News 2004/2005

IMAGES-related News and Announcements

IMAGES attends IODP-Conference

"Paleoclimate Change: High Latitudes & Ocean Circulation"

2nd-3rd June, 2005, at The Geologioical Society of London, Burlington House, UK

Organisers: Paul Wilson (Southampton Oceanography Centre), Ian Hall (Cardiff), Mike Bickle (Cambridge) and Juergen Thurow (UCL)

The aim of the meeting is to bring together the UK community in the broad field of Palaeoceanography & Palaeoclimate Change to discuss exciting new results emerging from recent initiatives (eg, IODP drilling in the Arctic, IMAGES, RAPID) aimed at improving our understanding of extreme and rapid changes in Earth’s past climate, with special emphasis on the high latitudes and ocean circulation.

This two-day meeting will take the same form as the 2001 William Smith Meeting of the Geological Society and consist of a series of invited 30 min lectures from senior overseas and UK scientists.

For the list of speakers, visit:

Website of the meeting

Small poster in jpeg format

International Symposium SEALAIX'06

"Sea level changes : Records, processes and modeling"

25-29 September 2006, GIENS (FRANCE)
Convenors : G. CAMOIN, A. DROXLER, C. FULTHORPE & K. MILLER

Official website of the workshop

2nd PAGES Open-Science Meeting, 2005

The 1st PAGES (Past Global Changes) Open Science Meeting (OSM) was held in London in 1998. PAGES now announces its 2nd OSM, to be held in Beijing, China from 10-12 August 2005. The title is

“Paleoclimate, Environmental Sustainability and Our Future”

The meeting will focus on understanding past processes and natural variability--within the topics of climate, environmental change and human impact--in order to develop predictive models of the future.

By locating the 2nd OSM in China, PAGES hopes to increase the visibility of paleoenvironmental research in Asia and provide opportunities for international collaboration. By linking paleoresearch, environmental history and modeling, the meeting also hopes to encourage interdisciplinary science.

The OSM will consist of plenary lectures and poster sessions. The deadline for poster abstract submission is 31 March 2005. For more information about the meeting, including the preliminary program and registration details, please go to www.pages2005.org. We hope to see many of you there.

PAGES OSM is being held alongside the 9th IAMAS Scientific Assembly (2-11 August 2005). The theme of their meeting is "The Fascinating Atmosphere: Changeable and Changing". Their scientific program will cover all areas of meteorology and atmospheric sciences.

For more information, please visit the PAGES OSM2005 Website.

IMAGES Meetings 2004/2005

SciCom Meeting 2005

The IMAGES SCICOM meeting 2005 will be set up in Beijing, P.R. China in conjunction
with the PAGES meeting 2005.

Details will be given here upon availability

ExCom Meeting 2004

The IMAGES EXCOM meeting 2004will take place prior to the AGU meeting,
from December 11—12, 2004 at the CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL, San Francisco, USA.

Preliminary agenda of the meeting (PDF-File)

ICP- 8 Afterglow

ICP-8 (the Eighth International Meeting on Paleoceanography) was held in Biarritz (France), September 5-10 2004 and organized by the EPOC laboratory (University Bordeaux I), under the sponsorship of French institutions. Both IMAGES and SCOR provided travel grants to students and scientists from developing countries to help underwrite their participation at this meeting.

A short report on this meeting in PDF-format can be accessed here.

The meeting agenda and the abstract booklet can be viewed at the ICP-8 Website.

6th Framework of the European Commission–
New Marie Curie Teaching Network

Within the 6th framework of the European Commission a consortium of researchers in the field of Paleo-Climate studies announces the new Marie Curie teaching network:

PROPER
Proxies used in Paleoclimatology: Education and Research

Within PROPER a series of five courses will be organized covering the most relevant aspects related to Paleo-Climate research from the basics to the latest developments. The courses will be hosted at different locations throughout Europe,

PROPER invites applications for course 2:

Preservation potential of climate signals and ultra high-resolution climate archives

7—13, November, 2004

Hosted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB),
co-host: Institute of Earth Sciences (ICTJA-CSIC)

Application deadline: 01.08.2004

Click here to display the sheet with more infos and admission details

Archive:

Announcement of the first PROPER-course (Amsterdam/Bremen, June 2004)

SciCom Meeting 2004

The IMAGES SCICOM meeting was held at August 4—5, 2004
at the Hotel Louisianne, Rue Guy Petit, 64200 Biarritz.

Protocol of the meeting (PDF-File)

8th International Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP-8), 2004
Travel Grants offered by IMAGES and ICPVIII

The 8th International Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP-8) will be held
from September 5 to 10, 2004 in Biarritz, France.

This conference will host around 700 scientists from all around the world and will embed all aspects of Paleoceanography. The ICP-8 will offer the best opportunity to present and discuss your results to a broad audience from the paleoceanography and paleoclimatology communities.

The official ICP-8 Website

IMAGES and ICP VIII offer funding for scientists from developing countries and /or active young scientists (PhD students and young - 1 to 2 years - post-doctoral fellows). This funding will be made available by ICP VIII and IMAGES upon request. Grants will mostly cover part of the travelling cost.

Applications must be e-mailed to the IMAGES Executive Office through the Assistant Director Nicolas Dittert (ndittert@wdc-mare.org) no later than 15 April, 2004.

They should consist of :

The applicants will be notified of the result of the selection
by e-mail in early May, 2004.