[IGSMAIL-4179]: Geodesy_EGS/AGU/EUG_Nice-2003

[Erik Ivins]

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IGS Electronic Mail      02 Dec 10:56:01 PST 2002      Message Number 4179
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Author: Erik Ivins

                                                           Nov. 29, 2002
Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the Special Geodesy Session GD10
of the April 6-11, 2003, EGS/EUG/AGU Meeting in Nice, France titled

"Geodetic Constraints on Decadal to Millennial Continental Ice Mass Change"

We encourage your participation by submitting an abstract by the
15th of Jan 2003 which is the absolute deadline.  Application
for support is due by December 1 (see the website below).

Instructions for submission proceedures are found at 
http://www.copernicus.org/egsagueug/index.html

John Wahr and Philippe Huybrechts have agreed to give Solicited
Presentations for this Special Geodesy Session. 

Since the Meeting in Nice this year is a combined EGS, EUG, and AGU we expect
heavy attendence and lively scientific interaction.  Please attend,
participate and enjoy! 

The GD10 session description is given below.

"The sensitivity of ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers to climate change
is a topic of heightened interest due to their potential effects on
sea-level and on the future sustenance of mountain glacier environments.
Changing ice masses on the continents force the Earth's interior into
gravitational disequilibrium.  As a consequence, geodetic constraints
on the surface mass changes and the Earth's response to them are of
considerable scientific importance.  The special session focuses on data
and models of the changing ice mass balance and the Earth's response
that are connected to geodetic observational strategies.  There may be
a wide range of spatio-temporal scales involved, from the West Antarctic
and Greenland ice sheets to smaller glacier systems such as those of Alaska,
Iceland or Patagonia, with time scales ranging from sub-decadal to
millennial.  Self-gravitational effects on sea-level change patterns are
likely to be substantial, as might the influence of regional
viscoelastic Earth structure. We invite contributions focusing on models
for interpreting long and intermediate wavelength gravity anomalies to 
be determined by the GRACE and GOCE satellite missions as well as
terrestrial data, such as GPS, tide-gauge or absolute gravity, that 
constrain ice mass/solid Earth change signatures on length scales as
short as tens of kilometers."

We apologize if you receive this message more that once.

Very Best Regards,
Erik Ivins, Detlef Wolf and Ralf Greve

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Dr. Erik R. Ivins 
MS 300-233 Jet Propulsion Lab. 
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Dr.
Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099 USA
Phone/Fax: +1-818-354-4785 / -7694
E-mail:    eri at fryxell.jpl.nasa.gov
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Prof. Dr. Detlef Wolf
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
Division 1   Kinematics and Dynamics of the Earth
Section 1.4  System Theory and Modelling

Telegrafenberg
D-14473 Potsdam
Germany
Phone    +49-331-288-1140
Fax      +49-331-288-1163
Email    dasca at gfz-potsdam.de
Internet http://www.gfz-potsdam.de
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Dr. Ralf Greve
Department of Mechanics
Darmstadt University of Technology
Hochschulstraße 1
D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone/Fax: (+49)-(0)6151-16-3195 / -4120
E-mail:    greve at mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de
Web:       http://wegener.mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de/greve
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