climate System (VACS) Panel Meeting (2nd Session).  By invitation only.  Sponsor: Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) program.  Contact: International CLIVAR Project Office, 256/20 Southampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, SOUTHAMPTON SO14 3ZH, UK.  Tel: +44-2380 596777.  Fax: +44-2380 596204.  email: icpo@soc.soton.ac.uk

Date posted or amended: 15 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 15 January 2002.