Date

Questions about the 31st Annual Arctic Workshop can be directed by email
to the co-chief organizers:

Julie Brigham-Grette, brigham-grette [at] geo.umass.edu or
Ray Bradley, rbradley [at] geo.umass.edu


Second Announcement:

31st Annual Arctic Workshop
22-24 March 2001
Amherst, Massachusetts

The Legacy of the Arctic Workshop continues with....

The 31st Annual Arctic Workshop to be held at the University of
Massachusetts (UMass), Amherst, U.S.A. organized by the Department of
Geosciences and the UMass Climate System Research Center from 22-24
March 2001 and starting with an icebreaker reception the night of 21
March 2001.

Located near the shoreline of former Glacial Lake Hitchcock in the heart
of the Connecticut Valley, the meeting is open to all interested in the
Arctic. On-line registration and on-line submission of abstracts will
begin 1 January 2001. A block of rooms has been reserved in the UMass
Campus Hotel for participants and information for other area hotels will
be provided on the web by 1 January 2001. The abstract deadline will be
21 February 2001. NSF-OPP supports the workshop with travel/registration
grants for students presenting papers/posters. Information for this will
also be announced 1 January 2001.

Questions about the workshop can be directed by email to the co-chief
organizers:

Julie Brigham-Grette, brigham-grette [at] geo.umass.edu or
Ray Bradley, rbradley [at] geo.umass.edu

PLEASE NOTE:

On 21 March 2001, the day before the official start of the Arctic
Workshop, there will be an open meeting for scientists in the PARCS
community -- defined as U.S.-based scientists working on paleo issues in
the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. This is an important opportunity to
provide community-wide input to the new PARCS science plan, which
provides broad research goals and guidelines, and upon which depends, to
some extent, the levels of available funding at NSF for Arctic and
sub-Arctic paleoscience. Please consider coming one day early to the
workshop, and encourage your students to attend also. More information
can be found on the PARCS web site at:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/parcs.html and questions can be
addressed to PARCS co-chair, Mary Edwards at: mary.edwards [at] svt.ntnu.no.