| Date: | 2006-01-10 23:24:00 | |
| Sender: | Isabella Velicogna, Erik Ivins <slrmail@dgfi.badw.de> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1431: EGU 2006 - Vienna - CR11/G12 Observations of glaciers and ice sheets | |
| Author: | Isabella Velicogna, Erik Ivins | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2006-01-10 23:24:00 UTC Message No. 1431 ******************************************************************************** Author: Isabella Velicogna, Erik Ivins Subject: EGU 2006 - Vienna - CR11/G12 Observations of glaciers and ice sheets Dear Colleagues: We would like to call your attention to the following session at the next EGU meeting in Vienna, Austria 2-7 April 2006: CR11/G12 Observations of glaciers and ice sheets from space (co-organized by G by CR) Land ice, in the form of glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets, make an important contribution to global sea level, regional climate, water resources, natural hazards and tourism. Understanding their behaviour is, therefore, important to all these topics and the only practical way to do this, over a wide area, is from an airborne or spaceborne platform. Recent advances have been made in the development and implementation of new missions and methodologies for examining ice on the planet. NASA, for example, launched ICESat in 2002: the first dedicated cryospheric satellite mission. In addition to this, gravity missions such as CHAMP, GRACE and planned follow-ons and satellite altimeter missions such as ENVISAT and JASON-1 are providing unique data on the topography and mass balance of the cryosphere. This session invites presentations on all aspects of remote sensing (including airborne) of land ice ranging in scale from valley glaciers to ice sheets. The session is organised jointly between Geodesy and Cryospheric Sciences and we welcome contributions on geodetic or gravity observations of ice mass balance and topography as well as the use of other types of visible and microwave sensors. PLEASE NOTE THE ABSTRACT DEADLINE OF 13 JANUARY. More details can be found at http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/ with details of deadlines and the complete list of sessions in all the divisions of the EGU. We look forward to seeing you in Vienna (for info on the city see: http://www.aboutvienna.org/). Isabella Velicogna & Jonathan Bamber ________________________________________________________________ Isabella Velicogna Research Scientist II CIRES & Department of Physics Phone: 303 492 5141 CAMPUS BOX 390 Fax: 303 492 7935 University of Colorado BOULDER, CO 80309-0390 e-mail: isabella@colorado.edu USA c/o Erik Ivins Jet Propulsion Laboratory Phone: 818 393 0497 California Institute of Technology Fax: 818 354 9476 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 300-233 Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 USA http://jspc-www.colorado.edu/~isabella/ ________________________________________________________________ From: slrmail@dgfi.badw.de ******************************************************************************** |