Date

March 24, 1997

Dear Colleague,

The second draft of the new Program Plan for a Russian-American Initiative
on Shelf-Land Environments in the Arctic (RAISE) is now available for
review and comments at http://arcus.polarnet.com/RAISE. Comments should
be submitted by e-mail to Steve Forman, University of Illinois at Chicago,
at slf [at] uic.edu or by fax to 312-413-2279, by Friday, 6 June.