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Calendar of Events Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec   March 2003 March 2003 http://www.gisig.it/coastgis/call_for_papers/callforpaper_def.pdf Call for papers: Submission of abstracts due by beginning of March 2003. Fifth International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management, October 16-18, 2003, Genova, Italy http://www.gisig.it/coastgis/home.htm March 10-12, Paris, France http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/OpenAccessWorkshop.html International Workshop on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science March 10-12, Abuja, Nigeria http://www.enigeria.org E-Nigeria 2003. First International Conference on Information Technologies. Theme: Effective Utilization of IT to boost productivity in the Nigerian Public Sector and enhance E-Governance. Special Guest of Honor: Chief Olusegun Obassanjo. Focus: Transformation to citizen-centered governance; strategies for IT policy implementation; IT legislative issues, standards and regulation, intellectual property rights; sectoral applications of IT (education, national health management, transportation, finance, commerce). Contact: National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Tel. 09-3142925, contact@enigeria.org March 11-12, tentative "SOCSOM in Senegal: Review and Synthesis Meeting" March 13-15, tentative "Senegal and Sahel Project Planning, Design, and Implementation" "The Dakar Workshop - Carbon Sequestration, Land Cover Monitoring and Desertification in the Sahel" is being convened primarily to consolidate and report the EDC-CSE-ISRA Senegal applied research on "Sequestration of Carbon in Soil Organic Matter" - "SOCSOM in Senegal". This 1) "Review and Synthesis Meeting" will be followed by a joint workshop 2)"Senegal and Sahel Project Planning, Design, and Implementation" to evaluate and prepare projects for implementation and to combine other interests, e.g., those of the FAO/Land and carbon brokers who have interests in carbon and desertification. The World Bank will participate to discuss their "New Carbon Funds" and provide training in specific national transaction requirements. If funds are secured for participants from other countries, the training will support expansion across the Sahel. Participation: by invitation. For further information, contact Larry Tieszen, USGS EROS Data Center, tieszen@usgs.gov March 16-23, 2003, Japan http://www.water-forum3.com/ta/ The 3rd World Water Forum March 17 - 20, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa http://www.dbn.csir.co.za/capia/new.html http://www.dbn.csir.co.za/capia/documents/agenda-update.doc Cross-border Air Pollution Impact Assessment Workshop We will discuss the CAMx modelling outputs, as well as chart the way forward to assess the impacts of ozone on maize. The CAMx dispersion modelling results will be available as maps showing ozone concentrations over the region. These maps, as well as impacts information collected by country participants, will be used to estimate the impacts of ozone on maize. March 18, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0000222/index.php Food security in southern Africa: Causes and responses from across the region A Meeting hosted by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network in collaboration with CARE International and the French Institute of South Africa March 19-20, 2003, Hong Kong, China 2nd International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality. For call for papers and other infomation, look at: http://www.hk-cyber.net/sdq/index.htm The Symposium provides an interdisciplinary forum for international leading scientists and young researchers to present their latest research developments and share their experience in this field. A conference proceeding will be published before the conference. Selected papers, after a review process, will be published as a special issue for International Journal of Remote Sensing. Keynote speakers: - Michael Goodchild, Progressive Construction of Geographic Knowledge, University of California, U.S.A. - Andrew Frank, How to measure data quality, How to measure data quality - Martien Molenaar, ITC, The Netherlands March 24 - 28, at International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy http://ugamp.nerc.ac.uk/promise/research/conference2003/index.html Monsoon environments: Agricultural and hydrological impacts of seasonal variability and climate change. Currently sponsored by EU PROMISE, ICTP, WRCP and START/CLIMAG PROMISE comes to an end in March 2003. An international conference is planned to disseminate the results of the project. PROMISE research is inter-disciplinary and applicable to end-users and policy-makers. We aim to reflect this by including presentations from development agency representatives and end-users as well as from leading resesarchers in meteorology, hydrology and agriculture. So far, the following sessions are planned: Seasonal predictability and variability of monsoon environments Assessment of future monsoon climates in response to climate change Sensitivity of monsoon variability to land surface processes Hydrological impacts of climate variability and change Agricultural impacts of climate variability and change Bringing together scientists and end users of monsoon research We anticipate being able to provide approximately 50 scholarships for participants from developing countries who would not otherwise be able to attend the meeting. For further information, contact Emily Black (emily@met.rdg.ac.uk) March 24 - 28, Nairobi, Kenya Human Dimension of Coastal and Marine Environment: The role of social scientists in the management of coastal and marine environment, organized by the IUCN-Eastern African Regional Office (EARO) and the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA). The main purpose of the Workshop is to bring social and natural scientists together with the intention of identifying and exploring effective and achievable actions to: get social scientists interested in coastal and marine issues and initiating capacity building activities for upcoming social scientists as well as developing trans-/multi-disciplinary proposals on coastal issues. The group of participants to the workshop will be extended to managers, experts and representatives of regional and international organizations, former coordinators and anyone with experience in research and/or fieldwork in social sciences. For further information, please contact: Dr. Julius Francis, WIOMSA, Tel: Fax: Email: julius@wiomsa.org March 31 - April 2, Nairobi, Kenya http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meeting.asp?wg=CHMAFR-01 Africa regional meeting on the Clearing-House Mechanism http://www.biodiv.org/chm/default.aspx March 31 - Last day to submit abstracts for 30th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, November 10-14, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii http://isrse.pdc.org/Call4Papers.html (see http://isrse.pdc.org/) * Dates and events are subject to change