[Wrf-users] Great Alaska Weather Modeling Symposium - Extended Abstract Deadline

[Don Morton]

For those of you who submitted abstracts already, thank you!

For those of you who think you missed your chance, there's good
news - the abstract deadline has been extended to Friday,
19 January 2007!

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** Please note abstract submission deadline of 19 January 2007 **

The Great Alaska Weather Modeling Symposium
13-15 March 2007
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Call for Abstracts – Deadline 19 January 2007 (Extended)

The following sponsors (listed alphabetically)

*       Alaska Region, NOAA National Weather Service
*       Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (UAF)
*       College of Natural Science and Mathematics (UAF)
*       Geophysical Institute (UAF)
*       International Arctic Research Center (UAF)

invite you to attend the first Great Alaska Weather Modeling Symposium.  The
symposium provides a forum for the exchange of research results and
discussion of
problems and new developments in weather modeling activities related
to the Alaska
environment.  Participation from academic, research, government and
private sectors is
encouraged.

Primary areas of focus are anticipated to be
*       Routine weather forecasting
*       Aircraft icing
*       Air pollution prediction (Keynote Speaker: Georg A. Grell)
*       Polar WRF (Keynote Speaker: David Bromwich)
*       Coupling of WRF with other models (Keynote Speaker: John Michalakes)
However, all abstracts relating to weather modeling in Alaska are welcome.

Schedule/Venue
This will be a three-day symposium held at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks campus
from Tuesday through Thursday, 13-15 March.  Snacks will be provided
and meals will
be on-your-own, with an organized evening out at a local establishment.

Abstract Submission
The deadline for one-paragraph abstracts for a 20-30-minute
presentation is Tuesday, 9
January 2007.  See the symposium web page for abstract submission procedures

Registration
Registration is required by Tuesday, 27 February 2007.  See the
symposium web page for
registration instructions.  There is no registration fee.


Symposium Web Page:  http://www.gi.alaska.edu/~kramm/gawms


-- 
Don Morton
Department of Computer Science
The University of Montana - Missoula
http://www.cs.umt.edu/~morton/