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Announcements for the GODAE Final Symposium
First announcement: First invitation for participation in the GODAE Final Symposium (10 January 2008)
Second announcement: Call for papers and announcement of event website (6 May 2008)
Third announcement: Invitation to register (2 July 2008)
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
"The revolution in global ocean forecasting
GODAE: 10 years of achievement"
Final Symposium on the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
12-15 November 2008
Nice, Palais des Congrès, France
GODAE is an initiative which aims to make ocean monitoring, analysis, and prediction a routine activity akin to NWP analysis and weather forecasting. Its vision is of a global system of observations, communications, modelling and assimilation that will deliver regular, comprehensive information on the state of the oceans that will have wide utility for the public good. GODAE started in 1997 and will be brought to a close in 2008.
The Final GODAE Symposium will provide an opportunity to review the key achievements of the last 10 years, to celebrate the outstanding successes, to critically examine the outcomes, and to discuss the future of operational ocean analysis and forecasting and proposals for its international coordination. Presentations will demonstrate the feasibility of global ocean analyses and forecasts, illustrate the impact of observations and describe the scientific assessments of analysis and forecast quality. Other presentations will review achievements in the development of the observing system, forecasting systems and the product servers and the development of useful applications and services.
Expected Participation:
The symposium is being designed to appeal to a wide audience. Those developing or supporting the observing systems, ocean analysis and prediction systems, forecasters, service providers, the user community, decision and policy makers, researchers and programme managers from both the public and private sectors are all warmly encouraged to attend.
Structure of Symposium:
The symposium will consist of multi-author plenary review papers and poster sessions over a 3-day period. It will follow a 2.5 day Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) conference (November 10-12). The symposium is organised by CNES with support from the GODAE Project Office.
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for PAPERS
"The revolution in global ocean forecasting
GODAE: 10 years of achievement"
Final Symposium on the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
12-15 November 2008
Nice, Palais des Congrès, France
You are now invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations. The accepted contributions will be published in the abstracts volume and distributed at the symposium.
Symposium sessions and information about relevant subjects for poster submissions can be found in the symposium session descriptions.
Abstracts should be in English and their main text should not exceed one A4 page. An abstract template can be downloaded from the call for papers page. Please submit your abstract online, by using the submission facility at bottom of page. Make sure you read the guidelines for authors carefully.
Deadline for abstract submission is 18 July 2008 (amended 07/07/2008)
The GODAE Final Symposium is organised to be co-located with the OSTM (Ocean Surface Topography Mission) Annual Meeting and the IDS (International DORIS Service) Workshop.
To register and obtain more information about all three events please visit http://www.ostst-godae-2008.com. An update of the symposium programme and logistical information (transport & accommodation) will be added to the website soon.
THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT - Registration & accommodation
"The revolution in global ocean forecasting
GODAE: 10 years of achievement"
Final Symposium on the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
12-15 November 2008
Nice, Palais des Congrès, France
Abstract submission:
We have extended the deadline for submission of abstracts to the 18 July 2008.
Accepted contributions will be published in the abstracts volume and distributed at the symposium. We would be happy if you could consider attending and submitting an abstract on one of the subjects laid out in the session descriptions.
Please submit the abstract online, by using the abstract submission page and make sure you read the guidelines for authors carefully.
Registration:
Registration is now open and can be accessed via the symposium registration page. Here you can also find information on registration fees and payments. The on-line registration facility will close on the evening of 6 November 2008. After this date you will only be able to register at the symposium directly at the higher rate. The congress registration desk will open at 16:00 on Sunday 9 November.
Accommodation:
Please make sure that you arrange your accommodation in Nice as soon as possible. On the accommodation page you will find a list of the hotels that have rooms allocated for congress attendees. Please contact the hotel directly with your booking requirements and follow the booking method indicated.
Note: All hotels have a particular booking deadline, after which you will no longer be able to make use of this offer.
We strongly advise you to make hotel bookings before these deadlines.
For any question please contact the GODAE project Office or the congress organisers in France.
The Final GODAE Symposium is co-located with the OSTM (Ocean Surface Topography Mission) Annual Meeting and the IDS (International DORIS Service) Workshop.
(Last Updated: 28-11-2008)