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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. 5-8 May 2003. Washington, DC. Final Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) Open Science Conference. SponsorS: the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), the Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. Contact: Mary Zawoysky. U.S. JGOFS Planning and Data Management Office, MS-43 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA, 02543. Tel: +1 508 289 2834 Fax: +1 508 457 2161. Email: mzawoysky@whoi.edu Date posted or amended: 18 April
2003 5-8 May 2003. Alexandria, Virginia. Second Annual Conference on Carbon Sequestration. Sponsor: US Department of Energy. Contacts: ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums, P.O. Box 65782, Washington, DC 20035. Tel: 1 877 303 7367 or +1 202 296 2814 ext. 16. Fax: +1 202 296 2805. (posted 15 April 2003) Date posted or amended: 18 April 2003 11-13 May
2003. Raleigh, North Carolina. Date posted or amended: 18 April 2003 12-14 May 2003. Washington, DC. First Meeting of the Principal Investigators of the North American Carbon Program. Sponsors: National Science Foundation with interagency support from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, the US Department of Agriculture and the US Geological Survey. Contact: Amanda Knox. Tel: +1 703 234 1776. E-mail: a_knox@psava.com. (posted 15 April 2003) Date posted or amended: 18 April 2003 12-16 May
2003. Hyannis, Massachusetts. Date posted or amended: 18 April
2003 13-15 May 2003. King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities. "The purpose of this conference is to bring environmental decision-makers and researchers together to illustrate practical uses of recently developed approaches, tools, and decision-support systems that can be used to assess current and future environmental vulnerabilities." Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency. Contact: Conference Coordinator, Technology Planning and Management Corporation, Mill Wharf Plaza, Suite 208, Scituate, MA 02066. Tel: +1 781 544 0423. Fax: +1 781 544 3086. Email: conference@tpmc.com Date posted or amended: 18 April
2003 20-23 May 2003. Gijón, Spain. 3rd International Zooplankton Production Symposium: "The Role of Zooplankton in Global Ecosystem Dynamics: Comparative Studies from the World Oceans." Sponsors: The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), and the International Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) program. "The sponsorship of the meeting reflects the global nature and global importance of the role of zooplankton in food chain dynamics and in biochemical cycles. A focus of this meeting will be the effect of climate variability and global climate change on zooplankton. Although local, regional and global contributions are solicited, comparative studies between ocean basins are particularly encouraged." Contact: PICES Secretariat, c/o Institute of Ocean Sciences, P.O. Box 6000, Sidney, B.C., Canada. V8L 4B2. Tel: +1 250 363 6366. Fax: +1 250 363 6827. E-mail: secretariat@pices.int. Date posted or amended: 18 April
2003 23 May 2003. London, England. The Big Flood: North Sea Storm Surges-An International Scientific Meeting. Sponsors: Risk Group, the Tyndall Center, Halifax General Insurance Services Limited, and the British Geomorphological Research Group. "The meeting's agenda includes talks on storm surge histories, the present condition of North Sea structural defenses, inundation modeling of coastal floods, risk perception and policy, public health and social impacts, and London's vulnerability." Contact: Maria Sylvester, Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd., Unit 6, 23-25 Gwydir Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LG, U.K. Tel: +44 1223 460475. E-mail: maria@carltd.com. Date posted or amended: 18 April
2003 26 May - 6 June 2003. Miramare, Trieste, Italy. ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models. Sponsor: Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Contact: The Abdus Salam ICTP, Workshop on Regional Climate Models - 1504, (c/o P. Pieri) Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy. Tel: +39 040 2240 374. Fax: +39 040 2240 449. E-mail: smr1504@ictp.trieste.it. Date posted or amended: 18 April
2003 27-30 May 2003. Boston, Massachusetts. 14 Annual Global Warming International Conference and Expo: Extreme Events & Energy, Agricultural and Natural Resource Management . Sponsor: The Global Warming International Center. Contact: Dr. Sinyan Shen, The Global Warming International Center, International Headquarters, 22W381, 75th Street, Naperville, IL 60565-9245. Tel: +1 630 910 1551. Fax: +1 630 910 1561. Date posted or amended: 18 April
2003 28-30 May 2003. College Park, MD. Science Data Centers Symposium 2003: Marriage of Data Centers and High Performance Computing. Sponsor: Raytheon. Contact: Lou Mayo (East Coast Chair), Raytheon ITSS. Tel: +1 301 286 0165. E-mail: lmayo@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov Date posted or amended: 18 April
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