[Aqualist] PEP 2 meeting and call for abstracts: Singapore 2004

[Paul Hesse]

'Low-latitude and high-latitude climates and linkages in the Asia Oceania
sector in the late Quaternary'

PEP2 Session at the Asia-Oceania Geoscience Society (AOGS) Conference
Singapore 5-9 July, 2004

The Asia-Oceania region is host to the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and the
tropical monsoon systems associated with it which have a wide impact on
regional and global climate, climate variability and ocean circulation.
The effects of this tropical climate system are also felt in mid and high
latitudes of both hemispheres, which are also impacted by polar weather
systems.  We invite original research papers dealing with palaeoclimatic
reconstructions of the tropical (monsoonal) climate system and the warm
pool, high latitude climate systems or their interaction in the
mid-latitudes of the Asia-Oceania region.  Papers may include proxy
evidence, modelling results or model validation using proxy data.  This
session is an activity of the Austral-Asia Pole Equator Pole (PEP 2)
Transect project. (Session OA18)

The conference will include several sessions of interest to PEP2
participants including South China Seas and Indonesian Throughflow, Asian
Dust, Typhoons and Mesoscale Weather, Land-Ocean Atmosphere Interactions,
Climate Change.

Find conference information, session titles and register at www.asiaoceania.org
Conference registration is US$270/S$450 by 10th May 2004; US$320/S$550
after 10th May 2004.

We hope to be able to offer financial assistance to presenters from
developing countries.

The "Call for Abstracts" follows and we invite you to take the next big
step. Submit your abstract online and invite your associates, friends and
colleagues to follow suit.  Abstract submission deadline is Febuary 14th,
2004.

Simply log on to the AOGS website at
http://www.asiaoceania.org/submitabstract/ and follow the steps provided.



PEP2 Session contacts

 Paul Hesse
 Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
 phesse at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au

 James Shulmeister
 Department of Geology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
 james.shulmeister at canterbury.ac.nz

 Guo Zhengtang
 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
China
 ztguo at 95777.com

Thamban Meloth
National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Department of Ocean
Development, Goa, India
meloth at rediffmail.com