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MEETINGS
European Geosciences Union (EGU) Meeting From Deserts to Monsoons Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 37th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research and
Associated Events - COSPAR 2008 "50th Anniversary Assembly" 9th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles SPARC 4th General Assembly ***The 10th Scientific Conference of the IGAC Project*** 2008 Fall AGU (American Geophysical Union) meeting 15-19 December 2008, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA Past International Workshop: Aerosols in the Amazon - Changes and their Consequences from Past and Future Human Activities 18-22 February 2008, Manaus, Amazônia, Brazil Amazonian aerosol particles -- including their formation, transformations, and effects on clouds and radiation -- are very important as a climate regulator in the southern hemisphere. Therefore, understanding the effects on them of past and future human activities is a priority for planning strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate change. This workshop will define research priorities, consider new research approaches, and address mechanisms for international collaboration. http://www.seas.harvard.edu/environmental-chemistry/AmazonWorkshop.htm European Research Course on Atmospheres 7 January - 8/9 February 2008, Grenoble, France See ERCA web site for more information. Contact: Claude Boutron (boutron@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr) or Michele Poinsot (michele@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr) AMMA/SCOUT UTLS Workshop 7-8 January 2008, Manchester, England The aim of the Workshop is to review progress on analysis of data from AMMA aircraft, SCOUT-AMMA balloons and the M55-Geophysica focused on the UT and LS over West Africa. A series of opening presentations on the 7th will be followed on the 8th by presentations on the analysis of these datasets related to the following topics: A. Vertical and long-range transport of trace gases and aerosols, including modelling of convection (MCS) and impact on UT/LS composition B. Aerosols, clouds and water vapour in the UT/LS Contact: meeting organizer for more information. 2007 Fall AGU (American Geophysical Union) meeting 10-14 December 2007, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA Symposium on Photosynthetic and Atmospheric Evolution 12-13 November 2007, The Royal Society, London, U.K. See symposium web site for more information. 2007 marks the 70th anniversary of the demonstration that chloroplasts catalyse the photolysis of water into O2 and the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Rubisco. The photosynthetic apparatus and Rubisco have fed the biosphere, remade the atmosphere, and directed the global greenhouse. The meeting will combine biochemistry and geological studies, addressing the evolutionary history of CO2 fixation from the Archaean, via cyanobacteria to eukaryotic plankton and plants. Symposium on the Tropical Stratosphere-Upper Troposphere Region A SPARC/SCOUT-O3/NDACC/CNRS symposium 5-9 November 2007, Saint-Gilles, Reunion Island, France See symposium web site for more information. Symposium topics: - Clouds, cirrus and dehydration processes - Dynamical barriers & isentropic transport across the subtropical barriers - Tropics, mid- and high-latitude interaction mechanisms - Effects and mechanisms of the stratosphere-troposphere exchange - Networking, data, measurements and campaigns in the tropical stratosphere-UT region: NDACC, SHADOZ, MOZAIC, HIBISCUS, SCOUT-O3, AMMA, etc. - Variability and trend assessment in the tropical stratosphere-UT region. Workshop on Short-lived Pollutants and Arctic Climate (SPAC) Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway 5-7 November 2007: Scientific workshop 7-8 November 2007: Policy workshop The scientific workshop from November 5-7 will assess the current understanding of the impact of short lived pollutants on Arctic climate and outline research that is needed to further our understanding. This will take place before the bulk of the IPY measurement season in order to inform, coordinate, and improve measurement and modeling activities during IPY. Specific issues to be addressed include:
A follow on workshop on November 7-8 will explore ways to implement policy based, in part, on research findings from the November 5-6 scientific meeting. Discussions will include the possibility for an Arctic-specific initiative given the urgent need to slow current melting and recommendations for potential early mitigation strategies and intensified international research efforts. Please register for the meeting at the SPAC website where more information can be found. Limited travel support is available and can be requested at the web site. SOLAS Summer School 23 Oct-3 November 2007, Corsica, France The SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study) Summer School is a biennial, international event that brings together over 70 students and 20 lecturers for a mix of lectures and practical workshops. It aims to teach the skills and knowledge of the many disciplines needed to understand the nature of ocean-atmosphere interactions. It allows doctoral students and early-career researchers to see how their work fits into the broad canvas of SOLAS, and global change research more generally. More information can be found on the summer school web page. Workshop on the Relevance of Surface and Boundary Layer Processes for the Exchanges of Reactive and Greenhouse Gases 9-12 October 2007, Wageningen, Netherlands Surface and atmospheric boundary layer play a key role in the distribution and evolution of atmospheric compounds since the majority of sources and sinks are located at or near the Earth's surface. The development of new measurement and data analysis techniques as well as the possibility of using finer scale models allow us to tackle new questions related to the role of small scale processes on atmospheric compound cycles. This workshop aims at reviewing our current knowledge of such physical and chemical processes and their impact on the larger spatial and temporal scale distribution of atmospheric compounds. Particular emphasis will be put on promoting the interaction between the atmospheric physics- and chemistry communities. An important aspect to assess is whether the new observation and modelling techniques are suited to address the key questions in surface and boundary layer processes. Consequently, a second objective is to discuss the need of future experimental campaigns addressing the influence of surface and boundary processes on atmospheric chemistry. Therefore, we also aim at a close interaction of modellers and experimentalists. See meeting web site for more information. Multidisciplinary Workshop on Southern South American Dust 3-5 October 2007, Puerto Madryn, Argentina Recent studies have emphasized the role of dust emissions from the southern South American deserts (and in particular the Patagonia desert) in past and present climate as well as the possible links to marine biology in the South Atlantic Ocean. However, there is a notorious lack of observational data of dust activity, compositional features and long range transport. As a result, much of the modeling efforts of aerosol transport and ocean biogeochemistry in the Southern Ocean have to rely on parameterizations and studies based on measurements on northern hemisphere environments. In addition, ice-core studies in Antarctica have trouble in justifying the presence of dust in their records because the lack of data from southern hemisphere deserts to compare with. In summary, there are number of essential questions regarding dust emitted from southern South America: ~ Is there a compositional signature of southern South American dust? What is the isotopic signature of SSA dust compared with ocean sediment cores or dust from ice-cores? ~ What is the total and soluble iron content in southern South American dust? Is there a fertilization effect downwind of Patagonia? ~ Is the Patagonia desert the only major source of dust in southern South American? What is the contribution of the Pampean loess formation; the Central-West Argentina and the Puna-Altiplano deserts? ~ Dust emission patterns: What are the conditions that trigger dust events? What are the controls of glacial-interglacial changes in dust supply and transport from Patagonia? The objective of this meeting is to share information and promote collaborations among groups from different disciplines in order to improve our understanding of southern South America (notably Patagonia) and its role in influencing the past/present climate and marine biogeochemistry in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. Point of contact: Dr. Santiago Gassó , GEST/UMBC, santiago@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov See meeting web site for more information. 4th International Nitrogen Conference: N-2007 1-5 October 2007, Costa do Sauípe, Brazil The last 40 years have seen an extraordinary change in the global nitrogen cycle. As recently as the 1960s, nitrogen availability on Earth was controlled by natural processes, but the human creation of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and the release of nitrogen from fossil-fuel combustion now match the natural rate of formation of reactive nitrogen on the planet s landscape. The use of nitrogen is imbalanced, with industrialized countries suffering pollution problems from too much nitrogen and low-income countries having a shortage of nitrogen that constrains food production. The goal of the N2007 Symposium is to address these two challenges in an integrated manner. The meeting will bring together some of the world s best nitrogen scientists with development experts to build a new agenda towards a sustainable use of nitrogen in our planet. See conference web site for more information. Chapman Conference on The Role of the Stratosphere in Climate and Climate Change 24-28 September 2007, Santorini, Greece This Chapman Conference will focus on how stratospheric processes affect troposhperic climate and weather. it will also provide a forum for discussing emerging ideas regarding the importance of stratospheric chemical proceses, anthropogenic forcing, and even oceanic processes in the observed coupling between the stratospheric and tropospheric circulations. See meeting web page for more information. ESF-ACCENT-CNRS-GEIA Summer School on Surface emissions and prediction of atmospheric composition changes 11-20 September 2007, ile d'Oléron, France Apply here before April, 20 2007 AMS 14th Conference on Middle Atmosphere 20-24 August 2007, Portland, Oregon The 14th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on the Middle Atmosphere, will be held 20-24 August 2007 at the Doubletree Hotel-Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon. In addition to a general session, 8 special sessions are planned. The descriptions of the special sessions and their organizers can be found here. AGU Joint Assembly 22-25 May 2007, Acapulco, Mexico For more information, see conference web page. Sessions related to IGAC science: A23C, A24A, A31C, A32A, A33A, A41E, A42A, A43A: Megacities Air Pollution: Urban, Regional, and Global Impacts A23D: Atmospheric Sciences General Contributions on Chemistry A33C, A41C: Aerosol andCloud Chemistry: Mechanisms, Products and Process Evaluation A41B, A52A: The Roles of Dust in the Global Climate System A43D: Twenty-Five Years After El Chichon: Volcanic Aerosols and Their Climatic Effects A44A, A51A: Impacts of Specific Emissions Sectors on Climate and Air Quality A51B, A54B: Aerosols-Surface-Radiation Interaction and Its Effects on Biological Systems and Tropospheric Chemical Composition A53B: Atmospheric Aerosol Processes 3rdAIMES Young Scholar's Network Workshop 2-4 June 2007, Bristol, UK The topic of this year's workshop is: Modeling Land Use-Decision Making. See workshop web page for more information. 1stInternational POLARCAT Science Planning Meeting 4-6 June 2007, Paris, France See the meeting web page for more details. 1stVOCALS Regional Experiment (REX) Preparatory Workshop 11-12 June 2007, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Foothills Campus in Boulder, Colorado, USA Logistics information for the workshop can be found here or through the VOCALS Web site Paleo and Modern Perspectives on Global Change 27 June 2007, The Royal Society, London, UK The Palaeo and Modern Perspectives on Global Change open meeting aims to examine the key challenges posed by the palaeo-record from the perspective of each of the IGBP projects and to build a dialogue between these projects and the PAGES community to ensure that these challenges are addressed in a realistic way. See the meeting website for more details. 5thGKSS School of Environment Research 9-18 May 2007, Lüneburg, Germany The Fifth GKSS School of Environmental Research focuses on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Heavy Metals and Aerosols and offers courses on * Description, comparison and assessment of anthropogenic environmental change * Causes and consequences on different time scales * Long-term hazards and impacts on human society * Modelling of transport, transformation and deposition from regional to global scales * Emissions and policy issues See the GKSS web page for more details. 5thEuropean Geosciences Union General Assembly 15-20 April 2007, Vienna, Austria For more information, see conference web page. Sessions related to IGAC science: AS1.04: Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation AS1.09: The tropical tropopause region AS1.10: Dynamics and chemistry of atmospheric moist convection AS1.14: African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) AS1.15: Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions AS3.01: Gas Phase Composition and Reactivity AS3.02: Aerosol Chemistry and Microphysics AS3.03: Cloud Chemistry and Microphsics AS3.04: Tropospheric Composition: Variability and Trends AS3.05: Vertical and Long-Range Transport of Trace Gases and Aerosols AS3.06: Air Pollution Modelling AS3.08: Reactive Halogen Compounds in the Lower and Free Troposphere AS3.09: Source Apportionment of Particulate Matter AS3.10: Modelling, Data-Assimilation and Source-Sink Inversion for Operational Atmospheric Composition AS3.12: Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Scales Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere (SOLAS) Open Sciences Conference 6-9 March 2007, Xiamen, China See conference web page for more details. 1st WCRP/IGBP Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Initiative Workshop 22-23 January 2007, Environment House, Geneva, Switzerland More information is available here. 2006 Fall AGU (American Geophysical Union) meeting 11-15 December 2006, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA For more information, see conference web page. Earth Systems Science Partnership (ESSP) Open Science Conference 9-11 November 2006 and 2nd International Young Scientists' Global Change Conference 7-8 November 2006 Beijing, China See http://www.essp.org/ESSP2006/conference web page. Also see ESSP Open Science Conference circular (.pdf) and the Young Scientists' Conference announcement (.doc) for more details. Joint IGAC/CACGP/SOLAS/WMO Symposium: Atmospheric Chemistry at the interfaces ***The 9th Scientific Conference of the IGAC Project*** 17-23 September 2006, Cape Town, South Africa See the conference web page for more details. A SPARC-GEWEX/GCSS-IGAC Invitational Workshop: Modelling of Deep Convection and its Role in the Tropical Tropopause Layer 12-15 June 2006, Coast Harbourside Hotel, Victoria,B.C. Canada For more information, see posting on the SPARC web page. 19th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics 22-27 July 2006, University of Orléans, France For more information, see the symposium web page. 4th International Symposium on Biological and Environmental Chemistry of DMS(P) and Related Compounds 2-6 May 2006, University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. For more information, see the call for expression of interest and the symposium web page. 3rd International Atmospheric Limb Workshop 24-28 April 2006, Montréal, Canada Two previous International Atmospheric Limb Workshops, held in Bremen, 2003, and Stockholm, 2004, brought together scientists involved in remote sensing techniques with a particular focus on limb scattering in the UV and visible spectral range. The Stockholm workshop extended the focus to include infrared and microwave/sub-mm soundings techniques. This year's workshop will continue the limb scattering and emission dicussion and will extend the focus with some emphasis on recent advances in occultation experiments from satellite platforms. For more information, see the workshop web page. Integrated Land-Ecosystem Atmosphere Process Study (ILEAPS) 1st Open Sciences Conference 21-26 January 2006, Boulder, Colorado, USA See conference web page for more details. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 5-9 December 2005, San Francisco, USA See meeting web page for more details. Many of this year's AGU Meeting Sessions cover topics in tropospheric atmospheric chemistry, including: A05 - EOS Aura: Tropospheric and Stratospheric Chemistry Discoveries A06 - Evaluation and Improvement of Air Quality Forecast Models A07 - Tropospheric Chemistry of Halogen Species A08 - Snow, Ice, and Water Surfaces in Polar Atmospheric Chemistry A09 - Daytime and Nighttime Chemical Processing of Anthropogenic and Biogenic Trace Gases A10 - Impacts of Biosphere-Atmosphere Gas Exchange on Tropospheric Chemistry A11 - Sources and Distributions of Tropospheric Trace Gases in the Midlatitude Northern Hemisphere A12 - The Influence of Aerosol Transport and Transformation on Aerosol Optical, Radiative and Cloud Nucleating Properties and Effects - Results from Recent Field Experiments A13 - What Space-Based Instruments Are Telling Us About Aerosol Microphysical Properties A14 - The Influence of Chemical and Microphysical Properties of Aerosols on their Climate Forcing Potential A15 - Climatological Crossroads: The Atmosphere of Southwest Asia 20th IGAC Scientific Steering Committee Meeting & Joint Chilean Symposium 10-14 October 2005, Santiago, Chile, USA See Symposium announcement for more details. Fourth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG-4) AIMES International Postdoctoral Scientist Network for Earth Systems Science 1st Workshop 23-25 June 2005, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA Hosted by IGBP's Analysis, Integration and Modelling of Earth Systems (AIMES) Project See workshop web page for more details. Invitational Joint SPARC/IGAC Workshop on Processes governing the chemical composition of the mid-latitude UTLS 18-20 May 2005, Mainz, Germany See workshop web page for more details Workshop on the ITCT-Lagrangian-2k4 Task 24 April 2005, Vienna, Austria This workshop will be on the intercontinental transport aspects of the ICARTT field campaign, particularly the Lagrangian experiment. The workshop will take place immediately preceding the 2005 EGU general assembly in Vienna (24-29 April 2005). It is intended as a venue for those that participated in the field campaign to share initial results and to plan for collaborative efforts. You must contact Dr. Andreas Stohl if you plan to attend or want to give a short presentation. More about the EGU conference can be found at the meeting web page. Joint IGAC/NOAA/NASA meeting on the Aerosol Indirect Effect 5-7 January 2005, Manchester, England The meeting goals were:
8th Scientific Conference of the IGAC Project 4-9 September 2004, Christchurch, New Zealand 19th IGAC Scientific Steering Committee Meeting 2-3 September 2004, Christchurch, New Zealand contact: Sarah Doherty igac.seattle@noaa.gov Halogens Workshop 27-28 May 2004, Heidelberg, Germany Co-sponsored by SOLAS and IGAC The meeting discussions will be summarized in an upcoming IGACtivities newsletter. Organic Aerosols Workshop 10-12 May 2004, Hyytiälä, Finland Co-sponsored by the three IGBP Core Projects: iLEAPS, IGAC & SOLAS. See the meeting web page for more details. A report from the workshop can be downloaded from the International Nitrogen Initiative web page. Workshop on Advanced Approaches to Quantify Denitrification 3-5 May 2004, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Co-sponsored by NSF, the US EPA, IGAC, ACCENT, and NASA See the meeting web page for more details and to download the meeting final report. 3rd IGBP Congress & 18th IGAC Scientific Steering Committee Meeting 19-24 June 2003, Banff, Alberta,Canada See IGBP web page for more details. Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of reactive trace gases, Session AS3.04 EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly Nice, France, 06-11 April 2003 The biosphere is both a major source and sink of reactive gases (e.g., ozone, NO, isoprene). There are major uncertainties associated with descriptions of the processes controlling surface-atmosphere trace gas exchange. This limits our ability to predict the fluxes that are needed for regional and global chemistry and transport modeling. New methods for measuring trace gas exchange are being developed and applied and are improving our understanding of magnitude and variability of these fluxes. The session was open to all contributions related to reactive trace gas exchange studies at various spatial and temporal scales using e.g. enclosure, turbulent flux, and boundary layer profiling techniques. This includes both measurement and modeling investigations of biosphere-atmosphere exchange. Especially welcome were contributions associated with the interactions between reactive carbon and nitrogen trace gases (e.g., isoprene, NO and isoprene nitrates) within and near vegetation canopies, up-scaling of trace gas exchange measurements, and the impact of climate and land use change on reactive trace gas exchange. Joint SPARC/IGAC Working Group Meeting 3-5 April 2003, Giens, France An invitational meeting held between SPARC (Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate; a project of the WCRP) and IGAC to address issues common to the two research communities. The meeting discussions and research recommendations were published as the (August, 2004 IGACtivities Newsletter No. 30). Atmospheric Chemistry in the Earth System: From Regional Pollution to Global Climate Change 18-25 September 2002, Crete, GREECE 10th Scientific Conference of the International Association of Meteorology of Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), Commission for Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (CACGP), and the 7th Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC). http://atlas.chemistry.uch.gr/IGAC2002/ 
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