36^th SCOR Executive Committee Meeting
Ocean Science. Half day open session on the Census of Marine Life will follow on the 19 September

Email: scor@jhu.edu
Website: www.jhu.edu/scor/2003-EC-Meeting.htm

IX International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences
Antarctic Contribution to Global Earth Science

E-mail: isaes@awi-potsdam.de
Website: http://www.awi-potsdam.de/www-pot/ISAES/main.html

ISAG 7 - 7th International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology
All major areas of scientific and technical study related to Antarctic ice, especially studies requiring intensified and co-ordinated research: ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions, ice sheet mass balance, ice-sheet dynamics, sub-glacial lakes, and palaeoclimate studies from ice cores.

E-mail: isag7@unimib.it
Website: http://www.disat.unimib.it/isag7/index.html

Global Mapping Forum 2003 (GMF03) The objective of the Forum is to exchange ideas, experiences and information among data users and data providers concerning global or regional scale geographic information.

Website: www.iscgm.org
Email: sec @iscgm.org

Legal and Scientific Aspects of Continental Shelf Limits The conference will focus on key legal and scientific issues regarding the determination of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. Related topics, such as present and future resources pertaining to the ocean's continental margins, will also be discussed

Website: www.virginia.edu/colp/

XXVI Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting

The XIV Global Warming International Conference & Expo
Extremes Events and Energy, Agricultural and Natural Resource Management

Website: www.GlobalWarming.net

International Offshore and Polar Engineering - 2003 Honolulu Conference and ISOPE Symposium on High Performance Materials in Offshore Industry (HMOI)
Promote technological progress and activities, international technological transfer and cooperation, and opportunites for engineers to maintain and improve technical competence; and
Provide a timely international forum for technical activities, cooperation, opportunity and fellowship among researchers and engineers.

Website:
www.isope.org

2nd International Antarctic GIS Workshop, SCAR Technical Experts Meeting 2003.
GIS projects in Antarctica: Standards and Applications
" One focus of the workshop will be the ongoing and planned GIS projects on King George Island. Other elements will include: Developing the SCAR Spatial Data Model; Internet and Antarctic GIS, GIS projects in other regions of Antarctica and Place names and GIS.

Website:
www.geographie.uni
Email:
Steffen Vogt [steffen.vogt @geographie.uni-freiburg.de]

17th Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange.
" We expect that this Session of the IODE Committee will concentrate on strong collaboration between IODE and other science, monitoring and observation bodies and programmes in order to share the 40 years of data and iformation management expertise and know-how available in the 65 IODE data centres."

Website: www.iode.org
Email: p.pissiersens@unesco.org