Note: We often hear of events that might interest our users.  We list these here as promptly as we can.  We may subsequently revise an entry.  To let you know the vintage of each entry, we note the date on which it was amended or posted.  For each posting, we also seek verification from the meeting contact.  We indicate whether or not the information was verified and the date of verification.  Despite our efforts, some entries will be incorrect.  For current & correct information on a meeting, please reach the meeting contact we list for each entry.

1-4 May 2002. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  North American Urban Heat Island Summit.  Sponsors: The Toronto Atmospheric Fund and the Clean Air Partnership and supported by the Government of Canada Climate Change Action Fund and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Contact: Toronto Atmospheric Fund Foundation, Urban Heat Island Summit, 75 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1P4, Canada.  Tel: +1416-392-0444.  Fax: +1416-338-0616.  E-mail: UHIsummit@tafund.org. 

Date posted or amended: 15 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 15 January 2002.

12 May 2002.  Portland, Oregon.  AMS Short Course on Applied Climatology for Today's Business Applications.  Sponsor:  American Meteorological Society.  Contact:  Mark Carroll or David Changnon.

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 15 January 2002.

12 - 14 May 2002.  Banff, Canada.  GCTE Focus 1 Workshop: Biological Controls on the Stable Isotope Composition of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane & Nitrous Oxide: Processes and Applications.  Sponsor: Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem (GCTE), a Core Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP).  Contact: Diane Pataki, Dept. of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, tel: 801-581-3545, fax: 801-5814665.

Date posted or amended: 15 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 15 January 2002

13 - 16 May 2002.  Portland, Oregon. AMS 13th Conference on Applied Climatology.   Sponsor: American Meteorological Society.  Contact: Greg Johnson. 101 SW Main St., Suite 1600, Portland, OR, 97204-3224.  Tel: 503-414-3017.  Fax: 503-414-3101.  E-mail: gjohnson@wcc.nrcs.usda.gov.  There will be an AMS short course preceding the conference on Sunday, May 12 on Applied Climatology and the Business Sector.

Date posted or amended: 15 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 15 January 2002.

13-17 May 2002.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference.  Sponsors: GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS).  Contact: Kathy Watson, NOAA Office of Global Programs, 1100 Wayne Ave, Suite 1210, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (Tel: 301-427-2089 ext. 110; fax: 301-427-2073). For program details contact Rick Lawford  or Jin Huang.

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 8 January 2002

21-22 May 2002.  Bridgetown, Barbados.  Climate Variability and Change and their Health Effects in the Caribbean.  Sponsors: The Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization under the auspices of the Interagency Network on Climate and Human Health.  Contact: Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Office of Caribbean Program Coordination, P.O. Box 508, Bridgetown, Barbados.  Tel: (246) 426-3860. Fax: (246) 436-9779.  Email : cpcadmin@cpc.paho.org

Date posted or amended: 18 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 18 January 2002.

20-24 May 2002.  Norfolk, VA.  25th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.  Sponsor:  American Meteorological Society.  Contact: Brian Amiro, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320-122 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6H 3S5.  Tel: +1 780 435 7217.  Fax: +1 780 435 7359. 

Date posted or amended: 8 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? No

22-25 May 2002. Rimouski (Quebec), Canada.  The Northern Environment: 36th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.   Sponsor: Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Contact: CMOS 2002 Secretariat Office, Institut des sciences de la mer (ISMER), local O-114, Universit� du Qu�bec � Rimouski, 310, All�e des Ursulines, Rimouski (Qu�bec), Canada G5L 3A1. Tel: (418) 723-1986 ext 1664. Fax: (418) 724-1842. E-mail: scmo-cmos-2002@uqar.qc.ca.

Date posted or amended: 15 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 15 January 2002.

28 - 31 May 2002.  Washington, DC.  American Geophysical Union 2002 Spring Meeting.  Sponsors: AGU, European Union of Geosciences, the GeochemicalSociety , and the Mineralogical Society of America.  Contact: AGU Meetings Department, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 USA.  Tel. 1 800 966 2481 or +1 202 462 6900.  Fax: +1 202 328 0566.  E-mail: meetinginfo@agu.org

Date posted or amended: 15 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes,15 January 2002

29 May - 1 June 2002.  Miami, Florida.  LOICZ Synthesis and Futures Meeting.  Open only to invited participants.  Sponsor: Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme).  Contact: LOICZ International Project Office, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands.  Tel: 31-222 369404.  Fax: 31-222 369430.  E-Mail: loicz@nioz.nl

Date posted or amended: 18 January 2002
Information verified with conference contact? Yes, 18 January 2002