Second Argo Science Workshop

I am pleased to announce that the Programme for the Second Argo Science

Workshop (Venice, Italy
Wednesday March 15th - Saturday March 18th 2006) can be viewed at
http://www.argo.ucsd.edu.

There has been an excellent response to the call for papers.

The following is the outline of the workshop

Wednesday March 15th.
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The workshop will start with sessions on the "Integrated Approach"  in the
Symposium celebrating  "15 years of progress in Radar Altimetry".  There are
11 oral presentations and 12 posters describing the uses that are being made
of Argo data.

Thursday March 16th
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This will be the final day of the "15 years of progress in Radar Altimetry"
symposium.
During this day we will add the Argo posters to those displayed on
Wednesday.
Since we expect most scientists involved in Argo to be at the meeting,
Thursday will be an opportunity for meetings of groups of scientists
interested in specific Argo topics.

Friday March 17th
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This will have 17 oral Argo science presentations on the themes
       "Heat and salt"
       "Watermass changes"
       "Ocean circulation"
and 2 hours for  viewing the almost 100 posters

Saturday March 18th
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Will have a similar structure to Friday with 16 oral presentations on
       "Climate applications and operational use"
       "The upper ocean"
       "New technologies and future prospects"
and a further 2 hours for posters.

The workshop is planned to conclude with an open forum discussion.

The programme for the "Integrated approach" session is accessible  at
http://earth.esa.int/venice06/programme.html

I hope that many of you, and your colleagues will be able to attend this
important demonstration of the progress that Argo has made.


Registration
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Registration  can be done online at
http://earth.esa.int/venice06/registration.html


It would be helpful to have an e-mail from you  to argo@ucsd.edu when you
have registered so that we can keep a tally of how many people will attend
the Argo sessions.


Thank you for interest

   Dr W John Gould
   Argo Project Director and Visiting Fellow
   National Oceanography Centre
   Southampton SO14 3ZH
   UK
           Phone    +44 2380 596431
           Fax      +44 2380 596204
           e-mail   wjg@noc.soton.ac.uk

Argo web sites accessible from http://www.argo.net

Source: Marinet

Jorge Brenner