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<*SOLAS Open Science Conference 2009: Registration opens 15 April*
The SOLAS Open Science Conference 2009 website and registration will open on 15 April: http://www.solas2009.confmanager.com/

*FINAL OPPORTUNITY: Contribute to the next SOLAS news focussing on SOLAS collaborations*
If your research cross-cuts with other projects, programmes or networks (e.g. IMBER, IGAC, IPY, GEOTRACES, PICES etc) and you wish to contribute a timely scientific article, email Georgia with your expression of interest.

*14 new and exciting national reports*
National annual reports of 2008 activities in the following 14 countries are accessible via this link: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China (P.R.), France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, South Africa,Taiwan, Turkey and the UK.

*SOLAS Summer School: Attendee list finalised*
Congratulations to the 72 successful applicants who have accepted their invitation to the SOLAS Summer School

*9th SOLAS Scientific Steering Committee meeting held in Washington DC*
The SOLAS SSC met in Washington DC at the end of March with mid-term strategic planning, the Open Science Conference (Barcelona, 16-19 November 2009) and the Summer School (August 2009) high on the agenda. The Committee took the opportunity to meet with a number of US Agency representatives to discuss their strategic priorities: (i) atmospheric control of nutrient cycling and marine production (ii) marine aerosol formation, (iii) ship plumes (iv) sea-ice, (v) gas fluxes in eastern boundary upwelling systems (vi) large-scale field experiments for hypothesis testing and (vii) ocean and atmosphere time series observations.

Projects officially endorsed by SOLAS

DUNE- A dust experiment in a low-nutrient, low-chlorophyll ecosystem, to estimate the impact of atmospheric inputs on an oligotrophic ecosystem submitted to strong atmospheric inputs.
http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/DUNE/

EPOCA- European Project on OCean Acidification- to advance our understanding of the biological, ecological, biogeochemical, and societal implications of ocean acidification

For more information about the SOLAS endorsement procedure:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/science/
researchendorsements/researchendorsements.html

Register while you can before...

14 April
IMBER/SOLAS France Meeting 22 - 23 June, Paris, France

15 April
New Frontiers in Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry & ecosystem research, OCB scoping workshop 8 - 11 June,
Princeton, USA

17 April
IAMAS-IAPSO-IACS 2009 Joint Assembly 19 -29 July, Montreal, Canada

Dates to put in your diary...

Joint 4th Workshop on Asian Dust Ocean and EcoSystems (ADOES) with Asian SOLAS
20 - 24 May 2009, Je Ju, Korea

Atmospheric Chemistry in the Tropics: Marine, Biosphere & Climate connections
8 June 2009, London, UK

2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting- "From Observation to Prediction in the 21st Century"
22 – 24 February 2010, Portland, Oregon
Deadline for session proposals: 29 May 2009

For more SOLAS-related meetings:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/news/conferencemeetings/conference.html