IPY 2007-2008

Dear Colleagues

This note is to announce that the

24th international Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP)

will take place at

the Evangelisches Bildungszentrum, Bad Bederkesa, Germany
(http://www.ev-bildungszentrum.de/)

on

21-24 June 2010.

Further details of the meeting, including instructions for registration will follow at a later date.

We welcome presentations on all aspests of ice shelf research, including, but not limited to:

*  formation, flow and disintegration of ice shelves;
*  response of ice shelves to past, present and future climate variability;
*  surface and basal mass balance of ice shelves;
*  mass transport across the grounding line;
*  ocean circulation and water transformation beneath ice shelves;
*  impact of ice shelves on the global ocean;
*  ice shelves of Greenland;
*  climate records from on or near current or former ice shelves;
*  iceberg drift, melting, and decay.

Further information about FRISP, including reports from previous workshops can be found at

http://www.gfi.uib.no/forskning/frisp/index.html

Please feel free to forward this message to interested parties who are not included on the mailing list.

We look forward to welcoming you to Bad Bederkesa next June.

Best wishes

Adrian

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Adrian Jenkins
British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge  CB3 0ET  U.K.
Phone: +44-1223-221493
Fax: +44-1223-221226
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