<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; ">IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS invite the international atmospheric, oceanographic and cryospheric research community to MOCA-09, their Joint Assembly, to be held in July 2009 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">See :</span></font><a href="http://www.moca-09.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">http://www.moca-09.org</span></font></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">We hope that you will participate in our session <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1013">J03, International Polar Year - Early Results</font></span></div></span><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1013" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">This symposium provides the first opportunity after the official end of the observing period of the International Polar Year 2007-2009 to report new results from IPY projects. The session will particularly highlight interdisciplinary results addressing the IPY themes of assessing the present environmental status of the polar regions; quantifying and understanding environmental changes in polar regions; and better understanding the links between the polar regions and the rest of the globe. Contributions on advances towards implementation of sustainable observing systems of the earth system in polar regions are also welcome.</span></font></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">We are very pleased that the following invited speakers have confirmed that they will give talks:</span></font></pre></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">For IPY THORPEX:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Thor Erik Nordeng</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Mel Shapiro <br><br>For ASPECT/Antarctic Sea Ice:<br>Steve Ackley <br><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">For ASAID:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Bob Bindschadler <br><br>For APECS:<br>Liz Thomas, British Antarctic Survey, UK<br><br>For SASSI:<br>Alex Orsi, Texas A&M, USA<br><br>For DAMOCLES:<br>Jean-Claude Gascard, LOCEAN, France<br><br></span></font></div><div><p align="center"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Please go to<br></span></font><a href="http://ofsys.com/T/OFC4/LS/911/241065/mnEWo3/0/2331/UdNzCC8f.html" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">www.moca-09.org/e/02-abstracts_submission_e.shtml</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> <br>to submit your abstract now! <br></span></font></font></p><p align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "> </span></font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">THE DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS 23rd JANUARY!</span></font></div></span></span></font></p><p align="center"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br>If you have any questions, please contact the Assembly’s Management Office at: </span></font><a href="mailto:Montreal2009-abstracts@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Montreal2009-abstracts@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br><br>Thank you and may we extend to you our wishes for a Happy New Year and <br>look forward to welcoming you to Montreal this coming July.</span></font></font></p><div style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br>Michel Béland (IAMAS), Ian Allison (IACS) and Karen Heywood (IAPSO)<br></span></font><br></div><div>Professor Karen J. Heywood<br>Physical Oceanographer<br>School of Environmental Sciences<br>University of East Anglia<br>Norwich NR4 7TJ<br>-44-1603-592555<br><a href="mailto:k.heywood@uea.ac.uk">k.heywood@uea.ac.uk</a></div></div><br></div><br></body></html>