Meeting Announcement
North Pole Environmental Observatory IPY 2007 Science Activities
Wednesday, 13 December 2007
San Francisco, California
For further information about the NPEO meeting at AGU, please contact:
James Morison
Polar Science Center
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
E-mail: morison [at] apl.washington.edu
A meeting about the North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) IPY 2007
science activities will be held in San Francisco, California, on
Wednesday, 13 December 2007, in conjunction with the American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. The meeting will take place from
5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Arctic Community Meeting Space in the Pacific A
Room of the San Francisco Marriott Hotel.
The NSF-funded NPEO includes an automated scientific drifting station in
the central Arctic Ocean, carries out airborne hydrographic surveys, and
maintains a deep ocean mooring in the vicinity of the North Pole.
Together these activities provide long-term, wide-area observations of
marine arctic characteristics such as salinity of seawater and thickness
and temperature of the ice cover.
The meeting will include informal discussions of the April 2007 NPEO
deployment effort and related science activities. Investigators involved
or interested in participating in the 2007 program are invited to
attend. Available data from past NPEO observations will be described and
inquiries about potential utilization of the observatory as a resource
for research in the central Arctic Ocean are welcome.
For further information about the NPEO meeting at AGU, please contact:
James Morison
Polar Science Center
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
E-mail: morison [at] apl.washington.edu